True. I’m hearing a lot of peoplesay girl fights are more vicious because they don’t have experience or know how to fight technically. I really think fights amongst girls are vicious because the intent is different. The guys are often posturing for dominance. The girls are often committed 100% to obliterating their…

Question: how did almost all of the women Prince elevated end up dead, living in a continuos psychotic break, in a cult, married to Dave Navarro, or all four? Anyone? Anyone?

You cool, girl- you cool! You just forgot your 100% sarcasm glasses. Slip those bebbehs on. All better? Now see alt article ‘Rick James, Charlie Sheen, and Dr Luke mentor women’. Crystal clear now, right?

Yah. It’s a cult that is just like being Lutheran! So relax, ya know? Herpin’ to the Derp diddly oh boy, whoo-hoo! Flanders out!

Fabulous. It’s important to note that I got out alive because other people actively chose to take initiative and humanize me even when I was sure I didn’t deserve it. I understand that those who leave cults are a small portion of the populationand it doesn’t need to be given top billing amongst more immediate ills- it…

Thanks for your comments and everybody else who has weighed in as former JW’s! I didn’t know that they were allowing celebrity members to be baptized and still perform, etc. I was only allowed to sing or listen to spiritual songs if they were specifically written and published by the Society. So even his songs about…

Info from someone who claims to be temperarily “affiliated” but not a JW? I liked reading it but it is BS. Baptisms are never done privately. It is one of the main tenets of being a Witness. Baptisms are specifically done in pools during large assemblies of usually thousands. So again. That’s wrong. Again- he wouldn’t…

Please read :) i didn’t say he wasn’t serious. I said he was not qualified for baptism by any stretch of the imagination and would not have been baptized. This is not like converting to Catholicism or even Judaism. He could have been in “bible study” status for an indeterminate amount of time but would have been kept…

I don’t understand why in the context of so many comments form former JW’s you would be interested in doing that other than in defense of the religion? It might be a little misguided. Check out the August ‘15 Jezebel article - if you like on rampant JW abuse and the system they used to cover it up and shun victims.…

lol :) I’m thinking he was not a baptized member- only someone who was in bible study and maybe observed a few rules but was proclaiming that he was a Jehovah’s Witness. While studying but not baptized converts are counseled but somethings are a bit more tolerated. I don’t think he qualified for baptism at all by…

Xyou might want to look up jW’s history of rampant sexual abuse, the complex system used to cover it up, and the frequent shunning of the victims while keeping the molesters in good standing with the church. It was the major MO in the late 80's early 90's and I doubt has gotten much better. Jezebel did an article on…

I forgot to add that “disassociated” JW’s are not allowed to Witness or preach to others becaaue of their shunned status. If they are reinstated they can resume doing so.

They were likely converts as adults. We were expressly forbidden to seek higher education unless specifically singled out for it by the Watchtower society and if we were to recieve that honor would go in to serve at one of the headquarters for basically no pay. Educated converts are allowed to work in their field but…

Non sequitur much?

No. (Raised JW but left before baptism. ) Your own blood is forbidden as well. Medical care is technically acceptable but congregation to congregation may vary according to social pressures from within. The congregation. So sometimes more subtle rules and guidlines can vary a bit. FYI for those curious- across the…

I sympathize and commiserate. Decades ago I left the Society and my family as a young teen and was thankfully put in a group home for homeless teens that was staffed with amazing people. I was literallywilling to die to get out of JW life and was never baptized- so couldn’t be disfellowshipped but that doesn’t mean I…

Rock on! I’m glad to hear it has nothing to do with stereotyping people in low income areas as criminals or blaming women/girls for the nasty stuff other people think about and get up to.

That’s a relief :) it was kind of reading like you clutch your purse like everybody wants to snatch it. Same for covering the bits I had percieved. Especially in “those” neighborhoods. You know the ones where “those” people live? I faintly heard Ruth Brown’s voice going “oh Papa Tooney, we got a looney!” And everyone…

Are you Penny Pingleton’s mom?

It’s a morale booster that is kept at the back of your “real bra” stash. That depressing drawer filled with jogging bras, seamless contraptions- all the practical stuff that is the lingerie equivalent of mom jeans. You wear this sleaze bait to your favorite song. Or for a bizarro scenario of tease and denial. It’s a…