no surprise, i don't post here much these days.. but today, i have to.. when i first arrived here back in january 2003, i remember looking at this very section of the board.
personal experiences & reunions.. well.....i got the shock...the absolute shock of a lifetime.
some of you, i'm sure, when you remember folks in your jw past, there are those whom you thought you'd never ever hear from.. last night, i get home from work (4:00 a.m.) and i go on-line, open my e-mail, and i see a name i have not seen since my jw days of 1983/84.. how did i feel?
Ray,
I have not met you yet so HI all the way from Bonnie Scotland!
What a fantastic story!!!!!
You have given me the courage to contact my friend who after we got DF together - went back. I have since heard that she has fallen away again so I am going to contact her and tell her how much I miss her in the hope we can be like you and pick up where we left off.
Such good news for you - thank you for sharing that it made my day!
Lass
we've talked about this subject several times since i joined this site... .
time and again i will get together with xjws and they still refer for instance to being a jw as being in the truth.. .
i've talked to people who have been out 2 or 5 or even 10 yrs and they still refer to it as that in their conversations... .
Sassy,
You are so right! lol
My parents are still JW's although my mum has not attended meetings for a while. I am very careful never to refer to it as the 'truth' anymore and tend to refer to it as meetings or the hall - as in - 'is xxxxx still going to the hall? My dad who is still attending still refers to it as the truth.
I think it would be quite easy to slip back into that lingo if you were not careful.
Kind Regards
Lass
of all the religions i know of, the one that is the most time consuming, is the jw religion.
it's not just the fact that there is a meeting every 2 days, but these meetings have to be prepared ahead of time.
being a jw, is almost a full time job.
One meeting a week is more than enough!
My friends belong to a church group that sounds fantastic - they are basically just Christian and live their life in a Christian way. We were trying to organise an outing one weekend and they were quite happy to miss their meeting that day - they thought God would be quite happy for them just to be out enjoying his creation. I kept saying - ' but what will the church leaders say - will they not be too happy with you? - They just laughed and said there are no rules about attending church - people go because they want to and if they don?t feel like it they don?t!
I remember having to go to meetings even when I was unwell ? everyone was terrified of missing them, as gossip would start as to why you were not there!
L
yep, i just found out not too long ago although not directly.
my parents were actually invited but i guess my invitation got lost in the mail.
the funny thing is that she is going to marry a guy from grenada in grenada.
Atilla,
Would it help you to move on if you e-mailed her for complete closer? If so then do it! Don?t leave it to fester in your mind.
L
the new european constitution: the last battle for britain?
no nation has successfully invaded britain since the norman conquest in 1066. in effect, the european union may be about to do what the spanish armada, napoleon and hitler attempted but failed.
many do not realize that the identity and sovereignty of the grand old british nation may be in serious jeopardy.
Hi Realist,
Many in the UK today think that they are giving up Freedom by signing up to Euro ect. Big debate coming and public will get to vote on it.
L
hello everybody i was just wondering if anybody knows how raymond franz is doing or how he is continuing his life outside of the org.
Welcome Oscar,
Good Post
This has made me want to go out and get a copy! Glad to here Ray and his wife are doing well - what he did took real guts.
L
i know this has nothing to do with jws or anything, but i needed to talk a bit ?
i work with at-risk teens in a continuation school.
last night i learned that one of my dear students, a bight young man with a difficult past, born into a difficult world of gangs and drugs, was found dead, shot to death in east palo alto, california.
hi everybody, it has been forever since i have been here!
i have missed you.
i had some harsh reality of disfellowshipping thrown in my face yesterday that made me realize how much i have missed being here with all you lovely people.
Lovinlife,
Your post really moved me. It brought back so many painful memories for me. My thoughts are with you and I hope that things get better for you. Stay strong,
Love L
well it's not that i'm not sleeping - i am - just only 2-3 hours at a time.. when i try to stay awake i start feeling nauseous from the lack of sllep and have to go lie down.
then sleep for a couple of hours then the pain in my feet starts up and i am awake.. i just spent the second whole night this week wide awake.
then during the day i am falling asleep for two hours then awake for an hour and back to sleep.
Sorry to hear you are in so much pain Lady Lee & Blondie. I don?t know if they are doing this where you live but at the moment in Scotland they are doing a drug trial on a derivative of cannabis for chronic pain sufferers. All perfectly legal and above board. I have heard that the results are supposed to be quite encouraging ? I am not sure how you could find out about this type of thing in your area.
My thoughts are with you both,
L
i never actually lied about the number of hours i put in, but i was extremely creative in how i counted them!
this, of course, was born of an intense hatred and loathing for the "work", coupled with the realisation that if my average did not hit double figures, i might be taken to task over it!
don't get me wrong, i wasn't scared of knocking on peoples doors and being told to regularly to "f*ck off"- i just could see no sense in it.