I remember having to hide all my heavy metal albums. Any of you?
Nope. My parents "trusted" me. LOL
Purza
PS I saw Rob Halford, QR & Iron Maiden at the Shoreline in Mt. View back in September 2000. It was pretty awesome!
I remember having to hide all my heavy metal albums. Any of you?
Nope. My parents "trusted" me. LOL
Purza
PS I saw Rob Halford, QR & Iron Maiden at the Shoreline in Mt. View back in September 2000. It was pretty awesome!
JP will be touring with Queensryche this summer.
Purza
does anyone hate their job but feel like they would be throwing away a good thing if they quit?
i'm working at my 3rd state agency in 4 years and have been unhappy at every one of them--usually because i don't have enough work to do and feel like a hamster on a wheel waiting for the paycheck, and i'm so bored!.
i'm scared to quit the state job because i have a large family, and this affords me great medical benefits and retirement benefits.. any advice?
love2BWorldly,
What is your dream job? What could you do to get a job like that? This came up in my life not too long ago. My fiancee works for a government agency (and has for the past 12 years) and he HATES it. So he figured out what he wanted to do and we are working towards that goal. Slowly but surely we are getting there and he hopes to leave his current job by the end of this year (or sooner) -- after 3 years of working towards his goal. Yes, he has responsibilties and felt stuck -- but we are finding it is possible with a little perseverence.
Purza
so, i went to see motley crue at the same place where i used to go to the district convention this last weekend.
it's such a strange feeling walking into those places for the first time since i permanantly left the jw's behind.
the first song they played was "shout at the devil".
I saw Motley a couple of weeks ago in San Diego.
Freedom -- NO way -- I would have never guessed you were a MC fan.
Dustin -- people watching before the show is almost as fun as seeing the show sometimes. I went to a QR concert once and this guy was just wearing a pair of shorts (more like a loin covering) made out of rabbit hair. Nothing else. So weird.
Purza
welcome econaut!!!!
i meant to do this earlier but here i go anyway.
a big welcome to a fabulous person!
Welcome! I don't know you, but hey I thought I would join the welcome wagon.
Purza
so i've mentioned i'm engaged and may or may not have mentioned that i'm emigrating to the us from canada.
waiting in the immigration process, in a word, sucks.
add to that the we got shafted by a lawyer who didn't do what he was supposed to, so we lost 6 months of processing time not having our application in.
Congratulations Cerise! I am glad you found some happiness. I am getting married this year too!
Purza
do you beat yourself up about things you should've, would've, could've done with your life, instead of becoming one of jehovah's witnesses.what regrets do you have, if any?
what are you doing now to overcome your regrets?.
blueblades
I regret getting baptized.
I regret not continuing my education right after high school.
I regret marrying the loser that I did just to get out of the house.
However. . . I think my life experiences define who I am now -- so not everything was a bad thing (in retrospect)
Purza
i am 20 years old and i left the organization when i was 17. there are of course many gorey details which i will not get into right now... but i just wanted to say how happy i am to have found this fourm.
as many of you remember, we were always instructed not to read anything about jehovah's witnesses that wasn't written by the organization.
well, that instruction stuck, and this is the first time i three years that i have dared to even look.. needless to say, i found some very disturbing information.
((((((Krystal))))))
I am glad you found us too! I wish I had a support group when I was DFd at 18. I hope you find a measure of peace here and know that you are not alone.
Purza
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what is the most ridiculous song that you couldn't listen too.. because of so called bad lyircs (maybe misheard lyrics), sexy beat or because fo the person who sang it didn't have the proper morals?.
mine.... couldn't listen to ac/dc because it meant they went both ways.
Running with the Devil (Van Halen)
All I Want to do is Make Love to you (Heart)
Purza
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jws are always being reminded that you "could" stumble someone.
you had to continuously question yourself about possibly offending another (weak) christian's conscience.....were you always worried that you were going to get into trouble because you might've screwed up somehow??.
Yes defintely. And I STILL worry to this day. I won't trespass if there is a sign that says "No Tresspassing" (even if it looks 100 years old). I have other hang ups too that I believe came from my brainwashing days.
Purza