On the top of my right foot It's my first and only and it's going to be good. A lotus flower with lots of petals and colors and in a couple of the petals my kids names. I know it's going to hurt like hell but I'm ready!
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I'm getting my first tattoo :)
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Yeah, I love the outdoors to. Love camping and fishing and hiking. Love laying out by the pool to!
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Sorry, didn't finish, LOL. Anyways, what's everyone doing? Any vacations, summer fun? That is of course AFTER everyone goes to see Flipper naked on the beach!
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awildflower
That happened to me too and I just had to log out and then log back in.
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Is It Wrong To Pretend??
by chron82 inat the current time, my wife and i are just trying to fade away in order to keep family ties on my side.
last night my wife said that she feels bad about being affiliated with the witnesses at all.
i too feel bad about it.... i don't want to be responsible for misleading people.. i told her that in order to keep communication between myself and my family open, i can justify going to meetings.
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awildflower
awildflower - I do feel unstable emotionally and twisted internally... and I know I can't live like this forever.
That is my concern for you. And believe me it will get worse physically for you, but you'll come to a place where you know you can't take it anymore.
But my hope is to last long enough to at least persuade my family to not cut me off completely.
This might be a loosing battle (granted I don't know all the facts) it's just that we know and have seen that how your family decides to deal with you, has nothing to do with YOU and everything to do with them and their "relationship with Jehovah and their loyalty to the organization", unfortunately. I might be more impressed with a family member who was willing to do what was authentic to them no matter the cost. If I were a jw family member who watched another jw member leave and then left later myself, I might look back on the situation and admire that in the person who left first. When you live authentically, people see that, they feel it in your presence, the happiness and love is undeniable and that "helps" them more. They may never make a statement about it or change how they treat you, but they'll remember how they feel around an authentic person. I hear in you your love for your family and your trying to do what you think is best with the information you have to work with right now. I just wonder what would benefit them more? You staying to "help" them, or you living authentically, for the long run outcome? Either way it's just another example of what a cult does to everyone involved
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Is It Wrong To Pretend??
by chron82 inat the current time, my wife and i are just trying to fade away in order to keep family ties on my side.
last night my wife said that she feels bad about being affiliated with the witnesses at all.
i too feel bad about it.... i don't want to be responsible for misleading people.. i told her that in order to keep communication between myself and my family open, i can justify going to meetings.
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awildflower
Jesus condemned the Pharisees for being something they weren't. He said they were like "white-washed graves" looks pretty on the outside but full of dead bones on the inside. To me Jesus was saying to not be a hypocrite, live an authentic life. I'm not saying your being a hypocrite by your standards but would people see you as one or accuse you of being one based on your actions, which is what people have to go by?
Not living an authentic life will cause all kinds of problems with you physically and emotionally. How do you feel?
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JWD as home page
by Billzfan23 inso...on my home pc (which my kids use all the time) - i set my internet browser home page to here - even though i don't visit here every day or post very often.
i notice that when they open the browser, they have been looking at the active topics just for the sake of browsing them.
my daughter did a lot of poking around the site the other day (even though she attends meetings with her mother occasionally - my son does not attend at all and hasn't for 3 years).
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awildflower
How old are the kids?
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awildflower
W007, that was pretty good