some years ago, i was a very, very loyal witness.
i believed it all - and attempted to intellectually justify all of it!
then at work, they hired 'mary' to head accounting.
I have made some new friends in my town. Some have the same interests as I do so I run into them in a lot of the same meetings for clubs and stuff. I think the one I have more in common with is gay. Vicki never wears make up and never mentions relationships or men. She knows I am straight. She is one of the kindest people I have ever known. I am proud to call her a friend. I really don't want to know, until she is ready to share with me. I will never ask her.
Kit
it's that time of year again: girl scout cookies!.
sales are down 20% because of the economy, but my purchases are going strong -- six boxes.
i'm sharing them with my co-workers, though.. i'm partial to the thin mints and the samoas.. do you like them?
I love their cookies. I bought them outside the grocery store. Last time, rather than take the cookies I gave them a donation and told them to keep the cookies. I like to do the same to the boy scouts, too. They are wonderful for kids to join and learn things that stay with them and are useful.
Kit
did the thought ever cross your mind?
i have done so very recently.
i might someday - i am tired of having no friends, my life in the rearview mirror.. jeff.
Even if you were thinking about it, don't do it. I am not going back and I only have a few friends. Just remember what it was like, really, really like.
Kit
anyone else miss james brady's page at the end of the parade magazine.
it was total fluff about some actor or sports star.
i understand he died recently, right?
Anyone else miss James Brady's page at the end of the Parade magazine. It was total fluff about some actor or sports star. I understand he died recently, right? Think they will get another to fill his place?
Kit
how did you come to the final decision to get out of her (the organization, "mother")?
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My ex left in 2001. I did not follow with him for four more years. I think that may have not set well with him. I decided on my own to stay with the so called friends I had in the Borg and my then faith. It was hard to go alone to the meetings, since I had never done this before. I missed the time together we used to have, going out after with friends as we did so often. I started to miss book study, since it was a book studied before, again and again. Then, we finally moved into our new house way out in the country. The cong out there was weird and too far away. I don't like driving at night alone, so soon I was only going on Sunday. I felt guilty, so I changed to a closer cong. Then, everyone was interested in not me but my ex since he had been an elder and way more important than a woman coming on her own. I started to look the meetings, through the eyes of a new person. If I was going to join this group, would I do that now! Then, my ex told me in 2005 he wanted to separate then, divorce me. That really woke me up. After crying for a week or more, I asked him to tell me everything he knew from his reading and the internet about why he left. That was it for the wt. However as most of you know, we did divorce last year. I got out of the cult, but never took the time to find out why he really wanted to divorce me in 2005. I blame them for part of the divorce since it was the only thing that kept us together. There are other reasons but that isn't the question you asked, was it Mini? Now, I am an older woman living in the bible belt, near my family of church people, without a church of my own. I don't want one either! I am learning how to live alone and make new friends. So many on here have been an inspiration to me. Snakes your story was wonderful. Since my ex was an elder we had many an elder meeting in our home, in the basement. That was an interesting group of creepy guys. Wish we had left, when we had the usual disappointments with people we knew along the way. That should have told us it wasn't the troof. We kept plugging along in the haze of mind control. I am picking up the pieces of my life that I have left. I gave him a quicky divorce because I loved him. That is so over now. I do not miss the the so called religion but it still affects us. That is why we come here. Those friends I didn't want to leave, they have no idea where I am now. They lost touch with me even when I was trying to hang in there. What kind of friends are they? Many on this board think they know me and have their opinion of me. Come walk in my shoes for awhile, alone. I don't have another to love me now. I lost my best friend and roomate to another ex jw. He is the reason I left but where did it get me? Let's add it up, I am out and free of mind control, I am starting a new life. I have made some friends, joined a couple of groups that interest me, am rebuilding my self esteem, even lost 40 pounds in the process. I will not return and want anyone who ever thinks about going back to really think about their choices in life. They didn't teach us what the bible said, they taugh us what they wanted us to believe the bible says.
Kit
ever had a blue smoke martini?
it is great not sure what it in it but really pretty and tasty.. kit.
Nathan that's it! All that sugar makes the glass too sticky. But it was yummy. Right now Smoky Bones has them for $4 all the time here in TN. They must need the business, huh? Thanks for the picture. I still don't have one up for myself cause I don't know how.
Kit
decided humor was the answer........i am not a looker and have been described by one here as lookin very "normal".....and i took that as a huge compliment......but i learned early on.....at least by third grade.......that those around me liked to laugh, and that if i made them do it.......it made me feel good..."normal" maybe.......anyhoo........i have done some stand-up comedy and had fun with it (as in i did not bomb)........and written more material than i have ever used..........i think if i could have any job it would be letterman's........but would be happy just to write for him, conan, or snl..........so what did you do or not do to feel more normal as a jw kid?........i also made valentine cards and did the pledge!
!.....serious double lifer here...........soory................oompa.
I was only 25 when I was first a witless. My sister saw me getting ready to go to a meeting and told me she had never seen me dress so dowdy. I had on maryjane shoes, an aline skirt and just a regular blouse. I was known before by my unusual clothes in the hippie world. I didn't even know what to say to her. I was trying to blend in for sure! It must have been hell for you kids out there growing up that way. We used to consider it a privilege to be called a "freak" as a hippie!
Kit
http://www.codyenterprise.com/articles/2009/02/19/news/doc4987722b2d8b5588859832.txt.
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Their are many who wasted years on building projects to watch them get shot down by new co's who said there was no need for a new building. Just increase the current kh times all day Sunday and even a Saturday talk & wt study. Then, you got to be the lucky one to go on Saturday morning and wreak your weekend. Sunday service was really down when that happened. Just remembered that ugly time in my life. Where is that kh in the picture? NY?
Kit
i got home from work last night and guess what happened while i was gone?.
my wife tells me she called the presiding overseer to set up a time for all of us to talk about our premarital no-no's.. "really?
" i asked her.
That's too bad. We can only imagine how they will treat her. Maybe, she will get brother love. Stand your ground. It's a strange thing to meet with elders about something like this, a friend of mine had to go when she came back from her fling. I would never have done it myself.
ever had a blue smoke martini?
it is great not sure what it in it but really pretty and tasty.. kit.
Ever had a Blue Smoke martini? It is great not sure what it in it but really pretty and tasty.
Kit
