i know that the dub's view is that it is totally wrong.
i live in an area where the majority of people think it is wrong.
i don't think it is wrong (but i am not a homosexual).
I do not approve of it, mind you!!! Thats my personal view and I would do most things to steer my kids from a homosexual lifestyle!!!
While you're at it, why don't you steer your kids away from growing blonde hair or developing brown eyes?
Idiot.
Dedalus
i know that the dub's view is that it is totally wrong.
i live in an area where the majority of people think it is wrong.
i don't think it is wrong (but i am not a homosexual).
Is homosexuality wrong?
No.
Do you think that homosexuals are somehow broken and that they need to be fixed?No.
Do you think they are problems and they need to be solved?No.
Do you think that in the supposed "perfect" world/life/whatever you have after you die, there will be homosexuals?Why the hell not?
Or what do you think?
I think these are stupid fucking questions, that's what I think.
Dedalus
i'm pretty excited about the re-release of e.t.
the extraterrestrial, because i distinctly remember not being allowed to see it when i was a child.
as i recall there were too many parallels between the life of e.t.
The article is definitely real. I remember studying it with my parents. Ah, fine spiritual food!
For those of you going to see the movie -- remember, it's only make-believe! ROTFLOL!
Dedalus
i am 36 yr old female originally from toronto ontario canada.
was raised jw till i was about 14. has anyone else had this happen in their hall?
the mom's (thank god never mine!
Those fine upstanding brothers and sister in the washroom were looking out for their children. After all, Jehovah says that "foolishness is tied up in the heart of a boy" and therefore loving parents should "use the rod." A wooden spoon is a good approximation of a rod. A better approximation of a rod would be a hefty 2X4, preferably with rusty nails bent out of the wood, to be sure to beat that foolishness right out of those pesky kids who can't sit still for fine spiritual food that tells them how foolish and deserving of beatings they are.
Dedalus
butterfly: aaaaarrrrggghhhh!!!!!.
(setting down on finger).
...ahhhhhh!.
additional new stories with more information about the bryant tragity can be found on this link to the news register of mcminnville oregon.. http://www.newsregister.com.
published: march 23, 2002. jeb bladine.
whatchamacolumn - a tale of two freedoms.
Awesome.
Dedalus
what was the dumbest counsel you ever received?
once an elder was at my house and saw the video beauty and the beast, he said you should throw that away, because it promotes bestiality.
he got upset with me, because i just could not stop laughing.
I got some dumb counsel from the CO once. I was running the sound board, and during the opening song for the first meeting of his visit, he told me to turn up the volume. So I did. A few seconds later he came back and told me to turn it up some more. So I did. Still not loud enough. Finally it got so you couldn't hear the congregation singing, so loud was the music blaring from the sound system.
But what pissed me off was the lecture that I got in front of several other people after the meeting.
"Now brother," he said -- didn't even bother to ask my name, "the brothers in Bethel work hard to make that music, and we should appreciate it by playing it at a volume that can be heard."
"I could hear it before," I said.
"THAT'S NOT WHAT THE BROTHERS AT BETHEL WANT!" he roared.
"But isn't it nice to hear the congregation giving praise to Jehovah?" I asked.
"I'M TELLING YOU THAT THIS COUNSEL COMES FROM THE FAITHFUL AND DISCREET SLAVE!" he said, his face turning red.
I rolled my eyes and gave him a dirty look, but said nothing.
"Tell me," he continued, "When you're driving around in your car listening to your rock and roll music, do you keep the volume high or low?"
I stared at him and counted, slowly, to ten in my head. I could feel people watching me, and felt that the whole situation was completely stupid. Finally I said, slowly, as if talking to a small child, and dripping with sarcasm, "I only listen to Watchtower tapes in my car."
He ended by telling me to play the volume louder next time, and stormed off in a gruff. One of my local elders gave me a nod and a wink as people left the scene -- I guess this CO was a real blowhard, and everyone knew it.
Dedalus
what films and tv shows couldn't you watch when you were a witness kid?.
i remmember being banded from watching scooby doo, ghostbusters ,e.t., (some british ones)count duckula, rent a ghost, well basicly anything with ghosts in it.. my parents wouldn't watch any films with much swearing in them, especially the f-word.. which is fair enought.but i don't notice swearing so sometimes i recommend a film without realising its got lots of naughty words.. sometimes a very sensitive brother from the hall would come round to visit, and he would be visably shocked if there was any sex or swearing in a tv programme which often made it embarassing when watching tv when he was round.. once when we had some friends round and we got waynes world out on video, a couple of the brothers walked out as they thought it too worldly.
D8TA mentioned E.T, I remember here they said that E.T was wrong, because it was putting hope in an alien, and not the real messiah. That may be in a watchtower.
See this thread:
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=24180&site=3
Dedalus
in this forum, we often wonder what we can do to make the society look bad.
we come up with ideas like picketing assemblies, mail campaigns, legal action, and many others.
although these ideas are laudable and i would not want to discourage anyone, they sometimes create sympathy for the witnesses, and make us look bitter and fanatical.
there was no-way Wendy could have done a better job then she did
However much you like her article, it hardly seems possible you could say this and actually mean it. The "bull shit" is important stuff, or should be, to a journalist.
I admit I was coming down pretty hard on the article, especially, for example, when I criticized her use of the phrase, "rigid moral code." But it was all to make a more abstract and less personal point than you (and possibly S4) may think.
Dedalus
i'm pretty excited about the re-release of e.t.
the extraterrestrial, because i distinctly remember not being allowed to see it when i was a child.
as i recall there were too many parallels between the life of e.t.
But remember, Scally ... Jesus is your True Friend, and he's Really Real. But E.T. is only Make Believe.
J.C. ... phone home!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Whew! [wipes eyes]
Dedalus
