all i can say is lol!!!.
so... i have been outed... im gay, and at least one elder now knows!.
while i was at bingo tonight with jack i recieved a call from him.
All the elders knew I was gay. I stopped going to meetings. I have never been disfellowshipped and I've lost count of the sins I've committed.
They still treat me like I'm disfellowshipped though. They'll ignore me in the street. It's like they disfellowshipped me themselves without so much as a 'by your leave' from the elders.
http://mybrainwobbles.com/2011/06/16/how-i-see-myself-part-iv/.
I found your post really interesting, BOW, and I hope that you continue to 'find yourself' and are happy.
I was a little confused with your references to the Kingdom Hall being a 'church' though- even as an ex Witness I would still not refer to it as a church...
i want to read it and both laugh at it and pity the poor children who are enslaved by its guidance!.
timmy xxx.
Haha bwrw glaw!!
PM me with the name of your auntie and I'll see if I can remember her.
Women not attractive? Honey, they're the most wonderful things ever to grace the earth :)
i want to read it and both laugh at it and pity the poor children who are enslaved by its guidance!.
timmy xxx.
Timmy! All your exclamation marks make me feel dizzy! Come down from the tower of excitement! That isn't meant to be a double entendre! Try and go a post without all the exclamation marks!
That aside- I like your posts. As a fellow lover of the same gender, I can relate to your feelings. Although I think boys are yucky
You mentioned you were from Wales in one of your earlier posts- I lived on Anglesey and am very au fait with the congregations on there and the area. North or South?
Siarad Cymraeg?
i'm curious as to why this is a national topic for a service meeting part?
has anyone any thoughts on this?.
You can't wank.
So get married already.
i'm curious as to why this is a national topic for a service meeting part?
has anyone any thoughts on this?.
"Another growing concern is the amount of brothers marrying very young sisters, some widowed no longer than six months taking up with sisters half their age.
Its a mans world in the JW religion usually."
KatP- it's so interesting you should say that. When I was 19 an elder came on to me (in his car as we were alone for field service, no less) barely three months after his wife died. I declined but was made to feel very uncomfortable.
Two years later, another elder did the same after HIS wife died.
The other elders knew about this, and they also knew I was 'struggling' with lesbian feelings and they did nothing. No support. The elders did not lose any of the priveleges and instead interviewed me as if I was the one who had started it all. Thinking back, I just meekly kept my head down and carried on to do my best as a publisher but thinking about it, I should have got so mad and exposed them all for the way I was treated.
Another thing that made me so angry was that one of the sisters in the hall was a professional counselor, and I went to her for PAID counselling due to past trauma in my life. She TOLD an elder that I was having therapy with her, and lo and behold, it was the original elder who had propositioned me in the car. So not only did he make me uncomfortable, he also became privy to my having professional treatment. The sister completely trashed the patient confidentiality rules. And did I say anything or object? Did I balls.
if you just want the juicy details where i leave, i'll make disclaimer where it begins, if you just want to know what happened with the elders and organization after i realized it wasn't true, i'll mark that seperately.
we didn't do jack shit in service, or in the congregation.
maybe this was how jehovah came about?
Jesus, you can really write. You seem like the kind of guy I could sit down and chat with for hours. I love intelligent people.
Your story, so eloquently told, seems turbulent but I am struck by one thing: it is full of love. For your sister, and especially your wife. Don't lose that. Real love took me 26 years to find, and it is so wonderful.
Good luck with everything. You blew me away with your recounting.
who recorded it?.
jesus is in the garden with peter, james and john but he removes himself from them and prays alone.
in all three accounts of this event we read that the disciples fell asleep and jesus had to actually wake them up.
I don't quite understand the question, unless it's a sarcastic one. Adam didn't write any books of the Bible but there's recorded the entire account of Satan's conversation with Eve.
Jehovah didn't physically pen the Bible but the account of creation is there. Just because the stories are supposed to have happened with nobody else around to witness it, it doesn't mean they didn't get written.
Bible being inspired and what not...
that was the biggest piece of propaganda garbage that i ever seen in my life !!!!!!!
in literally all 28 years of my life!!!!!!!.
i dont want to spoil it for anyone, so i wont mention what they didnt mention...but basically, they made themselves look like victims.. but of course, they did mention persecution, the new world translation of the holy scriptures(because jehovah's name had cruelly been taking out of the bible by the corrupt religious leaders), and the biblically based arrangement of the governing body.. i'm in utter shock .
If someone could find a way to post it online, ie Youtube, that would be ace. Or if they could send me a copy...
latest on "blood", a canadian film in the works.... http://www.brantnews.com/entertainment.cfm?page=entertainment§ion=read&articleid=10638.
Rebel has every right to stand up and say she is skeptical of people asking for money on the Internet. You make yourself less trustworthy by your defensive attitude and the strange fact that there is no accessible information regarding the project.
No investor within their right mind would hand over money without a clear, easily-researched basis of the facts.
Rebel isn't an investor. She's a shrewd member of the general public who shouldn't have to be guilted into handing you a penny.
