apparently, in some kingdom halls, various brothers on regional building committees are studying indoor.
pollution.
as i told you guys, meeting attendance is being affected by the growing number of witnesses complaining.
I wonder if they count these rebuilds in the new kingdom halls built worldwide.
As for the sitting on a rock for two hours. I think that people in other countries are used to the harsh conditions and so it's not all the strange to them, but for sure people over here would never stand for it. The usual syndrome of being spoiled and not appreciating what you have.
my jw girlfriend was here for coffee this morning, and gave me the assembly report.
her husband told her not to tell me one thing because it would give me "ammunition", but of course she told me.
there were no baptismal candidates.
We had a few Circuit Assemblies with no one and a few with only scant people baptised. Come to think of it when I was a kid there were always far more people around.
i thought i'd update.
today we got back from holidays and i decided to tell mom i'm gay.
dad got her to stop packing and sit down long enough to talk to her and i told her.
As much as I'd like to avishai the brain just shuts down when confronted with the "truth about the truth" kind of stuff. I don't know that I want to give her the slap in the face of rejecting things outright. I'm just not entirely sure what to say about the whole matter. I want to do this in a way that's as easy on her as possible but I know it's still going to be hard. I just hope none of the "kids" from the hall decide to take it upon their own self-righteous selves to confront her about it or anything.
i thought i'd update.
today we got back from holidays and i decided to tell mom i'm gay.
dad got her to stop packing and sit down long enough to talk to her and i told her.
Just an update of this morning.
She ambushed me by the window as soon as dad left and hugged me for about 5 minutes and said she's still my mom and she'll always love me and I can't help my feelings. But that she was more upset if I was going to leave the truth over it because that's my whole future. Then she talked about people who were gay but controlled their feelings and still served Jehovah etc. She printed off experiences of those people but said she wasn't going to make me read them but to ask her if I wanted to read them. And read the scripture about "that is what some of you were" but in the context of controlling actions not in the context of ex-gay. She told me to think about what I was doing (truth-wise) before I made up my mind. I told her about how hard it is that everyone at the hall is so condemning all the time. She said I could still be in the truth that Jehovah understands I can't help my feelings and that he won't take them away. I said that people at the hall dont distinguish between the two. She said she'd like me to finish studying the book at the book study but that it was my decision. She said if I want to go to the meetings I should get ready and if not she won't bug me and I should let her know if I want her to keep studying with me or not. Then talked about paradise where those feelings along with cravings of drunks and drug addicts would be taken away. Oh yes and asked if people at school know, singled out one friend in particular and I said yes. And said that it wasn't something she was going to tell people that if they found out it would be because of me. Oh and she is not going to do a brunch she had planned for tomorrow because she doesn't feel up to it.
just last night i was thinking about the numerous talks, assembly parts and wt articles that repeatedly denounced such "debasing music" such as "rap" and "heavy metal".
remember those?
seems like every week during the 80's that phrase made its way into a public talk or wt study.
I proved that to mom once when I made a bible based rap..I swear I did. At the tender age of about 8 years old too.
Mom once said she wished they would come down more on content than type of music. She was always after country music and how it was always somebody's wife dumping them and running away with someone else and she didn't think it was "proper"
another lovely kingdom ministry.
some quotes:.
"some people think that jehovah's witnesses should focus their efforts more directly.
Scully, don't worry they always emphasize the "official Watchtower website" has great value. I'm sure it's worth paying for an internet connection just to browse there!
he fully supported pharisees, knowing well their teachings regards.
immortal soul.. .
yet he supported them in their dispute with sadducees.. .
He supported their teaching of the law and the prophets but not their teaching of their own philosophies. The immortal soul concept was not contained in the books of the law afaik. I also don't recall him supporting them against the Sadducees, though it could have been about the resurrection. The Sadducees didn't believe in the resurrection but the Pharisees did and since the resurrection was according to the Hebrew prophets Jesus would have back them in that instance. But I don't recall a situation offhand.
I would not also say he fully supported them. In fact on more than one instance he condemned them. He called them blind guides, hypocrites, and offspring of vipers. He likened them to whitewashed graves that looked clean but were full of dead men's bones. And he condemened them for teaching the traditions of men, of which the immortal soul was considered one of them.
the last little while there have been many talks on sex at the sunday meetings.
it is sickening!
they are very explicit in nature.. don't they realize that there are many children in the audience that are not really ready to hear this particular information?.
Sitting beside a parent during one of those talks is worse. You always swear their eyes are burrowing into you.
i thought i'd update.
today we got back from holidays and i decided to tell mom i'm gay.
dad got her to stop packing and sit down long enough to talk to her and i told her.
bikerchic, yeah I'd have to say that's one of the hardest things I've had to do in my life. Though I have to admit I handled it better than when I came out to poor Poztate.
I just really don't know what to do now, or how to react or anything. It's very weird. Also very weird to think that I'm totally out now and I don't have to bother hiding anything.
anyone remember those kingdom ministry parts we had to attend a month before the summer convention about not saving seats and not eating during the program.
even our behaivor in the hotel pool was admonished!
and don't walk around the halls during the program, hold that boo-boo till intermission holmes!
Days with "bible dramas" were the worst. People always wanted seats so they could see. I remember queuing up as a kid and getting elbowed and stepped on as the doors opened and people crushed in and ran (how dignified is that?!?) to get the best spots. What happened to the parable about giving someone else the best seat and taking the lowliest for yourself?
