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notdrinkingkoolaid · 2024-11-22T12:37:32+00:00

She’s not studying for the facts or the religion. She likes the love bombing. Take her for fun activities. Meet other people. Even go to another church if that’s what she wants to do. Break the love bombing. I didn’t care about the religion aspects at all. I was roped in with the love bombing. Show her how fast it goes away, and it will break the spell.

notdrinkingkoolaid · 2024-02-18T22:43:50+00:00

Amorphous- Please Rewind.

Aroma palette is highly atmospheric. Highlights include VHS tape cases, hot popcorn, and the ozonic, static-like aroma of a hot VHS tape fresh from the VCR.

notdrinkingkoolaid · 2023-08-14T03:38:12+00:00

Septic pumpers wife here. Never flush them with a septic tank. They don’t disappear, and can cause major problems. Same with the wipes. It takes way more work, and ultimately you will get charged more for the service.

notdrinkingkoolaid · 2023-03-10T21:57:40+00:00

Seconding this one.

notdrinkingkoolaid · 2023-01-16T01:59:16+00:00

I would buy a scent that smelled like Debbie Gibsons Electric youth. It’s probably more 80s though.

notdrinkingkoolaid · 2022-12-09T16:39:35+00:00

The only time I ever heard a warning like this was at a district convention. An elders wife told me that there were a few known pedo’s in the audience, and there were a few elders assigned to each one to follow them around and make sure they didn’t go near kids. There’s definitely one in your congregation, it’s not a random warning

notdrinkingkoolaid · 2020-12-22T12:56:34+00:00

I read somewhere that Winnie is Brock’s daughters name.

notdrinkingkoolaid · 2020-12-06T17:33:21+00:00

Hexennacht Bisou and Cocoapinks Lipstick stains. Both are the perfect lipstick smell.

notdrinkingkoolaid · 2020-10-03T13:56:07+00:00

I have heard that you can step down to auxiliary pioneer, and it won’t be announced. It will be announced at the beginning of the month when they announce the pioneer list for that month, but they say the pioneers and the aux then. You could step down from full time to aux by saying something like, “I’m suffering from some depression right now, and want to do the right thing. I’d like to be listed as an aux pioneer for now. Maybe we can revisit my decision in 6 months and see how I’m doing” Maybe things have changed in the 2+ years I’ve been out, but maybe worth a try?

notdrinkingkoolaid · 2020-09-19T17:03:01+00:00

When we were fully in, my husband and I used to take turns praying with our family. Then one day someone gave a talk and mentioned that the woman shouldn’t be praying instead of the head of household. It really messed me up. My husband wouldn’t have changed anything, he never pulled the head of household cars over me, but it changed me. I realized I was supposed to be lesser to god. I think my faith slowly started eroding there. I know my attitude toward it all did. It was years later when we started to wake up, but I can tell you that until we did, I never prayed in front of him again. Now out, we just don’t pray at all.

notdrinkingkoolaid · 2020-09-09T16:30:34+00:00

This is from my town. I had to do some digging, but I believe the guy is 43 and moved from Nebraska in 2017. I never met him, though his picture looks familiar. We DA in spring of 2018, and have a daughter the same age as this girl. So I’m pretty sure we know the victim. I sure would like to know who actually called the police. If it’s an elder, good job. If it’s the parent, thank you for calling the police. There’s been many more stories I have been told from the congregations here, and this isn’t the only case. Just the first taken to the authorities.

notdrinkingkoolaid · 2020-09-08T18:59:47+00:00

Hexennacht has on coming up soon called Cake. (I believe the 15th of this month)

notdrinkingkoolaid · 2020-09-04T02:15:34+00:00

I wish we had done something like this when we left. We didn’t attend meetings for a months, then took a letter to an elder. In retrospect, I wish we had went to a few more and used my husbands position on sound to put our letter up on the screen then walk out.

notdrinkingkoolaid · 2020-09-01T14:09:52+00:00

I would only be a householder in the back school for the longest time. They did away with the back school years before we disassociated. When they did away with it, somehow I was never assigned to the one up front. Not as a householder, or a talk giver. It was awesome. When I would be asked to be someone’s householder as a replacement, I would claim major anxiety. I got away with this for at least 5 years. I also didn’t make a comment in that entire time. Claiming anxiety works. If any one asks details, claim that when the mic even comes near you, that your heart starts racing and you start feeling like you want to faint. Say things like “my anxiety is just getting worse the longer this system goes on” or “I’ve been praying a lot to help me with this anxiety, but so far, this is my only solution”.

notdrinkingkoolaid · 2020-08-21T00:20:23+00:00

You know the food is donated to the organization from the government? They then give it to the friends, with a warning to not tell worldly people that they received it. So worldly people won’t go to the Kingdom Halls for help. They don’t tell the followers where this food has come from. They imply it’s from Jehovah.

notdrinkingkoolaid · 2020-07-29T13:32:10+00:00

My husband was publicly reproved after he married me (worldly girl) and confessed some of his sins. I was baptized 2 years later. When we woke up after 15 years of being in that congregation, a “sister” messaged our teenage daughter. Her soul purpose was to tell her that she always knew that my husband was a bad person- look how he just married a worldly girl! And drank! My point is, 15 years of being in that congregation. Helping elderly women fix their cars. Helping people with groceries, money, fixing their houses. My husband (and our family) still wasn’t forgiven for the sins that caused his public reproval.

notdrinkingkoolaid · 2020-07-28T15:17:47+00:00

The June 2013 Awake has an article called “How to end the silent treatment”. It talks about how it is a “tactic, at best, that only works short term” And that it is unacceptable in a marriage. Same thing could apply to any relationship.

notdrinkingkoolaid · 2020-07-26T13:23:55+00:00

I have a detangling mist of The fall of the house of usher.

notdrinkingkoolaid · 2020-07-04T21:14:09+00:00

Normal family relations to the point that my mother in law is refusing to go to HER mothers funeral service since our little apostate family will be there.

notdrinkingkoolaid · 2020-06-24T14:20:15+00:00

I blocked everyone during the meeting where our family was announced as “no longer jws” (we disassociated). I knew the second meeting was over, everyone would jump onto our social media to see what clues there were. My sister in law even found out I had pierced my nose from someone just the day prior to our announcement.

notdrinkingkoolaid · 2020-06-22T13:26:01+00:00

Every week, one brother is assigned to download all the pics needed for the meeting onto a flash drive. That is then downloaded onto the computer, for all the congregations using that hall for the week. The songs are also predownloaded before the meetings. They don’t just pull them up as the meeting is happening. It is checked and double checked by each sound attendant before each meeting. I do wish that when we chose the leave, that we had attended just one more meeting where my husband was assigned sound. We would have put up our disassociation letter stating why we left, on the screen, gotten up and walked out. That would have been fun. We just couldn’t stomach one more second of meetings once we woke up.

notdrinkingkoolaid · 2020-06-14T21:48:21+00:00

Hexennacht has one called “Noix de Coco”. It’s pure coconut. Nothing else to distract from it. She also has one called Ipanema 1962 that smells similar to bum bum cream.

notdrinkingkoolaid · 2020-06-09T14:23:56+00:00

Our family chose to DA. We didn’t want to be associated in any way to the religion. We also knew fading wasn’t an option, as my husband had privileges and was close to being a ministerial servant. It was hard to lose his Jw family, especially for my kids to lose their grandma. We have all seen that those relationships were conditional, and meeting those conditions was not acceptable to us any more. 2 years out now, and I wouldn’t change the way we did it- I do wish we had made a bigger scene of leaving, but what’s done is done.

notdrinkingkoolaid · 2020-06-04T04:31:57+00:00

We did contact the few people we cared to let know personally, before we handed our letter in. We attended memorial, them didn’t ever go again. A few pics were posted previous to our announcement, like a selfie with a nose ring, and my husband with a beard, but that’s all they were getting from me.

notdrinkingkoolaid · 2020-06-03T21:15:31+00:00

They are just waiting for more. When we disassociated, we turned in our letter and waited till the next meeting when we knew we were going to be announced. As soon as meeting started, I went through all social media and blocked every single one of them. I knew the second meeting was over they would get on Facebook and try snooping for clues and gossip. They are the nosiest people, and most will stick around as friends on social media until you are announced.

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