to ink or not to ink that was the question!.
the build up.
i was really excited about it and got up early to salute to the sun, cat to the ceiling and baby to the carpet (yoga).
Very cool tat! Congratulations! :)
I agree with Richie on his assessment...when you were describing the first tattoo place you walked into I was cringing inside...so glad you found the other place. :)
and...we told you...they are addictive. ;)
delicious!
at my wedding -- june 30th-- i will have a few x-jws and even one maybe two real jws there.
the wedding is in a church .. .
and i was thinking of having "marriage is god's arrangement" played just for kicks with even a soloist there to sing it.
Its not so much a gag as it is that the song means something to me.
there you go. There's your answer. If you want to play it then play it. :)
Enjoy yourself...make memories...if it means something to you go for it! :)
i do not attend the same hall as my boyfriend because he is currently reproved for being involved with me.
i'm not a witness.
he confessed to his elders that he had sex with someone outside of marriage after his second divorce was already final.
Listen to your head. We as women get so wrapped up in the emotions of the moment that we can't see through it to the facts. I know...easier said than done...and we all want people to love us and no one wants to hurt anyone willfully...but you've gotta think of it this way. You marry him...you're having problems...are you going to go to your best friend (who's also gonna be a witness btw...you should be aware of that by now). You tell her your heart's tale (just like what you did with your bible study conductor.) Do you think you're going to get the hug and tears and hang in there girl! or you're right, he's a bastard! or any of that? You might to your face, but she's obligated to go to the elders and tell them whatever you said if it's off color. Say what?! That's the simple reality of this religion.
You are being emotionally extorted by this man, and if you continue you will allow this religion to do the same. Your BF is a grown man, and if he's SO into this religion, then he should have bluddy well known better than to do what he did with you. This is in NO WAY your fault...this is his. What goes around comes around.
On the flip side, I am sorry that you're having to go through this...but I would rather read this type of thread than the ones of the men and women who stay in for years/decades/etc. in misery and then leave as a broken vessel having to be reglued back together. Chin up girl! This is not the end of the world. :)
i have pondered this question on many occasions.
when i began to have 'doubts' and began to 'question' some doctrine, and particularly the lack of christian love, very little effort was made to 'snatch me out of the fire' as elders are admonished to do.
i have always wondered why we as jw's would spend countless hours trying to start bible studies with 'wordly' people, while at the same time ignoring those who are moving away from dead center of the organization.
Let's see...my father was dfed...and my entire family was shunned. My mother got fed up and DA'ed herself cause she felt that it wasn't a loving organization. I kept going for another year, switching congregations, thinking that I would get the 'love and acceptance' that was gone since my father and mother were quitted in the congregation i had been in for years. HA! The PO hated me for some reason...just out and out dislike...looking back, he probably knew the skinny on the whole thing with my family and figured I would turn out the same way.
There is a point to this, i swear! Basically I saw and was my personal experience that they just don't have the want to bother with people that are slipping...I guess it's a matter of statistics...it's easier to ensnare unsuspecting people versus trying to readjust slipping blinders.
just thought i'd do something i always wanted too.
mr c always said he's dump me if i had a tattoo, well we're not together anymore so i can and i am!
richie or those in the know - how much pain can i expect to look forward to?.
how's the tat looking rich? :)
i saw all the hubbub you folks were making over the memorial, and for the first time in my life since leaving the j-dubs, i had no desire to even go.
as recently as last year, i gave thought to going, but usually did not.
this year it came and went and i never gave it a thought.
Thank you Thank you Nosferatu. :)
and gosh, what good daydreams I had at the meetings...man, I had my own fantasy world goin on during the watchtower discussions, i tell you what. :)
i've been out for about 4 years and for the first time i've been able to find a place that understands how hard it was for me to get to where i am today after being raised a jw.
i feel like all of you can relate to having to start a new life from scratch after years of living a completely different one.
so, thanks..
Welcome aboard!
In case of a water landing your seat cushion can be used as a flotation device...
my question is this...out of how many crashes you might have seen on the news that involved airplanes and water have you seen seat cushions floating in the water? :)
just thought i'd do something i always wanted too.
mr c always said he's dump me if i had a tattoo, well we're not together anymore so i can and i am!
richie or those in the know - how much pain can i expect to look forward to?.
I got my tats once in my late twenties...and my response to the 'be careful' response is this...
I'm gonna look like crap when I'm 80...why not have colored skin while I do it? :)
Forsharry "Of the I'm gonna be sittin on the porch with purple hair and horned rimmed glasses when I'm 80" class ;)
i saw all the hubbub you folks were making over the memorial, and for the first time in my life since leaving the j-dubs, i had no desire to even go.
as recently as last year, i gave thought to going, but usually did not.
this year it came and went and i never gave it a thought.
Word Up Nosferatu...96 was a very good year!
That was the last year I attended the memorial as well...ahhh blessed freedom.
Actually no. The first couple of years out of the truth were the worst of my life. My life was such a mess after getting out of the noose...i had no idea how to live or talk with people...opposite sex interaction was the worst...terrified...absolutely terrified of worldly men for years! anyway...over all of that now...and I wouldn't go back to it and would go through the hell again to make sure i was free of the WTBS. :)
end ramble
it has cone to my attention via god's holy days -or holidays by the goodnews lot that peeling apples was used by pagans o divine how long someone would live.. in view of the pagan connection,should true christian peel apples?.
okay...not cool!
i was drinking my bottled water while illegally looking at this site when I should be working, cause we've got a special section due out and i'm up to my eyeballs in advertising...when low and behold I see this subject line...and henceforth spit said water all over my screen and keyboard...it's taken me like 6 minutes to clean up the mess before I could even write this.
:)
