everyone, opened up thread for loubelle as she cannot open any more today.
check it out!
Loubelle, best of luck, be brave.
Maybe recording it secretly (have a dictaphone in your handbag) might give you a feeling of a bit of control and power? I think it would for me, because I know I could let someone else listen to it later, and not have to remember all the crap they are going to come out with.
Anyway whatever you do, I hope its as painless as possible and over quickly.
Hugs to you.
a lot of people here have posted their photo's, but i think the majority haven't... i sometimes wonder when reading posts on here, what person making those posts must look like, not that i want to see their photo, i just find it interesting... i recently got to see a photo of someone i have talked to on here since i first joined, and i had to say the person looked an awful lot like i had imagined, so i wondered if anyone else wonders about things like this?
is there a particular poster you have a mental image of?
care to share it and see if the person really looks like what you think they look like?
Ritchie im laughing so loud the neighbours can hear me.
Awww shucks, thanks guys (coy feminine smile that sad thirty somethings do to try and pretend they are still young and fresh)
just wondering, do you know of any?
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Zagor what you said is deadly accurate, and that is why I think witnesses spend so much time trying to get new recruits and no time at all trying to keep flock they have got from leaving - because they cant count their time with the latter as they are already baptised.
I honetly think that is the case, and also why witnesses dont bother helping each other out when they have problems or are down - why waste time on a depressed baptised person when there are so many other pressures on your time, and you need to get that field service in?
Its wicked and cynical, and it is costing them thousands of lost witnesses every year in every country.
a lot of people here have posted their photo's, but i think the majority haven't... i sometimes wonder when reading posts on here, what person making those posts must look like, not that i want to see their photo, i just find it interesting... i recently got to see a photo of someone i have talked to on here since i first joined, and i had to say the person looked an awful lot like i had imagined, so i wondered if anyone else wonders about things like this?
is there a particular poster you have a mental image of?
care to share it and see if the person really looks like what you think they look like?
I imagine that all the blokes are toned, handsome and just slightly younger than me, but would still find me irrisistable.
I imagine all the women are drop dead gorgeous, slimmer than me, more toned than me, fantastic cheek bones and chin line, better hair than me, and look like they have just stepped out of a salon.
(not that I suffer from both a goddess complex and low self esteem or anything...)
this has probably been done before, but has anyone had any scary or funny things happen to them during field service?
i used to go door-to-door with the most obnoxious elder in the world.
if we approached a house, saw signs of life, but they didn't answer the door, he'd actually go around and knock on their windows!
Ive led such a sheltered life, ive never seen pubic hair out on field service.
definitely mentally and more than likely physically.. i have read on a few posts and freeminds about an increase of mental illness amoungst jws of between 2 and 40 % and it seems understandable considering the amount of stress being in the borg puts on people.. but what about physically?.
what are your experiences since leaving the borg?.
do you feel well and fitter than ever before?.
I think trying to reconcile having to be a perfect person / family with the secret reality that your mum / dad / family member is an alcoholic / child abuser / gambler / smoker / insert own sin of choice definately gives you a mental illness. Just the hiding it all causes unbearable tension and stress that has to come out one way or another.
just wanted to tell everyone how much i love this forum but never had balls to join in.
now that i'm officially dfd i can do whatever i like.
how about that?
Yea but in fairness how could you give them a hard time? You had horns but no balls.
Now you've got horns AND balls. I bet you've got a little pointy tail too?
On a tangent - I dreamed last night that I was in this place filled with australian animals, it was great. There was this big kangarooy type thing I was trying to hug. Maybe it was prophecy? About the coming of YOU to the board?? Its as good as anything in Revelations.
just wondering, do you know of any?
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They used to tell us that they were OFTEN the first ones in with aid when a disaster had happened. Now I know its Medicine Sans Frontiers.
Only help we would give homeless people was literature. They had to prove they were interested in the truth first by coming regularly to meetings before they qualified for any other help.
Heres a funny story though, we had an earnest young man start studying at my old cong. He didnt realise that witnoids only PRETEND to care for people. He saw these two people near his house who looked real down and outs. He was so moved by their plight that he ran to the fish and chip shop nearby and bought twice with scraps for them. They were pretty grateful, but also bemused as it turned out they were just waiting for a bus!
i know an elder who once opened a prayer like this:.
"jehovah!
this is xx-congregation speaking..." .
Yup at an assembly once the guy doing the last prayer had a problem in that he didnt know how to end the last sentence and then say InJesusNameAmen. Everytime he sounded like he was winding down he'd take a breath start up another thread and carry on. Honestly it went on for so long I didnt know whether to sit down and take notes or clap at the end. People were just stood there with their eyes open looking at each other sort of dazed. I think it lasted for about 20minutes. He got counelled (elder speak for bollocked).
just wanted to tell everyone how much i love this forum but never had balls to join in.
now that i'm officially dfd i can do whatever i like.
how about that?
Let me get this straight - when they d'f/d you they gave you your balls BACK?
They must have been keeping them on a shelf in a jar in the back room. Now if we could find that shelf, we could hand out everyones balls, and the borg would be powerless against our testacular expolits!
Welcome to the board oh ballful one.
