Posts by Calliope

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Slow Dance (poem)

by purplesofa in

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thought you all might like this poem.....:) i did not write it.......i think we can all relate .

you'd better slow down.. don't dance so fast.. time is short.

hear the music.

Calliope

i love this:

Life is not a race.

Do take it slower

Hear the music

Before the song is over.

this is all there is.

calliopé

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Help Me with JW wife

by kwijibo in

my jw wife is trying to push me out of the family home.

i am an inactive jw for about 5 years and she has begun putting pressure on me to leave.

do you have any articles for me to fight her with?

Calliope

i want to be very sensitive to this issue, but there are some points i have difficulty empathizing with.

i would suggest you both sit down and TALK sans references from any "holy inspired" book. it doesn't seem to help if your conversations are peppered with:

"but the bible says this"

"the WT says that..."

talk like freely and openly, like when you first met...

all the best,

calliopé

31

may i say hello?!?

by isthisit in

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hello my name is isthisit and i have a confession to make, i'm an active jw and not happy.

i am a lurker here and have to start posting.

i am 22 and have been "born and raised" as well as being 4th generation.

Calliope

welcome!

please do stay. there is so much to learn and such awesome friends to make.

calliopé

32

how do guys ask you out on a date these days?

by Calliope in

ever feel like you've been sequestered from normal human interaction for too long?.

since my split (from hubby), i've been wondering what the rules are these days.

in my earlier days, i was a partying stoner (well, a closet one) and i didn't date guys as much as end up in a closet or in a parked car, hot tub... okay you got the picture.. so, i've been email bantering back and forth with this guy i used to work with and yesterday, got this email:.

Calliope

turtleneck? good suggestion.
weather? got it!

thanks!!!
;)

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how do guys ask you out on a date these days?

by Calliope in

ever feel like you've been sequestered from normal human interaction for too long?.

since my split (from hubby), i've been wondering what the rules are these days.

in my earlier days, i was a partying stoner (well, a closet one) and i didn't date guys as much as end up in a closet or in a parked car, hot tub... okay you got the picture.. so, i've been email bantering back and forth with this guy i used to work with and yesterday, got this email:.

Calliope

ever feel like you've been sequestered from normal human interaction for too long?

since my split (from hubby), i've been wondering what the rules are these days. in my earlier days, i was a partying stoner (well, a closet one) and i didn't date guys as much as end up in a closet or in a parked car, hot tub... okay you got the picture.

so, i've been email bantering back and forth with this guy i used to work with and yesterday, got this email:

If you'd like to get together for a drink some other time though,
that sure might be fun. I'll be going to "jazz club" on tuesday to
see a band. If you're not "jazz club-ed" out.. consider that?

Talk to you soon,

this was in part, a reply to an email i'd sent him a couple days earlier inviting him to the same club. to get a better picture, i did see him at a concert recently with a girl (who of course, can be his sister or cousin, nothing-more-than platonic friend, maybe mother?). so there is that possibility that he already has a girlfriend.

so should i go to the club? should i go it alone or tag team with friends? should i be stoned? or high? stone-cold sober?

#$)(*$#%)(*&$ - this is so strange!

cal.

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Just introducing myself

by restrangled in

dear all,.

just wanted to say hello and tell you how much i have appreciated all your postings as a "lurker"...sorry.. short history, grew up in the 70's as a 3rd generation jw, elders daughter, dad left in the 80's, df'd at 16 and the decision was reversed after 90 days.

left when i was 18. i am now 48 and have suddenly been shunned by my mother even though i have supported her emotionally all these years never critisizing the wt, listening patiently to witnessing stories etc.

Calliope

welcome amy.

glad you joined us!

calliopé

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ever get "caught" because someone spotted you on JWD?

by Calliope in

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i've been thinking of changing my avatar or posting my picture, but due to my fasitidious paranoia, i hesitate with the possibility that some wit out there will venture too close and recognize me.

does anyone know if anyone has ever been "caught" because of displaying their picture here?

calliope

Calliope

jwfacts,

were you df-ed after all? and why were they trying to track you down?

cal.

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ever get "caught" because someone spotted you on JWD?

by Calliope in

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friends

i've been thinking of changing my avatar or posting my picture, but due to my fasitidious paranoia, i hesitate with the possibility that some wit out there will venture too close and recognize me.

does anyone know if anyone has ever been "caught" because of displaying their picture here?

calliope

Calliope

elsewhere,

i can't see you picture.

calliopé

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Should you try and call an old dub friend? What if you did?

by gumby in

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ok, sunnygal inspired this one.. today i wondered what would happen if i called an old dub friend.

he's an elder.

i met him in jr. high as he was in my metalshop class and i mentioned i was a witness.

Calliope

i'd say you should call him up.

but don't get your expectations too high so you can be pleasantly surprised if he engages in further communication. and if he doesn't, you won't be overly disappointed.

and if that doesn't work, i can be an old dub friend if you want and you can call me up anytime. i promise nothing but good times!

calliopé

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Why are EX-JW's and JW's in doubt(faders) so ''afraid" of the elders?

by booker-t in

i have been out for years now but i still tremble alittle when i run into an elder at the store or run into an elder on the street and my post question certainly applies to me as well but why do i still have fear of jw's elders?

i have been da'd for so many years but that fear still comes up.

and reading alot of the post here i still see ex-jw's and jw's faders living a pretended jw life or pretending to be happy when they are miserable in the wt.

Calliope

just yesterday i was telling a friend about that fear.
even down to going to the grocery store has become a chore.
and it's not that i care if witnesses see me. i just don't want to see them.
she could relate.

anyone else feel this way?

calliopé