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I grew up in a cult and anonymous blasphemy is my therapy.

#exjw

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Found this today. I made it after waking up years ago. I was frustrated by Watchtower depictions of Armageddon avoiding the ugly truth of their beliefs. This felt more accurate to their doctrine of genocide and death. #exjw

"If only her parents were Jehovah's Witnesses."

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Me on my way back to the local Kingdom Hall when I found out beards are okay now.

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@the1germ But have you tried drinking copious amounts of alcohol? Works like a charm.

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@the1germ Old man Germ out here playing podcasts on max volume. 😂

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@aliciawhatsgood There are definitely easier lives you could have been born into but you have a lens of humanity that very few will ever understand. Sharing your story and struggle will help others who follow in your footsteps. That's a rare and valuable thing.

[Ali Millar @ali_l_millar]

Another great write up for The Last Days in today’s @TheTimesBooks. Not only is it an excellent review, ‘courageous stuff- intense, compelling, raw’, it’s also a succinct summary of both the book and life as a witness. Thank you @Mel_ReidTimes for brilliant journalism.

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@Larchwood20 This reminds me of the photodrama of creation which depicts rings around the earth.

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@Larchwood20 Actually a lot of older maps were not drawn with North being at the top like we're used to today, especially in Europe.

Source: I am nerd.

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The biblical account of Job is actually an example of how Satan plays God like a fiddle. He gets Jehovah to show his true colors with a single question, demonstrating that God values winning more than he values human life or suffering. #exjw

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These are not high end hotels. They are barely 3 star hotels that you're lucky if you get a continental breakfast.

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That feeling when it's cheaper to fly to Las Vegas for a weekend than it is to stay 3 nights in the mountains that are 2 hours away.

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@Larchwood20 According to justice God can go fuck himself right in his prismatic rainbow beam face.

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

Everything in this image that doesn't have spikes coming off of it is a galaxy.

Every. Single. Dot.

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@DCC_Dub @Bthorn511 @Most_Maximus The right thinks the left is using bots. The left thinks the right is using bots. Flip allthe bots over (left and right) and they all say Made in China / Russia.

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@JordanAClevelnd @the1germ

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@JordanAClevelnd @the1germ Watching movies on my phone with headphones is my jam. At 10" from my face it may as well be a 65" 4K television.

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@jfnilsen @JasonMWynne What are the chances it was a hall that has been sold and repurposed into something else?

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@MichaelShawley @jonsteingard I think 'church' is being used here for lack of a better term. It would be a place or group where people come together to expound belief in a shared myth or set of ideals.

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@richardpenner @awilkinson You're correct but the shared myth needs to be more powerful than a monotheistic God. Doing good is not enough. Whatever it is, it needs to supersede God in power, or relegate God's power as irrelevant.

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@jamielow @whentheresawill @awilkinson Unfortunately that's not how humans work. To reach mass appeal there must be shared belief in a powerful myth -- morality itself is not enough.

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@whentheresawill @awilkinson You're correct. God is the shared myth that facilitates mass cooperation of the congregants. For a secular church to succeed, it would need to generate a shared myth that is more powerful than a monotheistic deity. Just as monotheism replaced polytheism, and animism before it.