most people here in the poole/bournemouth area of dorset (and i know i'm generalising) are not very... well, inquiring minds seem to be an aquired taste around these parts.
i mean, there are lots of intelligent people, but they tend to be the ones who steer clear of 'the troof'.
those who are in 'the troof' around here don't tend to have the neccessary brain capacity required to realise they are in a cult & thus they don't leave in great numbers, & those who do leave tend to do so for shallow reasons (they want sex) as opposed to my reason for leaving (i realised it's all a bag of shite).
Hey PP I felt the same way when i left, it was very isolating anad i felt very alone. I think Beks and Dinah have some great advice. It takes time.
This forum is a great place to come and vent and get advice from people who have been in the same situation as you.
....but there are a few who insist on just being plain nasty for no reason.. so, i am leaving for a while to concentrate on other stuff that i need to do.
right now, it is a degree of negativity that i just don't need in my life.
if you cannot post about even a benign subject without getting vicious comments it is time for a break.
Please stay Alpaca. I've always enjoyed your posts.
so far, i have found two threads that just ---end---- after elsewhere makes a post!.
who put the whammy on elsewhere?.
dead:.
Elsewhere is very cute. And he always makes me laugh.
i'm delighted to say our latest addition to the family, fergus keir hunter, was born on saturday morning - 6.06am - weighing in at 6lbs 12oz.
mum and baby are both doing very well.
our other two kids are very pleased, cameron in particular; he's now got the wee brother he's always wanted.. i twittered throughout the pregnancy and you can find the 'tweets' here.. .
Congrats Mark and Gail. He is gorgeous. X
for those of us who are inactive and receiving encouragment to go back to meetings, what do you think their reasons are?.
here are five suggestions:.
) they genuinely think you will die at armaggedon.
I have to agree with reason 5) at least in my case.
There were some genuinely nice people in my old cong, its just i think the wts has them all so busy they dont have the time to show they care very often.
i`ve been "hanging around" on this jw.net for a while, so this is my very first posting.
i`m a former jw from germany, learnt the truth at the age of 20, got babtized 3 years later, and left the wt (for various reasons) about 4 years ago.
so i just like to say a warm friendly "hello" to everyone.
Hey Adriano Blue welcome to the board.
sparks honey, how are you doing?
everything okay?.
kit.
I miss you Decki.
well i just got my post from my old address, and there was a bunch of cards from my lovely jwd family.. so thank you, and sorry i didnt reply earlier.
you know who you are.
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Aww thank you Kit, you too. You sweetie.
ok so after complaining about my city's pathetic tradition of celebrating st. pat's day by mass alcohol poisoning, i thought i would try to find out some actual cultural things about ireland.
i tried the internet but almost everything i found was either pictures of green beer or drunk americans holding plastic shamrocks next to their green beer.
to paraphrase myself, it is so sad to boil an entire culture down to alcohol and tacky decorations.
lmao ninja, you bad boy.
ok so after complaining about my city's pathetic tradition of celebrating st. pat's day by mass alcohol poisoning, i thought i would try to find out some actual cultural things about ireland.
i tried the internet but almost everything i found was either pictures of green beer or drunk americans holding plastic shamrocks next to their green beer.
to paraphrase myself, it is so sad to boil an entire culture down to alcohol and tacky decorations.
come on you tattie munchers....answer the yanks....or let us ...your wee cousins do it for ya
Arrggghh you're all much of a muchness.
