Emailed Randy...thanks for the heads up!
babygirl30
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Need good exit story for African/American L.A. newspaper - yours?
by Dogpatch inanyone (particularly african/americans) have a good exit story to tell the the people of los angeles?
we need someone pronto.
email me back at [email protected].
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Do any of your friends worry you will go back?
by creativhoney inhello all.. in thes spirit of another thread i read where the boyfriend was badgering our poster about the religion saying he wanted her to forget it and not go back... do you have friends that worry?
my best friend is always asking me... do you think you will go back?.
do you think its because when we were in we so vehemently proclaimed we believed it?
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babygirl30
I'm guessing you're alluding to MY post about my bf and his 'disregard' for JWS?
Besides him though, it's not my non-JW friends that ask...but the few JW ones that Im still associated with that CONTINUE to ask! There are 3 of them, and they will talk to me 'on the low', and hang out with (out of town) - but inevitably, they start asking me when I'm coming back...or lay down comment of "I wish you would just get reinstated so we could hang out!" When they say that it makes me doubt my decision NOT to go back at times because I miss my girls, I hate 'hiding' and not being able to freely spend time with my friends in public like NORMAL people.
Then I remember WHAT happened to me and HOW the elders treated me and I go back to normal on my own! -hahahaha
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Movie - The Island
by Mickey mouse injust watching it now and realising why it freaked me out 3 years ago just like the truman show did.
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babygirl30
Saw it in the theatre and then WAITED for it on DVD - which I bought the day it came out!!! Love the score "Hi my name is Lincoln" that plays at the end when all the zygotes are set free and running away....cool movie.
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Did you ever feel being a JW was like ...
by sacolton inhaving a license to be a complete douchebag to others?
it did for me.
i could automatically judge and condemn those who i didn't know and feel superior towards "worldly" people.. .
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babygirl30
I truly feel BAD for how I used to judge people...but being raised in the org, I really believed that I was BETTER then them because I had 'knowledge and hope'. Seems so petty now, looking back. People that I looked down on, shunned, refused to hang around or even get to know (non JW family included) all because I really thought I was above them.
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Giving *deserving ones* Jehovahs *undeserved kindness*
by OnTheWayOut ina youtuber, 21crosscheck21, has an excellent point.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jlsfmbtt7e.
the kingdom ministry, december 1993, page 7 says:.
"we want to give *deserving ones* the opportunity to learn of jehovahs *undeserved kindness* and the kingdom hope.".
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babygirl30
There was a talk the C.O. gave about 3yrs ago about the difference between "undeserved kindness" and "mercy" ... don't remember the specifics any longer, but I DO recall that he tried to break it down and explain that they are NOT the same?
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My daughter (JW) just called .......
by mouthy inafter all these years!!!!
she is 63 yrs old still a jw.. has shunned me for years.. she lives in montreal me in ontario... .
last week i got the urge to send her a lovely card just to tell her i love her .
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babygirl30
CONGRATS on your daughter breaking down and speaking...I think it's WONDERFUL!!!
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I hate that it gets to me!!
by Newborn injust back from lunch and met two different former good friends from my congregation (i live in a small town) and they, of course, turned their backs on me... and it makes me feel strange and bad even though they're the ones who should really feel bad.... how can i learn to ignore it??.
makes me both sad and angry at the same time.
grrrr.
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babygirl30
brainwashed-from-birth
That is the SAME thing my family has told me repeatedly...I have been told over and over NOT to tell people about them shunning me and me being DF'd. My mother is passionate about NOBODY 'speaking badly about Jehovah's org' and she was accusing me of being soooo far in the world. Why? All because I told her that I have no problem telling folks that my parents choose NOT to have dealings with me because I am no longer a JW. That's not a lie...I'm not exaggerating the truth either - THAT is the point blank reason.
I agree wholeheartedly with what you said - if JWs are so passionate about their religion (aka - lifestyle) then WHY not speak up about it? Why NOT be proud that you dismiss people completely out of the cong and out of your life? They are right...people DON'T understand why JWs do what they do...because it doesn't make SENSE!!!
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Just was given the 'cold shoulder' by my own sister in public...
by babygirl30 inthat fat, sloppy, nasty b*tch is the one person on this earth i cannot stand.
yes...i said it... i cannot stand my own sister!
the girl is bpd (borderline personality disorder) and so she technically is mentally ill - but it makes her a terribly vindictive and hateful person.
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Poppers
Thank you dear! It's hard to explain to people HOW she can act this way and not think SHE is wrong...her mental illness makes her WANT to hurt others (me, right now)...and to see ME fall on my face. She has always been the blacksheep of the family, and so nobody really dealt with her. But NOW that I am on the 'outside' and she knows that I love my niece dearly and miss her, the whole religious aspect is her 'leverage' to keep me out of my nieces life AND to put herself above me (because she is baptized) and so she now is in the good graces of our parents again. Of couse they have shunned me and IF she wants them to back her financially (which she needs right now) then she must play the game - go to mtgs and shun ME. But to someone that already has mental problems and they involve her thinking she has a RIGHT to mistreat people...it's a recipe for disaster
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I hate that it gets to me!!
by Newborn injust back from lunch and met two different former good friends from my congregation (i live in a small town) and they, of course, turned their backs on me... and it makes me feel strange and bad even though they're the ones who should really feel bad.... how can i learn to ignore it??.
makes me both sad and angry at the same time.
grrrr.
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babygirl30
LatinXJW
Oh my God...I was sitting here DYIN laughing!!! Wu-Tang is from Ny....not to mention, Jay-Z, Ja-Rule, P-Diddy, Biggie was too (know exactly where he lived too, my friends were in his projects). That is such a FUNNY thought you bring up, but so true. Pretty sure back in the day when they bought that property, they NEVER imagined people would walk around their building singing "I see some ladies tonight that could be havin my baby - BABY!" -hahahahahahahahaha
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I hate that it gets to me!!
by Newborn injust back from lunch and met two different former good friends from my congregation (i live in a small town) and they, of course, turned their backs on me... and it makes me feel strange and bad even though they're the ones who should really feel bad.... how can i learn to ignore it??.
makes me both sad and angry at the same time.
grrrr.
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babygirl30
Newborn
Sweetie - I'm sorry!!! Guess this just isn't the WEEK for 'good behavior' out there in the world...huh? LOL. This type of behavior is just so incomprehensible. People that claim to be the most loving are the very ones that will blatantly turn their backs ON YOU and still believe they are doing the right thing. The shame part I can relate to...initially though. Running into old 'friends' (and I use that term losely now) I initially get that weird embarassed feeling - as if I am lower then them or a bad person. But then it dawns on me that I'm NOT! Same goes for you. But I know you will be ok and keep it movin!!!