i live in memphis.
months ago, i had some jw's come by and talk with me.
i'm a believer in the holy bible.
Jesus was this really hot exchange student from Spain that I went to high school with.
Nice guy. Didn't speak any English when he came over though. He got someone else to complete his forms and do the interview for him. It was quite funny. He got to stay anyway and could speak English pretty well by the end of the school year.
He was quite a guy. That's the only real Jesus I know.
Viva Espana!
we are back from our trip to europe.
we had a wonderful time in denmark and scotland.
i have lots of pics i could e-mail, if anyone wants to see some.
Grand Cayman Island for about 5 days. It was awesome. We swam with the stingrays and hung out at the beach...ate some turtle, and just had the most relaxing vacation we have ever had. Of course, we are STILL paying for it hahah. But it was worth it.
This was the view from the back door.
Here is our youngest, running on the beach at Rum Point Beach
here is a grand opportunity to give the jw that knock on your door some apostate literature.
of course we wouldn't want to hand them hate literature - they won't read it.
they might read the wts own literature though.
I have two ferrets that will nibble your ankles!!!!!
Actually...they crawl up pantyhose...could have some funny with pesky sisters.
i just received a phone call from a friend.
she wanted to let me know that scootergirl's husband committed suicide.
i know scootergirl has many, many friends on this board.
I remember Scootergirl from the other board...oh man...I had no idea...I am so sorry for her and her family.
Such a wonderful poster, I am so sorry to hear of her tragedy.
do you do it with an inner monolog?
do you do it out loud?
---- when i am stressed or am drinking.
Only a crazy person would talk to someone that wouldn't answer them...even if it is themself.
........................at my last meeting, the elder was talking about 1975 and said "it never happened, it is appostates using a time when (some) brothers took the info in the wt wrong"...................i just blinked and finally woke up.. i had been on this site lurking for a couple of weeks, and realized thing werent right, but to have some creep say on the platform " it didnt happen"............when this ruined my and my siblings childhood, just made me snap.
on the way home, i told my hubby "that was the last meeting im going to"................boy was he pleased.. .
so if you didnt get df ......................what happened at your last meeting.?.
My last meeting was also a memorial, in 1998.
Although I had been having some lingering uncomfortable feelings for a while, I wouldn't even recognize them as doubts I don't think. But just as my issue with being a good witness. But at that meeting something just clicked. I realized that it was bunk.
I had a long conversation with my best friend in the parking lot after the meeting and told her I was never going back to another meeting. And I never have. The only time I have been back to the KH is when I have given my mom rides to their or picked her up.
I was never disfellowshipped, but I think that was due to the fact that the brothers in my hall didn't see a whole lot of value in a single mother in their hall, unless you were a pioneer of course. I wasn't being an apostate so there was nothing to quiet down. They never even offered to do a sherparding call.
I had a few conversations with my friend after that, and they always ended with her saying "If you want to see me come back to the KH." She literally lived around the corner...about 1000 feet from me. Our house was directly across the street from a street that had several witness families on it. It was nicknamed "witness row".
I am glad now, of their apparant apathy, because it made it easier for me to fade, and for my mother to accept my non Witness husband. (After we were married, we moved back into my same apartment, and had xmas tree in the window, directly facing "witness row" for 4 years. Ahhh...it was a wonderful thing.) It is a shame that my witness "Friends" don't realize that I am not disfellowshipped. I do miss a few of them.
I have been fortunate that my departure has been not as difficult as most here, and I really appreciate others sharing their stories.
after much trepidation i made a big decision.
i'm not going to the dc this year.
it's the first one i've ever missed (i think.
Nina, did you get several sets of witnesses at your door handing out the invitation too?
Like I would travel all the way to Fort Worth for that if I wasn't a witness...snicker....Hello...its hot...its too far away....sheesh....makes me laugh, it does.
here's an excerpt from a bbc.co.uk article i just read:.
"the holy koran recognises jesus as a prophet.
what the book says is an insult to both christians and muslims," maulana mansoor ali khan, general secretary of the all-india sunni jamiyat-ul-ulema, told the reuters news agency.
Just saw the movie tonight, read the book a while ago.
I was disapointed that they downplayed the church's role in the movie, as opposed the book...but, yeah it is fiction, so I think it is total over reaction by people to get all hot and bothered.
But, then again, if I were still a Christian, I would probably have been at least a little offended that someone DARE say that Christ wasn't more than a man, and what the holy grail was actually supposed to be. (don't want to give away to much for those that didn't read the book or see the movie.)
On another note, if I ever make a movie, I think I want Opie to direct it. He did a good job.
i have found that postafarians around the world are without a means to purchase a likeness of the flying spaghetti monster.. as luck would have it, i stumbled upon a possible solution!
e. coli plush toys!
http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/plush/6708/images/1430/.
HAHAAH that is awesome...I had no idea there was an E.Coli plushy
how cuddly!
i have done a lot of reading of rand's fiction, and have been reading a lot about her philosophy over the past several months.
i attend a local study group on her philosophy, and my family and i often attend get togethers that a local objectivist group puts on once or twice a month.. i am interested in talking with other ex witnesses that enjoy her work, and may be interested in discussing her philosophy.
i won't call myself an objectivist just yet, because i still am studying the philosophy.
How many times have we seen that happen? =(
Lathanar is a much nicer guy since he has become an objectivist too... heehee.
