Posts by merfi

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Whacky Witness Weirdness

by limbogirl in

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friends

ok, i'm sure all of us have met some incredibly bizarre jws over the years --- i have met some that could have been characters in a movie...just unbelievably weird.

i've shared some of my stories with a good friend (non jw) and she swears i'm making this stuff up.

how in the heck could i make these people up??

They were ALL weird at my KH. Which probably makes me stand out as the weird one for not fitting their mold. Like serendipity, I also do my repairs around the house... I'd tell the sistas about my latest washing machine fixing adventure and they'd just look at me all stupid like. As if I maybe should find my place as the weaker vessel and knock this crap off and call a brudda to help with such complicated things. I also play in the mud in my jeep -- sometimes we'd go thru the puddles on the way to meeting, so we all had to 'jump' or get mud on our spiffy clothes. The elders didn't care much for the jeep dripping goo in the parking lot...

So yeah, I was the weird one. And now I'm gone, so the clone-like sisters are once again united.

~merfi

That hearse story just made my skin crawl, but I literally laughed out loud at the monitor reading it... oh the indignity!! LOL

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Whacky Witness Weirdness

by limbogirl in

jw
friends

ok, i'm sure all of us have met some incredibly bizarre jws over the years --- i have met some that could have been characters in a movie...just unbelievably weird.

i've shared some of my stories with a good friend (non jw) and she swears i'm making this stuff up.

how in the heck could i make these people up??

merfi

sorry, clicked too quick or somethin. Double post....

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Lola's big mouth part 2

by lola28 in

jw
friends

jw: lola how is your relationship with jehovah?.

jw: and then what?

me: i cant do that.. jw: what do you mean?.

merfi

"love of the brotherhood" is a fallacy

This is the exact reason that I left. I've been through hell and back the past four years and nobody gave a crap. I lean on (read: have a huge affair with) a brother who DID support me -- the only one who did -- and THEN, boy, did they pay attention to me... Under the guise of "helping" me, they ripped me to shreds mentally and emotionally in a JC. Had they BEEN there when I was a lost lil sheep, I dunno -- maybe wouldn't have left so 'loudly' (maybe someday I'll post the DA letter, but it's kinda huge) but faded instead...

Lola -- (((HUGS))) to you. It sucks to find out how conditional the friendships are in the 'truth'. I've felt more sincerity here in just the couple weeks I've been reading and posting than I ever did "in". Hang in there.

~merfi

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Anyone Feel This Way?

by love2Bworldly in

i am married to a christian who believes that anytime now true believers in christ will be raptured up to heaven; every time the news shows things going on in the middle east my husband gets all excited and talks about how he doesn't want to be left behind.

after being involved for years in the jdubs and having nightmares of armageddon and all that, i feel happy just living my day-to-day existence and not worrying about my 'afterlife'.. in fact, i could care less about the afterlife and whether i go to heaven or hell; partly because no one really knows what's going to happen to me when i die.

the only thing i care about in my life is being a good mom to my kids, nothing else matters to me besides enjoying each day i have here right now on this earth--enjoying time with friends and family, vacations to disneyland, visiting the ocean or the snow.. i feel annoyed when my spouse starts talking about his beliefs, because i just feel so ambivilent toward the future.

merfi

I feel this way exactly. My focus is today -- making the best of it. I don't know what happens after death and I don't really much care at this point.

~merfi

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Sleeping at assemblies and conventions

by free2beme in

jw
friends

my in-laws still attend meetings and defend the faith to the best of their limited ability.

i saw limited, as their understanding of the faith ended somewhere around the 1980's and when you bring up new understanding, they think it might be apostate and do not listen.

there not alone, trust me, several witnesses do not grasp the changes.

merfi

I wouldn't fight sleep because I thought I'd miss some 'spiritual food', I fought sleep because I was afraid what everyone else would think.

I am so not going to DC this year... Skipped out of the SAD yesterday, so am in practice. :) I just can't see wasting three days of mid-summer (jeepin, swimmin, reading and drinking beer on my deck...), wasting a few hundred dollars on motel, food, gas etc only to be SHUNNED by 6000 "friends". Nope, ain't gonna do it.

~merfi

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your best prank

by KW13 in

whats your best prank you've pulled?

i can think of loads but the best one that i got to actually see without causing wwiii was when two friends were staying over.

one of them said get him something to eat...so me and his brother went and got an oxo cube and unwrapped it.

merfi

Short background on me -- I work at a smallish hospital -- 350 employees or so, so we all know everyone else's business. I worked Oct 05-Feb 06 somewhere else, so was gone. Went back to small hospital about 6 weeks ago. Our uniform is a big ol' white lab coat over scrubs. Last fall I was 'dating' the Harley-riding, "let's have a nooner" CFO.... (~sigh~ I miss him....)

So, my sort of a prank -- this past April Fool's Day (my favorite holiday LOL) I had to work, so 'fooled' by stuffing a half-circle styrofoam ball up my scrub top. I looked about 7 months pg or so. Oh god, the looks... I 'fessed up on Sunday and everyone breathed once again. Including the CFO, prolly.

~merfi

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Well they FINALLY CALLED!!!!

by Lady Liberty in

jw
friends

you have asked me to keep you posted as to what happens here regarding the elders return.

as many of you know, we have been waiting for over 2 months for any kind of word back from them.

i kept telling my husband, " you would think that they would at least call, and say they haven't forgotten about us, that they are doing the research they promised to do.

merfi

Ya know, if they were REALLY wanting to "help" you -- you spiritually weak thing, you -- they wouldn't let all this other CO/DO/Mem stuff get in the way of rescuing the one lost sheep. You would be first on the list. To me, this just shows that you're probably going to be yet another victim of a kangaroo judicial committee where they've already decided what they want to do with you. I sincerely hope not, but it seems like that's how things have been going around here lately.

I've read through your posts on 607 and feel that you have a totally locked argument. The WTS and these elders have no wiggle room -- they are wrong. But we know how well they like being backed into a corner. Good luck (yea, I said that) to you -- thinking of you.

~merfi

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Well they FINALLY CALLED!!!!

by Lady Liberty in

jw
friends

you have asked me to keep you posted as to what happens here regarding the elders return.

as many of you know, we have been waiting for over 2 months for any kind of word back from them.

i kept telling my husband, " you would think that they would at least call, and say they haven't forgotten about us, that they are doing the research they promised to do.

merfi

for only $50 you can get a digital recorder from Radio Shack with 16 hours of recording time :)

Which one is it?

Tx :)

~merfi

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I am heading to meeting........

by UNCLEAR in

please pray for me!!

i don't want to go but i must because my husband has to make a good showing, hey i think i will make a gorcery list and write a letter.

i still don't know if being on the board is the right thing in jehovah's eyes, but i do appreciate the opportunity to learn about the organization and it will be my first time back to meeting after doing quite a bit of research....hmmm we will see.

merfi

Hey, if you get bored, text me! LOL

(I was one of those 'counseled' for texting during meeting... I get my football scores via msn that way since stoopid meeting is 1-3pm)

Seriously -- hang in there, I know it's hard to breathe when you know the truth about the troof.

~merfi

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What have you accidently dropped onto/into your keyboard?

by Lady Lee in

jw
friends

ok so what do you eat at the computer and what have you spilled?.

i've dropped:breadcrumbs drops of spaghetti sauce on the keys.cokewaterjuiceoatmealsoft and runny egg yolk.

the worst was oatmeal although that was easier than the egg yolk to remove.

merfi

You name it, it's in there... I periodically turn it over and bang it on the desk, then vacuum what falls out.

Usually the collection includes, but is not limited to:

Oreo crumbs
a small splat of milk (see above)
Dorito crumbs
Peanut bits

The WORST thing that ever happened to my keyboard (there's a story...): Ya know those Asian beetles that have infested the earth? I saw one crawling around on my beer bottle one evening, flicked it away. A minute or two pass and I'm needing a swig, so take one. It includes... something...that... feels... funny? I didn't bother to swish and find out, I just OPENED my mouth to get that bug OUT of my mouth -- beer and insect landed on and in my keyboard. Oh *shudder* ... it was just gross. I called it a night after that, but not before ebaying a new keyboard as I knew the beer would mess it up (just as the coffee and juice had my other two previous RIP keyboards. There's a pattern here. :) )

~merfi