@ prodigal son - aren't glad you are out of that. There is an elder in my community who is an ex-Marine sergeant. Talk about a person without mercy! He likes to brag that he is seen as the disciplinarian among the elders.
Sick, sick cult and its sick, sick elders!
not long ago i had 100 'friends' - or so i thought.
i certainly had 100 or more people who said they were friends.
then i left a cult, and found myself with very few friends - those kind in the flesh, in the community.
Well, I guess what I needed to say is that they would all notice right away. I love solitude, too, and have lots of time to myself as I work at home and the majority of my days are spent alone till hubby comes home from work. Though my kids are grown and moved out (one son bought the house next door), all the above are a big part of my life. I'm very lucky. I have a couple of good friends, too, that I care a great deal about, but we don't talk to/see each other very often. But we are there for each other when needed and have a great deal of affection for one another.
Since my husband was not a witness and my children chose not to be, I was in much better shape than a lot of people on here who only had witnesses in their lives. I feel for so many on here. I hope all on here in that position can make new friends, form new relationships, and have happy, fulfilled lives.
not long ago i had 100 'friends' - or so i thought.
i certainly had 100 or more people who said they were friends.
then i left a cult, and found myself with very few friends - those kind in the flesh, in the community.
Nope, not me. My dog would be devastated. My husband would be, too, as well as my sons and daughter-in-law, grandson, sisters, mother, next door neighbors, and all the doctors I do dictation for.
heres the situation.... met a girl i am tottally infatuated with.
i could just hang out with her and not have sex but she has not been in a relationship in a year and shes pretty horny.
im a normal dude so i dont want to refuse her.. i cant decide if im rationalizing my feelings.
I am with Mrs. Jones and leprechaun. Though I have no problem with sex before marriage, or better termed sex without marriage, you have to practice safe sex and avoid STD's, HIV, and pregnancies. And definitely do as Mrs. Jones says and educate yourself regarding sexuality. Theres a wealth of information out there, and it didn't come from the Watchtower Society either (theirs is called misinformation).
heres the situation.... met a girl i am tottally infatuated with.
i could just hang out with her and not have sex but she has not been in a relationship in a year and shes pretty horny.
im a normal dude so i dont want to refuse her.. i cant decide if im rationalizing my feelings.
I haven't had time to read all the posts, but I wanted to say one thing. I would never marry someone I had never had sex with before marriage. How do you know what you are getting?
Nathan Natas,
The first part of the article states he was interviewed by a reporter from the Globe Democrat, which was a St. Louis newspaper for many years. It is now defunct.
Ginny
i was just talking to a guy who's been df'd for years and he still talks about things like it was yesterday in watchtowerland.. are you still consumed by your jw past?.
Nope, sure don't. My husband and children are not JW's and they are what my life is made up of, and my grandson of course. I only think about them when I am talking to my extended family who are in or when my nieces and nephews say things about it on facebook. But the majority of the time, I do not think about it at all. Life is good.
i'm sitting here working away and about half an hour ago, i felt everything start to shake.
i thought "what the heck is that?
" they're doing construction next door so i thought maybe that was it, but apparently, we just had a earthquake here in southern ontario and quebec.. anyone else feel it?.
Omigod!!!!!! the end is nigh!!!! Must go back to Kingdum Hell ------------- oh, wait. Never mind.
should have seen it coming.
don't want to rehash my personal situation, anyone who's read my former posts will know it.
anyone who cares can look them up and get the gist of the situation.
You should be able to get a post office box in order to get food stamps. My son (bipolar) did.
when a convention was to be held in your city and it was believed there weren't enough hotel rooms available or at least affordable ones, the witnesses living in that city were asked to go out into the territory and ask people if they had a room or rooms someone attending the convention could use.
you could report your time doing this as part of your ministry.
i could never bring myself (14 or 15) to do this....it just seemed too weird for a kid to go to a house and ask the householder for a room but many kids in the hall did this.
In 1970, there was a convention in St. Louis at Busch Stadium. I participated in the rooming work in Granite City, IL across the river from St. Louis. We went only to the best neighborhoods and were very particular about which homes would be accepted for rooming. Homes where the witnesses could use a separate entrance and not share a bathroom with the homeowner were considered ideal. Also, the homeowner was to be paid so much a night by whomever they let stay there. It was not free.
In the early 70's, cannot remember which year, my mother and two younger sisters and I stayed in a lady's home in Kansas City during the convention. She was elderly and her husband had died within the last few months before. The home was very nice, but spooky. The rocking chair on the front porch would start rocking early every morning at the same time with no one in it. We used a shower in the basement. We girls started accompanying one another down there to take a shower because if one of went alone, we could hear footsteps approaching the shower, getting closer and closer, but if we were all three down there nothing happened. Funny thing, the old lady would not stay in the house by herself. When we left, she left, and she wanted to know when we would be back and she would not come back till we did. We had the distinct impression that she did not want to be in the house by herself.
