Miss Bliss

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  We have the truth

  by MutualRespectPlease in

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  i will be respectful.

  but in reading past posts it seems we are allowed to speak frankly?

  i think jehovah's witnesses have the truth.

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  Miss Bliss

  *SIGHS* So much I could say but alas I will keep it as simple as possible. I'm not really sure why you felt the need to come here at all. You stated you new this site existed as if it was eating you up inside not to have a poke around here. What purpose does that serve you or Jehovah? Do you not trust enough when the Society warns it's flock to stay away from sites like these. It was my understanding when I was a witness that reading apostate material was an unforgiveable sin? That all leads me to believe then that you came here for another reason. Did you find what you were looking for? There is a reason people get defensive without provacation is it because you yourself have doubts and by defending your stance it gives you some temporary peace of mind?

  Not all of us here had all that bad of an experience with being Jehovah's Witnesses. A lot of us were not abused or have bad parents or bad experiences with congregations or elders. For me it was the contrary I had some really good experiences with congregations and elders and still to this day I am thankful that I was raised with good moral values. You say that JW's are so happy but my friend you are poorly mistaken. I knew more sad depressed people who were JW's then I do in the so-called "World" Do you know why that is? Because you live a lie one that is forced upon you without you even realizing it...Because the Society is an emotional vampire that sucks people's willpower so slowly you don't even notice what you have become, a pawn....

  Deprogamming is a strange and hard but extremely rewarding process Do you know why? Because in the end I get to be the best me I can be. A me that makes her own decisions and chooses her own actions as well as faces her own consquences.

  Someone said the Society asked "what is the hardest thing about being in the truth?" I say "It's living the lie"

  ~Mad Love~ Miss Bliss
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  dinner time guilt

  by BlackSwan of Memphis in

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  i have a family of 4. each of us have very different likes and dislikes.

  my husband and youngest daughter are vehemently opposed to tomatos or tomato products.

  spaghetti sauce is completely out of the picture.

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  Miss Bliss

  Kids nowadays have to many options and I feel parents only feed that (no pun intended) by allowing that bahavoir to go on. That being said my baby is 16 months and is mostly a garbage disposal and will eat anything including really spicy foods and sushi. I do have nanny experience though and I never put up with all the varying requests of likes and dislikes I would make 2 different things for 6 kids and let them decide which one they wanted. Also having a child that really hates lets say carrots seems fine to me however your family tastes seem to be very demanding. How about if you tell your kids that they can choose 1 or 2 items that they really hate and take that into consideration when you cook. When I say 1 or 2 items that can't mean vegetables as a whole but maybe 1 vegetable they really hate and something esle and then your husband can just slap together everything you make and put it between to pieces of bread...Har har....I think it is really important to instill good and flexible eating habits in children because they will carry that with them forever and are most likely to be healthly adult eaters. You can always have the cheese eater add cheese to his/her own portion etc....Good luck with the mealtimes and don't take to much crap!

  ~Mad Love~ Miss Bliss
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  Shunning of ex JW family members imposed or optional?

  by greendawn in

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  some supportes of the jws argue that the wts does not impose on its followers to shun and disgrace ex jw family members, it leaves them the option to decide on the issue and some shun and others do not.

  is that an honest arguments or is it like the blood issue where the wts supposedly doesn't impose on its members the decision to refuse blood?

  for all we know the non shunning of ex jw family members except for absolutely necessary contact could lead a jw to dfing.

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  Miss Bliss

  My point to that whole long winded story is It has always been my understanding it was a matter of "conscience" whether or not to shun or not especially when it came to immediate family members. There is a different between shunning a random DF'ed person in the congo and sunning your own children.
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  Shunning of ex JW family members imposed or optional?

  by greendawn in

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  some supportes of the jws argue that the wts does not impose on its followers to shun and disgrace ex jw family members, it leaves them the option to decide on the issue and some shun and others do not.

  is that an honest arguments or is it like the blood issue where the wts supposedly doesn't impose on its members the decision to refuse blood?

  for all we know the non shunning of ex jw family members except for absolutely necessary contact could lead a jw to dfing.

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  Miss Bliss

  As a last ditch effort my mother told me if I left the religon she would no longer be able to speak to me to the extent that our current relantionship was at. That lasted all of a day when she realized it wasn't a whim and the next day she went back to our usual relantionship without ever talking about what she had said... To her benefit I know she only said that out of desperation of not wanting me to go but my mother and I are very close and she believes that it is a decision whether to shun or not. Also even to this day all of my mothers friends still ask about me and my baby wanting to know everything i'm doing (not in an imposing way just because they cared a lot about me) and always tell her to say hi although I was not offically DF'ed or DA'ed this all still know I live with my boyfriend, have tattoos and smoke cigarettes so go figure. I think my parents had racey JW friends who pushed the boundaries of what they couldn't and could do. I think the people who shun are weak-willed and afraid of what others might think or maybe perhaps afraid they themselves will get sucked into Apostasy as we were taught would always happen....Go figure that my mother has talked to me for years and still is going strong in the religon
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  Update: How my Cake business idea is going... (pics)

  by reneeisorym in

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  so .. at the suggestion of krw, i checked with the health department to find out the laws for my state.

  i learned that they do not allow home bakeries here.

  so i had to rethink some things.

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  Miss Bliss

  Oooo I want cake now! I was a baker for a long time your cakes look wonderful. Have you ever heard of industrial kitchens that are inspected by the state and you can usually rent out space per hour or a few hours etc...I think they are usually co-op type places for caterers or people like you. Although I am not sure where you live I looked into that when I lived in San Francisco and they were all over. If you do have them I believe the costs were fairly reasonable and you could even add that into your overall cost of the cake...Just a suggestion but good luck I will be dreaming of yummy cake all day.

  ~Mad Love~ Miss Bliss
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  My Story

  by LearningToFly in

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  hello fellow forum members, i am very new here, and feel it is time to share a little about myself.

  this site has gotten me quite riled up again, and even after many years my experience is not memorable and still upsets me when i think of it.

  my beginning experience of joining the jw organization at age 6 was not unpleasant at all, and was not for many years.

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  Miss Bliss

  WoW what a story...Thank you sooo much for sharing. It's so wonderful to see how much strength people have to endure such awful things and yet your words seem to have an air of compassion to them. What a truly beautiful person you are!

  "I saw the truth many times but finally for the first time she saw me"~SW

  Mad Love~ Miss Bliss
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  Pray for my Mom and my cousin's family

  by Junction-Guy in

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  my mom has to have a heart cath tomorrow at 11 am, please pray for her, or send well wishes.

  this is the 2nd one she has had in the last 4 years.

  im hoping and praying that the doctors can fix whatever they find.. .

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  Miss Bliss

  Sending well wishes for your Mother, cousins family and you
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  I'm mad as hell (New Here)

  by Miss Bliss in

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  i'm brand spanking new to this forum.... my story is a long one that i will save for rainy day....however i will say i have been out for a long time 10+ years and when i left i really left.

  i walked away at 20 (in my heart i was mentally gone at 17) and never really looked back much.

  i was raised jw my father was an elder my mother an off and on pioneer (my father is no longer except he goes to the memorials, poor bastard and again thats another long story) i was not shunned by my parents both of whom were still very much in although my father left shortly after me and i would like to think that my bravery and courage allowed him to do the same.

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  Miss Bliss

  I would have closed my mind but then I would have imploded and I don't think my parents would have liked that to much... Har Har....

  I was questioning things around the age of 5, I asked a lot of questions. It's funny because when I told my parents that was it I was out and never going back they told me they always knew from the time that I was little that I wouldn't stay because I asked to many questions and was attracted to the "dark side" whatever that means. Kind of to bad my mother didn't listen to how strange her comment was like if someone asked to many questions they would see through the lies and yet she questions nothing herself Hmmmm...
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  "Big Love"...did anybody see it last night?

  by Dagney in

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  anyone?.

  barb is "inactive" in her local church.. is selma green a he/she??.

  very good show last night.

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  Miss Bliss

  Selma is most definitly a woman....

  I saw her have a cameo part on another TV show where she plays a woman and I thought Oh My God this whole time I never even questioned whether her character on Big Love was a man or a woman so I had to look it up...Crazyness... and yes those sex scenes where hot!
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  As a Newbie.. I have a ?

  by BuzbyU in

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  since i am new here..

  i was wondering, is everyone here a df, dis-associated, fallen away?

  or are there also "real" witnesses here?

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  Miss Bliss

  I didn't get DF'ed and didn't send an offical DA letter so I guess I faded out which was more like a ran for the hills. Luckily for me I had just moved to a new cong and people didn't really know where to find me so nobody came looking. Interesting enough under the advice of my then elder father he told me not to talk to anyone if I didn't want to and so I did!

  I do find it interesting that there are still practicing JW's on here, while I did a lot of things I wasn't suppose to do while still in the religon, the thought never occured to me to even look for a site like this on the internet. I would never tell anyone what to do or what to believe however I would encourage everybody still going to meetings to find their own "Truths" and to not be afraid of leaving, for the consquences will be a much bigger reward then the burden of living a double life.

  In the words of my father "You are under no obligation no matter how deep into it to have any meetings with judical elders or defend why you are leaving, just leave!

  ~Mad Love Miss Bliss (Newbie)