on sundays, i hardly ever read my watchtower.
i would take 2 minutes to underline here and there just to look good.
if i wanted to make a comment at the watchtower study , i'd read 1 or 2 paragraphs and answer the question related to those paragraphs, that's it.
My siblings and I were required to prepare for all the meetings, with books and magazines underlined. This was what was part of our "After School Activities for Jehovah."
It's amazing though... I could underline a WT study article in five minutes or less. Tell you how "deep" it was.
my experience since leaving the jw's, knowing certain ones who still have contact, is that many jw's in good standing have done, or are doing things that could merit expulsion.
celebrating new year.
agreeing to blood transfusion.
Welcome to the board Chimene! I'm so sorry to hear about your experiences, but I hope to see more of you- it sounds like you came to the right place to find people who totally understand!
do you stop yourself from doing something you might otherwise do because a witness is within vision?
does the watchtower still "watch" you?
does your conscience kick in because the organization's ideas are still within you??
Without realizing it, I held on to alot of WT constraints for years and years. I think it took me about ten full years to get deprogrammed all the way so that I didn't have to even think twice before enjoying something that would have been previously taboo.
Like Big Dog said, I just don't discuss my heathen ways with my family who is all mostly "in". It's a little sad to have to have to hold back parts of yourself, but you do what you can for the sake of maintaining whatever relationships you can
it's funny how "split-personalitied" i am on some things.
i'm not really a neat person.
but there are things that i am very anal about.
I don't consider myself OCD, but I do have a few "Quirks" as someone else called it. Mostly having to do with how I eat a specific food item or how certain chores are done around the house.
The dishwasher has to be loaded exactly right, with silverware sorted and everything in it's specific place. I don't let anyone else load the dishwasher. My husband loves this rule.
When I eat my eggs over-easy, I eat all around the yoke and when every reachable part of the whites are gone I break the yoke and start tearing the crust off my toast to sop it up. Toast gets eaten the same way, crust first then the inside.
I also have the color and type coding system in my closet. Also things usually go back into the closet after they've been washed into the same exact location it was in before. I know exactly where to reach for something I'm looking for.
Before I get into bed the blankets and sheets have to be just right. All of the layers have to match exactly and be just the right width going down the side. If it gets dissarrayed for whatever reason before I got to sleep then I have to get out and totally remake the bed.
my firstborns son's mother i live with asked me today if i wanted anyone else.. i replied "yes, i want to know every unmarried woman on earth, so i can insure i will never feel like i missed out on something.
i want to find my match, a woman that can convince me to give up my free agent status, and spend forever as her property alone.
she got really mad.
I replied "yes, I want to know every unmarried woman on earth, so I can insure I will never feel like I missed out on something.
It may be because of this that you do miss out...
i just caught a new first posting by leftbelow and wanted to be the first to welcome them and comment on how nice and unselfish their first post was (on unique1's thread).
however the listener got in first so i shall be the second!.
welcome leftbelow - don't be nervous - you are among a cool crowd who are interested in what you have to say and think.
Welcome!
the dubs are freaking out and listing every potential apostate on myspace.
i even got mentioned even though i have never posted or joined a jw group.
bunch of stalkers.
How very sad and pathetic...
When ever I read stuff like that it makes me even more grateful I have moved on from that garbage.
damn her!!!
ok, sorry, i have to let some of this out before i start crying at my desk again.
my mom and dad told me that they would stop talking to me.
“Love is long-suffering and kind… [It] does not look for its own interests, does not become provoked. It does not keep account of the injury…It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”
Obviously she is just seeing what she wants to see... how typical.
I'm not seeing the part in there about love having boundaries. Whatever it is she thinks she's showing you, it obviously isn't what the bible is talking about here.
It's extremely childish of her to use this as a platform to try to bring shame down on you. I wonder what her analysis of John 8:7 or Luke 6:42 would be???
I really feel for you- just remember that there are people who love you for who you really are, not for who you would have to pretend to be.
Tell me again, what's the appeal of Alaska?
A picture says a thousand words...
I actually live close to the area this was taken. Love it!
It's just a little bit cold up here... I guess I won't be BBQing tonight!
