Calliope

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  This question is not meant to be..well..weird but....

  by stillAwitness in

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  do any of you parents and/or sons and daughters feel weird about sleeping in the same bed as your parent and/or son or daughter?

  is there a certain age that this behavior becomes inappropriate?

  i ask this because the c.o and his wife that are staying with us this week: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/9/107349/1.ashx brought along their 18 year old daugher.

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  Calliope

  okay, just to clarify... my view is from a northamerican standpoint.
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  This question is not meant to be..well..weird but....

  by stillAwitness in

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  2. friends

  do any of you parents and/or sons and daughters feel weird about sleeping in the same bed as your parent and/or son or daughter?

  is there a certain age that this behavior becomes inappropriate?

  i ask this because the c.o and his wife that are staying with us this week: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/9/107349/1.ashx brought along their 18 year old daugher.

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  Calliope

  i don't think it was weird of them not to want to sleep with their daughter in the room / same bed.

  camping is different. but in a house...
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  my family wants me to talk to the elders...

  by Calliope in

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  sigh... my parents want me to go to the elders 'cause my husband and i have seperated.

  they are astonished that i haven't told them yet.

  "what happened to you?

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  Calliope

  the fact that i live so far away is my only saving grace. they've asked me through this whole "ordeal" to move back home... to which i have tried to explain that i need to do this alone. i need to be in CONTROL of this situation (talking the seperation here). so i think the advice about ducking out is good, i just have to figure out a way to say that to my parents without them jumping on a plane - which i wouldn't put past them.

  arrrghhh!

  why does this secret society hold onto us like this? why can't we just walk away and retain our dignity and family and friends... i suppose that's just another thread.

  thanks btw, there's lots of good advice.
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  my family wants me to talk to the elders...

  by Calliope in

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  sigh... my parents want me to go to the elders 'cause my husband and i have seperated.

  they are astonished that i haven't told them yet.

  "what happened to you?

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  Calliope

  thanks everyone, for you advice.

  this is all very new for me (seperation, divorce, god's existance, the org...), i'm still trying to figure out what i DO believe...

  regarding the elders and my parents, i almost feel like letting things take their course, i.e. telling the elders. answering their questions with my doubts. them df-ing or da-ing me... then i can tell my parents it was out of my control...

  i know, i know... i'm a g'damn chicken.
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  my family wants me to talk to the elders...

  by Calliope in

  1. jw
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  sigh... my parents want me to go to the elders 'cause my husband and i have seperated.

  they are astonished that i haven't told them yet.

  "what happened to you?

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  Calliope

  sigh... my parents want me to go to the elders 'cause my husband and i have seperated.
  they are astonished that i haven't told them yet.
  "what happened to you?"
  "you've spoken to the elders before when you had to be reproved. what's holding you back now?
  "don't you trust the elders?"
  "jehovah has chosen these men as guardians in the congregation..."
  
  needless to say, my replies were getting more and more "apostate-like",
  
  okay, no doubt you are already asking "why are you, as an adult, bound by what your parents (who live an ocean away)say, or care?" and the answer is because i don't want them to know my true feelings about this org. i don't want them to know that i haven't even been to a meeting in 2 months. i don't want them to know that i am agnostic. that i'm not even sure a god exists. it would KILL them. they are already losing sleep over me...
  
  should i just call up some elder and simply state "just wanted to advise you that my husband and i have seperated. i have grounds for legal and scriptural divorce. thanks and have a good day."
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  should i keep the charade going with my parents... unfortunately, my dad has some elders phone #, so there is always the chance he'll call on my behalf, and THEN the shit will just fly...
  
  any thoughts?

  Cal.
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  I must be a lesbian

  by skyman in

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  the more i think about it i must be a lesbian, because i think about p###y when i get out of bed and all day long, usually not an hour goes by that i don't think about p###y.

  i look at nice looking women wondering what their p###y would be like.

  i love to undress women with my mind i do this all day long.

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  Calliope

  LOL...

  i haven't been around many lesbians lately...
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  I must be a lesbian

  by skyman in

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  the more i think about it i must be a lesbian, because i think about p###y when i get out of bed and all day long, usually not an hour goes by that i don't think about p###y.

  i look at nice looking women wondering what their p###y would be like.

  i love to undress women with my mind i do this all day long.

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  Calliope

  LOL,

  i thought it was funny that i simply assumed you were a male.... then i realized, you ARE a male.
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  THINGS YOU WON'T HEAR A BETHELITE SAY

  by What-A-Coincidence in

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  (sorry if this was already posted).

  no, no, let me pick up the check, mom.. i think there should be more acronyms used at bethel.. i will have to remember to donate for those 42 yearbooks i sent out to my friends.. i am going to sit in the second row at the family study so my friends can see me on tv!.

  i really enjoyed all the juggling in that last family night.. that watchman duty sure allows me to learn my way around bethel.. what's gleaning?.

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  Calliope

  holy crap greendawn,

  for a second i thought you were trying to defend the place. then i remembered what the thread was about.

  sad to say, i have a very short attention span...
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  Would you want Jesus as a friend?

  by scout575 in

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  whilst christians like to portray jesus as the supreme example of love and mercy ( as opposed to a supposedly wicked 'watchtower god' ), does the bible's presentation of jesus cast him in quite the same flattering light that christians like to believe?

  for instance, at revelation 19:15 jesus is described as 'smiting the nations and ruling them with a rod of iron and treading the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of almighty god.

  ' does jesus sound just as bad as the 'wicked watchtower god'?

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  Calliope

  i'd like to have the sermon-on-the-mount-jesus as a friend,

  i'm not too sure about the knife-wielding-angry-judging-revelation-jesus though.
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  YOU EVER FEEL SCARED IT IS THE TRUTH?

  by Cordelia in

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  just wondered as im prob about to give up so much, coz i dont think it is the truth but its come as such a shock!.

  my family believe it so much, my dad feels he can answer any question i have, and being brought up in it sometimes it scares me.

  coz my family believe it so much, .

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  Calliope

  totally relate.

  sometimes i just feel like because i haven't been to a meeting in 2 months, and i've been reading on this board... that i've become biased towards the "truth". that if i started going to meetings again, i would realize how true the "truth" is.

  only, i think i'm more scared to believe it isn't the truth. which means, i have to find the truth.

  Cal.