Posts by FayeDunaway

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Strange but Sad!

by John Aquila in

i had a couple of elders come visit me about an hour ago.

they wanted to inform me that a brother who was well known throughout the circuit had died.

(i actually knew about it but did not go to the funeral) he was about to hit 90 years old, missed it by a few weeks.

Yes, if the parent needed money for a nursing home, you can bet they would call 'family' so the children can take care of their parents. 'They're family!' But do they let them be 'family otherwise? Nope.

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JWs and their views on Sex

by campaign of hate in

in the past i have read on this forum that the wt have a say in the "bedroom" of couples.

i thought that was a bit overkill at first, but recently i have come to conclusion that this is true.. the control administered by the wt cooperation on ones sex life is not on only intrusive, its damaging.

they control every aspect of ones thought and action, thus leading most down a path that said corporation wants them to tread.. this path is to get married young, and then eternal loyalty the the organisation.. so how can an organisation force you to get married young?.

FayeDunaway

A (different) friend, years ago, was gossiping about a young man in our cong. who was married but was caught with a prostitute. He had asked for oral sex. The friend said to me 'many men like that, and we don't do it because jehovah doesn't like it. So he went somewhere else to get it.' And I was thinking 'me and my husband do that stuff all the time!'

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JWs and their views on Sex

by campaign of hate in

in the past i have read on this forum that the wt have a say in the "bedroom" of couples.

i thought that was a bit overkill at first, but recently i have come to conclusion that this is true.. the control administered by the wt cooperation on ones sex life is not on only intrusive, its damaging.

they control every aspect of ones thought and action, thus leading most down a path that said corporation wants them to tread.. this path is to get married young, and then eternal loyalty the the organisation.. so how can an organisation force you to get married young?.

FayeDunaway

Speaking of Fred...Once I saw a picture of him with a friend of mine, he had his arm wrapped around her and was touching the side of her boob. She said, 'yes! He touched my boob!' she thought he didn't know what he was doing because he was blind....um, I think he knew what he was doing.

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JWs and their views on Sex

by campaign of hate in

in the past i have read on this forum that the wt have a say in the "bedroom" of couples.

i thought that was a bit overkill at first, but recently i have come to conclusion that this is true.. the control administered by the wt cooperation on ones sex life is not on only intrusive, its damaging.

they control every aspect of ones thought and action, thus leading most down a path that said corporation wants them to tread.. this path is to get married young, and then eternal loyalty the the organisation.. so how can an organisation force you to get married young?.

FayeDunaway

Konceptual you make some good points...but I think many marriages do suffer from sexual incompatibility...and I think it's important that couples play around pretty heavily (though not perhaps have actual sex) and discuss a lot about how they feel about sex openly, before getting married. In too many couples one partner doesn't like sex much and this leads to a lot of frustration and often broken marriages. Some people are really uptight about sex and it can never be fixed. Yeah, there might be other problems that triggered it, but still it often can't be fixed. Sex is a really important part of marriage, and people need to know they are compatible.

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What triggered your doubts / awakening?

by Tornintwo in

i am sort of new here, used a different username for a while but things got 'difficult' at home so i've since been lurking.... what i would be really interested to know, if you don't mind sharing, is what it was that triggered your doubts and initial research which led to awakening, was it a bad experience, injustice, changed doctrine?

for me, it was seeing mistreatment of young ones in the congregation, they're under so much pressure and as soon as they go even slightly astray they are shunned, either informally (as bad associations which pushes them further into the 'world') or formally - with elders dying to throw the book at them so they even lose their family.... ...then reading about child abuse issues in the press.... ...which led me to silentlambs.

...then jw facts, this forum and coc, wham!

FayeDunaway

Has anyone read the studs Terkel book 'working'...it is a compilation of basically essays about people's various jobs and how they feel about them. I bet we could do something similar based on our individual experiences of either leaving or bearing with the witnesses.

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End of an Era - Dave's Last Show

by berrygerry in

night of flashbacks to his younger (and funnier) years.. 33 years on late-night.

no matter the last few, the flashbacks show the innovation mimicked by everyone else since.. i'll miss you dave.. good luck to you, regina, and harry.. top ten things you don't want to hear on a ski lift.

thursday, march 2, 2000.

FayeDunaway

Jump to possible broken legs or even death, or sit there, stuck. Hrmmmm....that's a doozy.

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Witnesses called for a bible study

by umbertoecho in

hello all.. i haven't been here for some time to post as mainly i read the comments and such.

yesterday was a really interesting, unnerving experience though.

two sisters had called last week when i had an abscess on my tooth and was sort of sick from it.

FayeDunaway

Next time start at John

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A funny moment... lol

by hardtobeme in

jw
friends

when the rnwt was released, we were invited to go to the local assembly hall.. there was a sister right next to me and she started bragging that it was her 8th year in an annual meeting.

(typical thing, all spiritual).

when was time to sing, i listened to her beautiful voice.

FayeDunaway

And set by God on high

to be jehovahs agent

his name to sanctify

but humbly he descended and took the form of men

to vindicate je hoooooo vah

bring peace that will not end

ok, I think I just mashed up two, maybe 3 different verses there. But that's all I've got :)

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What triggered your doubts / awakening?

by Tornintwo in

i am sort of new here, used a different username for a while but things got 'difficult' at home so i've since been lurking.... what i would be really interested to know, if you don't mind sharing, is what it was that triggered your doubts and initial research which led to awakening, was it a bad experience, injustice, changed doctrine?

for me, it was seeing mistreatment of young ones in the congregation, they're under so much pressure and as soon as they go even slightly astray they are shunned, either informally (as bad associations which pushes them further into the 'world') or formally - with elders dying to throw the book at them so they even lose their family.... ...then reading about child abuse issues in the press.... ...which led me to silentlambs.

...then jw facts, this forum and coc, wham!

FayeDunaway

I've had doubts all my life, it's really hard to pinpoint when exactly they started. But being very young and told almost all the people on earth are going to be destroyed, and then looking around your classroom and imagining them getting eaten by crows, that does a number on you. How grotesque. I knew there were good kids there who didn't happen to be born witnesses and probably would never be. I knew this religion I was being brought up in was not normal, and I knew that there was crazy stuff in the world, and I thought wow, I guess my family is part of the crazy. Conversely, I always wanted to be a good kid and not make my parents sad about me. So I tried for a very very long time to go along with it. While doubting half the time and having faith the other half. But Evolution, Armageddon, the blood issue, the extreme stance on this natural thing called sex, all the name dropping, witness status worship, hatred towards general humanity, judgmentalism, modern day Pharisees, anti education....it eventually got to me and I could no longer 'make it work' anymore, since my own children were growing up and approaching baptism age. It was time to get out. Meetings during my fade started to get so unbearable I would read the bible straight through and in so doing found Christ. Then I really couldn't pretend anymore. There was a time limit to leave, I wanted to get out and join another church before rejecting Christ at the next memorial. My family is now free, Christmas is the best time of the year, and this freaking out about how to direct my kids on one very narrow little path to life is gone...they are making their own paths.

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JWs and their views on Sex

by campaign of hate in

in the past i have read on this forum that the wt have a say in the "bedroom" of couples.

i thought that was a bit overkill at first, but recently i have come to conclusion that this is true.. the control administered by the wt cooperation on ones sex life is not on only intrusive, its damaging.

they control every aspect of ones thought and action, thus leading most down a path that said corporation wants them to tread.. this path is to get married young, and then eternal loyalty the the organisation.. so how can an organisation force you to get married young?.

FayeDunaway

The masturbating ban goes back to the days of ancient Israel, when population growth was the obsession. Any man spilling his seed on the ground was punished. Seed should be used to make babies. One would think that with the arrival of Jesus and the Law being replaced, especially as concerns Gentiles, masturbation would be a personal matter. Actually I think birth control should probably be considered as possibly altering the morality of sex, since most of the rules were set up to protect the family unit, so kids would have parents etc. if reliable birth control existed in the time of Moses, would the rules be quite so restrictive? It's something to consider.