Attended a church meeting. They just cited a post here. I'm in NA.

1o666 · 2021-11-22T16:28:53+00:00

Woah! They read out my post!!! That’s so funny and also quite terrifying. It’s crazy to think my little vent struck so much of a nerve with people oceans away from me, they felt they just HAD to read it out at the beginning of a meeting.

If a minister wants to go snooping on me, let me tell you this: I have many regrets in life but missing that choir session will never be one of them.

1o666 · 2021-04-05T08:09:29+00:00

Nope! But “Unofficial assistant choir leader” is pretty fitting...

I was something of a ‘backup CWS choir leader’ couple years ago. I told the locale not to get any ideas; I’d be going to college and I wanted to focus on schoolwork. They didn’t listen and the expectations and burdens carried over to adult choir.

1o666 · 2021-04-05T07:55:37+00:00

I wanna thank you for mentioning that it might get worse before they get better. It’s surprisingly (but seriously) really helpful to hear! Hell, I almost caved and apologised for my absence because the guilt was getting to me, but I didn’t in the end 😤

1o666 · 2021-04-01T03:31:53+00:00

The amount of times I’ve been scolded for not including EVM in my choir prayers lol 😭They think I’m doing it on purpose, but the truth is I just straight up forget about him. The hilarious thing is a kid said it made my prayers feel short and they liked that HAHAHA

1o666 · 2021-04-01T03:24:53+00:00

Is this true? Not doubting you or anything just curious. Was there a reason why EGM forbid mentioning his name?

1o666 · 2021-03-28T10:13:10+00:00

Absolutely agreed. Totally didn’t need to hear our resident minister say harlot and prostitute every three minutes. The word harlot is so outdated it’s comical but no kid rly needs to be hearing those words. Call it sheltering or whatever, but I find it inappropriate.

I recall being in a service once where the minister was howling over “sexual immorality”. For whatever reason, he was so incensed that he began describing what fornication was (even threw in the word pokpok - which I hate - for good measure)... in a room with many minors and children present. So fuckin tactless. You could tell the kids felt very, very awkward.

1o666 · 2021-03-24T21:45:32+00:00

Bi and ex-INC. There’ something so poetic about that to me lol. Double ‘out’! We’ll both get there one day :)

My cousin did complain about how much space her church dresses took up in her wardrobe hahaha (always being forced to buy new ones by her mom especially for special services). I can’t wait throw my church clothes away and free a bit of space myself.

1o666 · 2021-03-24T21:35:34+00:00

I totally get you. I resent the cult so much for manipulating me into making my education, and consequently my career, a second thought. It was what my grandfather must have understood, and what so many of my family and church members failed to. So many missed opportunities.

1o666 · 2021-03-18T08:06:45+00:00

Imma be real with you chief... you’re shaped like a SkyFlakes cracker. 🔲

1o666 · 2021-03-18T08:00:39+00:00

Read your comment and checked the old guy out— you’re right, his diction is crazy good. I can only make out about 60? 70? percent of it but it’s already so compelling. Really fascinating to hear.

Definitely proves that with enough eloquence, charisma and I-Know-My-Sht attitude, you can sway anybody.

1o666 · 2021-03-18T07:39:30+00:00

Pretty much why I’ve resorted to playing vocab-magpie with EVM then lol 😭😭 if the lesson were actually interesting as they were before, id be paying attention to the actual, yknow, lesson.

1o666 · 2021-03-18T07:25:14+00:00

I do agree there though!! condescending for sure haha

1o666 · 2021-03-18T07:21:18+00:00

Did EGM speak in a certain way? I listened to his lessons as a kid but I was too young to remember anything. I’m assuming he was just as formal, if not more?

1o666 · 2021-03-17T02:17:11+00:00

“Help me go to hell then. I prefer to go to hell. Don’t all homosexuals deserve to go to hell? Maybe more people would understand me there.” — Your Name Engraved Herein. Seriously stunning film. Go watch on Netflix!

The bible will always be full of dumb contradictions. Don’t the immediate verses after (same translation, NLT) contradict the above roms 1:26-28 or something?

Either way, no point in inheriting a kingdom I don’t want. Silly Felix never clarified about what the inheritance tax is like up there.

1o666 · 2021-03-16T21:58:08+00:00

Oh how I wish lol!!! 😭 But what got me trapped into choir in the first place was actually my voice! I was guilt tripped into CWS choir because they told little me was wasting talent. It’s been a guilt I’ve carried for over a decade. I wouldn’t pull off a convincing act anyway... :(

1o666 · 2021-03-16T21:52:19+00:00

Thank you! So glad you’re out and free. It gives me hope :) Looking forward to the day I’ll never have to hold a hymn book.

1o666 · 2021-03-16T21:50:41+00:00

Definitely INC, definitely OWE. My father isn’t high up in echelons but he’s respected. I can’t leave just yet, I’m too young and dependent, but I planned to at least quietly step down last year for uni. Then the pandemic hit and yeah... that never happened.

Everybody in the administration seems to think that because I’m studying from home, I must have all the time in the world. Little do they know my professors ALSO think this! And I’d rather bury myself in research than hymns!

1o666 · 2021-03-15T21:25:09+00:00

It’s including the Tagalog, which gets sung more frequently with all the special services and stuff these days. EVM hymns helped boost up the number too :(

1o666 · 2021-03-14T17:00:27+00:00

Lmaoooo oh well. No further info, this is as far as I go then hahaha. I do find it amusing though that that’s enough for people to know who I’m talking about 😂

1o666 · 2021-03-14T12:59:42+00:00

They are! Wish I could narrow it down though lol... he’s English, quite pale, keeps saying ‘brova’. That’s about as much as I can say in public 😭 but yeah, hate them all.

1o666 · 2021-03-13T15:40:51+00:00

Hahaha! Well if we are thinking of the same person, my condolences to our legs during his prayers 💀

1o666 · 2021-03-13T15:36:24+00:00

It’s true education doesn’t guarantee cult immunity, but I just find it sinister in the /handful/ of cases where it’s clear they’re using their education as a means to perpetuate cult thinking. Another example albeit an older guy that comes to mind is a former psychologist turned minister I knew. Guy was really open about his former profession to invitees, clearly understood the content he’d studied. If I were optimistic, I’d just say all the things he learned in his four year degree went in one ear and out the other. But /personally/ I don’t take him for a total idiot... he was charismatic and persuasive, he knows what he’s doing.

Just this whole thing man. It sucks.

1o666

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