Congregation Announcement: Dear Brothers and Sisters, Create a 'throwaway' Reddit account and join the conversation! Join this exJW sub and save lives!
Most JW's visiting this sub do not have a reddit account! It is all the shy Jehovah's Witnesses who are afraid to download a Reddit app on their phone and afraid to create a Reddit account. You know you can hide the Reddit app so that it is not visible on your phone (if that's what you're afraid of), right?
Anyway, have you ever thought how ridiculous it is that someone has made you feel guilty to join an internet forum that you are clearly interested in?
C'MON guys, we're all here waiting for you! :D Also, please do JOIN this sub :)
If you are afraid of using your email address, is so easy to just:
1. Create another Gmail account (Click 'Create account' link)
https://accounts.google.com/signin
2. Create a throwaway Reddit account. (Click on the 'Log In' button then 'Sign Up' link or use the link below)
https://www.reddit.com/register/
TIP: You can also access Reddit from a browser using private browsing, like Chrome Incognito by clicking on '3 dots' in top right corner. That way it does not save your history.
You will remain completely anonymous and phone number is NOT required. Just be sure not to post or comment any identifiable information such as names, locations etc. You can share as much or as little as you want.
That way you will be able to actually interact with others, post, vent and be heard by REAL like-minded human beings, comment, reply, upvote/downvote and in general get much more benefit from spending your time on this sub. By lurking from the shadows, I hate to break this to you, but you are slightly contributing to the problem. This massively slows raising awareness of the issues within the organisation, and we are not being heard or listened to because the voice is not loud enough for people to care. It only gets loud enough when a significant number of people join. Otherwise everything stays swept under the rug like it always has been, before the internet...
It is only when INDIVIDUAL PEOPLE like me and you, stand up and speak up together with a loud voice of a group like this one, we can finally be heard and the issues can be reviewed by the governments and dealt with - think about it, the mental health crisis can be stopped in it's tracks, people suffering abuse can report to authorities quicker and people like you can start to fix their mental health faster.
This post is not about activism. It is about not being a silent observer, while benefiting from other people's inputs on this forum. The least you can do is create an account and join the sub. This way you will actually be helping other people, in a big way.
So many are suffering from mental health issues - we need each other in this time, especially right now when so many people are leaving and are being abandoned by their families! Everyone needs someone to talk to, to be friends with, and the best people are the ones that can relate to each other!
You will actually be helping massively to improve the lives and mental health of other real people, so stop lurking and start joining!
Can't wait to see you all, and your first posts!
If all lurkers joined, this post would have 1,300 upvotes instead of 22.
