Frankly if I woke up and there was a person leering at me with a king mask on I would think I had awoke to the twilight zone or that the local crazy house had an escapee. It definitely would not make me hungry. lol :-)
love2Bworldly
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So Have We Totally Lost Our Ever Loving Minds?
by prophecor inok, so my wife keeps telling me that it's just me, but i can't help but think that this country has gone completely quackers when i see some of the comercials on tv.
the gecko doing the "robot" , the king wanting me to eat a 50 pound breakfast sandwich, wake up with the king?
wtf, and the whole way things are just thrown in our face in the form of advertising.
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Are You A Better Person Now That You're Out of the "Truth"?
by minimus indo you feel better?
act better?
think more positively?
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love2Bworldly
Absolutely!!! I have more empathy toward others, I try not to judge people so harshly, I gave blood for the first time in March, yesterday I gave $10 at the grocery store for the Marines collecting money for goodie baskets for Marines in Iraq. I could never do those things as a Witness. (although I do enjoy people-watching with my spouse and we make fun of hideously dressed/tacky/weird people which isn't nice)
Most of all, I pray for other people and their situations, which is different from being a JW and only praying that others will become JWs. And I have an honest desire to one day do something to help other people but have not figured out what it is yet. (examples--become a foster parent when my kids grow up, be a mentor for kids, be a mentor at a local church for people escaping from cults like JWs.)
Anyway--all around I am feeling like a more balanced/healthy person and I can enjoy feeling happiness without the guilt crap. I just feel like each day I feel more like a 'normal' person. (Besides being an x-JW, my parents were deaf, my dad is a very negative person, my mom was mentally ill, my parents neglected me and siblings, and as a child I was overweight and extremely shy and teased horribly, and whole family suffered from severe depression.)
I guess I'm just trying to enjoy the life I didn't have both as a child and as a JW. Life is too short!
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Jax rules with an iron fist
by Dogpatch innew york daily news - http://www.nydailynews.com
jax rules with an iron fist .
by michelle caruso.
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love2Bworldly
Interesting article, but can't say I would believe what it says about how Jackson treats his own kids. Those poor kids are having such a bizarre childhood that I feel sorry for them. Can you imagine having to go out in public with your face covered all the time as a child?
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Do You REALLY Know People?
by minimus inare 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?
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love2Bworldly
What I don't understand about other people, is why so many people lie or exaggerate. I have been lied to so much, and yet I still make an effort to be an honest person. I can't stand playing games either the way people do. And I tend to trust others too much, which has gotten me into so much heart-ache over the years.
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Name some silly things you couldn't do as a witness
by sweet tee input your hand on your hips.
switch when you walk.
do popular dances where you shake yo money maker.
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love2Bworldly
tsunami_ride3r----wow! I sure hope they washed their hands before they handled the Watchtower and Awake! LOL Hee Hee Hee
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Do Your Neighbors Think You're Nuts?
by prophecor indo you socialize with your neighbors?
everyone knows how we as a religious group only socialized with each other, then when inside the hall, we only associated with a select few, those who were deemed worthy of our association.
now that you are out, or in varying degrees of staying within the borg, are you allowing yourself to get out and mingle amongst those in your community?
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love2Bworldly
Leological One--I wish the best for you and hope you are getting specialized help for the M issues. My husband was never a JW but was severely molested as a child by an uncle and I was the first person he told 30 years later. It can ruin your life if you don't work through it, and we certainly have our marital issues because of it. We can't afford the $80 per session that a local therapy place was charging us, so I'm going to do some research on my own for the time being--get some books etc. Anyway, wish you much luck.
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Name some silly things you couldn't do as a witness
by sweet tee input your hand on your hips.
switch when you walk.
do popular dances where you shake yo money maker.
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love2Bworldly
Evil Force--I know exactly what you mean. Why in the world would God create people to have likes/dislikes and various personalities if we were supposed to act like robots?
Strawberry Shortcake is bad? I laugh in disbelief every time I read some of the posts. I sure hope this website is helping people who are JW's to leave this hideous cult.
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Need Some Hugs and Humor
by love2Bworldly inhi--can you people please tell me things are going to get better for me and my family?.
to make a long story short, a bunch of my siblings and cousins own some property that has been in escrow since january.
some people are not speaking to each other any more because they can't believe we want to get money for this sacred property that my grandparents owned and-- because we want my 53 year old pot smoking brother who does not hold down a regular job, bathe regularly or have a life, and does not pay rent, to move off the property.
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love2Bworldly
Thanks for your thoughts. What really makes the whole situation strange is that my active JW sister is the one that hired the attorney to get the ball rolling when we had an offer on the property. And I think she did it because she knows I'm having trouble supporting my family. Weird! Sometimes I think her goal is to turn my kids into JW's one day if she is nicer to us than my 'worldly' siblings. And she is also talking about using some of her money for my kids college education, the one her and I were not allowed to have when we were young JWs.
Anyway, the whole situation is very interesting to watch.
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JW work situation
by pratt1 ini work for a rather large financial institution in nyc.
i run a large profit center and manage over 100 people.
on of my best workers is a dub doing a slow but progressive fade.
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love2Bworldly
Personal advice since you are in management--do not let anyone know you used to be a JW. If the one who got disfellowshipped was ever reinstated, or he became angry at the active JW, he may spill the beans.
Protect yourself, people can't keep secrets.
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"I can't stop thinking about Jehovah's Witnesses!"
by logansrun ini've heard this said by a few ex-witnesses in my three years away from the organization, and have sometimes said it myself.
sometimes it is said in the context of, "i'd like to move on, but i just can't stop thinking about them.
could it not be that one of the reasons ex-jws "can't stop thinking about" the organization -- and their past involvement with it -- is that they daily log onto this site, read about the society and talk about them?
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love2Bworldly
Maybe you are right for some people but not everyone. I have been out of the JW's since the 80's but have learned so much from people who post here. I do have times when I start feeling really angry toward the WTBTS for all the lives they have ruined and continue to do so after spending a lot of time here. But mostly I have benefited from being able to laugh at what I used to be involved with, and that is very healing to me personally. I have only been using this site for a couple of weeks, but I am having an awsome time often laughing until I cry at some of these wonderful and good-humored people who are just trying to survive like myself.
I feel like I have made new friends, even though I don't know them or will ever meet them. I had no idea so many people have left the JWs. Didn't they used to always talk about the 'great multitude' who were converted at the last minute? I think they really meant the 'great multitude' who were going to leave it.