Ha, Jeff I am loving all those suggestions. My favourite being the details; it's as if they want to know. I'm not ashamed. Hey, they fancy women too, don't they?? Surely they can see where I'm coming from!! I did think about having the JC chat with my best friend there rather my girlfriend, my friend has been there for me since school and can think of questions and answers so quickly she will have them in knots. She wants to have witnesses knock at her door- she saw Mormons the other day and was gutted when she realised they weren't the ones she wanted!!!
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Advice Needed
by faundy ini stopped going to meetings over a year ago as i'm a lesbian and have finally accepted it.
i was a witness for 22 years, since i was born.
now i missed my friends at the hall at first, but now i have some amazing new friends that love me no matter what.
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Acts 20:28
by faundy inforgive me if someone has already answered this, but i'm new on here and am not trawling every page to check.
ok, now why does acts 20:28 in the nwt have the son in brackets?
did they insert it themselves?
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Forgive me if someone has already answered this, but I'm new on here and am not trawling every page to check. OK, now why does Acts 20:28 in the NWT have the Son in brackets? Did they insert it themselves? There's no reference to Son in the interlinear and I'm intrigued.
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Advice Needed
by faundy ini stopped going to meetings over a year ago as i'm a lesbian and have finally accepted it.
i was a witness for 22 years, since i was born.
now i missed my friends at the hall at first, but now i have some amazing new friends that love me no matter what.
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Liking your last post, Openmind. As for knitting to keep my mind off 'inappropriate' things, that wasn't my style but you wouldn't believe the walks I went on to try and keep my mind 'clear'. I won't tell the elders I haven't engaged in anything, because I have. For over a year. I am just intrigued as to how they want to know details, I think it's a bit perverted really. I'd love to go and give them an exact account of every incident......
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Advice Needed
by faundy ini stopped going to meetings over a year ago as i'm a lesbian and have finally accepted it.
i was a witness for 22 years, since i was born.
now i missed my friends at the hall at first, but now i have some amazing new friends that love me no matter what.
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I had my arm around her, but we weren't kissing or anything. She's from the other part of the UK and so they don't know her. But they know we're gay, I told the elders years ago and had a shepherding visit, told to pray more, etc. They know I'm gay, and they know I've done 'gay stuff'. But proving it seems to be a real problem for them, ha.
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Advice Needed
by faundy ini stopped going to meetings over a year ago as i'm a lesbian and have finally accepted it.
i was a witness for 22 years, since i was born.
now i missed my friends at the hall at first, but now i have some amazing new friends that love me no matter what.
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I totally understand you, and yet part of me wants to yell at them and tell them that they had no right encouraging me to be straight and ignore my feelings when I don't feel they're wrong. Even my best friend who I thought knew me inside out told me that she felt that one day I would settle down with a nice brother who would make me feel right again. It was like she didn't see it at all.
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Advice Needed
by faundy ini stopped going to meetings over a year ago as i'm a lesbian and have finally accepted it.
i was a witness for 22 years, since i was born.
now i missed my friends at the hall at first, but now i have some amazing new friends that love me no matter what.
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Thanks Uzzah; I have been gone over a year but recently more things are coming to their attention and they want to talk to me about it. I just want to know why they're so interested in my sexuality, I think it's quite perverse. I'm not in contact with anyone apart from the sister I mentioned before but even she has been told not to have anything to do with me, and that if I text her or contact her then she has to report what she knows. I'm scared to disassociate myself and to be honest I don't see the point as I've not been for so long.
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Advice Needed
by faundy ini stopped going to meetings over a year ago as i'm a lesbian and have finally accepted it.
i was a witness for 22 years, since i was born.
now i missed my friends at the hall at first, but now i have some amazing new friends that love me no matter what.
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My family all left in 2003, apart from one older sister who ignores me because of the gay thing. I don't like living the gay stereotype and that's part of my argument. I'm still femme, don't declare my sexuality to everyone, I just prefer women physically and am totally in love with my girlfriend. I just can't see why it's such a bad thing; it feels so natural.
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by faundy ini stopped going to meetings over a year ago as i'm a lesbian and have finally accepted it.
i was a witness for 22 years, since i was born.
now i missed my friends at the hall at first, but now i have some amazing new friends that love me no matter what.
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Hi, I stopped going to meetings over a year ago as I'm a lesbian and have finally accepted it. I was a witness for 22 years, since I was born. Now I missed my friends at the hall at first, but now I have some amazing new friends that love me no matter what. The only thing that bothers me now is that I was recently in contact with a girl who still goes to the hall; she knows about me and my girlfriend but we still met for lunch and arranged a night out, but I couldn't make it. Now the PO has discovered that we met up, and he has said that if she hears from me again, she is to tell him. And also my best friend in the hall asw was has been told the same. Report to him if he hears anything. He has tried to get in touch with me by phone but I have a new number. I am being shunned by people in the hall, ie a Ministerial Servant and his wife. Two elders at least have seen me with my girlfriend and that's why the PO wants to see me. I need to know what I should do. Contact him and just tell him to his face what I feel? Or just ignore him? Any ideas? Faundy.
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Is the "marking" policy of the Society defunct or still officially used?
by yaddayadda inin my over 30 years as a jw, i honestly can't recall ever hearing about anyone who was being officially "marked" pursuant to the society's "marking" policy based on 2 thess 3:14. .
in fact, i havn't read anything about their strange "marking" policy in years.
this makes me wonder if the society still has confidence in it and still officially endorses it?
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I'm intrigued on this one too; my parents were marked in 2003 after they left, for apostasy. I was at the meeting when the talk was given, because I was still attending for two years after they left. I stopped going to the meetings last year, because I'm gay and was sick of being encouraged to forget my feelings and think about marrying a decent brother. Now I haven't been disfellowshipped, even though I have had numerous relationships over the past fifteen months and I have been seen with my girlfriend by at least two elders; we had our arms around each other and it was obvious that we were more than friends. The bit that confuses me is that I am being ignored by witnesses from the hall, but not elders or wives of elders. I am being shunned by my MS neighbour and his wife, and I want to know on what grounds they are ignoring me. I haven't been disfellowshipped or reproved; the PO wants me to ring him and has even told two friends of mine that if they hear anything from me they are to tell him straight away. He wants to know the details of my life, and he can forget it. But that's why I'm wondering if I have been marked, otherwise why are they shunning me?????
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WHO ELSE IS GOING TO THE MEMORIAL THIS YEAR???
by Mary ingeeze, the memorial to remember your place in the organization jesus christ is next tueday i think.......anyone else getting roped into going besides me?
i'm trying to talk my brother into going....just so i'm not the only slacker there.
i know whats going to happen.
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Hmmm... do you think they would welcome me and my lesbian lover??