Verifiable Former Bethelite Willing to Answer questions

by Uzzah 94 Replies latest jw friends

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  DesirousOfChange

  i was asked to leave due to looking at porn while there (friend mentioned that max larson said on avg 2 ppl are brought up a week at branch committee meetings due to looking at porn, one week had 7 bros brought up, so its a real issue in the org right now)

  You definately got the shaft bro, as I know elders are no longer removed for (soft) porn anymore (hard porn = rape, child, sadistic, etc). When I first read the QFR speaking of hard vs. soft porn, I was confident it was because 1/2 of all appointed bros would have to be removed if porn continued as disqualifying offense.

  After seeing new KS elder book, I can see now where almost anything could be covered over by the one-time lapse in judgement loophole as long as there is little or no notoriety. All you need is to be in-tight with the rest of your BOE and nearly anything can be dismissed. There is a BIG effort to retain those willing to serve as loving shepherds to the flock [cough/gag/sputter]. Notoriety is the big issue. SECRET sins are excusable if you humbly promise not to do it [or at least not to get caught doing it] ever again.
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  Vidiot

  miseryloveselders - "...2 people a week are getting nailed on pornography? Wow. One week had 7 brothers?...Welcome to the forum, I hope you stop back through..."

  Larry Flint and Steve Hirsch have won. The WTS simply can't compete with Jenna and her friends... Christ, I'm gonna be wondering for months how many of those 2-people-a-week were sisters!

  This guy ain't comin' back - at least under that username; even though I totally believe him, 10 bucks says he was half drunk when he posted, and at the very least has forgotten his password...
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  miseryloveselders

  Larry Flint and Steve Hirsch have won. The WTS simply can't compete with Jenna & her friends... Gosh, I'm gonna be wondering for months how many of those 2-people-a-week were sisters.

  This guy ain't comin' back; even though I totally believe him, 10 bucks says he was half drunk when he posted, and at the very least has forgotten his password...

  I totally believe him too! There's a certain genuinity that screams credible in his post. I think you maybe right about him being completely wasted. This religion will do that to you. Its funny how some posters even if only posting once, can seem so familiar to you just because we can relate to them so well. Our experiences are unique, yet so similar.

  I know the pornography thing is killing appointed men on a local level, so I shouldn't be surprised at it causing problems at Bethel. It's gotta be difficult for the Oral Review to compete with Weapons of Azz Destruction or Debbie Does Dallas part 6.
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  stuckinamovement

  Lol @ misery "Oral Review".

  Seriously though, a brother from Bethels service dept recently said that pornography is a plague within the organization.
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  Vidiot

  miseryloveselders - "I know the pornography thing is killing appointed men on a local level, so I shouldn't be surprised at it causing problems at Bethel."

  stuckinamovement - "...a brother from Bethels service dept recently said that pornography is a plague within the organization."

  Okay, lemme see if I got this all straight.

  They aren't monitering us (actually, that kinda disappoints me, in an odd way) - but - more and more JW guys are hooked on Pay-per-View lovin'; presumably 'cause the fundamental prudishness of the GB can't help but work its way downstream, thusly stifling what would otherwise be normal, healthy sexual expression between committed and married partners.

  The ones that aren't finding any action on the side (either 'cause they're too strongly conditioned against the prospect of infidelity, or 'cause they're so socially inept that they can't) are left with the only other available option; flying solo. The subsequent guilt trip and embarrassment inevitably precipitates the weeding out of more and more MS's and Elders who - 'cause their social-climbing wives leave 'em - are, once agin, only able to get the nookie they need in 16x9 widescreen format, or by hooking up with a new "worldly" GF.

  Having fewer and fewer qualified MS's and Elders can't help but result in scraping the bottom of the barrel for anything even resembling "qualified brothers" to the point where the congregations are being run by morons and control freaks who have no idea what they're doing, their general uselessness of which leads GB2.0 to conclude that the rest of the planet's become basically a write-off. They effectively cut the cords to the branches and congos, declare the End is upon Us, bunker down in upstate NY with nothing but canned veggies and powdered milk, and end up a footnote in the religious history books.

  This is gonna have me laughing all week; Vivid Entertainment has brought the Watchtower Society to its knees...