If you promise not to call me a sissy, I'll tell you: Sweet Sixteen by Hilary Duff.
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Coming to terms with.....
by PaulJ in.....being about to turn 30!
oh.my.god.i.feel.old..... january the 3rd if you're interested.
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Thirty's OK. Forty had me a bit depressed but even though my energy has waned a bit, I feel more alive than ever. I'm sure a lot of it has to do with finally shedding the jw crap once and for all.
Oh, where are my manners, I must have thought I was a jw for a minute there: Happy Birthday!
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KM Insert "How Do I View Blood Fractions..." Complete Scan and PDF
by V indownload pdf here (all four pages).
page 1 of insert: http://i11.tinypic.com/2s67s6g.jpg.
page 2 of insert: http://i12.tinypic.com/2dtnpr9.jpg.
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I wonder what they think about the "He that is faithful in what is little is faithful in what is much" scripture, or if that one has a footnote saying it doesn't apply to blood transfusions.
Sorry, ballistic, I didn't see that you said the same thing. :-)
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What should I be? - A poem.
by Abandoned ini'm good with people - i would make a cool waiter.. i'm quick on my feet - i should become an ice skater.. i left "the truth" - i guess that makes me a traitor.. but even though i left, i don't hate our creator.. i don't like control - i guess i'm not a dictator.
i do like art - i could become a curator.
i know another language - maybe a translator?.
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Thanks Sad emo and troubled mind. I appreciate your comments. I love writing poems. I'm not sure what I'll do next, but I'm planning on writing more poems and stories and such.
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Please Send Any Positive Thoughts My Way on Wednesday!
by XJW4EVR ini will be interviewing for a position at the university of southern california.
the pay is not going to be that good to begin with, but i have mitigating factors, my son who is a junior this year, can get in and i won't have to pay a dime towards his tuition.
his dream is to go to usc and to play for the usc marching band.
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Good luck. I'm sending as many good vibes as I can spare... Ooops! Wrong halo. There, that's better.
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2007 District Convention "Follow the Christ!"
by TheListener inhaven't seen this yet so if anyone posted this already i apologize.. .
the theme for the 2007 district conventions is "follow the christ!
" i'm sure more information on the program will follow..
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What came to my mind when I read this was how the jw always refer to Jesus as the Christ. Now, according to the jw, the christ means the annointed - same as the messiah. Those inside the jw who profess to go to heaven are also called the annointed. So, is this telling the faithful to follow Jesus Christ or their own self-professed annointed? Or is it a clever way to be sending out both message: that Jesus should be referred to as the christ and that the faithful should follow these annointed men?
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What should I be? - A poem.
by Abandoned ini'm good with people - i would make a cool waiter.. i'm quick on my feet - i should become an ice skater.. i left "the truth" - i guess that makes me a traitor.. but even though i left, i don't hate our creator.. i don't like control - i guess i'm not a dictator.
i do like art - i could become a curator.
i know another language - maybe a translator?.
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What should I be?
I'm good with people - I would make a cool waiter.
I'm quick on my feet - I should become an ice skater.
I left "the truth" - I guess that makes me a traitor.
But even though I left, I don't hate our creator.
I don't like control - I guess I'm not a dictator
I do like art - I could become a curator
I know another language - maybe a translator?
Naw, I know what I like - I'll be a master (de)bater.Hey all. This is the first poem I've written since coming out about being an ex-jw. What do you think?
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JW start out early making you feel guilty
by MsMcDucket ini remember when they wouldn't give me the kingdom ministry because i wasn't an approved associate/publisher/baptised.
i started thinking god everybody knows that i am not good enough for jehovah.
if i had of only known then what i know now, i wouldn't have fell for it.
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Do you think HE has multiple personalities?
All levity aside, the god that the jw describe does sound like someone who has Borderline Personality Disorder. I remember when I was suffering through my hardest bouts of worthlessness. There was a sliver of hope that made me think that one day I could be the kind of person that god wanted. Then, once I started to come around and thank god for my newfound sense of worth, I'd be hit again with a mountain of expectations. These weren't from me.
I'd read the testimonials (can't remember what the wt calls them) in the wt and awake and then I'd feel like crap again. Each one talked about how the brother was faithful his whole life. Each one mentioned how he didn't let his feelings get him down and such crap. Each one made me feel even uglier since I wasn't able to handle my emotions like the brother or sister in the mags. Now, one or two stories like that could be a coincident, but every story I read was like that.
What this taught me, eventually, is that regardless of whether the bible is god's word (still highly doubting that but willing to have reasonable conversations with reasonable people about it), the god that I was introduced to from the bible and from the jw has some serious emotional issues. You can be disfellowshipped for disrespecting an elder, yet this same religion teaches that the best solution that the wisest person in the universe could come up with was allow as situation where 99.9 percent of the population had to be forcibly destroyed? Come on. Give me a break.
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Should I warn this householder of the danger?
by SirNose586 ini was out today and working with a well-indoctrinated brother ("brother b").
we were hitting houses with tracts then running, until we went on his call.
brother b was trying to give him an asleep and a tract, and invite him to the talk today, which was given by a bethelite (and it was a heavy indoctrination session, which is another story).
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I'm sorry to say, that hasn't happened yet. And so I must plan my escape on my own terms.
You got sucked in against your will so I'm glad you're leaving on your terms.
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Thanksgiving thread
by Mulan ini posted this a couple of years ago, and thought it was time to resurrect it.
strategically placed aluminum foil made this design.. .
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Mmmm, turkey cheescake...