I was going to go digging for mine... and go back to all my RVs and apologize and give them some truth about the troof. On my list of "spiritual goals for this service year"
~merfi
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by Ariel84 ini was just curious if anyone still has their old call book(s); i have no clue what happened to mine.
someone was talking about bloodguilt on here recently, which made me think of return visits and how i used to feel panicked about being bloodguilty if i did not get back to them.
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Put a wreath on my car!! What WILL they think??? LOLOLO
by Lady Liberty ini hope you are all doing well!!.
this is the first year we are officially celebrating christmas.
after much research last year, we decided christmas was no more "pagan" then any normal wedding ceremony observed by any good jw!!
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I have a big red bow hanging from the rearview mirror in my jeep that is pretty obvious. I'm sure the local JW hate it.
~merfi
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Do you dream you are back in the Borg?
by uriah ini have depressingly frequent dreams of being back in the borg.
i am out on the work thinking why am i here i don't do this anymore.
i am in kingdom halls with my mag - underlined!
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So you said about trying to get your baby carrier in the row although your baby is actually 9 - how long since you DAed and stopped attending? I was surprised by the baby featuring in my dream - its probably got something symbolic to it - ie like a new beginnning....
I've been DA'd since March (3/9/06 if anyone wants to send me an Freedom anniversary card soon. lol). I went to two more meetings -- once as a bargaining chip to keep the kids an extra day before handing them to the ex and the other meeting was a CO visit. We left half-way thru the slide shows of all those poor third world country's people building KH and all that sad BS. I couldn't breathe so had to leave. I don't plan on setting foot in another KH ever again. Health reasons. ;)
I wonder if having a baby in the dream is like you said -- some sort of new beginning? Maybe I wish, even if it's subconciously, that I could go back and raise my babies differently (NOT in the troof)... hmm...
It's so interesting that many of us had dreams *last night* and this thread comes up.
~merfi
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Do you dream you are back in the Borg?
by uriah ini have depressingly frequent dreams of being back in the borg.
i am out on the work thinking why am i here i don't do this anymore.
i am in kingdom halls with my mag - underlined!
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Wow, weird timing for THIS topic I just had a dream last night about this. I was late to a meeting (which never happened; we were the ones who showed up 10-15min before it started to socialize), so the only spot left was in mid-row up towards the front. The rows were soooo close together that I was having a really hard time getting all my crap, including a baby carrier (my "baby" is 9, so this is just weird), on the floor and myself sat down. What I remember about the dream is that the people in the row greeted me by name, which was odd, I thought (I'm DA'd). But nobody offered to help me with all my stuff... And that's all I remember.
I dream about something JW related every couple months or so, maybe. It's usually about forgetting something ("I have a TALK??") or feeling uncomfortable ("um, sister, your sweater is the wrong color").
I'm sooo glad that I wake up from these. I hate that I have them still.
Crumpet -- can I borrow your dream transcript for my Christmas card letter to my old JW "friends"? lol
~merfi
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JW Single Parents
by merfi inhow are/were they treated in your cong?
in ours, there were about three of us, all in very different situations.
the first was sorta married (had run off with a wordly guy, da'd, came back and got ri, had a baby, husband off in colorado somewhere).
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How are/were they treated in your cong?
In ours, there were about three of us, all in very different situations. The first was sorta married (had run off with a wordly guy, DA'd, came back and got RI, had a baby, husband off in Colorado somewhere). Since she had made so many "mistakes", the "friends" were not so quick to help her with much -- no offers to come over for dinner, go to a movie etc. Also no offers to work with her in FS or do anything after meetings. TG her parents were really good to her. Still are (she's DF at present).
The second 'sister' was (is still I think) the elders' pet. She works for the janitorial service that two of the elders owned. Her kid is babysat by another elder's wife. She's always over at elders' houses 'associating'. She neeeeeds the 'friends' and elders as there is really no way she could make it on her own, financially or emotionally. What I find interesting about this sister is that she flaked for a couple years. Then came back to meeting about the time her husband was cheating on her and she had two young boys...
The third single parent sister was ... me. The elders didn't like me much. In the process of becoming single, I dropped about 25# on the stress diet :(, my hair I didn't give a crap about so it just grew, I had this weird distant feel going on. I had an awesome FT job so didn't need congregation hand-outs. My kids spent a lot of time with 'wordly' friends and had 'wordly' babysitters when needed; so I didn't need the 'friends' to take care of my kids. I could fix my own damn broken washing machine, went snowpiling in my jeep and was just generally independent because at that time in my life, I *had* to be. So many changes but I had to hold it together for myself and the kids. I didn't rely on anyone else (probably should have, but...) but I didn't WANT to rely on anyone else... Anyway, the way that *I* was then treated was as some sort of floozy threat. lol They harped on every little detail of my dress&grooming (more than a few 'local needs' about that), dissed my jeep... and the invitations to 'work with me in FS' or go 'do something after the meeting' were few and far between (thank god as more than a few times I was hungover in FS Saturday mornings. The backseat with a kid and a over-perfumed older sister on a winter morning and the heater going... ) Admittedly, I didn't 'measure up' to what they wanted me to be (I'd try now and then LOL)... and it was my eventual undoing in this silly religion, how I was treated.
So then, how are your single parents treated?
~merfi
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... I've been up for about an hour but still in jammies and glasses , on my second cup of coffee, downloading some Gwen Stefani and getting my addresses in order to write out Christmas cards. In a few minutes I'll have to put on some slippers and fetch my 13yo from a birthday/slumber party.
~merfi
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My favorite JWD posters are:
by OnTheWayOut inin order: .
garybuss- he says everything so straightforward.
it's just a publishing company that has no real control over your lives.. blondie- tends to always post the correct wt to help us see how .
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I hate Merfi cause she's so pretty.
Oh MsMcD.... you silly. Thanks. You're one of my faves/memorables for starting the phonecall thread way back when... (when posters would give you their number and you'd give it to another poster to call) That was a cool idea. :) ~merfi
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Career Change???
by Junction-Guy inwell i worked for many years in low paying jobs-fast food,motels, delivering pizzas.
i started working in a law enforcement field nearly 8 years ago, and have been there ever since.
i always was interested in law enforcement and fire/rescue when i lived in kentucky, so i finally entered the corrections field in 1999. it's a decent paying job with benefits galore, i have lots of sick time built up along with lots of vacation time.
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Lab Tech. Good pay, good benefits, not too much schooling, but enough needed.
I second that. :) The medical field is a great place to be, and since you have experience/knowledge, you have a foot in already. There may be online aptitude tests, but a local college (or even high school?) would be able to help you too, I'd think. ~merfi, a lab tech :)
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THE BACK PEDDLING HAS ALREADY BEGUN......
by Mary inas i mentioned before in another thread, my dub aunt, along with several other witnesses, told me that they were specifically told that the governing body let it be known that tract work would trigger the beginning of the end by infuriating the other religions and somehow causing the governments to "turn on babylon the great".
this was supposed to start before the end of this year.
one thing i mentioned is that they were smart enough this time, not to put anything down in writing, but simply let it get around by "word of mouth".
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'night Branch.
Blessed Be.
~merfi
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What state are you from?
by Junction-Guy inthis is for the us crowd, what state do you live in?
or from?----i live in tennessee, but from ohio and kentucky.
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Iowa...
~merfi