Posts by Netty

you see i'm not a jw and never have been and a bit of of me feels like i'm gatecrashing.. i was raised in a strong roman catholic family - i was expected to believe everything the church taught without question and i did.

when i left school, i found myself working with an evangelical christian who, because she questioned my beliefs slowly made me look into them for myself - i truly hated her at the time for doing that and admit that i made her life a misery in revenge - but eventually i began to see that some of the stuff she was saying was right, we became very good friends and my real journey out of the rc church began.. i was too scared to leave straight away because of the doctrines i'd grown up with - no salvation outside the church and you can only really communicate with god through the priest (big issue here was how do i get my sins forgiven cos if i don't i'm gonna go to hell) - it was another 10 years before i finally plucked up the courage to leave and this was because of two things that happened:.

Netty

You are very welcome here. Stay for a while! Good luck with your search for the right religion.

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Now that you are out, do you have a WANDERING EYE?

by zagor in

after many years of repression do you now find hard to restrain you natural feelings?

it doesnt have to be wrong as one cousin told me, you admire beauty of the sunset, the song of birds; you appreciate exotic meal and equally you can now more appreciate the natural beauty of opposite sex.

reason why im asking is because today ive met a dub from my former congdubgration who immediately assumed i was "immoral".

Netty

How is that worse than being a dub?

You make a good point there Sonny (Corinthos, OMG It's really Sonny from General Hospital) I said this in the other thead, but my you do look good for your age 105... ya been working out Sonny?

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We are NOT appostate

by jimakazi in

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not to rain on the collective parade but what makes people here think they are appostate?

most of us have come to a rational conclusion that the jw / wtb is directed by a bunch of old men not directed by the holy spirit, is fallable, and cynically changes doctrine.

so to be against that is not to be appostate.

Netty

I know what you mean about the term apostate. I started a thread about this when I first started posting here too: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/76778/1.ashx

Funny, now I have come to terms with being labeled an apostate, doesn't bother me anymore.

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Now that you are out, do you have a WANDERING EYE?

by zagor in

after many years of repression do you now find hard to restrain you natural feelings?

it doesnt have to be wrong as one cousin told me, you admire beauty of the sunset, the song of birds; you appreciate exotic meal and equally you can now more appreciate the natural beauty of opposite sex.

reason why im asking is because today ive met a dub from my former congdubgration who immediately assumed i was "immoral".

Netty

immediately assumed I was "immoral".

I hate it when they do that. They are taught that anyone who leaves, automatically turns into an ax murdering, drug addicted, robbing, cheating, stealing slut! My brother just a few years ago, in his arrogance, was surprised to find out that I was not the slut they all assumed I was, just cuz I left the borg. Came as quite a shock to him.

I dont have a wonering eye as far as people of the opposite sex go, I am very happy with my hubby. But, as far as wanting to now live life, and enjoy, participate in, and appreciate all the zillions of things we were held back from, in dubdom, yup, the eye now wanders freely, that's for sure.

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