as someone with mild social anxiety, i don't.
but a lot of people i know seem to.. .
i'm sorry if this has already been asked!.
Hey, I like attention too - it's really only natural. No one really wants to be isolated and ignored all the time. But N is right - it's important to be the center of attention for good reasons rather than negative reasons.
I would love to hear your life story CE - I don't feel like I know anything about you -
i've read it twice, and also "in search of christian freedom".
that's probably why i wasn't "afraid" to read it.. my question, which has bothered me for years is...how do you get a j.w.
to read crisis of conscience?
I don't honestly know how you get someone to open their eyes. I know that I was incredibly resistant to anything negative about the witlesses when I started studying. I sincerely hope that your daughter and son in law learn the truth about the truth and get free from the borg.
as someone with mild social anxiety, i don't.
but a lot of people i know seem to.. .
i'm sorry if this has already been asked!.
Really, you don't like being the center of attention? COuld have fooled me....
yep, you read that right.. it's not considered sexual abuse because it's an old religious rite.. http://cultprevention.blogspot.com/2012/03/infants-death-at-hospital-linked-to.html.
poor little baby
did anyone else used to hear this?
i can remember this growing up in the 1970s.
my folks joined the wt back in 1968 under threat of armageddon coming in 1975. i was in first grade and ran the gauntlet of no flag salute, national anthem, holidays and no worldly friends.
For instance, I've never had a worldly person screw me out of a business opportunity. I've never had a worldly person recommend I stop feeding my children in order to prevent them from vomiting before/during meetings. I've never had a worldly person spank one of my kids hard enough to leave marks.
in my case, it was the only thing that kept us togather.. if it wasn,t for the cult we would have split a year after.
i return from vietnam, married two weeks before going.
to nam.
I don't know. We were married for about 8 years before we got sucked into the Borg. The first year we were married was rough. We were really young, and I was really unstable. We only dated for about 6 months total before the wedding, and most of that time we had a long distance relationship. When we started studying, I was pregnant. I became a crazy, hormonal mess and lost my bloody mind. At the time, I credited the "truth" with helping us work out our issues and stay together. Looking back, I think we would have navigated my craziness more quickly and peacefully without the witlesses. Now, we are both out and I think that our marriage is stronger than ever.
just ron and i spent a few hours today helping clean up tornado damage in ridgway.
i never got to do anything like that when i was a witless.
my field circus hours were never deemed high enough to participate in quick builds or disaster relief work..
I didn't even mention my name to anyone we worked with. We got to help tarp a roof for an elderly lady who just got out of the hospital, and we helped clean up some of the downed trees, and we figured out how to tarp over a window that blew out of a brick building housing the local pizza place. This town is really small, and they aren't getting the press that Harrisburg is getting.
just ron and i spent a few hours today helping clean up tornado damage in ridgway.
i never got to do anything like that when i was a witless.
my field circus hours were never deemed high enough to participate in quick builds or disaster relief work..
Just ROn and I spent a few hours today helping clean up tornado damage in Ridgway. I never got to do anything like that when I was a witless. My field circus hours were never deemed high enough to participate in quick builds or disaster relief work.
i just started in sales recently and have been really good at it.
of course, i grew up a jw, lol.. anyways, i was working on closing an account and took another guy at my work with me to go over the specifications and get quotes and that sort of thing.
well, after the meeting he called and emailed her to ask further questions without my knowledge.. so, i called her yesterday and she completely flipped out about the way he treated her saying that he was pressuring her and bullying her.
I'm not in sales, I'm a government tax auditor. A large part of my job is dealing with taxpayers who are not happy to see me. If one of my coworkers dared to contact one of my accounts behind my back, I'd be livid. I don't work on commission (aren't you all glad to hear that!), but screwing with my work product and making my work environment less pleasant is not acceptable. Even when we work in groups, one auditor takes the lead position and everyone else keeps their trap shut in front of the taxpayer.
did anyone else used to hear this?
i can remember this growing up in the 1970s.
my folks joined the wt back in 1968 under threat of armageddon coming in 1975. i was in first grade and ran the gauntlet of no flag salute, national anthem, holidays and no worldly friends.
I heard that line. It's a load of crap.
