Posts by Sunspot

My father was a perfectionist, a very controlling one at that. He always checked my homework for neatness and spelling errors. The "plus side" was that I always got "A"s in English essays and book reports all through high school and developed good skills in this area which have been most helpful to me in many situations.

The "negative side" of living in a very cotrolling atmospehere with a domineering perfectionist---was that I quit school at 17---the summer I was to enter my Senior year---ran away, went to another state and eloped to get out of the house; resulting in a bad marriage and a big mistake).

I practically cringe when I see a lot of bad spelling, (although posting on a discussion board is NOT a literary work)----BUT---I also cringe when I see someone comment on someone else's spelling.....it reminds me of my father's demand for perfection.

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Friendship, Trevor, and Oscar!

by purplesofa in

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i had no reason to ever question the validity of who trevor and linda were.

i believed.

isn't that what friends do, trust?

Sunspot

Perhaps your time was not stolen, purps. Perhaps it was borrowed so that others could see your wonderful talent.
I would never have known what a gifted artist you are, had it not been for the lovely things you posted. Maybe others would not have, either.

I was thinking the very same thing! I was blown away when you (Purps) posted that spectacular piece of personal art that ANYONE would have been absolutely thrilled to receive! We could see the love that you put into it, and the love you had for the one you were thinking of when you sent it. Nobody san take that away from any of us that had the pleasure of seeing it.

I hope this does not discourage you from any further efforts along this line. We would ALL lose even more than we have.

hugs,

Annie

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Anyone with type 2 Diabetes?

by LyinEyes in

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i have been to two doctors appointments in the last 7 months and it is confirmed that i have type 2 diabetes.

i was so scared when i found out, i have had many of my family die early from that illness.

since leaving the jw's , i can say that now i finally don't have the death wish that i secretly carried with me for so many years.

Sunspot

I was diagnosed a year ago with type 2 as well. My thread on this is here: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/16/120973/1.ashx

The folks here at JWD gave me EXCELLENT advice!

hugs,

Annie

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Anyone Diabetic To Answer A Question?

by Sunspot in

is there anyone here that is diabetic that could answer something for me?

i am doing the finger sticking 4 times a day and have weird stuff happening.

i am very new to this and cannot afford the "training session" that my doctor wanted me to go to......just found out my friend was just diagnosed about the same time i was....and she cannot afford the same session either!.

Sunspot

BTTT for Lyin Eyes.....

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Assaults Are a Bad Idea ( One exception?)

by metatron in

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assaulting jw's in the door to door work is very counter-productive.

it encourages them to continue.

believing that they are the true religion by reason of being persecuted.

Sunspot

A respected business man refuses to speak to you just because you left his church? A minister makes you sit AT THE BACK OF THE HALL where no one is allowed to speak to you? Your mother won't tell you about your fathers illness-or death??? Is this reasonably the bargain you made at baptism???I don't think so!

I was not DFed, but walked away after learning what I DIDN'T know about BEFORE making the decision to be baptized. The results of my treatment is exactly the same as if I had committed serious sin and " stubbornly refused to repent".

HOW can one KNOW that, at baptism, that the WTS had deliberately hid it's dirty secrets from the ones who would eventually devote their entire LIVES to the total subservience of men in Brooklyn?

I think the premise of Metatron's post carries some real food for thought. Isn't it about time that the Mafia-type fear tactics and THEIR subsequent and inhumane behavior, be exposed on a more wide basis?

Annie

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Welcome Marie_purps!

by changeling in

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this is our very own purplesofa's daughter!

let's tell her how happy we are she's joined us!.

does this make her a purplechair, or purpleloveseat?.

Sunspot

Hello and WELCOME Marie_purps!

hugs,

Annie

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Carl (larc) - A Tribute

by Farkel in

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as many of you know, larc died.

due to my hiatus, i didn't find out until several months after he did.

i was able to get to know him in the few years before he passed.

Sunspot

Unfortunately, I never got to meet Carl in person, but I had the pleasure of "working" with him and others on a campaign-type cause for anti-WTS activity and we had shared emails and ideas on this activity. I do remember his online contributions with fondness.

He WAS....quite a guy.

How nice it was to see Jan's comment on this thread.....and thank you Doug, for remembering Carl with this tribute to him.

hugs,

Annie

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Happy B'Day to Me

by skeeter1 in

anyone here to help celebrate my official 39th birthday?

it's my last celebrated birthday.

skeeter.

Sunspot

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SKEETER!

hugs,

Annie

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Sorry, I gotta borrow this topic from another site.... Some answers please.

by NotaNess in

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why do jws have the memorial anyways?

they preach that jesus said , do this until i return.

the jws say he returned in 1914, so what gives here anyway?

Sunspot

I asked an elder this question when I was still a naive JW.....and he said that Jesus still was not in "full power" yet where everyone would know he had arrived, that he was still working from "behind the scenes". This would supposedly explain the idea that JWs are waiting for his biblically explained return along with mainstream Christianity, and still lend some sort of creedence to the idea that he was already here and had invisibly chosen the WTS as "THE only religion that pleased him" as they like to teach.

Annie