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One of the most important things (to me of course) that I've learned as an ex-jw is that having doubts is a good thing. Before, if I had doubts about one of the teachings, that meant that my faith and my loyalty towards Jehova (and the Organisation) weren't strong enough. And that was my fault obviously. I had to work harder to get rid of those doubts, I had to study more, I had to pray more, and of course I couldn't stray away from the informations that were given to me. All the other sources, other than the watchtower, were of Satan, I couldn't trust them. There were only lies outside this particular religion and outside the organisation.

Outside of this toxic, controlling environment, I was very happy to be able to use these other sources and what I learned will prevent me to be brainwashed again in that way forever.

The thing is, if I hadn't been so scared of doubts, if I had acted on them and asked my questions, did my research etc... I could have been able to leave that place long before I did, and I don't know If I would have been a better person than I am today, but I surely would have been a person who made their choice with their head.

A reasonable Doubt, is what make us grow. It makes us grow as individuals, it makes us grow as a society. It makes us wonder why things are the way they are, and if we see that something "normal" is wrong, it makes us fix it.

Let's be doubtful of the world we live in, and let this doubt fuel our curiosity and our desire to improve the world

Hey gang!

1. Happy pride month!

2. Palestinian queer people exist. Don't let any amount of pinkwashing let you think Palestine isn't worth saving, boycotting for and protesting for. Don't let pride distract you from the terrors of the genocide happening in Palestine.

Free Palestine

End the apartheid

End the genocide

Just looked at a blog where the header description said 'sometimes I reblog posts I like so I don't forget them'.

And I feel like that, right there, explains so much about how the site has changed in the last few months.

People now think reblogging is an unusual behaviour, rather than a default.

Tumblr newbies, please, for the love of baby Jesus, reblog the posts you like. That is the whole reason the site exists - for you to collect all your shiny fandom objects in a single space. Which you can organize to your heart's content. Or not organize at all, if that's your jam.

Our blogs are intended to be collections of posts, not collections of likes.

I'm sorry if my English is bad, it's not my first language!

Having different kind of animals with different kind of personalities really makes you appreciate every kind of love manifestation*-*

I've been out of my home for almost two days and one second after putting my foot inside my lovely, little cutie pie of a dog came running to me and spent ten minutes literally ON me, licking and light biting until she tired herself out.

The loveliest of the storms.

Two seconds after she finished it's the turn of my lovely potato of a cat (one of the three). She's much more discreet, and she limits to sit on my lap and purr SO loud, with her intense, emotionless stare. Not that she needs many expressions to demand cuddles.

Point is, they express love in different ways, but none of this ways is better than the other. All of their behaviours show the love and affection they have for me, and I can receive and notice it because I know how they show it.

I think it's the same for people. Every person show love differently, an example can be neurodivergent people that show love differently from neurotypical people. But if we are receptive to all kind of love manifestations we could see it in places we never thought before!

(I am excluding the types of toxic "love")

7 minutes in heaven

Fun, someone said the words “prior authorizations” around me and now I’m pissed off at 730am on my day off. I go off on this rant all the time. ALL THE TIME.

A lot of people around me are having kids and every day it becomes more apparent that hitting your children to punish them is insane because literally everything can be a horrible punishment in their eyes if you frame it as such.

Like, one family makes their toddler sit on the stairs for three minutes when he hits his brother or whatever. The stairs are well lit and he can see his family the whole time, he’s just not allowed to get up and leave the stairs or the timer starts over. He fucking hates it just because it’s framed as a punishment.

Another family use a baseball cap. It’s just a plain blue cap with nothing on it. When their toddler needs discipline he gets a timeout on a chair and has to put the cap on. When they’re out and about he just has to wear the cap but it gets the same reaction. Nobody around them can tell he’s being punished because it’s in no way an embarrassing cap, but HE knows and just the threat of having to wear it is enough.

And there isn’t the same contempt afterwards I’ve seen with kids whose parents hit them. One time the kid swung a stick at my dog, his mother immediately made him sit on the stairs, he screamed but stayed put, then he came over to my dog and gently said “Sorry Ellie” and went back to playing like nothing happened, but this time without swinging sticks at the nearby animals.

hey is it just me or should we be making a huge fucking deal over tumblr staff deleting a video that debunks IOF propaganda

(and while I'm at it here is the YouTube link to the video also. ive been trying to save/access it in the wayback machine to link that instead for archiving purposes but I'm having difficulties so I'll try and add it later but if anyone else is able to add it sooner it's appreciated)

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