writing should be for our own edification - a personal cleansing, therapeutic at the least.
if you write for other people's approval, you will be disappointed, especially when you share your thoughts on the 'net.
i've seen many folks get 'burn-out' from these boards b/c they don't get the expected respond to their post.
Sometimes, though I only started one thread and that got a few responses so i'm ok.
I like to look back at threads I've posted in to see if someone responded directly to me. I think it has a lot to do with self esteem, one of the things that kept me going in the org. I'll admit it, I CRAVED people's praise. I've had to get over a lot of that, but it's sadly still a part of my personality.
when you all were dating jws, did you have to have a chaperone everytime you went out?
did you always adhere to this rule?
how did you get around it without getting caught?.
Yeah they can kiss my ass! Funny thats what I thought then too and I was still pretty deep into it.
I guess I needed to get an attitude adjustment, good thing I did or I'd still be going to the hall!
just want to take a pole describing our father in heaven.
Um, what is mineral Alex?
jay, .
i know you hate this kind of stuff but i would not miss this oppty for the world!.
happy birthday honey!!!!!!.
Happy Birthday (picture of clown baloon)
when you all were dating jws, did you have to have a chaperone everytime you went out?
did you always adhere to this rule?
how did you get around it without getting caught?.
Yeah we always had a chaperone, uh as far as the elders knew...
i thought it would be interesting to list all the papers that carried the new york times article.
yesterday, i noted the orange county register (california), someone else the santa barbara news-press (california) and still another the denver post (colorado).
today i came across it in the lexington herald (kentucky).
San Diego Union Tribune, Sunday's Paper:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sun/news/news_1n11jwabuse.html
we are going to have an extensive article in the new york times this sunday.
there is an early addition that comes out in most cities around on saturday.
i encourage one and all to get your copy and do not miss the important piece of history.
Just wanted to add that my local paper also picked up the story for its Sunday edition. I don't know what page it was on, but here's the online link:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sun/news/news_1n11jwabuse.html
i had one of those major dilemmas this morning.
basic question swirling through my mind was "can i wear jeans?".
i only recently have some contact with my dad.
My parents split when I was 12 and had a bitter divorce. My mom got custody and so for the rest of my teen years I got to hear about how evil my dad was, it didn't help that he moved halfway across the country shortly thereafter. When my parents were together I didn't have much of a relationship with him, so you can imagine the kind of relationship I had with him afterwards, especially when my mother took any effort on my or my sister's part to want contact with him as a personal affront to her.
So skip forward to after I got married, my dad came out to visit his new wife's family who live in the same place I do and he stopped by to see me and my wife. I hadn't seen him or even really talked to him in 8 or so years. Needless to say, it was quite awkward. I kind of had lost that "this is my dad" feeling for him and that really made me sad. I've only called him a couple of times since then and I haven't talked to him in about two years. I hate it and I feel like my father has been taken away from me.
The witnesses had a stranglehold on my mom and I attribute what happened to her attitudes which were shaped by her witness instruction. I think its the reason my father left, he couldn't deal with the way she treated him anymore. I don't blame him for doing it, but I still love my mother and see her often, but not having a Father is a hole I have in my life that I feel will never be fully filled.
So I hear what you are saying about your family, its sad and depressing, the only thing that helps me to move on is knowing that I will have a child someday and I will be there for him or her. I want to focus my life on giving my child a good family and a normal family, something I never really had.
seal of approval
when the mother returned from the grocery store, her small son pulled out the box of animal crackers he had begged for, then he spread the animal-shaped crackers all over the kitchen counter.
" his mom asked.
I don't know, these jokes are a lot like the ones I used to get in email from my JW friends. Watch out, I expect you to start talking about how great wifely submission and head coverings are! So saccharine sweet!
I'm just giving you a hard time Prisca, keep it up.
the issue of consent .
the issue of whether a person has consented to a particular action is a core part of our social relationships whether they be personal or group interactions.
to participate in any social relationship a person must on some level consent to that participation.
Man I didn't know what the witnesses were really all about until I got out.
But when I got baptized at 16 everyone else my age in the hall was doing it, so I didn't want to be left out. I thought people would treat me even worse if I didn't do it. I really didn't want to do it, but I knew what was expected of me so I forced myself to do it.
