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  who here has a website

  by besty in

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  you can laugh at us here:.

  www.the-morrisons.com.

  post us your link or pm me if you're shy.....

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  www.tallpenguin.com
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  Anyone else feel like an emotional mutant at this time of year?

  by tall penguin in

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  i've been attempting to infiltrate my friend's christmas traditions in an attempt to understand and appreciate the holiday.

  i only had christmas until i was 5 when my mom converted to jw.

  before that, christmas was really big in our house.

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  Such great comments here.
  
  I've been doing more each day to enjoy the season. Taking time to pick out gifts for loved ones. Browsing Christmas items for my tree. Listening to Christmas music. It helps that I work in a bookstore and am surrounded by holiday shoppers.
  
  And I'm just getting out and being more social, as Dansk mentioned to do. I've really been enjoying having a more active social life. I'm even finding myself not seeing people as "worldy" anymore. I think that's progress.
  
  It's funny though because I'm so completely delighted by the newness of the holiday experience that people just love involving me in it. I think they're getting to revisit it all with new eyes. I feel like a child in many ways. I know that when I have my own kids one day, I will be able to really embrace Christmas and live it fully with them. That will be fun.
  
  Through all the isolation I feel at this time of year and others, I realize that at the end of the day it doesn't matter where we came from. Being a jw, while part of our story, isn't the end all and be all of who we are. We can design our own lives now. And that's the best part of all.
  
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  Going to Walt Disney World - Any suggestions?

  by kwintestal in

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  we're bringing our 9 and 7 year old kids to disney over the x-mas break this year.

  it's actually going to be their gifts and they don't know we're going.

  just wondering if anyone has any suggestions as to what to see or do there or what to avoid.. something else we just found out, since they cancelled the space shuttle launch the other day, they may be doing it on jan. 2, i'm excited about possilbly going to see it!

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  Only one suggestion my dear: take me with you!!! :)
  
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  Anyone else feel like an emotional mutant at this time of year?

  by tall penguin in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i've been attempting to infiltrate my friend's christmas traditions in an attempt to understand and appreciate the holiday.

  i only had christmas until i was 5 when my mom converted to jw.

  before that, christmas was really big in our house.

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  I've been attempting to infiltrate my friend's Christmas traditions in an attempt to understand and appreciate the holiday. I only had Christmas until I was 5 when my mom converted to jw. Before that, Christmas was really big in our house. I have pictures to prove it.
  
  Last night I went over to a friend's place to bake gingerbread cookies. Her home was decorated to the hilt. She had a huge Christmas tree in the living room as well as another one in her bedroom! I loved how pretty everything looked and I had fun baking. But I still felt odd somehow. I still feel like a stranger in a strange land. And people really can't appreciate what it's like to not have had these holidays growing up and to now be trying to assimilate them. They feel bad that I missed out on them as a child but don't really understand the emotional impact of trying to become part of things now, after so many years. It kicks up so many emotions for me. And then I just feel isolated and alone.
  
  Can anyone relate to this?
  
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  When YOU went out in the field service.....

  by JH in

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  2. beliefs

  when you used to go in the field service, did you go out to have 2 more hours on your report, or did you really want to save somebody's life by preaching a message of salvation ?

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  I loved field service. I loved people. I thought I was saving lives. If I hadn't, I wouldn't have done it.
  
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  Do you have more and/or better friends now?

  by sweet pea in

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  because of the season i have been writing a list of friends/'worldy' relatives to send cards to.

  i can't believe how many are on it!

  i am so excited and hopeful for the future.

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  Great question.
  
  I've come to realize that I have more authentic friends now than I did before. I also think I'm more authentic post-jw so that helps to attract a different person into my life.
  
  What I'm continually surprised by is how many "strangers" have become good friends. People I've met online through different modes, people I've met through my work and just random people met along the way. I'm surprised how easy it is to connect with people when you're no longer worried about them being a "bad association". It seems there are more similarities between us humans than there are differences. I'm happy to be at a point in my life where I'm allowed to celebrate that.
  
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  As a teenager what was your 1st car

  by XOCO in

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  i got my car from an elderly sis from my congo and it only had 52000mi and its a subaru gl-10 wagon '88 it looks just like this.

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  My Dad's 1984 OLDS Omega.
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  The Nerd Handbook for Non-Nerds

  by Paralipomenon in

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  2. relationships

  http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2007/11/11/the_nerd_handbook.html.

  the nerd handbook.

  a nerd needs a project because a nerd builds stuff.

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  Great article para. Nerds are cool. Or they can be. :)
  
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  An update

  by emilyblue in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  some of you may remember me from last spring/summer.

  i was the one who kept begging her jw boyfriend to take her back after every breakup.

  i came back in here the other night to read some of my past posts and replies, basically to keep myself from calling him.. i moved back to my home state this summer and am teaching here and spending tons of time with my family.

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  Sounds like you're getting some amazing clarity on the issues here. I'm proud of you. Recognizing an unhealthy and abusive pattern is difficult. Wanting to step out of it and make change so you don't end up in it again is courageous. Kudos to you.
  
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  Hi all, I am new, found a JW

  by -Tank in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  meet her, and we all go out and have fun it was a great time, and .

  went on, we talked more, and more...and more....and more, and .

  family issues back home, so she and her friends did not get to see .

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  First loves tend to have a quality of illusion to them as jgnat's story illustrates. You are seeing this woman through the eyes of inexperience. What you feel is love is new and exciting, but may not be enough to build anything solid on. Add that to the fact that she's a jw and you have a sure-fire recipe for hurt and disaster.
  
  Heal your heart. Move on. Love another. And recognize that the ideal of this woman you hold in your mind likely isn't real. Been there. Done that. Got the t-shirt.
  
  tall penguin