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My plan--fully revealed
by Junction-Guy 149 Replies latest jw friends
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Junction-Guy
Well I talked with Amanda tonight, and there really isnt much hope of mending our marriage. We will still remain friends, but we both realize that it's pointless to try to fix things up. I will continue on with my plans, and start therapy in the near future. I got in contact with the man from the reparative therapy group initially, and then we lost contact, I will give him another call this week.
Stay tuned,
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Q. Bert
Being raised in the environment of JWs, worshipping with them, even going in service and be baptized by JWs: none of them is the same as actually being one of Jehovah's Witnesses. Someone who is actually one of Jehovah's Witnesses continually goes through 5 steps: (1) taking in accurate knowledge of the Bible, (2) acquiring faith in that knowledge, (3) repenting for (feeling sorry about) actions and thoughts in a person's own past that do not harmonize with the Bible, (4) converting one's life-style to harmonize with the Bible, (5) dedicating one's life to maintaining harmony with the Bible. Personally, I have had trouble with steps 4 & 5. So, an announcement was made to the Congregation in December 2005 that I was not one of Jehovah's Witnesses.
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Junction-Guy
Well Qbert, if you've been announced as no longer one of JW's, then you must have officially been one in the first place.
So Im gonna take a stab at this and make a guess, You were a JW that is gay, and you had trouble reconcilling your sexuality with your religion. you were disfelowshipped because of this, but you still believe it's the truth, and that you may return to it one day in the future? Am I right? Am I partially right?
The very first step in your process to becoming a JW would preclude me from going any further, because once I took in accurate bible knowledge, I realized that JW's were false prophets. -
Q. Bert
The announcement was NOT that I was no longer one of JWs, but that I was not one of JWs. So, many had thought I was for several years, but it was determined that I had never actually corrected qualified as one of JWs. Thus the announcement. I am treated as if I were disfellowshipped or disassociated, but I am actually still in the process of properly becoming one of JWs. Whether I can actually get to become one, I don't know. Even though I gained a lot from the article I cited from, my fight was with masturbation and pornography and inappropriate touching of others, which is a related set of issues to homosexuality, in that it involves sexual self-control. In my case, this set of issues amounted to an addiction, which I may have finally been given enough strength to overcome, now that some of my closest associates are also living one day at a time being free from various addictions, including gambling, smoking, and illicit drugs. Yes, I still believe it's the truth (=best/freest way of living). I am a 98-99% meeting attender re all 5 meetings, even since before the announcement.
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Junction-Guy
Whether official or not, you are a JW sympathizer. If you had read many of my other posts you would realize that I do not in any way,shape, or form believe it to be the truth. It is nothing but a well crafted lie. My life was destroyed by this cult, I never had a chance at a normal life, I was held back in so many ways by their belief system, the damage is only starting to come out now.
I think you would make a great JW though, your theocratic warfare skills are well honed. -
penny2
there really isnt much hope of mending our marriage
I'm sorry about that Junction-Guy. I think your plan of getting into therapy is a good one and I wish you success with that.
penny2
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Who are you?
Even though I gained a lot from the article I cited from, my fight was with masturbation and pornography and inappropriate touching of others, which is a related set of issues to homosexuality, in that it involves sexual self-control. In my case, this set of issues amounted to an addiction, which I may have finally been given enough strength to overcome, now that some of my closest associates are also living one day at a time being free from various addictions, including gambling, smoking, and illicit drugs.
Q Bert...I see that you are struggling with alot of issues. Your train of thought in the paragraph above is a bit baffling to me.
I can see how someone could come to the conclusion that excessive use of masturbation and pornography could be related to self control.
I am not understanding how you casually lump inappropriate touching of others, (which you say is a related issue to homosexuality?) into this same category.
Having grown up around and been exposed to homosexuals my entire life, my experience tells me that just like every other segment of society, there are individuals within that group who exceed socially acceptable boundries and cross over into inappropriate behaviour. The vast majority, in my experience, do not. Being homosexual in and of itself does not make a person a groper or a pedophile.
Inapproprite touching of others is a serious issue that requires therapy of a different kind altogether.
Casually lumping that issue with masturbation, pornography or homosexuality, merely minimizes it in the mind of the perpetrater. It certainly doesn't minimize it in the collective minds of society. Big difference.
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Junction-Guy
Where are you Q.Bert?
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lola28
and walked away from it in 1993.
It is now March 2007, how much more of your life do you plan to give to this cult?
Lola