Hi and welcome! Your life is just beginning in many ways. The clarity that comes with knowing the "truth about the truth" is wonderful.
millie210
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Starting To Wake Up
by Searching ini suppose after lurking around for a few weeks i thought i might share my own personal story, as i think it would probably be a very freeing experience for me right now.
to start off, at 23 years old i'm actually a third-generation jw, my grandparents were baptized (my grandfather is actually an elder) when my mother was only a toddler, she was raised as a witness, then of course, married a witness and thus myself and my two brothers were born-in's.
growing up my mother was always very careful about what she taught me, all the good things for sure, about how we would live in a paradise earth and i could pet all the animals that i wanted and not worry about growing old, and she'd ask me who in the bible i'd love to see and talk with - my grandparents however, were a different story and the cause of i think, most of my childhood trauma.. they really drilled home the fact that we were the only people who were going to be saved, we were the only people that were going to survive and that everyone else was going to die horribly - that i shouldn't try to make that many friends in school because they would never be "real" friends unless they were fellow jw's and they would die anyway.
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My 1 Year Update - I've Been Disfellowshipped One Year Today
by pale.emperor inwhat a journey!.
it was a year ago today that i was announced from the platform by brother paul "twofaced" castley that i was "no longer one of jehovah's witnesses".
i didn't go to that meeting to hear the announcement because i already didn't believe the watchtower religion.. how was my first year?
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millie210
Beautiful post Pale E!
I had the thought while reading your post that you are so much more ALIVE now. You are making other peoples lives better too by embracing your own.
I am so happy for you!
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The Writers Curse
by Coded Logic ini've begun to suspect this act - this will - this compulsory muse which i call "writing" is, in fact, the illusion of catharsis.
like a mirage shimmering far off on the horizon i gaze upon the unreachable waters of a quiescent mind.
and far too often i've trekked through these shifting sands of unrefined ideas and abrasive conclusions towards that placid falsehood.
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millie210
“A book must be the ax for the frozen sea inside us.” --franz kafka.
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millie210
Thanks Zeb.
Honestly I'm pretty much done with this whole weekend. It has gone on since Friday so it's been five days of boom, boom, boom and I'm kind of mixed up with them throwing in a workday on Monday.
Lets move on America. LOL
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She's here and early! 27 weeks 1day.
by Darkknight757 inso as of july 2nd my wife delivered by c-section our little one pound, three ounce daughter izabella.
it was a very scary night that started with a decel and turned into multiple decels that greatly concerned the doctors.
by early morning they felt the need to take her for her safety.
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millie210
Welcome to our beautiful world little Izabella
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On the Subject of Demons, I Have a Story to Tell.
by snugglebunny ini have posted the full story on a fb site.
so my apologies to anyone who's already read it.
some of what i've written is what was told to me by my father.
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millie210
snugglebunny
If only this religion wasn’t The Truth.I agree with Giles. I am loving your story. The line you wrote above resonates so deeply with me. I cannot tell you how many times when I was in and stuck, I had that very same thought myself.
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To kill or not to kill
by Chook inhow many jws would kill a violent rapist in there home or protect their family with lethal means .
the one thing i love about the usa is the right to defend oneself with lethal force in their own home.
it's not that i want to kill someone but better them dead than my children..
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millie210
I dont carry. I am afraid of guns and my ineptness with them.
My son is 6' 4 and 240 lbs. He looks like a moving wall but is very gentle and calm. HE carries.
He says "ever notice how these public shooters (campus, nightclubs etc) are never found at a high school football game in Texas? Do you understand why that is?"
Yes! I do understand, I just dont feel like I am a good gun handler.
I do have two very aggressive big dogs.
So far, so good.
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I Just Heard a Birthday Song...
by Saename inso i'm sitting in public area, reading the end of faith (it's pretty clear sam harris is making a case against faith and not some generalized version of islam, so i don't get all those misplaced objections...), and i just heard a group of people sing a birthday song.. i was surprised.
but not because someone was singing a birthday song.
i was surprised because of my reaction.. i wish i could say my reaction was normal, but it wasn't.
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millie210
I still slip up and call it "the truth" which is an oxymoron if ever there was one.
How long before I wont do that anymore?
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Reached a milestone today!
by Bungi Bill intoday represents for me something of a milestone.
after breaking both bones in my lower left leg nearly four months ago, i am now able to walk without the aid of crutches.
also, the orthopedic specialist has cleared me to once more drive a motor vehicle.
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millie210
Wonderful news Bungi Bill!
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Bible pssssges that are immoral - Lot offering his virgin daughters to be gang raped by homosexual males
by jambon1 in.
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tell me me more about your just & loving god..
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millie210
I feel a lot better about some of the Genesis stories after listening to Jordan Peterson