Posts by a wee scots lass

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Hi all

by brutusmaximus in

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i just thought i should a line and say hello to everyone.. as you may be able to tell i am new to this but i have to say the set up and lay out of the pages is excellent and i look forward to many good discussions and humour also.. take care.

g. i promise to improve my posts in the future by the way.

a wee scots lass

Hi and welcome!

So nice to see another Scottish person on the forum! Looking forward to getting to know you,

L

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Looooong Prayers!

by BigJ in

ok, who remembers all those long prayers?

especially at the district conventions!.

we had our convetions at a small hockey arena and the stairs were really steep.

a wee scots lass

LOL ? this has brought back so many memories!!!

I remember ?? and this is really embarrassing ???..

I was about 9 years old and we were at the district assembly. I was at the age where my mum thought that I could control my bladder in time with the breaks ? a mistake any witness mum could make! It was final prayer time and the elder was making a real meal of it. It went on and on and on.

So as I danced about pleading to go to the toilet she kept saying sh sh you can go in a minute - well my bladder had other ideas and I pee?d myself - realising what was happening she felt terrible and let me go ? I kept trying to hold on to it but I pee?d all the way to the toilet ? had no idea your bladder could hold that much!!!

I left a nice wet trail all the way behind me!

I never had to stand through another long prayer again ? I just asked for the toilet and I got freedom right away!

L

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witness/non-witness romance- how'd yours fare? Check in!

by detective in

i'm just doing this as an easy reference point for our new board members who came here seeking advice on their witness/non-witness romantic relationships.

questions for board members: .

* have you been in this type of relationship?

a wee scots lass

Met my partner about 2 weeks before I was df'd. He stood by me while almost my whole family turned their back on me. He was there to hold my hand and comfort me while I shed my tears. On the odd occasions when we would see my family ? at other non JW family functions, he would have to put up with my parents telling him they had nothing against him personally but that they wanted me to leave him and go back to the ?truth?.

As I said on the post of my story, just after I got df?d he sent me a really nice card and inside it said simply ?

?Welcome to the world?

He is my sole mate and the father of my two kids.

He is not perfect but he is mine and I love him.

L.

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Lost

by Puternut in

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friends

feeling lost today.. it's the weekend, and i will be once again going home to an empty house, where my children won't be welcoming me home.

i haven't seen or talked to them in a very long time.

i won't be able to kiss their sweet faces, or hold them close to me, so i can tell them i love them.

a wee scots lass

Puternut,

I just had to reply to your post. It makes me so angry to hear stories like yours. I really feel for you, and hope that you find the strength to get through this hard time.

I have two things I would like to share with you.

My mum and dad divorced when I was young and for one reason or another I did not see my natural father for about 10 years. We are now back in touch and have a good relationship. Kids will search out truth and no matter what one parent says about another kids always want to find out for themselves ? so there is hope.
When I was df?d my family were no longer allowed to speak to me. I lost my mum, step dad, 2 brothers, grandparents, aunts and cousins. At a family gathering for a member of the family who was not a JW, I was treated as an outcast in my own family. They all talk to me now, as they don?t really go along much to meetings themselves anymore. If I could one thing different I would have gone back to meetings, been reinstated and then allowed myself to drift away. I know that this seem to be a dishonest and underhand way of dealing with things, but we are dealing with a very devious organisation and we have to change tact accordingly.

Your family are behind a wall at the moment and cannot see what is right and decent - instead of waiting for them to come out - you have to go get them.

I know that there are many on this forum that would disagree with this tact but I would never loose my family again for anything.

My thoughts are with you,

L.

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Just Clearing The Air A Little..

by Englishman in

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friends

i'm not caspian.

i don't have any access to pm's / im's, whatever you call them, other than the pm's / im's that are sent to me personally.

i have no knowledge whatsoever of a pm / im being interfered with.

a wee scots lass

What are PM's / IM's?

Englishman - glad to see you are happy again - I like your humour

Scots Lass

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Why I don't celebrate Easter. Warning: pity party going on in this thread

by CeriseRose in

i think back to when i was a kid...a non-jw one.

easter was the time of new dresses, chocolate bunnies (you had to bite the ears off first to make sure it was the solid kind), ham with the little cloves stuck right in it, and peaceful family time.. during my jw years i didn't 'celebrate' it, but it slowly but surely became a 'family' time.

my flesh and blood sister (jw) and all my step family (non-jw) would congregate at the parents' place and we'd play games and eat and laugh.

a wee scots lass

Cerise Rose,

I am so sorry to hear your very sad story. I lost my Aunt who was like a second mum to me just 2 years ago and still feel the pain of that every day. I was lucky in that I had already left the JW's.

How do we know this is it? Just because the JW's got it wrong does not mean there is something else to come. I am still searching for what I believe could be the truth about what is next for us - there are some really interesting theories out there.

I wish you well in your healing,

Scots Lass

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For a Quid, Will You Welcome Lyd?????????

by simplesally in

jw
friends

let me introduce myself : i am lydia 22 ..i am from holland... i am 2 years without the jw's now...been brought up in it but left because of my bisexual feelings...still having a hard time with the disfellowship-struggles....but getting better with everyday...i am a female taxidriver... .

just one thing... can i say the word ass on this site?

cause i can remember a time and a place and a site where i got banned because i used that word ..teeheeeeeeeeee .

a wee scots lass

Hi Lydia,

Looks as if you are among friends already! Please accept a warm Scottish welcome from me,

Scots Lass

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Went To The Quick Build

by Undecided in

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friends

i just returned from the building site of the new kh.

i had never seen a quick build.

it kind of made me sad, i saw so many old friends that i used to know.

a wee scots lass

I used to love going to the quick builds when I was still a JW. We had quite a few over a short space of time here in Scotland. So sad thinking back that not one of us understood how it was financed or whom it would really belong to - makes you feel very cheated.

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