Pioneer Spit...oh, i mean Spirit
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FIRST TIME: Ran into Hoho ex-friends at restaurant
by Pioneer Spit...oh, i mean Spirit inthey said hello, we did not, we both just glared and looked through them.
might mention - these particular ones were only ever decent to us at the kh when they needed advice on buying a car (i was useful) or when their son's truck broke down and they needed mechanical help (my husband was useful).
plus, last year when we were moving a few blocks away, the wife drove by and stopped as we were outside loading a truck, and she gasped in horror at the sight of my handgun on my side.
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any good May Day rituals out there?
by Pioneer Spit...oh, i mean Spirit inthe hohos would hate that.
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Saw a sticker that had been modified on a vehicle -gave me a chuckle. . .
by Pioneer Spit...oh, i mean Spirit inon the side and back windows of a minivan, however on the back, someone scraped off a few choice letters.
.. original: god powers my van.
became: god owe s m an.
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My husband's awful parents in AZ.
by Pioneer Spit...oh, i mean Spirit inmy husband is a super dude, kind sweet, smart, in general he's just the best.
his paternal grandfather died last week on valentine's day at the age of 92. my husb was as close to his gp as he is to his father, which is silly according to the jws, as gp was catholic and my husb's dad is a jw, he should have been an ideal father.. aside from the religious tension, my husband's parents are completely awful to him: say stupid things to him-he asked if he could borrow gp's car for a day or so, they said 'ooooh but you have to be careful and not wreck it' (he's never had an at-fault accident)to which he said "nevermind about the car", accuse him of threatening them (take words like: 'this is the last time we'll see each other' to mean that he's about to murder them) and spread bs about him to our ex friends in the cong in phx.
plus, the father was an abusive bastard -physically and mentally - to my husband and his sister when they were kids; the mother, she's just an ignorant fool of a person.
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What people say about JWs now. . .
by Pioneer Spit...oh, i mean Spirit inwhile i was a hoho, i often told people that i was of the religion and therefore wouldn't do this or that (where's that llllonngggg list!
); even as a kid i believed that if i was ashamed of being a witness that jesus would be ashamed of me, and so, i witnessed whenever appropriate.
at work and at school, people almost always said something positive in return and i rarely, if ever, received criticism for it.
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I Don't Believe in God, or wait, Maybe I Do. . . a little wisdom please?
by Pioneer Spit...oh, i mean Spirit ini am conflicted as to whether i can or even want to believe in god.
(using capital g out of respect) i can't separate love of god and my jw life.
i pioneered for 10+ years, and thank goodness for that, because i can now easily memorize anything and read upside down.
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Honest, kind acts we performed when we were JWs--how does it feel now?
by Pioneer Spit...oh, i mean Spirit ini just read scully's thread about returning money from the atm.
it reminded me of how common it is for hohos to do a kindness, or to return found items, then explain that 'the reason i'm so honest is that i'm a jw and we're honest people, blah blah'.
this was always disturbing to me, as though we had to draw attention to the fantasy that we were different from others and it felt like we had lost our humanity--i now realize how true that is.
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Learning to Substitute JW terms and phrases for REAL ones, for example. . .
by Pioneer Spit...oh, i mean Spirit ina hoho might say: you have a bad attitude, i can't associate w/ you.
a real person might say: you're having a bad day, can i help?.
a hoho might say: i'm a pioneer.
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My dad's email response to my UN and Blood Issue questions.
by Pioneer Spit...oh, i mean Spirit ini always thought that my dad was a smart man, that he still had his common sense, but now i see that's not true.
and for some stupid reason, this has really got to me tonight.
i'm sharing the content of this discussion so that maybe someone else can see the ignorance of this horrible religion of people who cannot really love because their evil bible won't let them.