Posts by bulgogiboy

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Non-practising homosexual JW's

by Quillsky in

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as i understand it, being gay is not a sin in the organization, only homosexual acts are sins.

i've never read anywhere that gay jw people are encouraged to "fix" their gayness and marry.. i've certainly known a fair number of confirmed bachelor types who live exemplary lives in the witness sense - one life-long bethelite i knew springs to mind - but are clearly (to me anyway) gay.

they've all been in the closet though.. i wonder if any jw has ever been out of the closet, but not disfellowshipped since they don't have sex?

bulgogiboy

Excellent point. I would think at the very least any jw who openly admitted to being gay would be ostracized beyond belief by the other jws, regardless of whether he was celibate or not, either that or some loving bros and sis' would try to find him a nice sister to marry, and 'cure' him hehe. I would think most people with strong homosexual tendancies would feel so unwelcome and repressed within the jw org they would leave at some point. Two clear things I noticed which were widely acceptable in the jws, in an unspoken sense: 1. Overdrinking alcohol and 2. Saying cruel and nasty things about gay people, even using clearly unjehovah-ish words to describe them, such as 'poof' or 'fag', etc.

Then they would have studies of certain books which would seem to throw an admiring light on people like Alexander the Great, who was a little light in the sandals by all accounts....(not to mention an alcoholic mass murderer).

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Interfaith marraiges and children

by garyneal in

i just wanted to share this story with everyone:.

last weekend on saturday, my wife found out that field service was not being cancelled due to snow.

all week prior to saturday, my wife kept saying that she was going to swim classes with my daughter and i and actually swim with my daughter that morning.

bulgogiboy

I know I asked this before, but is your daughter given the choice of not going to any religious service at all? Surely she has an uncle/aunt/friend's house she could play at on Sunday mornings? She might find that even more appealing than going to your church. How old is your daughter by the way? And sorry for that triple post, I'm not sure what happened there :)

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Interfaith marraiges and children

by garyneal in

i just wanted to share this story with everyone:.

last weekend on saturday, my wife found out that field service was not being cancelled due to snow.

all week prior to saturday, my wife kept saying that she was going to swim classes with my daughter and i and actually swim with my daughter that morning.

bulgogiboy

Best of luck, I know I came across as pretty pessimistic but that just comes from my own personal experience. Your situation may well be totally different, and I hope it is .

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Interfaith marraiges and children

by garyneal in

i just wanted to share this story with everyone:.

last weekend on saturday, my wife found out that field service was not being cancelled due to snow.

all week prior to saturday, my wife kept saying that she was going to swim classes with my daughter and i and actually swim with my daughter that morning.

bulgogiboy

Best of luck, I know I came across as pretty pessimistic but that just comes from my own personal experience. Your situation may well be totally different, and I hope it is .

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Interfaith marraiges and children

by garyneal in

i just wanted to share this story with everyone:.

last weekend on saturday, my wife found out that field service was not being cancelled due to snow.

all week prior to saturday, my wife kept saying that she was going to swim classes with my daughter and i and actually swim with my daughter that morning.

bulgogiboy

Best of luck, I know I came across as pretty pessimistic but that just comes from my own personal experience. Your situation may well be totally different, and I hope it is .

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Fancy a 6 day Trans Siberian train journey?

by ThomasCovenant in

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http://www.google.ru/intl/ru/landing/transsib/en.html.

bulgogiboy

I considered doing this when I was working in Korea. I still might one day. Some people have said they really enjoyed this trip, while others have said it was a bit boring, being stuck on a train for the best part of a week. At one point I had the idea of starting the trip at Vladivostock in Russia(which is a short plane ride from Seoul in Korea), and taking the train all the way back home to Scotland. That would see you cross the whole length of Asia and Europe by train! On the whole though, a round the world plane ticket would be better, you could visit every continent instead

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Interfaith marraiges and children

by garyneal in

i just wanted to share this story with everyone:.

last weekend on saturday, my wife found out that field service was not being cancelled due to snow.

all week prior to saturday, my wife kept saying that she was going to swim classes with my daughter and i and actually swim with my daughter that morning.

bulgogiboy

By the way, when I wrote: "She isnt going to attend your meetings, and she isnt going to sit down and read your literature(if you have any)", I was talking about your wife, not your daughter .

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Interfaith marraiges and children

by garyneal in

i just wanted to share this story with everyone:.

last weekend on saturday, my wife found out that field service was not being cancelled due to snow.

all week prior to saturday, my wife kept saying that she was going to swim classes with my daughter and i and actually swim with my daughter that morning.

bulgogiboy

Wow this is a really interesting post. I was raised in a divided household, with my Mum being a jw and my Dad being an agnostic/indifferent Christian. I eventually started going along to meetings properly at about the age of 18. It's really commendable how you're trying to make an effort to accomodate her jehooberish shenanigans. There is so much room for division, I hope you can keep it all together... First of all, I think your daughter is going to continue to choose your church over the kingdom hall, as I know from personal experience that attending a KH is far from inspirational/spiritual for the average child, in fact its the most mundane, grey and dull place a child could ever end up in in a Sunday morning.Maybe you could point out that expecting small children to sit silent and still and listen to monotone Biblical sermons for up to 2 hours or more is an unreasonable expectation and that its only natural your daughter will choose a place with more activity going on. Is there another option where your daughter can go to a friend's/aunt/uncle's house to play instead of attending a religious ceremony? She isnt going to attend your meetings, and she isnt going to sit down and read your literature(if you have any). This is the great jw double standard:'keep an open mind, be open to new spiritual experiences, and question your religious convictions/leaders UNLESS you are a jw'. Frankly I fear for your future together, as I saw how my Mum's smug pigheaded and selfish fundamentalist attitude eroded away my Dad's liberalism and tolerance to the point where he despised all things jw. You should hang in there for a year or so, keep showing patience and trying to plant seeds of reason in her mind, but if she is still full-on jehovahist after that, and still selfishly devoting all her time to distributing magazines and comparing clothing at the KH, then I would seriously consider divorce. Better sooner than later.

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The biggest freak you ever knew in the jws?

by bulgogiboy in

i find hearing about super freak jws quite entertaining, so if anyone has any interesting stories about the most mental jws they had/have in their congregation then please share!

the biggest freak i had in my cong was a guy who could literally read your mind.

i'm not kidding, i mean he appeared to have a profound psychic ability.

bulgogiboy

I find hearing about super freak jws quite entertaining, so if anyone has any interesting stories about the most mental jws they had/have in their congregation then please share!

The biggest freak I had in my cong was a guy who could literally read your mind. I'm not kidding, I mean he appeared to have a profound psychic ability. He recounted to me details about my life that he could never possibly have known without having this weird power. He was really paranoid about using it as he didnt want to get disfellowshipped. Before he became a witness he openly admitted to going on 'astro-travels' with the help of demons. Apparently one time he went into a trance and visited Paris with demon assistance one time, and woke up covered in dust, and able to recall details about walking the streets of Paris that seemed breathtakingly accurate for someone who had never been there. After these 'travels' he would be in bed for days with fever, exhausted. I'm not saying I believe this, but the guy certainly had an unmistakable ability that seemed to me to stem from something paranormal. This guy was also a reformed alcoholic, manic depressive, and in my opinion latent homosexual. Much as I dislike the religion he stands for, I cant help but smile and wonder when I remember some of the things he came out with....

Anyone got bigger freaks they can recall?

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Does anyone else have a morbid obsession?

by bulgogiboy in

i have to admit to having developed a very strong obsession with my own mortality in recent years, since breaking free from jw doctrine.

i think about death a lot, and if i really sit and think about it hard, i can freak myself out big time!

i dont want to think about it, and outwardly its not apparent to other people, but it is something that seems to pervade my thinking, something that haunts me.. perhaps i should be excited, because i realise that on the whole what i came to believe as a jw was fabricated, and maybe there is an amazing afterlife to experience, but at the same time i do tend to agree with jws about death being the end, i just dont agree with the whole resurrection claim they add on to it.. i have known two people who were temporarily 'dead' on the operating table, one of whom was dead for several minutes(one of these people is a friend who shrugs it off like it was nothing!).

bulgogiboy

And by the way, freudianslip, that isnt your real pic is it?