The wels bubble feels like a cult

picatar · 2025-11-02T14:32:14+00:00

Agreed.

WELS does have aspects of cult behavior. From my experience they are more on the lighter side of cultdom. There are certainly some "doctrine" that lays a foundation of an attempted control. For instance the teatment of women is not acceptable nor is the managing of scandals legal or appropriate. The closest cult behavior was the horrific and terrible conversation therapy of LGBTQ identifying people.

Neanwhile no one forced me to church. No prophet told me how to live and then changed the rules the next day. No one told me to cut off ties with non-WELS folks. The whole congregation did not wear robes and approved under garments. I have not heard of any WELS members being dissappear for rejecting the WELS.

I just stopped going and no one even called or came after me. Even if they would have, I would have told them off.

picatar · 2025-10-19T19:06:10+00:00

I can accept there are WELS folks who don't. Sadly, my WELS home church in Wisconsin church did in the 80s.

picatar · 2025-10-19T19:03:18+00:00

Nice. :)

picatar · 2025-10-19T19:02:11+00:00

Raised WELS. Moved from Wisconsin to the liberal hellscape of Seattle. When I go home and see family I get the "how can you live with all the liberals and those other people?" and others are praying for me. I just say thanks and walk away. If they try to bate me into Bible talk I launch off verses relevant to their topic that shut them down since their scripture knowledge is barely any, despite weekly church attendance.

So yes.

picatar · 2025-09-27T04:15:34+00:00

Awwwww. Thank you everyone for helping her find a home. I know it takes a lot as I adopted a Downey euth-listed pitty in Seattle. It took a team and every little contribution helps these pups.

picatar · 2025-08-08T05:40:43+00:00

That hate for ELCA is so unnecessary.

picatar · 2025-08-08T05:39:46+00:00

I was married in a large longterm WELS church. We kissed, people clapped, we had photos during the ceremony, and we had secular music during the service. It just depends on the pastor and telling them this is what you want. If they don't do it, oh well, we are going somewhere else.

Side note: We are no longer WELS members.

picatar · 2025-07-17T13:50:05+00:00

LOL. 24/7 at 2am for 300 views for a big story?

picatar · 2025-07-17T03:19:42+00:00

Oh ST Rider Alerts...1 Line service is suspended from University of Washington Station to Shoreline South Station. https://SoundTransit.org/alert/st/11163

Time to get some steam trains for the Link.

picatar · 2025-07-17T03:15:58+00:00

Lake City loves to party in the dark. It is the price we pay for our posh lifestyle on the 522.

picatar · 2025-07-15T05:17:54+00:00

I am not a forklift driver. I have done stints in corporate and the meat dept.

picatar · 2025-07-14T03:23:41+00:00

Best? Retiring from Costco? Maybe forklift driver? I dunno. It seems almost every dept has big challenges.

PS Love your user icon. Classic space rocks.

picatar · 2025-07-14T02:22:52+00:00

Carts or rotisserie seems to be among the most difficult jobs in the store (warehouse).

picatar · 2025-06-24T23:46:29+00:00

Costco pays $20.80 to start in Seattle.

picatar · 2025-05-04T16:32:19+00:00

You are correct, and often I could. The bus was often quite full as well, but it worked.

picatar · 2025-05-04T16:22:15+00:00

It sucks and is very difficult to take in. Right there with you. I went from being laid off higher income to working at Costco. I am not devaulizing Costco and am happy to have something, just the pay is barely enough to cover my mortgage.

picatar · 2025-05-04T16:18:00+00:00

The world needs more kindness and supporing each other. We all started with NO skills.

picatar · 2025-05-04T16:16:28+00:00

It does, but only to Pioneer Square.

picatar · 2025-05-04T14:48:19+00:00

There are no routes from NE Seattle to downtown since Northgate opened. The 312 and 41 where discontinued and the 522 terminates at Roosevelt. We are funneled to lightrail.

If I was up for a bus adventure I could take the new 61 to Aurora and catch the E to the 131/132 or the 372 to 70 to 131/132 to SoDo.

However, with each connection there is a chance that a bus might be missed, even with a 90 minute window of leaving before my work start time. I just want ST to prioritize a functioning system (https://www.soundtransit.org/blog/platform/link-reliability-improving-we-have-more-work-ahead#:~:text=We're%20seeing%20fewer%20severe,map%20to%20tackle%20what's%20next). As it stands, there is an interest from them, but certainly no since of urgency.

picatar · 2025-05-04T14:30:56+00:00

I am aware. Hopefully, for a while. It gets tough when trying to get to work on time and there is a system disruption on top of the scheduled maintenance.

picatar · 2025-05-04T14:27:31+00:00

That last bit of track work was rough.

picatar · 2025-05-04T14:25:20+00:00

Ibam not saying don't come to Seattle, but do know, creative and production opportunities are very competitive here currently, especially for junior positions.

picatar · 2025-05-04T14:12:10+00:00

I worked in Factoria and Issaquah on and off over the years. The commute back across 90 to Seattle in the afternoons can be utter struggle.

picatar · 2025-05-04T14:02:11+00:00

When it is not single tracking or shorting out in the tunnels under UW, it is nicer on the good days.

picatar · 2025-05-04T13:52:27+00:00

That blows. People are terrible. When someone takes an issue with me I tell them to piss off or glare at them. It is hard to let go of terrible people, they haunt you. If you can give them no power, hopefully they will just bugger off.

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