Congratulations! Hopefully the day will come when all states will recognize that when two people love each other and are committed they should be able to get married.
LisaRose
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Married my partner...
by writerpen inwe just got back from san francisco where we were married last week.
maybe some day gay couples won't have to travel 1,000 miles to get married, and their commitment of love will be recognized by society.
there will be no need to use code - my friend, my roommate - at the office, with neighbors, or with family when speaking about the person with whom you live your life.
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What are your plans post JWD?
by penny2 inwill you be joining another forum or leaving it all behind?.
i took to heart simon's thread about moving on past the "ex-jw" phase and i've been spending less time at the computer.
it's comforting though, to come back on here occasionally and see how my cyber friends are doing.. so i'm glad there are options - i've noticed some familiar faces on new forums - there may be access to jwd in some form..... .....and there's a whole world out there!.
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LisaRose
I don't think I'll go to another site. I've enjoyed reading and posting occasionally, but I think I'll move on to other things. My JW background is not a very big part of my life anymore. I live in another state from where I was a JW, my 2 children were never baptized, I'm married to a "never was" and I have a few JW relatives, some who talk to me and some who don't. I feel very lucky to have gotten out of it without major angst or problems in my current life. I've enjoyed reading about other who have been in the same boat, but enough is enough for me.
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Did You Ever Regard The Elders As Loving Shepherds?
by minimus indid you think these men loved you?
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LisaRose
Some were better than others. Some I thought were trying to do what they thought was best. None were ever really helpfull to me. Mostly they ignored me, but sometimes they would visit and tell me what a loser I was. Even the good intentioned ones were brainwashed to see me as only a loser. So, I didn't see the "Loving".
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To SO CAL: What CO's and DO's do we all know?
by IreallydidwalkoutofaKH inokay, in order it goes like this for me............brother peace 1980-83, brother rose 1984-86, brother yasko 1986-88, brother sekella 1988-91, brother billy ford 1992-95, brother davis 1996-99, brother irskin 2000-03 and then it gets kinda blurry....brother burge and another, brother hairston.
okay, that just about does it.
i have this topic becauce i tried reading the favorite co and do thread, but did not recognize any names......
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LisaRose
I lived in SO. CA (Ventura) from 1969 to 1989. The only name I recognizd was Sunudko. I used to go to that igloo looking Convention center in Woodland Hills. Nice building. Does anyone from there know Weldon Howze. He seemed to know everyone. Never a CO as he was totally gay (non practicing I assume).
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Does anyone remember this old tv preacher?
by Tired of the Hypocrisy ini can't remember this guys name to save my life, but he used to crack me up late at night on cband sattelite back in the early 1980s.
he was sort of a judge roy bean type of guy with gray hair and he would sit there and cuss and complain and and talk about how enoch (he would call him eenick) was the model for christ.
he used to give the funniest explanations and illustrations.
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LisaRose
My personal favorite was Kathren Kuhlman (not sure of the spelling). " I BELEEEEEIIIIVE in Miracles... you know I do". So phony and staged it was gaggy. I read somewhere she always had a boy toy or two around. Pure snake oil saleswoman, but she was on TV in the 60's. You would have had to have a room temperature IQ to fall for that line of BS.
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Share something Odd about yourself
by KW13 ini have extra lil tiny bits on both ears.
i have an extra large thingy..
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LisaRose
I'm 53 years old and I still have 2 baby teeth. But I'm wearing braces now and they are going to pull them and bring down the permanent ones.
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The well is poisen! Why go to a toxic well of a WT convention this summer?
by Thechickennest ini have seen a couple of threads today about ones that went to a convention.
they were complaining that their experience was not good in doing so.
in my opinion when its over its over.
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LisaRose
I stopped going to conventions a while before I left for good. It was just depressing going by myself (hubbie df, kids grown and wouldn't go). And the district conv. was at Cow Palance in SF - a ways for me to go and an ugly,depressing site for a convention. And when you did go it was just "what more could you be doing - are you regular in service, can you Pioneer". You just were never doing enough. I can understand people who go to please family or whatever, but I'm not in that situation, so you couldn't force me to go.
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Women being in subjection...a sore subject
by milligal ini was raised jw and of course the whole theory that a man is the head and the woman must respect her husband and be in subjection to his authority was ingrained in me from a young age.
my mother, (oddly enough) chose the jw religion, dragged my father in kicking and screaming (he later served as an elder for 17 years) and she complained constantly about men being in control and her pains as a woman in subjection.
now, i already have a good idea about my mother's problems.
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LisaRose
I used to think that's the way it should be. But my first husband was a selfish jerk, so all that did was make is so he got away with whatever he wanted to do. I'm not normally very assertive, so it was easy for me to get my needs trampled on, and I thought that I should be submissive. I was so niave. I finally ended up with a career in a company that was mostly all women. I had a female manager, senior manager and director. My work was judged on it's merits, not my sex and I was paid the same as any one else (and no one was trying to grab my a**). It was a revelation. I was more and more uncomfortable with the JW organization where I was a virtual non-entity. Seeing the brothers trying to direct a meeting for service and wasting time and being idiots, it was hard not to realize I could do a better job. It was part of what pushed me out. I'm now married to a great guy. Not a wimp, but not a jerk. He respects me and would never try to tell me what to do. It is a marriage of equals. He is better at finances and planning so does most of that. I'm better at other things and he knows that. I had never met a man before who totally believed in women being equals. I would never go back to being a second class citizen.
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LisaRose
My brother gave up a career as a cop due to this issue. It was stupid as he would have soon made detective and probably would never have had to fire his gun, but he thought he needed to do this. I don't think a career in intelligence would be totally out of the question, though, as my hubbie is in that field and does't carry a gun (he's an analyst).
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What's your favorite Beer or Ale?
by Quirky1 ini prefer ale myself but everybody has their own.....what is yours and what kind?
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LisaRose
I'm more of a wine drinker, but I like the occasional Fat Tire Ale, especially with Pizza or mexican food.