let's be honest everyone has their limits, their breaking point.
personally i try to remain placid when provoked, but on occasion i can loose it.
the last time i lost it was when chelsea came to watford and some chelsea supporters had some how got tickets and were sitting in the home end.
Rebel,
I like your last statement. As I said earlier the only things that still anger me and will set my temper off is lying and disrespect but as I have gotten older I have learned not to engage in this battle with these people. If it is face to face I turn my back and walk away, if it is on the phone I hang up and refuse to answer return calls. I am just no longer going to engage in this battle with these people. Life is to short.
let's be honest everyone has their limits, their breaking point.
personally i try to remain placid when provoked, but on occasion i can loose it.
the last time i lost it was when chelsea came to watford and some chelsea supporters had some how got tickets and were sitting in the home end.
I learned very young that being both Italian and German I had a real hot temper and it just had to be controlled. My daughter's favorite phrase is mom was always so busy we could push all her buttons and get away with it except for lying and disrespect. Now if I catch someone doing either of those, sorry this Italian lady surely can lose her temper.
I have friends who ask how can you work so calmly with 40 teenage girls at the same time when they are whining about boyfriend issues, that time of the month, she is getting yada yada yada and they are always complaining. By the end of the day you work through it and get them on task, make them laugh, encouraging them, bring them to the point where they work together and you never lose your temper. I just figure it is not worth all that energy it takes to lose your temper. Staying calm exerts a lots less energy.
a non-jw friend of mine told me of her experience at a just concluded regional convention that she went to.
she said that during some announcements after a song, there was an announcement advising the audience to be mindful of the need to safeguard their belongings because not all persons present at the convention are delegates.
she said she was shocked to hear this rather prejudiced announcement that clearly insinuated all non-delegates are untrustworthy and only delegates are honest.
LOL,
rebelfighter You ought to have said "What? When did you stop worshipping Jehovah
I knew no better and wanted to argue/discuss his beliefs. He never told me that was a no no. I argue everything in my field of finance. My kids education I argued everything and got them the best education. And he knew this from the many discussion we had over 5 years. I win a lot of battles. See someone told me there is no such word as can't and I believed them. So I find away around the system and I get what I want.
"The most common action of humans is to eat. I've heard at convention not to eat with WORLDLY people . Pius bastards"
I love this comment the "Elder" seemed to forget this one completely for 5 years. Until the day I made the mistake and questioned his beliefs. LOL.
so i met her at my last job that i worked & we started off as friends.
i didn't know her faith at the time & i honestly couldn't have cared less, seeing as i'm agnostic.
after about a year, i began developing emotions for her & sure enough, we ended up dating for a little while.
Read Jwfacts.com then run as fast as you can in the other direction. There are plenty of other fine young ladies out there. Trust me you do not need or want this in your life.
a non-jw friend of mine told me of her experience at a just concluded regional convention that she went to.
she said that during some announcements after a song, there was an announcement advising the audience to be mindful of the need to safeguard their belongings because not all persons present at the convention are delegates.
she said she was shocked to hear this rather prejudiced announcement that clearly insinuated all non-delegates are untrustworthy and only delegates are honest.
After 5 years of multiple daily phone calls from the "Elder" one of his statements that just blew me away was "I can no longer talk to you because we worship different Gods".
for those of you that asked, below is a copy of my solicitors letter to the elders in my old congregation.
he sent a similar one directly to bethel and a medical directive to my daughters gp to go on her medical records that i have already given permission for her to have a blood transfusion should she need one:.
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Pale.emperor,
Never a JW but I agree with you those pictures along with some of the Caleb and Sofia cartoons and most definitely this years videos for the RC are NOT age appropriate.
I wish you the best of luck sheltering your daughter from all of this.
im no medical professional, but i have my own opinions of the gb members.
i'd be interested to get yours.. no jokes please, im gonna be 100% serious and would like you to be too.. anthony morris iii - narcissist, controlling, possibly psychopath.
knows full well it's all bullshit but loves the power.. stephen lett - mentally ill, fantasist, liar who genuinely believes the lies he tells.. samuel hird - deluded, likely actually believes he actually is anointed by god.
Never a JW but the first one I heard was Herd over on JWFACTS about women's brains. This man is black he I am sure has suffered from some serious discrimination in his time, yet he sure can dish it out to the women. Shame on him! Ok, now that was probably not the best introduction to the GB for a women's advocate.
I was determined to try to figure out what the "Elder" saw in this religion so I went forward learning as much as possible and then the broadcast started. I watched every one starting in January through August. Not at all impressed. That came to an abrupt halt with the ARC. I watched every minute of the ARC. As many know from my post here children issues come very near and dear to my heart. I helped a girlfriend put her husband in jail for doing the unthinkable. I do a huge amount of charity work for children every year. Then to watch those Elders straight up the line to Jackson LIE LIE LIE!!!! Since then I cannot watch a single one of them because how can anyone trust a single word that comes from their mouth. I HATE lying my children were taught one of the worst sins is lying.
I caught the "Elder" in a string of lies. Oh that is right these are not lies, me bad, theocratic warfare STOP they are LIES!!!
on my my way to work today i had a tract with the words " god is love" thrust in my hand by a young man, of some church denomination.
now if i were to give the tract to a " witness" he would find the tract repulsive, repellent, blasphemous.
" in fact if i i were a witness i would be punished for reading such material.. why would this be?
Rebel,
LOL, I did not spend the savings account on medical my mom had good insurance. Here is the rest of the crazy part of the story. I have a Princess sister LOL she is the other half of the POA for my mother. In order to get through my life i have developed a sense of humor about these things. When my mother started to go downhill she lived 4 states away. The Princess only talked to mom on the phone for 3 years daily "there is nothing wrong with her". Me: then why am I getting calls from drs, neighbors, the association security and police that someone needs to get down there and check on her?.
I made 10 trips in 9 months. 15 hours in one direction and ended up paying some of her past due bills so utilities would not get cut off. Of course the Princess would not reimburse me because this was all in my imagination. When we finally moved her, still to this day she swears on a stack of Bibles that Mother's Alz came about the "Day" we moved her and not one day before. Just like a light switch. Amazing!
Oh, I might add the Princess is a walking pharmacy of drugs, she keeps them solidly in business. She is my third person who I continually have forgiven throughout my life. She has no problem calling me names like liar and thief in front of lawyers and bankers. When she leaves the room we have a very good laugh because they know I am bonded and licensed to do business in my field and that she personally has stolen from me.
Yeap, never a JW but there has been periods of as long as 6 months where I have shunned these people but when I showed back up there behavior did improve for awhile because they knew who had the checkbook. Shame on me.
on my my way to work today i had a tract with the words " god is love" thrust in my hand by a young man, of some church denomination.
now if i were to give the tract to a " witness" he would find the tract repulsive, repellent, blasphemous.
" in fact if i i were a witness i would be punished for reading such material.. why would this be?
Rebel,
Sometimes unconditional love and forgiveness and a caring heart is not a good combination. I tried with all my heart to love my mother there is no way possible to tell you how many times I have forgiven her but she was my mother. It was only upon the insistence of the County Sheriff, Social Services and the "Elder" and the fact I watched a large savings account drain dry that she is in a nursing home for MY safety. She beat me up as a child and then as a violent ALZ patient.
I believe (who knows why) the marriage vows - 40 years. He has no blood relatives willing to care for him. We are legally separated, he lived with another woman for 6 years until he had a massive stroke. She moved her ex into my husband home that night. He was always verbally abusive and in those 40 years probably worked 10 years total. Neither of our kids will talk to him. He now lives in my house, I am the POA and care giver. Life insurance is paid up to date. He is no longer verbally abusive for the better part because he knows when I say there is the front door I mean it because I showed it before and he knows good and we'll I mean business.
And that's the life of a caring loving heart.
on my my way to work today i had a tract with the words " god is love" thrust in my hand by a young man, of some church denomination.
now if i were to give the tract to a " witness" he would find the tract repulsive, repellent, blasphemous.
" in fact if i i were a witness i would be punished for reading such material.. why would this be?
Love is unconditional. Love is from the heart. Love is putting the needs of the other person before yourself. Love is forgetting to think of the long term consequences both financially and emotionally. (This last one has gotten me many times). My family and friends tell me I have much to caring and loving heart.
