Posts by dubstepped

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creative techies

by bola in

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please i want to know how design a website..

Nobody here is going to teach you how to build a website from scratch. Go to a place like wix or weebly or squarespace and start playing around. I think both wix and weebly have completely free sites whereas squarespace just has a free trial.

The internet is full of tutorials on all of this stuff. Dive in and get to learning. If you struggle to put it together through patchwork videos go somewhere like Udemy or Lynda and take some courses.

Also, why does being shunned make you need a website? Are you just wanting to write about your experience? You can do that on forums or Facebook groups or lots of things without a website.

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Can you users start uploading more clever because WT removes every video? Please upload smarter.

by Rev0lution in

good work!

but most of the youtube videos are gone... i want to watch much later on.

(perhaps years to come..) .

dubstepped

Rather than posting here, you might want to actually contact the YouTubers that you like with a helpful compilation of places that they can also post. My guess is that they just post on YouTube because that's where the eyeballs are and they never thought they'd be shut down. I don't know how many here do anything there, so you may be speaking into the ether.

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Why can't Scarlett Johansson play a transgender character?

by LoveUniHateExams in

scarlett johansson was cast to play a transgender role in rub & tug.. recently she pulled out.

i don't know whether she jumped or was pushed but trans activists, despite claiming to represent only 0.3% of the population, have quite a powerful voice.. do they want a trans actor to play the trans role, is that it?.

if scarlett johansson shouldn't play a trans role, does that mean a trans actor shouldn't play a cis role?.

dubstepped

Because people today have lost their damn minds, and crazy is always louder than rational.

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A concise list for my therapist...any suggestions?

by Straw Man in

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been a lurker here for a long time.

i am just now starting to deal with the issues from my witness upbringing.

it's been about 10 years since i was df'd.. just recently i started to see a therapist and i am trying to get across the depth of the effects of growing up a witness.

dubstepped

If she's open to listening to things you could give her my podcast called This JW Life (thisjwlife.com). I made it in part to help outsiders understand what goes on in the cult. I'd say that episodes 4-7 really hit a lot of the psychology of what goes on, what is taught, etc., through the lens of my life and observations. I've received lots of good messages about it and from many on the outside that finally understand what we were up against. If nothing else, it might help you to listen to the podcast and to process some of your own stuff.

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Spiritual "Protection" - a Menace on Psychological Development

by Wake Me Up Before You Jo-Ho in

not quite a week ago, @lost in the fog created a thread entitled: do you have this illness?.

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5187824140681216/do-you-have-this-illness.

in my year of being on this forum, i have browsed many a disillusioned thread of ex-jehovah’s witnesses expressing similar symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder when detailing their awakening - my own story included.

dubstepped

Glad you liked the video. I loved Joho's post and knew that it would help people.

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My Convention Experience and Thoughts !

by jdash in

so during the week of july 6-8th i went to the convention.

i had a funny experience.. to start off, i'm usually with my close friends that i know and who basically have the same mindset as i do.

but during saturday, during lunch, me and my buddies were walking outside and we noticed someone was singing real loud and kinda in a deep voice.

dubstepped

Hey, if you have to go to one of those awful things, you have to find joy anywhere that you can. At least you have some friends there with you too. Enjoy what you can, make the best of it, and then go have a good life without the cult.

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Spiritual "Protection" - a Menace on Psychological Development

by Wake Me Up Before You Jo-Ho in

not quite a week ago, @lost in the fog created a thread entitled: do you have this illness?.

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5187824140681216/do-you-have-this-illness.

in my year of being on this forum, i have browsed many a disillusioned thread of ex-jehovah’s witnesses expressing similar symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder when detailing their awakening - my own story included.

dubstepped

Since the OP here was so fantastic and Joho said I could use it I felt it only right to post that my second VIDcast was about this very post, and to share it here:

You can't fix what you don't own. Growing up in the cult of Jehovah's Witnesses could be described as outsourcing our problems, but for most of us that were born in we didn't outsource them, as that speaks to an action one performs of their free will. Our problems were stolen from us. By doing so, the cult claimed our power, and our ability to think in some ways.

https://youtu.be/qpa51bUi6bM

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Was CT Russell a freemason or not

by UnshackleTheChains in

ok. many people deny ct russell was a freemason.

i have read articles whereby some have found no evidence to prove he was one at any point in his life.. however, given all the masonic symbols in the early publications including the use of the name jehovah ( the name the freemason's use to identify god), as well as the expressions used such as 'new world, new order' etc certainly raises suspicions.. then there is the article he wrote in the herald magazine outlining that he was a freemason (see the following video 40 seconds in).

it really does make you think!.

dubstepped

@Nathan - Good point about his limited scope of inclusion regarding religions in the interfaith that you mentioned him being opposed to.

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Guardian interview with Apostasy director

by cobweb in

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this is a really long article about the film apostasy and interview with the director about his story and how he came to make the film.

apostasy director: ‘it was liberating to leave the jehovah’s witnesses’.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jul/15/apostasy-director-daniel-kokotajlo-liberating-to-leave-jehovahs-witnesses-interview?cmp=share_androidapp_copy_to_clipboard.

dubstepped

@Simon - Yes, it's definitely something present in the world at large, particularly among highly charged subjects like religion, politics, sports, etc. I do feel (certainly have done no peer reviewed studies) that it might be worse with people like us that were in a cult that was so specific about verbiage and appearance. Most messages were crafted for specific reasons and we had to be certain not to give cause for stumbling. If nothing else, I feel like we're a bit more hyper-vigilant than most.

It is so annoying how you can speak on a subject and people focus on the 1% that is inaccurate as though it somehow destroys the 99%. I'm on some ex-JW Facebook groups and you'll see these brainwashed people that were never fully JWs come on and try to paint the cult with their apologist perspective as someone that never fully experienced it. It's crazy making.

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Guardian interview with Apostasy director

by cobweb in

jw
friends

this is a really long article about the film apostasy and interview with the director about his story and how he came to make the film.

apostasy director: ‘it was liberating to leave the jehovah’s witnesses’.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jul/15/apostasy-director-daniel-kokotajlo-liberating-to-leave-jehovahs-witnesses-interview?cmp=share_androidapp_copy_to_clipboard.

dubstepped

@scotsman - I can tell you that it left me feeling "heavy". It wasn't even specific, just heavy. The lack of joy in the cult shines through and it took me a day or two to kind of process it all internally. It's just bleak, a good and true representation of the cult.