i can't donate right now b/c of a tattoo that i had done. but i think that it is important. i think that in order to hold life as sacred everything must be done in order to protect that life. and because of that i was giving every 8 weeks and on feb. 27 (a year from when my tattoo was done) i will be there to give again.
proudassmonkey
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Donating Blood
by Sentinel inthere has been some discussion about what happens when someone of the jw persuasion is faced with "needing" blood.
what is the story on "giving" blood?
what is the feeling here?
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ATTENTION WTS: We know exactly how to bring you down!
by Nosferatu inhaha, made you look!
but seriously, we're working on it.
be afraid watchtower!
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elsewhere
i think i am going to print up that sign and put it on my door.... oh wait those witnesses have never come to my door... well just in case.
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Why doesn't the WTS website have a discussion forum?
by Holey_Cheeses*King_of_the juice. insince the jws main mission in their miserable lives is to 'preach the good news of the kingdom', why is is that there is really no means to interact with the wts website?.
certainly, many pioneers could be engaged in the activity of answering the many enquiries that would be directed through such an 'official' discussion board, and it would definitely be a means for the pioneers of accumulating many precious hours of witnessing to those 'hungering for the truth'.. surely the society couldn't believe that such a site would be inundated with doubting and disgruntled individuals with an 'axe to grind' with them.
i am sure that there would be many members here who would have many sincere enquiries to make with the society, without wanting to disrupt, or harass.
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think of what they would have to delete not just daily but hourly. b/c they don't want people to acctually start thinking for themselves they want processed packed thinking for all. what if the joe-shmo-witness came along and found out things he shouldn't know about the FDS then what?
(btw- i don't know if anyone else has realised this before but this JUST come to me the FDS= faithful and discreet slave but it is also Feminine Deoderant Spray..... interesting or maybe just interesting to me b/c i am soooo tired)
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Your Online Persona
by Xena ini saw a thread recently that asked if you were different from your online persona, most people answered to varying degrees "no".
that made me wonder though how do you view yourself and how do other people view you?
what kind of a person do you feel you project?
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my favorite part of this WHOLE thread is aztec. she's comes on and just says really nice things about everyone. so who cares about my online persona cuz no one is topping aztec 'round here.
i'd say that what you see is what you get around me. i am goofy, i am silly, i have a brain and when i CHOOSE to use it you'll all know
melissa
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NWT??
by proudassmonkey inok well here's the thing i want to be able to refute what parents have to say or will have to in response to the email i will sned them in response.. is that confusing enough?
but i can't find an online site w/ the new world translation.
i don't want a copy of their bible.
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i wasn't really suggesting that a book can bring evil. b/c that is stupid. yet is the mindset of the dubs w/ not only occult material but apostate as well (or at least that's what it was in my house).... i was being silly as i frequently am.
thanks all for your help
elsewhere if i could get a copy of that (with no witness atached) i would be grateful)
thnkas,
mel
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MY CONSULTING TRIP TO BETHEL (starting over) PART 6
by seven006 inwithin a few weeks i leased a condo on the banks of the willamette river just out side the city of portland.
as she got into her car she looked at me funny again, laughed and just shook her head.. .
i told him that if i said i was sorry, i knew that is what they wanted to hear but it was not the truth.
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dave,
first and foremost i need to thank you. your story is what brought me to this board and this group. b/c i so greatly appreciate everyone on here, i greatly appreciate you... thank you for having the courage to leave, thank you for seeing what lies the bethel boys live every day, thank you for writing your story.
love,
the proud ass monkey a.k.a. melissa
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NWT??
by proudassmonkey inok well here's the thing i want to be able to refute what parents have to say or will have to in response to the email i will sned them in response.. is that confusing enough?
but i can't find an online site w/ the new world translation.
i don't want a copy of their bible.
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proudassmonkey
ok well here's the thing i want to be able to refute what parents have to say or will have to in response to the email i will sned them in response.. is that confusing enough? but i can't find an online site w/ the new world translation. i DON'T want a copy of their bible. won't that bring evil into my house? or at least witnesses to my door? i want to be able to quote THEIR bible in my defense against them. so any suggestions would be. as always, greatly appreciated.
love,
the proud ass monkey also known as melissa
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Women and abusive relationships...I don't understand?
by obiwan inwhy do you stay in an abusive relationship?
do you feel that it's your responsibility to change him?
do you feel you "owe" him.
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i grew up being beaten by my mother. when i left my parent's house i swore i would never let anyone else hit me EVER! I told my very loving boyfriend, you ever raise your hand to me i am gone. no apologies no excuses i am gone. he would never do that but he knew from the get go that was how it was. you can choose to be a victim for the rest of your life or you can stand up and not let any one make you feel small again. i choose to stand up and be some one.
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How Do I Get Rid of This?
by Big Tex inhave you ever had your eyelid twitch uncontrollably?
it's driving me crazy.
it's been going on over a year.
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proudassmonkey
i don't know if any one has posted this already but... the twichting is caused by a lack of calcium. as calcium leaves your cells tetany occurs. so in order to rectify, take calcium.
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HELP!!! HELP!!!! HELP!!!!!!
by proudassmonkey inok i need some help from who ever has dealt w. their jw parents.
this is the email i got from my parents: .
dear melissa, .
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here's background on me: i don't believe that God cares about me. i believe there could in all possibilities be a god, but he have an understanding he doesn't care about me i don't care about him. it's been working so far. but seriously i don't know what to believe. i believe in ME first and foremost. i believe that i have the ability to be anything- even god-like if that's what i choose.
my parents were contacted in '75 by a bethelite. they started studying and were baptised in 77. the 5 kids in my family were raised in a havily bethel influenced area (NY) i never really believed in what they were teaching me but i went along with it b/c that is what you did. i was baptised at the age of 13. would my parents let me get married at such an age? but i was allowed to make a life long dedication, that i am now being held to. i reg. pio. for a year after high school, went to pio school for 2 weeks, after that i never went out in fs again. i guess i felt that was it i paid my time. i was missing as many meetings as i could get away it. not commenting at whatever meetings i was going to. just coasting. another thing happened that i feel is important to note. this was in 96 i stopped automatically saying amen to the prayers said at the kh. acctually i stopped altogether. i wasn't able to leave yet i was still living at home. and dating a bethelite. but i started to mentally distance myself from the witnesses.
then dec. 10, 1998 happened. my little sister, sara, was driving to school and got into a collision. she ended up dying from esanguanation (bleeding out) wanna guess what she wasn't given? if guessed blood tranfusion you are right. my world of coasting was rocked. i couldnt do it anymore. if my life ended the next day iot would have all been a lie. within that year i was just trying to keep afloat. then i decided to move out of my parent's home and move 30 mins away. (they called the police one night on me b/c they didn't know where i wascome on now i was 21. i can be out and not have the police called!!) so i decided to move away. i was too close. my parents came and checked up on me in my apartment to make sure i was home. so i moved across the country. i moved to california.
while here i met a boy. he is the love of my life but unrelated to this story. except that at first my parents blamed him for my decision. i decided i couldn't be still technically in the organization w/o believing a word of it. i wrote a letter of disassociation. i have now read a few of the ones posted on here and they are amazing. mine was simple two sentences. "i don't believe in your god. i no longer want to be associated with the jehovah's witnesses' and i had freedom. my parents were flying out to visit me and i told them i had something to talk to them about. unfortunately i told them at the beginging of a two hour car ride. big mistake. they didn't speak to me for two hours but yelled and screamed and ranted and raved. which is worse. but they did tell me something "you can at least have enough respect for your brother and sister not to contact them." so even though there was no WTS ruling on the matter yet. that was done and i was finished. it has been good and bad at times with my parents. like when i told my mom that i was working at the blood bank. she didn't talk to me for 5 mo. only then was when my bf's dad died.
all this time i have still tried to please them. tried to be the not-so-black sheep. it hasn't worked. there are of course other details to my story. but those are the highlights (acctually low-lights)
but i have love. unconditional love. from non jw family. from my bf and his mom, his dad too but only it is his spirit form now. i also have unconditional love from my sister sara. i feel her love and presence with me all the time. i don't know what i believe but i know i believe that.
melissa
ps thank you so much all for replying it really means a lot to me that i have a place to where i can rant about my whacked out parents and ppl say yes we know exactly how you feel. thank you!!
**hugs to all**