Posts by reneef

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My mother......sheesh!

by ex-nj-jw in

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for those who missed the drama, you can check it out here if you wish to www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/140100/1.ashx.

for those who know a little about my past and my mother - she had the nerve to call me today and leave an urgent message for me to call her.

i thought it was about my dad or that something bad had happened since her last comment to me was that i was dead to her, or something to that effect.

A really great book I just read

by reneef in

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i just read a great book.

i started out getting the book because of being a rock and roll fan.

it ended up being about so much more than that.

I just read a great book. I started out getting the book because of being a rock and roll fan. It ended up being about so much more than that. It ended up being a book about overcoming child abuse, forgiveness, and having a great life in spite of a very hard beginning.. It is just an uplifting book. It reminded me that jws don't have the market cornered on crappy childhoods and crazy parents! I think it would resonate with a lot of us here.

Catherine James was the product of beautiful, well-connected Beverly Hills parents who divorced: the father became a transvestite, coming out to James when she was a young adult at Musso & Frank's in Hollywood, as depicted in a wild opening chapter; the mother, Diana, went through a succession of husbands and eventually relinquished caretaking of her daughter to the state.

Having dated Bob Dylan by age 13, James ran away from the Visa Del Mar orphanage to New York and hung out at Andy Warhol's Factory. She met Denny Laine of the Moody Blues, who became an abusive husband and father of her child while she was still in her teens. She shopped on Kings Road in Chelsea and partied with members of the Beatles, the Who and the Rolling Stones, among others. When the marriage didn't work, she took her son back to California and romanced Jackson Browne.

Somehow James makes do with a little help from her friends, finding modeling work, doubling for Diane Keaton and going back to school. Ever cheery, never self-pitying, her memoir is by turns insipid and sweet.

http://www.amazon.com/Dandelion-Memoir-Spirit-Catherine-James/dp/0312367813/ref=sr_1_7/002-0939581-4200858?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1192734501&sr=1-7

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Adobe Photoshop kidnap

by reneef in

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i think it started when i downloaded an adobe upgrade, but jasc used to open up automatically for me to download pictures off my memory strip.

somehow now, every time i do it adobe oens up automatically.

i don't prefer it.

reneef

I think it started when I downloaded an Adobe upgrade, but JASC used to open up automatically for me to download pictures off my memory strip. Somehow now, every time I do it Adobe oens up automatically. I don't prefer it. I prefer JASC to open automatically. Anyone have any idea how to remedy this? I have not been able to find any setting to do so. if I can't fix it, I will just delete Adobe Photoshop.

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They lied-BIG TIME, do they have a conscious?

by Junction-Guy in

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folks i know what it was like to be raised in this religion, but i never knew what it was like to be a convert.

lately i have come in contact with some jw's, they know nothing about my background.

i have asked them so very tricky questions, and they have flat out bare faced lied.

reneef

I don't think they do. To them it is protecting the borg at all costs. They believe god wants them to do it.

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Bad Dream

by PoppyR in

4am in the uk, and i was jolted awake by a dream about my mother dying, she is not in good health.

i felt overwhelmingly sad that if this happens, she will die in sadness over me.

and also very upset because she is my mum and i want her to love me and be interested in my life and that just isn't the case any longer.. i realise i am 'luckier' than some on here because at least she speaks to me.

reneef

(((poppy)))

You can't change them. You can only live your life and do what YOU want. It is on them, it is what they choose.

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Contemplating my end here

by Junction-Guy in

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this has by far been the best xjw forum i have ever been on, but the time is coming when i must move on to other venues.

the net is very time consuming, and i cant keep up with every post on here, no matter how hard i try.. .

im embarking on a new journey here in the next few months, and i just have to break myself free from the internet.. .

reneef

have you ever thought of the police academy JG?

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Need Everybody's Help!!

by Metamorphosis in

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ok - i've placed myself in a make or break situation.

i don't post a lot so you may not be familiar with me, but feel free to read my initial post on my situation.

a little has changed - i've now not turned in a service report the last two months (june and july) - first time in 25+ years, it feels great!

reneef

IMHO it would not be a good thing to do to have kids until you are both on the same page. it would be a shame for a chiild to enter into the universe if his parents are not in harmony. it would also be a shame to perpetuate another generation of this cult and what the kids go through. good luck to you.

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B - I - NGO?

by MutualRespectPlease2 in

hello friends its me, mutualrespectplease.

i messed up my earlier registration, so now i am mrp2.

i have been doing a bunch of research on the different responses i got from you regarding my posts from the beginning of august.

reneef

I think you are very welcome here. I just think you did nt like the replies you got. You will not get your ears tickled here. I saw one person be questionable toward you. The rest are using sound reasoning.

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