Hi bbdodger and welcome! I couldn't believe how many there were in my postition/who had been there either - and that there are no lying apostates but much kinder supportive people than the jws could ever be!Look forward to your posts.
Posts by dobbie
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by bbdodger inhey everyone... i'm so happy that a forum like this exists.
it makes me feel like i'm not the only one.
even my mother, who has been disfellowshipped for nearly 20 years still calls sites and literature like this "apostate".
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Does there seem to be a heck of a lot of New Members
by WT=watchtrouble ini only joined in may 07 and have noticed that there is a lot of new ones joining all the time.
this is good stuff.. the more faders/leavers the more likely the org will come down.. welcome to all new ones..
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dobbie
Yep i had a short 'break' from here until about a month ago and i couldn't believe how many newbies there were - i think it's great!!
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dobbie
I was at work and patients started to come in saying there had been a terrorist attack, but it wasn't til i got home that i knew how terrible it was.
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The Rest of My Story-The Fading Years
by okiesooner1966 ini would like to start by saying the years following high school were probably even more stressful than before.
the very day i graduating i moved out of my parents house, it took all of three weeks to get my next commitee meeting.
i did a horrible thing by going on a graduation trip with some of my classmates, even though all did was party like it any other kid my age, which thier parents paid for thier trp it was enough for me to be disassociated, though i was not baptized at the time it was the same as being disfellowshipped.
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dobbie
Thank you for sharing your story with us, i'm so pleased for you and that you are now happy with a son who is totally free of the jw influences. x
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Encounter with JW neighbours # 2
by winnie inas i posted in a previous thread, we moved about 5 weeks ago into a house next door to a local elders family (who also happen to be related to us through marriage).. the elders wife (i'll call her mrs m), decided to weed her garden when we went out this morning.
but we were only gone for 20 minutes.
to weed a part of her garden, she has to come into our front yard to reach it, which she was doing when we came home.
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dobbie
Oh Winnie that's so funny! Your hubby sounds great!(do you think you can send him round here to talk to MY jw next door neighbours?Lol!)
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not sure what to do about this...
by dobbie inso sis in law father has been on dialysis for yrs and is elderly and hubby just got a text from his bro 'just so you don't put your foot in it ******'s father is stopping dialysis this wk and has 2 wks to live' (hes a jw too).
so i said to hubby he should reply and mention how sorry we are but he said why as they're treating me(dobs) like dirt and he doesn't see why he should.
but although they have cut me out now totally it seems i still think i should do something.
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dobbie
oh Es thats so upsetting and frustrating, not even to be acknowledged. They miss out on so much.
Thanks guys i shouldn't moan when others have it much harder but i have done so much for these family members in the past, been there for them and bent over backwards and i feel used i guess. Also the annoying thing is that though i get cross sometimes and say i hope they never come to me for anything, i know full well i'd help out if they needed it.
You are right OTWO i was upset this morning over it, plus my nephew asked her if he could come to our house later and she told him no, as it appears they don't want him and his cousin my son to play anymore. He is always coming up to me in the playground and asking me this and she gets her jw friend sto get him away from me. That is upsetting as they all blame me for it for leaving, but if i hadn't left they'd have df'd me anyway and theres just no nice way out.
Okay rant over, off to have a big bit of chocolate cake now that'll help a bit! yes i may even eat the whole cake lol!
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Blondie needs encouragement
by blondie ini have been battling an incurable illness and will be able to post less and less.
i will post my email, and any help you cna asend my way will be appreciated.
there is treatment but no cure and no cancer yet.
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dobbie
Thinking about you Blondie and sending you all the positive thoughts i can your way. We are all here for you, you are a vip to us all. xx
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those songs
by bigdreaux inwhat songs can pick you right up no matter how bad your feeling?
mine are "mister magic" by grover washington jr. or "sunshine" by roy ayers.
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dobbie
FFM Top of the World is a great choice, in fact i might go and dig out my Carpenters cd in a mo!
Sounds daft and you'd be totally right to sympathise with my poor neighbours but i find the best way to lift my spirits is to clean the house singing out songs from musicals, Tell me on a Sunday, King and I, My Fair Lady, even Godspell lol! Other than that i put on classical music and play it very loudly.
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My New Avatar!
by Locutus of Borg ini decided to deep six the old one, it was donald sutherland from "invasion of the body snatchers".
to be honest, it even creeped me out.
maybe it was a defence mechanism to keep people at a distance .
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dobbie
Changeling i pressed F5 and the new avatar showed. I used to like the black and white bodysnatchers film, i saw the Donald Sutherland once and it freaked me out, esp at the end. I'm just a big scardey cat!
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not sure what to do about this...
by dobbie inso sis in law father has been on dialysis for yrs and is elderly and hubby just got a text from his bro 'just so you don't put your foot in it ******'s father is stopping dialysis this wk and has 2 wks to live' (hes a jw too).
so i said to hubby he should reply and mention how sorry we are but he said why as they're treating me(dobs) like dirt and he doesn't see why he should.
but although they have cut me out now totally it seems i still think i should do something.
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dobbie
Well, we sent the card even though hubs was dead against it. Her dad passed away last week so we sent a bereavement one to her and to her mother. Anyway she was in the school playground this morning and moved away from me and was deliberately avoiding my eye, hubby was stood next to me, she went up to him and said 'thanks for the card ****' and walked away. I'm glad she had the decency to thank him but its funny as i was the one whosent them whilst he was the one who was against that!Guess i'm still the evil uncaring apostate and always will be now. Part of me wishes i hadn't bothered now so i suppose that means i AM evil! I guess i should be used to being invisible after 10 months of it but just a 'thanks' would have been nice....