Posts by bitemeWT

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ok i think i finally have made a decision

by Cordelia in

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friends

soooooo any of you thats been following my threads thanks (and poor u) i have changed my mind so many times.

i have finally decided that i must stop trying to get reinstated, basically i got dfed 9 months ago had a boyfriend i felt i loved, was married tho still to my hubby who is only just starting to divorce me, (hes waited coz he keeps saying we could try again for the sake of our daughter but he would expect me to be completly in the 'truth') i hid the bf from my family coz they were so heartbroke and i decided to please them i would get reinstated and then fade, but as time went on i realised that wasnt an option as with a family like mine it would be so hard to do, plus there was the bf still hidden poor guy, anyway we spilt up several times, i was a complete physco i kept blaming him for everything,.

anyway last month i put my letter of reinstatement in and sat there scared stiff that they would reinstate me (as that would defo mean the end of the bf) they didnt reinstate me, and i blamed the bf and we spilt for good;.

bitemeWT

I see so much of myself in you. I'm a ppl pleaser too. I want everyone to be happy and be happy with me. It's just not possible.

I stayed in too long just because I thought my mother would have a nervous breakdown if I left. I finally had to leave because I would have a nervous breakdown. Yes, she took it hard, but I had to do it for ME. I was 22. You are 30. You have a daughter. Do you REALLY want your daughter subjected to all this craziness? Are you ready to shun her when she faces a similar situation?

It's really sad what this cult does to ppl and how some of us don't ever seem to grow up. I'm now 38, and I still don't feel grown up. My counsler told me I have the life skills of a 28 year old. When I was 28, I had the skills of a 18 year old. Women your age should be able to live their life the way they see fit, and their parents should have let go a LONG time ago. Man, are JWs ever screwed up in the head!

I feel for you, I really do, but it's time to grow up.

Diana... of the "needs to follow her own advice" class

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For Parents: Suggest replacements for Bible CDs at night for our kids?

by ithinkisee in

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friends

our kids are used to listening to what they call "bible tapes" at night when they go to bed.

(my book of bible stories/death, and learn from great teacher cds) we haven't had too much objection to them for now until we can move from our current town to our new location - where we can do a full-on fade.. my question: we would like to start weaning them off the bible tapes now.

anyone have any good suggestions nighttime story cds they could listen to instead of the wt kids crapola?.

bitemeWT

My children's school suggests reading to them at one grade level above what they are... So if you have a Kindergartener, then 1st grade level to them.

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I NEED YOUR INPUT ON THIS ASAP..

by Mary in

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friends

ok, i got a call tonight from an old friend i knew years ago when i lived in another city.

i haven't seen him for 18 years although we have had occassional contact.

he's coming in to toronto next week and wants to know if we can get together to catch up.

bitemeWT

I just wanted to post this one more time.

ROFLMAO! You're a riot, Gumby!

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I NEED YOUR INPUT ON THIS ASAP..

by Mary in

jw
friends

ok, i got a call tonight from an old friend i knew years ago when i lived in another city.

i haven't seen him for 18 years although we have had occassional contact.

he's coming in to toronto next week and wants to know if we can get together to catch up.

bitemeWT

Good lord, I'm not going to bang him!

Oops, I think I opened up a can of worms... I'm sorry.

But honestly, if he will break this rule that was HUGE when I was in, I would say that he's pretty liberal and going to dinner with him might turn into a good thing. But... um... not that good...

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I NEED YOUR INPUT ON THIS ASAP..

by Mary in

jw
friends

ok, i got a call tonight from an old friend i knew years ago when i lived in another city.

i haven't seen him for 18 years although we have had occassional contact.

he's coming in to toronto next week and wants to know if we can get together to catch up.

bitemeWT

Is everyone missing the obvious here?

WHO IS GOING TO CHAPARONE?!

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Watchtower directs us to kill our families!

by free2beme in

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friends

when the watchtower ask you to turn in your own family for wrong doing, and subject them to possible disfellowshipping.

by their own teaching, they are killing you.

throwing you into the ocean to drown while they sail away into the new system of things.

bitemeWT

I under stand the thinking of the terrorist very well they are just faith followers of their faith as they see it. Just like the Jehovah's Witnesses.

This is exactly what I told my never-been-JW sister-in-law. You should have seen the horror on her face.

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I just got fooled by a fake Paypal email

by DanTheMan in

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friends

i just got an email that stated that another email address had been authorized to my paypal account, and that if this was not correct, to click the link below.. so (big mistake) i clicked the link.

i get a phony but convincing looking "paypal" page saying that the page had been removed, and to click the link below to go to the home page.. so i clicked that linkwww.paypal.com/someotherstuff, so i think i'm good to go here.

i log in, and then it takes me to a page where i am asked to give my credit card number as a "security measure".

bitemeWT

I got one the other day that had the last four numbers of my credit card AND the expiration date.

That one scared me. I did the spoof@paypal thing and yes, it was a fake... but how did they get that info???

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Was CTR a Freemason? Compelling new evidence!!!!

by IP_SEC in

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psych!

bitemeWT

Bite me!

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JW's on trick or treat night

by carla in

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friends

how did your jw families appreciate people knocking on your doors on trick or treat night?

ever answer the door and tell them how pagan they were?

we had one jw house that used to be totally dark except for the porch light so we could read their sign- we are jw's and do not celebrate halloween.

bitemeWT

I remember being extremely frightened on Halloween night, as early as 3 years old. My parents made it seem like the devil and his demons would actually be coming to our house. The lights were turned off and we hid in a back room. It felt like we were under attack.

Yep... that's the Halloween that I remember... the front windows were covered with blankets. All the lights in the house were turned out. I couldn't even watch TV (the glow would give us away). We just sat there in the dark bored out of our skulls and my un-believing dad just let this madness happen.

I remember one time they went ahead and knocked on our door. I wanted to peek out the window at them. My mother told me not to do it because it would scare me and I would have nightmares. I bet she never had nightmares when she got to celebrate Halloween. She should have known better...

I just thought of a great costume! We should all dress as JW... complete with Watchtowers and Awakes... we could pretend we were street witnessing!

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info about selling houses and pioneering right before 1975???

by bitemeWT in

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friends

i seem to remember a kingdom ministry (or was it a watchtower?

) that praised the bros. for selling their houses and using the last few years of "this old system of things" to pioneer... right before 1975. does anyone know which one it was?.

i need it for a ebay person that is calling their fellow bros and sis idiots if they thought that armageddon was coming in 1975.

bitemeWT

Thank you everyone, for your help!

I didn't want to reply back to this person without proper ammo.