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Hi anew and welcome,
Don't think you have any chance with this guy. I'd just kick back and enjoy the friendship, I used to have a few gay friends and they make the best friends. Can sit and talk to them for ages, must catch up with them again.
Lehaa.
ok with all theese meet-ups going i'm feeling really left out.
is ther any chance of having a meet-up somewhere in australia.
any aussies got any ideas..
Would love to, things a bit shaky around her at the moment, but would love to come up and see you and catch up with some others.
i'm cooking a leg of lamb for tea tonight.
yum.
i just love roast lamb and the smell it creates through the house while it's cooking.. we don't eat much, just me and two little kids, and there will be heaps of left overs so who's coming to help us eat it all?.
I know how that is, My ex's family referes to dinner or tea as a meal. I know that in itself does not sound confusing, but when we were invited out he would say we've been invited out for a meal, i'd have to then work out if is was breakfast, lunch or dinner.
They also refer to a sandwich as a double, because it has two slices of bread. Two sandwiches was two doubles and a sandwich was jus one piece of bread with topping. They're dutch, any othe Dutch families call sandwiches the same thing.
Oh yeah, Laura you can come and bring your yorksire puddings.
after a couple of days away from the board and doing some hard thinking and contemplation about my life, and reading (though i'm not done yet and the conclusion may turn out to be a letdown) a fabulously insightful book called the courage to be, a funny thing has happened...i feel as sane, calm, and alive as i've felt in years, maybe ever.
maybe this is a manic episode or something.
probably not because i'm not really doing anything productive nor am i making any grandiose plans.
One cost of leaving the JW's that I wasn't aware of when I mailed off my bitter little DA letter was the devastation of losing the sense of identity and community that I had there. I think that is why this board is so important for me
Ditto, I knew what I was doing when my actions lead to my DF'ing, the reality is so much harsher than any of us ever thought.
As far as the "true me" I think it's someone that we are comfortable and happy with at the time. We all have many personalities, it's just part of our make up.
in lowell mass.
a 67 year old former janitor won the mega millions jackpot.
what would you do with all that money?
Buy the WTBTS and then have it destroyed.
i finally did it!
after 3-4 years of being inactive i wrote a da-letter and faxed it to the headquarters of the "christian congregation".
i am planning to be more active in helping ex-jw and i have become a member of the newly founded "netzwerk sektenausstieg" (cult exit network) in germany.
Congratulations, well done, keep us posted.
i'm cooking a leg of lamb for tea tonight.
yum.
i just love roast lamb and the smell it creates through the house while it's cooking.. we don't eat much, just me and two little kids, and there will be heaps of left overs so who's coming to help us eat it all?.
Have I left anything out?
What about Brunch? Brekkie and Lunch all in one.
It's the $3.40 "roast of the day" at the local RSL club - could be anything!Um ah, stephanus you pagan you.
i wonder how many have been affected by the watchtower's interpretation of these things.
i know of many many jws that "live together" only because they are married to each other.
these people almost hate each other, but would never leave their marriages and get an "unscriptural" divorce.....i know of wives that "forgave" their husbands "unknowingly".
I know of many many JWs that "live together" only because they are married to each other. These people almost hate each other, but would never leave their marriages and get an "unscriptural" divorce.
Know that feeling, lived with mine for years before I gave him scriptural grounds for divorce. We did not hate each other but the marriage was over years ago.
I know of wives that "forgave" their husbands "unknowingly". According to the Watchtower, if you have sex even once with an adulterous mate, you have automatically "forgiven" him......
What do you mean by unknowingly, my husband and I slept together for months after I'd had an affair. But once he found out about the affair then he had grounds, if he slept with me after he found out then he would no longer have grounds.
I reckon this is a load of crap, If you do want to repair a marriage that has gone through this sometimes sex is a part of the repair work. What if months after the partner decides that no they cant put the hurt behind them, their options are blown.
I had a JW relative tell me that what goes on in a marriage bed is up to you, your partner and Jehovah, just don't tell the Edlers, and do what you deep down feel is right. I tend to agree with her.
Ther are way too many cases of husband abusing their wives and using the threat of loneliness as a means of keeping their wives under their fists.
It just sucks.
i'm new to the site, and wonder can anyone advise me..... two years ago i decided to leave the jws, and when i met with the elders to inform them, they told me they had grounds to disfellowship me (i told them i doidnt believe in god and had slept with my boyfriend.....for full story see my profile).
at the time i thought that telling them would just mean that i could get on with my life and they would know that i was not a jw... i thought that you could only df a person who wilfully sinned against god.... well i didnt believe in god, so how could i wilfully sin against him?
anyway, as i said, the elders wanted to df me, and, not wanting to be seen as a sinner, i wrote a letter of disassociation detailing my reasons for not believing ahead of the dfing.. so did the elders have grounds to df me?
I was just recently disfellowshipped and the elders said that if i continued to show that I was repentent and continues being a good little girl and came to the meetings then I could be reinstated within a few months.
That's the latest Idea her anyway.
What actually happens may be different though, don't know.
My advice is just to speak to the elders in your local area and see what they have to say. You will probably have to lie as to the reasons for getting reinstated though.
ok with all theese meet-ups going i'm feeling really left out.
is ther any chance of having a meet-up somewhere in australia.
any aussies got any ideas..
ok cheeses what do I bring
