My friend turns 32 today.Poor girl, she only celebrates every four years. Lucky girl, she is 8 with the wisdom of a 32 year old. Happy Birthday Dindi!
Princess Daisy Boo
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Tell A Story In 29 Words - In Honor Of Extra Day
by snowbird inhere's mine:.
i've fallen down many times, but i've always managed to arise.. i know the day is coming when i will fall down and stay down until someone lifts me.. sylvia.
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Are you going to celebrate Easter?
by real one ineaster is coming soon and i am so excited!
i have not celebrated easter in over 17 years.
what a relief to be able to enjoy the worship of jesus and to be so grateful and thankful for his sacrafice.
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Princess Daisy Boo
Yay, chocolate, chocolate and more chocolate, oh and some hot cross buns as well... Yay - I love easter.... as for the religous stuff - No, I will not be doing anything of that nature!
I wonder if Mom will invite me to the memorial this year?
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Part 2: OMG - I did it - I told my Mom and Dad how I feel...
by Princess Daisy Boo in5 days after the big showdown with my mom, she called me today.
well she is a bigger person than me - i certainly did not have the guts to do it.
we made a bit of small talk and then she brought up saturdays discussion.
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Princess Daisy Boo
I really dont feel like I have progressed at all. You see, my kids are now of an age where they can talk about the holiday etc, and we do celebrate all the holidays so this is going to be an issue again and again, .
I am so frustrated by the closed minds that they have. It really and truly is like bumping your head against a brickwall when you try to reason with them. My mom is not willing to belive that the UN thing ever even happened and even when I told her I have proof off a non apostate website, she was not interested in seeing it.
I have no idea where to from here. A small part of me had thought that maybe after Saturday, things would come to a head completely and instead we have just put a lid on things and not dealt with them for now. But then again, my family has a history of doing that.
It is so sad that there love for their child is conditional!
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Something strange in my Pears
by LouBelle infor 2 days now the most bizarre thing has happend.
i go to lunch and have my usual pear after my crackers - half way through the pear one of my mates said something funny but not that funny - i was in hystifical fits of laughter (like i'd smoked a fat joint) the tears were running down my face.
today, fininshed my pear and the same mate brought up yesturdays scene - and that was me, but worse off - and the thing i was laughing about really wasn't that funny - but tears rolling down - man it was the most fantastic 2 laughs i've had this year.. i think my pears have been spiked..
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Princess Daisy Boo
Tell u what Lou - I will pop off to woollies this pm and buy me some pears and see what happens to me!
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Part 2: OMG - I did it - I told my Mom and Dad how I feel...
by Princess Daisy Boo in5 days after the big showdown with my mom, she called me today.
well she is a bigger person than me - i certainly did not have the guts to do it.
we made a bit of small talk and then she brought up saturdays discussion.
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Princess Daisy Boo
I basically faded over ten years ago - I stopped going to meetings when I moved out of my parents home. I have managed to maintain a semblance of a relationship with them in this time by mainly ignoring Mom's preaching to me. This was the first time that I really voiced my opinions on the whole JW issue.
As for the definition of apostates, isn't that just typical of the JW mindset? They will never give credit to people having made informed decisions about leaving the org... no they had to have been sinners who were disciplined and now are bitter... Its so ridiculous! What she is not getting is that I am unashamedly an apostate, and I was never reproved or DF'd - I just left!
I guess that by saying "dont close the door", my mom was saying that if I were to DA myself, they will shun me completely so lets keep things as they are. I dont really to DA myself anyway since I havent been to a meeting in so long, I dont really consider myself a witness anyway!
I am a little irritated that Mom was not even willing to look at the UN letter - like that in itself would be apostacy. I dont really hold out hope of changing their minds at any point in the future - they are quite zealous.
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Part 2: OMG - I did it - I told my Mom and Dad how I feel...
by Princess Daisy Boo in5 days after the big showdown with my mom, she called me today.
well she is a bigger person than me - i certainly did not have the guts to do it.
we made a bit of small talk and then she brought up saturdays discussion.
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Princess Daisy Boo
5 days after the big showdown with my mom, she called me today. Well she is a bigger person than me - I certainly did not have the guts to do it.
We made a bit of small talk and then she brought up Saturdays discussion. She started by asking me what or who made me start looking at apostate websites... then she informed me that apostates are all people who were disfellowshipped or reproved and are now bitter and twisted. Then she went on to inform me that she had spoken to the PO and he had told her that the UN library is open to anyone, to which I countered why the had they become members, and she said she simply cant believe this is true... I told her about the letter which was off the UN website (thanks guys) and she did not want to see it! She also mentioned the pedo situation and if people are found to be guilty then they will be DF'd - but the responsibility is not on the elders to report it, that is the responsibility of the victim or their parenst. I disagreed... well it was all pretty pointless.
We did have a bit of a heart to heart wherein I told her some of my real issues with religion, which she obviously doesn't get. She ended off the conversation by basically begging me not to "close the door" completely - her and my dad care about me too much and they dont want to have to lose all contact with me.
I assume that she is basically begging me not to talk about these things again or disassociate myself, in which case they would choose the organisation over me (which is not unexpected)
I think I am basically relieved - I dont want to lose them so I guess I will just try and keep my mouth shut for now, and hopefully mom will not harass me again in future about all things JW so that we can avoid the sort of discussion that we had on the weekend... Maybe I am being a wimp, I just dunno!
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Is apartheid really dead?
by LouBelle inmy country has been democratically free since 1994 when nelson mandela was elected as the first black president of south africa - there was much celebration as this new rainbow nation looked to it's bright furture.
mandela had and still has a fantastica aura about him, drawing in all sorts of people for different backgrounds / colours into into his peaceful presence.
mandela holds no bitterness towards his past imprisonment - he thought it a wast of time to dwell on a violent past.
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Princess Daisy Boo
I don't know if Loubelle agrees but in my part of the South African JW world, Education wasn't huge on the list of priorities. My parents insisted on us finishing high school, but made no plans or encouragement to study further. I know of a few that did study further, but they were the exception rather than the rule.
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Some Things About JWs Just Aren't Right!..... Huh???
by minimus injust because someone's a witness, it doesn't mean they're horrible people.
but the religion is very strange.
when you think about it, a witness can't go to a work christmas party by themselves but if an unbelieving mate wanted his jw wife to accompany him, this is her personal business.
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Princess Daisy Boo
They will talk to their non JW family but will not talk to their ex JW family.
They will celebrate the day they were married, but not the days that their children were born.
The use funerals as an opportunity for preaching, not mourning.
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Something strange in my Pears
by LouBelle infor 2 days now the most bizarre thing has happend.
i go to lunch and have my usual pear after my crackers - half way through the pear one of my mates said something funny but not that funny - i was in hystifical fits of laughter (like i'd smoked a fat joint) the tears were running down my face.
today, fininshed my pear and the same mate brought up yesturdays scene - and that was me, but worse off - and the thing i was laughing about really wasn't that funny - but tears rolling down - man it was the most fantastic 2 laughs i've had this year.. i think my pears have been spiked..
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Princess Daisy Boo
Are they organic or not and where can I get some???
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Is apartheid really dead?
by LouBelle inmy country has been democratically free since 1994 when nelson mandela was elected as the first black president of south africa - there was much celebration as this new rainbow nation looked to it's bright furture.
mandela had and still has a fantastica aura about him, drawing in all sorts of people for different backgrounds / colours into into his peaceful presence.
mandela holds no bitterness towards his past imprisonment - he thought it a wast of time to dwell on a violent past.
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Princess Daisy Boo
Hi Lou
I know what you are talking about.
Yes - a lot has changed... there are no long Whites Only buses and restaurants... but there are still millions of poverty stricken people who really aren't that much better off for all the changes. There are still so many things wrong with this country. Loads of white people I encounter are still openly racist - even using the k word and so on.
I am incredibly scared about what will happen when JZ takes over. JZ, Crime as well as the electricity shortage are making me very pessimistic about the future of the country. I think that with time and the right leadership, we could overcome the many problems, but I dont think that JZ is the right person to lead our country and I think that the Escom problem to really bring us to our knees.
I love SA, I love the weather, the people, the way of life, the beauty... but I would seriously consider emigrating if it were an option! It would be easier to bring my family back here if things didn't work out overseas, than try and bring a family member back from the dead if one of them loses their life due to crime!