i'm obsessed with new cars.
i'd trade a $50,000 car for a brand new $40,000 one the year after, and trade it again for a $30,000 brand new one the year later, and trade it again for a $20,000 one year after that.
as long as i get a new one every year or so, i love the feeling, even if it's less equipped.
i'm obessed with words. syntax. ponctuation.
describing things with new words.
like in my little propitious microcosm of perpetual libation, i capitulate to the gods of jwd.
the things is, english is not my first language, so i likely use them out of context.
i also like sex alot.
calliopé
to all out there that read this forum, " i'm not a jehovas witness!".
but i am in love with someone.
i understand because i have read much information on the internet regarding these kinds of relationships.
GO FOR IT!!!
woohoo!
okay seriously. see if you can get her to join your christian faith. you both may be better off.
calliopé
drifting away is one thing.
i'm curious if anyone has written a letter (not a disassociation letter) that simply told their friends and loved ones that you don't really believe a lot of it anymore and blah, blah, blah.. or is it better to shut up and just never show up again.. problem is my wife says if i want to leave that i have to fess up and tell people.
ouch!.
sadly, i did the same to my then husband.
he didn't want to be in the truth Ô , so i told him that he should speak with the "well-meaning" elders that would surely help him see the "errors" of his ways. but by then he had already decided to da himself.
this began what would lead to the end of our marriage.
happily, i have now seen the "errors" of my ways and have successfully been fading for nearly a year. my ex and i are best friends and are both very happy with how things turned out.
not to say you may have the same experience. it is somewhat unique. but perhaps give her time? that what i needed.
calliopé
oh. never mind!
holy crap! get out of my head!
that's exactly how i felt - i was just sitting here laughing at absolutely nothing and i wondered what you were laughing at!
it is a shame that people are here portraying themselves as jehovah's witness as having some knowlege or going to meetings.
what exists here is a complete lack of faith in anything.
and a great amount of stupidity.
i don't know about you all, but i feel oh so special being part of a free thinking, intelligent, skeptical and inquisitive, responsible and open-minded faithless group as the lot of you. so much more refreshing than say, a "non-profit" organization that has coined a new meaning for Truth™.
there's something about mind-control and brainwashing that just doesn't seem right, you know?
(sarcasm fully implied).
calliopé
i stumbled across this site last august and created an account but a series of events led me to run away (i can post the story if you like) and i have been moving around a bit until i finally got settled some.
along the way due to my mother's sheltering i had some bad experience because i didn't know as much about the real world as i should have.
i ingested as i have before a psychoactive one night and a surge of memories came rushing back to me of my childhood and a massive handfull of them were tied to the time i was made to endure going to the kingdom hall and socializing with many members outside of.
welcome Jolinar, to the wonderful world of free minds (and herbs sans guilt - isn't that right Mike?)
re: "does anyone find it hard to talk with their mom if they are a JW and you are a former?"
ooh ooh, me (raising hand à la Horshack).
she gets so upset with my "innocent" questions, and yet she cannot refute them.
stick around. as most others have mentioned during this thread, there are great people and great stories. it certainly has helped a novice ex-jw like moi.
calliopé
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even though i am myself deaf, i can speak english pretty well and i also do america sign language.
what about you?
HOLY!!! kero-kero, i'm in love...
i wish i were more of a linguist. i am simply facinated by languages and their origin.
i speak english and french (and 2 difference versions of pig latin in each), spanish and used to speak greek - now i mostly only understand it.
does it count that i can say "hi, how are you?" in 11 languages?"
Calliopé
so i've basically apostasized to a wit-friend who thinks i'm spiritually lost (i've been deliberately fading for nearly a year).
she has invited me to share with her my questions and doubts (i didn't confirm that my questions had already been answered or that all my doubts have been dispelled) in attempt to provide me with evidence.
the only one i have shared thus far is about 607bce.
PERRRRRFECT!
thanks for the link.
cal.
so i've basically apostasized to a wit-friend who thinks i'm spiritually lost (i've been deliberately fading for nearly a year).
she has invited me to share with her my questions and doubts (i didn't confirm that my questions had already been answered or that all my doubts have been dispelled) in attempt to provide me with evidence.
the only one i have shared thus far is about 607bce.
see, i can't do something so "blatant" as the UN document.
she thinks what i am suffering from is "spiritual neglect" - o woe is me...
so i want to play on that and offer her something like
"see 607BCE? no evidence. see 587BCE, overwhelming evidence...".
Cal.
