for me, i've learned to be content.
a to what makes me happy, well, i'm happy when other people are happy.
i'm happy when i give my grandchildren plenty of hugs and kisses.
I had a truly happy moment (and I feel they are only momentary and must be savoured like a fabulous chocolate!) this morning when hubby took kids to the meeting, I turned up the radio, they were playing 'merry little christmas' and I just danced around the kitchen feeling so FREE!!!!
Yep, later I have to pay when the whole family are coming round and I will no doubt have to discuss stuff, but for now.. I still have 10 more precious minutes!!!
Poppy xxxx
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ok folks, i have been nagged so have worked out how to scan and upload images and here they are for you, front and back of the card, and 3 pages of the instructions on how to fill them in.
bear in mind it's uk so possibly may be different where you are.. poppy xx
I really dont feel it's a 'drinking blood' kind of thing, in my experience it's because we were taught (read brainwashed) all the bad things ie the health risks about blood to the point where lots of ex JWs still wouldn't take blood because they have not been fully informed. the BIG news, although not as big as I had hoped, struck a nerve in this regard, because I was also one of those who gullibly believed everything I had been taught.
Poppy x
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ok folks, i have been nagged so have worked out how to scan and upload images and here they are for you, front and back of the card, and 3 pages of the instructions on how to fill them in.
bear in mind it's uk so possibly may be different where you are.. poppy xx
I asked my hubby what he was going to do and he just said (like a well trained dub) that he was going to say no to everything just to be on the safe side!!! Just struck me that a lot of witnesses will just do what they are told rather than try and work out what is right and wrong for themselves as it's too complicated! arrgggh
Poppy
in compliance with the terms of a settlement agreement, my information and research web site, http://quotes.watchtower.ca, is now "dark".
the domain "watchtower.ca" has been transferred to wts (i assume they will have it pointing to borg.org watchtower.org asap).
my copies of the site have been destroyed, the files deleted, and my wt library cd has been destroyed, in accordance with the settlement agreement which will afford a "discontinuance" of their suit against me.
Just want to say, I'm GUTTED about the site, it helped me so much in my first tentative steps because it was so well documented and clearly just 'quoting' and nobodys own ideas. Hats off to you for all your hard work and fighting it so far and nobody thinks you should lay everything on the line to bring down the cheating lying snakes of the WTBTS. Your work will continue and just rest easy and know you have changed LIVES.
Poppy
a duck!!!
the wbts acts like a cult.
it looks and operates like a cult.
I now actually feel embarassed telling people I believed it!! Because it all sounds so stupid. But yes I do tell them the cult mentality and also how we were taught never to question, never to speak to people who had different thoughts etc.
Poppy
feeling pretty smug.. a couple of months ago i cancelled my dd to the society.
i have since been waiting to be struck by lightening, but as that hasn't happened, and i do feel i want to donate something, but wanted this time to think more carefully about it.
today i decided on my charity and set up a dd.
Oh yes! You can even contribute via credit card now at the conventions!!! Pubs are encouraged to do the direct debit so you dont forget your contributions and also so that they can claim the tax back from it.
I'm so glad I stopped it!!
Poppy
feeling pretty smug.. a couple of months ago i cancelled my dd to the society.
i have since been waiting to be struck by lightening, but as that hasn't happened, and i do feel i want to donate something, but wanted this time to think more carefully about it.
today i decided on my charity and set up a dd.
Sorry, must be a UK term! It means direct debit, as in a payment every month automatically taken from your bank.
feeling pretty smug.. a couple of months ago i cancelled my dd to the society.
i have since been waiting to be struck by lightening, but as that hasn't happened, and i do feel i want to donate something, but wanted this time to think more carefully about it.
today i decided on my charity and set up a dd.
Feeling pretty smug.. a couple of months ago I cancelled my DD to the society. I have since been waiting to be struck by lightening, but as that hasn't happened, and I do feel I want to donate something, but wanted this time to think more carefully about it. Today I decided on my charity and set up a DD. I just feel so much better about giving just a little bit of money, but to a charity that are actually DOING something with it.
And no.. your charity doesn't count if it's for beer, fags or cosmetic surgery.. get in line!!
Poppy
i am discovering a whole new way of life and thinking now that i have left the *truth*.
part of me still believes in some of the teachings, i just don't agree with the organization, its difficult to find amiddle ground, i just wondered what some of you have decided on, what your beleif system is now?
When I first started lurking here I was pretty sure the bible was correct, even got myself a different translation to read etc, but the further you draw away from the brainwashing the more you reason on stuff. Now I reason that if God loved us no way would he allow the world to be like this or destroy people in one swoop. Also the garden of eden, flood, ransom accounts, just make NO SENSE.
Slowly i find myself moving away from belief in the bible at all, Maybe I'm agnostic, not atheist yet, cos I just dont see the evolution thing..
But welcome! You will find your place!
Poppy xxx
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ok folks, i have been nagged so have worked out how to scan and upload images and here they are for you, front and back of the card, and 3 pages of the instructions on how to fill them in.
bear in mind it's uk so possibly may be different where you are.. poppy xx
Hi observador
No.. it's all there, the page is just shorter and has a blank space underneath to add names, I didn't scan the blank part to save on file sizes, the final page is also blank,
just a small observation but it's printed on terrible cheap quality paper! I've noticed that a lot lately with the WTBTS stuff.
I didn't think actually... but I have two of the junior cards my husband brought home, which I promptly put in the bin, I didn't look at those properly as they looked the same as previous years.. I should have scanned them.. sorry! I was too focussed on making sure they weren't filled in!
Poppy xxx
