not sure if i should have posted this here or in entertainment :) http://www.postmodernsass.com/blogger/2007/03/she-sells-sanctuary.html
"Yes, but no one says anything directly. My husband and I left the church four years ago, and our parents don't officially know, but they know."
but they know.....what it that!!!! What kind of people are these???? (by the way, I know, just in case you don't know that I know)
You know, you can "get over it" and go on to lead a happy, contented, productive life, but your world-view remains forever skewed.
simple, but true.
thanks for sharing
i'd like to raise my child to not be stressed out about holidays and flag salutes etc.
i have bad memories of that sh*t from my childhood.
got any advice for a guy whose wife and parents are in the borg?
Keep adding yeast.
lol warlock....warm water, and wait till they get foamy.
i'd like to raise my child to not be stressed out about holidays and flag salutes etc.
i have bad memories of that sh*t from my childhood.
got any advice for a guy whose wife and parents are in the borg?
yes I have advice.
Unconditional love is the most lacking within the whole WT scene. UNCONDITIONAL....love, unconditional love, unconditional love.
Also, try to reinforce whatever uniqueness they display. They will get plenty of knock downs, you can be there to help them know that it is ok to be different. Help them explore their interests as much as possible.
Finally, don't undermine the family in the borg. They will undermine you, kids can't handle being torn between two parents (or grandparents, aunt...etc.) If they are told one is doomed to eternal distruction, and the other is a finatical hypocrate, they learn to not trust either and make their own rules up.
I should have checked first if you are still in or not, sorry, but if you are here then you are at least in a fadish situation so maybe it applies?
I wish you the best.
food critic for a gormet magazine.
movie critic....i'd be good at that.
travel book writer.....i should move that to the top.
I'm really good at service...I love to make people comfortable...if something isnt right, i take pleasure in fixing the problem.
odie67, I must be an odie too. One of my reality/dream jobs is to have a small cafe, maybe 10 or 12 tables. Working the local market, and doing catering on the side. I am ridiculous about making people comfortable.....I'm pretty sure I'm older than you. Trust me, it is a curse in some ways. (you can never be cool, you know what I mean don't you). In the end we are what we are, and we might as well use our born in skills and have some fun.
food critic for a gormet magazine.
movie critic....i'd be good at that.
travel book writer.....i should move that to the top.
Casper, you should get together with Flying High Now, very similar. I admire you both, I would probably like that too, but for tonight I'm into my more selfish ventures.
At one point in my life I almost started a greenhouse business. Then my life took a turn, and now I can't keep a house plant alive. I am getting it back, I do better with outside plants.
food critic for a gormet magazine.
movie critic....i'd be good at that.
travel book writer.....i should move that to the top.
sitting on the pier at anna maria island or siesta key and fish forever.......with endless ciders beside me.....using my mother in law as bait.....I wouldn't catch anything obviously....but it would be fun trying
Minus the monther in law as bait, that would be my dream life. I'm with you on the ciders, but what are we fishing for?
i am in a situation that many of you have faced... whether to stay with my spouse or not after having learned the falsehood of the org.. my wife is diehard witness who gets upset whenever i talk about the org negatively.
she is not happy that i am on jwd... in fact the other day she picked up the keyboard and wanted to throw it accros the room or bash me with it when she saw i was on jwd... she is also very upset about me making friends with "apostates" and worldly people, and told me never to bring them to our home!
this concerns me, since i am not going to have any friends in the org, and i need at least a few friendships...she doesn't want me to talk to the friends in the cong about my decision so that i don't share my doubts.
Thanks for the info.
The advice oompa gave you to slow down and consider your situation was also given to my on this board when I first came here. I took it, and I am glad I did. My marriage isn't going to make it, but I feel I have given myself time to reflect of every aspect of my decision.
For me it ended up being about kids, my grandkids (I am raising them). My history as a JW involved six kids, three step. None of them are JW's. I couldn't let my grandkids even be exposed to it, the scars can be so deep.
Second, I was told what to do, how to believe, what to think, how I was wrong, how Jehovah wouldn't listen to my prayers....etc....for so long, I lost my ability to tolerate it. Kind of like you just were force fed 30 hot dogs (in the bun) and they want to feed you just one more. Even if I became a strong woman overnight, and I could silence it. We all know it is alway there, unspoken words can sometimes be just as damaging. I don't want to live my life with someone who thinks my heart is not in the right condition.
I guess I just reached my limit. Time to reinvent my life.
wings.
as ex-jw's we've all cleary changed our minds about what 'the truth' is but do you think you could make another big change like that again?
i honestly cannot see myself changing my mind about the non-existence of god and the supernatural - but hey, i was just as dogmatic in my jw days that those things were real!
i guess anything is possible but it feels as though with every passing year my options for change are reduced.
sometimes I do
sometimes I don't
mostly I do
Now I lost my thought! ARUGH!
then you should read my book "procrastination perfection" by willdolater wings.
only problem is, i haven't gotten to actually writing it.
tomorrow is always a good day to get things done.
I've been putting off doing my last essay for the last week or so. If i wasn't too busy looking at JWD i'm sure i'd find something else to stop me doing it
That's the way it works! Honestly doing it is so much better.....just have to be in the mood I suppose.
food critic for a gormet magazine.
movie critic....i'd be good at that.
travel book writer.....i should move that to the top.
An archaeologist or a paleontologist
Interesting, do you like the Indiana Jones movies? Or Timeline? I guess my movie problem is exposing it's self. Could be very exciting.
Okay, I'll give you guys a break from me, Mom's alseep, and I have dishes and laundry to do. Later.
