IIRC they don't even call it homosexuality. They call it same-sex attraction to minimize the belief that one must act upon one's sexuality.
Posts by rebel8
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7"My Husband's Not Gay" New Show on TLC Channel
by ShirleyW in"my husband's not gay" a special airing on january 11 follows a group of mormon men who say they are happily married and attracted to their wives but are attracted to men also .
whhaaaaattt !!!!.
first of all don't mormons look down on the gay lifestyle, and they also shun members like jws do.. well, all i can say is i'm waiting for jw version of this show, if they're featuring mormons, the dubs must be next !.
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It's imminent now.
by rebel8 inno, not armageddon, silly.
santa claus.. http://www.noradsanta.org/.
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Could the allowance of blood fractions be curtailing the growth of the religion?
by Apognophos inso, imagine that you're just a regular joe who's not familiar with the witnesses and is looking for the answers to life, the universe, and everything.
you hear a knock at your door.
before long, you are studying with a jehovah's witness.
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rebel8
What the OP described happened to my family, except it was back when fractions weren't allowed (early 1970s).
They don't tell you the worst things until you're mostly hooked. Manipulative.
What is going through your mind at this point? Isn't just about anyone's BS Alarm liable to be going off at this point?
What happened to my mother is, "But my daughter is hemophiliac and needs fractions weekly right now. She's almost died without it. I can't follow that teaching, knowing she's going to suffer and die." (Let's just remember that bleeding to death is slowly suffocating. It's not a quick or painless death.)
Response from jw: several weeks of cult programming, resurrection to petting zoos, Abraham ready to sacrifice his son, the fact that both of us will be executed and permanently dead at jehoopla's hand for taking blood products, and fake medical facts about taking on the personality of the criminals who were donating blood.
My mother suppressed her logic in favor of this thinking, because she was so eager to be in a group with strict, hard-to-follow rules so she could prove to god how much better she is than the Great Unwashed. She could have had her social status highly elevated if I had died one of the times she tried to sacrifice me.
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Watchtower 'Experts' on Being Gay?
by jw07 inhave you seen this article?.
the watchtower is trying to be experts on all things having to do with human sexuality.. repressing sexual desires, gay or straight only creates more problems.. http://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/family/teenagers/ask/pressure-to-be-gay/.
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rebel8
"WTFness" will appear in the next edition of The Apostate Dictionary. Thanks!
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New forum 'parousia' is upon us! (software version)
by Simon inthe time has nearly come to switch over to the new forum software.
of course it's not completely finished yet (and never will be) but i think it's good enough to go live with and probably already better than the current one.
i'll give you a quick overview of what to expect and post more detail about the changeover process later.. cloud platform.
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rebel8
woo-hoo!
I am so appreciative of your work.
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Watchtower 'Experts' on Being Gay?
by jw07 inhave you seen this article?.
the watchtower is trying to be experts on all things having to do with human sexuality.. repressing sexual desires, gay or straight only creates more problems.. http://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/family/teenagers/ask/pressure-to-be-gay/.
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rebel8
The Bible...simply directs those with homosexual urges to do the same thing that is required of those with an opposite-sex attraction
That is a bold-faced lie. The bible says heteros can get married and do it as much as they want; it says homosexuals can never be together and be pleasing to god. So let's recap:
A-ok
- Hetero sex after marriage
- God impregnating a human female
- Cain marrying his sister and creating an entire race of people
- Abraham and Amnon marrying their half-sisters
- Lot's daughters getting him drunk and raping him
- Moses' father marrying his aunt
- Noah's grandkids marrying each other
- Jesus cuddling with men
Not ok: any sort of physical contact or marriage between women or between men
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Leaving with Dignity - a sample document
by Ajax inwe live in democratic, not theocratic times.. churches no longer imprison, torture or execute.. cults have absolutely no authority over non members.
we don't have to obey.
we don't have to subject our selves.
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Freinds, how many do you have ?
by Satanus ini'll start.
i'm low on friends, for various reasons.
scientists poke their calculators into everything, and the number of friends we can have is one of them.
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rebel8
I have literally a few people who I consider close friends, in that I could talk to them about anything and they would help me if a tragedy happened. However, they live on the other side of the continent.
I have only mr. rebel8 as such a close friend nearby. This makes me uneasy, because I'm not sure it's entirely healthy, and what if something happened to me.
I have lots of acquaintences. There are a few I'd like to be closer to.
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Why Do Theist Struggle So Much For A God Who Supposedly Exists?
by Coded Logic ina theist made this casual statement on another thread,.
from ancient accounts hostile to christinity, we can learn about (jesus).
as a theist, how could they possibly trust the source to suggest this to himself?
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"Big Eyes" the story of artist Margaret Keane
by designs inthe tim burton film is ready for release.. www.thewrap.com/big-eyes-premiere-finds-audience-howling-at-christoph-waltz-and-amy-adams-dueling-artists/.
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rebel8
bluesbrother, are those really in the assembly halls?
I totally respect and love visual arts...but omg...I am just lol. I didn't realize it was possible to make the wts paradise zoo stories even more tacky and unbelievable.
Sorry but omg. She's a talented artist, maybe her work is not to everyone's taste, but you gotta admit she has talent. But the paradise petting zoo pieces just freak me out.
