this is a follow up to my previous thread titles, "am i a sucker?
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http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/94985/1.ashx .
I think KLS hit the nail on the head. I'd go one step further and insist she have a an ob/gyn exam and go on birth control. With the obvious lack of parental direction (other than when she was around you and your wife), she might not realize the remifications of lying and loosing your trust...and it's good to let her know she can't get away with it.
Are you a sucker? No, just a tender hearted, caring schmuck! Better that than a cold hearted, judgmental JW.
as a child i was raised as a jw as was my wife.
the other day we were discussing some of the things that we were.
taught or discussed at the meetings that scared the hell out of us as children.
I have to agree, I always worried about the torture! Being taken from my brothers and made to stand on one leg with no water in the hot sun while being eaten by misquitos and/or other insects...'til I renounced Jehovah always bothered me....I used to practice. Also the prospect of beatings and rapes led to many sleepless nights. The demons didn't bother me a great deal because I figured I could call on Jehovah's name and Jesus' name and they'd go away. I never could figure out why the witnesses couldn't do that when being tortured, raped or killed!
What amazes me now as I think back....I was always being chastized by my mother for reading mysteries and adventure books, but was encouraged to read about torture, rape and murder in the society's publications....go figure!
a pioneer sister just emailed me a new experience this morning.
i just wanted to post is to see if anyone recognized it as a generic jw experience or if it was genuine.
how are things...i hope all is well with each one of you.
Now Vitty how can you say the JW's are inadequite? After all didn't I read in an earlier thread about one of the brothers saying the JW youths did not need to go to college because they had been educated by the "truth"? Surely Jehovah's Holy Spirit would aid them in their teaching work and yes Ezekiel3 they are looking for the "ignorant" so they can "educate" them!
my story: and i apologize in advance for the long post.. i was born to special pio parents and i attended my first meeting when i was 6 days old, which was unusual in the 50s and 60s because babies were usually quarantined for the first month or so.
my mother had a poor childhood and was often placed with uncaring relatives which served as foster homes.
my father was raised in a single parent home by his divorced mother who was looking for answers.
Maple, the healing has begun. If the love, caring and humor of this crew can't heal, no one can. Thank you for sharing.
are you a fixer or a buyer?.
when i was a little kid, i mean from about four-years-old, i was fascinated with what made things tick.
mom knew better than to leave me alone without something really interesting to figure out.
Fixer, definately a fixer. My sister-in-law and I were doing Trading Spaces before it ever came on TV and my ex says it's dangerous to leave me alone with my tool box, a sewing machine, hot glue gun, stapler and any kind of junk! I'm also a yard/garage sale nut! My Dad used to refinish all kinds of furniture and take two junk bikes and make one super one...every kid in the neighborhood came to our house to play on the large wooden swing set/jungle jim/ tree house (keep in mind this was in the late 50's). Like your Dad Jeannie....if only he had patented some of his ideas!
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this is the one that has a damn stick in it and i can't drive .
it's a 440 magnum 71 challenger.
KLS....it was almost worth giving him the car to get rid of him.
anyone go to that convention in ny back in the 50's?
remember when they lasted until 8pm?
in the summer?
Neo....thanks for the memories, I remember those table well! We probably passed each other at the '69 convention in NYC! That was the year I graduated and I went to the NYC to listen......as a graduation present my parents sent me to Hawaiia on one of the Society's arranged tours for the Convention on Oahu! Needless to say...18 years old in Hawaiia.....I made about 2 hours of that one and the other Pioneers I shared a suite with (we were able to have room mates to cut down on room costs and it seems they put two of us pioneers in one part of the suite and two others in the bedroom portion. We opened the adjoining door and had a ball!) didn't do much better. I think technically that's when I started to fade, it just took a while. Ah the good old days!
you know that awful moment when you ask a friend if they've had a nice holiday, and all of a sudden they pull out the holiday pics and you think "oh my god......." here come the pics i never wanted to see........well....... i wanted to re-create that moment in your own living rooms right now........lol.
.....i'll have a go at uploading a few, let me know if it works, and if you see the one with that greek god look-a-like on the beach, i don't know his name, i just had to get a pic of him.....corrrrrrrrr!!!
ha ha........
Scooby, thanks for the pix. Greece is in our plans for two weeks in the summer of 2007. Next summer (2006) we hope to do London and some surrounding areas. I've been making notes of all of the areas mentioned on the board as my daughter and I would like to also check out Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Scotland and eventually New Zealand and Australia.
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this is the one that has a damn stick in it and i can't drive .
it's a 440 magnum 71 challenger.
The ex got it as part of the property settlement. We picked it up in '77 with 29,000 original miles. It was that odd Olive green they were pained with the black vinyl room and black detailing. I'd drive that thing down the road at 35 m.p.h. and be stopped all the time! Of course I also drove it a lot faster than that, but I was 26 with long blonde hair and had a hot car......it's amazing how many tickets I did not get!
You've got to learn to drive a stick shift kid.....it's easy... honest!
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this is the one that has a damn stick in it and i can't drive .
it's a 440 magnum 71 challenger.
KLS, I had a 69 Charge with R/T package and 68 Corvette Convertible....both with stick (manual transmission). You can learn to drive your muscle car. Get a friend that can drive it to take you to the empty end of a large parking lot and go to it! My daughter has an '88 Mustang 5.0 with an automatic transmission...... and I just picked up an '89 Convertible with a stick that I'm going to insist she learns to drive stick as soon as it comes back from the Paint Shop.
Keep us posted on your progress!
