Topics Started by CeriseRose

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I'm outing Mr. Pookiehead...
by CeriseRose in
1. jw
2. friends
as my very own cuddlebear honey!

be nice to him!

(and yes, it's sick but that's just one of my nicknames for him...aren't people in love sickly sweet?
4
Latent hostility and all-encompassing rage...ranting.
by CeriseRose in
1. jw
2. friends
i am honestly trying to stay ahead of anger and to not live my life by it.

i'm not an angry person overall...in fact i've had many issues where i've not gotten angry like someone else might and it's left me in an unhealthy place.

i learned to start getting angry over injustice and wrong, especially where i'm personally concerned.
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An apology to you all...
by CeriseRose in
1. jw
2. friends
i just finished commenting on minimus' thread (oh man, i hope it was his thread now...not enough coffee yet to be fully brained today...).

anyway, it was the thread on how everyone was choosing to leave/has left from the org.

i hate with a passion the fact that i was judged while in the wts.
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Going back to school...
by CeriseRose in
1. jw
2. friends
well, i've started back to university, which had gotten a little sidelined by my jw experience.

about 15 years ago i'd done a few semesters of college, but really didn't know what i wanted to do in life.

i went to business college, entered the workforce, and right about the time i was going to go back to school, was brought into the jws by a coworker.
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Peevishness
by CeriseRose in
1. jw
2. friends
i feel peevish.

my friend who is still a jw brought over her taxes and related bookkeeping things today.

we had a chat...not theocratic, but it had some history on things that went on when i was a jw.
11
My bizarre last few days...
by CeriseRose in
1. jw
2. experiences
so i basically spent last week hibernating with my english lit books and studying.

i had 3 essays to finish (one left and i'm slacking horridly on it) and my final exam last saturday (i think i did reallly well!

yay!).
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The Bible (2 scriptures in particular) and Literary Criticism
by CeriseRose in
1. watchtower
2. bible
okay i'm taking my first university level course (english lit) since leaving school almost 20 years ago.

i have had no exposure to the bible other than my own reading of revelation which scared the bejeebus out of me, and learning through the wts (obviously a skewed angle).

when i started this course, i was still going to meetings and a "jw.
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Why I don't celebrate Easter. Warning: pity party going on in this thread
by CeriseRose in
1. jw
2. experiences
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.
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Disfellowshipping versus Disassociation and Shunning
by CeriseRose in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
to start off, i'm not sure if what i have to say is a question or a comment.

i disassociated myself at the end of january.

it was announced 2 weeks ago.
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Introductions
by CeriseRose in
1. jw
2. friends
well 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.