tah dahhh!!!
i got it done friday night after work.
it's a true to life tattoo of my cat bucky.
Wow...pretty cool!! I really like your tattoo!!!
I had 3 tattoos before I was a witness and now that I'm out I'm ready to get more!!
I love the fact you got one of your kitty...funny...the whole time I was a witness my best friends were my 2 kitties. They got me through more crap than any witness friend could! I had a portrait painted of one of them after she died. I need to get one done of the other.
Thanks for sharing the pics...
Zaxby's
Zaxby's
Zaxby's
New chicken place popping up all over the place here in the south. Can't beat their kickin chickin sandwich! (Buffalo chicken strips with ranch sauce between 2 pieces of texas toast!!) HMMMMMM...I'm hungry now!!!
i used to listen but not really.
i'd look at the platform/speaker stand, look like i was paying attention, get antsy, and find another elder to "discuss" something ith.
i just got to the meeting----right before it was to start and if the talkative po decided that his last part was going to go overtime, i'd put on my coat and look at the big clock on my way out in front of everyone and leave for the local bar.
Every once in a while I'd listen to what was being said, but it didn't last long. I always remember thinking what else I couuld be doing. We'd write notes back and forth....what do think of sister x's dress, where is bro.z today?, where do you want to eat after the meeting? etc, etc.. I used to draw pictures in the Watchtower during the study.
I found one of my notebooks from an assembly a few weeks ago and there were so many little notes all over the margins. Man, I think we talked more about the guys than anything else
When I started to go to Spanish meetings, I didn't understand a damn thing. It was great, I didn't have to comment cause I couldn't!!! hahaha
rate yourself as far as healing from the abuse of the organization.
time is a great healer, so i believe those who can state many years out, will also state a high rate of healing has occured for them.how many years have you been out of the organization?on a scale of 1-10, ten being completely free of the pain, one being raw and still hurting with intensity, how much healing have you accomplished since leaving?related to number 2 - how much of your mind have you recaptured?
how often do your decisions still bring watchtower theology into play when making them?.
Well, I haven't been to a meeting in almost 4 years, but I had wanted to go back for almost the entire time. It's been maybe 3-4 months since I started to SEE what the org really was.
I would say I was at about a five. Some days are good and I don't think about it, but other days, whew..I just can't get the crap out of my head.
I think I've got most of my mind back. It helps that I spent more years of my life out of the troof than in. Making more decisions on my own w/o a jw filter is a whole helluva lot easier now. Then again, while I was there i made alot of decisions on my own anyway.
i never thought i would do one of those infamous goodbye i cant take this board anymore posts where the person shows up again a week later and looks like an idiot.
when i had enough of this board and needed a little break i would just quietly leave for a few months and hopefully nobody noticed.
that is not the case this time.
Hey man,
So sorry to hear about the ms. One of the first things I read here was experiences and yours was one of the first. I think I'll always remember it. I read alot more than I post and everytime I saw your name somewhere, I'd read what you have to say. So THANKS - you did make a dent in a newly freed exjw!
this thread is for those who joined on their own....not those who grew up as jw's and dragged into it.... in my case, they seemed to be alone preaching the good news of the kingdom to be on earth and heaven.
they called god jehovah or yhwh.
they preached door to door like mathew 24:14 said.
Like Drew said...it just "made sense".
My family had never been religous growing up and when a boyfriend started to study, I joined in. It didn't stick....but after a REALLY bad year, doing a few too many drugs, and losing everything I had, I went back. Everyone at the hall just seemed to UNDERSTAND what I was going through. All of a sudden I was welcome and a part of a gigantic family. (Took 7 years to see how much of a family they truly were)
I just wanted to live forever with my worldly family (always hoping they would die of some freak accident so they could get to the new system) in a paradise earth. It sounded GOOD!!! It looked like they had all the bases covered whenever I asked questions. Sometimes things didn't seem to fit, but I let my doubts go cause I didn't want to give up the bigger picture for something so trivial.
i just watched this amazing and beautifully filmed documentary about a crazy, crazy man who lived with alaskan brown bears and ultimately was killed by them.
this film is really interesting.
the guy it's about is nuttier than squirrel poop.
I read his book a couple of years ago. I think it's called "Walking with Grizzlies" or something like that. The book was awesome! I still have it around here somewhere. He doesn't look to be too loco in it. I haven't seen the movie but I've seen the previews and he does look a little off talking about the bears. I was really suprised when I saw that he had been eaten by one of them, he seemed to know what he was doing and had such respect for the animals.
i'm free now.
by which i mean, i am no longer worried about being "found out.
" does anyone here live near albany, ga?
Hey, I live just north of Atlanta but I travel to Dublin about once a month to see family.
while you were associated with the jehovah's witnesses did you have the peace and joy that the bible, especially the new testament says jesus' followers will have in abundance?
I had occasional, fleeting moments of peace and oddly enough most of the joy I ever felt had came from sources OUTSIDE the org. Hmmmmmmm
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you know, the ones you bothered to buy when they came out on video.... the kids have the next week and a half off, and i am looking for input on silly, funny, quirky movies to watch with the fam.
thought i'd start with raising arizona for today for it's sheer silliness, plus i adore nicholas cage.. any suggestions?.
Most all of our family faves have already been said...so I'll give you some new ones.
Christmas with the Kranks is going to be a new tradition, it's hilarious!
Madagascar is funny watching those lemurs move it, move it...
And for the adults...Bad Santa, ALOT of language, but I about fell off the couch laughing so hard!
Dan, we're with you, My bro's got TBS turned on most of Christmas day to watch little Ralphie!
Oh, Lilo and Stitch
