Posts by OrangeBlossom

My boobs look and feel every bit as natural as they did before. They are not rock-hard like some girls and while I am quite large, I could have gone way bigger but preferred to stay natural looking. I bet you would not be able to tell that I have implants (saline, not silicone) if you saw me naked, which you won't as I'm not into exibitionism.

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Question for any elder/recent ex-elder

by OrangeBlossom in

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the elders keep dropping by every couple of saturday's after bookstudy to check on us and try to encourage us back to meetings.

it has worked out that my husband has been gone when they visit so they keep coming back hoping to catch him sometime.

anyway, i told my hubby that we should at least go to the meetings once a week to keep them off our trail, which i went this past thursday night and wouldn't you know it the one elder approached me and mentioned that they still want to sit down with us and go over an article on meeting attendance.

OrangeBlossom

Thanks for all of the suggestions.

Joelbear, you were right on the money when you said that you have a feeling relatives are putting them up to it. BINGO!

As for moving away, that is not an option for us right now. We just bought this house a few months ago, my husband's business and my job are both here.

We just moved into this congregation when we bought house, so the idiot elders that made the thoughtless, insensitive comments were in previous congregations spanning a period of about 10 years. One comment in itself would not have affected me, however, if you line them all up, after a while it makes you start wondering. Which is what I did. I started questioning thinks primarily on the behavior of "spirit-appointed" men and other things.

But I think I may have come up with a solution...

I told my husband that the next time they come by or approach us say this,

We appreciate you wanting to encourage us, however, both of us were raised in the truth, we know what we are suppose to do. We just have to get our priorities in order. There really isn't anything you can say to us that we have not already heard, it's really going to be up to us to get back to the meetings on a regular basis.

We actually said this to 2 elders in a previous congregation and their response to that was that we "obviously lacked appreciation for spiritual things." They left us alone after that, but then we moved.

Amazing, thanks for your input. I always find your posts extremely enlightening.

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boob jobs and sisters

by jurs in

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warning: this is a very shallow post.

now that i'm out, i'm trying to see the humor of my past life as a jw.

when i was new in the truth , only baptized 4 months, i became good friends with this one sister.

OrangeBlossom

OK, I have to join this one. I will confess, I had a boob job after my 3rd child. Not to show off to anyone, just for me. Call me vain if you will but up until I had kids I had a pretty nice set. Then breast-feeding took them away. They looked like 2 tube socks, it totally grossed me out when I looked in the mirror. I didn't even want my husband to see them, even tho he said they looked fine to him. I guess he's always had a thing for tube socks. Anyway, probably 30 sisters in my area had them done, all by the same doc. I mainly did it for me, no one else and I have never regretted it.

So let the beatings begin!

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Question for any elder/recent ex-elder

by OrangeBlossom in

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friends

the elders keep dropping by every couple of saturday's after bookstudy to check on us and try to encourage us back to meetings.

it has worked out that my husband has been gone when they visit so they keep coming back hoping to catch him sometime.

anyway, i told my hubby that we should at least go to the meetings once a week to keep them off our trail, which i went this past thursday night and wouldn't you know it the one elder approached me and mentioned that they still want to sit down with us and go over an article on meeting attendance.

OrangeBlossom

Thanks for all the input. Some wondered why we just don't fade away. We tried that but have too much family around us that are still in, makes it too hard right now.

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Question for any elder/recent ex-elder

by OrangeBlossom in

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friends

the elders keep dropping by every couple of saturday's after bookstudy to check on us and try to encourage us back to meetings.

it has worked out that my husband has been gone when they visit so they keep coming back hoping to catch him sometime.

anyway, i told my hubby that we should at least go to the meetings once a week to keep them off our trail, which i went this past thursday night and wouldn't you know it the one elder approached me and mentioned that they still want to sit down with us and go over an article on meeting attendance.

OrangeBlossom

I need help!!! The elders keep dropping by every couple of Saturday's after bookstudy to check on us and try to encourage us back to meetings. It has worked out that my husband has been gone when they visit so they keep coming back hoping to catch him sometime. Anyway, I told my hubby that we should at least go to the meetings once a week to keep them off our trail, which I went this past Thursday night and wouldn't you know it the one elder approached me and mentioned that they still want to sit down with us and go over an article on meeting attendance. My question is this...Is there any way we can ask them to stop coming by or anything we can say to get them off our backs? Something polite so that they don't start looking for something to bring us in judicially?

What kills me is back when I still believed it was the truth, no elder gave a rat's ass about us, in fact, we were labeled as "spiritual losers," and "nobody's." Friends of ours would tell us what was said about us and those are exact words, btw. Others would tell us that the elders warned them about associating with us because we were spiritually weak. At the time I was cut to the heart by this, but now I see them for what they really are...power-hungry, self-righteous hypocrits.

I know that not all elders are like that, but the majority around here are. I think that is why I started investigating things and doubting in the first place. How can men "appointed by holy spirit" treat even the spiritually weak that way. We did not doing anything wrong, just missed meetings occasionally and only put a few hours in field service a month. We don't drink or party excessively, don't use foul language, steal, or lie (like some elders I know), but yet we were considered "bad association." Typical!

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Report on Jacksonville losing WT convention

by expatbrit in

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city loses big convention .

by bill johnson, special to the daily record.

wash your car, it will rain.

OrangeBlossom

"I don't see it. When it's in your town, you don't have to travel but everybody else does. When it's in another town, you have to travel but the people who live there don't. Sending thousands of Jacksonvillians to Tampa also means thousands of Tampons won't have to travel. It balances out"

Not quite! Tampa has always had conventions there and often overcrowded at that. Now add all the Jacksonville folk that now have to travel to Georgia and Tampa and you have more overcrowding. Besides, you are talking dozens of congregations in Jacksonville alone that now have to go elsewhere. It doesn't really matter to me, I'm trying to figure out a way not to go at all this year. I'm hoping to catch a summer-long flu bug or something. Pray for me!

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Report on Jacksonville losing WT convention

by expatbrit in

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city loses big convention .

by bill johnson, special to the daily record.

wash your car, it will rain.

OrangeBlossom

Thanks expatbrit.

I thought of this after my last post. Several years ago, for a couple of years, we had the convention in my area but because the arena people wanted to leave the concessions open, (which would conflict with the crappy burritos the society served) they would not have it there anymore. The funny thing is, had the society agreed to have it there anyway, the majority of witnesses would have still supported the crappy burritos out of loyalty and the arena would have gotten the message that it was not advantageous to insist on having their concessions open. So we had to travel to Jacksonville. Then the society did away with food altogether. It seemed the society was more interested in having it their way than considering the needs of the R&F. I guess things have not changed.

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Report on Jacksonville losing WT convention

by expatbrit in

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city loses big convention .

by bill johnson, special to the daily record.

wash your car, it will rain.

OrangeBlossom

I find this really interesting being from Central Florida and having gone to the Jacksonville District Assembly each year since I was a teenager. When we found out that we were assigned to St. Petersburg I lost my dinner. But, and here is what is interesting, it was put to the R&F that the reason for the switch was due to the colliseum not being available. Could someone please post the link to that article if it was available on the net. I would really like to print it out and show to some of my family members who are die-hard dubs.

Thank you ever so kindly!

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A People For His Name???

by Big Jim in

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anyone care to comment on this scripture quote!

OrangeBlossom

Since his true name is Yahweh and not the artificial form, Jehovah, I guess a people for his name would not be Jehovah's Witnesses.

OB

"By doubting we come at truth!" ---Cicero