yaaaahhhhh!!
it's my mommy's birthday!!!.
we have a delicious meal planned at the angelo's steak house.
LOL, this is fun!
thanks everyone for the birthday wishes.
Marilyn, nope, no card in the box yet.
*waving @ Si & Angharad*
THANK YOU xjw_b12, what a beautiful cake.
I'm home and everyone else is gone!!! Hope they get home in time for dinner, because I'm getting hungery. They may just have to meet me at the resturant.
Joy
yaaaahhhhh!!
it's my mommy's birthday!!!.
we have a delicious meal planned at the angelo's steak house.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
You know after being raised a JW (I won't say how long ) it is still hard to get used to some attention.
But thank you everyone!
Joy
yaaaahhhhh!!
it's my mommy's birthday!!!.
we have a delicious meal planned at the angelo's steak house.
eeegads! I leave the board to go deliver a baby and when I come back!!!!
Thank you one and all.
Yep, we are headed to Angelo's and the Filet or T-bone will be mine!. Decisions, decisions.
Joy
i'll have one bourbon, one scotch and one beer !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
all on the same day, i joined here a year ago, and even though i left the borg 15 years ago, i want to thank everyone for all the info presented here, has been very helpful to me.. it's my birthday .
and its my 1000th post, nowhere near minimus status, but i've had a lot of fun here and alot of you have been a huge help.. so i propose a toast, shooters for all (what is your favorite shooter ???
Happy Birthday!!
from a fellow May 12th birthday gal.
Enjoy your evening.
Joy
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field trip!!!!
i wonder how many parents signed the consent form.
Hey! isn't that a short bus?
i wrote to him to express my utmost respect for him and his wife and all they did by writing his books.
i wasn't going to say anything about it to anyone because i thought maybe that would be disrespectful to him.
to day in rereading it for the 20th time i just felt so melonchly about it.
i've just finished reading the ``four presidents" book and am ambivalent about it.
much of it strikes me as illuminating if overly anecdotal; its impact is for me vitiated by (1) the paucity of documentation and (2) the anonymity of its author and contributors, however sympathetic i am to their reasons.
perhaps the most valuable part of the book are the notes and their copious references in early jw literature to bizarre, now-discredited beliefs.. while much of it rings true and is consonant with my first-hand experiences, i find the allegations of incidents in which young bethel boys engaged in late-night homosexual limousine liaisons with wealthy new yorkers hard to believe (these were alleged to have occurred at a time when i was there at bethel, and would almost certainly have seen or heard of any such via the ``grapevine" to which i was as well connected as anyone).. readers out there, what are your impressions?
Hey Room 215,
I find the allegations of incidents in which young Bethel boys engaged in late-night homosexual limousine liaisons with wealthy New Yorkers hard to believe (these were alleged to have occurred at a time when I was there at Bethel, and would almost certainly have seen or heard of any such via the ``grapevine" to which I was as well connected as anyone).
I agree. In fact when hubby was reading that section he said he NEVER saw that and he was there at the same time, too. Oh well, who knows what when on and where.
Oh well. Wish the author didn't feel the need for anonymity, we are still trying to figure out who it is.
Joy
one thing that always struck me was the rather dour nature of the organization.
i know people laugh, and at seem to have a good time, at least occasionally.
however, one thing i just haven't seen is a real outpouring of joy, like david dancing like a crazy man or some of the other occassions in the scriptures when it seems like people were almost overcome with joy.. anyone here ever feel real joy as a witness?
ROTFLMAO!!!!
*backing out of room.................NOT wanting to make a comment....................*
Joy
any idea what day you are arriving in merry england for the bbq?
if you have some idea of where and when i'll try to organise you being picked up, unless, of course, you have plans of your own.
we're looking forward to having you stay with us for a few days.
I'll warn the locals not be too alarmed
bwhahahahahahaha!
you have no idea how this is really true!!!
You'll have a blast, Travis. I only wish I was there to see your silly grin and the fun you'll be having. Maybe, just maybe.
Joy
been lurking off and on for about a year.
i was never df'd or da'd, just walked away.. .
i began to study when i was a new mom.all my friends worked, i got lonely for adult conversation,and when i was offered a "free" bible study i jumped at the chance.
*wiping tears away from my eyes*
Welcome, Jadedlady. Glad you found this place and hope you can heal nicely.
The lack of love is what really stands out, imho, about the JWs.
Just make sure you give yourself time to heal/deprogram from a mind control group.
Joy
