I've never seen anyone that I thought looked like me, but several times I've had people start talking to me llike they knew me. But when I give them one of those looks.. they realized I'm not the person they thought I was. I think other me is really nice and chatty. I'm not chatty.
lisa
"misery, do you have an extra kingdom ministry?
" "misery, you didnt give me my kindom ministry for april, i know its only february, but you wouldnt happen to have it, would you?
" "i could have sworn i gave you your km.
I remember when I wasn't allowed to have one. I was on reproof for something.
I really didn't care. I couldn't very well be expected to study ahead if I wasn't allowed the materials to study.
ha
lisa
i wanted to introduce myself, and need some advice.. i dissassociated myself back in 1995. haven't had much of anything to do with my family since then.
they are all witnesses, and very dedicated to their beliefs.
so after 15 years without a simple howdy from them, now they are coming around again and being very nice, but it reminds me of when people would have parts in the ministry school...it seems rehearsed and fake.
I suspect something is up. But what? hmmmm
Whatever it is, just be yourself. Treat them like you would any other person you barely know.
Man..it's been more than 15 years since I've had a real conversation with anyone in my bio-family. I know nothing about them. It would be like meeting strangers.
Oh well, hope they're cool...and you have a great time. Either way...be yourself. Be true to you.
lisa
my avatar is a pic of a cool car, obviously.
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<------me a few years ago. I cropped it ...... The rest of the picture I'm naked.
lisa
while in jw i knew so many women who had trouble falling pregnant or had trouble keeping babies to term including my own family.
out of us 6 girls only 2 could fall pregnant.. i've heard since leaving that the masons have a curse on them that effects fertility, since the founders of jw were masons has it passed on?.
the bible does talk about curses and that they were generational.. is this an urban myth?
Very superstitious, writing's on the wall.
That was the first thing that popped in my head.
Never heard of a curse.
lisa
it was two "sisters".
one wasn't able to make it to my door as she had some health issues.
the other one was a bit older and must have just been baptized.
You need one of these.
lisa
do you think any of the following experiences are true?
they are so far fetched they are almost humorous.
title: let's all make it to the finish line...[sr from patterson] bro.
This one is true....
Another young brother faces pressure from young ladies
everyday to commit immorality - but he remains clean.
...in his dreams.
lisa
first i must apologise for not posting an intro before and for the length of my intro, once you start it just keeps pouring out.
i grew up in what the jw org likes to call a divided home.
my mother had become a jw a few years before and was raising her 4 children of which i was the youngest in the truth.
Thank you for sharing your story and welcome.\
I did really try and it wasn't that I didn't believe I just couldn't meet the grade. I always felt there must be something wrong with me;.......
I remember asking my mom.."do retarded people KNOW they are retarded?" She said.."I think they probably know they are different."
Well.......I KNEW I was different.
I loved when I learned what cognitive dissonance was.
lisa
"treasure your place in the congregation.".
dozy did this exercise previously but i thought paragraph 5 was worth looking at agan.. let's change the perspective to the first person:.
"the spirit that now operates in the sons of disobedience" is so widespread that it is like the air we breathe.
If you were a non-JW and read this and asked the JW the question,
"where did the writers get their information?" "Who is the writer of this?" "how can you prove this is true?"
how would the JW answer and of those questions?
lisa
but, i don't see that as a bad thing.
he asked me over lunch if i think it's wrong and i told him no.
we discussed why the society says it's wrong and i told him why i don't agree with it and he agreed.
I'm not a big lottery fan. But for the last few years when my husband and I we go out to eat, we stop any buy a few (1-3) one dollar lottery tickets and leave the tickets with the 20% tip. I try to pick tickets that is 'seasonal' like a wintery one, in February I'll get a valentine themed one...., ect. Just tryin' to spice it up. And wouldn't it be cool if they won big.
lisa
