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Every couple years we would have a little Thanksgiving with witness family or "chill brothers and sisters". They would justify it by saying turkey/ham was on sale and we would have a potluck of Thanksgiving food. It was fun honestly, but I remember brothers would have to occasionally call it out on the stage cause so many would do something similar lol.

Jehovah Christmas- a funny (and hypocritical) family tradition.

Now, I’d like to stress that no, we do not call this event ‘Jehovah Christmas’. While I think suggesting that name would get my sister to laugh- I doubt any of the devout family would be happy about it. Instead it is boringly called ‘The November Party’ but I want to suggest a different name.

This family tradition came about last year, before we locked down fully for COVID. It’s a two day event- one day for gifts, the next for food. With that in mind, it’s more of a Christmas / Thanksgiving combo than a unique tradition.

On the first day, the third Friday of every November, we each (8 of us total) get each other a gift, nothing extravagant but there is no hard price limit. We keep gift bags labeled with our names on a big table, and we all just put our gifts in the bags after wrapped. We all open them, taking turns taking a single gift out of your bag. The following day, my dad and grandma cook a big Thanksgiving-like spread. And then, for the one time a year we do this- we eat together at the big table.

This tradition was obviously born out of a desire to celebrate holidays without really celebrating them. I can’t remember who’s idea it was, though I can assure you it wasn’t mine. While I see the obvious hypocrisy here, I’m not going to bring that up and dash away the chance for my sister to experience that little bit of the holidays. Plus, I love it and wish they had done it when I was a kid.

Anyways, if you and your families had any fun traditions like that, please share them because I’d love to hear.

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Ways to get Jehovah’s Witnesses to fuck off (as written by a former Jehovah’s Witness)

Ask to be put on the Do Not Call list. If you think it’s necessary, ask to watch them get out the territory card and write it down, but realistically, Witnesses in my experience are pretty good about this and the only time it won’t be honored is if someone forgets to check your address or if it’s been like 10+ years

Tell them you are an apostate. They are not allowed to speak to apostates at all, ever, but especially in regards to their beliefs. They aren’t supposed to go to places/events where they know apostates will be

Argue with them. Jehovah’s Witnesses are instructed to end the conversation and leave if it becomes clear that someone wants to debate rather than just passively learn and accept that they were wrong before. This might get you put on the DNC list without even asking

DO NOT answer the door naked. You wouldn’t think this needs said, but intentionally flashing people is sexual harassment, and Jehovah’s Witnesses frequently preach with children— both as a training thing and because people are more likely to be receptive. They say every JW who’s preached long-term has gotten a naked householder at least once. Do not do this

DO NOT unleash your dogs in the yard. First off, your dogs aren’t as mean as you think they are lol. Second off, almost every JW has been dealing with giant jumpy dogs— again— since they were children. Letting loose your dogs will get their dress clothes muddy, possibly tear them, and maybe scare some children/a few adults who will simply pass the door to someone else. It will also make every other dog in the neighborhood start barking. This isn’t helping you or anyone else

DO NOT call the police. Evangelizing is fully legal in the United States and JWs are not soliciting anything. Some areas make Witnesses get permits to preach, but that’s it. One time an elder in my congregation had people raise their hands if they’ve ever had the cops called on them, and it was two thirds of the Hall. Witnesses use these incidents to further their persecution complex. If you call the cops on them, they will absolutely be back next week, even pushier and more determined

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Jehovah’s Justice

So about that new light, and who they chose as center figure for that. 

A while back the Mormons got flack on this site for their skin lightening teaching. Well, the Jehovah’s Witnesses deserve as much if not more flack for their racism. 

For anyone out of the loop, the Jehovah’s Witnesses believe paradise will emerge on the planet itself after Armageddon, after which everyone who wasn’t preached to in all of history is revived to be preached to. They recently slightly changed it to mean that the sinners can’t actually commit new sins during the thousand year trial period, and they made a whole video display about that.

The change is trivial, but what’s really jarring is this character.

We’ve seen this guy before in previous propaganda; he was one of a lineup of revived people shedding their culture. The rest of the line up is gone, he’s central now and he’s got an additional African indigenous man and a conquistador, all resurrected, as backdrop.

He’s reborn in his traditional clothing and with the longer hair, but minus his decorations; things that are considered sinful for a man to wear who are to be without any decoration, and even for a woman as they’re bright and take in addition rather than being subtle.

“In their former lives, some of them practiced horrible, vile things.”

Like this white guy being genocidal towards native people and the native guy … dancing shirtless and with ornaments around a fire as part of a (very badly replicated) cultural custom. Sure, Watchtower Society, those are definitely, clearly the same kind of horrible, vile things. Definitely. /sarcasm

“… so they’ll need to learn to live by Jehovah’s standards. Who will teach these unrighteous persons?”

Who indeed.

Fun fact : all old cultures will be pulverized by meteorite strikes, and all new buildings will be in the westernized JW style. There is no home to go to.

His willingness to be taught is then demonstrated by starting to wear a western shirt; unlike the conquistador, who stays in his heathen buttonless shirt as a sign that he somehow wouldn’t agree with the new new world.

Who better than white people to show indigenous people the wonders of nature. It’s not like indigenous people have been practicing ethnobotany, controlled fires, hunting that uses all parts and pesticide free agriculture for eons and are currently prime advocates for respectful coexistence with nature. No sir, paradise is pristine parks where everyone always wears their Sunday best.

“They will need to develop a relationship with Jehovah …”

They have redrawn the former painting to emphasize the guy’s hair being too long and unruly by JW standards …

… so it stands out more when it’s cut in the next shot. 

Unseen Tears.

That’s how his relationship with Jehovah progresses, through the only clear trait he was introduced with : his culture and its removal. There’s no indication he committed real crimes like the conquistador, but by Jehovah’s Witness standards, his culture is a sin. All the world is ruled by Satan, who created various cultures to offend Jehovah. Growing closer to Jehovah means to be …

Taught to loathe their own culture

“… and dedicate their lives to him.”

A century of trauma at U.S. boarding schools for Native American children

“What a privilege it will be to see obedient humans become free of the burden of sin and death, and gain perfection.”

Death by civilization

Look at the guy in orange. That’s supposed to be a resurrected Israelite.

In older illustrations they would sometimes feature people in Asian or even African garb, this has also disappeared. The only cultures now allowed in Paradise is modern white and their generic concept of Israelites. Suspiciously pale Israelites who occasionally have blond hair.

Jehovah’s Witnesses believe in a resurrection with a trial period of thousand years, during which people who did not yet have the chance to convert are indoctrinated. If they do not convert, they will be killed. 

Everyone else becomes the immortal inheritor of the planet under the all white male heavenly government, who will run a monoculture in a worldwide park.

The staff could have chosen a drug addicted teen with spiky as the centerpiece of their message about growing into a good church boy for their disturbing post genocide fantasy, but they chose to aim it at indigenous cultures.

At this time. Apparently they looked at the news about the residential school massacres and decided that yes, now is the time to double down on the cultural purge theme. It must have been inspirational to them.

Imagine being murdered by one of those schools, waking up to a strangely paved over, unnatural version of the world you knew, and be told that the Christianity they made you convert to was wrong, and you have to convert to this other type of Christianity in this new school or you will be killed again.

That’s what Jehovah’s Witnesses hope and pray for : that they get to reenact global colonization with the backing of supernatural forces.

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Characters that I hold close to my heart as an ex-cult kid

The entire cast of The Path (Hulu) • Venus, Jupiter and Neptune of We Know The Devil (PC game) • Rapunzel (fairy tale) • Lapis Lazuli of Steven Universe • Aziraphale and Crowley of Good Omens (Gaiman & Prachett) • Lake of Infinity Train • Bucky Barnes of Marvel • Mark Grayson of Invincible (Kirkman) • Abigail Hobbs of Hannibal (NBC)

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