Posts by missy04

4

Visiting Washington DC Next Week

by Gretchen956 in

turns out i'll be making a short bizness trip to the dc area 23-26 of the month.

anyone around that area?

be good to meet some folks from other areas of the country!.

missy04

Did ya get to see anything while you were there?

I went on a trip there about three weeks ago, lol

126

Does the Bible scare anyone else here sometimes?

by missy04 in

maybe i'm just messed up, but i get really freaked out sometimes.

i can't understand the bible,.....in some places it seems like it's saying all you have to do is one or two things, then it seems like it's saying you have to do different things to be saved.... so many different people and religions have so many different takes on the bible.

i don't know which to beleive, and it scares me that if i beleived the wrong thing that i could go to hell, or just go to sleep forever as the witnesses say.

missy04

Gumby,

well if there is a better way to leave, I'd like to do that. I wouldn't be disfellowshipped because I am not baptized or anything yet. I'll read up on some of the posts like u said.

Thanks : )

Sarah

126

Does the Bible scare anyone else here sometimes?

by missy04 in

maybe i'm just messed up, but i get really freaked out sometimes.

i can't understand the bible,.....in some places it seems like it's saying all you have to do is one or two things, then it seems like it's saying you have to do different things to be saved.... so many different people and religions have so many different takes on the bible.

i don't know which to beleive, and it scares me that if i beleived the wrong thing that i could go to hell, or just go to sleep forever as the witnesses say.

missy04

Yah...I could tell u a long list of things I have missed out on in the last 8 or 9 months, CZAR

42

What Made Things Finally "Click" With You To Know This Was Not The Truth?

by minimus in

jw
friends

for me it was the realization that there was no "faithful & discreet slave", that all the prophecies "proving" that jehovah's witnesses are the only religion approved by god is bogus and the realization that this is a "cult" and there is no real normal sense of love and affection in the "truth".

missy04

To hear about people being shunned. I have a major problem with that. We aren't supposed to be accountable to men, I don't think. They can go on and on all they want about how they are doing what the Bible says but I guess they just can't see it.

How have lots of control..no matter what they say. They can say that they don't really have control, because people can leave whenever they want, or whatever,..blah blah blah, but they have tons of control. I will not beleive anything any man says that is not written out clearly in the Bible, as in 'thou shalt not celebrate Christmas.' If I choose to beleive it is wrong, that's when I'll stop. ......MAN MADE RULES!!!

Studying books other than the Bible more than the Bible! I will read a book on Christianity if I feel like it, but won't study it like it's the Bible!

Their already-thunk-up speeches at doors.

126

Does the Bible scare anyone else here sometimes?

by missy04 in

maybe i'm just messed up, but i get really freaked out sometimes.

i can't understand the bible,.....in some places it seems like it's saying all you have to do is one or two things, then it seems like it's saying you have to do different things to be saved.... so many different people and religions have so many different takes on the bible.

i don't know which to beleive, and it scares me that if i beleived the wrong thing that i could go to hell, or just go to sleep forever as the witnesses say.

missy04

Yah, I think everybody here is really cool, too.

I don't think that I will regret not going to any more meetings..I just don't beleive in it, and I really can't accomplish anything big with having to be here for three meetings a week..I want to work with my sister in her construction cleanup business, and she lives an hour and a half away. If I beleived in this, I could do it. But I don't beleive in it, and so I just can't.

I am giving myself a few days as my deadline to get a little bit of guts and tell them what's on my mind.

****SCARED!!!****

But I gotta do it....I'm such a wussie.....uggers.

Sarah (missy is just a nickname)

21

FEAR!! PANIC!! ALARM!!

by Terry in

jw
friends

i use to be afraid of the dark.i would feel the ___presence__of unseen things.

creepy stuff.. but, when i became agnostic and left all things religious behind me a very strange side effect took place in my life.

just this: nothing makes me afraid anymore!.

missy04

Oh, yah. One more thing. I'm typically afraid of things at night, ect. like murderers and stuff especially after a scary movie...people have told me i shouldn't even see them..get scared to tears...but...

I was working with my big sis at a construction cleanup job about a month ago, and you have to take the stickers off the new windows and stuff..There was a 2 story window on the front of the house on the inside..I volunteered trying to be tough. (no floor under it except for the first story floor, just air). So anyway I hear my sis calling my name in a mischeivous tone, and I come down. She points up the ladder and I start heading up there. there was only like a 1 1/2 foot ledge to stand on, and once I got to the top, fear hit me and I flattened myself against the window with my legs curled up under me. She kept telling me I had to do it, ect. but all I could do was whimper. Never knew I was afraid of heights. It was pretty funny, though. She had to come up and get me.

21

FEAR!! PANIC!! ALARM!!

by Terry in

jw
friends

i use to be afraid of the dark.i would feel the ___presence__of unseen things.

creepy stuff.. but, when i became agnostic and left all things religious behind me a very strange side effect took place in my life.

just this: nothing makes me afraid anymore!.

missy04

Umm....hmmm....probably the rapist-kidnapper-stalker that used to camp outside my window every night 5 years ago till he went to prison. Yah that would definetely be one.

I'm very scared of the dark, being home alone, and noises at night. I swear I come close to fainting sometimes.

Was recently home alone and it was raining, dark outside (even though it was morning) and very windy. I locked myself in my room with my pets and swore I heard someone knocking on my door. (I'm sure it was the trees on our house.) I could not move for around 5 or six minutes while I clamped my doggie's "WOOF"er shut.

This is very embarassing...but kinda funny. So I'll go ahead as long as everyone remembers to forget I said it. I helped to prepare for a district convention recently (my first and hopefully my last one) and there werent many people in the auditorium building. I HATE public bathrooms...guess I shouldn't have seen the movie "Scream". But I went anyway and it was totally deserted there. Anyways..I stood up and the toilet seat lid came with me and went down with a very loid "BANG!!" almost as loud as a gunshot with all the echos. I SCREAMED MY BRAINS OUT. very embassing.

Don't like spiders very much..don't like to murderize them but don't like them too well either. I hate it when they come in for the cold weather and run across my blanket when I'm about to drift off.

Don't like to sleep by any windows...

Hate going in the basement for laundry. I do a really good backwards-stumble/run up the stairs.

Missy

65

What Are You All Reading?!

by Doubtfully Yours in

so, what's everybody reading these days?.

i used to read so passionately, but i've lost the hobby due to everyday life stress and distractions.

i want to get back into reading again.

missy04

I'll tell ya some good things I have read..most of them arent new or anything.

And they aren't all fiction..just good stuff on various subjects..

I read the three books by David Pelzer about being abused as a kid...even for people who weren't abused in any way, it makes you feel very lucky and blessed..pretty sad, though.

I just read "Blind Side"..I think by catherine coulter..no idea if that spelling was correct.

I am reading "Judas Child" ...(forgot who wrote it)...right now so I don't know if it's any good or not.

hmmmm...Louis Duncan books are REALLY good..they're like mystery kind of books.

X Files books are great!!

One really awesome book I read was written by Martha Manning, called "Undercurrents." It is based on her journal while she was going through depression. It's really great. And she's funny, too.

I'll post more when I think of them.

Missy

126

Does the Bible scare anyone else here sometimes?

by missy04 in

maybe i'm just messed up, but i get really freaked out sometimes.

i can't understand the bible,.....in some places it seems like it's saying all you have to do is one or two things, then it seems like it's saying you have to do different things to be saved.... so many different people and religions have so many different takes on the bible.

i don't know which to beleive, and it scares me that if i beleived the wrong thing that i could go to hell, or just go to sleep forever as the witnesses say.

missy04

Oh, By the way, Jgnat,

The red letter version idea thing is awesome...there has to be one around here somewhere..thanks lots.

Missy

126

Does the Bible scare anyone else here sometimes?

by missy04 in

maybe i'm just messed up, but i get really freaked out sometimes.

i can't understand the bible,.....in some places it seems like it's saying all you have to do is one or two things, then it seems like it's saying you have to do different things to be saved.... so many different people and religions have so many different takes on the bible.

i don't know which to beleive, and it scares me that if i beleived the wrong thing that i could go to hell, or just go to sleep forever as the witnesses say.

missy04

I am having a very hard time leaving..I think the stongest factor that keeps me there,..for sure, is my best friend..a Witness.

She has been very worried about losing me and has severe depression among other things. She was just bawling to me on the phone today about being afraid of losing me to the world. I don't think I could ever feel any worse for anyone or love a friend more than her.