when the elders or other "mature ones" tried to assist you, they would ask questions like, "what's wrong?
why weren't you at the meeting?
or service?.......what good excuses did you give, when asked these types of questions?
Most of my excuses were physical, like the flu, fibromyalgia or a slow-to-heal broken ankle. I also told them that it was because of depression. They didn't say too much about the physical problems, but would say that my depression would be eleviated if I prayed more and put Jehovah first.
Minimus, where do you get all these thought-provoking subjects???
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today, for some reason, i've had the kinks tune victoria stuck in my head.
what songs are stuck in your head tonight?
Today it's Sweet Child O' Mine by Guns N Roses...this is one that runs through my head on a lot of days.
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today, for some reason, i've had the kinks tune victoria stuck in my head.
what songs are stuck in your head tonight?
Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You. I've got this bad cold and my voice is sounding pretty good tonight. I used to listen to early Joan Baez Child Ballads. I had a girlfriend who could play and sing pretty much like her. Anyhow, tonight I just opened up my mouth and belted out:
Babe, I'm gonna leave, tell you when I'm gonna leave you...
Leave you when old summertime, summer comes arolling
Leave you when old summer comes along.
Babe, that highway's a'callin
That broad highway's a'callin
Callin me to travel on, travel on out westward
Callin me to travel on alone.
My feet start fallin down, going down that highway
My feet start fallin down alone.
Babe, I'd like to stay here, you know I'd really like to stay here,
But my feet start fallin down, going down alone.
They just keep fallin down, going down alone.
Another song, playing in my head is From House to House...go figure.
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do you think that you will see your dear loved ones come back to life in a ressurection of some sort or do you think there is no hope of such a thing?
((((((((Xena)))))))) It was hard for me, too, when I left, to lose that belief of being with dead loved ones again. I would like to hope that we would be able to.
My son died really believing that he would be resurrected in paradise. But, how can you believe the jw way when they lied about so much? How can you believe that God is going to give us life again? If you look at the Bible, he seems to like to kill off people like they are nothing.
I just don't know. It hurts to think about it. I wish I could be brainwashed again, you know? Be in La-La land. But the Wizard of Oz is a fake and the yellow brick road leads to nowhere.
Dorothy
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were there some people in your congregation that you could say anything to them, and you were sure they wouldn't stool to the elders?
how many people in your congregation could you really trust?
Husband #1, a 'spiritually weak' person to be sure, would have been the one I could have trusted, but alas, we had nothing in common except maybe liking to get drunk and having sex.
Many years ago I was very much taken by a screenplay that was presented on public television. It was called The Gardener's Son, written by Cormac McCarthy. He also wrote All the Pretty Horses and many very depraved books (Outer Dark, Child of God) that captivated me even while I was a witness.
The Gardener's Son really got to me...sexually, emotionally. All of Cormac McCarthy's novels do the same thing to me. They are strong, base, raw and sensual. Amazing writing. I moved to Tennesee because of them.
On a lighter or semi-lighter side: Twilight Zone, One Step Beyond, Seinfeld, Everybody Loves Raymond, Becker, British comedy like Waiting For God, Keeping Up Appearances, As Time Goes By, To The Manor Born, and Masterpiece Theatre. I enjoy watching period pieces that take me back to the 1800s and before.
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what if you were an alien and came to planet earth on a scientific mission to explore other planets .you have come a long way, as we know the closest star to earth is aproximately 1 light year away.
your planet has known nothing but peace and science has been the main form of religion .what would you think when you arrived here and how would you deal with the discovery of the life forms on this planet?
would you abandon all hope of establishing some sort of long term freindship with the so called intelligent life forms that exist here or would you try to communicate some sort of message you think might help the situation here?
I would probably ask for an Alka Seltzer, barf and phone home. The earth needs more help than I, a lowly alien, could give it.
any ex-jw's from these areas.
i have lots of family in paintsville ky area and i lived there for 3 years and attended the salyersville ky cong.
i have lived in knoxville area for the last 6 years, but dont have any witness connections here, or even family.
JG, sorry you weren't feeling well. Hope you are all better now.
When I first married husband #1, we got an apartment in Pigeon Forge over a restaurant (Laney's, which isn't there anymore). That was in 1979 and it was crowded back then. It is such a blatantly money-grabbing area, I didn't like being there at all. But, it was so close to the park and my husband's parents lived on this little dirt road at the foot of a mountain where the neighbors were very much spread out. It was like going back to the 1800s. It's really very beautiful there, but being a Northerner, I just felt like those mountains were going to swallow me up. I hated the thought of growing old and dying there for some reason. It would have been different, maybe, if I hadn't been in an unhappy marriage.
The witnesses that visited you probably go to the hall we attended. Lots of rich witnesses (some owned shops in Gatlinburg) who had moved in from other states went to that hall. Such a difference from most of the dirt-poor locals.
It would be nice meeting you and your wife...wish I still had connections there.
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i'd have loved to have a gran as cool as mouthy (grace) ... surfing the net and stuff!.
what do you think?
Never mind Gran, she's great on all accounts!
(((((((((Mouthy)))))))))
i have been researching the greyhound breed.
does any one have a italian greyhound or greyhound?
my application is in for a retired or rescue dog.
Robyn, in spite of her stupidity, I'm glad that she lived to be a ripe old age.
Yeah, I was so upset with my husband (I think I told him I hated him and he could go fuck himself) that he took me to an elder. The elder (who happened to be one I actually liked) told me that my husband was my head (if I had really believed that, I would have decapitated myself) and I needed to obey him. I said that I still thought it was wrong to be cruel to animals (and, I thought, to me), and the elder shrugged and gave me the impression that even if wrong, it was my duty to obey my man. I had to learn to live with it.
Maybe I just love animals too much. There is this horrible disease (I forget the name) going around California that affects birds. Hundreds of birds are having to be destroyed because of it. This woman was being interviewed at the zoo or somewhere (I was in the other room, half listening to the news story) and she said, "I don't like birds that much anyway, we'll just go watch the chimpanzees.haha" I actually became angry at her not-give-a-damn attitude.
Your post helped me, I think, by showing me that I need to lighten up. It just does awful things to me when animals are in any kind of peril. That's why I couldn't deal with stories like Black Beauty and Bambi when I was a kid.
Sorry for this long post that has nothing really to do with the subject...
Love,
Dottie
