okay anyone got a cure for styes - i'm not sure it is a stye - just my eye is twitching and its really annoying.
anyway i can stop it short of pegging my eyelid?
i am not going to america with a twitch - you'll think all us english folks have that problem.. .
I liken a stye to a big pimple on the outer skirts of your eye, a twitch is a twich. I get the feeling that you have had this twitch for sometime, maybe hours? Or did it just start? If the twitch is continous for hours on end, I would call a doctor. Otherwise it should go away on its own.
Nikki
this is not one of those 'farewell' threads, 'gotta' go' threads, or 'bye' threads.
because i know myself well enough to say that i would not honor my own exit - i would soon be back, .
but in all honesty, i am finding my desire to be on this forum less and less compelling.
There is one thing that I do not get really...why people post to say goodbye, or why they post to speak of "bordom", or their addiction to this site...sorry for my being frank...
I am addicted to this forum, I do not post as much as others, but I do post. All the topics I post usually do not last very long, but thats OK with me. I comment on the threads that I want to. Sometimes, I just read the active topics and do not comment at all. When I realize I need to take a break, I just do...then I come back. I usually do not view the board on the weekends, which is a break in itself. Being an x-JW is pretty intense, and this board makes things more intense. Its exciting to constantly get reminded about the decision to leave the org 15 years ago, that it was the 100% right one. This is pretty much the reason why I come here, to get that constant confirmation. Yeah, the org still effects me to this day, 15 years later. Coming here is like therapy really.
There is such a common bond here, its why we come back day in and day out. When you need a break, take it, but come back. I think this forum is needed, as other threads/people mention, they healed alot faster with the support here, it must be good for something.
Nikki
i know a lot of people that believe they are "better" because they're witnesses.
what about you?
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I felt like everyone else ("the worldy people") were normal, and we JWs were like the amish. I never wanted to tell anyone that I was a JW.
Nikki
by the way konichiwa ?.
domo arigato for your replies !
guten tag !
When I was a kid (still am at heart), I went to 13 different grade schools, moved around alot, did not really grow up anywhere. I am really Italian, German, and my grandmother just informed me that I was Bohemian too (her parents). This one particulr year, pretty sure it was 6th grade, I had everyone convinced the new girl was straight out of Italy. I faked the Italian language, I sang in Italian (certain words I knew, I would just use them for the chorus line). I had created such an on going lie, which means more lies, that I became completely stressed out, the kids at school were always curious asking me questions about me coming from another country, ITALY! lol...I was born and raised in Illinois...lol.
I think I have posted this little story before, sorry if you heard it already.
Nikki
i was bought up as a jehovahs witness in a divided home, my dad being baptized but not having gone to meetings etc for years.
my mum being driven on by the influence of my gran.
i was forced into baptism at 15!
Well, theres always a double standard, right? At least you are out of the cult. I too left when I was 18, DFd because of fornication with a worldly boy. I was an only child. I was completely cut off, (eventually though my pioneer mom realized it was a cult too, and she was DFd, we did not see each other for 8 years), have not seen my dad since 1992. Hes still a die hard JW, what a waste!
Welcome.
Nikki
i've not posted much lately because i have become bogged down with debt and stress.
more gray hairs are beginning to show!
i received a letter this morning from my lawyer.
Two elderly men have not gotten laid in a long time. They both decide to go to a Hor house. The Madam opens the door and says "what can I do you gentlemen", they both explain their needs to her. She turns around to one of the other hors in the background, and says "go get one of the blow up dolls". That night their needs are fulfilled, of course the next day they are dieing to find out about each others experience.
One of the old guys says, "how was it for you?", "fine" the other guy says, "how bout you?", "Well, it was really weird, I bit her on the shoulder, then she farted, and flew right out the window".
My little sweet Gramma told me that joke!
Nikki
my ex-boyfriend who i am trying not to see anymore was disfellowshipped last monday, but he sent in a letter of appeal because he felt two the the three elders who made the decision were biased against him because they knew his ex-wife and were automatically sympathetic to the woman's side.
he's disfellowshipped for having relations with me, even after he was divorced (before that, his divorce was unscriptural.
) how soon does the appeal take place?
Emily,
I was announced on stage back in 1992, just as many here have been announced. I think they announce you different now, "so and so is no longer a Jehovahs Witness", but when I was DFd, I know it was like "N.M.A. has been disfellowshipped...". That is pretty much when I heard from no one ever again with the exception of a few elders maybe a few years after I was out that would call me periodically and see if I was interested in coming back, due to my parents asking them to call me. The three months before I was DFd though, its not like it happened overnight, 1st my dad had to make sure I admitted that I committed fornication before they had grounds to DF me, but my parents friends, my own friends from all over the place called me/stalked me everyday. Sometimes they would encourage me, sometimes they would go crazy with anger because I was leaving. But, once the announcement took place, that was it. I did not see my mom for eight years and have not seen my dad since 1992, can't believe its been almost 15 years!
Nikki
when they reach a certain age they are expected to "sign up" (get baptized).
in many cases if they choose not to their parents essentially "disfellowship" them.
so a lot of children get baptized under pressure from the parents and when they fail to live the jw life and get df'd the folks are the harshest shunners.
I was a child who only got baptized to make my parents happy. There were some sick things that went on in our household too. I will say this though, it really is gutwrenching what JW parents do/did to their children while a JW. Nothing was every good enough for my parents, no matter how hard I tried to be a good JW. When I left in 1992, I did not turn back either, I was 18. I would not see my mom for 8 years (we reunited in 2000 after she was DFd) and I have not seen my dad since October 1992, his loss, not mine.
Nikki
my ex-boyfriend who i am trying not to see anymore was disfellowshipped last monday, but he sent in a letter of appeal because he felt two the the three elders who made the decision were biased against him because they knew his ex-wife and were automatically sympathetic to the woman's side.
he's disfellowshipped for having relations with me, even after he was divorced (before that, his divorce was unscriptural.
) how soon does the appeal take place?
Emily, I would say to you "Ignorance is bliss". I remember your story from a couple of weeks ago...you are better off without him, not just because he's a JW/or former JW. Just based on the fact that he cannot stay faithful to his wives. What a jerk. You are not responsible for this situation at all no matter what what you revealed, you needed someone to vent to at that particular moment (bible study conductor). Really, in the big picture of things, this is not a big deal. Its a big deal for you because you love him, or have strong feelings for him..
Please do not worry yourself about this, I wonder if he is worried about you?
You take care, Nikki
and....................have you ever wished you were of the opposite sex?
I don't mind being a woman...but if you are a man, you can have some love handles and still look sexy, if us women has love handles, then we are considered chunky, a bit over weight (now there are some men that are sweethearts, so I am not speaking of them all). Yet, if a man is ugly, they can't just put on makeup! But a woman can!
Just be comfortable in your own skin. We always want what we don't have.
Nikki
