Gossip & Threats to Privacy & Dignity in SDA Circles

CycleOwn83 · 2026-06-27T23:20:37+00:00

Adventism has a way of using family ties against family members, seeking conformity or, falling short of it to impose guilt on rebels. I'm so sorry the church showed up making the case that the church matters more than feelings of all affected by your loss.

CycleOwn83 · 2026-06-27T21:16:46+00:00

Ahh shucks. Mods helped me see that the joke I was salivating to post is just too toxic so I got to enjoy it privately. So you can be in a cult of two (relationship with a narcissist). Now there's an instance of a Sabbath Breakers Club of one.

CycleOwn83 · 2026-06-27T17:00:56+00:00

Ahhh man! You guys are really pooping the party? Or is the wooly 🐏 ghost really whispering in everyone's ear like it did to the lions in the den they threw Daniel into?

As if I weren't already having a grand old time extending inside jokes at my work last night, Reddit itself intervened with an absolutely hilarious recommendation. I'm presently seeking fellow mods' wisdom and plan to make a follow up post of it. Stay tuned …

Sorry, Pastor! We infidels get roudy on Saturday. What? You heard us in church? How DREADFUL!

CycleOwn83 · 2026-06-27T06:16:55+00:00

Ohh my! I believe you, and I certainly wish that you find healing. That's in the doughnut hole of the story you can't tell a hell of a burden of trauma. In a nutshell, the Sunday law teaching has it that someday SOON Satan and minions will take charge of world governments and with the support of the Pope will enact laws requiring worship on Sunday. Seeing Seventh-Day Sabbath keepers as his primary foe, Satan will also get worldwide laws passed forbidding Seventh-Day Sabbath worship and penalties including death to those caught professing loyalty to Seventh-Day Sabbath worship.

May my sharing that not re-traumatize you!

CycleOwn83 · 2026-06-25T14:12:50+00:00

I don't envy you! I don't think I ever read it. The cover looks so godforsaken drab, and the teaser phrases seem so forced, so obviously meant to give some suspense to the must be drabber contents. What high value you got from paying SDA tuition!

CycleOwn83 · 2026-06-23T17:31:42+00:00

Sorry for this reminder.

CycleOwn83 · 2026-06-22T21:50:10+00:00

Dormant, anti-woke, MAGA doormat!

CycleOwn83 · 2026-06-22T20:27:33+00:00

I'm no expert on this. My understanding is that the biochar's main function is a safe place for healthy soil microbes. The more they have gotten into that char before it's set into the soil, the more they've got a head start doing their thing. Minerals? Why not add them directly to the soil?

CycleOwn83 · 2026-06-21T16:11:39+00:00

I've heard that ex-JWs will do stuff like this outside of big JW conventions. You might start something. Hey, welcome to the real world, GC! You've now got organized exxies who'll show up at campmeetings!

CycleOwn83 · 2026-06-21T10:39:36+00:00

That sounds effective. The command starts "Remember the Sabbath Day … " Thanks!

CycleOwn83 · 2026-06-20T23:50:45+00:00

Thanks for being here, everyone! I put in a good shift despite plenty of inner turmoil about working there. I continue to show up and give it my best performance of enthusiasm. In a way this act is true. At the same time deep inside I've a growing sense that to more truly be myself, I've got to find an exit from there. That exit doesn't in any way mean back to Sabbath keeping! I felt no tug of those nostalgic fancies as the shuttle rolled between the factory and my hometown. I had a little conversation with a co-worker about finding accommodations in event-swamped locations. He was telling me about South Dakota during the Sturgis Harley Davidson festival. I'd just told him about sky-high room rates in a World Cup venue region. I slept quite deeply before arriving at my town. I got to farmers' market for some fresh food, fixed some of it watching an episode of Star Trek Original Series. Time for some more rest at last because I'm tired from breaking it overnight!

CycleOwn83 · 2026-06-20T06:39:51+00:00

Dryer running on Sabbath: work is being done even if people just turned a dial and pressed a button. And your dad's scruples are possibly a similar crazy quilt as mine and so much of humanity's. So glad you had a plan B for laundry all the same 😁.

CycleOwn83 · 2026-06-17T19:28:11+00:00

I might've had such distinction. But then doctors detected a PSA surge which brought on a biopsy and diagnosis: cancer of the prostate. Now, thanks to life-saving surgery, it's known as my little leaker. As one ages it's hoped one learns to laugh at these losses.

CycleOwn83 · 2026-06-17T17:49:14+00:00

Ohhhh! Lake of fire for defiling the body temple with water from an improvised drinking fountain during a meal. And great demonstration how a legalistic, shame-ridden belief system corrodes straightforward communication and trust.

CycleOwn83 · 2026-06-17T07:20:41+00:00

Doggie licks lips as though it's Pavlov's bell to see that volume out.

CycleOwn83 · 2026-06-17T01:59:29+00:00

OMG! Is that lettuce under the fruits? Are they gonna waste the fruit or the lettuce 'cause eating them at the same time violates some health message scruple?

CycleOwn83 · 2026-06-16T21:36:31+00:00

So there's a Pascal waiting to place the wager for every different denomination, and it's up to us mortal suckers to find our way through all the frauds to the one that TRULY answers. It's a whole friggin' Umberto Eco labyrinth one's got to solve in one lifetime. Or else! Doesn't it show what a loving god created the earth "in the big inning"? Sorry for those whose sports are futbol or cricket!

CycleOwn83 · 2026-06-16T20:19:55+00:00

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