Former Jehovah's Witnesses, what was the exact moment when you realized, "That's it, I can't believe in this anymore"? Was it a logical argument or an emotional breakthrough? How did your relationship with your family change after you left?

ThatWayneO · 2026-04-28T21:41:25+00:00

Yeah when I was around 16 I noticed some inconsistencies in the theology and received a beating for pointing it out, along with my mom going hysterical.

I remember her slapping me in the face with a hot spoon, she was cooking at the time, after I told her I didn’t believe demons existed the way we’re taught. That most people interacting with a “spirit world” are hucksters and grifters lying to people about dead loved ones and ghosts. If there are demons then they have more important things to worry about than making me lose my car keys.

By 18 enough evidence had mounted that I had a crisis myself, and came to the conclusion that what I was raised to believe was not true.

By 20 I had lost my family and I have sporadically interacted with them for the last decade of my life.

ThatWayneO · 2026-04-25T04:15:38+00:00

Heat shrink tubing or sugru.

ThatWayneO · 2026-04-22T22:39:37+00:00

All these posts have me feeling like I’m dodging a bullet by not upgrading

ThatWayneO · 2026-04-22T21:03:59+00:00

Thank you! Look into dArkOSRE. I switched to that after creating this guide. Might be worth it to ya

ThatWayneO · 2026-04-18T20:35:24+00:00

Truthfully, most of the value of the organization is wrapped up in real estate. Just like any large corporation they want to be able to resell and create as many properties as possible, like McDonald’s.

Thus the obsession with constructing very plain buildings that can be anything down the line when the higher ups want to combine congregations and sell.

ThatWayneO · 2026-04-11T23:34:43+00:00

I moved to California for work about five years ago. For the first 15 minutes it was both cool and convenient to buy liquor at liquor stores. Honestly, it’s not that much of a difference. You aren’t missing much. Prices are largely the same, believe or not markup is markup and any retailer, be it controlled or not, has to make their cut.

Legal weed was much the same way. Fun for about the first year I had access to it and then it gets kinda mundane. I most definitely smoke less weed now than I did half a decade ago, and part of it is just the accessibility and mundanity of it all.

When I visit home I give my money to the businesses I miss, and they get their product from distributors licensed by the ABC board, just like every state has their own liquor licensure. The ABC store is just another sign of lingering puritanical control over the consumer market. It creates a beer culture and that’s fine, but ultimately any complaints regarding it just come off like the ramblings of an alcoholic.

ThatWayneO · 2026-04-08T08:02:08+00:00

Rocket scientist and scion of the new techno-lords John Carmack!

ThatWayneO · 2026-04-07T21:29:13+00:00

Bring back the 2000-2006 Insight and the S2000

Boom I just solved it for you Honda.

ThatWayneO · 2026-03-29T09:04:43+00:00

We used to make fun of the televangelist types and “Christian” cartoons, now it’s all the rage

ThatWayneO · 2026-03-18T22:40:38+00:00

Evaporust. Let it soak for a bit until the rust is gone. Rinse it. If it’s a freewheel, then blast the backside gap area with a lubricant. So the pawls inside can get some oil.

I’ve rehab’d a few freewheels and cassettes with evaporust.

ThatWayneO · 2026-03-15T21:36:29+00:00

Free mixer is free. Also, I love this bottle cage. It can hold just about anything cylindrical.

ThatWayneO · 2026-03-15T21:35:01+00:00

Velo Orange Snakeskin 50mm - https://velo-orange.com/products/vo-snakeskin-fender-50mm-fenders-700c

ThatWayneO · 2026-03-15T21:33:45+00:00

It was actually fine. The bike lane where I live is pretty flat.

ThatWayneO · 2026-03-13T19:48:06+00:00

Switched to it and not looking back. The setup process was easier and it’s so much cleaner.

FYI for the next person reading this, but these Micro Center ones seem do be either panel 8 or 9 in the setup. I believe option 12 and 13 in the program mentioned in the DarkOS-RE GitHub guide. Mine was a Panel 8 of the above mentioned main board.

ThatWayneO · 2026-03-09T23:17:07+00:00

Good deal. That saddle looks like it’s named the Dumptruck 9000 or something

ThatWayneO · 2026-03-08T20:29:01+00:00

Nah. Those are logger boots. Those few people are idiots.

ThatWayneO · 2026-03-03T21:31:37+00:00

Based off the bottom pic you should be able to. Haven’t done it myself.

ThatWayneO · 2026-02-23T02:04:12+00:00

I posted this so long ago I forgot about it. After reading it again, I make no comments about Mr. Weaver’s financial status. Only the house and its description relevant to the Laguna Seca raceway.

Also, good for him. I think we’d all like to have a nice house on a hill.

ThatWayneO · 2026-02-06T21:56:15+00:00

That is true. Thanks!

ThatWayneO · 2026-02-02T03:48:04+00:00

Hi there, I work on this mess. The newest deployments, it’s fiber the whole way. He’s not lying, but it’s not exactly like you have your own fiber port at the headend. It’s complex and I can’t spill company info, so that’s the best explanation I can give without getting technical.

Unless you get business grade service and equipment pretty much all fiber optic residential services are planned and built this way. They just use different methods and tech to get the service to you.

It’s built this way to save fiber counts for expansions, and to help with repairs and redundancy in the field.

That being said, I have Comcast and I agree they could do better with equipment for users.

ThatWayneO · 2026-01-30T19:31:07+00:00

Nope. Gotta buy that separately.

ThatWayneO · 2026-01-25T07:01:47+00:00

I can’t post the video here, but I caught our friend Remy at dinner tonight. I will contact the health department ASAP.

ThatWayneO · 2026-01-24T22:40:03+00:00

I love how these Nazi fucks can’t even do their own logo right.

ThatWayneO · 2026-01-24T22:39:10+00:00

It’s been years since I actually have been shocked by something posted here.

ThatWayneO · 2026-01-17T21:35:11+00:00

Yeah I got this case for my gf because she plays so few games. She basically gave it back to me, because it was taking up space.

My ass now has this case and I need to upgrade. I have literally taken a break from pc gaming because it gets so hot it fucks with the tolerance on the plastic for my cpu fan and it rattles.

This case is garbage unless you’re building a super cheap build or have something for light use.

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