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Sometimes I Am Ashamed

by Dutchie in

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does every issue of morality have to be compared with the thinking and teaching of jehovahs witnesses?

simply because you are no longer jehovahs witnesses does that mean that you flaunt all moral authority and engaged in any perverted pleasure that you have a mind to?

because your morality is no longer legislated by a pseudo religious organization does that give you license to engage in all acts of "immorality" and refer to it "as just having fun.

Xander

If they've summoned up the courage to have a quick look see at a site like this and they click on the post with the bare bums

Okay, quick dispelling of a rumor here...

If I was a teenage JW surfing the net (that's about the only JWs surfing the net, so...) and found this forum, and clicked on that thread...would I be driven away? No, I'd be all like "Hell, these are normal, fun people. They don't seem evil at all - they are just having a blast".

Honestly, visiting this site as a JW, all the hardcore anti-witness sentiment is what kept driving me away. All the "UN and WTBTS" threads. And the "JWs Protect Pedophiles". I didn't even open the threads - so the headers, was scared off.

What we need is MORE threads like this one - to steal a phrase "to act as a good witness". Show the JWs we are not evil, mad, foaming-at-the-mouth apostates. But just, normal, human beings having a good time together.

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Sometimes I Am Ashamed

by Dutchie in

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does every issue of morality have to be compared with the thinking and teaching of jehovahs witnesses?

simply because you are no longer jehovahs witnesses does that mean that you flaunt all moral authority and engaged in any perverted pleasure that you have a mind to?

because your morality is no longer legislated by a pseudo religious organization does that give you license to engage in all acts of "immorality" and refer to it "as just having fun.

Xander

the pics were becoming increasingly explicit

As I maintained in another thread....

Nothing in that thread would require above a PG-13 in a movie. That means, with parental consent, ANYBODY of ANY AGE can view it.

Also, more cut and paste:

May I direct your attention to one of the very first pics posted?

And, after 47 pages of posts, we had progressed all the way to:

WHOAH....we have degraded so far. I can easily see how you'd assume it would just keep getting worse.

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A DARK DAY INDEED

by Incense_and_Peppermints in

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when we put the fellings and whims of a few disgruntled "active" jehovah's witnesses who come to these boards before the intense feelings, thoughtful commentary or adult playfulness of the majority of posters here - ex witnesses, so-called apostates, etc.

don't call me jaded or an advocate of anarchy or harm to my fellow man just because i believe in freedom of expression.

i am a good kind loving person!

Xander

Uhhh...nothing Prisca, that's the point. I'm saying that if he posted "Hey, tone it down" and just left it...guess what...there wouldn't be a problem.

He locked it right away which has since led to rampant assumptions that we are all a bunch of amoral loose canons. I maintain if he had just put up the warning (which I also maintain wasn't needed - see the end of the 'new picture thread' thread conversation with mindfield) there would be no need to lock it at all.

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A DARK DAY INDEED

by Incense_and_Peppermints in

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when we put the fellings and whims of a few disgruntled "active" jehovah's witnesses who come to these boards before the intense feelings, thoughtful commentary or adult playfulness of the majority of posters here - ex witnesses, so-called apostates, etc.

don't call me jaded or an advocate of anarchy or harm to my fellow man just because i believe in freedom of expression.

i am a good kind loving person!

Xander

Is that not his right to do, if he decided to

I'm not saying it isn't his right to lock it. I just wish he would have given us some more warning. We WOULD have respected it. It could be perceived as bordering on insulting that he thought we wouldn't.

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A DARK DAY INDEED

by Incense_and_Peppermints in

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friends

when we put the fellings and whims of a few disgruntled "active" jehovah's witnesses who come to these boards before the intense feelings, thoughtful commentary or adult playfulness of the majority of posters here - ex witnesses, so-called apostates, etc.

don't call me jaded or an advocate of anarchy or harm to my fellow man just because i believe in freedom of expression.

i am a good kind loving person!

Xander

SIMON:

Jun 14, 2002 21:01
It's getting near to that "thread locking" time ...

XENA:

Jun 14, 2002 21:02
Southland...

SIMON:

Jun 14, 2002 21:03
Sorry ... I think it's getting a bit out of hand so in my official capacity as kill-joy, I now declare this thread closed. And may god have mercy on our souls (blah blah).

The last three posts on the thread. That doesn't count as 'warning' to me. Sorry, it was 2 minutes warning.

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A DARK DAY INDEED

by Incense_and_Peppermints in

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friends

when we put the fellings and whims of a few disgruntled "active" jehovah's witnesses who come to these boards before the intense feelings, thoughtful commentary or adult playfulness of the majority of posters here - ex witnesses, so-called apostates, etc.

don't call me jaded or an advocate of anarchy or harm to my fellow man just because i believe in freedom of expression.

i am a good kind loving person!

Xander

Larc: yeah, I read the reason. I was just pointing out to Dakota that Simon did not, in fact, warn anybody.

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A DARK DAY INDEED

by Incense_and_Peppermints in

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friends

when we put the fellings and whims of a few disgruntled "active" jehovah's witnesses who come to these boards before the intense feelings, thoughtful commentary or adult playfulness of the majority of posters here - ex witnesses, so-called apostates, etc.

don't call me jaded or an advocate of anarchy or harm to my fellow man just because i believe in freedom of expression.

i am a good kind loving person!

Xander

a request was made by our host

The problem I had, Dakota, was that no such request WAS made. We would have respected it if it was. Thread was chugging along fine with no imput from Simon. Suddenly 'Hey, wait a minute', then, like 3 minutes later [LOCK].

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JW's and drinking

by DanTheMan in

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is it just me, or is alchohol consumption at parties and vacations virtually an unwrittten rule of jw-culture?.

when i was in, i did not drink, and i still don't.

i often felt almost ostracized for this by my jw associates.

Xander

Really? Strange, in the congregation I was in (all three, actually), no alcohol was EVER served at a congregation function or any kind of gathering AT ALL where witnesses would be. (Can't tell you how weird a wedding dinner is with nothing at all!).

And they gave parts on it ALL THE TIME 'No alcohol should be served if children are present' 'Alcohol is a vice and should only be consumed in moderation' etc.

Strange. Where you all from? NE Ohio congs just seemed pretty strict about it.

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JW Family on 'Designing for the Sexes?'

by Xander in

kinda weird, anyone see 'designing for the sexes' tonight?

as they were panning the camera around the finished room, they rolled over the bookcase and...2 revelation books, 2 evolution books, insight books..etc.

on the desk?

Xander

I think you'll find that type of survey in the NAMBLA newsletter.

It would be an insult to most people I know to be verbally associated with NAMBLA - certainly calling them a 'prominent gay men's magazine' is a misnomer in the extreme.

In any case, if such a survey did exist, to get those results, they obviously didn't poll anyone OUTSIDE of NAMBLA - no homosexuals I know have a fantasy of having 'sex with boys under the age of 14'

(I mean, gods man, THINK about it - what kind of survey has a question with an answer like that? "Choose your favoriate sexual fantasy: A) Sex on the beach B) A nice romantic nite out C) With boys under 14 D) After a long day of working out.....")

Unless you can cite the source and edition, I'd be REAL surprised to find this isn't the worst kind of urban legend.

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JW Family on 'Designing for the Sexes?'

by Xander in

kinda weird, anyone see 'designing for the sexes' tonight?

as they were panning the camera around the finished room, they rolled over the bookcase and...2 revelation books, 2 evolution books, insight books..etc.

on the desk?

Xander

Thought about it, but the open reference bible seemed a little fishy. I mean, how many ex-JWs have an open reference bible on their desk?

JWs hired people based on their sexual orientation

Really? Well, like I said, you must have grown up with some very different witnesses than I did. In our local hall, most of the brothers had home businesses as electricians, carpenters, etc. If you hired someone outside the hall to do work, you just got fishy looks.

if remodeling your home or buying a new one made you materialistic

It's not so much simply remodelling. But, doing it on such a ridiculously high budget on national television. Hell, we were taught as JWs not to celebrate birthdays because it brought unnecessary attention to oneself above others.

Jun 14, 2002 21:01
It's getting near to that "thread locking" time ...

Jun 14, 2002 21:03
Sorry ... I think it's getting a bit out of hand so in my official capacity as kill-joy, I now declare this thread closed. And may god have mercy on our souls (blah blah).