Posts by GentlyFeral

More importantly what do *I* do at the party. I havent been to anyones house socially since I cant tell you how long and I've never been to a 'non jws' house for a party except for a superbowl party.

Well, it's kind of like a superbowl party, only it's for little kids. Same kind of atmosphere, but without the football and beer. Games for the kids and presents, and not too much besides, especially for such a young kid.

Just the one gift is ok right?

Yeah. More would actually be extravagant.

I can excuse myself and leave after a couple hours right?

A party for a three-year-old probably shouldn't last much longer than that.

Can't remember the first birthday party I ever went to, but my daughter had her first about five years ago, at the age of 13. She took her friends out for miniature golf and said they had to dress up like Eskimos. Damn, that didn't help much, did it?

GentlyFeral

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Bill Bowen "Kidneys"

by HildaBingen in

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as a mystical christian, i am just as distressed about child molestation as is mr bowen.

however i wonder about this man's motives.

why did he choose to handle his row with the witness organization in this way?

GentlyFeral

Why not try Christ and the tranquility that comes from trusting in him?

Oh, pull the other one, honey.

GentlyFeral

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Were you a virgin on your wedding night?

by montag in

if you were a good little 'raised in the truth' jw then the answer should be 'yes'.. so let's here from you.. [stands up] my name is montag and i was a 22 year old virgin on my wedding night.. .

-m-

GentlyFeral

Yes -- despite the fact that I grew up in Berkeley CA in a liberal agnostic household. Was a natural prude in those days.

In fact, being a jaydub gave me a perfect excuse for rejecting sexual advances -- I hadn't figured out that "No, I just don't want to" was enough.

GentlyFeral

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Chucking out Stepford wife clothes...

by meat pie in

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i spent an hour or two going through my 'meeting clothes'.

they were second-hand when i got them, so no use to anyone else, and anyway, who else dresses like that?did you chuck out/pass on your jw uniform when you stopped going?

it's silly really , just about everyone hates to wear those clothes and would change out of them at the earliest opportunity.as i am not exactly tiny in frilly dresses i looked like a badly mis-arranged bunch of flowers!

GentlyFeral

When I was a good little underpaid dubbie, they weren't making nice meeting dresses in my size at prices I could afford. And fat women weren't giving their good clothes to second-hand stores, so I had to piece my meeting wardrobe together out of prim A-line skirts and ugly blouses.

Yep, immediately after leaving I gave away ALL my skirts and the ugliest of my blouses. Right around that time some tasty fat-chick clothes started showing up in second-hand stores, but it was all casual stuff. Plenty good enough for the UU church I was attending. Then (about a year ago) I discovered that I could buy clothes on eBay, and I started buying long swirly skirts and shiny, voluptuous and/or glittery tops. And pashminas. And oh, the jewelry!

I remember an early meeting I attended, I was counseled for wearing a very clever wraparound skirt-pants thing which covered me to the ankle, because it was "like something a hippie girl would wear." And this was in BERKELEY!

I'm plenty modest most of the time (dammit; needs work!), but too flashy and hippie-like for the KH.

Gently Feral

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What Am I thinking?????

by butalbee in

with all the recent hog wash going on in my life, i can't believe i am even entertaining this notion.

everybody on this board knows how i feel about this path, these beliefs, and here i am thinking, pondering wondering, maybe jehovahs witnesses do have something to offer me, maybe i need their 'close nit' love inside their congregations?

maybe i could see the truth, if i only opened my eyes to it and tried to accept it???

GentlyFeral

Butalbee,

They all look so happy on the outside, so much love in the air....I'm feeling vulnerable,

So it's the warm fuzzies you want. I don't blame you at all. Good thing Sunday's so close; then you can RUN, NOT WALK to the nearest Unitarian Universalist church. They'll treat you just as nice WITHOUT dictating to you. It's a safe, friendly place to have a religious breakdown.

Gently Feral

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MS Meeting

by Valis in

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and this little piggy went in service..... .

sincerely, .

district overbeer

GentlyFeral

What a pic! Looks like it belongs in the Gallery of Regrettable Foods, which you'll find at http://www.lileks.com -- click on the "Institute of Official Cheer."

Gently Feral

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By the pricking of my thumbs....

by Xander in

...some ancient wisdom this way comes?

pulling over from another thread.... i'm curious how many have dabbled in witchcraft/spiritism after leaving the jws.

or, perhaps, before joining.. i'm curious what experiences have been had.

GentlyFeral

being of a scientific bent, the old repeatable experiment thang is major requisit for me to actually believe in something.

Hear, hear. I wouldn't give it up, if I were you. All pagans have to offer -- and I say this as a pagan, theist and magic-worker -- is personal anecdotal experience, guaranteed non-replicable.

...I realise that ideation, the willingness or perhaps ability to accept such things are genuine paranormal manisfestation, or to interpret events using paranormal explainations, has a strong influence over what people believe.
But that doesn't mean it's all rubbish.

Why not?

Look, Abaddon, you actually have the chops to function in the real world without religious crutches. I don't. Just because a top-of-the-line folding wheelchair is an elegent device doesn't mean it's better than walking.

I become redundant tomorrow, as my company is closing. I think nnows the time to dabble in Wicca and see whether my fuddy-duddy blow hard scientific nature can reconcile with my wish that such things were true.

Or maybe you should just read Peter Pan again between bouts of job hunting.

Best Wishes, honestly!

Gently Feral

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How to deal widh druggs

by happy man in

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all over the word this is a bigg problem today, we who hade children hade a bigg problem here i think, can you tell some of your expirienses, so many of you are angry on jw, but this is nothing if we copere whats happend widh young man and woman today, i myself have 2 sons who tell me that it is not dangerus, i am to old they say, i , waiting for your comments.. some say it is okey in dutch, and that mariujana is going to bee okey to,in several other countrys in europe.

, horribel , and scaring.

GentlyFeral

An American proverb:

"Moderation in all things, including moderation."

Love and kisses,

Gently Feral

P.S. Lucid, I would definitely bake brownies or brew ganja tea if the Hospitable Plant were cheaper. Will consider the vaporizor thing, but so little smoke is required for the desired effect that I don't feel any particular urgency about it.

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Women keep looking at me.

by joelbear in

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it started about 2 years ago, but its picking up.

i keep catching women looking at me with that look, that look i'm used to only getting from other guys.. this is making me tense, yet in some ways jolly.. i'm not sure what the proper facial expression is to give in return.. i cannot figure out why its happening to me now.

is it the greying beard, the balding head, the bulging ---, oh, right, it can't be that.. please explain this extraordinary phenomenon.. joel

GentlyFeral

Joel -- they're bi women, trying to come to grips with their emerging lesbianism.

Gently Feral
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