Posts by brizzzy

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How did you personally endure the torture during the DC?

by whatistruth in

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my assembly was a couple of weeks ago and lets just say the only way i could possibly get through that b.s was by having some "funny stuff" before the sessions, then to my car at lunch.

pretty much slept the days away.

my wife would constintaly ask me what was wrong with me, i said i was feeling really sick.

brizzzy

My mom was one of the crazier ones, I think. Friends of mine STILL have horror stories about her, because often she didn't even care who was watching. If she was upset at me when friends or other JWs were over at the house, she'd pull off my pants and beat me with a spatula right in front of them. It didn't matter how old they were, whether they were male or female, or even how old I was. When you're 17 and your mommy's still "spanking" you in public, then you know you've hit rock bottom. It was humiliating. I left home twice, at 15 and 17, and she sent the police to bring me back both times. I moved out pretty much as soon as I turned 18.

But yup, it was my choice to be a Witness. I was 12. Old enough to know exactly what I was doing...I certainly wasn't getting baptized because I hoped it would magically make Jehovah fix me and my life or anything...

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How did you personally endure the torture during the DC?

by whatistruth in

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friends

my assembly was a couple of weeks ago and lets just say the only way i could possibly get through that b.s was by having some "funny stuff" before the sessions, then to my car at lunch.

pretty much slept the days away.

my wife would constintaly ask me what was wrong with me, i said i was feeling really sick.

brizzzy

When I was a kid, I took as many bathroom breaks as I could. Otherwise, there wasn't much else for me. I wasn't allowed to bring headphones or anything. I fell asleep a lot because it was so damn boring, but that got me in trouble. Lots of sharp elbows in the ribs.

Once, when I was a teenager, I asked if I could sit with another girl in the congregation instead of with my family. I had snuck a few schoolbooks in my bookbag and spent the time reading and doing homework. The girl and her bitch mother turned me in to my mom, though, and I got slapped across the face right then and there, and then beaten for it at home. You haven't lived until you're a 16-year-old getting hit in the face at a Circuit Assembly in front of a bunch of disinterested JWs who couldn't care less. I "deserved it", after all. School isn't important when there's such fine spiritual food droning at you from the platform.

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JW Home study

by wiser in

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can anyone tell me how long the jw homestudy lasts.

we are already going on a year and a half, and thank god i have not been converted yet.

i am sick of hearing their version of the bible.

brizzzy

Until you tell them to get lost, basically. They won't take the hint, otherwise.

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Followup on the JW woman who killed/cannibalized her baby...

by brizzzy in

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...they made a ruling of insanity today and are committing her to a mental institution (not surprising).. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/aleqm5j65neevh5ihfmyvu7qibzwqbv-kgd9gmhglo0.

the above article doesn't mention that she's a jw, but it was mentioned by numerous other numerous outlets when the baby was first killed.

so tragic :`(.

brizzzy

A bunch of articles said that she and her mom were both devout JWs, and that neighbors said they witnessed door-to-door...perhaps she was an unbaptized publisher?

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Followup on the JW woman who killed/cannibalized her baby...

by brizzzy in

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...they made a ruling of insanity today and are committing her to a mental institution (not surprising).. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/aleqm5j65neevh5ihfmyvu7qibzwqbv-kgd9gmhglo0.

the above article doesn't mention that she's a jw, but it was mentioned by numerous other numerous outlets when the baby was first killed.

so tragic :`(.

brizzzy

...They made a ruling of insanity today and are committing her to a mental institution (not surprising).

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j65NeeVH5ihfMyvu7qiBZWQBV-kgD9GMHGLO0

The above article doesn't mention that she's a JW, but it was mentioned by numerous other numerous outlets when the baby was first killed. So tragic :`(

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I have a mission for you all!...

by highdose in

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i need a clip art/ cartoon style picture of a dog peeing.

i'm having trouble finding one.

well one of my neighbours in my building, and i don't know who is allowing their dog to pee in the elevator!

brizzzy

Er...Google images?

http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=dog%20peeing&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi

As an aside, my vote is for something entertaining that can be posted on passiveaggressivenotes.com and inspire much hilarity :)

http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2007/05/13/have-a-nice-day/

http://gothamist.com/2006/12/21/why_why_why.php

http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2007/05/18/what-is-it-about-dog-shit-that-pushes-brooklynites-over-the-edge/

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I worry about blood!

by laverite in

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no, i'm not worried about having a blood transfusion.

i worry about me and my children not getting life saving treatment should there ever be an accident as all next of kin are jws.. as a da'd single/only parent, i worry if i am ever taken out of commission in an accident, and my children (or i) need medical care, that my jw family (they're all jws!!!

) might try to prevent that.

brizzzy

Thanks for the info. I want to get one of these directives for myself. My entire family are JWs, and would refuse blood if I were unconscious and unable to express my own wishes.

In fact, both my little sister and I were snatched from the hospital due to blood-related issues when we were infants. I was merely a bit jaundiced (and the condition resolved itself without the need for the blood transfusion that they recommended, luckily). But my sister required open-heart surgery when she was born, and at the time bloodless open-heart surgery simply wasn't available for infants. The first hospital that she was at was preparing to force a blood transfusion, and my mom and the elders basically kidnapped my sister from the hospital and flew her to Texas, where Denton Cooley performed the surgeries on her without blood. If what my mom says is correct, she was something like the second or third infant in the U.S. ever to have the procedure performed without blood. It was highly experimental, and she nearly died in the meantime.

Now, of course, my zealot JW sister is "sooooo grateful" to Dr. Cooley, and even wrote him a letter and visited him a couple of years ago to thank him in person. But there would have been so much less risk if the first hospital could have simply performed her two surgeries with blood, and no need for all of the histrionics and kidnapping bullshit.

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Recomend movies for ex JWs?

by highdose in

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i would be interested, these might be inspiring movies or maybe movies that we were never allowed to watch as jws?.

brizzzy

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. My JW sister watched it because I told her it was great, and then she whined for days about how I "made" her watch a movie with *TWELVE. F-WORDS. IN IT(!!!)* Yup, she counted. The rest of the movie and its beauty went completely over her head.

Also good are Pieces of April and Amélie and Moulin Rouge and Revengers Tragedy and The Legend of 1900.

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Fight with wife over watching Avatar escalates to near-separation--true story

by sd-7 in

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it's true because it happened to me last night.

i knew it was trouble when she started looking at my kindle.

once she got to the short stories i wrote 3 years ago, autobiographical, some of it involving her, i knew i wouldn't be going to bed before 1:00 (it was 11:40 p.m. by then).

brizzzy

Re: counselling...

There ARE clinics and practices that offer free therapy, or counselling on a sliding scale based on your income and what you can afford. My best friend has a degree in Human Services, and she told me about the national 211 call center. You just dial 2-1-1 and they'll refer you to all of the local services for whatever kind of therapy you're looking for, either free or based on a sliding scale. You just need to call and ask. I did that last year and the therapist they hooked me up with helped me tremendously.

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We bought land!

by Aussie Oz in

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we bought land!.

some of you might remember a delema i had a couple of months ago over buying a house... and gave lots of great advice.. well, we ended up buying a large block of land (modern developers would cram 8 houses on it) one hour outside the city in a really nice little town of only 250 people.

the block has an 1860 ruin on it that looks like an old school or church.

brizzzy

That's so awesome; congratulations! I'm a big fan of historic preservation...there's an 1861 house in NY that I'm dying to buy and restore. Fingers crossed that it happens this year. You should do a restoration blog - I looooove reading those and seeing the progress.