I love pinot grapes, red and white. Like merlot at times. Really, I like most wines, and can drink anything that cost more than $6, that is my threshold lol!
mamalove
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The Wine Thread.
by Open mind inif you enjoy a glass of vino now and then, tell us what you like and how your tastes got to where they are now.
wine snobs & non-snobs alike welcome!.
my intro to the world of wine was my jw parents buying a huge screw-top bottle of paul masson or gallo red or white, having half a glass, and sticking it out on the back porch thinking that wine stayed good like that.
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looky looky - A 'real' J-dub forum! (are they becoming normal???)
by Reality79 inso did the 'da society' give these dub internet savvies permission to start a forum?
because last i checked, the ole boys in their oversized brooklyn bunker didn't want their members on the internet unless it was to view their own official websites.
i thought maybe it was an apostate forum until i read their long winded, typically condescending jdub style membership guidelines:.
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mamalove
I see one of my IRL JW facebook friends "likes" the page. She is recently reinstated and is nauseatingly drunk with the kool-aid.
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Question for all you Current/Former Elders out there
by dontplaceliterature inthe "situation"a brother and sister from my parents congregation committed adultry with one another.
he was single, she was married to another brother in the same hall.
her husband divorced her.
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mamalove
Well in my old cong, there was some hanky panky going on with couples. Full blown sexcapades for years, the people were "in love." NO ONE GOT DF'd..... Why? I think because people tried to keep it hush hush, they were all prominent families, popular, one couple had money, and the "innocent" spouses forgave and took their offending mates back. Every congo is different I think.
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The Loving Disfellowshipping Arrangement
by headisspinning inmy youngest sister is the only person in my jw family who has had any real contact with my husband and i and our baby.
for the first year she cut us off too but then after a while she seemed to realize how horrible it was and she opened up to us.. well, she is very easily influenced by the family and so she cut us off again.
she tried to feed me the line about it being for our own good blah, blah, blah.. here is an excerpt from how i replied:.
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mamalove
Broken Promises, Perhaps the OP and her now husband did not handle their desire to split from their unhappy marriages the best, in light of the fact they hooked up before they were divorced from their spouses. However, we should not judge them as we do not know what kind of life they were enduring being married to their spouses. People have a right to be happy.
How things are gone about is a different story. BUT, she cannot change the past. She and her husband can only go forward. Those hurt or rejected by the split and divorce often use their hurt and anger as a tool for POWER. That is not right either. Kids should not be used as weapons, which is happening here. The set of JW parents are hurting their children by encouraging the alienation of the other set is flat out abuse. Those kids will have an effect later in life, no doubt about it.
I think you are right though. As time goes on, the hurt on all levels will lessen and hopefully things can be patched up.
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There is no happy endings for Jehovahs witnesses
by Star tiger init's sad too say that all of us good people that believed in a happy ending through justice that god would protect us, is a false promise, it us mere humans that make our lives and however we chose to lives this is our lot, no mystic new order or paradise earth, we make our own destiny!!!.
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the star tiger.
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mamalove
Yup, you said it! There is no golden ticket.
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the other side of my story and why im going back
by deservingone26 inthere are two parts to this topic you can read one or the other or both if you want, i just figured i post this for differents ones who might being going thru what i am going thru i tried to write this as quick as possible so everything i am posting here is not to offend anyone i know everyone has the own opinions on different things so you can disagree or agree, but this is where i stand.
sorry for any spelling errors or grammar issues up front.
my story .
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mamalove
I don't understand why you feel the need to have the label of a JW back on you? You yourself said that friends come and go. Not sure how you feel about family. If you want to follow a spiritual path, you seem to already know what you feel is right, and what you feel is wrong. From what you indicate, you don't believe in all JW teachings and don't plan on following those. So why not just stop drugs, go back to school, and live the kind of life that you feel is right but on a more conservative path, as that is what you seem to be striving for?
I cannot picture you sitting at the meetings and not rolling your eyes at some of the teachings. I think once you get back in college you will start to become even more enlightened. JW's are not the only way. Just my opinion, but I think you will find happiness and structure in a different way. My guess is you feel guilty for being a party animal (guilt embedded by deep JW inculcation), and you want relief of that guilt. Maybe I am wrong.
But going back to the org is only going to reinforce the guilt, your past, and I think you will find a black mark on your for the rest of your career as a JW because you can never have those things wiped away. Now is the time to move forward with your life, make changes that you need to make, but take one step at a time. Armageddon isnt coming....so you have the rest of your life.
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Best way to step down from being a servant
by RayPublisher inhey i'm wondering if anyone can give some good advice on how to step down in the safest way.. i have served as an ms for a number of years, but can't do it anymore.
i know too much i want to fade in the future when i get some family things straightened out.
i can't move right now so that's out unfortunately.. what should i tell the body?
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mamalove
Dont give much info. Volunteer little. Just say something to the effect of "I want to be deleted as a MS. It is not the right thing for me to be doing, and I do not want this title or responsiblity anymore." If they press and say why, we need a reason, say no you don't. Please do not pry into my life. If you had to give something, I would say you need to devote as much time to your family as possible. Just be firm and insistent.
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Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 03-20-11 WT Study (SINGLENESS)
by blondie insingle christians make the most of their singleness?.
of christians, therefore, have come to.
singleness in youth.
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mamalove
Good comments. I don't think anyone really listens to these articles anyway. If you meet someone that gets your blood going, in JWland, you are gonna get married. I think these articles just comfort people who have not found a mate and kind of lets them feel like they are doing a good thing by staying single.
My instinct tells me that if you find love, then go for it if it can be done in a healthy way. If not, better to be single than be in a disfunctional relationship that is filled with more sadness than happiness.
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Are you open minded?
by TimothyT ini figured it would be fun if i wrote this, went for a shower, and then came back to check how many have responded!.
just to set the scene, im currently a jw in the uk but i am having issues with my sexuality.
i have just come back from the ministry with a group of brothers!
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mamalove
Yes I am open minded. I listen and read about all kinds of beliefs. But my open mindedness has helped me conclude that Jehovah's Witnesses are not the Truth.
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I committed un-suicide yesterday
by AlmightyDog inyesterday i opened my wallet and took a long look at the (no) blood card prominently displayed inside.
i have been convinced that this is not the truth for a couple of years now, and am trying to figure out whether to fade or da.
it hit me hard yesterday that with this piece of paper in my wallet, i could possibly end up dying for beliefs i no longer hold.
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mamalove
Did that a long time ago! Good reminder for people who do not clean out their wallet very much though!