well, crap.
i want a new harley fxd dyna superglide.
but, then again, a kawasaki vulcan classic is a few thousand $$'s cheaper.
Nuff said......you know what my choice is!
This is mine.....1999 Heritage Softtail........isn't she purty?!
This is "Filthy's" (husband-Jim) 1996 Custom Softtail (which, by the way is up for sale!) This picture was taken after a long ride back from Sturgis......hence the joke of the pillow strapped to his ass.
Edited by - scootergirl on 31 July 2002 12:12:42
so how many here were pioneers?
ha ha ha.
i used up my teenage years pioneering, good thing i didn't go to college or university i could be well educated and in a good job.poo.
Raising hand, hiding face! Yes, I too **sigh** pioneered.
well the kids are home from thier summer in mn and are tucked in (my) bed for the night.
lol guess i will sleep in nikkis room.. anyway, mom and i talked and she wants the kids back for the summer again next year.
my mom and my sister also told me that my grandmother brought up something i said when i was last up there.
That would be just too cool.......you make sure that you email one of us Minnesotans so that we can plan something special for ya!
i sent my mom a letter not too long ago telling her that i wanted my family back.
well, i got a very unexpected response.
she basically said "no".
(((((((sp))))))))
I, too, am so sorry. You are going thru what many of us have went thru and we are all here to help you thru this. The comment about conditional love was made and I agree w/that totally......how sad....just how sad.
Prayers and hugs from Minnesota!
after reading so many comments about our collective personalities, i wonder how we were percieved by the congregation in general.
some of us on the board seem to be shy, others appear to be stronger type personalities.some stories that i have read, suggest that when you left the organization, either nobody was surprised or everyone was shocked.
do you think that you are basically the same type of person , now, as you were when you were attending meetings?
I am 110% different. I too am more calm, at peace, have serenity, have contment, am more honest, have a much more sense of humor and take things in stride w/out making a crisis out of it. I also am more confident and more gentle w/myself.
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here's a nice sickly sweet article from fl about the tireless efforts of the local neighbourhood witnessess working for your salvation despite terrible persecution... i really liked the bit where a lady who takes in stray cats and dogs also invited the jw's in!.
http://www.sptimes.com/2002/07/11/floridian/the_other_side_of_the.shtml
Maybe us "apostates" should go doo-to-door to some jw houses and preach "our" word! Tell me the day and time and I am there!
Nothing like goosebumps and tears with my first cup of coffee! What a beautiful song, WT! To hear it to music and such a wonderful voice was more than I expected. Thanks!
WT and lyineyes.......yes! You both have been in my thoughts this past week! When eyegirl told me what was going on I wanted to hug you both. Even though your decision must have been liberating (as mine was) it still is sad. You lose a "part of you".......well, at least I did.
I went to download that song, wt. I want to hear it set to music since the lyrics are so nice!
it's been eight years since i have spoken to any of my relatives.
some (cousins, nieces, nephews) were young children at the time; now some are 18 and older.
they are not allowed to speak to me, but of course those rules don't apply in the reverse.
My siblings and I were seperated for years. About 6 years after I left the borg, my brother and I were reunited w/the help of our "worldly" aunt and uncle.
BUT.....I still had a sister (eyegirl) that I hadn't seen in years. She was 8 and I was 18 when I was df'd. 16 years passed and one night while browsing on classmates.com I found her email address. I was so excited but also nervous. I took the initiative and wrote my sister a nice email and told her that I was her sister and that I desperately wanted to see her. I also explained that I didn't want to cause any troubles and left the ball in her court. A few days later, we talked (something like 2 hours on the phone) and I found out that she was inactive and lived away from home now. She was 23 years old now! She came to visit me and my family on Easter Sunday (2001) and a few months later quit her job and moved 200 miles North to be near me! I am so glad that I took that risk......we are inseperatable now and I feel as if my life is whole again!
Summer of 2001 was the first time in YEARS that all three of us "kids" were together! We got to celebrate our very first Christmas together and our birthdays together. We see each other weekly and hardly a day goes by that we don't talk on the phone. It feels so nice to be the "big" sister that I always wanted to be. I never knew that I could love a sibling the way that I love her.
Mom and Dad know that we talk. Given an email that Mom sent me once (stating that I was a "pull on Becky") I don't think that they approve or appreciate our relationship, but we are no longer little kids afraid of our parents or the borg. I think both of us are working thru the pain of being seperated for so long, but know that we are together life couldn't be better!
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