a few years before i left the jws for good, i broke off a relationship with my worldly girlfriend.
we were in love, but i ended it because i felt guilty and wanted to be a good dub.
then about three years after we broke up, i left the org.
Kind of. I started getting all witnessy toward the end of high school and wanted to stop having relations with my BF but could not stop. So, that got in the way.
All things unfold as they should. I don't regret it, but it ended so poorly. I became very very hardened toward "love" for a great many years after that.
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the sound system at a district convention or circuit assembly?
you must marry only in the lord!
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!! Growing up, as I began to "notice boys", the last thing I wanted on this earth was a nice, J-whipped lil' witness boy. I thought you all were lustless whimps in bad clip-on ties. BOY, did I have it wrong....you guys were just repressed! The IRONY of it all, that good lil' JW boys are probably the most lustful sex machines aplanet (mormons might run a close 2nd lol!) because of the repression!!! Oh had I but known (I bow to the sex gods you all are!!).
More ironically, now I do have my nice lil' witness boy. We do unspeakably naughty things (like speeding and jaywalking, silly!!!).
jehovah is such a righteous, merciful, loving god -- slow to anger, overflowing with loving kindness and blessing.
yet it somehow bothers many of you that he will shortly execute his judgment on mankind and wipe out 99.9% of the world's population, as if that somehow is supposed to conflict with his loving qualities.
personally, i have no idea why many of you feel this way.
Brilliance!!!!!!!!!!!
<----Mr. Puggers gives this thread a
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with me and when we met, he would bring along two of his friends and i .
sometimes, i would knock their block off and sometimes, it was the other.
Why does it seem that individuals cannot simply respect a person’s view-
point or more importantly the person themselves whether they agree
with them or not?
I personally try to do this but this is a board made up of people who have been to various (some horrific) degrees, mind & soul-raped in the name of God, so a little vitriole is to be expected and tolerated, I suppose.
When an individual offers their perspective, viewpoint or opinion on a
matter why does a “we got to get him attitude” take hold?
See my above comment. It doesn't necessarily excuse it, but perhaps explains it.
I can appreciate Christianity in its current incarnation...but let's face it, it does not have a very tolerant, respectful-of-other-beliefs history. Sure, now they're all fluffy bunny, come join our big tent, etc. But people are still leary (google the burning times).
Why do people jump on Christians when they peep their little voices up? (I don't condone this, but I'm trying to explain my opinion of why it occurs): Most Christians do have an agenda (to make the whole earth believe, dress, speak, act and look like them--but they can't quite decide what that looks like either); I call it the Green Eggs and Ham syndrome: Would you like Jesus on a plane? Would you like Jesus on a train? Try him, you'll like him!!
People get irritated.
Now, having said that, I really like Jesus but I view him in a totally different light than most Christians. I also have deep deep respect for how the Christian faith got started; radical rabbinic dissident rises up from the "unwashed" and disregarded plebian muck in a highly politically charged time in Israeli history. Makes people THINK about the precepts behind their faith and the nature of God. Christianity was totally cool before the romans saw politcal opportunity by making it a national religion and co-opting it for political (mass control) purposes--hey kinda like the (American) Republican party today--LOL!
the subject of how ones remains are dealt with, i think, is very revealing of ones core beliefs.
i've heard atheists say that under no circumstances would they want to be cremated.
that, to me, is inconsistent with their proclaimed viewpoint.
well, I'll be dead long before you, Daystar, but I would wear my dead lover around my neck--sure!! LOL!
Then your son always talks about everything he's going to get when you're dead, why not add this to his list!!!
Yea, you know what baby? We're like the Adam's Family times 100 for people who don't know us.
LOL!
Kid-A---you crack me up!!!
say it for me....what you used to say....Jehoobie (that one makes me laugh out loud!)
See? I'm laughing here at my computer at work r u happy now? LOL!
quiz - which god are you?
http://www.abc.net.au/arts/wingedsandals/make_do/quiz/default.htm.
my result:.
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Aaaawe man! Guess I'm beyond description!
been born in mexico, witness of convinced jehovah they even preached when he was very young, memory to me the visit, without knowing what hoped, serious prisoner to a sectarian totalitarian system.
use a translator, i do not speak much english, but it interests to me to talk and to concer people who understand well that she is to be under oppression of human projects.
expelled by revolt for almost 3 years, in spite of to have had good behavior, it has been participating in two dramas in assemblies, regular precursor by 9 long years, graduated as university ( luckyly it studies ), of it not to have made in a under employment very common in the witnesses of latin america.
!Hola, Irving! y bienvenida.
Soy fluenta in Spanglish--si habla un poco ingles, hablo un poco espanol, y juntos podemos tener un conversacion realidad.
Amor y Luz,
~Brigid
Isn't God Awesome?
Yes, She most certainly is!
Seriously, no matter what face or name or theory you put on the progeneration of all the beauty we see around us, it is awesome! Simply wonderful.
Like driving westbound off the high plains on I-70 from Kansas into Colorado and looking up and beholding the rockies looming on the horizon. It brings tears to my eyes everytime.
Love and Light,
~Brigid
would you ever use witchcraft?.
do you think witchcraft is dangerous?.
do you think witchcraft is just a set of delusions based on ancient superstition?.
Great point, Sirona!
Egyptians were the bomb and their magick and understanding of the mysteries (imo) has yet to be topped. It certainly influenced a little wandering semitic tribe that took refuge there for a few generations then left for Canaan with a great company of egyptians and no doubt a few religious icons as well....then that little tribe spawned Christianity.
Everything is everything.
