yep tomorrow's valentines day, and i don't have a valentine, as soon as i get home i will be calling my good friend to ask him to be mine lol, what about you guys, have any special plans or old memories of valentines day you'd like to share
Hey, I was just looking up recipies for valentines' dinner, but then I am getting home at 8pm...
I bought heart shaped pasta, so we'll see, that should be easy. Plus a big hershey's kiss that was on sale from after-Christmas. We're not big spenders...
But sure, I'll be your virtual valentine!
are they liberal minded?
strict diehards?
nutty?
Mom: diehard, and a bit nutty, total time in fs/studying/meeting/prayers averages about 3-4 hours per day
Sister: normal, JW, I thank the good Lord for her sanity
Other sister: Disfellowshipped, but still beleives at some level, though she hates them
Dad: never been in, hates them
Me: faded (the disappearing act x 6 years now), I hate the Society, and some of them who shun my sister.
i have been reading and enjoying the posts here for over 2 years.
i have been a witness for over 30 years.
i am going to the meetings just to keep peace in the family.
Welcome! it's always cool to hear news from the inside. so glad the blood issue is causing confusion.
we went to our favorite beach, met up with some of our local friends.
we don't have much in the way of details - but heard some devasting news that ari (well known to seattle area exjw's and i am sure by many on the board) killed himself sometime over last weekend.
he was so excited about moving to maui, and starting a new life here.
I am so sorry to read about this. I didn't know him well, but the whole situation is just so sad. Yes, his girls' life will be altered, always thinking back to this tragic event.
my husband and i were walking through the store today and we passed a display of valentines -- you know, the kind that school kids buy and exchange in the classroom.
i paused and glanced them over, remembering how much i used to love holidays at school.
(husband is an inactive/faded jw; i was never one.
People were so nice at school, they tried to help me work around the rules so I could participate: one teacher got me a special Christmas card that was super religious and she said she got me that one because she thought I would be able to accept it because it was so Jesus-y. Then the same year a friend got me a card with just santa claus, a funny one, and she said she bought it special for me because she thought maybe I could keep it since it WASN'T Jesus-y.
Course, I returned both cards.
:(
But the first Christmas I had I was 22 years old, and my boyfriend at the time bought me like loads of gifts, almost all little kid gifts (example box of 64-count Crayola crayons, cartoon-themed slippers, teddy bears, etc), to "make up for the years of christmas" that I'd lost. Though I hated lots of things about that guy, that was one really thoughtful thing.
did anyone see the dateline special tonight: a mom was accused of murder because her diabetic daughter died, and the mom wasn't controlling the girl's blood sugars at all?
(the mom was taught and literally said "don't tell me how to take care of my own daughter.
") the girl dies at like age 9 or so, and her hemoglobin a1c was 16.1. normal is about 6.5, and 12 would be really high, 16.1 is astronomical.
It's true, somehow, because it's a religious decision, it's off limits to mess with, and everyone just has to sit back and be tolerant. And yes, I agree, I think the blood rule will slowly be chissled away until it becomes more of a "eyebrow-raised" but technically conscience matter. (You know, like college.)
well, i was cleaning out the last of the boxes from our move to texas and i came across my old new world translation.. i stopped and looked at it for a while, leafed through the pages to see the notes, hastily scribbled during some talk or another, little pieces of my life and world... some of the comments triggering memories of conventions, or relatives, mainly though, triggering feelings of... nothingness.. nothingness... that is what my time as a witness has boiled down to.
years of my life offered gladly to an organization that i believed would show me, and those whom i loved, the way to a better life where there would be no, "sickness, death or suffering" all meant nothing.. it used to make me mad or sad thinking about these things, but now there is just nothing.. not even when i think about my dad.
i used to get so upset at having lost him; i'd cry and hope that he'd see the light and leave the organization.
JB,
that must have brought memories. I hope the nothingness is a good feeling? If you mean you remembered the nothingness feelinig of being a JW, I so know what you mean. I think that feeling, more than any others, was what drove me away. It was such an empty silly life, studying about nothing, preaching to no one, giving talks with no result, struggling for nothing.
Isn't it great to have a life again with meaning and places to go?
did anyone see the dateline special tonight: a mom was accused of murder because her diabetic daughter died, and the mom wasn't controlling the girl's blood sugars at all?
(the mom was taught and literally said "don't tell me how to take care of my own daughter.
") the girl dies at like age 9 or so, and her hemoglobin a1c was 16.1. normal is about 6.5, and 12 would be really high, 16.1 is astronomical.
Did anyone see the dateline special tonight: a mom was accused of murder because her diabetic daughter died, and the mom wasn't controlling the girl's blood sugars at all? (The mom was taught and literally said "Don't tell me how to take care of my own daughter.") The girl dies at like age 9 or so, and her hemoglobin A1C was 16.1. Normal is about 6.5, and 12 would be really high, 16.1 is astronomical. That is a measure of the blood sugar control over the past few months, so clearly it was chronically high.
I was so thinking, if this one goes through, how many Witness parents will go on trial for not giving blood to their kids who needed it? Do you think they should be charged for murder? And how fast would that blood policy be changed, do you think???
on the 12th of this month, around 9:30pm, i was getting ready to leave for work.
running around, putting on clothes, making sure i had everything ready and the kids were settled in bed.
my husband, shawn, was laying aross our bed, resting, he stood up and suddenlly put his hand to his chest.
Glad you guys got help quick. Especially the asprin, that was smart. Yes, I like the idea of the whole family making changes together.
yet another friend's marriage has broken down(5th), this one i did not predict at all.
it came as a shock to me.
they got married after 10 years of living together so it's not like they didn't know each other.
Starting over: love that last comment.
Prophecor: yes, when you aren't sure about it in the fiirst place it takes a whole lot more work.
Good things about marriage: this partner for life can be such a source of stability in your life, someone to always come home to and be totally comfortable with as someone above said.
Bad things: they can totally insult you and your family, and you get so so so mad, but then you stop and think, there is absolutely nothing I can do change this person. And I will be sleeping next to them for the rest of my life
