if you have an interest in human memory you will find these pages an interesting read.
it's the story of solomon shereshevskii, a russian born in 1886, and his ability to remember things in frightening detail.. http://www.dreamhawk.com/memory.htm.
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/hypermail/thinking.psychologically96/0060.html.
Mary:
The same here. I can remember so much about my childhood. I remember being in my crib crying and there was two people trying to console me but i wanted my mother, i had to be no more than 1 at the time. but like you said i can't remember yesterday but i can remember things that happened 30 years ago in great detail.
do you feel better?
act better?
think more positively?
I've been going through alot of different emotions but i do believe i'm better. This time last year i was a complete wreck, i hate to admit it but i often times i just wanted to go jump off a bridge...but things got better, although at the time i couldnt see no way out, i just had to stop trying to control everything and have an answer for everything, i learned to listen to the voice within. I was so nervous as a JW. sometimes i feel lazy, because i'm no longer towing the line, i get the feeling like i should be doing something. That "never enough" feeling creeps in. This board has been so helpful to me. I can actually open my mind now and live sometimes thats hard for me to accept...enjoying the moment...but i'm getting there
I am happier alot happier. Because I'm me...the real me, not some made up person that i'm told i should be.
hi ya'll.. i'm looking for advice on how to handle a neighborhood child that is bullying my son and other children in my apartment complex.
he is very mean, takes my son's stuff, tries to trip him on his bike by putting a stick into his spokes, pulling his underwear up, cussing at him.
at first i tried to talk to him nicely, asked him to please not do mean things to other children.
tell him to put a watchtower in his back pocket. Thats what the elders used to tell the boys in my cong. they said that the gangs would leave them alone if they did this. ( we were all like...yeeaah right)
are you a good judge of character?
do you really know a "friend" or "loved one" like you thought?
have you ever been disappointed as to how "off" you were?
oopsy! i wasnt finished...
no we really don't know people. i barely know myself. went i stopped going to the KH.... i shocked myself... i would have never thought in a million years that i would be where i am today.
some people will never show their inner chamber.
are you a good judge of character?
do you really know a "friend" or "loved one" like you thought?
have you ever been disappointed as to how "off" you were?
no
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jws are always being reminded that you "could" stumble someone.
you had to continuously question yourself about possibly offending another (weak) christian's conscience.....were you always worried that you were going to get into trouble because you might've screwed up somehow??.
seems like some JW's looked for reasons to be stumbled as an excuse. A person would not get stumbled if they mind their own moth@ Fu*!@! got Da*@ business
what got me was the constant spying, people always always in your fu**** business. There was a sister at my cong. that would call me at work like "there's a car in front of your house, is your husband home? maybe he has company" she would do this on a weekly basis.
it got so bad i had to stop my child from working with other JW's in service because they would prey on him and ask him all kinds of leading questions. it was sick really really sick. I had to school him on what to say if someone was being nosy.
a jw reported to me that she saw another jw with another woman in his car. I said "so what! maybe it was his sister, cousin workmate whatever" get a life!
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stillajwexelder
OH MY GOD! i'm laughing my a** off at your post, because it's so true, it was always some crazy brother or teenager that would comment on that and you know they were trying to be funny. i remember sitting in the back of the KH dabbing my eyes with tissue from crying with laughter.
hi all just curious did anyone go to the special talk????
what was so special about it.
i was supposed to go but like the memorial i accidently deliberately forgot opps :/ es
thats real sick...my mother is studying with this sickening JW she told her that the special talk was about "marriage"...probably to just get her to the KH. she is always doing something underhanded when it comes to their study.
hi all just curious did anyone go to the special talk????
what was so special about it.
i was supposed to go but like the memorial i accidently deliberately forgot opps :/ es
My mother went (she is studying with the JW) she said that the special talk was going to be about marriage.
how's this weekend for you?
time to have some r&r?
i think some have had one of those weeks, eh?
saying the words "truth", "friends" "brother" "sister" etc
looking into other religions
celebrating my birthday.... that was really weird
but it seems like now i can really listen to people and really get to know them without labeling them as "worldly" or having the WT blinders on.
