Posts by Heartbreaker

I just remembered I also like to take vanilla bean ice cream and mix in a little heavy whipping cream and stir it up...take the largest ginger snaps cookie I can find and then put a big scoop of ice cream in the center of two cookies, wrap in wax paper and form into a neat pie and refreeze!

So yummy.

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Did you ever pass up an opportunity to leave the truth?

by truthseeker in

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years ago when everything was going pear shaped for me in my personal life and in the congregation, i saw my opportunity to leave.

i had no friends, the elders didn't like me and i was one step away from resigning.

i had nothing to lose.. this was back in '97 before i got the internet.. one of my regrets is that i didn't leave when i had the chance.

Heartbreaker

It does suck LITS, but just think we each had very similiar experiences, and we recall them now. Too bad we didn't listen then, but we still remember. May we press forwards and be that memory for someone else, whenever we can.

I used to think that when witnessing, maybe we'd "gain them later with a seed planted". Well that shite can work both ways, I know now. I hope I plant seeds to get people thinking or wondering. I hope I live in a way that causes ones to wonder how things can still be so good, when I've left Happyville.

And thank you Scarred for Life...I appreciate your words. :)

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What do you like to eat with ice cream?

by asilentone in

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Heartbreaker

Raspberry liquer and a Guiness. First the vanilla ice cream, pour over it the liqeur (I think I'm spelling that incorrectly) and then pour over the Guiness. It's so good, way better than any ole root beer float!

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What are the percentage of reinstated JWs that really repented for their sins or fake their repentance?

by asilentone in

Heartbreaker

I didn't feel quilty as much as shamed.

I wasn't repentant as much as wanted off punishment.

I should have just been more brave and not went back. I regret that more than "getting caught" or "sinning".

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2010 - NO District Convention For Me - WoooHoooo! Anybody Else?

by mentallyfree31 in

i have attended district conventions since i was a little kid every year.

now that i have woken up from the wt nightmare, this will be my first year to miss a district convention!

and it feels so liberating!

Heartbreaker

This will be our families first free year too! Although last year there were a ton of WTF?? comments back and forth between the two of us, and lots of lean on me and nap, then I'll lean on you and nap during the next droning talk. We also sat as close to the top of that stadium as possible...dark, cool, away from all the rest of them. We won't be there, but we won't miss it.

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Hope Our Friends Are OK

by snowbird in

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37074259/ns/weather?gt1=43001.

crapola?.

sooner?.

Heartbreaker

Sylvia, you are always so thoughtful! I too thought of ones I may "know" in the areas hit, and continueing to be hit, but didn't post it.

Being near Kansas City on the Kansas side, we are fortunate to only have gotten a lot of rain, no damage. The joys of Tornado Alley!

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Did you ever pass up an opportunity to leave the truth?

by truthseeker in

jw
friends

years ago when everything was going pear shaped for me in my personal life and in the congregation, i saw my opportunity to leave.

i had no friends, the elders didn't like me and i was one step away from resigning.

i had nothing to lose.. this was back in '97 before i got the internet.. one of my regrets is that i didn't leave when i had the chance.

Heartbreaker

Yes, a few times I could have, twice if I'd been honest with myself, and once if I had just been brave.

I was a pretty bad teenager as far as promiscuity and sneaking around etc, and I lied like a rug to get out of it many times. If I'd just been honest with them, and myself, I'd have had hard times as a teen and then left to live a life for myself. Again, same scenario when I was DF'd at 25. I went back because I thought I had to, to save my two young children. My parents also said they'd only help me if I did, and I was a single mom that was only 25! I wasn't honest with them or myself, kept living my wordly life and went to be reinstated. I was still sleeping with a boyfriend, smoking and drinking at clubs when I was reinstated. I knew then the holy spirit was a figment of their imagination, but still I did what was expected.

Neither of those examples bother me as much as the scene that replays in my mind over and over. I was trying to be as zealous and as capable as all the other pioneers in the congregation, I was about 14. In service a couple listened to my presentation patiently, but I could tell they were just waiting for a break in the flow to lay an objection on me, so I just spoke in a grand stream of words, lol, and it wasn't until the end that I have them lay on me what it was they wanted to say.

The told me that the organization I was in was formed by people that were of other religions, and they smoked and drank and had power trips, and the set dates that came and went and were false prophets. They said that 1975, when I was just a toddler probably (they were right) that they misled many to give up their wealth, their hopes, their homes, their futures, and it was wicked and horrible. That I serve men, not God, and that I should look it up myself, that the proof is all right in our own books and history, not with apostates.

Instead I went back to the cargroup and mocked them and their dilusion, and talked about how misled THEY are...the older ones in the car tried to quickly change the subject, or steer it differently, and I recall feeling something come over me...kind of an internal "Hey, they were WRONG...weren't they? Why are you acting like that? What am I missing?" Then I squashed it down by telling myself Satan was just getting to me, and I needed to not listen or look into it, and just go on my way. I was 14. I can't be held accountable for that, nor for being baptized later that year. It's all so pathetic.

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Sister in my Congregation claims Jehovah always answers her prayers....including her new skirt and shoes for $20 bucks???

by Witness 007 in

to show you how dumb and shallow my congregation is a one of our "deeper" sisters claimed in field services that "jehovah answers all my prayers...like last week i wanted a new skirt and shoes for field service but only had $20 dollars....and would you believe i found them!!!

now i for one though well, why didn't you pray or the oil pipe in the mexican gulf to dry up...or food for the poor in haiti.

other pioneers tell of vegetables falling off trucks just when they had nothing for dinner???

Heartbreaker

An offshoot of Jwoods post, I can recall on a tour of Bethel, the story of needing to move this impossibly heavy piece of equipment, from one building to another. Of course there was a deadline, and it didn't seem that it'd happen.

Miraculously in NEW YORK, there was an ice storm, and wouldn't you know this IMPOSSIBLY heavy piece was able to slide right on to the new building. Jehovah provided the storm!!

What a bunch of bunk.