Posts by Evesapple

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The saddest song you've ever heard

by littlerockguy in

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what is the saddest song that brings tears to your eyes just about every time you hear it?

mine is harry chapin's cats in the cradle

The saddest song you've ever heard

by littlerockguy in

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friends

what is the saddest song that brings tears to your eyes just about every time you hear it?

mine is harry chapin's cats in the cradle

Hi....

by toys4us in

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i've been "lurking" around here for a while now (on-and-off for a couple years).

today's the day i'm going to take "the plunge" into "apostacy" and introduce myself here.

i am a 39-year-old single mom of 6, i live in the interior of bc, canada, and work in a doctor's office.

You are an amazing woman, quite honestly I don't typically read through long stories, since I'm on so infrequently, but I could stop reading yours...thanks for sharing that....and welcome. Unconditional love on the outside is what I found too :)

Eva

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Cyclists?

by Banshee in

are there any other people here who are into bicycling or handcycling?.

last year, my husband got a handcycle (he can't use a bicycle due to handicap) and i got a new bicycle and we have been enjoying cycling.

last september, we went on our first cycling tour and did the 20 mile.

Evesapple

I love cycling too! I will be doing my 2nd Century ride (100 miles) around Lake Tahoe in June with Team in Training. I'm actually a former runner, but have really just gotten into biking the last couple of years. It's a great recreational sport and good to your body, meaning fewer injuries then most other sports.

Enjoy!

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So I'm at the meeting tonight.............

by JV in

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i'm looking through the new awake magazine (great article on shoplifiting by the way) and this older sister comes and sits beside me.

she started talking to me about this great little piece in the magazine about fish or something that should be on my dinner plate, something that i don't really care about, then she turns to me and said and i quote " where else but jehovah's organization can we learn such things?

i sat there with a dumbfounded look on my face thinking " are you kidding me?

Evesapple

I remember telling one "sister" about something interesting I had read in some health journal while sitting in the doctor's office, not even sure exactly what the subject matter was, however her comment to me was 'I don't believe anything that is written unless it is printed in the Awake!' I was mortified by her ignorance. I didn't know what to say, although I didn't leave the organization until 10 years later, that was one comment I never forgot.....it was clear evidence of their brainwashing.

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Stupid Analogies/Illustrations/examples you hear dubs say over and over

by doodle-v in

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what are some stupid analogies that you here dubs use all the time to explain their faulty, destructing teachings?

or maybe ones you've used in the past that when you think about them now, make you cringe?.

here are a few that come to mind:.

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Suppose you had a computer but one of its electronic files was corrupted by an error (or virus) that someone had planted in an otherwise perfect program. That illustrates the effect of what Adam did when he deliberately disobeyed God, or sinned. Let us continue the illustration. Whatever copies you might make of the corrupted electronic file would be affected. However, all need not be lost. With a special program, you could detect and purge the corrupting error from your files and computer. Comparably, mankind has received a "virus," sin, from Adam and Eve, and we need outside help to wipe it out.

this analogy must have been used after I left in 95, not many people had a computer to relate...I still remember the one about the baking a loaf of bread in a dented pan and all the bread you bake in it after that will always have a dent in it...illustrating inherited sin...the above I guess is a more modernized version.

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Three years ago this month, I left the JWs...

by logansrun in

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the exact day, lost in a memory that was unconcerned with the details of the moment, is unimportant.

what is important is that three years ago -- in may of 2002 -- i left the jws.

it was at the end of the month, for i realized soon afterword that this would be the first month since becoming a publisher that i did not turn in my time.

Evesapple

Congratulations! This July will be my anniversary...10 years! A Decade! I remember that 1st year being the hardest too, starting all over again, making friends, and questioning everything, I had a hard time trusting people...kinda wierd. I did a lot of reading as well, I've always been very introspective, however, I've learned to let go, and really lighten up a lot, laugh more, enjoy life more. It's been a great journey for me.

I have a quote from one of my books that I carry with me always. 'The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining.....you must freely and recklessly make new mistakes....for what is true to you today may not be true at all tomorrow, because you see a better truth' ~Brenda Ueland (If You Want To Write. A book about Art, Independence, and Spirit).

Good luck!

P.S. You should really consider coming down to the city tomorrow for my charity pub crawl :)

Take Care. Eva

Eva

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Do those that shun us not love us?

by logansrun in

it is a mistake for former jehovah's witnesses to think that just because they are shunned by friends and family, they are no longer loved.

isn't shunning a horrible experience, one borne from twisted psychological reasoning?

mandated shunning from a powerful and misguided religious organization is a great sin against both the person shunned and those who are obliged, yes obliged, to shun them.

Evesapple

i briefly read through this thread......too much to page through....too over-analyzed...sorry.

Anyway to answer your question, yes, absolutely I believe my parents still love me even though they shun me.....I think they truely believe they are doing something righteous. All I want to convey to them is just because I am not longer a part of that faith, I still love them just as much, and it has nothing to do with them. I am still a good person, with a good heart, the only thing that has changed is how I worship God....what I feel is right for me. I wish they could see the hypocrisy in the organization and how controlling it is, but...unfortunately, they don't....and they are convinced that if they don't shun me, they lessen the chance of me coming back and not getting destroyed.

I always try to keep in mind the saying...'seek to understand, Before being understood'.

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Today is my birthday! Who wants to spank me?

by doodle-v in

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<---------bends over .

Evesapple

Happy Birthday! call me when you get into Chicago next week, we'll celebrate!

Eva

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Do you think that the Governing Body will pick JW women when men die off?

by booker-t in

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i know this might seem like a big laughable joke, but i was wondering what will happen when all of the gb members die off or get too old to continue as gb members?

will they start to pick jw women who claim to be of the annoited and or old enough to be alive during 1935?

evidently the chosen will get too old to carry on and there will be "new light" to say that young jw can be of the annointed and gb.

Evesapple

you never know,,,, as long as they wear that little 'doile' (sp??) or a piece of kleenex even on their head. I remember my mother conducting a book study when no "qualified" brothers were available. If a baptised brother is not necessarily in good standing than a sister can do something like that.