@joey I read your comment as supporting his view on homosexuals. Was I wrong?
GromitSK
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Shunned by an ex-jw
by Joey Jo-Jo ini was watching one of alun williams videos on youtube.
i was a subscriber to his channel, that is until he blocked me completely due to one comment i made on his video watchtoweralert1---homosexuality.
mind you this was the only comment i have ever made to any of his videos, most vids are your typical ex-jw info but he is now making videos specifically about the bible, one being about homosexuality, although still an ex-jw he appears to be still carrying a lot of jw luggage, for one he has just false propheticed the end, and he spoke against same sex intercourse.. being youtube he is entitled to do what ever he wants on is channel, however youtube is also place for discussion and debates and in no way was my post worth blocking, and being an ex-jw i expected him to know better.. what i posted was - i much rather see those outside the org, but really if you want to play that card you have a lot to answer for, for one circular reasoning.
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Shunned by an ex-jw
by Joey Jo-Jo ini was watching one of alun williams videos on youtube.
i was a subscriber to his channel, that is until he blocked me completely due to one comment i made on his video watchtoweralert1---homosexuality.
mind you this was the only comment i have ever made to any of his videos, most vids are your typical ex-jw info but he is now making videos specifically about the bible, one being about homosexuality, although still an ex-jw he appears to be still carrying a lot of jw luggage, for one he has just false propheticed the end, and he spoke against same sex intercourse.. being youtube he is entitled to do what ever he wants on is channel, however youtube is also place for discussion and debates and in no way was my post worth blocking, and being an ex-jw i expected him to know better.. what i posted was - i much rather see those outside the org, but really if you want to play that card you have a lot to answer for, for one circular reasoning.
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GromitSK
Blimey homophobes blocking homophobes - who knew?
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Email exchange with a JW MS that I used to know
by loosie ini have to laugh at this email exchange had with an ms i used to know.
a little background first so you will understand why i was amd at him.
about 25 years or so ago we dated fro about 2 weeks.
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GromitSK
By their fruits you will know them, ha!
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Why did you become a Jehovah's Witness ?
by Gnosis inwhy did you become a jehovah's witness ?.
initially upon entering the religion what were the positive things you experienced ?.
how did that particular way of thinking both benefit and harm you ?.
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GromitSK
@terry - ditto for me. Plus as was a catholic so had a predisposition to accept the bible and the local priest wasn't interested and could martial any real answers to them. Add in being 18 and with no real role models or friends to consult about something like this, and people showing what appeared to be genuine concern for me. I was a sitting duck. thankfully I only lasted about 5 years.
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Add your favorite JW prayer cliche'
by King Solomon inyou know what i'm talking about: the trite, often-repeated phrases that convey the person offering the prayer has drawn a mental blank, and utters these words while their brain desperately searches for the next cliche', so they can conclude the ritual with the required tag, "in jesus' name we pray".... (is that like the postage stamp?).
ok, i'll kick this one off, and take the most obvious:.
"forgive us where we fall short....".
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GromitSK
It just does, ok?
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what is the dumbest thing you've been reproved/chided/df'd for?
by rather be in hades ini'm a big science nerd and i remember when we were going over the creator book, that the big bang doesn't necessarily prove there is no god.. i said this comment during book study and the conductor's jaw dropped.
everyone was pretty uncomfortable and it didn't help that he ct me off as i was explaining the red shift and mom wasn't too happy about all that.
i had to do a lot of bible research and write some nonsense about how the big bang was not reality or some sort...ugh.. .
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GromitSK
I don't think you should be squeezing lemons. Isn't that the same as strangulation?
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Are we completely sure Trans people don't just have a mental disorder?
by Lore inso i thought i was a pretty accepting person.
sure i grew up in a bigoted cult who hates gay people.. now i'm an atheist who has no reason to care about anyones sexual prefferences.. .
but i've watched inverviews of trans people.
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GromitSK
As an aside, in the UK the term tranny was use d on BBC radio today by a guy who identified himself as a transvestite, as opposed to a transgendered. I suppose we ought not to assume that terms on person used to describe themselves are necessarily acceptable to others. I am conscious this is probably off-topic, apologies.
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Are we completely sure Trans people don't just have a mental disorder?
by Lore inso i thought i was a pretty accepting person.
sure i grew up in a bigoted cult who hates gay people.. now i'm an atheist who has no reason to care about anyones sexual prefferences.. .
but i've watched inverviews of trans people.
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GromitSK
Hi Brizzy. I didn't think there was any intention to be offensive. Personally I dislike the term 'queer' and find would find it offensive if used to me by anyone other than someone I knew well and if it was in jest, although some gay people do use it towards each other. I have never heard of LGBTQ when did they add the Q?
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Are we completely sure Trans people don't just have a mental disorder?
by Lore inso i thought i was a pretty accepting person.
sure i grew up in a bigoted cult who hates gay people.. now i'm an atheist who has no reason to care about anyones sexual prefferences.. .
but i've watched inverviews of trans people.
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GromitSK
Some straight folks I have become friends with have initially been quite curious about who is the 'man' in my relationship and who is the 'woman' - a concept I have difficulty understanding tbh lol (we're both men for the avoidance of doubt, or as close as I can get without shaving the palms of my hands).
Part of the error in gender definition perhaps lies in assuming there is a defined set of behavioural characteristics which are male, and those which are female and that we all only take characteristics from one pile or the other, or else there is 'something wrong' with us? There are men I know who seem to demonstrate as many or even more of the "female" characteristics than some or even most women I know, but they don't actually want to be women and have no interest (as far as I know) in men sexually.
Given the personal consequences for gender reassignment for many, I can only assume that whatever the drive is, it's powerful. Is it a disorder? I guess if your mind thinks your male but your body is female it's a disorder however which way round the disorder is I wouldn't like to say. My understanding is that there is considerable input from professionals eg psychiatrists etc before re-assignment is carried out (in the uk at least).
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Are we completely sure Trans people don't just have a mental disorder?
by Lore inso i thought i was a pretty accepting person.
sure i grew up in a bigoted cult who hates gay people.. now i'm an atheist who has no reason to care about anyones sexual prefferences.. .
but i've watched inverviews of trans people.
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GromitSK
What the hell is "genderqueer"? It feels somewhat offensive to me.