I had not really been attending meetings regularly for quite sometime before actually DA-ing in January. However, on those Tuesdays and Thursdays I always felt guilty, because I was 'supposed' to be there.
After I had written and dropped off the letter, I didn't feel guilt anymore. However, it didn't really hit me till about Wednesday of this week...when the local Continuing Education flyer (night school) came out. As I looked through the same (and a few different) courses that I always did, I had this epiphany that if I wanted to take one or two classes, I didn't have to juggle them with meetings. In fact, I could take them and not even have to think about switching meeting nights (when I took college classes that conflicted I actually attended a neighbouring cong's meetings to keep 'regular').
So I think it'll be yoga on Thursdays (never could figure out what was so wrong about that anyway), and Bellydancing on Wednesdays. Boy that feels good.
CeriseRose
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this has probably been mentioned before, but...
by LuckyNun inif you're like me, you used to dread certain days of the week.
mainly, tuesdays and thursdays for me.
waste the entire day at school, then come home, take a shower, scarf down supper and be ready to go by 6:30pm.
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Lockport Congregation Of Jehovahs Witnesses Inc.
by sf inin my searches i came across this congregation; listed as 'inc.
http://rin.buffalo.edu/c_niag/comm/reli/agen-l/lock_lcojwi.html.
lockport congregation of jehovahs witnesses inc.. .
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CeriseRose
Would you like fries with that?
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Tell us something we don't know
by ball. in.
come on, tell us a random fact or two about you that bears no relevance to anything else.. i am getting repetative strain injury from holding a mouse.. i've also always wanted to go on "who wants to be a millionare" and say "i'll take the money" after the first 100 and walking out.. .
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CeriseRose
I'm an Anglophile and go through phases where I read nothing but British authors and watch adaptations of British literature (LOVE the BBC for that). When I do this for too long, I end up talking and writing like that until I'm out of the phase. My friends can now tell when I've been gorging myself on Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and the like. ;)
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Circuit Assembly Report and other observations
by truthseeker inhi, it's been a while since i posted.. circuit assembly program 2003-2004.
theme: rejoice in the hope.
endure under tribulation - romans 12:12. nothing special about this circuit assembly this time round, in fact, it was very boring.
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CeriseRose
Well, that was my last circuit assembly, in December. No wonder I didn't recall anything really interesting in it.
Oh, except for my ex-best friend who stole $10,000 from me, as well as stole a vacation that I put the down payment on so she could take her family instead, didn't bother to even approach me to say hi, in the spirit of Christian love. When confronted with my sister and I in front of her path she babbled at my sister and ignored me until I forced her to respond to my hello. Then I got to watch her kids being instructed not to make eye contact with me, who they've called aunty since they could speak. And all I did was get mad that she went to the elders with a bold-faced lie about me and tell her I wasn't impressed. I wasn't even mean about it, just told her it was unacceptable.
Gosh, I'm such a horrible person.
*giggle*
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Animals and your health
by JH in.
http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/377/12317_dog.html
do you think that having an animal can be beneficial for your health?
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CeriseRose
I've read that petting an animal is a 'natural' stress relief. I have two cats, which I bought from the SPCA a month before my Dad died. My kitties' fur sopped up many a tear and their kitten antics made me laugh when I felt like there was nothing to laugh about.
So for me, that's a definite yes! :)
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Lockport Congregation Of Jehovahs Witnesses Inc.
by sf inin my searches i came across this congregation; listed as 'inc.
http://rin.buffalo.edu/c_niag/comm/reli/agen-l/lock_lcojwi.html.
lockport congregation of jehovahs witnesses inc.. .
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CeriseRose
I was told by a lawyer I did some bookkeeping for, that incorporation provides certain tax breaks as well as protects individuals from having their personal finances at stake if something goes wrong within the company that is incorporated.
One thing that comes to my mind is a lawsuit involving the congregation as a whole (like you may see with an abused person). If incorporated, the elders' personal finances cannot be touched, only the incorporated body's.
That's not for absolute sure, just some food for thought.
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My Dad died a few hours ago
by BONEZZ inexcuse me if i ramble...this is hard.
i have even avoided threads in the past where others have had to go thru this because i didn't want to face it.
guess i'm a wuss.
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CeriseRose
My deepest and most sincere condolences on the loss of your Dad. *hugs*
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Introductions
by CeriseRose inwell not 'new', as i'm over 30. heh but i'm newly out (letter of disassociation dropped off at kh end of january, and i was announced last thursday night).
i posted my 'story' on a different ex-jw board, and as it is so long, i'm not reprinting it.
hehe even with cut and paste it's icky.
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CeriseRose
Ah. Well I do admit quite readily I'm verbose. ;)
Okay Carmel, you just scared the c*ap outta me. I've only discovered Tillamook in the last year and it's my favorite. We don't get it in Canada. How on EARTH did you know?
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Covering up bathroom mirrors at the assemblies!!!
by nojudgement inthis was one of the craziest things i remember about the summer conventions.
i would go into the sister's bathrooms and the mirrors would all be taped up with brown paper so that we couldn't look at our reflections.
were were amish or something?
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CeriseRose
I've never in my life heard of that happening. I also volunteered to clean in the washrooms but we always had mirrors available.
We had bathroom lineups too...but that's because they took half of the available women's washrooms and made them either mother's rooms, or father's rooms (because god knows a father has never seen an exposed boobie breastfeeding an infant before...). So what usually happened was the lower level washroom had the aged and infirm winding halfway around the convention centre so that mothers and fathers (most of whom were 19 years old) could sit and chat with their friends. (yes, it peeved me)
Actually, thinking about it, I don't think I was comfortable for one assembly. It was a series of lineups...lineups to get in, lineups to get food (when there was food), lineups for the bathroom (which, if you were a good Christian you spent half your lunch in so you could be back and attentive when the program started), lineups to get in and out of the parking lot.
No wonder I always felt completely exhausted by the end. Bleh.
One funny story, was a year I was sitting with a friend and her hubby and baby. He'd brought his portable radio/tape player so he could tape some of the talks (with the baby they missed stuff). Right at the start of the afternoon program, the button got bumped and it BLASTED out hard rock from a local station. It echoed everywhere and I think it was the longest 30 seconds of the poor guy's life as he tried to get it stopped. Thinking back, it was pretty funny. ;)
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Introductions
by CeriseRose inwell not 'new', as i'm over 30. heh but i'm newly out (letter of disassociation dropped off at kh end of january, and i was announced last thursday night).
i posted my 'story' on a different ex-jw board, and as it is so long, i'm not reprinting it.
hehe even with cut and paste it's icky.
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CeriseRose
Thanks to everyone else who has posted welcomes.
And I do lick my keyboard every once in awhile. I'm rather messy. hehe
And regarding 'worldly' friendships...they literally saved me during my time of grief. I couldn't sleep or eat, and it was the non-JWs who sat with me for hours just talking me through crying, emotion, stress and all that kind of stuff. These were virtual strangers I only knew online. It is really sad that they provided more help than people that knew me 'personally'. And when JWs kept telling me they were 'bad', I just couldn't believe it. I could see where my true support and friends were.
It's so nice to be out. :)