Posts by PaintedToeNail

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FUNERAL OUTLINE

by freeatlast36 in

i knew it.

march 28, 2014 at 9:57pm.

nobody seemed to notice that i wasn't sitting with my immediate family.

PaintedToeNail

Love the way it allows a well-rehearsed interview with a BROTHER who knew the deceased well. Sisters need not apply.

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Any here who didn't rebel as a teenager and were a goody two shoes instead?

by purrpurr in

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when i was a teenager in the borg i was a dyed in the wool, goody two shoes, squeaky clean,"spiritual " sister.

alot of my peers around me were rebelling and going off the rails but not me.

i was constantly praised for this and even felt a little smug about it ha!.

PaintedToeNail

I was the goody-two-shoes in our hall, as there were 4 girls who got pregnant between the ages of 15-16. I was so glad that I wasn't one of them. Still glad that I wasn't a young teen mother.

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Just wondering who on this board has a spouse that is fully in and your awake?

by goingthruthemotions in

i am just curious who on this board is in the same situation has i am?

a spouse that is fully brain doogled in and you are awake to ttatt.. without going into serious detail and no names are given.

i would like to possible talk with one of you all, it's just so helpful to communicate with someone in the same situation as me.. i am located in the southwest united states..

PaintedToeNail

I am out 5 years now. Hubby has become an uber dub like lied2nomore's wife. Annoying to say the least.

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Australia Branch to end magazine printing

by no-zombie in

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just one week from the zone overseer's visit is the announcement that the magazine production by the australia branch will end in a few months.

the task being transferred to the japan branch.

while i'm not 100% certain, i understand that this effectively ends all major printing bar perhaps tracts, handbills and other loose items.

Australia Branch to end magazine printing

by no-zombie in

jw
friends

just one week from the zone overseer's visit is the announcement that the magazine production by the australia branch will end in a few months.

the task being transferred to the japan branch.

while i'm not 100% certain, i understand that this effectively ends all major printing bar perhaps tracts, handbills and other loose items.

PaintedToeNail

The postscript is amazing! Don't engage in negative talk about the ARC, just encourge them to donate more money. Typical.

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Apocalyptic upbringing: how I recovered from my terrifying evangelical childhood

by betterdaze in

apocalyptic upbringing: how i recovered from my terrifying evangelical childhoodraised under the dark bubble of religious fundamentalism, josiah hesse recalls a childhood filled with gloom, doom and preparing for the end of the world.http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/05/religion-evangelical-christian-apocalypse-josiah-hesse.

PaintedToeNail

I felt like I was reading about my own personal torment when he was expressing his fears. As a child, I faced the same fears he did, only with Armageddon replacing the rapture prophecies.

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"Special" has lost its' special meaning

by stillin in

today is the day of the annual "special talk.

" it took me all of two years to realize not to get my hopes up for anything special.. then came the special assembly day.

sad.

PaintedToeNail

I think it is called 'Special Talk' because of the Memorial/Easter Hype and the Borg is hoping to ride the coat tails of religious fervor of the season. The 'Speical Talk' seems to come a week after Easter.

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2016-3-18-BOE-Discontinuing Feature Length DVD and Audio CD Production!

by Atlantis in

2016-3-18-boe.. re: discontinuing feature-length dvd and audio cd production.

.. http://we.tl/cpevenkiz2.

.. .. petra!.

PaintedToeNail

Yay! Hubby won't be leaving his media in my son's car anymore!

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Insufferable Presumption

by PaintedToeNail in

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today, sunday, my son and i returned from a real estate investor meeting that we attend once a month with other active investors.

we discussed our latest projects, financing needs, advertising and so on.

we meet at 11:00 and don't usually get done before 2:00 pm and today was no different.

PaintedToeNail

I love it when JWs I meet out in public ask how I am (usually asked in a condescending way). When I say, ''Great!" they always look shocked and disappointed.

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Insufferable Presumption

by PaintedToeNail in

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friends

today, sunday, my son and i returned from a real estate investor meeting that we attend once a month with other active investors.

we discussed our latest projects, financing needs, advertising and so on.

we meet at 11:00 and don't usually get done before 2:00 pm and today was no different.

PaintedToeNail

Today, Sunday, my son and I returned from a real estate investor meeting that we attend once a month with other active investors. We discussed our latest projects, financing needs, advertising and so on. We meet at 11:00 and don't usually get done before 2:00 pm and today was no different. After, we hit up Lowes' to pick up plumbing supplies and flooring for one of our projects. We arrived home about 30 minutes ago. On my dining room table was a "Return to Jehovah" brochure and an invite to the Memorial.

An elder from my old KH had stopped by and dropped them off. Now, my husband was at the KH today, he almost never misses now that I have left. This elder, who is a really sweet man, decided to stop and offer me a personal invite. What annoys me is that the man THINKS that I SIT AT HOME LONELY AND WAITING FOR MY HUSBAND to come home before I can have a life. Just because I left the JWs doesn't mean I've left life for cripes sake. I am more alive and engaged in life than ever before. The brochure offended me in that it thinks I left because 'I'm guilty of some secret sin' or that I was 'stumbled' by some stupid person, rather than that I made a CALCULATED and CONSIDERED decision, based on knowledge and being sick and tired of the ridiculousness of the JW rat race.

To me, it is insufferably presumptuous for anyone to think that those of us who have left are reduced to a pathetic life of lonely days waiting for the faithful JWs to encourage us to return to a 'satisfying' life of self-sacrifice to the org.

I'm currently running 2 complete renovation projects locally. When my son and I renovate, we do everything-the house gets gutted, redesigned for modern living and put back together. We are busy, happy people who are enjoying life and making new friends with similar interests, not moping around waiting for brochures to welcome us back to the KH. Seesh, the JW's need to get a life!!!