Lady Lee, I wonder if you felt like you didn't belong because you knew that the religion was wrong???
BTW, how do you cut and paste?
Are some Ex-JW better then others?
by Kaylen 24 Replies latest jw friends
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horrible life
Hi MsMcDucket, Do you want to use the quote feature? If so, I think I can help.
When you want to quote a poster, and put that quote in your new post, here is what you do.
1. Highlight any, or all of the post.
2. Click copy (on your mouse)
3. Click reply, at the bottom of the page
4. Click on the open space, (like you were going to write a regular post.
5. Look at the icons, above where you type. See the white balloon, next to the smiley face? click it
6. You will see a very small quote box. Put your curser in it and click.
7. Now paste. Just click on the icon 2 over from the sissors. Hover over each icon, to know what each are used for.
8. Now you can type more of your response. But you can't go back and get another quote, or all will disappear. I have found that I can post what I have,
go get another quote, click edit on the heading of my original post, and I will be taken right back to where I left off writing.
9. One thing to remember, pictures will not be this easy. That is another lesson.
If this was more elementary than you needed, I'm sorry, but I would try to follow others instructions, and just get lost. I finally figured it out. TOOK FOREVER!!!! HL
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GoingGoingGone
Kaylen - WELCOME!!
mrsjg - WELCOME!!
Anyone who has had any close contact with the WTS for any length of time will have their lives affected one way or another, imho. Especially if one has grown up in a JW home, as childhood experiences tend to form our personalities to a certian extent. Dealing with a loved one who is 'trapped' has it's own set of problems, too.
On this board, you will find understanding people in just about every WT situation imaginable. Hang out here a while and vent, you'll get lots of great advice and lots of laughs, too...!
GGG
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Lady Lee
Mrs McDucket
Lady Lee, I wonder if you felt like you didn't belong because you knew that the religion was wrong???
No I was a believer when I was in. I believed for a good 10 years after I left. As I look back now I think a big part of not belonging had to do with the sexual abuse I went through before I was introduced to the JWs. I was moved around a lot also so making friends was always difficult. All of that played into my feeling of being different. Also most of the other kids my age came from better off families. I wore my mother's old clothes or seconds from the used clothing stores. I didn't go to school with any of the other kids. I really didn't fit. Not with the good girls and not with the bad girls. When my husband became a MS I became friendly with a couple of new families. Their kids were either the same age or a little younger than my girls. It was a good fit. When my husband became an elder I thought I might get a foot in with the other elders wives but most of them had kids around my age so that didn't quite fit either. So I basically had my couple of friends. Then I heard there was gossip that I was creating divisions because one friend and I went grocery shopping every week. I guess having one different family over a week every single week to make sure we missed no one wasn't enough. We had the pioneers regularly in our home; had the book study for a while. I did the sign language interpreting and taught sign language to others who wanted to learn. I also made visits to help people who were sick. Arranged get togethers for the kids every summer so they wouldn't feel like they had nothing. (And all the kids were invited - did a trip to the fire station, to the park, museums, a church visit where we laughed at a picture of John the Baptist carrying a cross!? and regular picnics in the park where everyone was invited, oh and I almost forgot an arranged pot-luck get-together at a school where everyone was invited and I made all the arrangements for) And then of course there was service and meetings. Yikes I feel tired just typing all that!! Like everything JW it was never enough. And I still felt odd man out!!
BTW, how do you cut and paste?
I see someone has already answered that
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Frogleg
"Better" is such a relative term. Like good/bad/right/wrong. One of the aspects of the solitude and separation that has come with leaving a group like the Borg is a feeling of some sort of insight. Like being on a runaway train and being the only one who knows the bridge is out. Do I tell anybody about their certain doom? What's the point in that? And besides, maybe, just maybe, its all in error, and then I'll look even more like an idiot. Soldiers who have been thru combat find it almost impossible to give what they feel is a "faithful" discussion about their experience unless it is with another comabt vet (curiously, they don't even have to have been in the same war). Cops tend to have the same sort of difficulties with their experiences as well. Which makes me wonder about the prophets in the Bible. Off hand, I don't recall any that would pass for a Mr. Average today. You know, insurance salesman, father of three, mortgage and job, goes to meetings 5 times a week, just sits and waits for something. Prophets always seemed to be struggling with something, like themselves, or some pesky aspect of truth and/or justice that keeps burning a hole in their brain, or why God is doing this or that. Mr. Average never seems completely acceptable because he never seems to have a clear idea about what is really going on. But at the same time, the mindless roboticism of the religious zealot is equally apalling. Maybe, in the process of "learning" the truth, it is actually just given to us, infused into genome #378, you know, like the Bible says: a free gift. And it's not that we see the people around us as being "wrong", just shortsighted, narrow-minded, uninformed, and not quite affected to the degree that we have been affected? How would you accept the advice of a man who had been laying naked in the street for a couple of years? What would you say to the penniless, homeless man who is dressed in old clothes and who tells you that if you want to be really, really happy, you need to give away all of your possessions and money?