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  Saturday morning us newly weds visited by closet gay Special pioneer see why we stayed home!!? WIERD!!

  by Witness 007 in

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  first let me tell you about george (his real name) the special pioneer.

  not that good looking...a bit goofy, he had spiritual sisters literally ask him to date and flutter eyelids because of his positon.

  he always made excuses about why sisters were "not his type"...had a bedroom full of pics of him hugging other brothers with a content strange look on his face....like this is my girlfriend look!

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  Steve2 - you made the point much better and and much more level headed than I did. Wish I had seen that before I posted. Sorry for your experience.
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  Saturday morning us newly weds visited by closet gay Special pioneer see why we stayed home!!? WIERD!!

  by Witness 007 in

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  first let me tell you about george (his real name) the special pioneer.

  not that good looking...a bit goofy, he had spiritual sisters literally ask him to date and flutter eyelids because of his positon.

  he always made excuses about why sisters were "not his type"...had a bedroom full of pics of him hugging other brothers with a content strange look on his face....like this is my girlfriend look!

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  Wingcommander: the point of the OP seems to be that brother knocked at the door unannounced at 11am (with other brothers). The whole "gay" allegation seems to be beside the point. The post, like yours, is border homophobic (lumping closet gay, with perv and voyeur).

  It's like back in the past in this country when newspapers might have reported that "a black man" shot someone. But if a white man shot someone, the skin colour was never mentioned. It was rascist.

  It's like how back in the 90s if a paedophile was also gay, this would be mentioned (whatever the gender of the victim). But if the paedophile was "straight" that wouldn't be...subliminally supporting the myth that gay men are more likely to be paedophiles than straight men.

  Rant over.
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  I'm sick of...

  by freemindfade in

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  i'm sick of.... ...having an elder i barely know invite himself over to my house, and bring another asshole elder with him, you know, to "see how i'm doing" f-ck them.

  ...having same elder with all insincerity approach me at the beeting and before inviting himself over, ask, "how are you doing?

  " then when i say everything is great, go ahead and invite them selves over anyway.

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  When I was first fading I lost count of the time one particular elder would call on a Sunday while me and my boyfriend were relaxing in our PJs watching TV. I didn't answer the door and he would put notes through my door.

  Then there was the time I arrived home after a weekend away and my next door neighbour said "there was an old man looking for you, asking where you were and if you still live here".

  i appreciate its different when your wife is still in and you're going to some of the meetings, but as others have said - you don't owe them anything. Thank them for calling and tell them you're busy and will let them know when it's convenient for them to come around. Take back control.
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  Saturday morning us newly weds visited by closet gay Special pioneer see why we stayed home!!? WIERD!!

  by Witness 007 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  first let me tell you about george (his real name) the special pioneer.

  not that good looking...a bit goofy, he had spiritual sisters literally ask him to date and flutter eyelids because of his positon.

  he always made excuses about why sisters were "not his type"...had a bedroom full of pics of him hugging other brothers with a content strange look on his face....like this is my girlfriend look!

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  I agree with Muddy Waters. I was one. The poor guy deserves sympathy (if he is indeed gay), not mocking judgment bordering on the homophobic. Hopefuly he'll wake up before the best years of his life are over.
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  Jehovah said he will start the cleaning from his own house

  by Tempest in a Teacup in

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  this very popular quote came back to my mind today when i was thinking about what jws in the third world country where i live would do if they should hear about the australian abuse story.

  this has been the one explains-it-all, excuses-it-all phrase to respond to nasty things going on in "god's house".. if they should hear about the story, they would just nod, say that phrase and add the sentence that traditionally accompanies it: it is because he is well aware that there are rotten elements in his house, so we shouldn't be surprised...and then they will move on with merrily.

  end of story.

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  What Joe134cd said. If indeed Jehovah started with his own house, then it proves the Catholic Church are his "house". Would love to see what they say about that 😂😂
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  Largest amount of refugees since WW2 in Europe

  by Powermetal4ever in

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  so i had a discussion with my mother about this, and she claims that because of this that: "we are surely living in the last days right now" while i must admit myself that the situation seem chaotic, i don't want to believe that it is the last days.

  so question is, how do i face an opinion like that?

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  I agree the Arab nations should be playing their part, but it's no excuse not to help. It's like seeing someone choking in a restaurant, knowing the heimlich manoeuvre, but saying it's not my job to help them, there must be a doctor in this restaurant somewhere who can do something about it.

  In years to come, history will be our judge. But I guess in the meantime we can stay safe in our comfort zone, hoping what's over there doesn't come over here and rock our little world.

  george michael's "praying for time" comes to mind
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  Largest amount of refugees since WW2 in Europe

  by Powermetal4ever in

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  so i had a discussion with my mother about this, and she claims that because of this that: "we are surely living in the last days right now" while i must admit myself that the situation seem chaotic, i don't want to believe that it is the last days.

  so question is, how do i face an opinion like that?

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  There's always an excuse not to do something to help. Usually it comes down to protecting our own way of life.

  I'm sure this paranoid way of thinking was prevalent before and during the Second World War. As whole nations tried to flee the Nazi onslaught. Were there Nazi spies included among the genuine refugees? Maybe. But thank god for a few individuals who had more humanity than most and helped smuggle people to safety. They did the right thing for their "here and now".

  to those people saying "these migrants are breaking the law" - carry on looking the other way of it makes you feel better.

  to those people saying there might be a few terrorists among them. Could be true. But sometimes you have to take a risk to do the right thing. In any case they're unlikely to have weapons on them when they're rescued from a capsized boat or washed up one the shore. These people can be rescued and monitored.

  far more dangerous I think is for some frustrated people of good will taking matters into their own hands and smuggling people to safety out of sight of the authorities. In those cases any terrorists could well gain entry completely off the radar.

  to those that say we should send them back and concentrate on solving the problems in those countries at the root. That doesn't help anybody right now. The starving cold terrified family doesn't have the luxury of time.

  we will always find a good reason not to help other people. The bottom line is, any of us could have been born in Syria or Iraq. Luckily for us we weren't. But that doesn't give us any moral "right" to the land we were born in through no personal skill of our own.

  Humans. We're a selfish bunch aren't we?
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  VA shooting suspect was raised a JW! He mentions it on his Twitter account

  by WingCommander in

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  anyone in the usa following this morning's shooting "on-air" live tv will know what i'm talking about.

  bryce williams (not real name, but on-air name) shot and killed 2 people on live television this morning in roanoke, va. he was wearing a go-pro camera, and uploaded his first-person video onto his social media accounts.

  i've seen his twitter feed (before it was taken down), and not very far down he mentions being raised a jw.

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  To clarify I'm pretty neutral on the whole gun law thing, I don't know enough about the evidence. I was just making the point that the correlation between being a JW and shooting someone was made. But none of us have actually looked at any evidence for that. So on the same basis, whoever mentioned the correlation with gun laws wasn't speaking out of turn and didn't deserve the jibes, because it could be argued that there is a stronger link with the gun laws than with someone being raised a witness - especially as this murderer apparently wasn't even raised as a very strict witness. That's all.

  And to be perfectly honest, as I live in the UK, I really couldn't give a **** if you guys across the Atlantic are so in love with your gun rights. One thing is for sure you seem pretty touch about it. Sorry I spoke.
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  What woke you up?

  by Israel Ricky Gonzales in

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  in march of 2014, i was a very active jw, a ministerial servant, gave a public talk, was an attendant for the memorial, and one of 4 cleaning captains for an international convention of 40,000+ attendees.

  so what woke me up?

  an innocent comment from a co-worker about the candice conti court case rang a bell that could not be unrung.

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  The beginning for me was when my Bible study asked me about Judicial Committees and what they were for. I showed him James 5:13-15, which was the standard scripture we used to explain the role of the JD (at least that I was aware of). My Bible Study simply said "but that's talking about healing someone from literal sickness". I knew he was correct and then I started finding other similarly twisted scriptural interpretations.

  After that it was a long process of looking at various bible translations, the interlinear etc about homosexuality and so on, then the JW Facts site - earthquake stats was a biggie for me, because I remembered having to tell people on the doors that there had been more earthquakes since 1914 than in all the time before that....
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  VA shooting suspect was raised a JW! He mentions it on his Twitter account

  by WingCommander in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  anyone in the usa following this morning's shooting "on-air" live tv will know what i'm talking about.

  bryce williams (not real name, but on-air name) shot and killed 2 people on live television this morning in roanoke, va. he was wearing a go-pro camera, and uploaded his first-person video onto his social media accounts.

  i've seen his twitter feed (before it was taken down), and not very far down he mentions being raised a jw.

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  To be fair it could be argued that there is a stronger correlation between the shooting and the gun rights than there is between the shooting and being a Jehovah's Witness - so it's fair to comment on it.

  And, of course, this thread had nothing to do with gun rights until someone opposed to those rights decided to bring it up.