TheSurvivor
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Please, I am so upset...I need some hugs...
by Sentinel ini am having a very difficult time and i am here right now because i know in my heart, that when i explain what has just happened to me a few minutes ago, you will understand.
many of you are no doubt going through the same thing.. within several posts here, i have spoken of my mother.
my dear sweet mother, who just turned 78, and who has been a faithful jw since 1959. she abandoned me in 1981, when i decided to leave the borg, and for twelve years she did not speak to me, write to me, call me, or visit me.
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Secrect of your Marriage
by Crystal inwho here has been married...10 years or more?is it a great marriage and what is the secret of keeping it together?
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How Have U Changed since Leaving?
by patio34 ini've been thinking about changes in my world view lately and wonder if others have had a similarly subtle, yet profound, outlook on life.
not being a jw nor even a believer anymore has made a subtle change that ive observed.
to begin with, i read somewhere that people tend to bring their own standards to their religion.
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Masturbation the hidden epedemic
by felix a in.
masturbation the hidden epidemic an article that you don't want to miss.. .
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Emotionally stunted
by onacruse injust had a good phone call with a friend i met on this board...got me to thinking about my life as a jw.
he's been "out" almost as long as i was "in.".
i was a reg pub at 6 years old, decided (yes, a very deliberate decision) to go to bethel when i was 8 years old, and was baptized at 10 years old (in 1962).
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Changes—I'll show you mine . . .
by patio34 inwhen leaving the borg, it takes time for our real identities to assert themselves or we try out new things to see what fits us and our life.
here are a couple of things that are new to me lately:.
1) after a frightening incident a week ago (but nothing happened) i purchased a can of pepper spray.
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Warped....
by TheSurvivor ini was born in the 50's and raised in the so called truth.
i began to see the light the same year i got my concealed weapons permit.
imagine that, a witness packing heat.
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Dead Again?
by sOOner injust sharing a bit of news that i recieved today from my only living parent,my mama.my mama is a full fledged in the borg programed subject.the phone call came today.she said she was a bad girl and had been disobedient and that this would be her last phone call.at first she softened the blow by saying "honey.i just called to tell you how much i love you"i responded with a inner smile and said "awe,that's so nice,i love you too"she then said "no,you don't understand i am calling to tell you that this will be our last communication other then emergency and death situations"i then kinda of lost it.i informed her that was crap!i mean back in 1981 you cut me and my siblings off for 12 years,then after we have survived or at least were functional in our lives you come back and say"opps,sorry but there is new light and now we can love you again".
during this time i being a dutiful daughter,forgave them and welcomed them back into my life which had been missing there love.it was so nice being able to do things for them and care for them when they were ill.visits became a yearly occurence and they even visited with me.. although this was not in the least unexpected,it is still a shock.i have reacted in various ways.if i am dead too her then she is dead too me.i don't give flowers to dead people,i show unconditional love to them when they are living and can recipercate by giving unconditional love in return.. as far as recieving health bulletins or in my case calling and saying"hi,mama my hep c is whatever".
i am not calling period.. it may seem foolish and childish but i have removed her pictures.the ones of her and dad together are still on my wall.. it is a sad day when your parent,the one who gave birth to you says she loves you but can't show you.. she said it is in the bible,but when my siblings and i ask where she says i can't tell you because you are in the dark and not allowing the light.
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My First Rock Concert....
by TheSurvivor innow in my 40's i went to my first and most probably last rock concert last night.
i took the wife and kids (if you can still call them that with the youngest taller than me) to see the "motor city madman....ted nugent.
i guess that i am just not the rock and roll type.
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Society profiting from Conventions
by freedom96 ini am sure that this has been talked about, but i would love to hear recent input.
there have been district assemblies where parking is charged, and all the "brothers and sisters" who are taking time off of work, etc, and cannot afford to go to this assembly but have to go, are paying good money for admission to the stadium.
many times not allowing come and go privledges.