Posts by Sequoia

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Is this a normal JW practice? Warning, this will be a bit graphic.

by Sequoia in

this post may be disturbing and i apologize, but i'm just trying to find out if this is a practice the jw teaches.

i was taken advantage of by a guy claiming to be a jw preacher.

he took me to his house supposedly so i could give his daughter piano lessons, and then he basically forced himself on me while telling me he was in love with me and wanted to marry me.

Sequoia

Update: I have told my family yesterday and they are rallying around me. I am pressing charges now and will be going to the police station or else they will be coming here after we all get up, as I'm staying at their house for a bit. I didn't want to press charges because I was dreading the court case and all that crap, but I'll do it so the scumbag can't get at anyone else.

The reason I didn't know the address is because I'm totally blind and was never told his address. He met me downtown where I was playing and took me for a walk. Previously I had only known him from chatting with him when we took public transportation together, until he saw me at a restaurant two weeks ago. Some of my friends found out where he lives and I found out his last name, so that will be reported to the police today.

Thanks to all of you who have been supportive. To those of you who still think I'm fake, why would I want to go on a messageboard and make up a story like this? I'm just thankful the people who care about me believe me.

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Beardless Jesus. Why?

by UnshackleTheChains in

beardless jesus in watchtower publications between 1930s and 1960s.

a simple detail 'deliberately' left out.

the question is why?.

Sequoia

So they post pictures of jesus in the Watch Tower? I thought pictures orf Jesus are considered false worship.

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Is this a normal JW practice? Warning, this will be a bit graphic.

by Sequoia in

this post may be disturbing and i apologize, but i'm just trying to find out if this is a practice the jw teaches.

i was taken advantage of by a guy claiming to be a jw preacher.

he took me to his house supposedly so i could give his daughter piano lessons, and then he basically forced himself on me while telling me he was in love with me and wanted to marry me.

Sequoia

Okay, this just happened five days ago. I have told a few people close to me and also the police. This is embarrassing, but I couldn't tell them how to find the dude because at the time I didn't know his last name. I don't know whether to press charges because I had agreed to date him literally right before he did it. I am 30 years old btw, so there is no underage creepiness.

I met him about a year and a half ago, but we hadn't seen each other in a while until about two weeks ago, and we've been talking. When I ran into him on Wednesday, we walked and chatted for a bit, and he kept saying he was in love with me. I am disabled and also have a lot of anxiety and depression, so I fell for his B.S. He took me to his house to play music and meet his daughters and give one of them piano lessons, and then as soon as we got in the house, he started pawing me, and then the next thing I knew, I'm trying to be nice here, he was going way farther than I was even close to thinking about going. I tried to tell him I didn't like what was going on and that it felt weird and hurt really bad, but I was also very bewildered and confused, so I don't know if I was clear. I just sort of went into shock when it was happening and afterwards. Heck I still can't believe it happened, but I keep beating myself up thinking that if I hadn't been so stupid i would have seen through his crap and told him to get lost.

I'm sorry I was not clearer in my first posts. I've still been having a hard time talking about it, but I just posted the question here because I found it really puzzling that after he took advantage of me, he preached at me. That is probably a dumb thing to keep obsessing about. I guess maybe at the time I wasn't able to deal with the whole thing, so I obsessed on the things he said about my faith.

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Is this a normal JW practice? Warning, this will be a bit graphic.

by Sequoia in

this post may be disturbing and i apologize, but i'm just trying to find out if this is a practice the jw teaches.

i was taken advantage of by a guy claiming to be a jw preacher.

he took me to his house supposedly so i could give his daughter piano lessons, and then he basically forced himself on me while telling me he was in love with me and wanted to marry me.

Sequoia

Thanks for all the replies, and sorry I don't know how to quote, but I'll try to answer all of the questions. First of all, I found this site through Google. I joined the site at first because I had become friends with this guy and just wanted to learn about his faith he was always talking about. I had no desire to join their group, as I've heard too many horror stories and also because I balked at the idea of them having that much control, but then when this happened, I of course went to the police even though that scares me, and I have been talking to my family and will tell my therapist about it when I go tomorrow.

To all these people saying this is fake, I'm not sure how I can prove to you that I'm not fake, but I assure you that I have a lot better things to do with my time than coming on a messageboard and making up a disturbing story. I don't know if people have done that to you before, but if so, that is sick.

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Is this a normal JW practice? Warning, this will be a bit graphic.

by Sequoia in

this post may be disturbing and i apologize, but i'm just trying to find out if this is a practice the jw teaches.

i was taken advantage of by a guy claiming to be a jw preacher.

he took me to his house supposedly so i could give his daughter piano lessons, and then he basically forced himself on me while telling me he was in love with me and wanted to marry me.

Sequoia

I know this was a weird place to post this, but I was just trying to make sure they're not actually teaching people to do that. I have been talking to a few friends. I have been having a hard time talking about it because I just feel weird and creeped out about the whole thing.

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Is this a normal JW practice? Warning, this will be a bit graphic.

by Sequoia in

this post may be disturbing and i apologize, but i'm just trying to find out if this is a practice the jw teaches.

i was taken advantage of by a guy claiming to be a jw preacher.

he took me to his house supposedly so i could give his daughter piano lessons, and then he basically forced himself on me while telling me he was in love with me and wanted to marry me.

Sequoia

I have reported it the day after it happened, and had to go to the hospital to make sure I was okay. So far everything's okay, except I'm really freaked out. I'm just really confused and feeling betrayed, as I thought he was a friend.

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Is this a normal JW practice? Warning, this will be a bit graphic.

by Sequoia in

this post may be disturbing and i apologize, but i'm just trying to find out if this is a practice the jw teaches.

i was taken advantage of by a guy claiming to be a jw preacher.

he took me to his house supposedly so i could give his daughter piano lessons, and then he basically forced himself on me while telling me he was in love with me and wanted to marry me.

Sequoia

Oh trust me, everything about this group scares the hell out of me. Sorry for using that language, but even before this happened, the stuff he was telling me wasn't something I agreed with. Everything inside me screams cult and get the *** outa there.

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Not the "Faithful & Discreet Slave" after all!

by Nicholaus Kopernicus in

"1 god, who long ago spoke on many occasions and in many ways to our forefathers by means of the prophets, 2 has at the end of these days spoken to us by means of a son, whom he appointed heir of all things..." hebrews 1:1,2. the wtbts/gbojw avoid reference to this scripture.

could be due to it undermining their claim to fds status?

maybe a good reasoning point with jw's?

Sequoia

Yeah, except the Bioble doesn't say that it's only for a select group.

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Is this a normal JW practice? Warning, this will be a bit graphic.

by Sequoia in

this post may be disturbing and i apologize, but i'm just trying to find out if this is a practice the jw teaches.

i was taken advantage of by a guy claiming to be a jw preacher.

he took me to his house supposedly so i could give his daughter piano lessons, and then he basically forced himself on me while telling me he was in love with me and wanted to marry me.

Sequoia

I did. I wasn't trying to be judgmental of JW's, but I'm just having trouble with the way he claimed to be a preacher, but yet he did this, and then when I was all dazed and shocked, he started preaching at me.

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Is this a normal JW practice? Warning, this will be a bit graphic.

by Sequoia in

this post may be disturbing and i apologize, but i'm just trying to find out if this is a practice the jw teaches.

i was taken advantage of by a guy claiming to be a jw preacher.

he took me to his house supposedly so i could give his daughter piano lessons, and then he basically forced himself on me while telling me he was in love with me and wanted to marry me.

Sequoia

This post may be disturbing and I apologize, but I'm just trying to find out if this is a practice the JW teaches. I was taken advantage of by a guy claiming to be a JW preacher. He took me to his house supposedly so I could give his daughter piano lessons, and then he basically forced himself on me while telling me he was in love with me and wanted to marry me. After he did it, then he started preaching at me and told me I would be destroyed by Jehovah because I'm worshiping a false god. Does this org actually teach people to do this, or have I just run into a really bad guy who also happens to be a JW? If it's not common I don't want to judge the whole religion based on one disturbed person.