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  All you DFW peeps with teens

  by Brigid in

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  are there any of you in our area with teens?

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  Brigid

  Are there any of you in our area with teens?
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  job loss

  by BlackSwan of Memphis in

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  as of august 1, mr.blackswan will join the ranks of the thousands of unemployed michiganders.. they are shipping his job, along with the rest of production to grand rapids, mi.

  which is 2 hours away.. my response was tears.

  fear is a big problem.. michigan is just not the place for jobs right now.. so, we are planning on having to look out of state.

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  Brigid

  babygirl, hang in there. Nothing easy is on the road ahead but there is something so freeing about picking up and relocating. I have lived in NM myself. Very very very low cost of living. A lot of resources for the schooling situation you mentioned to DS.

  HOWEVER....nothing like Texas. We have a steady economy. Always. Dallas keeps business going. We don't have the booms of other states but neither do we experience the bottom-outs. Texas is friendly and welcoming. Daystar and I are here to go out with ; ) Texas has no state income tax. Fairly low cost of living compared to quality of living. We do have high property taxes if you're thinking of purchasing upon your relocation. You would have to be careful with school systems (you might run into the same situation you have with the MI conundrum). But the good schools are VERY good and help property values. The bad school systems can trap you into dropping home values from which there is little escape. Schools drive a lot of the housing market here.

  Colorado is beautiful as is AZ. CO is cold (which you are used to), and AZ is hot. CO is beautiful and its economy is recovering and when it booms, it BOOMS! and is one of the funnest places on earth to live (except for my beloved TX, of course : )

  Love and Light to you on this leg of your journey,

  ~Brigid
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  job loss

  by BlackSwan of Memphis in

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  as of august 1, mr.blackswan will join the ranks of the thousands of unemployed michiganders.. they are shipping his job, along with the rest of production to grand rapids, mi.

  which is 2 hours away.. my response was tears.

  fear is a big problem.. michigan is just not the place for jobs right now.. so, we are planning on having to look out of state.

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  Brigid

  p.s. forgive me if I missed this (dont' have time to read all) but do you guys just wnat out of MI? Are you even pursuing transferring with hubby's job?

  Curious and want to help. Need more input.
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  job loss

  by BlackSwan of Memphis in

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  as of august 1, mr.blackswan will join the ranks of the thousands of unemployed michiganders.. they are shipping his job, along with the rest of production to grand rapids, mi.

  which is 2 hours away.. my response was tears.

  fear is a big problem.. michigan is just not the place for jobs right now.. so, we are planning on having to look out of state.

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  Brigid

  Hey hon, good luck to you. We are working with MI transferees right now so I know very well how abyssmal the market is. Our peeps all have guaranteed buyouts but that doesn't help you much.

  Have discussed w/DS and will try to help in whatever way I can.

  R U thinking Texas for relo?

  Love and Light, not to mention good ole' hugs,

  ~B.
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  AURAS......

  by freedomloverr in

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  without elaborating at length, there has been a lot going on in my life of late and i have sought out some therapies that i have used in the past.

  they've helped a lot.

  they are more along the lines of *natural* therapies.

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  Brigid

  I see auras sometimes. I cannot really be thinking about it or "trying" and sometimes I just see them. At least that's what I think they are. Like energy extensions of the body that move with the person. Also see them around plants, things, etc.
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  Punished by our “friends” for the letter we sent.

  by LennyinBluemont in

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  some of you may have read our exit letter from august of last year which we sent to about 50 of our close jw "friends", many of whom we had been very close to for decades.

  we just told them what we had learned regarding the un scandal and provided all the documentation.

  we never disassociated ourselves, nor have we been disfellowshipped.

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  Brigid

  Lenny,

  This is sadly not surprising. How very immature of them. But it sadly proves the point that most if not all friendships, relationships (even parental and spousal) created in the organization are totally conditional upon the towing of the party line - no matter how much that changes, fluctuates, etc. You simply must not even question, much less voice any doubt.

  what a half life they lead for the most part.

  Thank goodness you did not have a huge client base in the organization.
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  Visit with JW family

  by Brigid in

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  dear friends and fellow sojourners,.

  i have not had much time to post here and i miss you all horribly.

  even as i start this topic, i worry that i will not have the time to babysit it as i should but i just wanted to bleed out some of my thoughts after a visit with my mother and brother recently--thoughts that you and only you will understand.. i have not seen my mother in over a year.

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  Brigid

  and think about all these things that these *faithful* people went through.

  Yea, all those stories like: "sister so-and-so lives in war torn Africa with her 10 children, unbelieving mate who beats her mercilessly, lives on three cents a month (still manages to contribute!), has club feet and leprosy and still she pioneers (why can't you???)" LOL!!!!

  gods, I used to hate those stories. Though there was one that will stay with me forever. A man ("brother"), Australian, I think who suffered from such horrible shyness and resulting depression that he felt as if sometimes his spirit left his body. Always having had somewhat "mystical" experiences myself, I related. I was also extremely shy and depressed as a young witness, so I related alot.

  Thanks for letting me share here.

  I feel so detached right now from my family. Like I've gone totally into the "observer" mode. I cannot feel anymore for them because I totally burnt myself out on it. I used to worry incessantly about them, their finances, health, etc. Now I have to release them to live with the decisions they have made, as I must live with mine.
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  Visit with JW family

  by Brigid in

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  dear friends and fellow sojourners,.

  i have not had much time to post here and i miss you all horribly.

  even as i start this topic, i worry that i will not have the time to babysit it as i should but i just wanted to bleed out some of my thoughts after a visit with my mother and brother recently--thoughts that you and only you will understand.. i have not seen my mother in over a year.

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  Brigid

  It's just sad and such a waste to see my brother going down that path. After I left her house (practically balling my tires, spinning gravel, kickin' up dust LOL!), I nearly had a panic attack trying to put as much distance (physical and psychic) distance between us.

  Is that healthy? Have I not confronted fully my "demons" from my past?

  Also, why did I feel so damn nostalgic about that crap-a$$, poorly bound, abysmally written literature?

  hmmmm....
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  Visit with JW family

  by Brigid in

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  dear friends and fellow sojourners,.

  i have not had much time to post here and i miss you all horribly.

  even as i start this topic, i worry that i will not have the time to babysit it as i should but i just wanted to bleed out some of my thoughts after a visit with my mother and brother recently--thoughts that you and only you will understand.. i have not seen my mother in over a year.

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  Brigid

  That really was okay. I understood fully because I would have refused such a gift at a time in my life, truly believing it to be an endangerment to my family from demons.

  I wound up using what I had to make a bigger blanket for my daughter (my 14-year-old baby) and she loves it! Or so she says LOL! All my loved ones have to suffer through my homemade crocheted, badly sewn "goodies" LOL!
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  Visit with JW family

  by Brigid in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  dear friends and fellow sojourners,.

  i have not had much time to post here and i miss you all horribly.

  even as i start this topic, i worry that i will not have the time to babysit it as i should but i just wanted to bleed out some of my thoughts after a visit with my mother and brother recently--thoughts that you and only you will understand.. i have not seen my mother in over a year.

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  Brigid

  Dear friends and fellow sojourners,

  I have not had much time to post here and I miss you all horribly. Even as I start this topic, I worry that I will not have the time to babysit it as I should but I just wanted to bleed out some of my thoughts after a visit with my mother and brother recently--thoughts that you and only you will understand.

  I have not seen my mother in over a year. I do love her though our past is wrinkled with pain (not all of it bad). I want you to know that I do love my mother and no doubt I love my baby brother. We used to be so so close until he returned to the organization.

  First let me say I was absolutely shocked at her home. It is quite literally falling apart. I once heard my mother tell an insurance sales person all about the new world coming and that was the reason why she did not have need for life insurance. No planning. No preparation. Only a wrecked life of reactionary living to every crisis that appears. Failing health. I cannot even contribute financially anymore as I used to. What good did it ever do anyway?

  There was, my friends, a slight moment of sick nostalgia--I swear, as I beheld those old bound volumes, comic-book style WTs and tracts that colored the landscape of my weird childhood. I felt like a person visiting and feeling nostalgia for a prison they had spent years in...something "comforting" about the familiarity of misery--for if nothing else, it was constant. Not that all the times were bad. BTW, the literature literally says nothing NOTHING new. It was amazing to me. Still the same old tired sentiments. Oh well. Let the dead bury the dead.

  My brother's health--not good. He has a new daughter and she is beautiful. I was glad that he let me see her because he had refused the blanket I had crocheted her in the beginning because of my "alternative" (demonized) spirituality. I totallly do not blame him as my mind was there at one time.

  Totally self-righteous. Totally masked from the baby brother who used to laugh with me and joke etc.

  I woke up the next morning as early as possible after I slept very very little and felt as if I did not get out of there my very breath would fail me.

  Just had to share. I'm glad to be back home.

  Love and Light,

  ~Brigid