You know I got love for ya too WACDaddy!
Bigd.............................sorry dude, it aint like that for me. LOL!
I know it's only a discussion forum...
by nvrgnbk 57 Replies latest jw friends
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Sassy
two of my three best friends (and I mean offline) are members here.. one I met here.. so w/o it..I'd be short one best friend!
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return visitor
It helped me learn to spell since there is no spellchecker
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IP_SEC
Let me put it like this IP_SEC, there was the pre-IP_SEC nvr, and now there's the post-IP_SEC nvr.
Right awwwnnn nvr Right on man.
matt *bettering lives since 1973)
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sspo
To be a better, intellectual and sophisticated apostate.
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sspo
To be a better, intellectual and sophisticated apostate.
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changeling
Ya'll really do fill the void of not having many "real" friends. I trully wish I could meet some of you and lived where we could do things socially. But, since that's not the case, this is cool too.
changeling
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deaconbluez
It has helped immensely.
The stereotype is that everyone who leaves
(1) just wanted to fornicate, celebrate holidays, and do drugs freely,
(2) thought they were of the anointed and had mental instability and pride issues,
(3) or just became so materialistic and focused on things.
Well, I found out that there is another category: found out they were lied to, and didn't like it.Extremely well put.
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Open mind
Well if you call getting a divorce and losing my kids an improvement..................
whoa nelly!! That hasn't happened yet and may never happen.
Alright, got the smarta$$ answer out of my system. Now for reals.
The mental freedom to question ANYTHING and bounce it off others who aren't gonna get all "dubby" on my a$$.
Priceless.
Oh yeah, and being able to mentally rub shoulders with those who actually have learned to think rationally is wonderful as well. I hope to join the ranks of the rational one of these days.
And finally: Nvr says he's gonna buy me a beer. Someday.
Open Mind
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AuldSoul
As I have posted in other places I believe I would not now have a life to better if not for JWD. Finding out that my whole life had been devoted to nothing but a self-serving, purely human organization was devastating for me. The trauma of this caused other trauma to resurface.
The combination was more than I could have born up under on my own and, although she wanted to help, my wife is not emotionally capable of helping me in many of the ways I needed at that time. But I survived thanks to jgnat, LadyLee, Chris and Nina, jst2laws, LittleToe as well as many concerned folks like Confession and Listener who reached out as friendly voices/PMs through the fog. LadyLee even sent me a survival manual, of a sort, through which I could see myself and pieced together how I'd been damaged. I survived largely because I could process my trauma in place of safety: JWD.
I thrive now, not because of JWD, but because of choices I have made in favor of thriving. I have been 100% supported in these choices by my many friends here at JWD. I am living proof that there is light at the end. Life can be navigated to the point where you are sure you are healing and mending.
In my opinion, JWD encourages personal growth, encourages embracing the outside world, helps you learn how to do it, helps your reasoning ability to recover from the damaged state cult-life shreds it into. If you want to spend forever griping, JWD will endure that too, and everything in between.
JWD is like an emergency room. Everyone has different pain tolerances. Some people are injured worse than others. Some people aren't yet even at the point of "getting better" and can barely manage to "survive" another day. Some have nothing more serious than a scratch on their arm and occasionally they sneer at those grabbing their bellies and suggest that they aren't really that bad off, not comprehending the massive internal damage that can be done.
I think almost everyone here wants everyone here to get better, to find a way to cope that doesn't leave their life emotionally, mentally, materially, or spiritually crippled. I know that is true for me, that's what I want for everyone here.
Now, I am befriending many others. Some of whom are going to hit walls they aren't yet expecting to hit. I will be there for them, in part, because others were there for me. No greater dishonor could be slung in the face of the many who helped me than for me to fail to help where and when I can.
I haven't met a single bad egg from JWD so far (nvr-nate being the OBVIOUS exception ... ). And even if I do, I will not be put off by it.
JWD has encouraged me to step beyond my safety nets and increase the size of my life. It is a debt I can never fully repay, and none of my debtors even expect me to try. What a wonderful feeling! It certainly inspires me to want to give to others in the same way.
I have benefitted a LOT from JWD.
Oh, and OpenMind, despite nvr-nate being a terribly sulfuric bad egg he will honor his beer buying agreements, I have to give him that. I'll buy the second round, k?