Listen to Nathan. Very quietly apply the "lock", with a nice smile on your face.
If you can stomach going that is.
I will gag all thru my next two visits to the KH. My mom and MIL's funerals.
ok guys i thought i would update you on my sunday and how the study went.
i had to drive a few of the older sisters to the hall (one has a bum leg the other an injured hip and the other one has a hard time seeing), so i drove them to the hall and stayed for the meeting, here are some of my thoughts, first of the public talk.. i dont know how i made it thru the 30 minute talk without screaming bulls*it every other five seconds, the talk was about being no part of the world, and man it made me want to vomit.
first off, children are still discouraged from extra curricular activities, i dont know how they expect children to grow up and be able to function socially if they raise them to isolate themselves from their peers, dont they realize that they are raising social retards?
Listen to Nathan. Very quietly apply the "lock", with a nice smile on your face.
If you can stomach going that is.
I will gag all thru my next two visits to the KH. My mom and MIL's funerals.
Right now? Cleaning bathrooms. I have 4 and a 1/2 of them and a 3 year old boy who can't aim very well.
asking because this is the time i'm looking at travelling to the states - but only in 2010. reason i'm leaving it till then is because i have a wedding in the united kingdom in august of that year, so it will be easier for me to pop over from there ... and cheaper.. so it's a definate that i'll be hooking up with some of you britons and followed by the americans.
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time to start saving every little penny, get the passport sorted, the visa for the us of a (they interogate you), start plotting the journey.. .
Tennessee is hot and humid in August and September.
I just know you are coming here! You can stay here and we'll dress up as nuns and go honky tonkin!
since i was about 10 i've been on thryoid medication.
it is the same medication i take every month.
i had my last blood tests done 6 months ago.
I took spirulina, but then I started to turn pink like a flamengo.
Seriously, it will help. WTW is right.
someone told me yesterday that she had studied with witnesses "up to chapter 3"...whatever that means.. she said that a man and woman came to her house one day after she had been studying and that the woman put on a head covering or veil when they started the study.
she asked the woman why she did that and the woman replied they do that when in presence of a brother.. i think she must have got jws mixed up with some other group...i just never heard of the veil thing before.. is this a jw practice?.
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In a crunch situation I had been known to put a napkin on my head. It was covered right?
http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/concern/marijuana.html.
according to the above dea website, marijuana and thc are evil and harmful and will ruin your life and cause all sorts of horrible diseases and problems... .
unless you buy marinol (marijuana in a pill) sold by pharmaceutical companies.
They just want the revenue.
my mom told me about a sister in her hall that came in on crutches to the meeting sunday.
my mom asked her what happened and she said that thursday night when she was on her way out the door to the kh, that two demons attacked her.
they knocked her to the ground and one held her down while the other one jumped on her leg and broke it .
The debil once threw me down my back porch steps while I was on my way to service meeting. I went anyway. So there debil!
he's having trouble getting on to jwn.. this is his request from jwd-fun trivia and here's my reply:.
[ 5:35 pm ]: hillbilly: please tell simon to fix my jwn login stuff.
[ 6:29 am ]: snowbird: i will get the word out, hillbilly.
Is he using Hillbilly in the user name spot to sign? It's different than at JWD. No more email add entry, just your real username.
i am in good standing (of sorts) with the wts.
i have not gone out in service for 10 years - i have not been to a meeting in about 2 years - i skipped last years memorial.
my dad is a pioneer and elder.
Or you could just tell dad to butt out. He had his chance to raise children, it's your turn. My mom and MIL liked that one.
i have been a member of this forum for a while.
most of the time here limiting myself to lurking in the background without saying much (i am posting more recently).
i was wondering those of you who where raised as jw did you experience physical abuse as a child?
My parents were both very abusive. I frequently went to meetings with welts from neck to knees. I couldn't sit in the hard plastic chairs without making them hurt worse. I once got beat again for showing them to a friend in the bathroom.
Now my brother actually got the worst of it. He was beat UP by my dad. Fists, kicks, thrown into walls, the works.
I stood up to my dad finally and called the cops to prevent another beating. My brother never went back. The ensuing child custody battle divided our extended family. I, of course, was fed up and angry with my dad. We hardly spoke after that. And he died 6 months later.
My mom is still a JW. She, quite handily, has forgotten all of it. She's all of 58. She never has acknowledged any of it. The episode of breaking a plastic spoon over my ass for not taking a nap is talked about with laughter.
Luckily, she feels no maternal attatchment and wants to be put in a nursing home when it is necassary. OK by me.
My biggest struggle is to not be that way with my kids. Not just the beatings. But the non-presence and neglect. By 10 I was in charge of the house. My mom cleaned other people's houses, took care of old people, and came home to bed. And we had service meeting at our house 2 times a day, all week. The house had to be kept spotless, or another beating. Nearly every day we were hit.
I now know that my parents were better than their parents, and it's my job to be better than them.