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when you all were dubs, were you restricted from listening to music some or all?
The first album I ever bought with my own mind was "James Taylor - Sweet Baby James" and I got in soooo much trouble with my 'dub parents 'cos it was "worldly druggy music."
James is so laid back it's hard to imagine how anyone could have objected to it.
A while back I bought a double-CD set of James Taylor live in concert somewhere and I still really like it.
Mackin.
trot just received this e-mail: .
greetings, i am paul baba, bank manager of orient bank of nigeria, lagos branch.
i have urgent and very .
Me too. I've had about 4-5 of these in the last 2 weeks.
Mackin.
ar great personal risk i post the information following.
if i suddenly disappear, you will know what has happened.
the ss/gestapo of the person masquerading on this board as "beck melbourne" will have seized me and dragged me off to one of their interogation cells.
Congratulations O great and wondrous Jedi.
*bows low in the magnificent dazzling glow of Beck*
Please be gentle with us mere mortals who look on in awe of your majesty.
Hi there and welcome.
Mackin
so how many here were pioneers?
ha ha ha.
i used up my teenage years pioneering, good thing i didn't go to college or university i could be well educated and in a good job.poo.
Pioneered for 8 yrs then did 5 yrs in Bethel.
What a waste of my life. Oh well...Seemed like a good idea at the time.
Mackin.
Hey Stephanus, so you did take that pic after all. But you didn't show his face.
Pic's a bit fuzzy bro.
Nice to meet you the other day.
Mackin.
i've been lurking around this place for a good long while now, and i've even posted now and again under another handle, but i thought i'd start afresh and 'do it right' this time by making with the formal introductions.
i was going to post this in the friends forum, but i'm a little bit shy for that (it took me many months to make it as far as junior member - that's how shy i am, lol).. anyway, my story... i was born into the wt - my mother's been a baptised jw for over 30 years now, and my dad's been what i like to call a 'camp follower' for the same length of time - although the wt nearly did for me right at the start - there were complications prior to the birth which put mine and my mother's life in danger involving the blood issue (how an org which preaches against abortion and even the 'morning after pill' can effectively sanction the death of an unborn child and its mother for want of a transfusion is an outstanding piece of doublethink that never ceases to astonish me...).
my three older sibs (all wee ones when my mother was 'assimilated') went their way and did the 'sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll' thing for varying lengths of time (they're all now 'reassimilated'), while i remained the 'good boy' *slaps self round the head* .
Hi there Cardinal Fang,
I too was born into the Borg & assimilated at an early age. Escaped about 4 yrs ago. Most of the implants have now been removed.
Welcome.
Mackin
have you ever had to deal with the thought that you really weren't that good of an example?
perhaps, the congregation was encouraged to pioneer or reach out for bethel service or go to seldom worked territory, etc.
and when you applied, you were told that you didn't qualify.
Was I a good example?
It depends who you ask.
I suppose I was considered a "good example" by the publishers but the other elders I'm sure thought I was a bit of a trouble maker because I questioned lots of things. Same in Bethel, I often didn't just accept their "company line" all the time.
I guess that's why I eventually saw the truth of the "truth."
Mackin.
do you laugh more often or cry more often?.
joannadandy's question kind of brought out the idea that both crying and laughing seem to bring out a release of emotions.
a really funny joke can make us laugh so hard that we end up crying.
I cry in sad movies.
i really love this web site and yes i'm a jw still, have been for 8 years now, i'm 35 and am married to a jw and have two boys one is 1-1/2 and the other 5. for about 2 to 3 years now i'm starting to see that its not really the truth.
the brothers, sisters and elders dont really care about anyone, the watchtower is ruining my life, i have been depressed for awhile now and i'm on anti depressants as i started feeling suicidal as i'll never be good enough as i hate meetings, i hate going door to door, and it doesn't make any sense that jehovah will destroy good people just because they don't follow its doctrins.
its like saving to your son if you don't do what i tell you i will kill you.
Welcome Lapuce,
You're among friends here.
Mackin.
