Welcome Stirred, 50+ years for me so I look forward to your future posts as I have been the through the same as you.
Hoab
i've been visiting here for about a year or so, but didn't really feel compelled to participate other than reading the various posts that interested me.. there's been that uncomfortable feeling of being disloyal to god, the organization, many friends and relatives.. i've been associated since birth.
after 65 + years of service within this organization and actually enjoying that time, it troubled me to find myself wanting to express feelings that were contrary to all that time of "faithfulness".
those years were filled with progressive "privileges and responsibilities" even at a high level, and there was considerable success in our evangelizing activity.
Welcome Stirred, 50+ years for me so I look forward to your future posts as I have been the through the same as you.
Hoab
one of them is nose rings/piercings.
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EEeeew toe nails.
shower room.
office.
games room.
marked
one of them is nose rings/piercings.
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Women who spoil their natural beauty with too much make up
Women who outline their lips then fill in with another colour
Women who shave off their eyebrows & then pencil them in with black or worse have them tatooed as a permanently surprise look
Women who believe the myth they can multi-task.............some women can but many CANNOT.
Women who believe men cannot multi-task...........some men cannot but many CAN
Women that put everything on show & then complain if they get too much male attention.
But then guys what do I know, I am a gay man..........
i really can't wrap my head around how people can still consider god loving with such atrocious biblical accounts such as, 1 samuel 15, (god ordering the slaughter of amelikite baby's and children) 2nd kings 2, forgot the verses (god sending bears to maul 42 children) and many others.have you ever asked a witness or anyone elsewhat they think about these accounts?
what was their response?
i'd love to ask one, but unfortunately i'm still physically in the cult and i wouldn't want to raise any suspicions.
What was their method of determining if a girl was a virgin?
Did the hairy armed Israelites have to man handle the young girls?
Dreadful experience for the poor girls.
the doctor used cadaver bone to fix my spine.
i understand that makes me a cannibal in watchtower land.. .
"it's feeding.
Make sure you don't take on the personality of the bone donor Zoos!
i really can't wrap my head around how people can still consider god loving with such atrocious biblical accounts such as, 1 samuel 15, (god ordering the slaughter of amelikite baby's and children) 2nd kings 2, forgot the verses (god sending bears to maul 42 children) and many others.have you ever asked a witness or anyone elsewhat they think about these accounts?
what was their response?
i'd love to ask one, but unfortunately i'm still physically in the cult and i wouldn't want to raise any suspicions.
The OT god could have shown a profoundly superior way of sorting mankind out, but no, he relied on the good ole blood & guts, slash & burn technology of genocidal humans.
He really is the result of human imagination.
look...i am not an atheist.
even so, i have never had one prayer answered my entire life.
the only thing that would even come close was learning ttatt.
Awh Laika you are so sweet.......
I did pray to be 'normal' ie 'straight' when I was a JW, but big ole J left me to fend for myself. I can see that plainly now I've put some distance between me & the WT Borg. Now I think he really can't be too concerned about it.
Hi Kate.............did the 'poof & I'm straight' give it away?
Vander just seems to have such a special hotline to god that it really pisses me off...........sorry Van no offence. Just like when a parent favours one child over another there's gonne be some flack.
Hoab
look...i am not an atheist.
even so, i have never had one prayer answered my entire life.
the only thing that would even come close was learning ttatt.
Hi Vander will you pray for me to be made 'straight' please?
I've prayed to god all my life for this to happen, even as a small child that didn't understand what it was about me that made me different from other boys.
Maybe you can help out here?
You seem to have unlocked something in god that makes him do things for you.
I'll let you know how I get on.
Do you think it will be instaneous........like poof & I'm straight?
ok, so as most know, this is the weekend of the "special talk" .... if anyone is going to the k hall, please shaer your thoughts on what makes is "so special".... i bet it will be more recycled same same.... "god loves you, he hates violence, he hates bad things happening to good people, he wants you all to be jw memebers...or he will kill you all at the big loving armageddon!!!!!!!
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The 'SPECIAL' talks were always the worst as it seemed they had to be read directly from the manuscript sent by the borg. No personal flourishes allowed by the speaker.