Posts by millie210

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Alcoholic

by openheart in

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hi i was raised in the truth in the uk since my birth in 1970 i went wayward as my family left in 1981 when i was 11 never took a career just wasted my life away now i'm 46 i rejoined when i was 22 rose to be a auxiliary pioneer and ms then it all went wrong my wife diagnosed bipolar disorder i got diagnosed depression a mega implosion occurred now i'm lost what now ?.

millie210

Hi openheart. I love your name...openheart.

I wanted to wish you a warm welcome!

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Hi everyone, just signed up here

by samj in

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friends

hi, i just signed up.

i'm 35, i've been baptized 20 years, married 15 years.

it seems like the wife and i are going in opposite directions spiritually.

millie210

Hi, welcome!

There is a wide and diverse group here. I think you will find people who you can relate to. This is a wonderful place for that.

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Racial Insensitivity

by Coded Logic in

"blue" lives matter!

- sheriff david clarke at the rnc.

this bs really makes my blood boil.

millie210

ALL lives matter.

Or should.

I agree that there are stereotypes and injustices that need addressed.

However, coming up with buzz words and phrases such as "Black lives matter" and "Blue lives matter" does more to polarize than it does to fix.

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An Odd Request from Our Ex-JW Son

by TMS in

my wife and i, both out of the religion for nearly twenty years, live in the same border town as our 44 year old only son.

we have scant contact with our numerous jw relatives, although a handful of clever "double life" nieces and nephews socialize with our son.. we care for our six year old grandson weekdays while our single parent son makes a living.

we've been infinitely better grandparents than we were parents, primarily because of our exit from a high control cult, but also because of life experience.

millie210

I love the balance you and your wife as grandparents are providing to your grandson.

Although there are a host of reasons to complain about a JW upbringing, for purposes of simplicity we can all agree that it is highly unbalanced and produces young adults ill equipped for the world.

Thanks to your son and yourselves, your grandson is being spared that. I think that is wonderful.

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Don't have sexual fantasies! Today's watchtower...

by purrpurr in

the watchtower today says not to think of sex, or to have sexual fantasies.

i'm just wondering... how many people in the hall hearing this watchtower today would be having sexual fantasies?

sitting there thinking about sister hottie or brother hunky ?.

millie210

purrpurr
The Watchtower today says not to think of sex, or to have sexual fantasies. I'm just wondering... how many people in the hall hearing this Watchtower today would be having sexual fantasies? Sitting there thinking about sister hottie or brother hunky ?
As humans with functional sexual organs it's practically impossible to not think about sex it's how we are built. The Borg are basically setting the sheep up to fail.
And do people really go to the elders about their sexual fantasies? Which is what the Watchtower is telling them to do?

So how do they explain away the Song of Solomon?

Its inspired you know...

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Yoga. Evil practice?

by Darkknight757 in

as our fade continues, the wife and i have decided to take up "the forbidden practice of.......yoga"!!!!😱.

i was quite skeptical at first but so far it has really de-stressed our life in quite a spectacular way!!

not to mention the physical benefits.. anyone else try yoga or a similar discipline?

millie210

a partial snip of sparkys posted quote from the Consolation Magazine:

sparky1
extremely difficult and demonized exercises which twist the human body in terrible convulsive positions; and only a Satanic mind could conceive of thus dishonoring the body Jehovah gave. These postures are held indefinitely; thus showing the entire lack of reason behind it,....

this sounds like they could be describing the way it feels to sit in a stadium seat in dress clothes for 3 days at a convention.

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My daughter graduated Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours yesterday.

by Xanthippe in

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millie210

Congrats to her (and you)

She is on her way!

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So Today Was My Wife's First Ever Birthday Party

by dubstepped in

she turned one today, and 36 earlier this week.

we planned a big party, big for two people that have never thrown a party before.

we rented a church fellowship hall because 1. it was nice and big and affordable and 2. it was kind of awesome to throw a party in a place we would have never ventured in our previous life.

millie210

You guys are funny with the beheading stuff.

I loved reading about the special day you and your wife created. It sounds like it was just wonderful!

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What would you like to have known about JWs before deciding whether to get baptised?

by slimboyfat in

if you could go back in time and tell yourself one thing about jws would you do it?

and what would you choose to say to yourself?

do you think you could have convinced yourself not to get baptised if you chose the right thing to say?

millie210

I think a lot like Faye on this one,

I guess if I had to come up with a question that might have given me pause it would be:

If all your family were killed in a plane crash tomorrow would you still get baptized?

I dont think I would have, The familial pressure was on and it was fierce.

I was 19.

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Finally "they" have reinstated me! that was easy!!!

by Prometheus in

it was rather quick one.

in just few months and after attending all of their meetings and giving them a nice show, i'm back to the org!!!

(what a relief-sarcastic laugh) .

millie210

I am not shocked that someone would get reinstated. It is a means to an end in some cases.

I mean, why not?

Its not like the JWs have the truth or anything. It is just a series of hoops to jump thru in order to get a desired result (freedom of speech and the freedom to come and go as one pleases).

It is more of a manipulation of a broken archaic system than anything else.

Good for you Prometheus