u/Resident_Boss6990

I can't find an open source app for that anywhere.

I have tried manually changing the time and date, I assume it checks the real time with a server side check.

I guess it's implied, or we assume the govs will take care of it immediately.

My family has not cut me off yet. For an unrelated reason, I cut them off completely. They're still fully PIMI and I've kept my differing life style choices from them to protect the relationship, but recently I had a lot going on and decided to just cut contact to focus on my life and myself without worrying about having to keep them updated. I also don't want them to see how things are going and get worried or think this is happening because I "left jihovar". I might be a psychopath or it might be the ADHD but going full no contact and carrying on with my life all alone has never really been an issue or a concern I was afraid of. In fact, I could use it right now.

Just starting the drinking for mental enhancement or lack of, and don't want to over do it. That said, "stop now" is not happening so if you could just give me the approximate from your case or what you've seen that'd be great.

I think I may be obsessed with making sure I don't scratch them lol

How I used to be for context: I was you. I was probably worse than you, I used to think I was anointed. I used to long for death for "resurrection", and I remember reading with pride a comment that said something along the lines of a guy's grandma dying thinking she was anointed like "heck yeah, she died loyally". I used to think loyalty to the organization should be blind because they earned it, but without saying that out loud. It was implied. Wished to be a bethelite, wished to do more. I even spent hours picking up little garbage outside a kingdom hall in an urban area once, by hand, by myself, because I felt Jehovah deserved it. I was as fanatic as it gets.

What caused me to question things: The insulation, and isolation. There's a lot going on with the organization from a legal perspective that we weren't "let in the loop" about. All those "updates" are selective, but the scope of the legal issues against the organization are huge, and mostly not due to "persecution". When I found the Australian royal commission's (you can search for that here but it's on their government site too) transcripts, I saw that even the governing body lied and said deceiving things, which allowed me to look further. I no longer felt the need to obligate myself to not even "hear the other side", so I investigated. It got worse and worse, then I stumbled into how the 609 destruction of Babylon thing is in essence a made up date, which is contradicted by heavy archeological and astronomic records. There's basically less than 5 articles on this whole topic, I would say even less than 3 if you don't count the ones making reference to the original discussion of that date. Then I read a paper by Dr. Jackson titled "Waking Up - What the narratives of former Jehovah's Witnesses Bethelites reveal about recognizing and rejecting systemic manipulation". I read it thinking I would call out that "apostate's lies and exaggerations". There weren't any. I coudln't find a single lie or embellishment in the more than 200 pages of his paper. At that point, the mask was off.

Main Reflection Points: There was a comment or quote that said something along the lines of "the truth should not be so fragile that it cannot stand to even hear the 'lie' without crumbling". Does that not make sense? Why is it that conversations and discussions with people who knew and understood what we believed in the most and have now decided to believe otherwise are the most "off limits"? Why is it that blood parts, and blood of your own is fine now, but before it was not ok? Light gets brighter, then dimmer, then brighter again going back and forth with understanding? Is the source of the light Jehovah going back and forth? Blood was for consumption only when the bible was written, how is it that we don't go beyond what's written, except when we do, and make random arbitrary decisions at the interpretations such as those random blood doctrine lines and exceptions? Give yourself the chance to reason on your own, your own discernment and then if you still believe, then be it, but based on the whole analysis, not just the trust that you don't have to even consider the full picture.

Scriptures as basis: "Now the Berean Jews were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true." Acts 17:11 I would use the NWT but that could be a basis to take the post down due to copyright laws.

That's all I had to say. I'm mad. You're going to tell me they didn't realize to do that or haven't gotten around to it?

Where can I find that? My package was held by a government agency in China and I for some crazy reason want to make sure it wasn't tampered with before release.

Zippers are easily bypassed by a pen. TSA locks are bypassed by copies sold on ebay. I want my bag to be protected so they can't open it, but I also want wheels, and the carry-on size. I somehow can't find that ANYWHERE.

Zippers are easily bypassed by a pen. TSA locks are bypassed by copies sold on ebay. I want my bag to be protected so they can't open it, but I also want wheels, and the carry-on size. I somehow can't find that ANYWHERE.