Posts by 3dogs1husband

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Thanks to you - I think I bought myself some time....

by dssynergy in

so i've been working out of town the last month and i'm back home for a couple of weeks to attend a conference and some business meetings.

my mom while i was away has been concerned about my meeting attendance (haven't gon in almost a year, except memorial) - even when i was home she was concerned.

so today, when we met up for dinner - inevitibly, my meeting attendance came up as a topic of concern.

3dogs1husband

you didnt tell her that you started your own church in your living room reading the bible?....hahaha! Good Job Fader!

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Halloween

by STILLINWANTOUT in

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i've only been out since august.. but man i have been having a blast1.

no more meetings ang guilt about missing meetings so i took a great job!.

bf no longer thinks im bipolar!.

Why Do You Come Here?

by minimus in

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i like this place.

i like the mix of posters.

i think it's a helpful site and most informative..

Please help me on my JW father who WILL NOT leave me ALONE

by skeeter1 in

my father will not leave me alone.

i need your suggestions on what to do.. my father is elderly and his health isn't good.

still, he pioneers.

oohhh a perfect hobby for him. My husband has an uncle who buys old hand held computers, and puts the WT library on them for the pioneers and well evry one in the cong. It is great he spends hours on ebay trying to win them cheap and then hours fixing them up so that the lovely pioneers have the cd rom at their finger tips while out in the ministry.

(the one he made me is a dell axim...very cool wt toy i used it at all the meetings to play solitare, pretending I was following along in the bible...the elders never asked me to stop. when they got after my mother inlaw for using it instead of the actual books durring the meeting....she told them she has bad arthritus, and it is hard to carry around all the books, and that these hand helds are a blessing to the baby boomers plus baby boomers they love techi stuff and will use it. and she asked the how they will put their library in there emergency kit?hahhaaha)

lol just tell him you joined acult and now you need to shun him!!!! I feel for you!.

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Please help me on my JW father who WILL NOT leave me ALONE

by skeeter1 in

my father will not leave me alone.

i need your suggestions on what to do.. my father is elderly and his health isn't good.

still, he pioneers.

3dogs1husband

Hi Skeeter!

I agree with the other posts, and love the idea of you cracking your father.....but it sounds like you have done your best already. On a very simple note could you help your father find a hobby? And even a hobby that has an online chat forum? Sounds like he loves to write and chit chat and if he had a group to talk to about his new obssesion it sound like it could make everyones life better including him. There are a couple of sisters here who are Farmvile (on fb) addicts. They are on like all they time....I even overhead them talking about what they wanted eachother to help with on their farms during a service coffee break. Playing games online with others is fun and you can chat and be involed, something you could do together with out the WT.

Model airplanes....trains.....wood carving? Oh my father loves puzzles....

Good Luck

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Ok, I want to get opinions on this!

by sabastious in

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3 years ago i was in a very deep depression.. i had recently gotten diagnosed with bipolar disorder 2 as well as a bad case of ptsd.. i was on the verge of suicide, i thought about it every day, every hour it seemed.. then something extraordinary happened.. it was the middle of the night, 2am.

i had been having bouts of insomnia for months now and was up very late.. just for the hell of it, i googled my full name: alex strait.. i found a recent news article that came up.. turns out just a few weeks earlier a 23 year old man named alex strait had been found in a park after he committed suicide.. that was pretty freaky.. the next day i get an email from someone.. turns out his fiance found my website (i am a web developer by trade) that gave a description of my ailment and journey (through random googleing).

she emailed me through my website and asked if it was her alex strait that had killed himself.

3dogs1husband

When your head thinks clears , let your heart be moved.

I think when enough time, and actual work has past (therapy, reading ect I will find life is not fun in just black or white. To go from I have all the answers in life (JW) to There are NO answers is a harsh reality to live in. I think Normal Healthy Critical Thinking People, are moved touched and effected by things like this, even smaller signs or ommens. But I can see how some can never believe in anything, but then maybe something like this happens?

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Outlaw Is a Sweetheart :-)

by snowbird in

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a true gift to this here board.

sho nuff iz.

syl.

3dogs1husband

Outlaw is just like his poster says "wanted"

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JW's are not nice people

by Nickolas in

i cut and pasted the subject line from a comment made by one of this board's longtime members.

it got me wondering if this is the prevalent thinking in here.

for a very long time i believed that jw's and all fundamentalist christian folk are a cut above the norm.

3dogs1husband

Hi Nickolas

The JW's are TRYING to be nice to be nice to you....to win you over with their good conduct. True enough I bet they have even had lil chit chats about it behind your back, talking about how when they are around you they will do this or that to show you how wonderful, and loving they are. Give that Good Vibe!

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My Husband Cuts through the BS!

by 3dogs1husband in

a long time ago my husband came up with this.. the wtbts holds out our hope like a carrot on the end of a stick, and we should be motivated to all ways want and try to get it.

if you change you mind in anyway and no longer want the carrot, or just wanna stand and eat the grass, you then will be beaten by the stick.. .

.

3dogs1husband

My husband always hated the school...he will be happy with his G

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I feel ashamed of some of you

by Lady Lee in

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i did not sleep well last night.

i tossed and turned until 4 am .

got up and decided to see what was going on.. i am so disappointed in some of you.. simon posted a thread requesting people not post links to the new shepherding book.

3dogs1husband

when my mom talks to me, when I can get thru all the Wt preprograming and from her heart she can reason think and love......iti s amazing! However most days, most times, the info coming outta her mouth is hurtful, and frankly just crazy cult mentality. And even when the person I love most in the world does not talk for themselves, and instead speaks direct from WT Script...it is hard to remain emotionaly ok. ie my mom said yesterday (or day before) that disfellowshipping is such a loving act, because to remain one of God's People she didnt have to stone her daughter to death, she was still alive and a way back was open for my sister. In these moments my mom represents JW thinking so much, it takes all my love to still think of her as an individual and not just another mindless tentecale of the borg trying to slap (control, humiliate) me. Anyone who has had to deal with a customer service rep (or lost luggage for an airline) can get my point. they are people, they are sorry, but they will do nothing for you because they are working with a set of written pre determinded ideas/rules. When my mother goes into her preprogramed allowed responses....you dont see her love her beauty her individuality. You see her as the WT.

I feel if you want me or any one to see your point wether it is Pro WT or it anti, you need to show critical reasoning with individual thoughts.....and most likey drop any attitude. When you are nasty and spew the preprogramed response how can I see you, I can only see your programer. My personal experience with the Org is that when all else fails, scare scare scare. Lord over me your special understanding of deep things I will never understand and tell me again how I will die, and yes I see you no longer as an idividual but as the WT = I need to work on that.

Sorry Lady Lee if I jummped on the bashing ban wagon, and added to your stress!