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Shantell PowellOnly ex-JWs of a certain age will get this. I remember being asked at the age of three if I was excited that my little brother or sister would be born in paradise. Some great reward. <a href="https://c.im/tags/ExJW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ExJW</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/JehovahsWitness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JehovahsWitness</a>

Shantell PowellYears ago, I lent a bunch of my Jehovah's Witness books to a prof and never got them back. I miss them. Not because of the words, but because of the art. I don't know what JW art is like these days, but it was primo surrealism when I was young. I loved the paintings of Daniel's acid trip, and of all the wild shit in the book of Revelation. I thought the Whore of Babylon riding the beast was sexy. IIRC, she was a redhead with a lot of makeup and a glass of red wine. She was all kinds of fancy. I wanted a multiheaded beast to ride, too. How awesome was that? I remember there was one painting of a beautiful Black woman in a furry bathrobe in one article about how it was ok to be sexy with your husband. I remember thinking she was gorgeous. That might've been my first inclination I wasn't straight. Go figure. My first pinups were from JW literature. Hilarious. <a href="https://c.im/tags/ExJW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ExJW</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/JehovahsWitness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JehovahsWitness</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#queer</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/surrealism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#surrealism</a>

Al Jazeera (unofficial)Over the past 20 years, religious organisations from the Catholic Church to Jehovah’s Witnesses have had a reckoning with cases of child sexual abuse. Many s...<a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=AlJazeera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AlJazeera</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=AlJazeeraEnglish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AlJazeeraEnglish</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=CatholicChurch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CatholicChurch</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=ChildAbuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChildAbuse</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=Church" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Church</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=CrimeDocumentary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CrimeDocumentary</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=Documentary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Documentary</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=FaultLines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FaultLines</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=Investigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Investigation</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=Investigative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Investigative</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=JehovahsWitness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JehovahsWitness</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=SecretsoftheClergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SecretsoftheClergy</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#US</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=USlaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USlaw</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=alJazeera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#alJazeera</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=aljazeeraEnglish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aljazeeraEnglish</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=aljazeeralive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aljazeeralive</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=aljazeeravideo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aljazeeravideo</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=aljazeeraEnglish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aljazeeraEnglish</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=aljazeeralatest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aljazeeralatest</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=aljazeeralive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aljazeeralive</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=aljazeeralivenews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aljazeeralivenews</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=latestnews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#latestnews</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=newsheadlines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#newsheadlines</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZgtnpGyf5o" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Confessions, Silence, and Child Abuse: Secrets of the Clergy | Fault Lines Documentary</a>

Bob LeFridge :tinoflag:Because Jehovah's elders would never abuse kids... right? <a href="https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/nz-jehovahs-witnesses-want-exemption-abuse-inquiry" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/nz-jehovahs-witnesses-want-exemption-abuse-inquiry</a><a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/AbuseInCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AbuseInCare</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/JehovahsWitness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JehovahsWitness</a>

Miss MichaeleRaised agnostic by religiously disenchanted parents, I'm a former <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/jehovahswitness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#jehovahswitness</a> -- converted at 17, and that was all my adolescent rebellion. Twenty years later I had a religious breakdown and took shelter with the <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/UnitarianUniversalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UnitarianUniversalists</a>, a step I recommend to everyone who needs to deconvert. Under their wing, I became a <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/NeoPagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NeoPagan</a> and learned about <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/folkmagic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#folkmagic</a>, especially <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/hoodoo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hoodoo</a> (aka <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/rootwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rootwork</a> and <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/conjure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#conjure</a>). 2/3

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