hi my name is crystal...i am 20 and was disfellowshipped two years ago.
that was the hardest thing i have ever been thru in my life yet.. i was disfellowshipped for falling in love with and having relations with another female.
tried to fight it for a long time... but shit happens.
my 16 yr old LITTLE [edit] brother is is dating my ex best friend who is 21 [edit] years old!!!
I'm not mad at your little bro, but what the deuce is up with your ex best friend? Likes 'em young, eh?
Well, I don't have nearly the drama that you do right now gay pride, but I imagine I will when I say goodbye to this cult. I'm an undercover apostate. I can think of at least a couple other people here who went through drama when they came out the closet....so welcome and enjoy the board!
(copied from my blog) .
anyone who's seen my posts on jwd knows that im an active jw whos married in the religion.
i recently started leaning my "family study" with my wife to a more free-thinking, personal researching mode.
It looks like we're fighting the same battle, you and I, to keep our metaphorical masks from dropping all the way. I haven't had a fight like the one you had, but I did get kinda close to it with my mom (I questioned the veracity of a WT example).
Stay frosty. There's a beacon at the end of the tunnel for both of us...
i remember being a teenager and my hormones were on overdrive.
the young witnesses i knew, male and female, were all feeling the same thing.
we would bring up sex, in one form or another, all the time.
Looks like I'm screwed, then (pun intended). 21 and I didn't cheat, like my friends and family did. And seeing as how I'm not staying in this cult for the long run...no JW wife....
Man am I screwed.
i know it has been talked about before, but does anyone have information as to when jw started banning beards.
my wife is telling me that it started in the 60/70's because of the hippies, but i know i read somewhere on here that it was much earlier.. .
I wonder if the watchtower society will ever attack pedophiles as vigorously as they attack men who sport a little facial hair.
No, probably not.
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So. True. Add to that, is the fight for sideburns! Yes, I fought the good fight for a nice pair of sideburns...but I was persauded to remove them, because of my grandfather....and because of the CO.
a hoho might say: you have a bad attitude, i can't associate w/ you.
a real person might say: you're having a bad day, can i help?.
a hoho might say: i'm a pioneer.
Dub: He didn't have the right heart condition.
Reality: The guy was more informed about the cover article than I was, and logically defended his views. I couldn't respond.
Dub: I love getting food at the proper time!
Reality: Oh boy, another book full of tortured, circular logic.
Dub: She isn't good association for you.
Reality: This chick knows how to party...you might not be able to keep up.
"be courageous and strong ... jehovah your god is with you.
be courageous and strong.
" (joshua 1:8, 9) because joshua listened to god, he proved to be courageous, strong, and successful.
Jehovah EVIDENTLY shielded him from his enemies…but what about the prophets who were killed; why didn’t God shield them?
Good question. I guess next week will be the assigned guilt trip.
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Here is a chart that i posted a while back to explain the history of the blood changes, and a few questions to show the senselessness of it all.
Good questions, jwfacts; so good, I think the only answer a dub can give to them is, "Because the GB said so."
There are no scriptural precedents for the use of fractions. The WTS loves to brag that it's standards "never dip like the world," but didn't they just slip on their own harsh standard?
for those of you that don't know my story, read my first post here: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/122526/1.ashx
so, i think next week is when i find out if i am approved to be an ms. if not, thank god, but if i am, i'm in deep crap.
elder dad is confident that i'll accept, but my plan is to try to get out of it by saying that i want to finish school and get an aa degree, at least, before accepting more responsibilities.
but my plan is to try to get out of it by saying that I want to finish school and get an AA degree, at least, before accepting more responsibilities.
I'm afraid that's probably not going to work. I tried a similar line to that when they wanted to make me an MS, and they more or less laughed it off.
Now, rejecting the MS appointment by citing the whole UN scandal will obviously change the whole mood--you'll go from future leader to wicked apostate in no time flat. Unfortunately I have no clue how you'd work that into your refusal without setting off fireworks, so to speak.
The only way you'd be able to duck the appointment would be to either confess to or make up some sort of "spiritual deficiency," like masturbation or something else. They asked me if I had anything I wanted to confess before they gave me the title, and I didn't feel like being lectured, so I said I had nothing to declare. You have to give them a reason why appointing you would stumble someone. You might get in trouble, but at least you'll have stalled for time.
If you do manage to duck it, you can't relax, because they've got to appoint someone for the CO's visit. So at this point they will watch you of course, and you'll have to take drastic measures. Do what you can, don't make the same mistake that I did and choke.
while thinking about this bible verse today taken from matthew 18, i began seeing a correlation to our time and the trend among christian churches.
there are several that i am sure we can name that make claims such as "we are the only true church" or "we are the only true christians" or even that "no one can see the truth unless they are in contact with our church to teach it".
and these ones judge others by placing everyone outside their group in "spiritual darkness".. isn't this the same thing as jesus' early disciples asking "who is the greatest in the kingdom?
Euclidean Triangles are greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven... greater even than god! Not even god can make a Euclidean Triangle have more or less than a sum of 180 Degrees in all of its angles. This means that the Triangle is more powerful than god.
Triangles for the win!
okay, not so much murder, but yesterday i did kill a deer.
i was driving my 18 wheeler thru tennessee.
it was around 5 in the morning.
Murder denotates intent to kill. It was an accident. Heck, seeing as how you rolled through Tennessee, you probably gave some Deliverance-type yokel his dinner!
