just some good advice from the watchtower regarding researching the religion of your upbringing... .
*** w85 7/15 pp.
3-4 my religion is good enough for me!
I found it tiring to keep listening to the "you need to go to meetings" lecture. Now after a couple of years my mother has taken the hint and just left me alone.
Although every single time something tragic in the world happens...I get the lecture again.
I love the posting...I may have to whip it out next time. Which reminds me...memorial is coming up to be missed again.
i'm asking this because i found myself in an bad spot monday night.
my daughter is almost three and goes to a little preschool thing each day.
they were to have a valentine's day party on tuesday, for which i was to bring fruit, etc.
FINALLY! I feel like a weight has been lifted! I cannot for the life of me remember birthday's. I have a book now dedicated to just that so I won't forget.
I always wondered if I was being absent minded on purpose. I just struggle so bad with it. But I suppose for 25 years of my life I didn't have birthdays and then when I did celebrate mine, I had to hide it from my JW family.
so last night, my lovely wife and i were about to sit down to dinner, and the doorbell rings.
guess who?.
two elders to inform me that i am disfellowshipped!!.
Why did they bother coming to your house? Is that becoming normal to show up without notice and let you know?
I am proud of you! I am not sure what I would do!
my wife got this by email.
it passed through many channels getting to her, literally hundreds of others received it.
it is unreal!subject: fw: daniel advancement of the stone... interesting.
I have zero desire to debate this issue. The R word is hurtful to people like your brother and to my daughter. Education is the best defense and that is what I was trying to convey. My daughter cannot defend herself so I do it for her. Just because you don't take offense doesn't make it right and I have thousands of others besides myself who will counter your stance.
Perhaps joining me at the Special Olympics this year would make you see the world from a little larger vantage.
Again, there are better ways to get your point across and much better words.
my wife got this by email.
it passed through many channels getting to her, literally hundreds of others received it.
it is unreal!subject: fw: daniel advancement of the stone... interesting.
Actually I am sitting here in shock and dismay. Mary, my baby was diagnosed with Down Syndrome and words such as yours are not funny and are hurtful. Perhaps you could find another way to get your point across without resorting to childish name calling that only hurts those that cannot defend themselves.
i don't know if you have been following the story about james frey, author of a million little pieces, how the book was inducted into oprah's book club last fall, with him making an appearance on the show, proclaiming the "memoir" as completely true and unaltered.
she even delayed announcing her next book club selection by six weeks to give this book more publicity.. some investigation by the smoking gun revealed that many of the accounts in the book were embellished beyond any recognition of truth.
for example, the incident where frey claims to have been in jail for 3 months, was actually only a matter of hours.
I read this book 3 years ago. It is very well written and a great book. I don't care if it's the truth but he should have written it as "based upon a true story" insted of touting it as true life.
Read it. It's one of the best stories I have ever had the pleasure of picking up.
i so rarely post but read this forum every day.
i was reading my latest copy of playboy.
that is what i subscribed to after my watchtower and awake ran out .
I so rarely post but read this forum every day. I was reading my latest copy of Playboy. That is what I subscribed to after my Watchtower and Awake ran out
There is a quote here that just really summed up how I feel and how I am sure a lot of you here feel about being raised JW. It is from novelist Armistead Maupin. He was talking about his being gay and hiding it BUT the remainder of the quote is significant to how I feel:
"My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it so long. (here is the part that applies) I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short."
We surrendered our youth out of fear. Just something I wanted to share with you all.
Hope all are doing well!
a little girl!
all is well and we are trying to get some sleep.
you guess how well that going based upon the time of this post .
Thank you everyone!!! She ended up back at the hospital over night for bili count. So after a nice suntan bed and sleep she is doing much better.
How said is this...I can't share her information for fear my family or someone else will rat me out. Totally phucked up is what this sick cult has done.
She is just what we were hoping for and thanks again to everyone!
a little girl!
all is well and we are trying to get some sleep.
you guess how well that going based upon the time of this post .
A little girl! All is well and we are TRYING to get some sleep. You guess how well that going based upon the time of this post
She is super sweet and getting tons of kisses! Hope everyone here is doing well and I will be catching up on posts soon.
it's not often talked about but in my experience a lot of witnesses have sex (or something like it) during their courtship.
and most of them never go to the elders about it.
recent case in point: my dear friend got married this past summer.
I waited to have intercourse until after we were married. Heavy petting and what not but we waited until our wedding night. OMG what a mistake. He had no idea what to do with girl parts and I was miserable for 2 years. I finally got a job out in the "world" and learned what normal people were like and left him and the organization.
My question is, after reading thru all of these threads...aren't you suppsed to only be disfellowshipped for unrepentant behavior? What gives with public reproof and disfellowshipping when NO ONE knows what the sin was. Has anyone ever called the elders on this one?
I love this board and hate the JW's with a more burning passion every day from the experiences I read here. For so long I thought I was alone. You all give me strength to be able to stand up more and more to my JW family.
