Perhaps your Aunt and Grandparents should "write you off as bad association and have no use for you", since you continue to come to this board and associate with known apostates. Which is the bigger sin? You are such a hypocrite!
Desert Rat
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My letter to my aunt.
by alice.in.wonderland inmy grandparents are jehovah's witnesses and didn't raise their daughter to behave in such a manner.
i sent her this letter:.
g82 5/8 pp.
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Peevish Stuff
by snowbird infaithful & discrete - discreet.
tow the line - toe.
could care less - couldn't.
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Desert Rat
I have got to add mine!! "My bad"... Oh, how I hate that!!
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married peeps>> could you answer these questions accurately?
by chickpea ini know i couldnt get them all right..... however, garbage is every monday.... recycling, twice a month.
where did you and your spouse first meet?
was your spouse with any other people there?
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Desert Rat
I knew them all. Except for the color of my own toothbrush!
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I Fly my Flag...
by zeroday* infor 28 years i was told to hate my country and i did, they were controlled by satan and against god...well i have given up satan and god and religion and i fly my flag of the united states of america proudly every day... up at dawn and down at dusk...and this weekend on the 4th of july i shall fly it with pride....
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Desert Rat
There are brackets with two positions, the lower being for half staff. I fly my flag at home on all special occasions. At work every morning, I have the joy of proudly raising the flag. Tomorrow the American flag will be on top, with the POW MIA flag just below it.
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Do You ENJOY The Holidays & Birthdays Now That You Can Celebrate Them?
by minimus inwhether it be father's day, mother's day, christmas or even a birthday, do you actually enjoy the celebrations, the spending of $$, and all that these festivities entail?.
or would you rather be a jw (just) for those times and not deal with it all?.
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Desert Rat
It was a couple of years before we celebrated anything. Our then 14 year old daughter talked us into getting a tree for Christmas. We put it in the den, I guess so we could close the door if we felt we needed to. We all exchanged gifts, kept it very simple. Fast forward to this last Christmas--- (now that we have almost a dozen Grandkids)-- There is a huge tree in front of the big window, every room in the house has a small tree in it, that each Grandkid gets to decorate as their own, and so many decorations in every room, transforming the entire house into a Christmas Wonderland. I'm almost certain that any jet airplane could use my outside lights to land with! As you can tell, Christmas has become my favorite. But I love them all!
I have wondered if I go all out for Christmas now, just to make up for what my kids didn't get while they were growing up?? What was the JW's always said, 'your conscience can either accuse you, or excuse you.'
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awildflower, where are you?
by Scott77 inoho, i miss her as well.
hope everything are ok with you..
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Desert Rat
She is on a well deserved long vacation.
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Here is the Letter I am thinking of sending ,give me your input
by troubled mind inattention to the elder body of the *******congregation of jehovahs witnesses .
criminal harassment is defined as "engag(ing) in intentional conduct which the actor [harasser] knows or has reason to know would cause the victim, under the circumstances, to feel frightened, threatened, oppressed, persecuted, or intimidated; and causes this reaction on the part of the victim.
609.749, subd.
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Desert Rat
Very nice letter. If you do decide to send it, do as Blondie suggested though, take it to your Post Office and send it Certified Mail with Return Receipt. It will cost you $5.54. Make sure you keep your Postmarked receipt showing who the item was mailed too, and when the 'signed' receipt comes back to you, you will have your 'legal proof' that you did indeed notify them of your wishes. It will stand up in a court of law if needed, rural Nevada uses this means of a mailing to 'legally serve' some. Best of luck to you!
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Update on Ray, I think this needs a new thread
by coffee_black inupdating,.
it is confirmed that cynthia will be signing the papers this morning to remove ray from life support.
if anyone has posted their address on the internet, it is requested that you remove it for the safety of cynthia and those who are with her.
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Desert Rat
So sorry to hear. I have been in the same position as Cynthia, and know what a difficult decision it is that she has made. My heart and thoughts are with her today.
~Sue
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An Introduction
by Desert Rat insince i have been a lurker off and on for years, i thought it was high time i got off my duff and joined.
i didn't look at member names when i sat up my account, so i didn't realize there was a desertrat already, i am just a slight difference with a space in there.
thought i would point that out right away so there would hopefully be no confusion.. my name is sue and i live in nevada.
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Thank-you all for the welcome!
My husband is a very smart man- but don't tell him that! He studied for about a year maybe, then realized it was all bunk, and stopped everything. I was heavy back on the inside by then, thinking he was coming in too. He never stood in my way, or prevented me from doing anything, but he let me figure it out for myself. Maybe that is why we are still together today.
I consider myself to be an apostate now. JW's can't go door to door where I live, so every couple of years they do a mailing to every one in town. That gives me a personal address, and I always write that one back presenting info to them, a lot of it from this site! Word must be out about me though, because my box number got left off the list with their last mailing. Oh well...
I have lived across the street from a darling looking little church for years. I hear the bells ring every Sunday morning at 10:30, and am sometimes drawn to sitting outside and listening to see if I can hear singing. Of course, being a very small town, I know the preacher and his wife, and every person that attends there. That may be what keeps me from going? I couldn't blend into the walls there! Maybe some day I will find what I am looking for.
Again, thank-you all for the welcome!
~Sue
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An Introduction
by Desert Rat insince i have been a lurker off and on for years, i thought it was high time i got off my duff and joined.
i didn't look at member names when i sat up my account, so i didn't realize there was a desertrat already, i am just a slight difference with a space in there.
thought i would point that out right away so there would hopefully be no confusion.. my name is sue and i live in nevada.
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Since I have been a lurker off and on for years, I thought it was high time I got off my duff and joined. I didn't look at member names when I sat up my account, so I didn't realize there was a DesertRat already, I am just a slight difference with a space in there. Thought I would point that out right away so there would hopefully be no confusion.
My name is Sue and I live in Nevada. I used to be on Randy's forum years ago, some here may know or remember me. I wasn't born in the truth, but my folks studied off and on while I was at home. I was a teenager during the time of the big push to get baptized, since 1975 was very near, and I was of an age where I "couldn't ride into the new system on anyone's coattails".
Like many others, I watched '75 come and go without any fanfare. Discouraged, and thinking it might not be the truth, I fell away for a couple of short years. Got married, had a baby... Then it was actually someone at his work 'witnessing' to my husband that got him interested, and he towed me along when he started studying and going to meetings. That got me back into it, and I ended up wasting several years of my life being the good little zealous pioneer sister. My husband never did get baptized! What a smart man he is!
There were a lot of reason's to my finally leaving in about '93 I think it was. Probably the hypocrisy within my own congregation was the foremost factor. Then my husband made it easy for me to fade out, by taking a transfer to the other side of the state (Oregon). Then we made another move shortly after, down to Nevada. It was also easy because by that time, I had no close family that were still in. A very quick fade you might say, one day I was there, and the next I wasn't! Wish it were that easy for every one!
I haven't gone back to any kind of organized religion. I am scared to death to step into a church, even though I have really had a desire to lately. Maybe I'm afraid I'd be held captive if I did, I don't know, not sure what my hangup is with that. I think my need for religion right now, may be, because our family has had a string of five deaths recently, and maybe I'm wondering if this life is all there really is...??? I know I will never return to the jw's!
~Sue