Posts by finally awake

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How did you leave?

by stuckinamovement in

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once you realized the organization is simply a religious corporation, how did you leave?.

did you fade?.

were you forced out?.

I stopped going out in service in 2007 after my youngest child was born. It was just too hard for me to manage a baby and my older 2 kids in service. I skipped a couple of assemblies because getting the little one to sit and be quiet all day was impossible and I just couldn't handle the stress. Eventually, I'd take any excuse i could come up with for missing a meeting. The last straw was a "shepherding call" back in November. The elders were all over me for my lack of field service and spotty meeting attendance. We had just missed the Special Assembly Day, despite heavy pressure to attend. We were actually on our way there when my youngest barfed all over the car. There was no choice but to return home, but Brother COBOE suggested that I should stop feeding my kids before meetings to avoid such problems in the future. My husband and I had a long overdue talk after that, and we both decided we were done with the Borg. He went to a couple more meetings to cover assigned parts on the school.

I was not born in, so I was well prepared to return to a normal lifestyle. It's been more of a challenge for the kids, but they are adjusting. The older 2 have joined the Boy Scouts and we are preparing to celebrate the middle one's birthday next week.

We only have one uncle and aunt in the Borg, and we rarely have contact with them anyway.

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That one good friend

by ballistic in

recently i have an obsession with past times, i guess it's called middle aged or old aged, anyway.. i'm sure anybody out there remembers people from their childhood or growing up and thinks not a lot about it.. i remember some good jw buddies and here's an ode to them.. i met one outside a local cafe, and we stopped and looked at each other for 45 seconds, or what seemed like forever.

because we lived in each others pockets and we got on so well.

we would sit at our ibm 286 pcs and play wing commander to the late hour, and there was no internet.

finally awake

There is one friend I miss terribly, she stopped going to meetings around 5 years ago. I don't know how she feels about the WTBTS and I don't know how to approach the subject with her or if I even should. We live in a very small town and I see her around from time to time.

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SMART phones: I got my first iPhone

by Terry in

for my birthday, my daughter (who works for apple) got me an iphone.. yes, i was using an old motorola flip-phone until now...like a geriatric captain kirk.. and i wondered why people had been giving me those strange looks before.... .

anyway, imagine my reaction to the mammoth technology contained in an iphone.. talk about a miracle, this qualifies.. i'm particularly impressed by the onboard gps.

i can type in a destination and the phone already knows exactly where i am and will plot a destination map onscreen.

finally awake

my coworker has an app that scans your store loyalty cards and then when you are at the cash register, you can just pull up the barcode on your phone and the cashier can scan it. much less hassle than having a key ring full of those little cards.

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GB Stridency: Nudge, Nudge, Wink, Wink Doesn't Work Anymore

by metatron in

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currently, it often seems like everything that comes from the glorious masters of time and space (aka 'the governing body that couldn't shoot straight') sounds like it would be printed in capital letters if it was part of an email (very annoying).. which tells you that:.

the old 'nudge, nudge, wink, wink' style of watchtower command and control ain't working anymore.

wha' happened?

finally awake

I think you're right on the money. I was in the Borg for nearly 13 years, and I never did really get the subtle commands to avoid higher education and the internet. I was way too busy trying to keep my kids quiet to even hear 90% of the meetings, and I couldn't focus on serious reading with all the endless racket 3 little boys and a husband make around the house.

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This Made Me So Thankful I am No Longer A Christian

by cofty in

i was following some links researching something to do with my condition when i came across this article by the well known christian author john piper called "don't waste your cancer".. if i had still been a christian when i got my diagnosis i would have been subjected to these sort of pious platitudes.

here are a few gems, read the full article if you wish but not on a full stomach.. .

cancer is not wasted when it is healed by god.

finally awake

BARF! No one should be subjected to such utter nonsense. I hope you are getting better

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let them eat cake

by Glander in

a heartfelt thank you note from imelda obama .

thank you america !.

dear american taxpayer.

finally awake

The Danish royal family travel on commercial airplanes in Denmark just like everybody else.

That may be true, but I'm not excited about the prospect of having the POTUS on my next flight to Disney World. I'd rather be on a plane full of no-name folks not attracting any attention.

High unemployment.

Stagnating economy.

15 trillion of debt our children will have to pay (we just passed 100% GDP with no end in sight.)

You do realize that the economy started tanking before he even took office?

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Ironic Smiley Face found in Cancerous Cell

by cantleave in

scientists at westmead millennium institute for medical research were amazed to see a cell literally laughing at them.

scientists were researching how a cancer-causing protein called beta catenin (green) moves into the cell nucleus (the round "face" shape).

"sometimes you feel like diseases really are laughing at your attempts to destroy them, and here it is under our microscope!

finally awake

that is creepy! nasty little bugger!

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let them eat cake

by Glander in

a heartfelt thank you note from imelda obama .

thank you america !.

dear american taxpayer.

finally awake

Or maybe the POTUS isn't even sure he'll get to go at all - after all he is on call 24/7 and there may be issues going on that the general public never even hears about. My point is just that the people who hate the POTUS will never be satisified until he is out of office. Nothing he does will ever be good enough - and it doesn't matter who the POTUS is, there will always be some group of people who hate him.

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I killed some Green Beans!

by TimeBandit in

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hi folks!

i went out tonight and did a little night shooting, then i cleaned my gun and put it back together.

i killed a can of green giant green beans, a jar of beets (i hate beets), and i took out a baking pan!

finally awake

I personally killed a turnip with a butcher knife last week

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Help! Help!! Desperately need DOGGIE help!!! Help with a doggie!!!!

by ziddina in

i hope this is the correct category..... since pets are kinda sorta like "family", anyway..... a friend of mine (who lives about 25 miles away, in the center of the city) recently lost her beloved six-year-old spayed female daschund doggie under very tragic circumstances.. her other dog, an eight-year-old neutered male daschund, has been inconsolable since her loss.

so my friend decided to adopt another small dog - a spayed female daschund - one that was rescued from a breeder..... this poor little dog has lived in a cage for her entire life!!!

all six years of her life - in what was, in effect, a doggie concentration camp.... she is not "socialized" in any way, shape or form.

finally awake

maybe a long tablecloth/blanket over the table would be cave like enough to suit the dog, but I still favor a proper crate. It doesn't have to be really small, but it does help contain the mess from a non-housebroken dog. The biggest issue I had with my rescue dogs was the difficulty in house breaking them. I have a pretty low tolerance for bathroom accidents - it really grosses me out - and I like to know that I'm not going to find a pile or a puddle in an unexpected place.