Posts by Rabbit

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My daughter is getting married today!!!! But I'm too EVIL to attend...

by Bryan in

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i wonder who the noe-jehovah s.o.b is that's walking my daughter down the isle?.

bryan

3 Weddings --------------> NO PARENTS ATTENDED !

by Rabbit in

just a few weeks ago i was trying to console bryan, whose jw daughter had informed him -- he was not welcome at her wedding.

i told him this has happened twice to me already...http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/7/79259/1287354/post.ashx#1287354 (sorry the link doesn't seem to work, you may have to copy n' paste it)

well, i just found out...all my kids are now married.

Just a few weeks ago I was trying to console Bryan, whose JW daughter had informed him -- he was not welcome at her wedding. I told him this has happened twice to me already...http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/7/79259/1287354/post.ashx#1287354 (sorry the link doesn't seem to work, you may have to copy n' paste it)

Well, I just found out...all my kids are now married. The youngest daughter just got married -- a week ago...

And I just found out...

Then to make it worse (for our children) my X-wife...who is truly the finest Jehovah's Witness she has ever met...except for her mother, of course...did not go to the wedding ! This makes the 3rd wedding of our children where NO PARENTS attended ! With me, I of course was not welcome, but, if I had been invited...I would have been there for them, on what is supposed to be their happiest day.

Their mother CHOSE NOT TO ATTEND. Why ? Either the spouses were not Witnesses or not good Witnesses !

So...I tried my best to 'act' as tho' I was not hurt in any way. I shook hands with my new son-in-law, who I met for the first time, heartily and truthfully wished them the best for their future lives together. They did look happy.

My X had her quick, fleeting joy of watching my shocked face when told the news, but, knowing her so well, I could see 'something' was not quite right...Mama was not truly 'happy' with something...later I found out about her not going. I don't know what the story is, except I know he was/is somehow associated with JW's.

Although I did a fine job of 'acting' not hurt...I was and am hurt very deeply. I am not DF or DA, not yet anyway. You see, the Elders acknowledged my X had no scriptural grounds for divorce or separation, there was no adultry...so neither one of us could re-marry -- without commiting adultry in the process. I lasted five years before starting to date, then about a year ago -- I did remarry anyway to a great lady who blessedly has never been a JW. Now, half my family who are JW's have been un-officially shunning the both of us. Not one of them came to our wedding, including my kids. I guess I am "MARKED" !

I was hoping to give away at least ONE of my daughters...*sigh*

Even tho' I am happily married, I am sometimes, so painfully lonely. I miss my kids so much. I have missed out on so many things in their lives in the last several very long years. And it looks like a very long road ahead, before ...well, who knows what will happen.

Some 'good news'...all of my kids now have gone against their mothers wishes and married "out-of-the-Truth," 2 of them no longer attend meetings and the last one...just turned 18, moved out and got married. Two of them still have almost nothing to do with me, they are still under intense pressure from their mother, the oldest and have have a good relationship again despite that.

All the dynamics are changing. All I can do is show -- no matter how much shit is thrown at me, I love my kids, I tell them anytime I can get a chance, I will Never Surrender to this hideous excuse for a Christian religion.

Like Bryan, I hope someday our daughters will see with eyes that are their own... * sigh *

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My Brother's Funeral (Part One)

by doodle-v in

some of you may remember that last year my 21 year old brother died from leukimia.

the day after i posted about it here .

http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/63039/1.ashx.

Rabbit

((((((Doodle))))))

I am so sorry for you and your family. My JW Mom died a few years ago from cancer, in her case a blood transfusion may have saved her, od course that never happened. In your brothers case was it a factor?

Hang in there...it does get less painful as time passes...

Love to you all...

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Identical Female Twins Become Sister and Brother

by Rabbit in

http://abcnews.go.com/gma/health/story?id=174855&page=1

i thought the above article was pretty interesting.

in one of the presidential debates, a question was asked, " do you believe people are born gay".

Rabbit

Thanks, I'll try that !

Will it work on my shorts, too?

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Identical Female Twins Become Sister and Brother

by Rabbit in

http://abcnews.go.com/gma/health/story?id=174855&page=1

i thought the above article was pretty interesting.

in one of the presidential debates, a question was asked, " do you believe people are born gay".

Rabbit

"I'd been told that, you know, God doesn't want me to do this. Something's wrong with me, I'm sick.

When I read the above I shuddered, thinking "I hope they're not Witnessess."

...(I cannot get rid of this yellow stain)

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Identical Female Twins Become Sister and Brother

by Rabbit in

http://abcnews.go.com/gma/health/story?id=174855&page=1

i thought the above article was pretty interesting.

in one of the presidential debates, a question was asked, " do you believe people are born gay".

Rabbit

I was talking about this with a strong Baptist older woman, who said she "...just could not accept their (gay) lifestyle, because God just would NOT have made this way! She did feel sympathy for them in what they have to go thru in society.

I tried to explain that babies are born with all kinds of ailments and defects...does this mean God actually had a hand in 'creating' them that way? That really confused her. I told her I did not know if God intended for people to be other than heterosexual, but, it certainly seems the evidence is there to say they come by it naturally and should be accepted. She could not go that far.

Her Bible clearly "... condemns their behavior". Even tho' he creates them ! Then she did not want to talk anymore !

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Identical Female Twins Become Sister and Brother

by Rabbit in

http://abcnews.go.com/gma/health/story?id=174855&page=1

i thought the above article was pretty interesting.

in one of the presidential debates, a question was asked, " do you believe people are born gay".

Rabbit

I think it goes a long way towards explaining all the different degrees of sexuality from Heterosexuality > Bi-sexual > Gay and Lesbian and Transexual and Transgendered persons.

I don't see how anyone could, knowing this information, go on making judgments against people who don't "March to the right tune" of so-called "normalcy".

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Identical Female Twins Become Sister and Brother

by Rabbit in

http://abcnews.go.com/gma/health/story?id=174855&page=1

i thought the above article was pretty interesting.

in one of the presidential debates, a question was asked, " do you believe people are born gay".

Rabbit

Damn, Blondie...you're fast!

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Identical Female Twins Become Sister and Brother

by Rabbit in

http://abcnews.go.com/gma/health/story?id=174855&page=1

i thought the above article was pretty interesting.

in one of the presidential debates, a question was asked, " do you believe people are born gay".

Rabbit

You're right. Well, I went back another way and just copied it...sorry !

ABC NEWS

Oct. 23, 2004 ? While many people would assume that identical twins are exactly alike, Liana and Juan Barbachano are showing the world that in some cases, they couldn't be more different.

Transgender Twin Offers New Insight
Juan Barbachano was actually born as Juanita. She and Liana were like two peas in a pod until Juanita began to realize that she and her twin sister felt very differently about themselves. When the two played house, Juanita always wanted to be the daddy, never the mommy. And when Juanita went to bed on Christmas Eve, she wished Santa would help her wake up as a boy.

"I was afraid that if anybody knew that I was really a guy, that no one would have anything to do with me, so I kept that to myself," Juan said. While Liana felt like a normal girl, Juanita felt as if she was a boy trapped inside of a girl's body.
At age 4, Juanita chopped off her long hair and wore pants as much as she could. In high school, she joined the football team and asked her teammates to call her "Juan."

Juanita wouldn't be granted her Christmas wish to fully become a boy until many years later. Now 35, Juan, formerly Juanita, says life has improved with hormone therapy and surgery, and with the support of a loving sister. "I'd been told that, you know, God doesn't want me to do this. Something's wrong with me, I'm sick. But then I came to realize that God made me the way I am and he loves me just the way I am," Juan said on ABC News' "Good Morning America." "I never expected to receive the support and love I have received from Liana.

Liana, now married with eight children, says she accepts Juan for who he is and is happy with their relationship. "You love who the person is and you support them as a person," she said. Juan's experience is more perplexing than those of most transgender individuals because he is an identical twin.

Nancy Segal, a professor of developmental psychology and director of the Twins Study Center at California State, Fullerton, says Juan's experience is helping researchers understand twins better. "From what Juan and Liana tell us, genes do not predict identical behaviors," she said.

Doctors think that something happened in the womb that made the twins different. "We expect that Juan was exposed to higher levels of testosterone and male hormone, which might have redirected her brain somewhat, making her feel like a man. This did not happen to her sister, who grew up as a full female," Segal said.

Segal, author of "Entwined Lives: Twins and What They Tell Us About Human Behavior," says scientists are beginning to look at what happens to identical twins within the womb to explain similarities and differences that surface later in life.

"The womb is a very different experience for identical twins, and in some ways it's surprising that identical twins are as alike as they are," Segal said. "Gender is a complicated behavior affected by many things. Even with identical twins, who are so alike in many ways, as Juan and Liana are, there still can be profound differences between them."

After a long struggle, Juan's parents have come to terms with his gender and have decided to look beyond that one aspect of his life. "When you look at a person in-depth, you're looking at a person, a being, not simply a man or a woman," said Juan's father, Joaquin Barbachano. "Love can move anything, anytime, anywhere, as long as you have it to give, it's very powerful."

Other related stories:
Transsexual Dad Wins Landmark Custody Case
Prisons Face Dilemma With Transgender Inmates
Transgender Dad Battles for Child Custody

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Identical Female Twins Become Sister and Brother

by Rabbit in

http://abcnews.go.com/gma/health/story?id=174855&page=1

i thought the above article was pretty interesting.

in one of the presidential debates, a question was asked, " do you believe people are born gay".

Rabbit

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Health/story?id=174855&page=1

I thought the above article was pretty interesting. In one of the Presidential Debates, a question was asked, " Do you believe people are born gay". Bush said, "I don't know...", which I think is an honest answer. Kerry's answer was so 'non-commital' I don't know WHAT his position is, although he is against gay marriage.

So...what do y'all think?