This is the coolest thing I've read today. You're a good man to take on this responsibility. I don't have any advice for you because the two times I've taken on kids they've been the other gender and much younger.
I wish you both the best!
RisingEagle
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I'm going to be a father
by coolhandluke ini'm going to be a father of a 15 year old boy.
my nephew.
there is no human that means more to me than him.
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My years as a Social Misfit - memories come flooding back!
by Princess Daisy Boo inso i was on facebook last night and just started randomly searching names and checking out people i knew, their profiles and friends etc and i came across a whole bunch of names of jw people i knew as a teenager.
a whole host of memories came flooding back, unpleasant and happily forgotten memories.. ... feeling lonley, unpopular, gossip, cliquiness, bitchy comments, feeling like i would never attract a suitable "brother" for courtship and other such silliness.... i went to bed feeling very disturbed and sad and uncomfortable and i had a horrible night.
but the fact is, i am now an adult and i am generally well liked by most i meet (or so i think .
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RisingEagle
This happens to me whenever I take a trip in the wayback machine of my mind. I can't do anything to change the past, but it doesn't stop me from reliving it either. I know that you already know the cure - you mentioned them- the relationships that you've made when you moved on with family and friends.
You are better than you once were or you'd still be wallowing in the pit with the witlings. You win!
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I hate Pot Luck
by Nosferatu inthis friday, we're having a pot luck at work before we all go on holidays for a week.
i hate pot luck, especially when it's at work.
i gave my wife heck for throwing out that open package of crackers that was sitting on top of the microwave for the last couple of months.
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RisingEagle
I like to bring oreos and chips and salsa.
Yeah but oreos and salsa is naaasty.
Here's a suggestion: A package of Lil' smokies and a bottle of your favorite BBQ sauce. Pour the sauce over over and nuke 'em in the breakroom. I never have leftovers at a potluck with that one.
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Describe Your Sense of Humor
by minimus ini think posting on a discussion board can tend to come across in a certain way, personality wise.. i'm the type of person "in real life" that is usually considered quite funny.
i have a very quick wit and i can usually disable someone rather quickly with a facial expression, smile or definitive body language.
of course, you can't see those things here but you might notice a person's humor (or lack of it) by how they post.. so what tickles your funny bone?
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RisingEagle
Good call RisingEagle, But I've found that elders wives are more likely to get torqued if you give them the ole "motorboat. Especially after the WT study.
This is true, but remember, I was going for the fade not the df'ing. It's really hard to 'motorboat' someone later on if they're running from a shunned person across the aisles of Walmart. It's all about babysteps with a fader.
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Describe Your Sense of Humor
by minimus ini think posting on a discussion board can tend to come across in a certain way, personality wise.. i'm the type of person "in real life" that is usually considered quite funny.
i have a very quick wit and i can usually disable someone rather quickly with a facial expression, smile or definitive body language.
of course, you can't see those things here but you might notice a person's humor (or lack of it) by how they post.. so what tickles your funny bone?
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RisingEagle
I think I have an overdeveloped sense of humor. I tend to look for the funny in any situation even when there is any to be found. I tend to gravitate to people that do the same.
It's one of the things that assisted with my exit from the jw's. My bullshitometer (pronounced in my accent bullshi-TOM-etter, not bull shit 'o' meet her) is finely tuned through years of overuse.
Well, that and the fact I still like to point to someone's chest like they have a spill there and then poke them in the nose. You do that to very many elder's wives and they tend to get upset.
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You know something I'll never understand...
by RisingEagle inis just how deep the witlings manage to get their carp into the minds of people.
let me clarify that.
with my active relatives i understand the brainwashing, because they continuously feed on the pap from the book publishing company.
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Is just how deep the witlings manage to get their carp into the minds of people. Let me clarify that. With my active relatives I understand the brainwashing, because they continuously feed on the pap from the book publishing company. What I truly don't understand is the wife's relative that has been out for years and in no way lives the lifestyle of a witling. Smokes, drinks, celebrates holidays blah, blah, blah.
On Saturday my 7 yr old had her first gymnastics meet (three blue ribbons and a red, thanks for asking) and we talk the relative into goin along with us. This is a typical 'worldly' event made even worse by the fact that it's run by religious folks. So the event starts with a prayer followed by the national anthem. This bothers the former jw enough that he separates from us and goes to sit in another spot, in between leaving the building to go outside and smoke. I focus on my daughter and let it, and him, go (sort of, he's held hostage because I drove).
The event somes to a close and it's time to hand out ribbons. The gym has it set up so Santa Claus is the one handing out the ribbons to the girls. Very cute, lots of great photos and memories.
We go to lunch afterwards and listen to our daughter tell us all the 'cool' stuff that went on even though we were right there, because nothing beats a childs excitement. Mr ex-jw says nothing all during lunch, so after I paid I followed him outside to watch him smoke. I asked what was bothering him and he starts reading me the riot act about all the things he saw that in his opinion ***inhale marlboro*** were wrong and 'against what we were taught about jehovah' ***exhale***. So I started pointing out some of the obvious garbage that the WTS has been doing in the years since we left, pedophilia scandals, UN involvement and on and on. After I get so far he actually pointed in my face using the two fingers holding his smoke and told me, 'I don't care about any of that apostate crap xxx tells me you read about. If I ever make the decision to quit these things and get my life straightened out, I'll go back to the witnesses. They are the only ones with the truth, and you know it!"
With that ringing endorsement, how could I ever have left?
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The movie..."The Green Mile"
by zeroday ini have watched this movie a hundred times and everytime i cry such a powerful display of humanity...
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RisingEagle
I caught the last part of Lord of the Rings: Return of the King earlier this evening and oddly enough the ending of that movie reminded me of the end of The Green Mile. Everyone who was a ringbearer was affected so deeply by it they would never return to normal and went off with the elves. Everyone touched by the big guy (John Coffee was it?) in TGM was destined to live for a very long time. Just noticed that.
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I'm sooooo angry
by shell69 inhell guys its nearly four in the morning and i can't sleep.
i'm just so annoyed!.
at work this evening i was called to talk to an customer outside one of the screens (for those of you who don't know i work in a multiplex cinema).
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RisingEagle
That sucks, no quid pro quo. You curse me out, I kick you out of the establishment. The customer paid to watch the movie not have a venting session on an underpaid, presumably, employee. Therapists get paid hundreds of dollars to listen to people bitching, but I've never heard of one that had to show a movie to the client afterwards.
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I'm sooooo angry
by shell69 inhell guys its nearly four in the morning and i can't sleep.
i'm just so annoyed!.
at work this evening i was called to talk to an customer outside one of the screens (for those of you who don't know i work in a multiplex cinema).
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RisingEagle
Some people are truly stupid.
I assume you returned her money then told her to 'get the f***' out?
Who is Gordon Brown?
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Will there ever be a tit watchtower?
by jambon1 inwe have had oral sex, etc, etc......... will they ever bring out an article that discusses what you can & can't do with a pair of fun bags?.
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RisingEagle
I made this spoof WT cover a year ago to celebrate the fact that the Watchtower is devoting more and more attention to porn:
That's a great job Leolaia, but why does that lady have to dicks on her chest?You win 'Best post evar'.