wow...that's terrible. This is the reason a lot of gay people stay in the closet so long.One would hope that a parents love would be unconditional, but it isn't always the case. How sad. I guess you should consider yourself lucky that you're not gay, otherwise you'd be out on your behind.
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My mother and her reaction to me being "gay"
by logansrun inno, i'm not gay.
still, this story is interesting.
recently i began dating a very fine young lady -- my first "girlfriend" ever, really.
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Hello everyone, im new :)
by Atomar76 inhey everyone, im new haha.
my name is tom and i live in adelaide, south australia.. and i was bored and i searched for jehovahs witnesses hoping to find something to amuse me and i came across this forum and i thought it would be for like actual jehovahs witnesses (are there still practicing jw's on here?
) but your all like df or just like ones that have left... and well so am i!
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A big Welcome to Franklin too!
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Hello everyone, im new :)
by Atomar76 inhey everyone, im new haha.
my name is tom and i live in adelaide, south australia.. and i was bored and i searched for jehovahs witnesses hoping to find something to amuse me and i came across this forum and i thought it would be for like actual jehovahs witnesses (are there still practicing jw's on here?
) but your all like df or just like ones that have left... and well so am i!
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Welcome Tom! Glad to have you here.
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What JW Teaching Did You Never Quite Totally Accept???
by minimus insince i was raised a witness, it was only as i got older that i started to "think" about what i was teaching and believing.
but even as a young teen, i never accepted the thought that 1975 was going to be the end of the "system of things" and the beginning of the "new system".
i just didn't quite believe that.........what belief or teaching did you have a "hard time swallowing"?
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Everything wolfgirl said.
Also, like Perry, I wondered about the ressurected ones not being able to marry/remarry. Then why go preach to the old lady down the street that she could see her dead husband in the ressurection. What would the point be?
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Is JW Aimee Satterfield a liar?
by Nathan Natas inhttp://www.news-leader.com/today/1005-woman,22,d-184209.html
published october 5, 2003 .
woman, 22, denies she filed false rape report.
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I'm wondering what happened to her car when they took her to the hospital....did she really have a flat tire? she would have still had a flat when they came to get her, because she said she was attacked before she had a chance to change it. Would a person be so calculating as to making their tire flat, then cut themselves up just to have a cover story? It's certainly possible.Seeing her fathers reaction to the whole thing, I can see how a jw daughter wouldn't want to incur the wrath of him or the local elders.Making up a story about a rape might seem better in her mind than dealing with the fact that she had consesual premarital sex. Still, it might be true, and if so, how sad that she has to go through all this. I would like to have all the facts of the case before coming to a conclusion. I guess we'll have to wait and see what a jury decides.
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"We Miss You! (but only at the meetings)"
by Funchback init has been a good (7) weeks since i've last attended a kh meeting.
this weekend, however, the calls of "encouragement" came rolling in.
on saturday, a brother (actually a very decent, likable, and genuine man) left me a message and said that he misses me at the meetings.
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This brings back some memories for me. My brother ( an elder ) called me up one day ( I had been inactive for quite some time ), and I was surprised to hear from him. Silly me, I thought he was calling to see how I really was ( which I should have known better, because he never cared when I went to meetings ). After chatting for all of two minutes, the real reason for his call became aparant. He and the elders were wondering if I would like to get together for a chat, to see if they could encourage me. You know, just my brother and another elder. I said no thanks. At that point he had no clue what to say, so he ended the conversation. Now if that isn't love, I don't know what is. Ah, dub love, ain't it grand?
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addiction to this board
by stillajwexelder in.
hey guys, hamas has admitted to me he could not keep away from this board -- this is actually a serious question -- i have found i have become addicted and just can not stay away or stop posting -- every morning and evening -- sometimes at lunchtime -- and certainly most weekends i come on this board -- am i normal?
is it just me and hamas or are there others out there addicted to simon's damn board?
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if I didn't have a job to go to and a family to take care of, I fear I would need a 12 step program!
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See everyone around....
by obiwan insee ya'll.
i'll pop in from time to time.
big hugs to my peeps.. .
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Bye obi I hope to catch you when you're popping in!
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tink's first major break-up
by tinkerbell82 ini'm officially single.
i don't know how to feel exactly.
thank you to everyone who has been so sweet and kind and supportive of me, you have no idea how much it's meant to me.
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(((((((((tink))))))))) so sorry you are sad, but it's for the best, right? I hope today you are feeling a little better. sending hugs yor way!
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To those who were DFd
by stillajwexelder inthose of you on this board who were given the big d -- how did you actually feel at the moment the chairman of the jc that dfd you said those words -- angry -upset -toatl relief -- yipee?
again sorry if there has been a post on this subject before --but an update for us newer ones never does any harm
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(((((((((orangefatcat)))))))) you may feel your experience is less traumatic than some here, but it hurts you none the less. We all love you here!