well i am hitting the big one on friday and i am happy it will soon be over.
it is lovely that all my new friends are excited for me, its just a little hard to get into it wholeheartedly when i am still nervous to get our son home.. .
still i did buy 6 bottles of champagne...so there must be a party feeling coming up in me!.
I had the time of my life...my son in Afghanistan told my husband to come in to wake me up with a cake with 50 candles on...he did, it was lovely.
I had 20 red roses from my hubby and little boy. My neighbours came with flowers and put up their big flag for me. We had brunch out in town and then I was surprised by being taken to a lovely restaurant and 5 of my dear friends were there. Greetings came in all day on facebook and I got the call from Afghan too. To top off a perfect day my husband even sang a serenade to me in front of my friends...he was quite sober and it sounded lovely. I was in tears...such a lovely, lovely day. I can't wait to do the same for our son when he gets back soon.
Thank you for letting me share this...you guys all know how much it means.
I enjoyed you very candid post. It made me realize that my own reactions to leaving the org three years ago were very much like yours. I too was born in and suffered from nervous anxiety throughout my childhood, developed depression in my twenties and had a breakdown in my thirties. It took medication, and counseling to get me through my forties but the true cure came when I examined my so called beliefs and realized that I could no longer be a JW.
I have experienced like you, such freedom and happiness, and yet sadness at the years of doubt, depression and mindless drudgery. My husband left at the same time as I did and we now have a better marriage and family life than ever before.
I wish you all the best for you continued journey to find the real You!
well i am hitting the big one on friday and i am happy it will soon be over.
it is lovely that all my new friends are excited for me, its just a little hard to get into it wholeheartedly when i am still nervous to get our son home.. .
still i did buy 6 bottles of champagne...so there must be a party feeling coming up in me!.
well i am hitting the big one on friday and i am happy it will soon be over.
it is lovely that all my new friends are excited for me, its just a little hard to get into it wholeheartedly when i am still nervous to get our son home.. .
still i did buy 6 bottles of champagne...so there must be a party feeling coming up in me!.
Well I am hitting the big one on Friday and I am happy it will soon be over...actually it is a little hard to be in the celebrating mood as our son is not back safe and sound from Afghanistan for his leave until the 29th. His birthday is today so everything is on hold until he gets home.
It is lovely that all my new friends are excited for me, its just a little hard to get into it wholeheartedly when I am still nervous to get our son home.
Still I did buy 6 bottles of champagne...so there must be a party feeling coming up in me!
Just thought I would share with you guys..have a lovely spring day...sun is shining here!
so this woman that i grew up with has sent me a friend request on facebook.
we've done a bit of back and forth "how are you" chat but i haven't accepted her request.. i can see she is still a jw because she belongs to some no-blood facebook group.. i do not want to be her friend on facebook.
i consider witnesses to be bad association and i severely limit the number of jw's i have on my facebook - only close family and people that i share close history with.. so what should i say to this woman?
You don't want to be her friend. So just explain that you only keep your facebook for family. No offence intented but you won't add her to your facebook.
If you do not want to say that then just press ignore.
I added a person that had been a friend on my facebook. She reported us to Bethel for celebrating christmas. I deleted her immediately.
Women and children were anointed in the first century and they had no "ms, elder status". Still this is no surprise, remember as a teenager in 1975 in our congregation a young guy in his twenties claimed to be of the anointed. He was disfellowshipped for causing divisions because he stated his case so stridently. I remember being shocked when I met a co here, he was a former drug addict and became a witness and claims to be anointed. I had to laugh because he would have been disfellowshipped if it had been back home in my old cong. Here he has hero status, everyone quotes him, but he is such a big head!
my dad,an elder for 25plus years,concentration camp survivor,the works,died in a few weeks ago.i am df'd but have been the only one who helps him and my mum.my jw sister couldnt give a rats ass about them.i was at my mom and dads house after he died,helping my mom with everyting,hell,id been there for 2 months because i was afraid to leave them alone.i knew my dad wasnt feeling well.guess he was worse than i realized.he died.the witnesses came in droves.small kitchen.im sitting at the table.they not only didnt speak to me,but they didnt even acknowledge that i was in the room,about day 3,i stopped answering the door..one "lady" called.sister carol.when i answered the phone she hesitated and said",now you know,i caint tawk to yew"{strong southern accent.ala elie may clampett}"you orta let cher mawma ainser the phone.
"i told her to bite me and hung up on her...same here,when we got back home.i hate these people with the fury of a thousand suns,but for some reason,i am now in possession of some great elders notes.been laying low,but im going to start posting the juicy stuff.just cause itd be nice for calvin to know that he was seen "dancing recklessly" at a wedding and that sister renee was being councied for her weight and still insisted on gaining more.also that sister e wasnt giving her husband his "due"..{yik}and that certain concetration camp survivors were being coerced into saying that they were jw's at the time of incarceration.but one wouldnt.my dad refused to play their game,and as a result he was asked to step down as an elder at age of 80.that and that he refused to shun me.his notes have been very enlightening..nice folks thise jw's,no?
they were so mean to my dad, he really believed this crap,and tried to do the right thing.but because he wouldnt dance their way,and turn me,his favorite person{and he was mine|into the cold they treated him badly and mocked him and even his accent.i hate them.really.any ideas?the local elder here,just asked my mom about her financial situation...grrrrrrrrrrrrr.
So sorry to hear about your dear Dad, he had a treasure in you and he knew it! Weird to think that the witnesses love to pull out the concentration camp survivors and interview them (those that are left), yet cast your Dad aside after a lifetime of service. Hateful and willfully wicked. I hope you can support your mum, ask her if she really wants to see these people. If she doesn't then tell them they are not welcome anymore.
Just read newspaper article here in Denmark..not sure where the source info is from, it says Harvard University has undertaken a survey of thousands of people worldwide and they all took a Moral Sense Test. The result is that we all decide the same morally no matter what our religion, background etc is. The thinking is that morality is inborn and therefore prior to religious influence.
