y'all i am an unmedicated bipolar.
i had a mania streak and slept with my bf who is of the world.
i am pregnant from this.
You don’t seem to understand how pregnancy works. If your story is this inconsistent with the elders, you will probably be disfellowshipped unless they are particularly gullible.
General advice to someone in such a situation would be to build up a support network outside the religion prior to putting yourself at risk of social isolation.
And don’t rely on the kneejerk rumors that ‘everything is easy now, you just have to say sorry’.
and as a reminder to all my atheist friends, here's a list of 12 facts on the resurrection most scholars (skeptic, jewish and otherwise) agree to.
2000 years ago a man announced that he would be killed and while he was dead, he would resurrect himself from the dead.
just wow!.
Already responded to those unconvincing ‘proofs’ recently. https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/users/18346/Jeffro/posts?nav=next&sort=posted&posted=20240224223813#4884876684165120
The new list is just more of the same poor argumentation.
Happy Easter though.
y'all i am an unmedicated bipolar.
i had a mania streak and slept with my bf who is of the world.
i am pregnant from this.
Yes, there’s something familiar about the inability to get the timeline right…
y'all i am an unmedicated bipolar.
i had a mania streak and slept with my bf who is of the world.
i am pregnant from this.
Sydney:
Hello everyone I had sex with my 'worldly' bf 7 days ago. It was after I was baptized. I went and talked to the elders and they said they won't do anything but they are setting up a panel for me of three elders.
You may well have had sex after you were baptised as well, but the events described indicate you more likely became pregnant prior to baptism.
y'all i am an unmedicated bipolar.
i had a mania streak and slept with my bf who is of the world.
i am pregnant from this.
Sydney:
Y'all I am an unmedicated bipolar. I had a mania streak and slept with my bf who is of the world. I am pregnant from this. I don't know how the elders will deal with it. Is there any way that I could just anul m baptism or something I got baptized 2 weeks ago btw.
Based on the timeline, you became pregnant prior to baptism, suggesting you either knew you were pregnant when you were baptised, or at least knew that it was a possibility. If it were not disclosed to 'elders' that you were engaged in sexual activity with someone not your husband, this would also affect the elders' decision in determining the sincerity of repentance.
regarding the poster from jw headquarters, who claimed that the gb would eventually loosen the rules regarding sex.
the question is, is there really a bible rule explicitly prohibiting sex without marriage?
because this would be the only possible reason why loosening those rules would even come up in a discussion.
Rattigan350:
"The Bible does condemn "fornication" multiple times."
The Bible doesn't do anything.
This pointless equivocation is up there with “guns don’t kill people, people do”. 🙄
y'all i am an unmedicated bipolar.
i had a mania streak and slept with my bf who is of the world.
i am pregnant from this.
The advice offered by Elena is not good advice, and is a misinterpretation of recent changes to disfellowshipping. There is no evidence that it is 'as simple as just saying sorry'. This is especially the case if you raise requestions about JW doctrines, which could have them label you as an 'apostate'. But even aside from that, your 'repentance' would also be based on whether you continue the relationship with the 'worldly' person.
It is also not the case that there is only 'soft shunning' for disfellowshipped individuals (and no change indicated for any who disassociate or are deemed by the elders to have 'disassociated by their actions'), unless you consider communication limited to inviting you to the meeting or to greet you at the meeting to be normal social interaction.
easter and christmas have pagan origins.
many of us were told that since birth.
the evidence?
TonusOH:
For some reason, my brain initially read this as "Yahweh, originally part of Canadianpantheon."
But it’s true though (Trudeau).
I’m sorry. I’ll show myself out.
so the wt society is going to contest the recent norway ruling.. jehovah’s witnesses to appeal unconstitutional ruling in norway (jw.org).
their true colours are shown in the statement: "the decision to deregister jehovah’s witnesses denies us the financial aid and other benefits that the government provides to over 700 registered religious communities in the country.
additional consequences include losing the right to appoint and authorize ministers of jehovah’s witnesses as officiants for weddings.".
NotFormer:
Did they even once question their own purported infallibility?
Well, they don’t actually claim to be infallible. They explicitly say they’re not infallible. But then they say they never need to apologise for getting things wrong. Which is kind of worse. 🤣
easter and christmas have pagan origins.
many of us were told that since birth.
the evidence?
Yahweh, originally part of Canaanite pantheon
Exodus from Egypt adapted from Cushite myth
Cherubs in Ezekiel adapted from Assyrian mythology
Creation and flood myths adapted from Babylonian and earlier Sumerian myths
The devil as a specific character (rather than ‘satan’ as a generic concept of opposition) from Persian religion
Nebuchadnezzar’s dream about a tree contains elements adapted from a Babylonian legend about Nabonidus
The ‘Word’/logos from Greek philosophy
But Christmas and Easter are apparently a bridge too far. 🤦♂️🤣
