Anyone had three elders (judicial committee) question you on “sex before marriage?”
Case in point, being raised as one of Jehovah's Witnesses, I partied with peers that were Witnesses by tradition, inherent faith. At the age of eighteen (1992), I was conversing about the elders with a group of Witnesses, and a girl who had been before a judicial committee chimed in and said, “they ask questions that are none of their fucking business.”
What do you think?
Judicial Committee Meetings Sexual Matters
by Celestial 29 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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Celestial
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RayPublisher
No, but I questioned plenty of publishers about it when I was an elder. It sucked. (no pun intended)
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panhandlegirl
Are you joking! They really enjoy (wanted to say something else) getting into your personal sex life. You would not believe what the congregation overseer
asked me about sexual practices. I was so appalled I never told anyone about it until I was in my late thirites. I had not even heard about what he asked
asked me.They like to delve into details.I think they could get into trouble for how they behave.
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Billy the Ex-Bethelite
At this point, I'm far enough gone that if called before a JC I'd tell them huge fabricated stories of my sexploitations.
Would doing siamese twins be one count or two counts of porneia?
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BrendaRob
Can someone (anyone) please tell me why so many witnesses guilty of adultery obtain divorces from their innocent forgiving mates, then get married without being disfellowshipped. Are we looking at favoritism or just some elders' inability to comprehend their own "secret manual"?
The following was taken from the so-called very secret Elder's Manual Entitled "PAY ATTENTION
TO YOURSELVES AND TO ALL THE FLOCK" ACTS 20:28 Kingdom Ministry School Textbook
CHAPTER HEADING: Divorce and remarriage was not Jehovah's original
purpose for man.
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" If the guilty one unilaterally obtains a divorce over the objection of the innocent mate, this does not free the guilty one to remarry. If he/she marries someone else while the innocent mate is still willing to forgive his adultery and resume their marital arrangement, his/she is an adulterous marriage. (Luke 16:18) This calls for congregation judicial action in addition to any already taken, unless he has already been disfellowshipped."
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irondork
An incident in Maryland, USA some years ago, a ministerial servant's wife cheated on him and he thought he had a scriptural obligation to divorce her. So he did. Later, he found out that wasn't the requirement so he remarried his wife, who was by now disfellowshipped. So HE got disfellowshipped for marrying a disfellowshipped woman.
The rules are in place for a reason, brothers.
Then he was counseled that he needed to satisfy her more often and things like this wouldn't happen. The most remarkable thing about this case is that everyone in the circuit seemed to know all the dirty details.
JC's love their juicy bits and can't wait to share them.
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designs
Most Elders are guilty of pillow talk.
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00DAD
Celestial: “they ask questions that are none of their fucking business.”
But they like to think it's their business. Some elders clearly get off on it. I was on a couple of JC where at least one of the other elders was interrogating the individual asking WAY too many detailed questions. In the first case I was a new elder and just sat there thinking it was bizarre. Later I realized that it was also contrary to what was published in the "Pay Attention" book.
When it happened the second time I was the chairman and cut the brother off. The poor sister was humiliated.
Irondork, your story about a man getting disfellowshipped for remarrying his own wife really shows how ridiculous WT rules are. If it wasn't so sad I'd laugh. Hopefully they both stayed out afterwards, at least they had each other again!
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anezthy
I was called to a JC when I was trying to be reinstated. One of their questions was "Since you are a single man, do you masturbate?" Another of their questions was "Have you ever sexually abused children?" After the shock of those questions had passed me, I asked one of the Elder's: Are these standard questions that you ask everyone? His response was "Yes, they are standard questions that we ask everyone." I lied on the first question and there was no fire or lighting or an angel striking me dead for having lied to a JC under prayer. I can understand their second question, since from what I have been reading on different sites it is a big problem within the $ociety. I stopped going to the meetings shortly after that meeting since the organization stopped making sense to me once I read CoC, members of JWN, Freeminds and JWFacts. Good luck to all.
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wha happened?
living their sexual lives through judicial meetings. Aren't guys pathetic? I mean really pathetic. What they will do to bust a nut. I was talking about this to my wife because we've both been through it. The elders who have no personal sex life, counseling those who have, but gleaning every sordid details to fill their own sexuality. How pathetic can men be? Anyone rememebr the pussycat theater chain? Yea sitting in a room with other men watching porn. Well a judicial meeting is kissing cousins to how pathetic men can be. They did the deed, concentrate on how it got there, not the sordid details of a Lewinsky. What patheitc losers