You make some great points.
I am too scared to point out stuff to my mom because I am afraid she'd stop talking to me. I am not df'd or da'd as I was never baptized...but I've been lucky that we have a good relationship. I love my mom...I just hate her religion.
I'd love to show her the UN connection if I could do it without her wondering how I found out about it.
I'd love to be able to say something that really made her think about the dubs logically and start to see the fallacies.
My husband who doesn't know much about the JW's at all was really surprised that they don't accept blood transfusions. Then, I told him about how they can take blood fractions...like the Rhogam shot I just got...but how at one time they couldn't take that either. My mom had told me that it was banned when I was born. Now, I think by that time the policy had been reversed (1976, anyone know?), but she was not a practicing dub at that time...but she had "no blood" ingrained in her. She is Rh-, and so am I, and I was her first (and only child.) She didn't quite understand how the Rh factor worked, but she told me a few times if I had been Rh+ and needed a blood transfusion, she wouldn't have done it. (It doesn't affect first pregnancies)
:( It makes me so sad that they have beliefs that they don't even understand..but she would have been prepared to let me die because of it! I also think that is a big reason that I don't have any siblings! Everytime I get that shot, she tells me "That's made from blood, you know? Did they tell you that?" I told her the other day when she said that, well since my last 3 kids have had + blood, without that shot each time, one or more of them could have been born really sick! She doesn't get it..ARGH!
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The Truth Hurts The Most
by minimus inwhat's the best way to get to people to expose the watchtower's lies??
tell the truth.
point out how jws are a cult.
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Your Most Embarrassing Injury!
by whyamihere ini want to know for a good laugh!.
onetime(in band camp) i was rushing to get to work and i was really late.
i got there and i forgot my hand bag in the car.
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Oooh..these are so funny!
I was about 9, and I decided to try to jump over the bathtub side to get out. Not sure where I got that stupid idea. I tripped, hit my chin on the toilet and bit my tongue. It bled for hours and wouldn't stop.
I burned my stomach on the oven door when I was pregnant with my second son. I reached back to move something off the back burner and it took me a little bit to realize my stomach was in searing pain. I went to the ER, where they all laughed at me and kept bringing in more people to look at what I had done (this was in Germany). The baby was fine, but the mark was there until I delivered and I had to keep explaining what had happened.
Oh, and this isn't embarrassing, but those with kids will see the cuteness of it. When I was pregnant with my youngest son, my one son was 4 years old. One day, he wanted to rub my stomach. When I lifted my shirt, his eyes got huge. He noticed all the stretch marks that had appeared almost overnight. He said "Oh my God, Mommy, we have to get you to the hospital right NOW! The baby is trying to SCRATCH his way out!" He ran to get the phone to call my husband. It was so funny! -
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Any special plans for the 3 day weekend??? usa folks
by xjwms inwe are going to a baseball game.
i would rather watch paint dry.
however, a good excuse to do beer and pizza, hot dogs & beer, popcorn & beer, burgers & beer, beer and beer.
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Nope :( My husband works all weekend except Sunday...but he has plans to empty out our storage unit before we get charged for another month. I have to clean out our laundry/storage room to have a place to put all the stuff, so that's what I'll be doing starting today. Exciting, huh? lol
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Worst Album in Your Collection
by Nosferatu inso, what is the worst album you have in your collection?
here's the ones i have (from memory):.
pat boone - in a metal mood.
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The Spice Girls...lol I guess I should admit I bought both the first and second CD's from them.
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Twin Towers\ Armageddon
by Es inhey all this may have been mentioned before.
i was thinking last night about when the twin towers fell and i remembered thinking how close armageddon must be did anybody else think similar....i guess it would only apply to those who were still in the borg at the time es
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The thought of the Armageddon starting never crossed my mind until I talked to my dub mom in the afternoon. She was declaring it was the start of the end of the world, and she wasn't listening to anything I had to say.
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Sassy, you said: When I'd finally see someone in person, I'd babble like crazy, just happy to talk to an adult.. (not sure if you do that when hubby comes home or not).
(sorry, my quote doesn't work)
I know exactly what you mean there! I talk to only my kids most days, and it gets old sometimes. And, I get so tired of being called "(so-and-so's) mom". I have a name...I tell all the kids' friends to call me by my first name, but they usually don't. Then, around my husband's work, they call me "John's wife." Makes me feel like I don't have an identity of my own sometimes.
I have found myself talking about dumb things to cashiers and people I either don't really know or even like! It's better now that I have some other mom friends, but somedays I still find myself babbling to strangers. My husband doesn't talk as much as he used to...he says it's because he talks to people all day at work. I'd like to think I'm more interesting than they are, though. lol
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Sharp dressed men, or thanks WTS.....
by bikerchic in.....yeah thanks to all the men in my (past wts) life!.
i've recently started working for a big department store and was hired to work in the men's department.
i've found that my years of being a jw has finally paid off because if there is one thing i learned being a jw is how sharp dressed men dress and yes some of those elders could really put on the nines!.
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I'm glad you're doing well at your job!
I seem to have a niche for matching shirts and pants and ties....I never thought about it until my husband had to dress up for work and would pick out some nasty color combinations for himself, so I took over and hung everything already matched together on one hanger. I have a hard time matching stuff for myself, though, which is why I always wear jeans or tan or black pants.
I didn't understand the fad of wearing a solid tie the same exact color as the dress shirt...I think that was the Regis Philbin thing a few years back. Has that gone out of style now? I bought my husband some new dress shirts a few weeks ago, but he has a large tie collection thanks to me, so I didn't even look at them.
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Vent about induction
by JW83 inhi there, just wanted to let off some steam.
my brother's girlfriend is getting induced right now, for absolutely no reason.
she was due on monday & went in on monday night to get gel.
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I hope things go well for her! I never understood induction either when it's not for a medical reason or someone is really overdue.
I was induced with my first son, and he ended up being a C-section...my only one born that way. They wanted him out because they figured he weighed over 9 lbs...turns out he was 10lbs 4oz, and I couldn't push his big head out, hence the section. But, I've always wondered if they had let me go into labor on my own (I was actually in early labor when I went in for the scheduled induction) if my body would have known what to do by itself. My second son was over 9lbs, but he had the same size head. I went into labor on my own 3 days late, and no section that time..he came right out. My third son, I was in labor without contractions (sounds good, huh? lol) I was dilated to 6cm and in no pain at all until they decided to give me that darn pitocin just so they could see something on their monitors. Sadistic bastards they are.
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Are you having a Good day or a Bad day?
by whyamihere ingood or bad day and why?.
i guess bad.
i am so sad today and i don't know how to make the sadness go away.
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Thanks Brooke and Goldengirl...I am hoping everything turns out okay too. It seems being pregnant is just bad for my health this time around...I guess it's a good thing I already decided to have a tubal and be done. I've come to terms that I will be a mom of 4 boys and no girls.
I had the diabetes last pregnancy too, and it was controlled enough with diet that I didn't need insulin. The doctor knew my history, so he told me to fast before it this time. It didn't help. They said it is as if my body didn't process hardly any of the sugar from that nasty drink at all, the number was extremely high. They are already talking about putting me on insulin and that scares me.
Dh is not being too supportive either. I know he works a lot, but I think he could take a few minutes a day to try to take care of me or just ask how I am feeling. I've been trying to stay off my feet as much as possible, which is really hard with 3 other kids...my house is an absolute mess, and it is really starting to irritate him...and it bugs me too. He told me to just clean it all from top to bottom in one day and get it over with, but I just don't have the energy or strength to do that...and he doesn't understand. He was so happy about the baby, and now I don't know what is going on with him. He got home late from work and woke me up to ask me a stupid question...and now I can't get back to sleep. -
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The love you didn't get as a JW...
by JH inoften, i hear people say that there is no love in the jw org.
can you give personal examples of this?.
ok, this is your chance to say what "love" you expected from the org.
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I expected to be invited to gatherings...not ignored because my dad was an "unbeliever," or whatever their reasoning was. I'll never forget how crushed I was when a friend showed me pictures from a picnic, and all the other kids were playing games and looked happy...I had never even been invited to it..and it was held about a mile from my house! It made me wonder how many other times I had been left out. I wasn't allowed to have friends from school, and the dub kids weren't allowed to hang with me.
It was lonely, and I never felt loved there. I dreaded the meetings and strived to get out of there as soon as it was over...everyone else seemed to be in their cliques talking to others, and I was alone.
Now, when I get together with my true friends, it seems no one wants to leave! We always hang out longer than we intended to, and have great conversations. I know I could call them if I needed to talk or had an emergency, and they would be doing it because they like me and honestly want to help me!