just thought i would let you all know, that as part of my ongoing theocratic warfare strategy i placed 6 magazines this morning.
i will be recording about 20 on my time slip though
I was always one of those that needed The Phonecall on the morning of the 6th or some such. And I'd always pretend to be rummaging thru my papers, getting out my calendar and adding up the hours, RVs, mags etc. Then blab out something or other that I WOULD write down so that I could fill out one of those slips. Silliness.
I had no idea other people falsified their records as well.
howdy you guys - .
i had a super great vacation this weekend in sunny ca.
to celebrate such a huge change in my life this past year with leaving the org.
Though not as deep with meaning as you, I also got tatted about two years ago -- during DF year. A couple of pawprints. Oh man, the ENDORPHINS were incredible.... I couldn't shut up in the car aftewards. I guess, retrospectively, the pawprints *could* stand for the Carolina Panthers superbowl-reaching season that winter. ha. Actually, that winter was the winter that I re-established my relationship with my brother after having talked to him MAYBE every two weeks or so the previous 10 or so years. He was sooo supportive with the whole DF crap and I really leaned on him. He was the booger who introduced me to the love of football and the fanatacism for a team. :) My other tat is a cat that I thought was sooo unique -- until I saw the exact thing on Baby Phat perfume. nice. LOL
As to what these are gonna look like when I'm an octegenarian (and The End STILL hasn't come), I don't really care. I'll be a hip g'ma at the home. My pawprints will probably have folded over on themselves (they're above my right hipbone) and the cat some elongated (on my back) But oh well -- they were and are for ME and will remind me of a time and a phase. Part of that is feeling free to do it -- the elders and other loyal jdubbers itchy to report seeing a peek of paw be damned.
I mean just look at the lovely merfi and imagine her bop'n away at her 'puter... oh be still my beating heart ..lol
Aw shucks, unclebruce. Me own lil heart just a-pitterin now.
FWIW, the current song goin is "Fever for the Flava" (I gotta fever for the flava of a cootchie). Not a WTBS-approved melody I'm guessin. But screw 'em.
While I have ya attention, I've been meaning to post at you that I spent a year in your great land of Oz in 1986 as an exchange student. The most awesome year of my entire life (pre JW days, thank god). I lived in Swan Hill, Vic but was able to travel take in Melbourne quite a bit (love that train ride), SA, the Centre (climbed the Rock! And sat in that fertility seat... hmm...) and snorkled the reef. Good times.... The drinking age was 18 while I was there, and having turned that magical age while there, I developed a love of Foster's, Melbourne Bitter and XXXX. It still finds its way to my frig when I find it.
Ok, going to post something light-hearted...
I've been watching Saturday Night Live and throughout has been the Budweiser commercial. The song for it is pretty catchy & funky -- caught myself wigglin in the computer chair. So, I googled the lyrics and found what it is... downloaded... and was now able to play it nice n loud as brother Prince was squawking, albeit muted, on my TV. The song is "Galvanize" by The Chemical Brothers. Funkdily-icious!
I loooove music.
my middle kid turns 10 this wednesday.
it will be the first b-day present i've ever bought her.... (gawd, now i'm tearing up)
what i'm needing is a little help easing into actually giving it to her as she's known for the previous 9 years, 364 days that celebrating birthdays are bad, bad bad.
Is she that into the bible? It would almost seem like you were making a bigger deal out of it?
No she's not, and yes I probably am making a bigger deal than necessray. ;) However, she IS into what "Jehovah" thinks, aka WTS, and the WTS says b-days are a no-no... so... I'm thinking that if *I* take her to the Bible, in effect, over-ruling the WTS...
Ohh, my brain hurts from thinking of the right way to do this. LOL Baby steps...
As suggested, I maybe won't say the 'b' word at all. Dunno. :)
Thanks for you input, guys.
my middle kid turns 10 this wednesday.
it will be the first b-day present i've ever bought her.... (gawd, now i'm tearing up)
what i'm needing is a little help easing into actually giving it to her as she's known for the previous 9 years, 364 days that celebrating birthdays are bad, bad bad.
My middle kid turns 10 this Wednesday. It will be the first b-day present I've ever bought her.... (gawd, now I'm tearing up)
What I'm needing is a little help easing into actually giving it to her as she's known for the previous 9 years, 364 days that celebrating birthdays are bad, bad bad. I know I've read here that there is a scrip in Job that says something about celebrating a 'day', which I was thinking would help her see that it's "scriptural" in a way (I'm quietly freaking out about all this -- it's quite a huge deal). This is the first inkling that she'll have that my thinking is changing, so I want to do this right. Geez, I'm scared of my own child. LOL
Are there other examples in the Bible? A way to turn the beheading and the other (can't remember) examples back on themselves...? She's a very emotional kid, so all I'd probably have to do is say something like "no man-made organization is going to stop me from telling you that I'm thankful you were born. I'm acknowledging and celebrating your life as my daughter and my gratitude at having the privilege of being your mommy". ETA: She knows that I'm DA and have issues with the elders in the cong. She sees the unkindness and general weirdness in the cong. Also, we haven't ever been a really "spiritually strong" (I need that TM symbol!!) family, so this isn't as HUGE of a thing as it would be if I had been a rabid JW previously.
Ok, with that... any ideas? TIA
~merfi
something tells me there was an article in the society's literaure equating forcing a transfusion to rape.>
please could somebody find it for me as i want to bring it to the attention of some former friends who said the blood issue is no big deal.>
if their young daughter had to have blood then they would just let the authorities make her a ward of the court and give her blood.>
This just makes me feel sick. The "blood issue" is simply insane & the lives lost because of it is beyond wrong. When I read through that blurb, I felt my zombie trance coming back, hearing the circular reasonings... I really, really hate that feeling.
I know my own blood type and that of my kids'. THAT info has replaced the blood card of death and the 'identity cards' in my wallet.
i had a cold chill and a shiver vibrate down my spine reading this article.. but, i just don't know why ?
there are certain words i have taken the liberty to highlight below, each of them caused a {{{{{{shiver}}}}}}.. somebody help me out...what is that gives me this 'deja vu' feeling ?.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060322/wl_nm/religion_afghan_dcback to story - helpafghanistan says court to decide fate of convert .
(sorry for hijacking this thread...)
Interestingly, we had just had the study in the WT about how if a repentent person was not welcomed back, and his sadness overtook him and he fell back into satan, then those who SHOULD have been supportive and weren't, were then accountable. I remember looking up at the friggin elder conducting it (same one who the previous day had made this stupid comment) and attempted to convey as much disgust and sadness as possible in a moment of eye contact. Sadly, he's just this way -- haughty, judgemental and never, never wrong.
I'm so glad to have at least in my own mind, stripped him of his label of elder, as now I no longer fear him. A puny, pathetic little man with humility issues is all I see now.
Trying not to be bitter, sorry! I think I'm in that first phase of "how could they have done that to me & how could I have been so weak and stupid to allow it...?!"
Healing,
~merfi
i had a cold chill and a shiver vibrate down my spine reading this article.. but, i just don't know why ?
there are certain words i have taken the liberty to highlight below, each of them caused a {{{{{{shiver}}}}}}.. somebody help me out...what is that gives me this 'deja vu' feeling ?.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060322/wl_nm/religion_afghan_dcback to story - helpafghanistan says court to decide fate of convert .
If the OT was still in effect...the WTS's Governing Boody would make sure we had 'stonings' at the KH's for DF & DA 'weak' people.
This reminds me of a comment made to me by an elder at my last JC (a month ago today. wow.) He said that if I was in OT/Israel times, I "would be dead". That effectively extinguished the last bit of flicker I had and I wrote my DA letter the next day...
Thanks for your welcome!
~merfi
i had a cold chill and a shiver vibrate down my spine reading this article.. but, i just don't know why ?
there are certain words i have taken the liberty to highlight below, each of them caused a {{{{{{shiver}}}}}}.. somebody help me out...what is that gives me this 'deja vu' feeling ?.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060322/wl_nm/religion_afghan_dcback to story - helpafghanistan says court to decide fate of convert .
Same shiver and I think I know why, at least for me... Each of the sentences, for the most part, with "apostasy" in them also contains the word "death" or it's implied. In JWville, apostasy -- leaving/turning against them = death at Armegeddon (I still don't know how to properly spell that -- thank goodness I no longer have to! LOL)
~merfi
