Posts by Rayvin

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Do you ever SECRETLY annoy????

by Rayvin in

i am a passive aggressive.

can't help it - i learned it from my mommy.

so if i am angry and feel like throwing stuff or hitting something/someone i do sneaky stuff instead.

Rayvin

lol- that reminds me. Back in my younger years.. living w/ my parents and my brother. I forget how it started but my brother told me to 'shut up!'. I was tired of him being mean to me so I just did what he told me to. (btw... i was like.. 8 yrs old) I shut up. A bit later he was asking me something and I didn't say a word. He kept asking me louder and louder and said if I don't answer him RIGHT NOW he is gonna tell mom. (..ooohh.. ) I turned around and said.. what are you getting so mad for .. you are the one that told me to Shut up!.. --

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Do you ever SECRETLY annoy????

by Rayvin in

i am a passive aggressive.

can't help it - i learned it from my mommy.

so if i am angry and feel like throwing stuff or hitting something/someone i do sneaky stuff instead.

Rayvin

Come to think of it.. after reading EF suggested post maybe i am using the wrong words for my actions. I am not doing things to make the other person angry. Maybe its my partner that is P/A toward me.

Anyway.. since the topic is secretly annoy and not - passive aggressive. I will leave it at that. And say "oops" for the confusion.

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Do you ever SECRETLY annoy????

by Rayvin in

i am a passive aggressive.

can't help it - i learned it from my mommy.

so if i am angry and feel like throwing stuff or hitting something/someone i do sneaky stuff instead.

Rayvin

I agree its not healthy and neither is excessive anger which I dont have. I don't hurt anyone and I make myself feel a bit better. The verbal stuff I feel is harmful to youself and the other party. I was raised (good or bad) to try to steer away from confrontation. I am working on my inculcated flaws.

*sticks out my tongue at evilforce behind his back*

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Do you ever SECRETLY annoy????

by Rayvin in

i am a passive aggressive.

can't help it - i learned it from my mommy.

so if i am angry and feel like throwing stuff or hitting something/someone i do sneaky stuff instead.

Rayvin

I am a passive aggressive. Can't help it - I learned it from my mommy.

So if I am angry and feel like throwing stuff or hitting something/someone I do sneaky stuff instead. For example, one boyfriend I had was being mean to me after I had been nice and just took the trash to outside of the front door. I was so angry w/ how he was treating me that when he wasn't looking I brought the trash back inside for him to deal with.

Another example- My husband came home to complain about his clean laundry that i just finished putting on hangers being on his side of the bed. He didn't think to hang them up himself and i just hadn't finished my chores yet. But since he felt the need to gripe at me after all the work I had done I was upset. He told me to get those clothes of his side of the bed. So i did.... i threw them on the floor where the dirty clothes go. It made me feel so much better and he didn't know what i had done till 3 days later.

Ever flip the bird behind someones back??? Feels soooo good!

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THIS is a DANGEROUS PLACE

by peggy in

because you all inform with logic.

i have been reading for several months now.

not even sure how i found this site.

Rayvin

I too have noticed that when I last went to a meeting ( quite a while ago) I was listening with.. imagine this.. an open mind!!!!!

It was an eye opener. Like I could see for the very first time. It was refreshing and depressing at the same time. This was also before I was shown this site by a very smart and very close (and for you ladies out there..he is attractive) friend of mine.

I used to have this way of knowing the real truth but still feeling unprepared to defend them to other JWs. Now that I have been at this site its helped me realize my own strength and faith in myself to tell how I feel with pride.

Its dangerous however, since now I have this new found strength I fear I may be so excited to share w/ relatives (jw) and may be 'outting' myself.

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Did you ever witness someone being escorted out of the KH?

by JH in

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did it ever happen in your congregation that a person was asked to leave?.

i remember about 10 years ago, an elder was giving the sunday talk, and a woman that i never saw before was seated in the front.

she was all alone, and right in the middle of the brothers talk, she raised her hand and started asking questions to the brother about what he just said.

Rayvin

OH.. sorry..

To answer your question. No - nothing that exciting do i remember happening. I heard alot of rumours but never witnessed one.

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Did you ever witness someone being escorted out of the KH?

by JH in

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friends

did it ever happen in your congregation that a person was asked to leave?.

i remember about 10 years ago, an elder was giving the sunday talk, and a woman that i never saw before was seated in the front.

she was all alone, and right in the middle of the brothers talk, she raised her hand and started asking questions to the brother about what he just said.

Rayvin

I somtimes have daydreams of going to a KH meeting and during the question part of the watchtower asking a big question or answering in a certain way as to stump them. But I am to shy/scared

What if it was just a guy wanting to know about the religion and didn't know how the meetings were supposed to go?

I too am curious of what they would do if one was to show up in a silent lambs shirt and just be there quietly. HHhhhmmm.. passive aggressive is in my blood line!!!!

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A thinking, reasoning person........

by wordlywife in

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the debate with my husband over my step-daughter's df has begun, just barely.

he used a phase about me being "a thinking, reasoning person" and he doesn't understand why i don't "see" bible principles.

i said that phrase is an insult to me, and then it went sour.

Rayvin

But you might want to tell him you're having a hard time loving him when he is being so unloving to his own flesh and blood. (1 JOHN 4:7-8, 20-21 "Beloved ones, let us continue loving one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born from God, and gains knowledge of God. He that does not love has not come to know God, because God is love. ... If anyone makes the statement: 'I love God,' and yet is hating his brother, he is a liar. For he who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot be loving God, whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have from him, that the one who loves God should be loving his brother also.")

I can imagine the father saying " but I DO love her. That is why I am doing this. Its for her own good. " The scripture doesn't explain what Love is. What the actions are that show love. You might want to add in the (1 Cor. 13:4-6) "Love is long-suffering and kind. Love is not jealous, it does not brag, does not get puffed up (5) does not behave indecently, does not look for its own interests, does not become provoked. It does not keep accout of the injury. (6) It does not rejoice over unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth. "

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Watchtower Words: The Governing Body condemns itself publicly (a pattern)

by Terry in

*** watchtower 1956 feb 1 pp.88-89 cautious as serpents among wolves ***

45 we dare not lie against god's word, adding to it or taking away from it, reading into it what it does not say and denying, passing over or explaining away what it does truthfully say.

"every word of god is tried: .

Rayvin

I agree. But I am sure they will come up w/ some reason why we are taking the info in a wrong way. Like my hubbys mom tells me.

"you just haven't been making the meetings so you are laking in faith"

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Service Meeting week of August 1, 2005

by TheListener in

song 187.

15 min: local announcements.

remind publishers to turn in field service reports for july.

Rayvin

Don't you want your kids looking like this? Very happy and peaceful?

Smiling through the torture ?? Smiling through the gossip and hypocrisy? Isn't it great that we JWs can provide the solution to all problems??