Posts by PEC

i've come a long way in a year, for proof of this, here's my first ever post on this board:hi all, i have just joined this site after having been visiting as a guest for a few months.

i am searching for answers so please be patient with me.

Is being a Jehovahs Witness sometimes a good thing..............

by fifi40 in

to explain this thread i need to tell a sad and horrific story about someone that was once a friend...............for the sake of privacy i will refer to her as carol.. i met carol in the about 1990. i was not a jw (had left when i was 16 and unbaptised).

i was suffering with panic attacks, i think for many reasons but mainly because i had recently lost my dad and took it very hard.

i lived with my then boyfriend, who later became my husband in a town in south yorkshire.

PEC

IMO she is better off dead than being a JW. Being a JW other lives will be destroyed.

Philip

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I'm back..JW's at my door left stunned and in tears

by toladest in

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well, i'm back after a couple years away from this site.

i still recognize a lot of names here, but there are a lot of new ones too.

i wanted to share an expierience i had with two witness "sisters" at my door a couple weeks ago.

PEC

Laurie, welcome back.

Philip

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I never have done right by you...

by Sparkplug in

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in talking to my mom the other day (who is doing so well btw) she turned to me and said straight and as sane as can be, "i have never done right by you, don't do as i have done to you to you kids.

" she got teary eyed and i changed the subject fast because i did not know how to take it nor could i talk with the big lump in my throat.

i have known this my whole life, and i don't even speak it as plain as she has spoken it, but hearing out of her mouth as she sits in her wheelchair and knowing she means it from her heart and from pure love, well it messed me up a bit.

PEC

((((((Sparkplug)))))))

Hang in there, accept the apology, never let your guard down.

Philip

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First Birthday card for my Sister.

by PEC in

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she will be 48 years old on 4/24/07 and this will probably be the first birthday card she has received, being a life time jw.

thanks to jwd, i no longer will be treating her with kid gloves, she will now be treated as family, like it or not.. .

PEC

Here is the card, I will get the picture thing right one of these days.

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Strawberry daiquiri's are now a health food!!

by Bumble Bee in

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so, who'd like to sit out on the deck with me this weekend - it's going to be a glorious weekend here in southern ontario, and share some healthy strawberry daiquiri's with me?.

bb.

fruity cocktails may be healthy .

PEC

I am having one for breakfast, thanks.

Philip

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Tomorrow is my Master's Defense (wish me luck)

by asleif_dufansdottir in

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tomorrow at 2:45 arizona time i present/defend my master's research to basically the entire department (anthropology...all the 'sub-disciplines'...socio/cultural, physical and archaeology).

they've changed things a bit in the program so now all grad students who are completing their ma in any given year present on the same day in one big "ma-athon," so *everybody*...all the faculty and many of the students...will be there (defenses used to have a much smaller audience and rarely had people from more than your own sub-disc).. i'm not as nervous as i could be...i've done several different (smaller) presentations of my research both on campus at brown-bags and on-campus grad student conferences and at 2 national meetings, so i've had lots of practice.. the only bad thing is, out of a bunch of students the whole day, i'm the very.

here's to hoping they're ready to leave and *not* that, since there's nobody speaking after me, they can grill me for as long as they want .

PEC

Nobody gets my humor.