Its not very easy to get to Weston-Super-Mare by train. You'd need to get a train from Newcastle to London Kings Cross which is 3hours 10 minutes and be better travelling on Thursday if you are on a budget as tickets more expensive on a Friday than any other day. Then from London you need to get a train to Bristol, which takes 1hour 45 minutes. Then another train from Bristol to Weston-Super-Mare which is another 30 minutes. Because the connections may not be at the right times you'd proibably have to think about doing the journey over two days. Stay in London perhaps for a night and then carry on to Bristol the next day.
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2005 Barbecue Is Definitely On!
by Englishman insaturday seems to be much preferred over sunday, so this years bbq will be held on saturday, july 9th, commencing around 2 pm.
location is our home in weston super mare.
as usual, the day will be very boozy and proceedings will conclude in the waverley pub.
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What Is The Unpardonable Sin?
by JH in.
in your words, what would be the unpardonable sin?
give examples.... .
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I was told it was to disrepsect or challenge the holy spirit, by not doing what i was directed to via the elders. Convenient - for them.
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Opposition to this site
by Crumpet ini have only been a recent user of this site.
the other night i explained what it was i was spending time reading online some evenings when my boyfriend is out and tried to explain how it is helping me finally let go of the jw beliefs that i have clung to for so long.
i thought he would be pleased, but he got really angry and now is very difficult any time i try to use the internet at home.
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LOL Little Toe!
And thanks re the apostabbq news too!
And I totally agree with wanderlust guy - I have rarely come across a site where everyone seems so intelligent. Makes me feel pretty dumb at times, especially given that I didnt leave, like so many here, because they questioned the truth. I never questioned it - I truly believed everything despite being out a long time, despite reading both Franz books. I left to try the forbidden fruits and I do wish at times I had left for nobler reasons. But hey I am getting there with the help and information from you guys here.
Thanks folks.
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by Crumpet ini have only been a recent user of this site.
the other night i explained what it was i was spending time reading online some evenings when my boyfriend is out and tried to explain how it is helping me finally let go of the jw beliefs that i have clung to for so long.
i thought he would be pleased, but he got really angry and now is very difficult any time i try to use the internet at home.
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I do "cock" for him ...and "cook" for that matter too Barney! LOL! To clarify though I don't mind him expressing an opinion and he does pay the phone bill, and all the other bills for that matter so I do have to respect his wishes to an extent and he hasnt said I can't come on here as such. Just has a lot of pent up anger at the witnesses and the fact that I have no family that he can ever meet, nor any old friends. He cant understand a faith that separates parents and children and parents that acquiesque with it.
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went to a meeting tonight !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by vitty ini went to my first meeting in 9 months (dont ask ive got my reasons cant say on an public board).
they reviewed a wt july 1st page 12----19. it was saying that you should have concern for people who are spiritually weak you should remember all the good things they had done in the past.
even if they wernt going to meetings anymore.
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Vitvin I can only imagine how weird that must have been. I do wish more people would pop up with their threads on meetings and what happened!
I thought this was really interesting as I havent got a copy was it as charitable as it sounded . I was cringing
And it reminds me that I ws the girl who started up the personaly coined "Stay Faithful to Jehovah Club" with three or four other girls in my own congregation - most of them elders daughters and then we would have a few girls who had not the benefit of baptised parents!
how condescending was i at 9 years old. i feel ashamed!
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Opposition to this site
by Crumpet ini have only been a recent user of this site.
the other night i explained what it was i was spending time reading online some evenings when my boyfriend is out and tried to explain how it is helping me finally let go of the jw beliefs that i have clung to for so long.
i thought he would be pleased, but he got really angry and now is very difficult any time i try to use the internet at home.
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chuckling and feeling quite normal! thanks to everyone. there wasnt a comment there that was awry.I never heard so much sense in my life! I will save this thread to show him when he is amenable to the concept.
And i think the only way to let him see you guys are normal and fun is to drag him to an apostafest. Anything going on in Toronto Canada in May that i can engineer to coincide with a holiday?
(truth about truth - your humour matches his - brutal, funny and to the point.!)
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Opposition to this site
by Crumpet ini have only been a recent user of this site.
the other night i explained what it was i was spending time reading online some evenings when my boyfriend is out and tried to explain how it is helping me finally let go of the jw beliefs that i have clung to for so long.
i thought he would be pleased, but he got really angry and now is very difficult any time i try to use the internet at home.
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jwbot - thank you
This is who Mike and I are. The think is, you need to tell your boyfriend that this site is IMPORTANT to you and the healing process. Perhaps he would have felt otherwise if you were sexually abused and frequented support sites? To me, coming out from being a JW is very life-changing and as dramatic to ones mental health. He needs to understand this. My fiance Mike knows how much being a JW has taken from me and how getting out of the religion was very difficult. He is very happy that I am able to get support from people who have been through the same time.
I have decided that i will give it time and try again and tell my other half again that this soo important, but does not take away from our relstionship. I hope I dont have to wait too long. He can't be just be boethered about the phone bill!
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Opposition to this site
by Crumpet ini have only been a recent user of this site.
the other night i explained what it was i was spending time reading online some evenings when my boyfriend is out and tried to explain how it is helping me finally let go of the jw beliefs that i have clung to for so long.
i thought he would be pleased, but he got really angry and now is very difficult any time i try to use the internet at home.
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Guys I am overwhelmed by your ideas and support - how anyone would consider us weirdos now I do not know. People who helped themselves, might be a way I'd phrase it.
Every single thing that has been said has had resonances so far and i wanted to reply to everyone individually but its impossible. I kind of expected maybe a couple of ladies out there max to be able to understand this phenomenon. I call it that because i totaly expected my b/f to be delighted that i had found this site and you people! I think he has loads in common without realising it!
Hi Crumpet,
There are many red flags associated with your boyfriend's behavior. Please do not trade the controlling bOrganization for a controlling, possessive, and jealous boyfriend. This is the kind of behavior that is implied in your post.
This comment particularly made sense. I dont have a horrible controlling b/f but i have definitely picked someone very similar to my father (Freud alert). But I still love my father even though he's had f' all to do with me since I left for the last time when I was 22ish and respect him and my b/f is very like him. Thanks for pointing that out - there is so much to talk about on that subject ... i could wax on for hours! hehe
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Opposition to this site
by Crumpet ini have only been a recent user of this site.
the other night i explained what it was i was spending time reading online some evenings when my boyfriend is out and tried to explain how it is helping me finally let go of the jw beliefs that i have clung to for so long.
i thought he would be pleased, but he got really angry and now is very difficult any time i try to use the internet at home.
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Simon I've heard positive reports from from my friend LT (from childhood) and hope to get permission to join you "sad weirdos" at the apostabbq in somerset!
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Opposition to this site
by Crumpet ini have only been a recent user of this site.
the other night i explained what it was i was spending time reading online some evenings when my boyfriend is out and tried to explain how it is helping me finally let go of the jw beliefs that i have clung to for so long.
i thought he would be pleased, but he got really angry and now is very difficult any time i try to use the internet at home.
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jeannie - excellent points and so good to hear from some with a S/O who has similar views. Has yours ever looked ?
His view is 'you cannot change the past, why dwell on it'. Although I do not dwell on it, I do talk about it and that, in his book, is not healthy. He sees this site has stirred feelings that I have not expressed to him, ever. He says, 'you never thought about this before, it's not good for you'. My answer was, 'yeah? what about the two bleeding ulcers that I have been battling since we met? ya think I havn't thought about this before now?'
My other half knows that this brings me down ocassionally, in fact more often than not - he constantly brings up my weird upbringing up as an explanation for my weirdness, which has ocassionally got more serious than just weird in terms of the physical scars he can behold for himself on my body but chooses to ignore or feign surprise....
I dont think being here forever being bitter is healthy but then that is not what this board is about. Its a place to tell, share and make fun. Maybe he wants to be more part of the solution, but then many times he has suggested therapy but that is wayyyy to expensive to even consider.
Thank you for telling me your experience, it really helps. Maybe if i give it some time, like you say, rather than bombard him, he'll be able to read some of the stuff here and have a laugh when i explain the in jokes and stuff that crack me up so much!
crumpet x