For me, just my own personal opinion, my jeep is the best thing in the whole world to drive. It's so versatile (top on, top off, doors on, doors off) and can go pretty much anywhere I want to go. It's my therapy at times.
~merfi
Posts by merfi
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55In Your Opinion, What's The Best Vehicle To Drive?
by minimus inwhat is rated the best??
what do you like?
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Should I send my old jw friends CHRISTMAS CARDS?!!!
by esw1966 inwhen i was a jw, i always wondered what happened to people who got df'd and left 'the truth'.
i always figured they were living in the gutter or living a sinful, selfish life.. i was wondering if sending a pleasant note in a christmas card would let some know that life on the outside isn't the condemned life they think it is.
i know that the christmas card will show that 'i have fallen that far', but i liked the dig in sending it.. i live 1500 miles from my old home so no one knows my situation.
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merfi
I'm kind of mulling this over right now. I'm in the same town as the cong of JWs that I DA'd from. I've been here since 1990 or so, so a lot of history. I would LOVE to send them out (they're all addressed...not stamped) to show them that I'm happy. :) They'll think, like you said, that I've 'fallen that far', but I don't really care. I'm still deciding my *reason* for sending cards -- to genuinely express Xmas greetings (I sent about 80 to non-JW, so it's not like I'd be singling out the JW) or to kick them where I know it will hurt them. I think I'm leaning towards the latter, so for that reason, I probably won't send them. I'm trying to be positive about this whole escape from the cult thing -- enjoying my new life, being happy, guilt-free and so on. And doing something I know is really, deep down, negative, sort of goes against that.
As well, if I were to send the cards, they would tell the ex and then the ex would crawl all up my kids' butts and not mine. Which I think is just plain mean and stupid (the kids are 9-13). I don't want them to go through that. (theyr'e going to get enough of an earful tomorrow when the ex comes up to my town to take them out for lunch and sees my decorations and the breeding-when-I'm-not-looking pile of presents under the tree).
So, although I'd love to send cards and within a couple of them, a special note (a 'thank you' to the elders in my JC that showed me the 'love'... for without that 'love' I'd have never left?!), I'll probably just toss them and leave it alone.
Your situation is a bit different though. You're 1500 miles away from those you'd send cards to, so I'd say go for it. :)
~merfi
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We claims the R&F dont understand but do we ???????????
by vitty inyes its about the blood .
please bear with me.........................i was talking to my pregnant daughter about the blood .
she said she must get a special directive to give to the hospital.
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merfi
I suppose the big no no is platlets.................this si important to get the oxygen to the cells, and the white blood cells
So if they could fracion the platelets they could then use them...............absolute madness
It's not really possible to fractionate a platelet -- they're their own little sticky cells whose use is to form a clot. But yeah, I'm sure if it was able to fractionate them, the WTS would allow the fraction's use. Stupidness.
There really isn't much use to transfusing WBC. In fact, most units of blood are now leukodepleted -- they filter OUT the WBC as foreign WBC can cause some reactions to the recipient (the recipient's immunity doesn't care much for foreign WBC so will attempt to destroy them).
I really don't know how the WTS can screw with this any more. They're counting on the R&F's blind, brainwashed following and getting it. That, along with vilifying, mocking and attempting to discredit the medical community so that the R&F don't believe them when they do contradict what the WTS has told the sheep.
This cult pisses me off.
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NEWBIES: Just curious how you all found this site??
by Lady Liberty inas you can see there are alot of you!
being such, it would be interesting to note how you all found this site??
or did you stumble across it by accident?
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merfi
Not really a newbie (though sometimes sorta still feel that way) but the way that I found this site was by typing in a google: "disassociation letter" as I was working on mine and wanted some sort of template. The *right* way to write one. Links with the url of this site were mixed in with some others, I clicked a few and then spent the next few days [and nights] reading and reading here...
~merfi
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Is tartarus a black hole?
by Tyrone van leyen inalthough i find it extemely difficult to beleive the bible, i was wondering one night, what in fact, tartarus might be.
the witnesses beleive that satan and his minions, will be cast into what is described as a pit from which he cannot escape.
obviously, a spirit creature could escape from anything in the material world, as they are able to transform themselves just as the fathers of the nephilum did before the flood.
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merfi
This word always made me laugh. It sounded like a word to describe tartar sauce gone to funk...
As for the JW version of Tartarus, I think it's just another made up thing.
~merfi
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Anyone sending holiday cards to JWs?
by merfi inmine are all addressed and ready to go.
they're just simple ones with a short verse about happiness during the season and signed by me.
nothing extra.
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merfi
Mine are all addressed and ready to go. They're just simple ones with a short verse about happiness during the season and signed by me. Nothing extra. But I'm not sure if I'll do it or not....
~merfi
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Medical professionals
by Cindyrenee inlooking for information from society that states a nurse, etc., is bound by scripture to turn in members who break jehovah's laws.
thanks a bunch.
cindy
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merfi
The thought of turning him in at a time when he and his family were dealing with a serious health crisis was unthinkable and inhuman. But we all know of JW's that would have and I find that beyond obscene.
I 100% agree with this. It's just so unthinkably wrong to bring down a person's house of cards, their very foundation, at a time when their life may be in crisis. Why crash everything else?? All in the name of "
accountability" control.Hey Brent -- my EMT 'brothers' have replaced the creep fake bros at the KH. They are amazing.... you guys rock. :)
~merfi
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Medical professionals
by Cindyrenee inlooking for information from society that states a nurse, etc., is bound by scripture to turn in members who break jehovah's laws.
thanks a bunch.
cindy
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merfi
Who is going to pay for your legal defense and/or any fines you will get for a HIPA violation? How do you pay attornies when your license is suspended? What facility will ever hire you with a HIPA violation on your record? What if the parties decide to sue you in civil court? What if you lose your nursing license?
A JW health-care professional would probably not take it to court? They'd think they were doing Jah's will by turning in the 'wrongdoer' even if it meant losing their job. A big martyr, really, how wonderful a "witness" for jah .... At my hospital, a HIPPA violation is pretty much a straight-up termination. And another facility *might* hire someone with that on their record (a person from our lab did this and was hired in the same field elsewhere, so it does happen) If the parties decide to sue, I'm guessing the JW is up a creek.... and a loss of license -- RNs, does that happen? We MTs wouldn't lose our certification, but we're different. (in a good way. lol) I work with a JW CNA and always wonder what would happen if someone in the cong came in and needed a transfusion or was even given the 'just in case' armband... or anything that might smell of needing tattling on (just seeing that a preg test was DONE would raise a JW's suspicion, even if it was just for pre-surg....) Personally, I think having a JW on staff sucks... ~merfi
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DOES ANYONE STILL NOT CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS???
by chuckyy injust wondering if anyone still does not celebrate xmas since leaving jws.....or like me do you think"to hell with it", and join in the festivities.
if you do celebrate it, do you still have pangs of guilt for celebrating this "pagan" festival???.
chukky.
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merfi
I wasn't raised "in the truth" but came in when I was about 20. So I was raised with Christmas. What it always meant to me was family, making cookies with my mom and pretty decorations. So this year, being the first that I've celebrated in about 15 years, I'm making it about family, making cookies with my kidds and having lots of pretties to plug in and enjoy.
I've bought some presents (ok, I went a bit overboard) and sent out cards also. I enjoy just knowing that it's going to put a smile on the recipient's face. It makes it "Christmas" for me.
I'm not sure about god or whatever right now, but enjoy the 'spirit' of Christmas and the whole holiday season, I guess, without having to put a 'reason' for it. I just like the pretties, the family and friends, and the love. Yeah, it's 'all year giving' too, but this is extra special
~merfi
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Anyone still have an old "call book"?
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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merfi
So you feel bad about bothering people about Watchtower stuff enough to go bothering them about anti-Watchtower stuff.
prolly not. It's usually just a passing thought because of the guilt at bothering them with cult material in the first place. I'm pretty non-confrontational, so won't ever do it I'm sure... I just have some regrets that haven't been fixed, kwim? Peace,
~merf