Posts by lisavegas420

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Anyone know the rules on JW's and Tattoo's????

by superman in

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i'm an inactive fader (only fading and not da'd for the sake of my family) but i still have all of my privileges and haven't done anything (that the hounders know about) that would get me df'd.

however, a fews years ago before i was baptized i got a few tattoos.

i want to get some new ones and get a some of my old ones touched up.

lisavegas420

my dad had two big tattoo, one on each arm. he had them way before he became a jw.

He forbid us from even having "Cracker Jack" tattoo's. I always hated it when I got tattoo's for the prize, 'cause he'd always take them and throw them away.

We also were not allowed to pierce our ears, for the same reason. Something about our bodies being a temple, or some such nonsence.

One of my first acts of rebellion,,,.as an adult, I got my ears pierced. ....like three times.

Never did get a tattoo, but I have been known to buy the washable sticker kind and wear them

lisa

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How many converts are staying 5 years +?

by Mickey mouse in

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just wondering because in our congregation i reckon for every 10 that have come in during the past ten years eight of those have gone out?

lots of these people have studied and converted without family so the don't have the sword of damocles of shunning hanging over them.

they also used their brains relatively recently so i think these are the main reasons they bounce back out.

lisavegas420

My dad joined when he was 28-29 back in the early 60's. He's now in his 70's.

Over the years, I think back to when my parents joined and the years that followed. I wonder why they joined, why they stayed? (can't ask them since they won't talk to me)

I was raised in the religion from the age of 2. Got df'd a few times, and finally never went back, by the time I was 24-25.

I think about what my parents were doing, at the age of 30, 35, 40....ect. How we were living as children, with the WT.

I think about how I lived my life, at those same ages.....without the Watchtower.

I think about the relationship I have with my children and grandchildren, and the relationship they don't have with their, children, grandchildren, and now greatgrandchildren.

lisa

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Your funny stories of being a JW

by Layla33 in

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i was just thinking that maybe to lighten it up a bit and we could talk about our funny stories about being in the jw religion.

i thought it would be fun to read.. some of my favorities:.

running a block and a half from dogs when i was about 8.. letting all my note cards when i was giving a talk fall to the floor.. tripping over the stairs as i participated in a demonstration.. laughing out loud in a talk and not being able to stop until i went to the bathroom.. having a fit of coughing that disrupted the entire meeting.

lisavegas420

I remember an elderly sister, named Gladis Morris. (rip) Once in the service she said she was really tired today, becasue Clarence, (also, rip) her even older husband, had kept her up all night trying to have sex with her and it wouldn't stay hard.

She was talking to my mom in the front seat, like us kids in the back couldn't hear.

lisa

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It is snowing like a bastard!!!....

by Alpaca in

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.....in ohio started yesterday and isn't supposed to stop until tomorrow morning.

when i see this kind of weather it makes me think of the absurd policy of the borg that the sisters must always dress in a skirt for field service.

can you imagine having snow blowing up your skirt at 40 mph????.

lisavegas420

my husband is out shoveling now. We have 11 inches and it's still snowing....but the sun is shining and it is so beautiful. We have a level 3 emergency. My daughter called, she going to risk it so she can bring the grandkiddy's over. She says she has to have a break.

I took some pictures, I'll try to upload them tonight. I tried to video my husband shoveling snow, he said I wasn't being much help, so I came back inside.

'sides, my hands were getting cold.

lisa

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My life - a brief history. Part 2

by Galileo in

this is part 2 of my journey out.

part 1can be found here.. .

choosing madness.

lisavegas420

I'm beginning to feel you couldn't stay in because you have a gift that needs to be shared.

I'm glad you came. I'm glad you're sharing with us. Thank you.

lisa

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I like gay people.

by Pioneer Spit...oh, i mean Spirit in

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in fact, if what you are has 'people' after it, no matter what it is, i like you.

you don't have to club baby seals to be my friend.. myeah..

lisavegas420

this is a true story:

This would have been in the 70's. I don't remember which magazine it was, but one of them the cover said something like: Do We Live In A Gay Society

Soooo...at some point while riding in the car, my mom said which magazine are your presenting in your presentation? I showed her which one and she said.."Oh, your presenting the one about homosexuals?"

Could have knocked me over with a feather. I did NOT know that was what that meant. And NO I had no't read the magazine's myself.

Now...it kinda one of those things I think about. Like, why in the world did they let us little girls, go up to people's house alone? And why didn't my parents go over this adult stuff with us before they sent us out?

lisa

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Roll Call - Muster Time ...

by snowbird in

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who's on the board right now?.

snowbird checking in.. sylvia.

lisavegas420

eww...just saw this thread. I left work at 3:00 because we're having the worse snow storm of the season. up to 13inches. it's supposed to continue to snow until 4pm tomorrow. I took some pictures this morning before I left for work. Again about 3:30 and I'll take a couple more before dark and again in the morning. I'll post them if they're cool.

So...I'm hear.

lisa

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