what kind of a forum member do you consider yourself to be?
are you trying to be dedicated, helpful to others, humourous, expressive, intellectual, or something else?
I like to think that i give a human side to being an "apostate" I was brought up to think that apostates were bible bashing, scripture twisting, evil twisted individuals, eaten up with hate.
Well i don't know about you lot but I'm nothing like that. Hopefully newbies on here read my crap and come to realise that we're not the monsters the org make us out to be.
i rented a house in the late !970's and the contents in the home were given to me.. it happened to be books: ( making my life happy, revelation, children bible stories, listening to the great teacher ) i was enjoying the reading.. -----------------------------------.
a few years later began to notice awake magazines in doctor offices, and other public places and read them and enjoyed them.. ------------------------------------.
late 1980's my 7th son was 2 yrs.
P.s. that was my very first time of learning of this bible book exisitence.
So even though you had seven kids you'd never heard of the bible before? What planet are you from again?
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not really a believer myself but i know some of you are.... http://www.ebaumsworld.com/flash/ghosts.html
The dead mother in law in the back of the car if real was dead Creepy
now i know the topic may be thought of as abuse scenario, however it is not.....(i am sick of hearing about abuse).
i threw a party at my house(parents came home early)....anyway, as a punishment i was to sand and stain shingles for the house.
this was a huge job it took me 2 weeks to get it all done.
Wasn't me that got punished...
I was always fighting with my sister, one day we'd been left alone indoors while my mother had gone out shopping. I've forgotten what it was that she did but my sister ended up getting her head dunked in the toilet and had it flushed. A short while later Mum came home and my sister went running to the door, tears in her eyes sobbing that I had put her head down the toilet and flushed it. I protested my innocence saying that I'd NEVER do anything that bad and that she had put her head under the tap to make it wet to get me in trouble. My Mum then hit my Sister for lying lol
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not really a believer myself but i know some of you are.... http://www.ebaumsworld.com/flash/ghosts.html
Not really a believer myself but i know some of you are...
or opposite sex if your gay?
how did you react if you did?.
i seem to attract the more "butch" type, dont ask me why.
Once on a quick build. A Brother from that area kept staring at me, I just thought that my clothing must have been wrong or he'd heard me cracking a naughty joke. My mate joked that he "fancied me" and we laughed it off but this guy hung around and stared all day long. A few years later I found out that the same bloke had been DF'D for homosexuality.
More recently I attracted the attention of a gay bloke on here, it was funny to begin with but eventually it became a pain in the arse <snigger>
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i am currently shopping for a new computer and i am very interested in investing in an apple imac - intel.. since i have only used and owned dell computers that is compatitable with windows i am worried that i will not have access to all of the programs and systems that i normally use.. has anyone else made this transition, or are there any apple users out there?
what has been you experience with apple?
From a computer engineers point of view I'd go with an intel / amd Pc rather than a Mac. Macs work out a lot more expensive and you'll have to pay out for all new software as windows software wont run on a mac straight out of the box. There are Windows emulators that will allow you to run windows and windows software on a mac but they are slow and buggy still.
As Far as getting a Dell I wouldn't recommend them. Here in the UK Dell locks its systems to only use Dell hardware. So if you need a bigger hard drive you cant just buy any hard drive, you have to buy a Dell Hard drive, from them. With a captured market like that they can bung the price up on their computer parts and IMOHO rip you off. Dell also use cheap and cheerful computer parts, they perform but the performance is generally run of the mill and nothing special. If you are doing intensive computer processing you may be disappointed in their performance. If you are doing just stuff like word processing you might find they suit your needs.
I build my own so its not a decision I have to make...
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it recently occurred to me that this friday marks the 10th year anniversary of my childhood baptism .
They baptized in those horse troughs down here in Texas too, at Circuit Assemblies.
Thers not much water in them. I wouldn't want to be the last person in there after a load had been dunked
this woman has just got to get back on track!
hehehee.
i feel much better now...hehehe.... :) i wish i were already a witness though.................... it breaks my heart that i've messed up like i have and have gotten off track!
She wonders why after a year shes not allowed to get baptised...
She mentions that's she's never done 2 weeks of straight meeting attendance (she eventually did this recently though)
She talks and emails apostates and she developed a crush on her same sex bible study conductor.
Laura wrote me an email last week and told me she might be at the Sunday meeting at 4pm. I have been attending the 1pm meeting on Sundays. I wanted to see Laura and I even called Moleta and told her I was gonna attend the 4pm meeting so that I could see Laura. I guess it must’ve been the end of November when I last seen Laura and Peggy. I’ve missed them a great deal; I always tried hard not to get close to them, but somehow I came to really like them. The more I thought about going to the 4pm meeting, the more difficult it became for me to go. The questions she would ask me began to stress me out; I can just imagine what she would ask me. I’ve been through so many things lately, and there are so many things that I cannot bare to even talk about in person. So many things still are quite emotional to me, and because I came to truly like Laura, I feel as if she would be able to make me cry without even trying…I feel that I would become weak in her presence and would have to cry. Maybe its because I came to trust Laura, and right now, she’s one of the ‘few’ that I still trust ‘completely’. Perhaps that’s silly! Some people have grandmothers and such where they feel so ‘comfortable’ that they go weak and have to tell them what’s on their heart….well I don’t have any grandmother, but Laura was a friend that I always felt could read my heart. And hey, that’s a big thing, because not many people can read hearts! My friend Sheila, from the Baptist Church, I always felt could read my heart as well. Perhaps its just a closeness, a tenderness….perhaps it’s the compassion, the caring…..the sense of knowing they can feel what you feel.
I don’t even know if she even came to the 4 o’clock meeting….she said she ‘might’ be there! I didn’t want to go and then her not show and me be at a meeting all alone without knowing anyone.
I did want to see Laura, but at the same time, I was kinda scared to see her. I’ve changed so much and have experienced so much ENORMOUS pain….she would see through me!
So I couldn’t see her…..I couldn’t even call to see if she was coming….maybe just hearing her voice might’ve made me cry. I miss Laura and I’m sad that I can’t study with her right now, maybe even never again!
More worrying is the fact that she also mentions that she suffers from depression and is relying on the congregation for friendship. Baptism for her is a door to being accepted by the congregation. Can you imagine the damage that this woman will suffer once the love bombing stops and even worse once she gets df'd (I'd put money on the fact she wont last 6 months)
i had an idea that i could build a uk map of everyones location which would show you instantly who is in your area from jwd.. (it might be an idea to do a seperate us one aswell but i'll wait and see if this one takes off first, or if anyone from the us wants to volunteer to do that one).
(and australia but you are all in the same backyard anyway - literally!!!).
anyway, all you have to do is post or email me your username and town and i will draw you on the map above which will change gradually to include everyone!.
West London here !
