I Felt the End Before It Came: Memoirs of a Queer Ex-Jehovah's Witness

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It had been roughly measured in 1837 by Col Howard Vyse, but the Edgars personally measured "the length of this passage seven times" and ended up with seven different measurements, though within a few inches.

The last favorable reference to the Great Pyramid in Watch Tower Society publications appears in The Watchtower, the April 15, 1928, p. It’s a constant concealment that his closeted queerness had doubly trained him for, a “cognitive dissonance—of living in multiple realities at once” that is often also the experience of a queer person in a cis-hetero world, passing quietly in certain contexts and thriving out loud in others.Publications urged converts to remain single and childless because it was "immediately before Armageddon. The memoir got a little graphic (and boastful maybe), for my prudish sensibilities, but I admire his bravery in putting everything out there and owning his story. So, if they predict an apocalypse and it doesn’t happen on the day they say it will, that information is subsequently deleted. It's an essay collection that blends two iconic non-fiction religious explorations - "Cultish" and "Educated"-while also reflecting on music, sexuality, the environment, and more.

He shares the thoughts, promises, and threats that the Jehovah Witness church ingrains in their people from a very early age. They believe that after Armageddon, based on scriptures such as John 5:28, 29, the dead will gradually be resurrected to a "day of judgment" lasting for a thousand years.But even years after whispers of his sexual orientation reached his congregation’s presiding elder, catalyzing his disassociation, the distinction between “in” and “out” isn’t always clear. There are some that feel like the need some more editing/fine-tuning to have a fully cohesive effect. Many of the changes reflect altered views on the significance of the dates 1874, 1914, 1918, and 1925.

It is quite probable that Shem, son of Noah, a faithful servant of God, was in charge of its construction. In 1889, Charles Taze Russell published his interpretation of eschatology and chronology based on the idea of parallel "dispensations". It felt very much like it should be its own book and this one should stick to the other parts of his life while giving less time to that specific aspect. This is partly, then, a story of growing up in a cult (his word), partly a story of queer liberation, and partly a fitting together of puzzle pieces of his fiction. The author probes the controlling dynamics of the Watch Tower Society and the complex repercussions of his “disassociation” from the group after he came out as gay via a “breakup letter to Jehovah” mailed to its elders.I think my biggest disappointment here is that this is much less memoir than essay collection, which to be clear, is not a bad thing.

I am an ex JW who left "the truth" at the age of 18, over 30 years ago now, and his story was my childhood in a nutshell (with the exception of being a gay man).m) high replica of a pyramid was erected at his gravesite in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with its capstone "patterned after the capstone of the Great Pyramid of Egypt, symbolic of the Christ.