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Living as a gay Jehovah's Witness - My Story!
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it wasn't a feeling of rebellion; it was the feeling of love and care i desired.
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EXTREMELY SAD News Announcement ... 3rd Brother Dies in JW Bus Crash
by RubaDub injust announced as a breaking news here in miami at 6:05pm est monday ... very sad for the family and friends.. it may have been an older sister based on a news report the other day showing a older woman in the intensive care unit with a lot of tubes connected to her and bruises all over her face.. rub a dub.
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cobaltcupcake
Very sad. My heart goes out to the families of those who died.
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Who Should Pay For My Wife's Funeral? Me or the Congregation? She killed herself.
by ÁrbolesdeArabia ini am a jw rule breaker, and i have never been a "rat", as logic dictates i am very trusted with people's dealings (inner circles of local players).
"dear james, there is a brother whose wife pretty much killed herself two years ago and refused to pay for her funeral."...
"he is still in good standing after forcing the congregation to pay for her burial, "wake" and funds for her poor kids to attend the funeral.".
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cobaltcupcake
They should have had life insurance. Period.
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privilleges equals spirituality
by stillin inwhat a sad joke!
posters here talk about the "do more" pushiness in the organization and that is so true!
elders just assume that you want to carry microphones and work your way up the spiritual ladder to that blissful state of total immersion in "kingdom matters.
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cobaltcupcake
My ex-husband resigned from being an elder because of the lack of "spirituality" on the body. He couldn't take it.
A couple of years later he was at the district convention and went to volunteer to be an attendant. The bro at the desk asked, "Are you in good standing?" Ex answered yes. Then the desk jockey asked, "Are you a ministerial servant or an elder?" Ex answered neither.
The desk idiot shot ex a look and said, "I thought you said you were in good standing," and refused to sign him up as an attendant.
It's all about numbers anyway. Number of hours in FS, number of comments, number of meetings.
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Did you ever have to walk out of/shut off a movie when watching with JWs?
by keyser soze ini can only recall one occasion.
it was when my brother and future wife were dating.
they had dinner at my parents' house, along with her uber-zealous/borderline psychotic parents.
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cobaltcupcake
One evening while my father was out at an elders' meeting we were watching "2001: A Space Odyssey." We were just at the part where the apes are using bones as tools when Dad walked in. He freaked out. "What is THIS?" and made us turn it off.
Dad would "tsk, tsk" so often at song lyrics, TV ads, whatever, that my brother and I used to poke fun at him, saying, "The Tsk Force is on the alert!" Oddly, he found that funny.
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Have You Ever Seen Or Met Anyone Famous?
by minimus ini'm not talking about any gb members, either!.
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cobaltcupcake
I've met Clay Aiken.
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After leaving the WTS have you been left with a phobia about being happy?
by Xanthippe inafter reading flipper's thread about steve hassan's latest book it got me thinking about the stuff on phobias he mentions.
apparently cults deliberately instill phobias in you to cut you off from the real world.. we were constantly being told if we were struggling it showed we were doing everything right because the devil only persecutes those that are doing well.
if i ever said to anyone i am thinking of taking up a hobby or doing some exercise or (very rarely) planning a holiday they were instantly critical.
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cobaltcupcake
I never thought about it this way before, but there's emotional trauma involved in the JW indoctrination, certainly spiritual trauma. Maybe that's why so many of us are anxiety prone and phobic.
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WT Study Article for 12/9/2012
by RagingBull incannot wait to hear comments on this article "what kind of spirit do you show?".
under the subtitle "avoid the world's spirit", after mentioning the accounts of korah, abiram and dathan (complaining agains moses)..paragraph 6 states .... "some in the first century also became critical of those entrusted with authority in the congregation, "disregarding lordship.
" (jude 8) these men likely were dissatisfied with their privileges and tried to influence others against appointed men who were conscientiously carrying out god-given duties.
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cobaltcupcake
Now DRINK that d*mned Kool Aid!!!
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Did you ever have to walk out of/shut off a movie when watching with JWs?
by keyser soze ini can only recall one occasion.
it was when my brother and future wife were dating.
they had dinner at my parents' house, along with her uber-zealous/borderline psychotic parents.
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cobaltcupcake
My ex and I were out with friends at an art house movie, "The Man Who Fell to Earth" with David Bowie. We could see it leading up to a *gasp* homosexual love scene, so we got up and left.
I remember my ex and I skulking off to a distant theater to see "A Christmas Story" in 1983. I loved Jean Shepherd and couldn't resist.
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Pronouncing it RIGHT
by Christ Alone inwhat rules do you follow when pronouncing foreign names/places/things?
i was remembering that when we were studying the daniel book for the book study back in the day, someone released a pronunciation guide.
i remember studying it closely so i could pronounce all the names right (especially on the section of daniel 11).
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cobaltcupcake
There was a Ministry School Overseer in my hall who spent 10 minutes counseling someone about their "pro-noun-ciation." I had to get up and leave or I was going to shriek with laughter.