Things that stay in your mind

by KW13 22 Replies latest jw friends

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  lisavegas420

  I have lots of pre-recorded messages and images that stay in my mind and play their messages for me.

  Examples would be a scripture that would pop in my head. For instance when my granddaughter wanted to spend the night with one of her friends and I didn't know her friends parents. Immediately, the 'bad association' scripture popped in my head.

  I often hear my moms' voice saying, "You could fall in a 'vat of shit' and come out smelling like roses". I know she meant this as an insult, but I was secretly proud.

  Sometimes I hear my dads voice when I get all dressed up. When I was a little girl and we'd get ready for the meetings, mom would say "go see your dad." Then we were to go to him and spin around and make sure we were presentable for the meeting. I would say, "Am I pretty?" and he would say, "Pretty ugly and pretty apt to stay that way." So here I am almost 45 years old and still here this put down from my dad..sad huh?

  There are lots more...it's a pretty full recorder.

  lisa
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  Mary

  Me'ne Me'ne Te'kel Par'sin.

  And I'll bet that 99.9% of the people on this board can still translate this.
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  Honesty

  The one thing that has stuck in my mind is the last words I had with two elders.

  "The Governing Body are all apostates. I QUIT!"
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  luna2

  The other day I said a swear word at work (in front of people). I shocked myself and felt very guilty.

  I still don't buy lottery tickets...gambling. I forced myself to play slots when I went to the casino with some friends, but it was almost difficult to do at first.

  Occasionally, a scripture will float tot he top of my mind (the bad associations one has come up several times), and I'll have to banish it back to the depths.

  I still can't seem to make friends. There are people at work that I've known for 14 years but for so many of those years, I rebuffed their invitations that now.....well, they don't ask any more and I'm embarrassed to try to break down the walls I built as a dub. I've gotten used to my walls I guess.
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  Mary

  Luna said: The other day I said a swear word at work (in front of people). I shocked myself and felt very guilty.

  Uh ya.....I have the same problem.

  I still can't seem to make friends. There are people at work that I've known for 14 years but for so many of those years, I rebuffed their invitations that now.....well, they don't ask any more and I'm embarrassed to try to break down the walls I built as a dub. I've gotten used to my walls I guess.

  Well hon, that's probably thanks to the screwed up advice we were given as Dubs not to hang around worldly people.....maybe you should take the first step and invite one or two of your co-workers out to lunch......that'd be a start!!
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  juni

  Heh Mary!

  Me'ne Me'ne Te'kel Par'sin.

  And I'll bet that 99.9% of the people on this board can still translate this.

  You like those words, don't ya? Saw them posted somewhere else by ya!

  But of course - "This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs." w/side of bacon.

  Juni
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  Dansk

  Sometimes on Saturday mornings I get up and start knocking on stangers doors, and then I am like "what am I doing?"

  Ian
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  luna2

  That's part of the problem, Mary...we have to take lunch at different times. I'm thinking about what I can do, though. I turned down an invite from the other store (the people that bought our store have two others) to a retirement party...I shouldn't have done that. I hear that they do get together over there on a semi-regular basis for other stuff. Next time, I'll go.
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  fullofdoubtnow

  I try very hard never to include any jw terms in my everyday speech, but the odd one slips out, and when I see dubs on the fs on our street, I sometimes think of one or two happy times on the ministry, but otherwise I don't think much about my dub days now. It's helped me being with Trev, he never uses any dubspeak at all now, and it's kind of rubbed off on me.
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  Good Girl or Bad Girl?

  Sometimes I hear my dads voice when I get all dressed up. When I was a little girl and we'd get ready for the meetings, mom would say "go see your dad." Then we were to go to him and spin around and make sure we were presentable for the meeting. I would say, "Am I pretty?" and he would say, "Pretty ugly and pretty apt to stay that way." So here I am almost 45 years old and still here this put down from my dad..sad huh?

  lisa

  Lisa, that's a TERRIBLE thing for a parent to say to their child! And so totally not true!! Good Girl or Bad Girl