i've had him and his family on my mind lately, wondering how he is and i miss him.
wonder if they've added any more little ones to the family?
:d. does anyone know whereabouts he is these days?
I've had him and his family on my mind lately, wondering how he is and I miss him. Wonder if they've added any more little ones to the family? :D
Does anyone know whereabouts he is these days? Does he ever post anymore? If anyone has a current email addy and would be willing to share it or to at least tell him I was asking after him, please PM me? I think the addy I have for him is long outdated.
thanks,
fleur (essie)
i took the "belief-o-matic" survey at beliefnet yesterday, and it looks like i am a mormon.
the survey matches your beliefs on various matters to the creeds of the world's religions and assigns a percentage.
i was 100% church of jesus christ of latter-day saints.
| wow, i haven't looked at that/taken that quiz in a couple years! how fascinating to re-take it now that i'm SO different than I was when i first found these forums in 2000! my results now:
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| 2. | Liberal Quakers (98%) | |||||
| 3. | Unitarian Universalism (96%) | |||||
| 4. | Neo-Pagan (94%) | |||||
| 5. | Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (91%) | |||||
| 6. | New Age (88%) | |||||
| 7. | Theravada Buddhism (86%) | |||||
| 8. | Taoism (79%) | |||||
| 9. | Bahá'í Faith (73%) | |||||
| 10. | Hinduism (70%) | |||||
| 11. | Jainism (64%) | |||||
| 12. | Orthodox Quaker (64%) | |||||
| 13. | Secular Humanism (64%) | |||||
| 14. | Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (63%) | |||||
| 15. | Sikhism (61%) | |||||
| 16. | New Thought (59%) | |||||
| 17. | Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (57%) | |||||
| 18. | Reform Judaism (53%) | |||||
| 19. | Scientology (47%) | |||||
| 20. | Jehovah's Witness (42%) | |||||
| 21. | Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (42%) | |||||
| 22. | Nontheist (40%) | |||||
| 23. | Seventh Day Adventist (40%) | |||||
| 24. | Orthodox Judaism (35%) | |||||
| 25. | Eastern Orthodox (26%) | |||||
| 26. | Islam (26%) | |||||
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27.
how on earth i got 42 percentile still with jw's is totally beyond me, the beliefs i truly hold and what i checked off have NO agreement with JW views, well, only one but that's like a total coincedence! what the heck is this disclaimer though? Warning: Belief-O-Matic? assumes no legal liability for the ultimate fate of your soul.
remember kids, Do not taunt the Happy Fun Ball! "
" you're not the only one, madman! and worse, when i took it a second time the results flopped, i got 100 percent liberal quaker but i read it and was like huh? this doesn't fit. isn't there like a 'salad bar' catagory, build your own belief system? *sigh* that's where I am. i don't agree with anybody entirely, guess that's why organized religion is over for me. my post looks really bizarre before, all out of order. will go back and edit the first one out if i can, weird. fleur | ||||||
Roman Catholic (26%)
i took the "belief-o-matic" survey at beliefnet yesterday, and it looks like i am a mormon.
the survey matches your beliefs on various matters to the creeds of the world's religions and assigns a percentage.
i was 100% church of jesus christ of latter-day saints.
edited, reposted below. on my screen at least, it came out all weird.
maybe that's the Universe's way of telling me not to post on this thread? LOL
i just learned through contacts with my family that they are trying to file a suit against me for reverse shunning!!!
what is reverse shunning?
or "shunning them"?
alamb, i sent you an email but I am not sure if the addy i have is current, if yoiu don't get it, please PM me!
i'm so sorry they're putting you through this. if misery loves company you should know that my sister has tried the same crap on me about wanting to see my kid but not me. Scully, your post is pure genius from beginning to end here:
So, they're playing the I-don't-want-to-associate-with-you-but-I-do-want-to-associate-with-your-children game. This is also called the I-want-to-brainwash-your-children-while-you-are-not-around game.
Tough. They're your kids, and association with them comes with a price: being civil, respectful and courteous to you. They have not done that. You're a package deal, and if they want to associate with your children, they have to do so with you present and treat you in a humane way. These people are practically strangers to your children. Would you let your children play with strangers?? Of course not!
this is EXACTLY what hubby told my sister when she wanted to do the dice-and-slice- build- your- own happy- meal pick- your- person- to see my kid but not speak to me. like i'd give her carte blanche to brainwash my child that way! what planet is she living on?!
not as bad as what you're having to cope with, poor alamb, please know that i have to believe that someday, your determination to show unconditional love to your children will have to win out somehow over the empty lies that they're being fed right now.
(((((((((((alamb and little lambs))))))))
i'm so sorry :(
love,
fleur
the more time that passes, the less i even think about it.
i dont really believe in it but now and again i get a nagging fear of "what if we're all wrong and it is true" and boom big lighting rods and earthquakes come and shatter us all and i think damn and i almost beat jah on this one .
its so silly i know im right about my decison to leave the dubs but they psychologicaly messed with us for so long sometimes your like woah what if theyre right!.
" As a child, yes I did. Now, I file it somewhere in between Mother Goose and Aesop's." dang, randomtask, you've made some really great posts today! and likely before, i will have to look up your past work. great stuff all. do i fear it? not a damn bit. its never coming. and even if the fairy tale were true (its not but just for sake of saying) i would rather die now having lived the past few years of my life authentically than live 'forever' in the eternal hell of a multicultural picnic with those who condemned me for leaving the man who abused me and marrying one who did not. no thanks, i'll pass on that vision of paradise. fleur
i have a grandaughter that has told me that she loves satan and that he rules.
she draws awful pictures of dark clowns and writes die and kill on the side of it,.
i am afraid for her welbeing.
get her to a doctor NOW so that they can prevent her from going back to any environment which would further jeopardize her health!
she's lucky to have you, some kids have no one, hopefully she will hang on to the love you have to offer her. don't hesitate, get her to a doctor now.
hugs
fleur
i have a grandaughter that has told me that she loves satan and that he rules.
she draws awful pictures of dark clowns and writes die and kill on the side of it,.
i am afraid for her welbeing.
She has changed so much and it frightenes me. Does any one have any ideas. I am praying for her. I use to go to the Kingdom hall with her as a baby but then her mom took her away to live in a drug and bad invirnment. Please help me if you can.
reading what you posted again and seeing this really clearly the second time...if this kid was around people using drugs, if mom had boyfriends, i'd bet that she has some secrets she's hiding.
please, get her help, she has to open up to someone about what she has been through during the time she was with her mom.
i hate to say that most of the kids i knew who did this have been molested...but its true. i certainly hope that isn't the case, but she needs proper care and guidance to get through this, and you'll need support too as her guardian. be sure you both get the help you need, please!!! praying for her just is not enough.
no matter how well you mean by it, well god helps those who help themselves.
there have been several posts here on depression, and i know many posters here have had to deal with depression.
heck we even have a section for depression related topics.
so i wanted to come here for a little advice, opinion on drugs for depression.
yeah, they told me that was what i have, chemical imbalance. i'm just curious now if enough years out of the dubs, a solid happy marriage and all can help offset it to the point where i don't have to stay on the meds to stop me from doing something badly permanent.
guess i'll find out. it's been about three weeks since i quit them cold turkey. one day at a time.
i'm back to doing things i used to do, like crying at sappy tv commercials. curious that i'd stopped doing that on the meds. i always felt the feelings, just didn't physically cry.
i think i have to have some good crys in the next couple months to get some chemicals worked out of my brain.
of course, having a degenerative neurological disease which also causes depression on top doesn't help me much.
hope things are better for you soon, joannadandy. meant to say before, you have really a pretty picture as your avatar, love the hair, pretty smile too. :)
hugs
fleur
....as in if you personally were df'd or someone close to you was??
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thanks weds...(((hugs))) hope you have more 'normal' feeling days than others at this point in your jw recovery!
i was into the discussions for awhile about year 3 of my involvement with exjw boards, (had tons of posts under my old username; which i have symbolically buried along with my old JW self) but they just got too physically tiring for me now, because i am a neurology patient. i have to conserve what little brain power the disease i share my life with leaves me.
so i just try to stick to what i know, saying something kind if i can to someone in pain. that's my best use here.
i don't think black and white like jw's anymore, nor do i expect everyone to agree with me. part of my enjoying my freedom is my ability to decide not to argue with people who want to do so for arguements sake. maybe they thrive on that kind of debate, i don't.
thanks for your kind words about my post, i hope that someone will take comfort in them. i wish someone had said similiar things to me when i was newly out. thanks again for your post.
okay, it seems it's high time we had another thread like this!.
for serious reading, i have exceptions to the rulers by amy goodman (goes great with fahrenheit 911!
)the curse of adam by bryan skyles (i think) (it predicts the extinction of males.
i just finished the Time Travelers Wife, found it by accident while looking for another book at Borders. loved it, read all 512 pages in 2/12 days. want to read it again and get it in hard cover to keep, i'll wear the paperback out.
am going to re-read jane eyre, the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy (always a good read) and want to read The Notebook (skipping the movie), like books better.
Next on my want to read list are Farenheit 411 and Love in the time of Cholera. Maybe the Unbearable Lightness of being. want to read catch 22 too and also some books my jw parents didn't want me to read growing up: the scarlet letter, and what is that other one, the one with Holden Cauflield character in it? my brain is fried even tho iw as just looking at the title last night. its on the tip of my tongue.
i could read 24/7 and never get enough. my husband is reading Al Franken's Lies and the Lying Liars who tell them and laughs out loud while doing so, frequently.
want to read Michael Moore's Stupid White men too, but am really into fiction at the moment.
