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theexodvs · 3 months

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The leading figures of neurodiversity are Grandin, Robison, Silberman, Baron-Cohen, and Atwood. All of them are 65 or older, so adherents of the movement will have to consider, "Where do we go from here?"

While one might want to hope that one group keeps the name while abandoning the cultic teaching, like what happened after the death of Herbert W. Armstrong, but most Armstrongists broke fellowship with this reformist faction led by Tkach and continued promoting Armstrongist doctrine.

On the other hand, one might envision a scenario where the group remains, and its teachings do not change substantially, but its numbers and influence wane, like what happened after the death of Mary Baker Eddy. While the disease denialism certainly paints the picture of the neurodiversity movement consisting of Eddy's spiritual descendants, her group was way too small and centralized and she did basically everything possible to avoid splintering.

One might anticipate something similar to the aftermath of Joseph Smith, CT Russell, or Ahn Sahng-hong, where two major groups emerge, or one major group amidst a flurry of smaller groups emerge, each swearing on their life they are promoting their founders' actual teaching. However, again, these movement were way more centralized than the neurodiversity movement.

The best comparison is likely what happened in the years after the deaths of Alexander Campbell and Barton Stone. They engineered a movement that was decentralized by design, so there were several different figures all insisting the others were promoting false ideas. A few major groups have arisen, some more decentralized than others, but their movement is still primarily decentralized.

The likely causes of splintering for the neurodiversity movement in the coming years will likely include functioning labels, which illnesses they think are quirky enough for inclusion under their umbrella, whether to use communication devices and which, the validity of self-diagnosis, how much treatment is too much treatment, and which books and studies fit into the neurodiverse canon.

These are the issues the neurodiversity movement will find itself contending with.

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boarself · 7 months

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Today at work all day my brain has been thinking up a Faith AU where instead of being Catholic John is a Jehovah's Witness. I'm projecting a bit again but idk it could be interesting.

#''what i am about to do has not been approved by the watchtower bible and tract society''#ftut #faith game #faith the game #faith the unholy trinity #faith: the unholy trinity #text #yellin #ok to rb btw #note: im an EX witness #not a current one lol

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spacedadpicard · 1 year

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me when my younger brother is doing super well in his animation course at college: :) me when i remember that his big dream is to use his college degree to pump out cult propaganda: :(

#anyway! fuck the watchtower bible and tract society! :)#exjw #to fellow exjws reading this: yeah he literally wants to work on like #caleb and sophia type shit #it is. so depressing to think about

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entanglingbriars · 2 years

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They’re thinking of Jehovah's Witnesses

Possibly? But JWs don't just reject blood transfusions from non-Witnesses, they reject them wholesale. It's one of their most harmful doctrines (and it has no biblical basis), but it's not an issue of wanting to avoid contamination as such (although they will frequently argue that the blood doctrine helps to avoid disease).

#jehovah's witnesses #watchtower bible and tract society of pennsylvania #blood transfusions #christianity

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horreurscopes · 10 months

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i."Revelation - It's Grand Climax at hand!" Watchtower Bible & Tract Society, 1988.

ii. "Pure Worship of Jehovah—Restored At Last!" Watchtower Bible & Tract Society, 2018.

iii. Watchtower magazine, April 1989, May 1989.

Illustrators uncredited in publications and therefore unknown.

#have been thinking about her and all the illustrations i grew up with that are #imprinted in some primal part of my brain and must influence my art and creative output #thought i'd start hunting for them and posting them here as an archive #something about sharing and reclaiming the aesthetics makes me feel things.#a lot of them are SO eldritch and surreal and dark and fantastical in ways that are SO compelling #it is heartbreaking that without some intense investigative journalism i dont have the resources to do we will probably #never know the artists' names. who go uncredited so as to avoid bringing glory to themselves instead of god lol #and if you watch the tower the tower watches you right back #dark art #occult #dark fantasy #gothic #horror art #female manipulator #LMAO #ex jw

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conschintz · 6 months

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You obviously don't have to respond, feel free to delete my question entirely if you're not up to it, but I would love if you could talk about some ways the D20 fandom is being disrespectful about cults and how it could be better?

hi! thank you for asking this so respectfully. i want to be clear that this is not the whole of the d20 fandom, but only a very small minority of people!

for anyone new to my blog, wondering why i care about this, i grew up as a 4th generation jehovah's witness and escaped last year. i lost 20 years of my life and my entire family to the watchtower bible and tract society. educating people about cults and high-control groups is something that i'm very passionate about

the most common thing i've seen, across tumblr, reddit, and discord, is people making insensitive jokes/statements. anything that trivialises the cult, and/or thorn and viola's role in it. calling them your favourite cult couple is not cool. saying that you'd join the cult because of xyz reason (especially anything regarding "thorn/viola/jasper/rashawn is hot!") is not cool. making jokes at olliver and teedles' expense is not cool. this might seem nitpicky and harmless to most people, and in no way do i think that anyone is doing this maliciously—i want to make that really, really clear—but this kind of stuff is harmful to cult survivors. in general, it minimalises the impact of cults, of their leaders, of their victims etc. i think this is a flaw with the portrayal of cults in media at large, where they are generally sensationalised. the lukura doesn't seem like much of a cult when put up against others, especially if you're comparing it to real-life ones. but that's what's so scary; aabria and jasper are so subtle. they're really, really good at what they're doing

i'm rambling. but all of this is to ask to just be mindful of what you're posting/saying. it might not seem harmful to you, but it is exhausting to scroll through posts making light of something that is affecting my day-to-day. i am not getting shunned by my entire family for someone to joke around about joining a "cool" stoat cult, with little regard to the actual real-life consequences of actual cults that are far more prevalent in modern-day society than most people think

#nicki.txt #dimension 20 #burrow's end #thorn vale #jasper william cartwright #viola burrow's end #rashawn scott #olliver and teedles burrow's end #aabria iyengar #again: i DO NOT think people are doing this maliciously #it's just an honest oversight

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radio-free-beth-sarim · 4 months

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My Predictions for Caleb and Sophia

For the uninitiated: Caleb and Sophia are two characters that feature in short videos produced by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society intended to indoctrinate Jehovah's Witness children. They're two young children, siblings, raised as Jehovah's Witnesses and dealing with many of the problems growing up as one brings. For people raised as Jehovah's Witnesses, it brings back a flood of insane memories. I kind of can't help but like them. The kids go through things I went through myself, and as I watch I imagine what they're feeling in that moment. The things I would have felt. The thoughts and emotions I would have suppressed. If you're curious I recommend looking them up on youtube. Owen Morgan aka Telltale has a bunch of videos where he reacts to them and provides commentary. He's just one of many that cover the videos.

Whenever I watch a Caleb and Sophia video I always speculate how they end up. So here's my predictions.

We'll start with Caleb, since his story is one that easily could have been mine. Caleb is the Bart Simpson. He's a kind of rambunctious kid. He would like sports and video games if he was allowed, but he doesn't have those outlets available to him so it all becomes bible study and chores. He's given busy work at meetings and field service, and eventually he gets given "privileges" like working the soundboard and passing the microphones around at the Watchtower Magazine study or organizing and manning the literature counter. Eventually he'll make Ministerial Servant, which is the rank below Elder in the congregation and basically means he's being groomed for command. But thankfully he's never going to be an Elder. He's eventually going to be put in charge of the congregation's other rambunctious young boys, and will be responsible for studying with them and indoctrinating them into the Watchtower Society's beliefs. He's going to be seen as a role model and success story. His post high-school years will see him juggling his responsibilities with the congregation and working in a trade. Statistically window washing, but any given trade is likely. He'll apprentice under another Jehovah's Witness, possibly a relative, who is also likely an Elder who now holds his economic and social future in his hands. Now you'd think with all this going on, is Caleb happy? Well, that depends. He might genuinely be if he's kept too busy to really think about his life or what he wants from it and is too sheltered to experience anything more. But that's really difficult to do. Most JW young men get to experience just enough of the world to give them a taste, and everyone has a vice. Statistically it's porn and smoking. Chances are he'll get caught once, repent, lose his privileges, and then eventually make a slow return shortly after getting married. Caleb is getting married by 19 at the latest. He's full of so many hormones and urges if there's no release he's going to pop. So he'll marry literally the nearest non-related Jehovah's Witness girl roughly his age. If there are none nearby, he'll meet one at a convention or (scandalously) JWdate. Yes, that's real, and it's kind of an open secret because dating websites are not really what a JW should be about. Somewhere in the following years he's going to be working hard at his trade, trying to regain his status as a Ministerial Servant, and figuring out how to live with this stranger he rushed into marrying. Maybe they can make it work. Maybe they can't. I can't say. But kids will be happening soon. Eventually Caleb is going to hit a crisis moment where he needs to decide whether or not this is the life he wants. There's a roughly 66% chance he doesn't. He's got to make a choice. Does he stay in the life he has? Can he leave the Watchtower Society behind and still keep his family? That I can't say. I like to think his wife also has similar doubts, and through this their bond strengthens, they come to truly love each other deeper than they did when they first married, and leave together, sparing their children from the same life they were forced into. But doing that means they'll only ever have each other. Sometimes that's enough. Sometimes it isn't. His wife could divorce him, taking the kids and leaving him alone. He'll eventually find apostate material online and become fervently anti-JW, with only bitter memories among the ashes of a life that never had a chance to be anything but this.

Next we'll turn to Sophia. Some of my story for her is pure conjecture based on what I've seen from friends I grew up with. When I see Sophia, I see specific girls I knew growing up and I think of things they've told me about their lives. I don't have any experience being a girl in the Jehovah's Witnesses, but her story is one that I feel is honestly similar to mine just with her dealing with all of the added pressure of being a woman in a fucked up patriarchal clusterfuck like that. I'll have to make a part 2 for her, as Tumblr has a character count. I will reblog this post with that when I am done with it. Thank you for reading this far. I hope this provides some insight.

#cult shit #ex jw #ex-jehovah's witness #xjw

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creechurfoundincheckerboardvoid · 2 years

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convention day 5. dear god please grant me the strength to teleport to new york and set the watchtower bible and tract society headquarters on fire

#creacher.txt #<- thats the magic word that lets you make me shut up

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laleydelzoologico · 2 months

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The Photo Drama of Creation (1914)

#lucifer

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kellstreasures · 4 months

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donveinot · 5 months

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respondblogs · 7 months

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Responding to Jehovah's Witness Anti-Trinitarian Theology

by Stuart Gray Introducing the Jehovah’s Witnesses (JW) Former evangelical Charles Taze Russell founded the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society in 1880, and his successor Joseph Rutherford later adopted the name “Jehovah’s Witnesses” for its members. Robert Bowman opines Russell’s anti-Trinitarian ideas originated from his Adventist influences in the 1870s.[1] JW Anti-Trinitarianism In Should…

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#apologetics #blog #christianity #Culture #faith #religion #theology

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jwpreach · 1 year

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What Your Peers Say

Healthy Lifestyles

Photo Cred: Sebastian Duda | Credit: 123RF

Young people relate how they stay healthy. Learn how you can too!

Select the link to watch the video published by Watchtower and Tract Society

https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/teenagers/what-your-peers-say/healthy-lifestyles/

#health #god's creation #bible study #life choices #bible

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cremationgreen · 1 year

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Each faith has their own beliefs surrounding cremation. Some are very clear in their stance. For example, Hinduism mandates that cremation is the only type of body disposition that should be used. Then there are faiths where the use of cremation isn’t so clearly established. The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society falls into the latter category.

Like many religions, in the last few decades Jehovah’s Witnesses have worked to clarify their beliefs surrounding the practice of cremation, which is now more common than burial. Let’s take a closer look at what factored into the decision of whether or not cremation can be used by Jehovah’s Witnesses.

#cremation #religion

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conceptsmmorg · 2 years

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nynehells · 2 years

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Was anybody going to tell me that the Hanar prophet event in ME1 was a reference to Watchtower Bible & Tract Society of New York, Inc. v. Village of Stratton, 536 U.S. 150 (2002) or was I supposed to figure that out via a youtube video about the case myself

#im laughihng its dead on #short hand version of the case #but its exactly the same issue LOL

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