ScottyRex

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  Watchtower Teachings That Don't Make Sense

  by Vanderhoven7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  there are a number of things that don't make sense to me about your religion.

  a. blood prohibitions: .

  - plasma...when all components of plasma are acceptable to the society.

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  Vanderhoven.....what are your beliefs now?
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  Crooked Teeth

  by Introvert 2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  well 55 yo this summer times flies.. was in my late thirties when i started thinking about getting braces or some other treatment for my crowded teeth.

  decided to put it off a few years later as 'the new system' ™ was right around the corner.

  then went through a huge burn out depression and my teeth became a lesser priority.

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  Surely youre not blaming the Watchtower for your teeth!!! Too funny.

  Dont go for dentures...see if the dentist can cosmetically fit some implants. I had 2 fitted last year and altho expensive i now look like barry gibb.

  Give it a try!!
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  My dad RIP

  by ScottyRex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my dad died 2 weeks ago on sunday.

  i will miss him so much.

  he was the funniest most greatest man i have ever known.. granted for the first 30 years i wasnt that much keen on him and i don't think he was on me much either.....let me explain.. mum and dad met in 1964, mum was the prettiest girl in the town, mini skirts, raised hair, the daintiest figure, she looked the spit of audrey hepburn at breakfast at tiffanys.

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  My dad died 2 weeks ago on sunday. I will miss him so much. He was the funniest most greatest man I have ever known.

  Granted for the first 30 years i wasnt that much keen on him and I don't think he was on me much either.....let me explain.

  Mum and dad met in 1964, mum was the prettiest girl in the town, mini skirts, raised hair, the daintiest figure, she looked the spit of audrey hepburn at breakfast at tiffanys. Dad was mean, hair brylcreemed motorbike and a rocker thru and thru. He would wait for mum on his bike outside the factory she worked in. Mum would make excuses not to see him....but i guess at some point something gave. Mum would spend 2 hours getting ready to meet him at the pub, and dad would start a fight within 5 minutes of getting there.. mum said she would run all the way home. .i guess it was the 60's and dad was tough.

  In 1966 they were married, i looked at the photos today, mum as beautiful as ever, and dad...well i could see what she must have saw in him too, he was kind of handsome like me (lol)

  My sister was born 1968 and i foĺlowed in 1970. To me it was a tough upbringing. Around this time 2 sisters knocked on the door and mum became a witness. Dad had no objections, i guess he was too busy at the pub. They had no money but enough that seemed to be able to allow dad to spend lunchtime and early evenings in the pub, mum worked at the local sweetshop and had enough to get us a 10p mix and the bus fair to get to the meetings.

  Dad always made sure we had a holiday in devon each year and a bag full of presents at xmas i will always remember that.

  He didnt much like me growing up, and painful memories, too many to post on here happened whilst my sister flourished.i wasn't hard dine by just by him, my mum always made up the shortfall.

  l think probably the last straw was the realisation that i was gay at 16 that shook my dad up most. It was bad enough being a witness and upsetting my mum, but to a manly man like my dad, it was just too much. That was the first time i saw them both cry albeit for different reasons. I was not a man in my dads eyes and i was leaving the truth in my mums. I had tried hard to be both but was neither.

  I moved away. Had relationships and barely kept in touch.

  Forward to 2000. 30 year old me and made proper contact. Oh why didn't I do it earlier. I made up my relationship with them both, around a table one sunday over a roast dinner and a bottle of jack daniels dad and we made our peace...he of course could never accept the gay thing, and didnt for years.....however in 2014 my now ex other half picked me up outside and dad said tell him to come in, this has gone on long enough. And so he, after a nervous 10 minutes, did. Dad poured him a JD.

  Thanks dad.

  Mum? Well she like me,my sister and brother are now bereft without him...I spent the last month shaving washing and talking to him. He died sunday 18th. A stroke took him in the bathroom and my sister and me carried him to mums bed. Within 20 minures he was gone. My big tough manly dad. We talked to him gently in his ear to the end.

  Mum is inactive, but i am truly grateful that a sister came round yesterday and spent a couple of hours with mum and made her feel so much better. That meant alot and i am grateful to the other witnesses that have given so much comfort.

  There is so much more to this whole story but it was just sitting here and something I wanted to share whilst its dark and quiet.

  Look after those you love.

  Scott
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  User Name Changes

  by moreconfusedthanever in

  1. forum
  2. tech-support

  i wish i could change my user name.

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  i am no longer confused..

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  My old nan used to say in response to my many 'I wish.....' statements: 'Well, wish in one hand and shit in the other.....see what gets full first...' just saying.
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  Reminder: super blue moon tonight

  by _Morpheus in

  1. social
  2. current

  just a reminder :) i already snapped a few pics and will try to get a few of the blood moon in the morning.

  post pics if you got them!.

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  Brilliantly bright here in UK 😎
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  Do You Know Any “Gay” Jehovah’s Witnesses?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  of course the religion condemns homosexuality but did you know any gay witnesses?

  i knew some bethelites that were very effeminate and i remember 4 women who were suspected of being lesbians by many in the congregation.

  they eventually moved away and were very vocal against males, especially elders..

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  I stopped going to the Kingdom Hall for this very reason. I did not want to, what was it....bring 'Reproach on Jehovah's name'....

  I didn't want to be gay and it sure has caused so many issues in my life. This was 1989. I'm a bit older now and wiser, but the hurt of being cut off and feeling like you couldn't be part still stings a bit.
  
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  Do You Know Any “Gay” Jehovah’s Witnesses?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
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  of course the religion condemns homosexuality but did you know any gay witnesses?

  i knew some bethelites that were very effeminate and i remember 4 women who were suspected of being lesbians by many in the congregation.

  they eventually moved away and were very vocal against males, especially elders..

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  No that's not for me scotsman- I don't want to join any gay group. I'm ok as me. Funny thing is if I see gay people on telly, I don't identify at all. 'Oh look gay people....' lol.
  
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  Do You Know Any “Gay” Jehovah’s Witnesses?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  of course the religion condemns homosexuality but did you know any gay witnesses?

  i knew some bethelites that were very effeminate and i remember 4 women who were suspected of being lesbians by many in the congregation.

  they eventually moved away and were very vocal against males, especially elders..

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  I think it probably does Scotsman!! good to hear from you.
  
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  Do You Know Any “Gay” Jehovah’s Witnesses?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  of course the religion condemns homosexuality but did you know any gay witnesses?

  i knew some bethelites that were very effeminate and i remember 4 women who were suspected of being lesbians by many in the congregation.

  they eventually moved away and were very vocal against males, especially elders..

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  I'm gay and still hold to the JW view. It's a bloody rough ride.
  
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  Daughter gets fondled -- mother's loving strategy takes back seat

  by FatFreek 2005 in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  nightmare on elm street.

  mother to elder: tiffany, my daughter, shocked me last night.

  she told me she was fondled by our hispanic neighbor after she babysat for their children.. elder: that is terrible to hear, sister.

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  So you made this up?

  And you think this helps?