Posts by MissFit

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Memories. .. share the earliest or most favorite childhood memory

by MissFit in

my daughter tells me that experts say children tend to have false memories.

apparently their brain tends to fill things in that may not be totally accurate.. i refuse to believe that my favorite and comforting memory might not be true.

so here is to fond memories real or not.. the earliest memory i have is being put in a crib at a preschool.

MissFit

Hortensia: Thank you for sharing your memories. It sounds like you had quite an interesting childhood.

Sowhatnow: I'm sorry your first memory was so unhappy.

I hope you had some happier ones to replace them.

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Memories. .. share the earliest or most favorite childhood memory

by MissFit in

my daughter tells me that experts say children tend to have false memories.

apparently their brain tends to fill things in that may not be totally accurate.. i refuse to believe that my favorite and comforting memory might not be true.

so here is to fond memories real or not.. the earliest memory i have is being put in a crib at a preschool.

Wasanelder: one of my fondest memories are of my mom reading us a chapter of peter pan every night. I was around 5. I still remember being dissapointed at the ending. A few years later my mom took us to the drive in to see the movie.

To how the bible was created: come to think of it, those fun stories and songs started to get replaced by Kingdom songs and the" kid friendly" *rolls eyes*

book Paradise Lost. *sigh*

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Memories. .. share the earliest or most favorite childhood memory

by MissFit in

my daughter tells me that experts say children tend to have false memories.

apparently their brain tends to fill things in that may not be totally accurate.. i refuse to believe that my favorite and comforting memory might not be true.

so here is to fond memories real or not.. the earliest memory i have is being put in a crib at a preschool.

MissFit

Eyeused2badub: I'm sorry your happy family memories are so short. I have 1 blurry memory of christmas. A vague recollection of a story about sugar plums. It took along time for me to realize that I had been read the poem "The Night Before Christmas".

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Testing to see if I can start a post at all

by Open mind in

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i tried starting a thread with a picture of an irreverent nativity scene and i guess the hoooly spirit must have stopped it.. .

now just seeing if i can start a thread at all.. .

om.

MissFit

Thanks for sharing your picture. Yay you!!

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Memories. .. share the earliest or most favorite childhood memory

by MissFit in

my daughter tells me that experts say children tend to have false memories.

apparently their brain tends to fill things in that may not be totally accurate.. i refuse to believe that my favorite and comforting memory might not be true.

so here is to fond memories real or not.. the earliest memory i have is being put in a crib at a preschool.

MissFit

Troubled mind: I was just thinking about how smells can trigger memories. Those sound like wonderful memories.

My smell is the smell of cucumber plants. I spent a summer helping my mom pick cucumbers for vacation money. I think I was around 6.

Fiddlers: I'm glad you have some nice family memories. It is a shame your dad wouldn't be part of them.

I had fragmented memories of my extended family. Once I was in foster care I never got to see many of them again. Sometimes I wasn't sure if they existed until I met some later in my teens.

There was a woman I called Emma. I thought Emma was another word for aunt. I thought everyone had an Emma.lol.

I mainly remember houses I lived in. I categorize my memories by those houses.

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Memories. .. share the earliest or most favorite childhood memory

by MissFit in

my daughter tells me that experts say children tend to have false memories.

apparently their brain tends to fill things in that may not be totally accurate.. i refuse to believe that my favorite and comforting memory might not be true.

so here is to fond memories real or not.. the earliest memory i have is being put in a crib at a preschool.

MissFit

My daughter tells me that experts say children tend to have false memories. Apparently their brain tends to fill things in that may not be totally accurate.

I refuse to believe that my favorite and comforting memory might not be true.

So here is to fond memories real or not.

The earliest memory I have is being put in a crib at a preschool. I remember my mom attempting to put me in and me screaming my head off. She gave me my bottle. I remember standing in the crib crying as she left. Real ? Its my memory.

I have fragments of memories of when I was of preschool age.

I have these memories of sitting on the porch swing cuddled up with my mom. We would swing and she would sing little songs to me. I remember the wood floor in the living room and how mom would start mopping it and then let us "skate" through the bubbles on the floor in our socks to "help" her scrub the floor. Then she would wax it and we would put fresh socks on and "skate" some more to help her polish it.

I remember seeing her in the kitchen crying over the last jar of peaches and that same day going to some office and seeing her crying again. (Later I learned she was trying to get food stamps that day).

That was the summer before mom had a nervous breakdown and we went into foster care.

While I have happy memories, my sister's memories of the same mom was different and unhappy. Her mom hit her and was verbally abusive. I dont remember seeing that, but later found outside documentation detailing it.

we had the same mom but different relationships and experiences.

So would anyone else like to share a memory or two?

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Types Of Witnesses

by garybuss in

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types of witnesses.

1. religious witness.

these are usually converts and seldom stay.

MissFit

I thought this was a great discussion. Was there other threads that picked this topic up after Gary stopped posting?

I read Mary's thread about social status which brought me here.

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Avatar upload fixes

by Simon in

i've applied some fixes to the avatar uploading to make it cope better with larger images.

if you've been trying to update yours and it hasn't been working, maybe give it another try..

MissFit

Simon, I agree. I like being able to see the old avatars. It is part of the history of the user. I remember reading old posts or jokes referring to avatars and not having a clue because the avatars were changed.

I am just glad I changed avatars before your update because my old one was down right scary.😨

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Where is Everyone????

by truthlover in

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missing a lot of the oldies and goodies -- is this site so new, no one has signed on yet?

i am confused... but then, i will have to wait and see what happens.. somehow - change is not the best option but we adjust..have most of the users gone to other locations?.

tl.

MissFit

Hello all.

I also thought I was on the wrong site at first.

I poked around bit. Simon's thread explaining the changes really helped. I managed sign in so I can say hi.

Hey, if I can do it, anyone can!😉

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'Trusted' Jehovahs Witness raped and sexually abused girls

by cliff in

'trusted' jehovahs witness raped and sexually abused girls.

court: barry furlong arrives at bournemouth crown court.

first published tuesday 9 december 2014 in news by jane reader.

MissFit

Johnamos : you have made some valid points. Parents should be also held accountable for not reporting. But the biggest culprit is the organization that fosters that environment.

Do not underestimate the power of indoctrination. The parents trusted that the" spirit appointed" elders would take care of everything.

There have been members here that have experienced first hand the results of going against the elders and reporting.

Maybe when cases are made public, the JWs will realize it is not an isolated occurrence. Since these cases are handled so secretly most r&f has never even know how things are handled and covered up.