My parents dragged the dang text along on summer vacations. Every August at the campground, with the babbling stream calling and the mountains and pine forest waiting to be explored, the fried eggs, bacon and ripe fragrant cantaloupe on the picnic table...then out came the dratted stinking Daily Text. It was a must. Couldn't even avoid it on vacation. I sure didn't pay any attention to it, smelling the food and dying to start the day's adventures. How ridiculous that was! What were they thinking?? If I was lucky, oopsy, fortunate, they didn't expect me to comment, cuz I hadn't listened to any of the droning on of the paragraphs.
Virgochik
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Do/did you like to read Daily Text?
by Albert Einstein ini hated it.
we actually never really did.. once, on vacations, we were with another family, they prepared food on the table for breakfast .... and then nobody could touch it for some 15 minutes, when daddy was reading daily text and asking childish questions ... family members were raising hands and answering .... we all were hungry... watching the food ... and hoping it will soon be over (i dont mean armageddon, i mean daily text...) i felt just like an idiot..... albert.
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I feel so discouraged
by mouthy inthat micheal jacksons kids are being raise in the wt.
how very,very sad.
i am so upset about that..
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It has bothered me a lot, so much that I've lost sleep. My husband doesn't really understand.
I have so much in common with Michael Jackson. We're both Virgos, and we were both born in Gary Methodist hospital, Gary indiana, USA in the same year, 1958. We both had issues with our fathers. It turns my stomach to see the kids handed over to go through the same things we did. I hope they're strong and come though OK. I could've ended up like Michael, but thankfully I didn't. I do like a glass of wine, lol, but I never got into drugs to forget. I hate to see the kids repeat it all- why would Michael want them to be raised by his mother, knowing that guaranteed a Witless upbringing?
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I had one of those discussions this weekend - Am I getting anywhere?
by BonaFide inlast week during bible highlights, a sister commented on leviticus 19:28 about not having a tattoo.
i also commented, saying that we are not under the law, but the principle should be taken into consideration.. a sister i don't speak with very often called me.
she is in the same congregation as some of my family.
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Virgochik
"The Society" and the "Faithful Slave" sounds like something from the SciFi Channel. They are truly hypnotized not to see what a cult this is!
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what is the one thing that made you want to NEVER go back???
by NINfan05 infor me it was when my elder dad put brusies on my arm, drug me down the hallway making me hit my head and broke my finger which resulted in surgery...and then he blamed it all on me!!!!
made me go to the meeting with my cast all druged up on pain killers and tell everyone that asked me what happened that it was an accident.
f***ing loser!!!!!
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The sick feeling in my stomach before meetings because I dreaded all the smirking, phony people inside the building. After I moved in with room-mates from work into my first place, I truly intended to start attending meetings again. When I got dressed up in my "meeting clothes" meaning, panty hose and a skirt, I passed the Hall twice and had to turn around. I had my turn signal on, but just couldn't make myself pull in the parking lot. In my mind's eye, I saw those hypocritical toothy smiles and I felt queasy. I went on home, what a relief! I've never tried to attend a meeting again, and that was in 1983. My gut says they're not anything to do with God or Christ, or why would I feel such revulsion about going inside?
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Hey! Mouthy Just Said She's Going To The Hospital!!!
by Yizuman inhttp://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/177475/2/wanted-a-hearing-seeing-walking-man-older-than-82-for-mouthy.
look at her last comment.. let's hope and pray she's ok!.
yiz.
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Granny Grace, you are feisty just like my own granny, but you've had the courage to make a break from the Tower, and she's still in. She's very old now (95) and has no will to leave now tho she's not stupid. Good for you- you've helped so many and shown us life is good when we break free! There's lots more work for you to do so don't go yet!
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Shocker! Watchtower says DON'T share experiences with demons..."it's promoting Satan!!"
by Witness 007 inan incredible turn around when you see the watchtower index full of demonic handbags, houses, idols etc.
etc.. the new bookstudy book "keep yourselves in god's love.
" p.191 was a shocker for me!
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When I was still living at hme, I got a sinus infection with miserable headaches. A girl from work had innocently stopped by the house to bring me a small Christmas gift. This went over like a lead balloon with my parents, who soon decided my headaches were caused by the "demonized" gift. Oddly, after my doctor appointment and my script for antibiotics cleared up the headaches, they didn't want to talk about the trinket they'd made me throw out. Such superstitious people!
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Things that Annoy Me in Grocery Stores - How About You ?
by flipper ini do a lot of the grocery shopping for my wife and myself as we live out in the mountains and i stop on the way home from working early morning hours.
there are some things that just drive me bat-$hit crazy sometimes .
i'll name a few- you carry it from there !
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I get aggravated by the severly obese who whirr up behind you in their fatmobiles. I had one motion for me to get out of his way, "Coming through!" He urgently needed to reach for his chips and soda. I can't help thinking they'd be healthier if they got out and walked a bit to the fresh fruit aisle, sigh. However, this is a politically incorrect attitude. I need to accomodate these motorized -oversized as they rush to the ice cream freezer.
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Have you forgiven your parents for bringing you up in the JW cult?
by Gayle ini had to sort through that for some years ago.
i concluded my parents were victims of the watchtower society too.
dad was a prisoner of war, under nazis at 19 yrs of age, almost died there due to no medicines or antibiotics and lost almost half his weight, his nerves were shot and he was drawn to the jws promise of a new world without war.
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Yes, and no. They were simple, uneducated young people who got reeled in and raised their child as they felt was the right way. I feel sorry that happened to them, for they're good hearted. But they're older and shouldn't they be smarter now? Yet they still preach and plead with me to "return." That's the no part. In spite of everything we know now, they still want to pull me back in. Disgusting.
I imagine we have alot in common, my parents and me. Love, and frustration at the same time.
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"Commenting" at Meetings
by cameo-d ini don't quite understand why you call it commenting.. when i attended meeting the question at end were read.. when people "commented" it was never a real comment.. it was just reading back word for word a sentence or two from the paragraph that answered the question.. i would think "commentary" would be something you put in your own words and give a personal statement about it.. .
why do you call it "comments" when it is more like reciting?.
or is it different in other kh?.
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Whatever you call it, all I know is if you were an elder's kid, your father was so proud if you did it and there was hell to pay if you didn't! Before the meeting, you were pressured to commit to raising your hand for specific paragraphs. You had to rehearse your answer in the car on the way to the meeting, like it took profound thought. Yuck. There was the urgent jab in the ribs from mother's elbow warning of your upcoming "comment." It was a huge embarrassment for the elder if his kid didn't comment and I tried to never do it. It was such a farce. You'd raise your hand and microphone boy scurried over so you could read a couple sentences from the Witchtower. Conductor: "How, then, should young ones feel when pressured to comment on crapola from the Faithful Slave?" (Smirking) "Yes, let's hear from Little Missy Virgochik who has volunteered to comment!" No I didn't! It was the bony elbow, the dirty looks and the threat of disapproval and scowling for days if I didn't. Better to get it over with! Ah, the memories.
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This is totally disgusting and caused my teenage rebellion as an elder's daughter. My dad warned me I'd never get a husband with my attitude, My retort was, good! I don't want one anyways! Now I'm married, and sometimes my husband and I fight like cats and dogs, but nobody is the boss of the other. We wouldn't have it any other way. We're no 1950's couple, like Lucy and Ricky. Honestly, my mother really did scamper to the door in her gingham apron to greet dad when he came home from work. It made me want to hurl then, and I sure can't see how any 2009 woman can go along with this crap. Yuck!