i have been reading quite a few of these threads and post and through it i feel as though i have come to know some of you and your behaviors.. i notice that there are many of you who are still associated with the hall, and have not left yet... yet, bring up very "strong" points on the board.. i have a question for all of you who fit this description.... why dont you just 'effin leave already?
whats holding you back?
if you feel soooo strongly that this is "wrong" are you too chicken to state your opinion to a family member?
AOVP,
Do you feel as though there is a god? Do you feel that that god wants you to feel trapped?
For about ten years, my answer to both these questions was "yes." That's why it took me so long to leave once the misery set in.
Eventually, I reached the point where I didn't care what Jehovah thought of me, because being a JW was taking me farther and farther from the Golden Rule. Once I reached that point I DA'd within a few months.
GentlyFeral
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book extract i found while researching a different topic (cultural appropriation of native american religions by clueless white folks).. .
Book extract I found while researching a different topic (cultural appropriation of Native American religions by clueless white folks).
i am new to the board and have read countless gripes and pokes at "the organization" but i fail to find one interesting question.. in preface... i was disfellowshiped myself over 5 years ago.
in that time, i had done much searching, visited many churches and faithes.. going to some for as short as one session and some as long as 6 - 8 months.
after i felt my search was in vein i stopped attempting to go to these shurches all together.. i never forgot how to pray through.
Do you feel as though you did learn something while you were there though.... ?
As a Jehovah's witness, I learned:
GentlyFeral
if you could enjoy a jewelry present of any sort, what would you want??
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Over the last five years or so, I've amassed a pretty flashy jewelry collection, but each piece has been fairly inexpensive -- nothing over $20.
I'm irrepressibly gaudy. Hardly ever step outside the house without earrings, hair clip and 3 or 4 rings.
I favor silver with big semiprecious stones. I have moonstone, onyx, lapis, malachite and amber & looking for more. I also like Bali silver earrings and dichroic glass hair clips.
When I'm feeling really over-the-top, I ADD a pendant. Again, big semi-precious stones, although I have two delicate amber ones.
What I'd like to get right now is a couple more dichroic glass hair clips, some blue moonstone earrings, and at least one ring size 14 -- yes, that's right, 14 -- for my left index finger. My hands have always been large, but they've swollen a little with the tendonitis.
GentlyFeral
...is there such a thing?
i had a sip of the best irish whisky i've ever run across at the ancient ways festival.
a nice lady brought a jug to share.
bttt because I still want to know!
GF
ok. we ran a thread recently about starting a new religion.. how about we start an international congregation here on the board.. we need 7 elders.
7 being a sign of perfection..er....yeah.. we need ministerial servants.. appointments will be general concensus..er holy spirit i mean.. p.o.
lets start with him.
Mommie, it's so good to see you back! I vote for "tea" and chicken legs, too.
COMF, I like your suggestions -- kind and sensible.
The rest of y'all, DAMN! Remember the challenge was to start a NEW religion. I propose:
in light of the recent threads on homosexuality, if you were gay would you let anyone on this site know?
would you feel supported as a gay exjw or would you feel ridiculed?
would you feel safe here?
Monk3y said:
since I started posting I do feel this way, I feel thats what Im perceived as doing "flaunting my lifestyle"
Well, ya know the modern proverb: "If ya got it, flaunt it!"
GentlyFeral
"sure, honey, that dress looks fine.
why he tells it: hassle avoidance.
men employ these "forgivable fibs" not just to avoid hurting you ("of course you don't look fat in that outfit") but to make their lives easier ("i think that wallpaper looks great") and to steer clear of trouble ("i guess cindy crawford's 'sexy' in a conventional kind of way, but she's not my cup of tea").. it's not that your man doesn't care what you wear or what the living room looks like -- he does.
DH and I have been married 30 years and we've turned just about everything on this list upside down.
1. "Sure, honey, that skirt looks fine." His version: "I remember fondly the years when you wore miniskirts. Yeah, you don't have the legs for it any more [true], but hey, I really like the whole sarong-and-no-underwear thing!"
2. "I can fix it." He'd better be able to, he was in the construction trade for 20 years, and when that went bust, taught himself way too much about computers.
3. "I was not looking at her boobs." Actually, he was. And pointed them out to me, like he's supposed to.
4. "Nothing's wrong." Actually, this is *my* line. I'm the one who tends to bottle things up.
5. "I tried to call you." After 30 years, why *should* he have to call home like an irresponsible teenager? Look, when *I'm* at a strip show, he doesn't expect *me* to call home!
6. "I don't want to have sex unless you want to." Um, I haven't heard this one for several years now. Hee hee.
7. "I'm the best, baby." Well, he doesn't actually *say* it this way :)
8. "My old girlfriend? She was just okay." She's turning out to be a really cool old lady, though. We're friends now & have been for years.
9. "I did not have sexual relations with that (wo)man." Well, damn. We'll just have to ask someone else.
10. "I'll never lie to you." Mainly because neither of us ever learned how.
GentlyFeral
looking forward to our 30th anniversary next month
...is there such a thing?
i had a sip of the best irish whisky i've ever run across at the ancient ways festival.
a nice lady brought a jug to share.
...Is there such a thing? I had a sip of the best Irish whisky I've ever run across at the Ancient Ways festival. A nice lady brought a jug to share. It was a little sweeter than other Irish whiskeys, much smoother, and had a ravishing "nose". I can't find any reference to it on the web.
The lady who brought it announced it as "my friend, John McClymonds", but the next morning everyone swore up and down it was Tullamore Dew. Yet there was a bottle of the latter going around, and it tasted more like the Bushmills I'm used to, not like the nectar in the old-fashioned jug.
I'm all clueless here.
GentlyFeral
just got norah jones cd.... fantastic voice, "don't know why" and "come away with me" ....fantastic....... the new karen carpenter?
what you got playing?
Live music. My husband's noodling around on his umpteen keyboards and black boxes, putting together a couple new pieces.
GentlyFeral
P.S. he also redesigned the website!
