I know it is so ridiculous. Bunch of control freaks.
meangirl
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Thay just do not want you to do anything that is fun
by I need a lot of help inall they want you to do is anything that will make you feel depressed..
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Uh oh.....
by meangirl inso many of you know that me and hubby were having a debate over christmas this year.
i wanted to celebrate and he did not.
he is not an active witness but was raised as one.
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meangirl
What gets me is I really did compromise on this with hubby and I am going to get so mad if I get "accused"...if only they knew.....Glad everyone got to enjoy Christmas! I did start crying on Christmas day because it was really hard for me. My hubby felt so bad. He did ask if I wanted to put up a tree next year.....so progress little by little.
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Uh oh.....
by meangirl inso many of you know that me and hubby were having a debate over christmas this year.
i wanted to celebrate and he did not.
he is not an active witness but was raised as one.
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meangirl
So many of you know that me and hubby were having a debate over Christmas this year. I wanted to celebrate and he did not. He is not an active witness but was raised as one. I was not raised as one and had Christmas snatched from me when I was 13 with no apologies or sympathy by my JW mom. Anywho, we came to a compromise. Our daughter went to the Christmas party at school (yay for her). Then we had a family day the week after Christmas (to the day) where our daughter got a ton of presents. It was nice. We did an origami tree (we spray painted some branches silver, put them in a vase with colored glass beads in it). It was a fun family project and we all enjoyed making origami cranes, flowers, etc. The "tree" was beautiful. So I posted some pics on facebook and I did not say it was Christmas. I just said it was our celebration and showed off our origami tree. My JW mom commented on some other pics I had downloaded but not on our origami tree......I told my husband if it comes back that we celebrated Christmas then fine next year I will REALLY celebrate it and give them something to talk about....Just wanted to share. By the way happy new year everybody!
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Are many couples having babies in order to be less zealous?
by trillaz inwith some, you hear them say they don't want to raise children in this system... until they have children all of a sudden.. i know of many couples who are not only on their first child but multiple ones.
or if they are newlywed, they soon.
have their first child.
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meangirl
Yes I do think alot do that. I know in fact one couple who invited us over for dinner. They had only been married a year and she was pregnant. We were all having a frank discussion about crap in the org and the husband basically said something like he told his wife when she had the baby it was her ticket to basically get out of having to sit through the meetings. It is a passive agressive technique. It is like "rebelling" but not in an outwardly way and a good excuse not to do "more" for the society.
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Just feeling a little down in the dumps tonight...
by garyneal in...though i guess the reasons why are silly.
in a sense, but it makes me wonder on what's to come in the future.. i hate it this time of the year with a wife in the cult who's been taught not to celebrate christmas.
my company is having a holiday party and she agreed to go to one but because we were also bought out and some of us are leaving and moving on, someone decided to have another one with just the employees of our company alone.. i wanted to go to that one too, but i did not want to go alone.
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meangirl
Just wanted to say your reason for feeling down are not silly at all. Hang in there...
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meangirl
LOL!
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I celebrated my birthday today for the first time!
by doublelife ini didn't really have a party or anything, but people at work know that i'm no longer a jw and they got me a birthday cake.
my birthday is not until the 28th, but my co-workers always celebrate anyone's b-day on the 3rd wednesday of every month.
i've been giddy all day over it, though every once in a while, i'll remember how disappointed in me my parents would be.
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meangirl
Good for you and Happy Birthday!
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Why does the organization respect some cultures and not others specifically American?
by meangirl inokay, i am trying to wrap my head around this and it just does not make any sense.
i could not think of one "american" tradition/culture that is "allowed" by the society.
heck even football is frowned on.
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meangirl
Okay, I am trying to wrap my head around this and it just does not make any sense. I could not think of one "American" tradition/culture that is "allowed" by the society. Heck even football is frowned on. So then I started thinking about traditions/cultures of other countries and how the society tiptoes around that. For example, female circumcision is a tradition in some countries and I remember there was an Awake article on that. It said something like how no loving parent would want their daughter to go through that but it never stated if that parent would be disfellowshipped....I truly have a difficult time seeing how partaking in some customs in American like Mother's Day could be worse than doing that to your daughter......Yet there is a RULE on Mother's day and a PRINCIPLE on female circumcision. Ok then we have the pinata that is a Mexican tradition and a few years back there was an article stating that the pinata is a conscious matter because it is not viewed as it once was?......There are alot of American holidays/traditions that are not viewed as they once were but still no freedom. Why the hard stance on American culture and celebration but yet so lientient in other countries....has anybody else ever noticed this?
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what,s your view on Women ministers.
by jam inone must forget the misguided teaching of the watch tower before one can.
honestly address what is wrong with women teaching..i was one who believe.
women should not teach.
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meangirl
Nice post!
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Please share a quote that you enjoy...
by nvrgnbk innothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose--.
a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.. mary shelley.
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meangirl
"I distrust those who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."-Susan B. Anthony