Seriously, though…
…I’m starting to think that gay men have much more active sex lives than the rest of us.
Maybe that’s the real reason sexually repressed ultraconservatives have such a problem with it…
…it ain’t ‘cause the equipment is being misused… it’s ‘cause it’s being used so often.
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Balaamsass2 - “…Knorr gave a 10-minute announcement that 30+ Bethelites had just been summarily disfellowshipped and evicted for homosexuality…”
Rampant buttsex at an institution full of young, energetic, and attractive men?
Say it ain’t so.
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awake 1976 - should a pocket calculator be in your pocket?.
somehow this totally zany 'bible based' article passed me by first time around!.
anyone remember it?.
LongHairGal - “…Now, they can hardly keep people in the religion as members are fed up and leaving in droves. Oh, well…”
When you spend decades alienating thoughtful, conscientious folks…
…all you’re gonna end up left with are assholes.
it happened at a rally in pennsylvania, apparently.
he seems ok i've seen a photo of him bleeding from his ear.
this is absolutely nutso....if it's too it doesn't surprise me the way they constantly describe him as "far right" and that his supporters are "maga republicans".
Rivergang - “Never underestimate the role that good old-fashioned bungling and incompetence can play in such events as this one.”
9-11 comes to mind.
i remember sitting through public talks where the speaker spent the hour discussing in great detail anal sex, masturbation (of yourself and others), sex during menstruation and so on.
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i was a child, looking back now, i realise that they systematically stripped away our childhood innocence, we knew and heard things no 'worldly' child would have heard.. the child abuse and grooming happened to every single one of us, the feelings of guilt and shame was in all of us even if we didn't actually do anything bad, the mental images caused by these filthy men hung around in our innocent minds till there was no room for that innocence.. it has taken me 44 years to realise that what was done to us, even those of us not physically abused, is a crime.. do they still have talks like that nowadays i wonder?
Tonus - “…the USA is far more prudish that most other countries…”
Puritans in public, perverts in private.
Sexual repression fosters sexual deviancy. Anyone who hasn’t figured that out by now probably never will.
Still doesn’t top the deafsturbation video.
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when i was pioneering, i don't remember ever addressing the rapture question.
does anyone know how a jw would respond to this verse?
for the lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of god.
In practice, it’s the same basic concept (albeit reserved for a select few)…
…they just didn’t/wouldn’t call it that, for the same reason they label virtually everything else different from “Christendom”
Contrarian for the sake of contrarianism. 🙄
i still read on reddit.
(though no longer post) occasionally, i'll venture over to the ex-seventh day adventist (sda) sub and catch up a bit.
it's been a long time.
WingCommander - “…WT HQ is bleeding to death financially…”
Ironic, since transfusions have been such an issue with them for so long.
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since covid in france, especially in the countryside with lack of brothers, it was quite common that some sisters were using the computer at the back of the kingdom hall to manage zoom session.. i heard a rumor that new instructions, maybe a july letter, stated that this was reserved for male only, even unbaptised publishers, but no sister if there is at least a male available.
that would be a steps back and disappointment for these sisters.
last week i heard at my mom’s house how they were happy that this service was available for them, a proof that the org was moving forward.
Authoritarian regimes are all about subservience.
Someone’s gotta be on the lowest rung of the ladder…
…otherwise, what’s the point?
we have lonely old folks and even some not so old.. they know the gb are not who they claim to be.. but they stay in the congregation because they are lonely.
i wonder what percentage of jws this is the case, i would guess a lot.
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@ LongHairGal…
Whoops, my bad.
