Beautifully said, and internet *hugs* to you, Purps.
Baba
BabaYaga
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The Love Starved
by purplesofa inwhen i first got on the internet, 8/9 years ago, the only people i came in contact with were jw's.
i had just been reinstated, after being df for 9 years.
my first observation was how lonely the chatters were.
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So how do you keep your clothes hangers tidy?
by ozziepost inok, fluffy time!.
mrs ozzie and i are just back home and so there's plenty of laundry to do - that's my job, and i quite enjoy it, but there's one thing that spoils it for me and that's the clothes hangars!.
you know how it goes, some hangars for pants, some for skirts, some for shirts, and then some are plastic, some are steel and some are those confounded wire hangars you get from the dry cleaners.. they're always getting tangled up; it doesn't matter how well i stack them (i've got a basket for them), when i get out in the yard to hang out the clothes, there's always one, it only takes one!
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BabaYaga
Okay, I can't believe I'm answering this domestic advice post, nor do I believe I am answering with such a grandma answer, but here goes:
Snip discarded pantyhose into thin strips across, which makes stretchy rings, like big soft rubber bands.
Grab several hangers into a neat stack and have put the stretchy ring you've made over the hooks. Pull the stretchy ring under and thru the hangars open space, and then pop the ring up over the hook parts AGAIN but now from the other side. Dang, it's so hard to describe such a simple, easy thing. This makes a very happy little package of hangars that can be thrown to the floor of the closet without tangling.
Hope this was understandable, if I had an illustration, you'd just say, "OH!" -
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Welcome Jehovah
by coolhandluke injehovah, .
oh how many times i've prayed to you and felt your scornful laugh from yonder skies, how you mock me and laugh at me.
my creation is for your amusement obviously, kinda like the celestial version of the sunday comics, only i appear in technicolor everyday for you.
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Dear gods, Dom... I'm so, so sorry about your friend's child in Iraq.
Oh, I'm so, so sorry.
(Peace to you, sweet little one, innocent and undeserving of what became you. Sweet dreams.)
Strength to your friend and his family.
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Personality of "Anointed" JWs
by Smiles indid you notice any similarities in the personalities of "anointed" jws?.
did they use their anointed status for personal advantage?.
were they the most loving person you ever met?.
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Woah, Bam... what a bizarre tale. What an experience... and it's your Mum. Amazing.
Seeker... I think you have it nailed. It's the "old-school" annointed (when they were annointing "en masse" at conventions!!!) who are/were much more tolerable, shall we say. The ones who took it upon themeselves to DECIDE that they were SURELY BETTER than all of the others in the congregation were pretty much by definition *NUT*BUCKETS*.
One was in my extended family... I didn't know her very well, but I know that she was ancient and doughy and dyed her hair the most unnatural shade of Bozo... and carried huge handfuls of change wrapped up in deterriorating Kleenex (tm) wads, stuffed into her brassiered bosom.
The other was always incredibly zealous, and married to an unbeliever. She always sat tall in the meetings and commented constantly. She mispronounced "apostles" by sounding out the "t". I was in field service with her once when we came to the house with the "palm readings" sign. Everyone else in the territory always passed it. Not this gal. She marched right up... I was a kid and I couldn't WAIT to see what would be in a palm reader's house! I remember it smelled really wonderful with the insence... and the householder was really lovely and receptive. Ha.
The other one I knew was old school. She was truly incredible. She seemed like she was a thousand years old if she was a day, and she had shrunk to an amazing fairy-tale grandmother size. She was tiny, and she lived in a VERY very tiny house. I'm telling you, she was fairy tale material all the way around. She was a great human... her eyes really sparkled and she never had a bad thing to say about anybody... but she had a very sweetly mischievious sense of humor. If folks do go to heaven, her being there would make it more palatable.
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Welcome Jehovah
by coolhandluke injehovah, .
oh how many times i've prayed to you and felt your scornful laugh from yonder skies, how you mock me and laugh at me.
my creation is for your amusement obviously, kinda like the celestial version of the sunday comics, only i appear in technicolor everyday for you.
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I'm happy for the bump... I love this piece... and I love you, too, Brother CoolHand.
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Friendships
by return visitor inwhen firmly entrenched in the borg i complained to my wife that friendships in the "truth" didn't seem as real as i noticed worldly people had.
for instance, the worldly person i worked with was constantly doing things with friends, whether it was going to ball games or helping a friend put on a new roof.
in our circle of friends we could never count on help, our friends were too busy trying to earn a living and doing the borgs bidding.
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BabaYaga
I concur.
The only thing I could count on my JW friends for was to pull me aside (or even better, go talk to the elders about me) because they were so "concerned". I kid you not, I learned to detest that word.
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Do you need to be popular?
by nicolaou ineveryone wants to be liked but how important is popularity to you?
i can honestly say i've little desire to be popular but i do know i need to feel loved.
perhaps it's something to do with maturity (not age).
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BabaYaga
Popular takes WAY too much energy.
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Is Jehovah a real dude? (Sort of long)
by millions now living are dead ini don't post here much but this board has helped me through the process of extracting myself from this religion.
i thought i should share an experience that i had.. quick background: 4th of 5 generations of jw's leading back to beginning of the century.
first to leave the religion of all of the relatives and family.
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BabaYaga
Frankly, I don't believe in demons, really, but I can see where a lot of people would think that this is what happened.
Secondly, Becca does have a point about the depression thing. It's marvelous that this has helped you to "exorcise" some of your anger... but make sure all your chemicals are in good shape in the meantime (5HTP is pretty amazing, sometimes SAMe, sometimes the old St. John's Wort, etc.) Sometimes the right supplement will help, othertimes, it's better living through chemistry.
If you are already checking out Gnostic ideas, I want to point you to the site of a dear friend of mine who is a Gnostic Bishop. I love her ideology.
http://www.gnosticsanctuary.org/who_are_we.html (sorry it's not a live link, copy and paste.) -
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Is Jehovah a real dude? (Sort of long)
by millions now living are dead ini don't post here much but this board has helped me through the process of extracting myself from this religion.
i thought i should share an experience that i had.. quick background: 4th of 5 generations of jw's leading back to beginning of the century.
first to leave the religion of all of the relatives and family.
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BabaYaga
Dang.
Well.
First I wanted to welcome you and tell you that I love your sign-on... and then I read your post, and yes, it is a bit long, but considering the experiences I don't know how you condensed it.
I am skeptical. "Not wanting to believe and not wanting to believe, you know what I mean?"
I mean, do these hallucinagens open the vents in the protective armor of our souls, or does it just spark chemicals in our brain that shows us crap that isn't there?
Regardless, I'm very, very happy this seems to have worked for you.
Incidently, in the Gnostic mythos, the creator god (aka Jehovah) is called the Demi-urge, he is not all there and not all good... when one reads the Old Testament it seems to fit to me.
Might enjoy reading "Jehovah Unmasked" by Nate Merritt... he sometimes posts here.
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My journey so far, thoughts?
by WingCommander ini've been on here nearly 5-6 years (as you can see by my profile) but hardly ever post.
for years i was satisfied with reading your stories and commenting occasionally, all the while telling myself that i was still a dub and would never change.
at the beginning, i was really just curious and also wandering if people out there grew up like i did (in an orwellian hell), and had experienced what i had experienced.
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BabaYaga
Greetings WingCommander, and strength to you!
You're doing JUST FINE. Counseling? Sure, but they haven't been raised a JW. It can still help a lot and give you coping skills. Frankly, this site has been such a purge for unhealed wounds I have carried around for decades.
Above all else, trust the process, and give it TIME. You need to heal, and allow yourself to come to your own beliefs in your OWN TIME.
Isn't it wonderful... to realize you can develop your own thoughts and beliefs? (Scary, too, and I know that well... but you will see the magnificence of it soon enough.)
Cheers!!!
Baba