with me and that perhaps i should be viewed as "bad association".
funny thing, the same elder bastard called me at work to say how much he missed my "smiling face.
" my elder friend said," i said to myself, i'd rather associate with him anyday, even if you think he's bad association----than you!
I can feel my useful habits just disintegrating the more I read minimus' comments. I guess Brother Loser is probably right about you after all. But he misses Brother Smiling-Face, how sweet!
Just never mind all of that nonsense. They are just throwing their weight around, trying to intimidate you back into their control. I wouldn't be suprised if they tried to force a wedge between you and your elder friend, if they are already trying to stop him from talking to you.
i was a catholic all my life then in my early 30s i got baptized as a jw.
a friend of mine when in her 20s became a dub.
she always talked to me about the borg and troof and i listened.
raised in it, knowing full well always that I didn't want it and never would have chosen it for myself. why oh why did this happen to me? I think I was born in the wrong family...
who watched?
who was the prettiest actress?.
i thought catherine zeta jones and liv tyler were so beautiful!
I'm always happy seeing Benecio Del Toro. He was especially scruffy last night - in a good way!
here in america we had the most spoiled females on the planet!
american women run the show, guys we are toast!
and i know who to blame!
I don't think I'm very spoiled at all. I'd just be happy making the kind of money a man makes in an equal position--then you can be mad about us being spoiled! I find women of all cultures and backgrounds are pretty much the same. I know lots of men who think hispanic women are the way to go, but these guys are just looking for a submissive type and they THINK that's what they are getting in a hispanic woman. I'm not too sure, maybe hispanic women aren't as spoiled as American women are in general, but they can still put a man in his place, if you know what I mean.
ok...just noticing the worship the only true god book will end the week of march 8th...what is the next book to be studied?
i would appreciate your help in this matter!
codeblue
oh, goody! can't wait to get started zzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzz (that's me falling asleep already)
http://www.livingforever.info
i briefly went to a couple of pages.
doesn't mention jehgoober in the pages i clicked on, but it is straight wtbts garbage.
nothing makes them look more like a scam than something like this.
i was asked by my mother today "are you going to the memorial this year".
i declined most graciously and said thank you for thinking of me, and although i haven't been for the last eight years i thought no more of the ritual invitation.. then suddenly it dawned on me that my mothers response was quite abrupt and something along the lines of "well i have done my christian duty by asking you".
it was if she was literally washing the blood from her hands and she had tried to save me yet again.. has anyone else experienced this my mother has always talked to me with all civility about the "truth", i just wondered if there is new counsel now in how to deal with daughters and family that have fallen by the wayside.. appreciate your help.
She's just getting frustrated or having a bad day. Two reasons why this could or will happen again:
1- she's always hearing that parents are responsible for whether their kids, whether underage or grown, stay in "the truth". The bad-parenting guilt trip.
2- she's always hearing that if she can't give up because you'll eventually come around, and she wishes it was easier and wonders what is wrong that you haven't come around yet. The unbelieving-mate (in your case, parent) guilt trip.
Both ways, it comes back to her own insecurities and the pressure she's getting from the stage and from her friends.
"do you want to know why you don't believe the truth anymore?
i've just been asked this question by a jehovahs witness who stopped to talk to me in town.
i'd told her i didn't believe anymore.
LOL oh, so that's what happened to me? and I had thought my eyes were now opened and I now could see clearly, now that the wool is lifted.
Pretty smug. Sadly, this JW will deal with her "gift from god" for a while longer...
i had a very interesting phone call today.
a sister (fader) called me, and told me how she and her husband (ex elder) have been thinking about me, and talking late into the night about what they could do for me.
they knew i was disfellowshipped now, and remembered the kindnesses i extended to them for many years while i was an elder.
I think that's horrible about the elders involved in sexual abuse, and I don't doubt that something like that can happen in a group where silence rules... Elders tend to abuse their authority, as we all know, and many tend to be frustrated underachievers in their "real" lives. But I wouldn't assume all elders are that way. And I must disagree with a comment I saw ..."The org stinks from the top all the way down". I'd say the top down to the middle somewhere... the little people aren't too bad unless they are really trying to make something of themselves, unless you count their typically snotty attitudes!
Peternut, my advice to you is don't believe everything you hear.
meeting attendance and service. all the rest you could easily get by with.
