Topics Started by Fleur
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"Leaving the Saints" By Martha Beck
by Fleur inhas anyone read this whole book yet?.
beck has always been a favorite of mine, and i bet there are a lot of similiarities here to what many jws have been through in leaving/abuse issues...but honestly i don't know if i have it in me right now to read the whole thing.. it looks like a fabulous book, though.
excerpt here.... http://www.leavingthesaints.com/excerpt.html.
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All that you can't leave behind
by Fleur inthat was the title of a fabulous u2 cd, but i borrow it here to ask you all, old friends, a question.. first, apologies for being absent for so long.
"real life" projects have cut into my online time, been so busy i haven't had time to turn around twice.
but you are in my thoughts, daily.. my question for pondering...how do you know what to keep and what to throw away?.
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A "Sobering" idea for New Years: to benefit Asian Tsunami Victims/Survivors
by Fleur ini just had a rare moment of clarity and i wanted to share this idea with you all.
i plan to pass it along to everyone i know, hoping that it might, just might, catch on.
i am proposing a totally painless way for people to reach into their hearts, and wallets, to help those so desperate for aid following this weekend's tragedy in asia.
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Holidays: It's all about gratitude
by Fleur in"holidays" have nothing to do with religion anymore anyway!".
it looked like, to many of them, the most religious experience associated with the whole thing was knowing they got.
the fictitious bajorans supposedly have a great celebration every year known as the gratitude festival.. .
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"Jehovah our Rock, our strength, and our might..."
by Fleur inin among the bags and boxes of keepsakes that my mother gave to me from my grandmother's belongings, something of an emotional nuclear bomb was hiding on me.
or more like a landmine; because i didn't realize the damage it could do until it was too late to do anything about it.
mom had given me first choice of most of grandma's things, knowing how close we were, and i had wanted the box of ancient k-mart brand cassette tapes, now 30 years old, which had recordings of her voice, and mine, when i was tiny.
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Worth your time, please read.
by Fleur in.
sometimes it takes a child to cut through the beaurocratic nonsense and get to the heart of the matter.. http://cuddletheorphans.com/index.htm?sub=article&id=27.
hearing this child read her book...be prepared.
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I finally said enough is enough (shunning)
by Fleur ini did what i was asked.
all these weeks, i did all my mother asked when it came to dealing with the matters at hand for her.
i'm nothing, if not loyal.. so over the weekend, when mother called for us to please come and deal with my relatives coming to the house to pick up boxes of my grandmother's belongings.
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"You'll still be handled as a disfellowshipped person."
by Fleur inthat was the response that i got from a relative when i asked if they would shun me if i came to my grandmother's memorial service.. the same relative thinks that i should go, despite that because it's a public event but that if i did i should realize that i'd still be handled as a df'd person.
meaning, they would all shun me.. i have for days been trying to help this relative arrange my grandmother's burial with another relative who has refused to sign necessary papers.
i even offered to pay for said burial out of my own pocket if money were an issue.
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Please help me; Do you believe in an afterlife? If so, why, if not...
by Fleur in...how do you cope when someone dear to you dies?.
i have felt this sense of total panic over me since my grandmother's passing earlier this week, because i don't know where she is or what is happening to her, if anything.
part of me clings to the jw indoctrination that she is just asleep, but i don't believe in the resurrection to life on earth anymore so that leaves me cold and empty.
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Already it starts.
by Fleur inmy grandmother hasn't even been put to rest yet and already, my mother starts with "you know that grandma's greatest wish was for you to get reinstated.".
then, one of my siblings tells me that another of my siblings not only said she wouldn't come to grandma's memorial if i went but also that sibling who called me should not still be talking to me; even though i called her to tell her that grandma died.. i am facing the fact that my family may not even give me details of the memorial directly because they won't want me to go.
i don't know if i want to go to another funeral that is really just a commercial for the wts instead of talking about the person who is gone at all.