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  Non-practising homosexual JW's

  by Quillsky in

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  as i understand it, being gay is not a sin in the organization, only homosexual acts are sins.

  i've never read anywhere that gay jw people are encouraged to "fix" their gayness and marry.. i've certainly known a fair number of confirmed bachelor types who live exemplary lives in the witness sense - one life-long bethelite i knew springs to mind - but are clearly (to me anyway) gay.

  they've all been in the closet though.. i wonder if any jw has ever been out of the closet, but not disfellowshipped since they don't have sex?

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  bulgogiboy

  I meant 'ignorant', it's late and I'm tired .
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  Non-practising homosexual JW's

  by Quillsky in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as i understand it, being gay is not a sin in the organization, only homosexual acts are sins.

  i've never read anywhere that gay jw people are encouraged to "fix" their gayness and marry.. i've certainly known a fair number of confirmed bachelor types who live exemplary lives in the witness sense - one life-long bethelite i knew springs to mind - but are clearly (to me anyway) gay.

  they've all been in the closet though.. i wonder if any jw has ever been out of the closet, but not disfellowshipped since they don't have sex?

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  bulgogiboy

  Another poster mentioned jws thinking that gays were automatically paedophiles. That was exactly the attitude I saw in my KH, and even when I was securely in the jw fundamentalist (read:douchebag) mindset I remember thinking, "that's a load of ignornant shit!". So any jws suspected of being gay will most likely not be asked to do things like babysitting, or supervise little kids activities. Ironically these types of things will instead sometimes be allocated to 'respectable' married men in the congregation who may actually be closet child-molesters.
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  Non-practising homosexual JW's

  by Quillsky in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as i understand it, being gay is not a sin in the organization, only homosexual acts are sins.

  i've never read anywhere that gay jw people are encouraged to "fix" their gayness and marry.. i've certainly known a fair number of confirmed bachelor types who live exemplary lives in the witness sense - one life-long bethelite i knew springs to mind - but are clearly (to me anyway) gay.

  they've all been in the closet though.. i wonder if any jw has ever been out of the closet, but not disfellowshipped since they don't have sex?

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  bulgogiboy

  Cantleave, actually it's all the others who speak a different language
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  Non-practising homosexual JW's

  by Quillsky in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as i understand it, being gay is not a sin in the organization, only homosexual acts are sins.

  i've never read anywhere that gay jw people are encouraged to "fix" their gayness and marry.. i've certainly known a fair number of confirmed bachelor types who live exemplary lives in the witness sense - one life-long bethelite i knew springs to mind - but are clearly (to me anyway) gay.

  they've all been in the closet though.. i wonder if any jw has ever been out of the closet, but not disfellowshipped since they don't have sex?

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  bulgogiboy

  No lies please: your avatar pic would get you reproved, as part of it looks distinctly phallic (albeit flaccid).
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  Non-practising homosexual JW's

  by Quillsky in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as i understand it, being gay is not a sin in the organization, only homosexual acts are sins.

  i've never read anywhere that gay jw people are encouraged to "fix" their gayness and marry.. i've certainly known a fair number of confirmed bachelor types who live exemplary lives in the witness sense - one life-long bethelite i knew springs to mind - but are clearly (to me anyway) gay.

  they've all been in the closet though.. i wonder if any jw has ever been out of the closet, but not disfellowshipped since they don't have sex?

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  bulgogiboy

  Excellent point. I would think at the very least any jw who openly admitted to being gay would be ostracized beyond belief by the other jws, regardless of whether he was celibate or not, either that or some loving bros and sis' would try to find him a nice sister to marry, and 'cure' him hehe. I would think most people with strong homosexual tendancies would feel so unwelcome and repressed within the jw org they would leave at some point. Two clear things I noticed which were widely acceptable in the jws, in an unspoken sense: 1. Overdrinking alcohol and 2. Saying cruel and nasty things about gay people, even using clearly unjehovah-ish words to describe them, such as 'poof' or 'fag', etc.

  Then they would have studies of certain books which would seem to throw an admiring light on people like Alexander the Great, who was a little light in the sandals by all accounts....(not to mention an alcoholic mass murderer).
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  Interfaith marraiges and children

  by garyneal in

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  i just wanted to share this story with everyone:.

  last weekend on saturday, my wife found out that field service was not being cancelled due to snow.

  all week prior to saturday, my wife kept saying that she was going to swim classes with my daughter and i and actually swim with my daughter that morning.

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  bulgogiboy

  I know I asked this before, but is your daughter given the choice of not going to any religious service at all? Surely she has an uncle/aunt/friend's house she could play at on Sunday mornings? She might find that even more appealing than going to your church. How old is your daughter by the way? And sorry for that triple post, I'm not sure what happened there :)
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  Interfaith marraiges and children

  by garyneal in

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  i just wanted to share this story with everyone:.

  last weekend on saturday, my wife found out that field service was not being cancelled due to snow.

  all week prior to saturday, my wife kept saying that she was going to swim classes with my daughter and i and actually swim with my daughter that morning.

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  bulgogiboy

  Best of luck, I know I came across as pretty pessimistic but that just comes from my own personal experience. Your situation may well be totally different, and I hope it is .
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  Interfaith marraiges and children

  by garyneal in

  1. social
  2. family

  i just wanted to share this story with everyone:.

  last weekend on saturday, my wife found out that field service was not being cancelled due to snow.

  all week prior to saturday, my wife kept saying that she was going to swim classes with my daughter and i and actually swim with my daughter that morning.

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  bulgogiboy

  Best of luck, I know I came across as pretty pessimistic but that just comes from my own personal experience. Your situation may well be totally different, and I hope it is .
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  Interfaith marraiges and children

  by garyneal in

  1. social
  2. family

  i just wanted to share this story with everyone:.

  last weekend on saturday, my wife found out that field service was not being cancelled due to snow.

  all week prior to saturday, my wife kept saying that she was going to swim classes with my daughter and i and actually swim with my daughter that morning.

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  bulgogiboy

  Best of luck, I know I came across as pretty pessimistic but that just comes from my own personal experience. Your situation may well be totally different, and I hope it is .
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  Fancy a 6 day Trans Siberian train journey?

  by ThomasCovenant in

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  http://www.google.ru/intl/ru/landing/transsib/en.html.

  http://www.google.ru/intl/ru/landing/transsib/en.html.

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  bulgogiboy

  I considered doing this when I was working in Korea. I still might one day. Some people have said they really enjoyed this trip, while others have said it was a bit boring, being stuck on a train for the best part of a week. At one point I had the idea of starting the trip at Vladivostock in Russia(which is a short plane ride from Seoul in Korea), and taking the train all the way back home to Scotland. That would see you cross the whole length of Asia and Europe by train! On the whole though, a round the world plane ticket would be better, you could visit every continent instead