i'm back from a quarter year break from the web.
well i lie, not a complete break.
i've kept tabs on you in the background.
Wats going on in DFW Crumpet? Is it Crumpfest? Crawfishfest? CrumpetCrawfishfest? I'll come either way
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/19/151103/1.ashx You need to check out Elsewhere's topic from a couple of weeks ago re the crawfest - venue problems but no doubt we will sort something out. I'm crumping through the southern states for a few weeks and will be in Dallas for the renfest with a few others on the Saturday 3 May. Good to see ya back. Is that avatar a corruption of two movies???
i'm back from a quarter year break from the web.
well i lie, not a complete break.
i've kept tabs on you in the background.
Hey you! Been wondering where yo ass is at. Make sure it's at Dallas in May when I come over!
let me explain that.
i think humans go through these phases where we see things and experience things that begin to callouse our minds.
my dad is an amazing dichotomy of loving and violent.
I can only think of one thing...they made me a reader at the age of 3 and half, four. I guess in some respects they gave me a love of footnotes and even if I realize now it was a pretend kind of scholarship it did excite me. I don't know that I can say for certain I would or wouldn't have developed that love of study with or without the JW's.
Joannadandy - good point. My parents did the same with me and I have retained the love of academia and am doing pretty well in my bachelors. I genuinely love to study, get a kick out of research, love to read and learn.
When I called my parents in December 2006 to let them know I was not going to be calling them again to have the phone put down and that I loved them and my door would always be open, I thanked for teaching me to read and write as I learned to walk at the same time as I thanked them for making me wear "sensible" shoes because now I have fairly good feet. I also thanked them for teaching me to take care of all the household chores, cook, sew, iron, wire a plug, fit a light bulb and give me all the skills (apart from the social ones) I needed to commence life on my own when I was 16.
I think my parents basically started preparing me for life without them physically from the day I was born. It was a shame they couldn't prepare me emotionally.
let me explain that.
i think humans go through these phases where we see things and experience things that begin to callouse our minds.
my dad is an amazing dichotomy of loving and violent.
she says that when i was a kid i had an affinity for killing bugs that there was a glee in my face as i was doing it.
When you were a kid - lol! Like you are not a bad bug butcherer now. I've seen you do it. Mom was right.
i just received a message from one of my closest friends.
we grew up together and were/are as close as brothers.
his father was like a second dad to mehe died two days ago after two weeks in the hospital.
A really well put and thought out post WLG.
I could look at it that my parents will die believing a fantasy, but they are happy in that fantasy world. I only wish I could be so ignorant and narrow minded. Nah of course I don't. I'll die with my eyes wide open drinking in the sights and sounds and smells and human touches of the paradise we live in now. There's a little piece of paradise in every day, as well as a little piece of hell, but mostly we get to choose which we absorb most of.
let me explain that.
i think humans go through these phases where we see things and experience things that begin to callouse our minds.
my dad is an amazing dichotomy of loving and violent.
I think it depends on who your parents were before they became JWs really. Lots of misfits and vulnerables end up as JWs. We all know the stories from the articles and at conventions of desperate homeless drug addicted killing prostituting hit men/women who were about to kill someone/take that final heroin hit/rob an old lady when they get the "truth". The org is full of people who feel like they don;t belong anywhere else. It cultivates that and it also draws them in. I don't think any of my parents bible studies were members of "normal" society. They were fringe people.
My parents wouldnt have met if it were not for the borg. But I frequently wonder how it would have been if my dad had not been a JW. I think he would have joined some other religion though - he is an aspirationalist, a romantic, a sentimentalist and a spiritual man. I think to have grown up without the hell of knowledge that they would shun me when I left and that when it happened it was going to be 100 times more torture than I could have imagined, to have grown up knowing I would be loved no matter what - then I think I'd be a much more rounded person now and be achieving my dreams. I'd probably be married to a lovely man, with children, living an eco friendly lifestyle in a beach hut somewhere, writing articles for a living.
my choice is sophia lauren, hands down!.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc433lpk6dy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wovmisxpbw.
I know my Don Quixote Sparky! I read it maybe 20 years ago - maybe its a good one ro re-read now I feel like tilting at windmills again.
Dawg - that Raquel Welch picture is my ex's favourite as well. One hot cookie!
my choice is sophia lauren, hands down!.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc433lpk6dy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wovmisxpbw.
Donkey - we know your type is a dragon - so perhaps Joan Crawford was more up your alley?
Sparky - have you seen Houseboat - she is just edible in that movie...She encapsulates sensuality, feminity and grace with every feline move.
my choice is sophia lauren, hands down!.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc433lpk6dy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wovmisxpbw.
I love her - she was one of my idols growing up!
And Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo too.
i don't mean this to be offensive to any catholics in any way and believe that they can have true salvation unlike the jw.
also, i know little about the in's and out's of practicing catholicism, as i have never had any interest in being one.
regardless i am always surprised when an ex-jw says that they have found the real truth in catholicism.
I've considered it and I'm an atheist.
I like the colours purple and scarlet.
I love the Cathedrals and churches.
I'm into candles.
I like nuns.
Idea of confessionals makes me horny - bit like therapy, but behind a screen so I can hide my blushes (and anything else I might want to get up to).
I think there are quite a few reasons.
Not to mention free wine.
Downside - nasty papery wafery things in your mouth (I mean communion, not the priest)
The pope.
Unprotected sex.
