i only have a moment as we are about to leave for the weekend.
5 years today and still honey mooning.
we have been very blessed by finding one another, love does come to those who persevere.
I only have a moment as we are about to leave for the weekend. 5 years today and still honey mooning. We have been very blessed by finding one another, love does come to those who persevere. For those of you that are still waiting for the perfect mate, hang in there friends, you WILL find them.
NMG
so, i just got off the phone with my older jw brother.
long story on him for another day.
but it's his damn goofy wife!!
I got to talk with my younger brother this evening, and I told him about the conversation. He is DEATHLY anti jw now. He applauded my efforts in getting out, fading. He told me similar stories about our sister - in law. She's always saying how he's missing out on everlasting life, BARF!!
NMG
either describe what's "hot" to you or put a pic out so we can see.
It's the EYES................. I can look right into the figurative heart and soul of a woman through her eyes and KNOW who and what she is.
NMG
recently a few threads have remarked upon how restrictive the jws have become in the last decade or so in terms of activities and the amount of freedom alloted to individuals.. well, i can ballpark estimate when it started in my area.
it was the mid to late 80's.
throughout most of the 80's, my congregation frequently had potlucks and days at the park when all the local congregations would gather for fellowship.. there was a lot of laughs, lots of grilling, and easy interactions with other jws.
OH, YES!!! Square dancing is very enticing! very dangerous!! I know, I have been there. A number of years ago my ex and the kids went to a jw square dance. Dressed all western and countryfied. So, we were doing this changing partners, grab a hand grab another arm thingy. So, this one sister from our sister hall was one that I had to do this hadn and arm thingy with. She starts this flirting eye contact stuff with me. So, me being who I USED to be returned the favour. Nothing ever became of the innocent flirtation ..............UNTIL.........2 weeks later, her elder husband turns up as the guest speaker at our hall.
He starts this talk about the opposite sex and proper realtions between those in the congregation. Sisters wearing proper attire and not exposing their BODICES .Then he says, " There is a brother in THIS congregation( he looks straight at me) that does not respect the marital arangement and has made overtures to married sister, the wife of an elder". YUP!! NO SHIT!! I liked to have died. I am sure that he must have had some arrangement with the BOE to give this talk without bringing up my name. I am sure though that they were aware of it though. I had never made any contact with her outside of the dance or any other sort of contact. I was FLOORED!!!!
Needless to say, I made a wide berth around this woman when ever we were at an assembly or get together etc.
NMG
so, i just got off the phone with my older jw brother.
long story on him for another day.
but it's his damn goofy wife!!
So, I just got off the phone with my older jw brother. Long story on him for another day. But it's his damn GOOFY WIFE!! Every time I call over there, which isn't but once in a blue moon, maybe what, twice a year? So, she answers the phone......She's a born in jw, 57 years old. Oh, Hi NMG! How are you? i just got off the phone with a sister and we have talk we are going over blah blah blah!!!!! WTF??? She has to know that I haven't been to meetings in ages but it's always the same crap. EEEEEEEW I was so tempted to fill her in on her precious wtbts.........She's one of these gushy dreamy eyed dubs that thinks everything is perfect..HAH! She's the one that guilted me back into the borg about 1975. Oh, you're going to be destroyed, come back NOW before it's too late...... ARGH!!!
NMG
so i start thinking about all my "privileges.
" i went to mts, took 600 pages of notes, went to my assignment, i am still serving under the mts program.
for a few years until my circumstances changed.
Bonafide.......Cudos to you my friend! You are in an excellant position to HELP others that can't help or think for themselves. I would carry on just like you. If it isn't in print as a definate NO NO, don't worry about it. Yes, you may think that you wasted a lot of time but look at it this way. You now know the TRUTH about it all. many of us like yourself were born into it, led to believe it to be the truth. Perhaps in your own spiritual mind you do have a belief system in a god and creator, but you don't have to believe in an organization. They deviate from what is written in the scriptures and turn to their own desires and needs at the moment.
Build upon what you KNOW to be true, not what the wts wants you to believe. Continue to read up on jwd about the U.N. affair and the pedophile issues. I am sure that in a matter of a short time you will lose this romantic notion of the wts being the only channel to salvation.
I was raised as a jw and practiced it for 43 years. I had had my dobts but had too many relatives in to make any waves over doctrine. Now, like many here, I no longer practice a belief system. Life is too short. Enjoy your new found mental freedom and push ahead to realise the real you. You hace alot to live for in this new life, don't waste too much more time. I. myself have been fading now for 4 years. No kh, no assmblies no nothing.
Take care of yourself
NMG
a few weeks ago, there was a thread started on jw funeral talks and how horrible they are, but what about those wedding talks?.
talks that has nothing to do with the couple itself, but an advertisement about how wonderful marriage in jehovahs organization is.
*eye roll * the worst is when they have to bring up sex in the marriage in a wedding talk *barf*.
Key in on this one........AND A THREEFOLD CHORD CANNOT BE BROKEN....
NMG
a few weeks ago, there was a thread started on jw funeral talks and how horrible they are, but what about those wedding talks?.
talks that has nothing to do with the couple itself, but an advertisement about how wonderful marriage in jehovahs organization is.
*eye roll * the worst is when they have to bring up sex in the marriage in a wedding talk *barf*.
Key in on this one........AND A THREEFOLD CHORD CANNOT BE BROKEN....
NMG
thought i'd post this to see if i'm on an island here or not .
i have been in business in commercial janitorial for almost 26 years.
aside from one customer going bankrupt 15 years ago i have generally been able to get people to pay on time !
I, too, am self employed. No need to state which business as I may give myself away even more. However, I have about twenty accounts that I serve on a regular basis. Over the years, 32, I have used discernment as to WHOM I will carry for 45 days.
I have been fairly successful in keeping everyone straight as far as paying me goes. Like yourselves, I am also concerned as to just where the economy will take us in the nar future. If you have a personal relationship with your accounts and the people that write the checks you should be able to keep a tight rein on your recievable accounts.
I bid you all good luck in the future.
NMG
as some of you know, me and my wife 2 years ago were accused of " circumstancial fornication" 1 month before we were married because my ex wife ( divorced 1998) and my youngest daughter , both witnesses, drove an hour and a half away from where they lived to find me at my fiances house at 9:30 a.m. in the morning to take my fiance to get her tires fixed.
both my fiance and me were fully clothed !
then my ex-wife ran and gossipped to my witness parents and older siblings about it , bringing about them writing condemning letters to me ; without even checking out the accuracy of the false charges.
Hey Flipper!!! Hold the phone and I'l call ya now.
NMG
