Nice idea for a thread, Mimilly, and thanks, I'm a fairly new newbie. Thanks to the others for their greetings also. I could relate to your comment:
I found this site after being isolated socially for ten years after the Borg. It has become very much a home for me.
Make that 12 years for yours truly, and ever since Dateline aired, I've been here quite frequently, many times too tired to post, but always reading. Admittedly, I did run across some threads earlier on that upset me, too much jumping down the throat of seemingly innocent posters, who were, as you say, run off by (to me) shockingly unnecessary attacks. So I would withdraw and be turned off, and avoid the site for awhile. Then when all my regular emails are read, and a few other sites visited (SL is on my daily rounds of sites, too), I would find myself back here 'cuz it's "Open 24 Hours" with a never-ending supply of threads, old and new, to keep my brain occupied.
Does everybody have DSL so the thread pages flip over faster? I find it pretty time-consuming to try to even add a brief comment to all the posts I read and would like to reply to. I'm still on dial-up. Slow Slow.
Also, while I'm at it, I have wondered if there is a Newbie Education Page, with instructions on how to do things. For instance, where does everybody get their pictures and/or art clips from for their ID pics? And how do you put it next to your ID?
And, are those pictures REALLY you guys? Like LB (I think) and some of the other guys and all the ladies... are those your real pics? Of course, I realize some of them are NOT, like that Mike Musto, that's not really a pic of him is it, with the red shirt that everybody makes fun of? (Red happens to be one of my favorite colors, btw). ;) Whose pics are real and whose aren't and how would one know? ;)
Personally, I've never had a "hate relationship" with the org. My 11 years there were all good, no problems. Didn't leave it because of doctrine or mistreatment or anything like that. I have always felt a fondness for (and guilt for being away from) the WTS/JWs. However, if I'm not careful, you guys may make an Official Apostate outta me yet... ;) (in the sense of still feeling "emotionally attached" to the WTS). I notice in my posts of late, I'm beginning to sound like the rest of yooz guys. Sometimes I think I have two personalities, back and forth, on how I feel about it. Anybody know what I mean?
Well, that's all for now, and thanks again!
GRITS
