Posts by nb-dfed

My husband and I had a committee meeting because of underage drinking. When he was being counseled, the p.o. told my husband that he needed to make me wear different clothes to the meeting because it made some of the brothers unable to concentrate. Sounds like a personal problem to me! Any other weird advice out there?

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My Mom just passed away.

by El Kabong in

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dear friends.

i've posted earlier this year that my mom suffered a stroke.

i just got the news that she passed away this evening.

nb-dfed

I am so sorry to hear of your loss. Hang in there, I know it feels like you won't, but you will get through this.

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Refusing to eat Lucky Charms cereal...

by Confucious in

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as i sit here eat my favorite cereal for breakfast, i remember a time when it used to offend me to eat lucky charms.

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anyone else have an experience of things you used to "offend" you??

nb-dfed

Cereal wasn't a big deal in my house, as long as we never said anything about to anyone in the cong. We didn't want to stumble anyone! I remember that some people (namely the c.o.'s wife) thought that disney movies were demonic, so we weren't allowed to talk about that either. My parents also had a rule about movies with "swears" in them. I forget the limit, but if the number of swear words in a movie was over a certain limit, we had to turn the movie off. My dad would give me books to read after he finished them and he would use a sharpie to black out all swear words (including "damn" and "hell") and any sex scenes. Bizarre.

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Friday the 13th

by Elsewhere in

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boo!

one bad thing did happen this morning... i woke up to find that my personal domain is down.

i'm waiting for a response from my hosting company to let me know what is going on..

nb-dfed

I too woke up sick....and one of the girls at work was sick, kept puking. Had to go home, leaving me with more work today. Plus I found out that I may have to work tomorrow. Argh!

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Swearing on the platform

by sleepy in

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did you every hear anyone say something really dodgy from the platform when giving a talk?

i heard a couple of stories of people getting really enthusiastic when giving a talk or pray accidently swearing.

one time in my book study group a sister called someone a dickhead in her answer, it was very hard not to laught.

nb-dfed

I remember an elder once talking about his shit-kicker boots in the kh parking lot. That kind of shocked me. My uncle was reading the paragraphs at bookstudy one night and kept saying "orgasm" instead of "organism". My aunt and still laugh about that one to this day. I also remember being at my grandparents for a family dinner when my husband and I were still witnesses. I forget what happened, but he yelled out "Oh [edit]!' Everyone pretended like they didn't hear him. Thankfully my elder-former p.o. granpa is almost deaf and didn't hear it!!

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do you ever?????

by Lehaa in

do you ever get used to bumping into witnesses that you know.. i still go out in with the thought of it tin the back of my mind.

i hate the death stares i get.

i feel like walking uo to them and saying "i'm not the devil or a murderer, just no longer a witness".

nb-dfed

I still get nervous when I run into a witness. I smoke now and have several tattoos, so I always wonder what the rumor are going to be around the hall. I'll say hi sometimes. At our local mall, they have a table set up where the hand out literature. I am ashamed to admit that sometimes I'll go out of my way to avoid them. I'm just not a confrontational. It's still weird after all this years, but it has gotten easier. My biggest fear is running into my former best friend. That will be the weirdest one, cause I have so much to say to her. I just don't know if I'll have the courage to do it. Anyways, hang in there.

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How Many JWs or ExJWs Have Some Type of Mental Problems?

by minimus in

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do you think they are more succeptible to illness than others?

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nb-dfed

I think the rate of mental illness is very high. I suffered from depression. My husband literally lost his mind for a while and had to take anti-psychotics. He was also depressed and suicidal for a very long tiime. It really messes with your head.

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Believable Or NOT!!!!

by Sweetp0985 in

i don't know about everyone else but i just want to get these stories of godly/demonic intervention out of my system.

hope it doesn't bore you but some are a good laugh now but i truly believed them and some i still believe.. 1. don't open that cabinet- one day my dear step mother was cleaning the kitchen and needed something out of a cabinet that was rarely used.

there was a plastic cake dish that makes this very audible noise when trying to close it(lil cheap cake from winn dixie).

nb-dfed

Ah, the age old smurf legend. I thought that was just a local urban legend. I can remember my little brother throwing away his smurf doll because he heard about the one where the smurf doll got up and walked out of the meeting. My question was always how the demonized doll got into the kingdom hall, seeing as god's holy spirit was supposed to be there. :)