ran into this website funny and boy did it bring back memories (unfortunately...i scored 21...older than dirt!
ok everyone...take the test and fess up!
http://www.marklowry.com/funnies/age_barometer.htm
Wow what a trip down memory lane.
Dakota! Where were you able to find all those pictures? It blows my mind, or what is left of it.
I have nothing more to say, that damned Dakota said it all. Good job Dakota.
All of you who posted really brought back the childhood for me.
ran into this website funny and boy did it bring back memories (unfortunately...i scored 21...older than dirt!
ok everyone...take the test and fess up!
http://www.marklowry.com/funnies/age_barometer.htm
OK OK I am older than dirt.
I think a PF Flyer is a childs wagon that was popular in the 1940s
a little poem i wrote.
my first attempt at breaking into verse, albeit i've written about it previously in prose...left alone, abandoned when only threewhy me?
why me?my first memoryof mum leaving meit wouldn't have lasted as a memoryif it didn't happen repeatedlyyou see i thought no one loved mei was only three when my mum first left metoo busy was sheon her ministry with gleeno time for me they found mewet, it was raining you seealone, just mein this vast seaof humanitythey laughed, tee-heeoh silly mei should've known better, who me?i was only three when my mum first left meit is my first memoryhow can this be?it happened repeatedly he beat meshe watched, happilytwenty minutes late from school, "you silly b..""i'll teach you" said heas he beat me repeatedlyi lost count after threeand went to bed without tea"why?
Yes FreeToBeMe
We remember, We know, It hurt.
crazydrinker claims he has answered my posts in an ethical way here are just some of his posts that were unethical by the way.
i will address these issues that he has.. you know bleep, im sure someone would ask you about 'hellfire' if you knew what you were talking about, but since you dont, i doubt anyone will ask.
since i know that your answer will be wrong, why should i ask the question?
Don't worry about it Bleep.
It is kind of like theocratic warfare. Only we call it aostate warfare.
Besides You shouldn't worry about it just wait on Jehovah.
And wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and.
If it takes too long we will see new light and change it all to suit you.
Does that sound familiar Bleeper.
as many of you know we just put all three of our kids in school , their first day will be monday.
my son has been practicing for a week, 7 am for 2 hrs and again at 7pm for 2 hrs.
well it has exhausted him, and he is loving every minute of it.
Hey Lyin/Wild.
Sounds like you guys are enjoying life. Way to go guys. Your kids will get to participate and feel good and accepted. W.T. gets to do the same. You get to go to the games and brag on the boys AND the hubby! I am proud of you and glad for you.
Quite a change from the Borg days huh?
i thought i'd hit it several times before...as i have been thru the divorce over the past couple of years...lost all my so-called friends...lost my belief in what i thought was the "truth"....and now my own loving daughter, being the good little dub she is has told me she doesn't want me to walk her down the aisle at her wedding.
she told me today at lunch.
i almost threw up.
Hello Bonezz.
It breaks my heart to hear your cry of pain. Dam this cult!
I think Sabine and Blondie and the others all had good advice. Definitely check in with your therapist.
If you go and show your love now, no one can fault you now or in the future. It will make it easier on your daughter to handle in the future as she grows up and begins to see things differently.
She may have a change of heart so set the groundwork now. Be the person better than all the rest.
many of you have felt at the sharp end, quite particularly so, social exclusion.
emotionally, how did it make you feel?
celtic mark - cornwall uk
Well it was this way.
In the beginning I felt like they were trying to demean me and it made me angry. If it was one of the arrogant elders and he ignored me as we passed, I may say something like "there is that self righteous SOB" and pause to see if he wanted to pursue it. They never did.
Later I got over the anger and now I chuckle or laugh out loud when they see me. There is an elder in town that knows my never a jw wife. If he sees us in a restaurant he will say hello to her and ignore me. Last time he did that I said out loud for all to hear "THAT IS BROTHER HOLIER THAN THOU" "HE IS A JEHOVAHS WITNESS ELDER". And chuckeled out loud. I haven't seen him in there again.
Another time one of the elders was at a table in another restaurant and what looked to be a ms was sitting with him with his back to us. I saw the elder whispering to the ms and the ms turned clear around in his chair several times to stare at me.
So I said to my wife I am going to have some fun here, you watch. I got up and looking at the ms I strode directly over to him. He got this "oh shit" look of fear on his face. I walked up to where my hip was touching his shoulder and could feel him shake. I reached across the table to the elder and took his hand in a shake and said "I hear you have been under the weather" "wanted to let you know we are praying for you" The elder didn't know what to say but "thanks".
Since then I calmed down and only smile or chukle at them
I feel it is their loss if they want to behave this way.
this is a continuance of what i related under the weird jw dude topic.. when this happened i think i was about 20 or 21 (1985 or '86), before i married my first husband.
i was living at home and still attending meeting but i had stopped studying when i was 19. i guess my mom felt it was time for me to settle down (i was not dating anyone - how could i?
i wasn't baptised.
Hey Teejay;
I think I got you confused. Maybe because all of this confused me! My mother was wierd but it was my two wives mothers that did all the things I mentioned here to their daughters that I had the misfortune to marry. Now that is clear isn't it?
By the way, who is this Seifeld you mention, I didn't marry him.
Oh! You weren't talking to me at all were you?
I can't erase this whole thing can I?
Damit I told you I was confused.
Edited by - outoftheorg on 8 August 2002 21:35:52
this is a continuance of what i related under the weird jw dude topic.. when this happened i think i was about 20 or 21 (1985 or '86), before i married my first husband.
i was living at home and still attending meeting but i had stopped studying when i was 19. i guess my mom felt it was time for me to settle down (i was not dating anyone - how could i?
i wasn't baptised.
Oh boy and I thought my life and mom were screwed up!
She never did anything as wierd as that. But it didn't matter I managed to find someone in the troof who was beautiful in every physical respect. But HER mom and dad had screwed her. Literaly! Well just her dad, but her mother allowed it. So she the poor girl was really screwed up. Told me she had never had a child hood and wanted to party. So she took out a loan in my name didn't pay any of the bills for 2 months and abandoned me and the kids. Youngest one 18 months old. Took off with a fat little fry cook and partied I guess. She at least had the decency to tell me of the incest before we married. But being stupid as I was it didn't ring any alarm bells for me.
Welll then after a year "without any help from my mother" I managed to find another girl jw and we got married. She told me she was a virgin and her life had been ok. We were married for 23 years. She had a lot of migrains and emotional problems. At our 21st year she got suicidal and it turned out that she had been molested by her brother-uncle-and her mothers boy friends. Her mother the good jw that she was brought her boyfriends home and had them sleep in her DAUGHTERS BED ROOM.
My ex had hatred for all her family. Then she decided she needed them and moved the hatred from them to ME! At least that is what her counselor told me was the problem. Needless to say things went downhill from there.
She sucked up right close to her mother and siblings and is still there. The things that parents do to their kids have ramifications for the rest of their life on the kid and anyone associated with them.
All of this happened in what was supposed to be a good jw family. They all still hang on to the wbts. I don't.
i don't post too often and this is really hard for me to do but i just have to vent about this.. i have had my answering machine take any incoming calls for the last couple of days because i am really not in the mood for talking to anyone apart from my daughters at this point in time, so i pick up only if it is one of them.. well i picked up tonight as it was my eldest and us being very close i always tell her what is going on in my life/head etc.
she is a mother herself but never was a jw as i swore i would never force that on my girls or anyone else.
she thanks me for that because her three children are free of fear and normal well adjusted kids.
Hello Cath;
Sounds like your world crumpled a little. Things like this are hard to deal with I know. But remember that this, like all things will pass with time. It sounds like both of you became frustrated with what was happening and kind of took it out on each other.
It would not hurt to go ahead and speak to your daughter and let her know you are sorry things went this way. You don't have to take blame, just sorry things went down hill. Telling relatives things like this is usually too much for them "relatives make poor counselors" it is better to vent these frustrations with a counselor or a friend that can handle it.
You can always vent your feelings on this forum and be listened to and many here can suggest things to try . Most of us have went through similar things and can relate to your position.
One has to be careful to pick only people that can be trusted and that can deal with the emotions involved in issues of a personal nature. Not all of ones friends are able to do this or can be trusted with the information released as we vent our problems in life.
Hang in there-take each day as it comes-be good to yourself-do some fun things just for you. Visit friends. When with friends try to not overload them all at one time with the problems. Vent a little and later a little more. There are people that really will want to help you. Some of them are right here.
