Lady C

Joined

• started 0 topics
• posted 8 times   see topics posted on
• send a message

Posts by Lady C

• 
  12

  Welcome to so many New ones...Question...

  by xjwms in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  .

  i found this place from randy's ..."freeminds".

  how did you begin your search?

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Lady C

  Ever since my JW mom got back from the convention this summer she has been more stressed and freaked out than I have seen her in sometime and I wanted to see if I could find any information to help me out and I found this forum. It has been about a week since I found it and it has been comforting and informative. I found it pretty randomly doing google searches.
• 
  55

  Powerful Lyrics - What are you listening to at the moment [Fluff]

  by diamondblue1974 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it's only when i lose myself in someone else.

  it's only when i lose myself in someone else.

  it's only when i lose myself in someone else.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Lady C

  Rufus Wainwright
  
  My true love did breathe by the Sally Ann
  just barely
  That while walkin' through the town only my heart
  did hear him
  In views of the city
  There ain't many folks by the
  Sally Ann so pretty
  That while walkin' through town,
  many a twisted features
  Made a terrible beauty
  And then I knew
  And then I knew, I'd been there before
  One thing you must know by the
  Sally Ann directly
  Is that the pockets
  don't hold any more sunken treasures
  After baptism by whiskey
  But when leavin' the bar by the Sally Ann
  just barely
  The old angel may allow light from above
  the mountain
  And red brick walls blooming, you may see
  And then you'll know
  And then you'll know, you've been there before
• 
  20

  Here is my story

  by Annie Over in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i think i was about 3 yrs when my mom started studying.

  raised in a protestant religion.

  she had said several times that all she learned in that religion was hell fire and damnation.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Lady C

  thanks for sharing your story.
  
  I relate to not being included. I also lived in a household that was divided, my mother is a JW and my father is not. Or not being "popular" because of my Dad. It was as if there was always some level of distrust and distance that people kept.
  
  My mother and I were part of the outsiders of the congregation which mostly consisted of other single women---some with children others single. As if you are not already an outsider from the world around you----you are treated as an outsider in the congregation. As a kid I was simply not included as much as those with cookie-cutter perfect JW families(father=elder/mom=zealous door-to-door/and early baptized kids)
• 
  27

  What one thing reminds you most of being a Witness?

  by free2beme in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the mind is full of all kinds of things that can trigger memories.

  it could be the taste of a certain spice that reminds you of a now passed relative who liked to cook.

  it could be the smell of a perfume or cologne, that reminds you of a lover you once could not live without.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Lady C

  Yes. Nylons. And trying to make a pair last as long as possible with dabs of clear nail polish. Eating out at places like Sizzler. The buffet at Sizzler. That was the only good thing about Conventions and Circuit Assemblies. Getting to eat out. To me that was pretty fancy. Hilarious.
• 
  8

  Revelation Grand Climax Re-studied?

  by Rooster in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  .

  i was just informed that the wtbts has issued some addendums to the old outdated fading light revelation climax book & that it is going to be the next book re-studied.

  has anyone else heard this, is it true?

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Lady C

  That book scared the hell out of me when I was a kid. I wish that I could get my hands on a copy to check out the strange illustrations.
• 
  57

  Hi Im new here.

  by IP_SEC in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my first post out of the box was "what is a dub?

  matt.

  (shamless self promoter class) .

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Lady C

  Wow. Spankings. Is this a customary right of passage here??
• 
  57

  Hi Im new here.

  by IP_SEC in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my first post out of the box was "what is a dub?

  matt.

  (shamless self promoter class) .

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Lady C

  Welcome I am new here too.
• 
  44

  Society letter read to all congregations July 28,2006 !!

  by headmath in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i got news of this from the jw grape vine today that at the meeting on thursday(yesterday) there was a letter read to all the congregations from the society.

  for the first time the society says in the letter to prepare for great tribulation and to have plenty of emergency supplies in case of a disaster.

  this has shaken the up the jws it seems.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Lady C

  I recently had a similiar experience with my Mom. It has been 10 years since I moved out at 17, went to college and left the JW's behind for good. My mother and I have had our fair share of rough patches, especially in the first couple of years after I left; she found some books of mine that she considered Satan inspired----a Harry Potter book and a book on faires. The fights we had about this were devestating at the time---we went a couple of years without really communicating. She really tried her best to shun me but when my dad threatened divorce if she did not stop calling me a Satan worshiper --- she mellowed out. She is the only JW in my family. She converted when I was 8 and although she is still with my unbelieving father---by the time I was 12 I was attending all three meetings and going door-to-door every Saturday until I left at 17. I was never baptised---I managed to avoid that. But I was an unbaptized publisher. After I moved out that I would just get a random card about how I needed to come back to Jehovah with some bible quote or whatnot. But all around we had come to a place of relative peace for the last couple of years. But then I got the strangest phone call on Saturday 8/5. She got all quiet in the middle of a normal conversation and asked if I thought of coming back to God. She was very upset crying and saying that if I did not come back soon that all hope was lost for my life. That the end was very near. That i would never have children. It was clear that they had either told her this or that there was a buzz was they would not make it to another convention. My Dad, who has weathered this relationship also confided in me saying that he sees a new intensity in what my mother is saying about the end. That it may be getting to be too much for him to take. This is after 29 years of marriage and over 20 years of my mother being in the organization. The whole thing is so sad. My mom is clearly depressed and distraught---as the lone witness in her family she is facing losing all her family. I have been pretty depressed since this. Not because of any fear I have about Armageddon. I am depressed because of the grip they have on my mother. I thought we were doing good and now I see I was very mistaken. I have been reading more about the organization in the last year---I finally read Crisis Conscience; and this current situation lead me to finding this site. I have never tried to communicate with former witnesses. I never thought I needed too. That i had pulled out of it on my own without any help. But I realize that I do need people that understand me.