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  They came, they saw, they left...

  by NVR2L8 in

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  during the holiday period one if my wife's brothers had planned a vacation in our area.

  they drove about 6 hours to a condo they leased for a week to celebrate their wedding anniversary with their married son and daughter.

  they called my wife to let her know they were coming to visit us since they were 2 hours away.

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  Many JWs consider it a virtue and being "spiritually minded" to put "kingdom interests"first before family.

  I dont think most witnesses ever realize how that looks to other people.  They just want to look good in their circle. 
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  Memories. .. share the earliest or most favorite childhood memory

  by MissFit in

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  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.

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  Thanks for sharing prolongs and x.  Your memories seem focused on physical sensations.... cold and pain.  It is amazing the different ways we remember things.  
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  Spiritually Dead Children

  by suavojr in

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  this is a gem... charles sinutko had great skills at parenting.

  you can download from here, http://da.getmyip.com/.

  the pale horse of death had just ridden again.

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  I am curious  about the date & venue of this talk.   Was this given at a convention ?  Was this talk also given by others?  

  I think this talk is very enlightening.   It explains how otherwise  loving and intelligent parents can be manipulated into shunning their children.

  The parents are to blame their children and then treat them as if they are dead because if the Elders say they deserve it then it must be so.

  Where is the love?
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  Memories. .. share the earliest or most favorite childhood memory

  by MissFit in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  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.

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  Magnum:  sorry I missed your post the first time.  I really enjoyed your "snippets"of memories and looking through your childhood eyes.

  Adults forget how impressionable children are and how much they  absorb even if they dont seem to be paying attention.
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  Memories. .. share the earliest or most favorite childhood memory

  by MissFit in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  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.

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  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

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  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.

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  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

  1. jw
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  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.

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  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.

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  Thanks for sharing your picture. Yay you!!
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  Memories. .. share the earliest or most favorite childhood memory

  by MissFit in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  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.

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  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

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  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.

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  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?