didn't it drive you up the wall how, after a long week of working or going to school, you had to spend your entire weekend at an assembly?
the saturday and sunday that you could've spent catching up on some yard work, or even relaxing was wasted away by sitting in a bunch of chairs, listening to stuff you've heard many times before.. i know this used to drive me up the wall.
it felt like i had absolutely no time to myself during these weekends.
My family never made it fun for us either. I think they hated them too.
The most poignant things I remember are the smells; hot sweat and people sticking to their seats and the smell of the awful hoagies or whatever they were combined with the odors emanating from the bathrooms.
Everything sucked, even the lame dramas. The only positive thing was the end.
My mother used to go to 8 day assemblies 9-9. I'd have to poke my eyes out with pencils.
Diana
jehovah's witnesses might sound like a harmless name for a religion but we know better!
knowing what you know now, what would you rename this cult??
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Hypocritics
yeah i know it's a regular yearly thing.
but i wanted to make my post exciting!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
well, it's that time of the year again.
I suppose all the other BS is just ordinary. I still cannot believe 6 million people ascribe to these beliefs.....
Have a good one!
Diana
i was dating someone for 18 months before i broke it off--he didn't want a committment and he would not even say that someday we might end up together as a couple.
it's been 2 years since we broke up and we both married other people.. i was deeply in love with this person, even with every last ounce of my soul.
(it was complicated and we both had kids.
Bee Bee, good advice and well put. I would have probably said the same thing. And although I would have said the same thing, I am going through the same dilemma. I've had an on/off relationship with someone for over three years. He as a "girlfriend" in a neighboring state, although they rarely see eachother, and according to him, she's selfish and psycho. I believed this for a while; I also believed him when he told me a few months ago that it was finished for good. I finally thought perhaps he'd had enough. So I saw him last week and slept with him for the first time in a long time, thinking he was truly finished with her. I have a strong connection with this man. Every time I see him my heart flips...anyway...
This Sunday I was out with friends for dinner and met a most extraordinary man. We ended up talking for four hours. I told him things I wouldn't dream of telling a complete stranger, and he told me that he was in remission from cancer and had also survived a heart attack. He's just 40. He's charming, cultured and successful, and from what vibe I got, sincere. Anyway, made plans to see eachother when he comes back from a business trip.
Driving home from this extraordinary meeting, I got to thinking about the first man and how I would have liked things to work out and perhaps I should just lay in all on the line. Every time he would bring "us" up I would say there wasn't an us or change the subject. So I decided to drive over to his place and just spill my guts. What did I have to lose anyway that I didn't lose over three years. Anyway, imagine my shock when I saw her car out front. I had a mix of emotions, much of which was anger at myself for being such an idiot. I wanted to just tie up the loose ends once and for all. Well, I guess I got my answer.
He called me and I am seeing him tonite. Don't know what to say. He mentioned she was up and I asked if they were back together, and did he get the ring back. He said yes and no but didn't want to talk about it at work.
I think I am going to speak my mind once and for all. I finally have the courage. After all, he's been lying to her for three years.
Wish me luck!
Diana
i wanna hear the word that made you either physically nauseous or burst out in uncontrolable laughter.
please demonstrate it in a sentence as well.
mine was 'enthused' (my fingers were shaking as i typed).
That brother needs a Shephering call.......
We need to emulate Jesus Christ....
My father would always use emulate believing that it made people think he was a smart dude.
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was it the looks.....the way he/she talked to you, a certain chemistry?.
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After four B-52s shots on an empty stomach....seven years later, after it wore, off he became my ex
What is the meaning of life?
Hey....I LOVE the Bubbles picture from Trailer Park Boys. Love the show!!
i have no guilt for not attending for 2 years in a row.
Every year since I've moved back to the area where my parents are my mother asks me if I want to go to the memorial, and every year I have to offer a lame excuse...but this year I said, "you're kidding, right?" She said no that she loves me and wants me to go to the meetings, translated into JW lingo....I love you and don't want you to die in Armegeddon and then I'll have to spend forever thinking about my unbelieving children."
How do you all deal with it?
Diana
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if they served butt budlight instead of wine!
If I had a total frontal lobotomy.
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i hear and read alot about peoples experiences and some are pretty horrendous....does anyone actually feel they have benefited from being a jw at least in one way or another...me personally i feel i benefited from the ministry school as public speaking is part of my job and has definately improved career prospects?.
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It is possible to learn a positive from a negative...for instance, my father was the perfect role model of what I didn't want to be which made me work harder in life. I also developed a rather thick exterior after being chased, taunted and punched on a somewhat daily basis on my way home from middle school for being a JW, hiding in the library and reading all the "forbidden books" one shouldn't read.
Diana
