happy st. patrick's day everyone!
now don't you all get too drunk tonight on green beer!
ps...this is the only day i can use the st.patty's day emoticons..lol
<<Well, what is everyone doing for the day?>>
Well, if I can catch a flight out of DIA, I'll meet you guys at the pub (can I be included in your adoring throngs?)
Damn, it's just too damn cold here (I'M SICK OF IT!!!!), and I'm flying out on Monday for Ontario. Guess I'll have to go back to Starbucks and see if I can get some more action there!
Have fun, maybe next year!
~Brigid
here it is the anniversary of my baptism.
it has been five years since i was baptized and i wish i could take it back.
i woke up this morning feeling incredibly sad, lonely and whats worse i woke up feeling empty.
I'm sitting here trying to remember when I got baptized. I cannot. I can't remember the date, the season--I remember I was 19 and it was El Paso in a swimming pool.
Yes, little one, time will heal. Keep the cell phone on silent, pick up for real friends. Get out and celebrate St. Patty's Day!!
Love and Light, Little One,
~Brigid
ummmm that's when i knew i did it wrong.
ugh!
thank goodness i've been a student for few years and have tuition credits built up.. dams
Troubled Mind,
The better your business does, the better an accountant you need have, my dear! Mine is very creative but always on the up and up. Nothing is beyond a write-off, my sweet. NO THING!!
Never try to do business taxes on your own. That's what the bean-counters are for!
~Brigid
happy st. patrick's day everyone!
now don't you all get too drunk tonight on green beer!
ps...this is the only day i can use the st.patty's day emoticons..lol
Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!
I love this day! I always wear green (always have snuck it in--it's my favorite color). And though I'm not Irish or of Irish ancestry, I always "pass" very well with my red hair, fair skin and freckled nose! I admit, I like the cheap attention (just got some love at the Starbucks!!).
So, I'm way diggin' on St. Patty's Day and riding that green Irish wave.
Blessings,
~Brigid
i'm trying to figure out how long that i will be obsessed with this board.
i could spend 24/7 on here.
i think that's why i don't clean up the house as much.
I too love this board. Even when I'm not posting as much, I am lurking....ever lurking. I do try to keep it balanced with my "real" life, however--but this is the place where people get those deep, harwired things floating around in my psyche. It's not like I can go to my book club and say "hey, remember all those demonized smurf stories??! Those were hilarious!"
*crickets chirping*
So, I for one wholeheartedly support your "addiction". One thing that keeps me coming back time and time again (even though I quit for about 3 years), is that there are so many broken, bruised people who stumble out of the org or lurk on the edge, feeling terrified, undone, unloved. They can come here and even if they never reach out, just knowing that there is life after the organization is vitally important.
Love,
~Brigid
i was disfellowshipped in 2003. systematically my family stopped talking to me.
i am only 22 years old and i feel a big void in my life.
what can i do to feel better?
Dear ryry,
I'm so glad you found us! You've taken that one first step toward the Light and it now takes a thousand toward you (my version of some words that really helped me through my break away period).
Welcome. Welcome. Welcome.
We look forward to getting to know you better.
Love and Light,
~Brigid
i don't know how to celebrated the memorial because i was tricked by jehovah witness.. what am i suppose to eat and drink?
is there a special kind of bread and bevarge that is need.. another question i have is what is leaven bread and what is unleaven bread?.
oh yeah, what is the date of the memorial?.
Dear Godisright,
If you truly feel you need to commemorate this, you can be "safe" with following the Jewish calendar. Pesach (Passover) the Holiday that became the Christian "Last Supper" and the Societies Memorial starts this year on April 12 after sundown. I believe that the Society's memorial is congruous with this as well--many years, it is woefully off and this is always a mystery as they puport to follow so closely the Jewish calendar--one year, they weren't even in Nisan!! LOL!!
Anything with leaven in it (incl) baking soda would be "unkosher" for this event (and Jesus was kosher). Your safest bet is to go to your local grocery store, look in the "Kosher Foods" section and get some Matzoh (these are flat crackers-not too tasty, but not vomitous, either)--make sure it is Kosher for passover--it may say Kashrut for Pesach--that's fine. there won't be any leven.
Wine should be kosher wine (again, there should be a section in a local liquor store with Kosher wines) if you want an authentic what-would-jesus-do experience. It's not too expensive for the "sweeter" versions but you can get some very nice ones from Israel.
Meditate as you recreate, what the "covenant" means to you.
Good luck. And many blessings to you.
~Brigid
!st.
i cant get this red to change on here.
im glad to be here.
Tweety,
A warm and hearty welcome to you. Now, tell us more about yourself!
We're waiting to get better acquainted.
Love and Light,
~Brigid
i'm sure this will have been discussed before..but i am new here, so i was wondering how many of you when you where active jw's actually beleived you were going to survive armageddon.
i personally being brought up in the 'truth' used to lie in bed frightened of it coming or world events always thinking i was too bad a person to survive, and even as an adult i always felt i was never doing enough or good enough to be 'chosen' for survival when the end came u were always made to feel like you should be doing more as though you could earn your salvation.
i have talked to someone else who i know has left and they felt the same, i was wondering how many of you guys actually beleived you would make it through armageddon
I never thought I would "make it". I remember at age of 8-11, panicking (couldn't sleep, got put on medication for pre-ulceritic stomach--the doctor asked my mother what the hell was going on) because I could not stop thinking about 1) being tortured mercilessly or having to watch my younger siblings get tortured or 2) the more likely scenario of dying forever at Jehovah's hands.
So, no I never thought I would make it. Now I know, I have only to open my eyes to realize that I'm already in Paradise.
Love and Light,
~Brigid
i have noticed some who have recently left still hang on to 'unique' language of the society.
how long did it take you stop using the buzz words and things like brother, sister, jah, and many others?
and do you still recognize the word jehovah as a word for god?
Yes, I relate. They have been hardwired into my subconscious almost from birth, so I suppose it's normal. When I hear "the truth", service, watchtower (those of you who perform esoteric ritual, probably know what I'm talking about...."the guardians of the Watchtowers of the....) no matter in what context, I have a flash of the Jehovah's Witnesses. Aaarrghhh!
Oh well....it all happened for a reason, I suppose.
~Brigid
