your cognitive dissonance, particularly that with living out in the"world"?
and any with children, how did you get over the fear of your kids interacting with other kids, bad habits, and the other fears with leaving the borg?
just curious as i too have many moments of "oh god how will my kids grow up in this world?
Have a look at the kids yours go to school with, and who they choose to play with at school. Are they bad? I prefer mine being with children that are not being manipulated into being fearful of armageddon, fearful of having happy times at birthdays and christmas etc.
It is sad but take the child set up as a good example by JWs and strip away the indoctrination, what do you have left? A kid that cannot think for themselves in my opinion.
sometimes i have to recheck my motives for doing things.. sometimes i do things for the pure joy of it...dance, yoga, nature walk, listen to music, read something interesting, etc.
but, sometimes when i am engaged in something, like college studies(which i do for the end result and also enrichment), i get flashes of my past that creep in that remind me of a negative message, and it makes me wonder if one of my motives is to also prove something about my self.
at times i recall my ex-husband calling me 'stupid' or 'dumb'.
Faerie, I understand what you mean, don't worry. It sounds like you are a strong well rounded person and are proving that. Remember you have survived, you're a survivor and I hope one day everything slots into place for you.
hello all, it is nice to have a forum for former jw's and see i wasn't the only one out there having serious doubts.
my parents got into it when i was about 4 years old.
my family was part of the granville ny congregation.. my dad in time became an elder.
Welcome, glad you found a way out and have found happiness.
there is a certain user to whom i suggested using dropbox, and the user said he had problems with it, that his computer ended up full of game advertisements.. please, to those who have used dropbox before, can you give your honest evaluation of dropbox?.
i am trying to convince this user that i did not suggest to him something that was bad, but actually good... that it helps to share huge files, no matter what their size.. .
please tell this user... i don't want to lose this user's trust.. .
I use it all the time and have done for a few years without any problems.
^^^ perhaps whisky would have been better lol
Welcome again, I have had a few fords, one tried to die and so I moved it on, I wonder if the UK ones are not built to last. Anyhow its good to have you here, hope to hear more in time.
we had to go off grid for a time, time and half a time as we thought we had been outed.
fortunately it was a false alarm, but it was a stressful time.
i asked for my original diary thread to be deleted in case there could be anything on there to identlfy mrs smith and i. i am always very careful when posting, and am sure there was nothing on there, but felt it best to have it removed in order to be as cautious as a dove.
Hello to you too
they just put up the march km 2014 on the private website.
most of it is same-old-same-old, with info here and there about the memorial.. somebody here might post the march km for all to see, i wont.. i just wanted to share the paragraph from page 2 q&a anticle: will you seize the opportunity?
upcoming memorial enables us to show gratitude .
In 2015 ask why you are celebrating it again when you were told 2014 could be the last, you'll be told you were just reading into it and not to be over zealous.
i reprted 5 studies the month i was df'd.
more than a year has passed since i have seen any of my students.
i got on so well with many of them, we became friends.. did i do the right thing?
Excellent, a happy outing with a new path to be taken. I wonder how many 'students' are put off by TTATT? I remember calling on a guy who showed great interest, until he told his wife and she warned him to never have any contact with JWs again.
