I have today off. I am about to spend a wonderful guilt-free day with my children. I don't have to spend the day in service, telling my children not to do something or it will make Jehovah angry. That is something I love about not being in the organization. I feel so fortunate to be out so early in their childhood. :)
Dazeds Better Half
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Crazy JW chaperon Stories
by superman inthe jw's must not trust their members or at least don't have too much faith in them when it comes to being alone around member of the opposite sex.
i can remember one time in particular from when i was a teenager that still makes me laugh today.. when i was younger i used to go out in service on a regular basis during the week when i had summer break.
one time when i met for service there were only two other people that showed up.
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Dazeds Better Half
Ah, memories. I remember feeling so guilty for meeting my now husband for breakfast at ihop without a chaperone :) my parents were out of town and I was supposed to be going to saturday morning bookstudy then service. Instead I ditched and went and had breakfast. Oh the guilt I felt. How silly :)
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ANYBODY IN THE COLORADO AREA?
by Sittingstraight1212 inhey there!
just trying to find a meet up group in the denver metro area!
and to make new friends, cause ya know , now that i faded...i am shunned.
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Dazeds Better Half
My family is in North Denver metro area :) i dont know if there are meet up groups though. Good luck!
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Was Alias written by former JWs?
by Londo111 inspoiler alert!.
i finally got through all five seasons on netflix.
this series really floundered toward the end...sometimes the plot devices made characters like sloan do some wacky things...hes evil, hes good, hes evil, hes good.
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Dazeds Better Half
Its when I first fell in love with Bradley Cooper :) thank you alias, thank you...
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Fun 1st Father's Day
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i had a great 1st father's day.
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Dazeds Better Half
It was a fun day :) I think his gifts were fun too. I told him I was disappointed he didnt wear the shirt we made him to minigolf... Maybe we'll post a pic of dazed in his new shirt :):)
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Fading ... and Feeling Lost
by What Now? inprior to that we had been in a new congregation for about 9 months, and we were just irregular.
my husband rarely went, and i would go occasionally with our toddler son just enough to show our faces and keep the elders off our backs, and for the sake of some friendships in our old hall.
all of the reasons i had for going were just no longer important.
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Dazeds Better Half
Wow! Your post sounds like something I could've posted. I havent been to a meeting since around the memorial either. And I realized I was going to the meetings just to keep up appearances, and why. My husband wasnt attending anymore, i didnt truly believe and didnt like being there. So now the dilemma, how to make friends. I never really had to do that because the congregations always delivered instant friendships. So, we're workig on it together. We've invited some new neighbors over for a bbq tomorrow :) here goes nothing. But I know the void you're feeling, its what kept me in for so long. But being out is amazing and freeing. Good luck. If you lived in CO we could totally get the kids together :)
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Feeling Guilty
by naazira ini am feeling gulity because i will not be going to the summer convention.
i just can not sit through the talks they are sooo boring.
im cutting off all contact with the witnesses.
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Dazeds Better Half
This will be my first convention/ assembly that I will miss. I think it feels wonderful and I'm currently not feeling any guilt. I guess it just depends on why you wont be attending. I dont feel its different from any other meeting.
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What problem did being a JW leave with your personality?
by frogonmytoe inand i don't (necessarily) mean a religious or spiritual one.. for example, i think the traces of guilt and paranoia i often fight with come from being a born-in, but my biggest issue by far is not being able to live in the moment.. i have listened to the power of now audiobook (and eckhart tolle's voice put me to sleep) so i read it instead.
i have read other self-help books, most of them buddhist in leaning, but i still find it hard to stop thinking only in the future (thanks to the great trib, armageddon), or in the past (jesus, flood, 1914 being responsible for that).
and whilst i no longer believe the big a is looming, and barely give anything else a second thought, my behaviour has projected itself, and i still find it difficult just to 'be' in the moment, enjoying and savouring what i'm doing, and doing it to the best of my ability, i'm forever thinking what is coming up, and what i did badly last time.. my sister said the last time i visited her that she felt like she was waiting for something to happen "but not like armageddon, something else".
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Dazeds Better Half
I realized while at work I had a difficult time thinking outside of the box, coming up creative new ideas. I tend to lean towards being told what to do and using others creativity. But now that I've recognized this I'm working on changing it. I question why we do things and why things arent done in a different way... And guess what, I'm praised when I do such things. Change is good and betters us.
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GB (Splane) says JW parent should "force" their children
by Gayle into go in "service," "baptism," etc.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsqmosgj710
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Dazeds Better Half
Im sorry but how old was Jesus when he was baptised?? And he was raised from infancy to worship god and was his son, not to mention a perfect human being. Ridiculous!! Its all so ignorant.... Ludacris...
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I'm New... and I'm running...
by running_away init's some kind of funny... i was the perfect little ass, even that i never believe it all.. there was something that doesn't sound right... but, i was little, i was with my family, i never believe that my family will make me adopt a cult.
well i get batized in my mid teen years, i was the exemplar, ms at 19, even serve my time at bethel.
get married to a pioneer, start a spiritual family, get my 2 kids.
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Dazeds Better Half
M son is 4, my daughter just turned 1. I couldn't imagine raising them the same way I was. I went to my last meeting in the beginning of April, stopped service in December. Its amazing freedom to have finally ripped off the bandaid. Good luck! Get the kid out, I doubt you'll regret. It took a few weeks, but he doesn't ask about meetings or the other children that are there.