Posts by Lilycurly

However, I have always been an extremely artistic person, and what made me the most angry as a kid was not to be allowed to make Holiday and seasonal crafts, decorating Chritmas trees and making Halloween costumes and Easter eggs. I knew it was bad and naughty, and I would have felt very wrong if I had done it, but oh, I found them so very beautiful. I made a point of going to one of my friends who always had this huge, ornated tree around christmas time, and I would look at it, and obssess about it. I would also secretly help her to dress up for Halloween. These things are so removed from your reality as a JW kid, they almost seem magic. Needless to say I make up for lost time now!

How did I feel when I discovered the truth? Well, I had just assumed it to be alrigth for all my teenage years. Followed out of routine and obligation like a good little girl, really, got baptized without really thinking it trough. So it wasn't really a shock, or a blow when I started to think out of the box. It was actually a very positive and liberating experience. Very exciting, like seeing doors open everywhere around. Walls falling, silly ideas beeing destroyed, a breath of fresh air. I was lucky to experience it at a young age, maybe it wouldn't have been the same if I had waste more time, maybe there would have been more biterness, but now I just felt like I could see all those opportunity opening up, my whole life ahead of me without all the restrictions of my previous life.

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Kittens! (fluff)

by Mysterious in

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share your cutest kitten moments and stop thinking those horrid apostate thoughts.

my kitten who is about 16 weeks old now woke me up this morning by trying to nurse .

he came from a shelter so we think he might be a bit insecure ^_^ even though we adopted him at 7 weeks.

Lilycurly

My little kitty girl, Luna used to do that too when she was a wee kitten. Only she would favor my ear-lobes and lower lip. And always when I slept. It was so cute, I could not chase her away either. I just cuddled her closer, she was so small, and all black. I think she missed her mommy, they are taken from their mother way too young...

My Timine...now that's another story. He's a big guy, not fat, but you know...a big cat, a Main Coon. He's really huge and has a very furry pom-pom of a tail. Well, ever since he was a kitten, he likes to curl in a ball at night and suck on the tip of his bushy tail, holding it with his front paws. Now that he is big, it's absolutely adorable and so strange to see such a big animal act like a tiny baby. Just so sweet. I adore cats!

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What are you gonna be for Halloweeeeeeen!

by mkr32208 in

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i'm trying to come up with ideas for a halloween costume!

the kids have already decided.

my 4 yr old told my wife "don't let daddy be the cow this year, he was so silly..." so my cow costume from last year is out!.

Lilycurly

I've been wanting to dress up as Sally, the ragdoll from Nightmare Before Christmas for quite some time now. But I always end up picking a witch hat from the Dollar store at the last minute.

So if I want to make it this year, I better start looking now.

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Da Vinci Code, what did you think?

by gaiagirl in

i had recently read the book, "the da vinci code", and just saw the movie this weekend.

essentially, the plot revolves around a 2000 year old "cover-up", in which it is claimed that jesus was married to mary magdelene and had children.

this knowledge was suppressed by the early church, but kept alive by a secret society of which leonardo da vinci was a member.

Lilycurly

What is nice about the story, is all the "What ifs" it brings to mind....It makes people stop for a moment and think : what if at least some of it is true?

A lot of persons who never would have looked into the history of christianity, who were brought up in it and just accept it as right, will be tempted to make a few researches. Alright, most of it, secret societies and Vatican killers and all that is fiction, but there are interesting facts about pre-christian religions, Goddess worship, one-God concept and many other subjects that people in general never take time to think about. One can't help but to see to what extend some will go for their religion or for what they beleive is the truth, what horrors fanatics can commit in the name of "One true religion". And it's not just Islamics...

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Da Vinci Code, what did you think?

by gaiagirl in

i had recently read the book, "the da vinci code", and just saw the movie this weekend.

essentially, the plot revolves around a 2000 year old "cover-up", in which it is claimed that jesus was married to mary magdelene and had children.

this knowledge was suppressed by the early church, but kept alive by a secret society of which leonardo da vinci was a member.

Lilycurly

Midget----In my opinion, Silas was one of the best things in the movie. Even more sympathetic then how he was portrayed in the book but your still scared of him most of the time. Be prepared to jump a few times.

You know a bit less about his past when you watch the movie only. But they succeeded in making him a truly tormented character who truly beleives what he does is right, not just a psycho killer. In the novel, I couldn't help but feel that in a way, he really likes hurting himself, almost looking forward to it. But with movie Silas you can see more of a human reaction, maybe it's because we get to see his eyes, his expressions, which we can only imagine when we read it. I found him very beleivable.

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Da Vinci Code, what did you think?

by gaiagirl in

i had recently read the book, "the da vinci code", and just saw the movie this weekend.

essentially, the plot revolves around a 2000 year old "cover-up", in which it is claimed that jesus was married to mary magdelene and had children.

this knowledge was suppressed by the early church, but kept alive by a secret society of which leonardo da vinci was a member.

Lilycurly

Heathen---The guy that got shot, he did not write all that in his blood, it was a special marker...tsk tsk you need to pay attention!

Well, I'm a Da Vinci Code fanatic really, I love the book, and I adore the movie. The music was wonderful. I would like to go on and on about religious and phylosophical stuff....but it's late, and all I can think of right now is: Damn! Paul Bettany sure has a niiiice butt.lol And he's one of the reasons why I saw the movie many times. What an excellent actor.

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The Bastard told on my dad

by Lilycurly in

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so...everything had been fine for a while.

i wrote my da letter, very clear and also very surprinsingly "apostate" according to the elders.

so at first, dad does what he's told is right and starts the shunning.

Lilycurly

Oh my! So many things to think about....

Yes, I know that the best thing we can do now, as the non-JW part of the family, is to show my dad how much more loving we are. As in "genuine love" not the "ratting-you-out, conditional" kind.

To the poster who accused my mother of letting these things happen...please don't judge too harshly. My mother and I, we are best friends, we always have been. We both knew that the easiest way for me to leave would have been to just fade, like she did. But our ultimate goal is to get my father out of there, and this meant we needed to raise a bit of hell in some way. So it was a straight to the point DA letter from me. We needed to make his life in the JWs less comfortable, make him see that all is not good, that the elders aren't that pleasant when you aren't the perfect little family anymore. At first, we thought that my dad wouldn't go as far as shunning, that he would see the idioty of it. It didn't go according to plans, but we're not giving up. So many good councels here.

So mom and I, and the rest of the family, we are all on the same side. No one is to blame, and she sure doesn't let him tell her that she can't see me. She told my father right out that she thinks exactly as I do about the WTS.

He's not the kind of person who would forbid even my little brothers to see me. He's more inclined to act like a kicked puppy and urge the rest of us to go out together while he stays home. Or go in his computer rrom when I'm visiting. We don't want that though, because then he sees himself as the victim and tragic, saintly figure of it all . (And it reminds me of that blasted article about DFd kids.) My mother told him though, that she still wants to go out with me, she will not give that up. And it puts my father in the position of the one who is breaking up the family...and it can get to the point of ridiculous, for exemple, when she suggests we all go see a movie, and he takes the car with my little brothers while my mom and I take the bus and join in after shopping. So we go to the same movie, at the same time, but we sit in different places. It's so stupid, and surely my dad sees that too, and my brothers, who are 12 and 13, realized that it's just non-sense.

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The Bastard told on my dad

by Lilycurly in

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friends

so...everything had been fine for a while.

i wrote my da letter, very clear and also very surprinsingly "apostate" according to the elders.

so at first, dad does what he's told is right and starts the shunning.

Lilycurly

Thank you for your responses...

Jgnat---yes, I guess what you say is true. I know it has been easier for him and everyone when he was allowing himself to see me. It's true, his real nature would never be to shun me, and now that you mention it, he seemed rather mad when he told my mother that the elders kept him for an hour about that. Making people unhappy makes him unhappy, he is this kind of man. Doesn't like trouble, and "The Truth" is causing some major trouble right now. We can only hope...

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The Bastard told on my dad

by Lilycurly in

jw
friends

so...everything had been fine for a while.

i wrote my da letter, very clear and also very surprinsingly "apostate" according to the elders.

so at first, dad does what he's told is right and starts the shunning.

Lilycurly

I'm sure he is very proud of what he's done. He must think of himself as Jehovah's personal James Bond. I'm sure he's so happy to have "spiritualy saved" my dad. What is even more sickening, is that they will probably have a talk, and verses will be exchanged, and they will get all emotional and brotherly, and my dad will eventually thank him for the help. I never liked the guy much, looking all sweet to people, but super strict with his kids and wife. I always thought he was a bit of a bastard, but never thought he would be capable of that....