Posts by hemp lover

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What is your most ridiculous example of being shunned?

by formerout in

i was just having lunch in a wendy's near my house an hour ago.

an elder and his wife entered and got in line to order without seeing me seated in the eating area.

after a minute the wife turned and saw me.

hemp lover

Very interesting stories on this thread. It's making me feel kinda queasy though. I had forgotten how horrible disfellowshipping is when you're still inside, how sickened I would feel whenever someone's name was read from the platform and how terrified I would be if I ran into them anywhere. I was ultra self righteous when it came to looking down on df'ed ones. Karma's a bitch, I guess.

Here's my most ridiculous example of being shunned:

My grandmother was dying from a brain tumor and I went back to Illinois to tell her goodbye. She hadn't spoken to me for three years since I was df'ed and I wasn't sure whether she would be happy to see me or not. Thank God, she treated me just like she always used to, her one and only favorite granddaughter. Religion was never discussed.

If it had been just my grandmother and I in the house, it would have been peachy. Unfortunately, there were many JWs coming and going. One of them had nursing experience and so she was helping me and my mom change my grandma's sheets and give her a bath. This woman stood next to me while I changed my grandma's diaper and wouldn't speak or look at me. I obviously didn't know what I was doing, so she would relay instructions to my mother to give to me on how do it right. Grandma got her back for me later though, by threatening to stuff a Nerf ball in the "sister's" mouth if she didn't shut up. But she said it in a nice way, like only Grandmas can.

That whole visit is what really cemented for me that this religion doesn't have anything resembling the truth. People I had known my whole life would walk by me while I was feeding my grandma and not look me in the eye or say hello (or offer to help, though they didn't mind eating the food I prepared).

There were several people though who would stop and talk, even engage me in conversation. One even offered to put me up at her house when she found out my brother told me I couldn't stay with him. (Specifically, he said, "I don't want you here because you're going to talk religion and I have my own beliefs." LOL) To a person, the ones who spoke to me had either been df'ed themselves or had family members who were. Has anyone else experienced that in their dealings with JWs?

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Best Biographies

by Valis in

i'm looking for new biographies to give as xmas gifts this year.

anyone have suggestions or ones they have enjoyed recently?.

sincerely,.

hemp lover

Savage Beauty by Nancy Milford about Edna St. Vincent Millay

Peter the Great by Robert K. Massie - very interesting read, especially if you enjoy history.

I'm about to start a biography about Janis Joplin, one of my favorite dead people.

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Things that you hate.............

by Sunnygal41 in

i just recently received an email from a friend who i have been trying to get to know over the internet who informed me after a stray comment/question i made that they were ending the friendship, and not to even bother emailing any type of response back to them, as it would be deleted without being read.

don't you just hate when people do that?

it's like they've morally tried and condemned you without you being able to defend yourself..........i'm furious, of course, but, hey if the person won't even listen to me, what can i do?

hemp lover

Interrupters

People who drive slow in the fast lane

Top 40 music

People who give a 20-minute answer to the question, "How are you?" ("Gee, sorry to hear about the constipation.")

Wearing underwear

People who don't listen to you and then ask why you don't ever have much to say (Hi, Mom!)

Babies, old people and dogs

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How did you feel when you learned it was all a lie?

by what_Truth? in

bit of background.

i grew up as a jw i left the church when i was 14 because a ministerial servant who was conducting a one on one baptism study with me said that i couldn't ballance my dreams of being a professional singer with the so called "truth".

i stopped the study and told my mom i no longer wanted to be a witness.

hemp lover

"Stunned / annoyed / grief stricken / accepting / revolutionary / demoralised / acceptance / terror stricken on anticipation of leaving then complete peace just prior to doing it."

Wow, this is like the five stages of death with a few extra thrown in.

I was devastated and cried for days, then angry that I was going to die someday, then peaceful. What will be, will be.

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"Hello Carlo"

by czarofmischief in

remember that moment in the godfather when carlo gets into the car and the guy behind him says, "hello carlo" and you know what's going to happen next?.

anyother choice moments in cinema we'd care to share tonight?.

czar

hemp lover

"Bring me the butter." Marlon Brando, Last Tango in Paris

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I Want to be Jesus

by xjw_b12 in

jw
friends

jesus.

can i have your "job"?.

you know it's been a couple of thousand years since you've had your feet on terra ferma.

hemp lover

I just want peace, and I want to be able to give it in a way larger than I can now.

Amen to that. I was just thinking about this the other day. I show love and concern to the people in my life (and to people I come into contact with each day), but that's such a small circle. And the people in that circle aren't necessarily learning anything from my love, because they're already peaceable and kind.

So how to get the message to the relatively small percentage of people on this planet who are causing the problems for the rest of the world? I strongly feel the troublemakers are in the minority.

I didn't come up with any answers, other than we need to start a peaceful revolution. Let's do it the good ol' capitalist way - marketing! A daisy and a John Lennon CD with every Coke purchase...

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My Fascination With Nicely Shaped Jugs

by Englishman in

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friends

this is a part of my collection.. the all-blue jug and the "pinch pot" below were made in a local pottery in the 1920's and are known as wesuma ware.

(weston super mare).

the others are all doulton lambeth ware from the late 1800's, well before the company came to be called royal doulton.

hemp lover

a small stack of Playboy magazines from the 60''s,

'60s Playboys are the best. I have some from '67-'68, including my birth month. It was all about the jugs then - topless only and women still had tan lines, much sexier than the airbrushed coeds of today's Playboy. Love the old ads, too. The Shelby Mustang ad especially, back when it was new and not a classic.

I've had different collections through the years, mainly ashtray stands and art deco clocks from the '30s-'50s. I've been thinking about starting a new collection of the old Last Supper paintings I see at a lot of antique malls and estate sales. I think it would be cool to have a dozen of them hanging on one wall. I like Jesus.

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What would you do?,,,,need advice

by LyinEyes in

jw
friends

many of you know that since i am d/a, i have'nt spoken to my jw dad in about 3 years.

well, he is trying to make contact with me, he and my sister had lunch the other day.

he said he has been trying to get in touch with us for about 6 months.

hemp lover

Have any of you kept in contact with JW family, or let them back in your life, after being totally shunned? Did you just not "go there" with the JW issues?

Yes and yes. I can't really add anything to the wonderful advice you've received, except to say that in my case, it was worth letting my parents back into my life (when they missed me too much to keep up the total shunning). Who knows how long they'll be around? My mom and I talk about lots of things that we never would have before, now that I'm no longer hiding my true self from them (for the most part). She came within a centimeter of wishing her granddaughter a happy birthday last week. That was kinda cool.

Your dad loves you and misses you. Think of the way you love your children. Can you imagine the constant pain you would feel to not have them in your life?

Good luck in whatever you decide to do. ((((Dede))))

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My sisters are braindead b**ches

by flower in

just thought i'd share.

in case anyone else out there has three sisters that are braindead bitches too...i know how you feel.

i havent talked to two of the three braindead bitches for a couple of years (ever since that goddamn article came out in the km) but one of the braindead bitches lives about 10 mins from me.

hemp lover

(((Flower)))

Thank god the braindeadedness doesn't extend all the way through the family.

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Top 8 Morons of 2004

by hemp lover in

jw
friends

this was forwarded to me in an email, so i can't verify the authenticity of the items.

however, i do remember seeing several of these on the news.. 1. will the real dummy please stand up?

at&t fired president john walter after nine months, saying he lacked intellectual leadership.

hemp lover

This was forwarded to me in an email, so I can't verify the authenticity of the items. However, I do remember seeing several of these on the news.

1. WILL THE REAL DUMMY PLEASE STAND UP? AT&T fired President John Walter after nine months, saying he lacked intellectual leadership. He received a $26 million severance package. Perhaps it's not Walter who's lacking intelligence.

2. WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM OUR FRIENDS: Police in Oakland, CA spent two hours attempting to subdue a gunman who had barricaded himself inside his home. After firing ten tear gas canisters, officers discovered that the man was standing beside them in the police line, shouting, "Please come out and give yourself up."

3. WHAT WAS PLAN B??? An Illinois man, pretending to have a gun, kidnapped a motorist and forced him to drive to two different automated teller machines, wherein the kidnapper proceeded to withdraw money from his own bank accounts.

4. THE GETAWAY! A man walked into a Topeka, Kansas Kwik Stop and asked for all the money in the cash drawer. Apparently, the take was too small, so he tied up the store clerk and worked the counter himself for three hours until police showed up and grabbed him.

5. DID I SAY THAT??? Police in Los Angeles had good luck with a robbery suspect who just couldn't control himself during a lineup. When detectives asked each man in the lineup to repeat the words: "Give me all your money or I'll shoot", the man shouted, "that's not what I said!".

6 ARE WE COMMUNICATING??? A man spoke frantically into the phone: "My wife is pregnant and her contractions are only two minutes apart". "Is this her first child?" the doctor asked. "No!" the man shouted, "This is her husband!"

7. NOT THE SHARPEST TOOL IN THE SHED! In Modesto, CA, Steven Richard King was arrested for trying to hold up a Bank of America branch without a weapon. King used a thumb and a finger to simulate a gun... Unfortunately, he failed to keep his hand in his pocket.

8. THE GRAND FINALE!!! Last summer, down on Lake Isabella, located in the high desert, an hour east of Bakersfield, CA, some folks, new to boating, were having a problem. No matter how hard they tried, they couldn't get their brand new 22 foot boat, going. It was very sluggish in almost every maneuver, no matter how much power they applied. After about an hour of trying to make it go, they putted into a nearby marina, thinking someone there may be able to tell them what was wrong. A thorough topside check revealed everything in perfect working condition. The engine ran fine, the out-drive went up and down, and the propeller was the correct size and pitch. So, one of the marina guys jumped in the water to check underneath. He came up choking on water, he was laughing so hard.

Under the boat, still strapped securely in place, was the trailer!