hello fellow jwd people....i just wanted to tell everyone "thank you" for everything on here-it has been extremely helpful for my brain to realize (i hope!!
) i'm doing the right thing to not be a witness anymore....as some of you may or may not know, i stoppped being a witness about 3 months ago.... it's a weird thing to not go to meetings anymroe/service/have only witness friends/think the end is coming and....soon.
i only left b/c of intellectual reasons, so reading everyone's posts on various subjects and whatnot has been a huge help to help dispell some of the witness "truths" that i thought were true since i was 1 year old..... and, on another random note, my profile pic is actually a pic of a duck at bethel!!!
Hiya, Monsta-girl! Welcome to the JWD forum, chere! I missed your intro post, so I went back and read it when I saw this thread. There now.....the truth has set you free.
Fear (of "harm-a-gettin' " and of being disapproved) are major WTS tools to keep their lemmings fleeced ones toe-ing the WTS line. Fuhgedaboudit, chere! Life's for livin'.........
Hugs,
Frannie
i'm "tarty smurf".
http://www.quizopolis.com/smurf_name.php.
LOL, yall!! The last name I ran through there I got "Bi-Partisan Smurf" and I knew ai wasn't anything "bi-" so.......
i am so grateful to have a place where my experiences being treated like one of the walking dead can be understood and empathized with.. i was opening my mail last night and there was a bill from local hospital.
i opened it a bit confused because i have not been in a hospital in 2 years.
it was a detailed bill for my stepson.
I'm with Scully on this, FreeGirl. I'd take the divorce papers with me to the hospital and put that present location info on your Ex in their hot little hands. And let them know that it's HIS son, that you're not the natural mother, nor did you adopt him.
Then go home and have a toddy for da body, chere!
Cheers!
Frannie
i'm "tarty smurf".
http://www.quizopolis.com/smurf_name.php.
(((((found-my-way))))) There, there....try a different combo. I tried my 1st and last and then my middle and last and then my posting name and then my family nickname and then different combos with my maiden name until I came up with one I could live with.
LOL! and snicker/snort at the rest of yall!! (well.....not Misocup...she got a great one!)
i have not tried to hide my past as a victim of this, but this is always an area that i have to fight my personally feelings as to what should be done to child molesters.
they ruin lives, scar an individual for a lifetime!.
should they be incarcerated for life, castrated, turned over to the family member(s), public humiliation like a branding everywhere they go, tortured and or death penality?.
Hortensia, I agree. It's a hornet's nest of a problem and we don't have the correct spray to shoot at it from a safe distance either.
Learned behavior, yes, but fueled by that domineering facet of their persona. Without the control freak factor, they wouldn't have done what they've done. Many, many more women have been victims than there are perps, yet the majority percentage of SO's is not comprised of the female gender.
BTW, all the s.o.b.'s that molested us are dead now. Only one stepuncle remains and he didn't molest me. He DID however recognize that they lied about me. And kept his mouth shut.
At my stepfather's funeral, which my daughter and I attended, hoping for a chance afterward to p*ss on his grave, that stepuncle invited me to come over to visit with him and his wife. I didn't go.
i'm "tarty smurf".
http://www.quizopolis.com/smurf_name.php.
I'm "Tarty Smurf"
i was wondering why many of you turn to to other religions after being freed from the foolishness of the jw's?
after i relieved myself of the burden of the foolish witnesses, i was able to understand god in my own fashion and i've never felt better.
many religions pratice mind control similar to the wittnesses so why not free yourselves from all of them?
Dawg/dude and Godless, yall look like a tag team here.
i really went out with a bang........lol.
it was a thursday night meeting and i was extremely bored - planning to escape.
while the second song was playing, i quickly grabbed my things and headed for the door.
when you went over 20 miles an hour it would back fire. I mean it sounded like a shot gun going off right next to you. It was extremely loud.
You're timing was off, chere. Oh, not the loud noise in front of the KH. That was purrrrrfect! Your timing chain was off.
Frannie
reading hortensia's topic "menu" made my mouth water.
i remember in the 70's (when we used to be able to have lots of jw social get-togethers like picnics and parties) some of the friends would bring pot-luck specialties that were to die for!.
everyone has a dish they consider their "specialty" which gets high praise and generally requests for the recipe.
WOW, Hortensia!!! Do you have a mulcajete, too? I've got a big one that a friend of mine brought back from Mexico.
my wife 'rowan' was born and raised a jw, her father being an elder -a very gentle loving person, but an elder.. some years ago, she was betrayed by a close friend, subjected to a jc and was disfellowshiped & shunned.
the proceeding was completely void of mercy and love, it was much like a violation, a rape.
finding herself df'd was of course terrifying, but the most disapointing outcome was that her father sided with the elders.. eventually she discovered through select books, articles and this board about the fear-driven mind control ways of her religion.
Gerard and Rowen, you both deserve the very best that life has to offer, ma cheres. I hope you get everything good in life.
It's a rollercoaster ride, this life we live.....but at least there's some "ups" in it. I think it's yall's time for some "ups."
Hugs 'n smoochies!
Frannie
