"it's the end of the world as we know it ... and i feel fine" .
i have always loved this line, as it sums up my conversations with witnesses and family that remain witnesses.
when 9/11 happened i got a lot of letters, conversations, and phone calls from witnesses wanting my wife and i to become active again.
Loved your post! I feel fine too my friend!
I'm so sick of the same ol *the end is near, it's the last day's, bla bla bla bla, it wears me out! I've pretty much drifted away from my j.w. family. Don't really talk to them much anymore, but it's all good, and I feel fine!!!
Tink =;o)
Thanks for asking, by the way!
where are you guys!.
noidea and myself are having a small apostafest and we're trying to get ahold of some of our old ex-j.w.
friends!.
Hey CoonDawg, we would love to have you!
We were talking about having it at O'Charley's at RiverGate. *around the last Sat. in July* How does that sound to ya? =:o)
Do you kow any ot these people that I've listed? I would really like to see them again! Do I know you CoonDawg? Did Noidea tell you who I was? I need to touch base with her also!
Talk to ya later! Good to meet'cha! Oh, and I love your nickname CoonDawd!!!
Tink =;o)
where are you guys!.
noidea and myself are having a small apostafest and we're trying to get ahold of some of our old ex-j.w.
friends!.
Where are you guys!
Anyone know them?
Noidea and Myself are having a small ApostaFest and we're trying to get ahold of some of our old ex-j.w. friends!
If anyone know's anything, will you let me know? And if anyone else in the Nashville area that would like to come, you are more than welcome.
Just let me know!
Tink =:o)
i will spare you all the gory details until she is ready to post them.
my mom (mulan) is having trouble with my grandma again.
looks like this time she has finally burned her last available bridge and will be moving out.
Mulan, time will take care of it. =:o)
Hang in there, we're here for ya girl!!!!!!!!
(((((((((((((((((((((Mulan))))))))))))))))))))
Big Hug
Tink =;o)
so, whats the straw that broke the camels back in your life?
what was the final last straw that made you say thats it- no more?
i have so many-for 15 years i kept getting that last straw-and trying to ignore it- but i think the last straw was when my dad died- everyone kept (keeps) giving me the line of bs about never seeing him again unless i go to meetings.
Spider, that's great news! I'm very happy for you and your dad! That's one relationship that the borg. didn't totally destroy! Make good memories for yourself!
Tink =;o)
so, whats the straw that broke the camels back in your life?
what was the final last straw that made you say thats it- no more?
i have so many-for 15 years i kept getting that last straw-and trying to ignore it- but i think the last straw was when my dad died- everyone kept (keeps) giving me the line of bs about never seeing him again unless i go to meetings.
Spidermonkey, my mother would tell me that *if I'd stop missing meetings and get back to the kingdom hall, I wouldn't have any of these problems*. That I had these problems because I was missing meetings. She also had to throw in the same advice about accepting *worldly* help! She said that I could talk to doctors and worldly councelor's, why couldn't I talk to elders???????? The whole guilt dase control thing!
How is your dad doing now Spider? What is your relationship today?
Tink =;o)
My soft place to fall.
so, whats the straw that broke the camels back in your life?
what was the final last straw that made you say thats it- no more?
i have so many-for 15 years i kept getting that last straw-and trying to ignore it- but i think the last straw was when my dad died- everyone kept (keeps) giving me the line of bs about never seeing him again unless i go to meetings.
Don't these stories make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside! =;o)
I do try to keep my sense of humor. =:o)
I'm C.C. Riders wife, *who posted earlier* for those that don't know that.
This story brings back some old wounds. The straw for me was.....getting a phone call from a elder in the cong. that insisted that I meet with them and by not meeting with them, it showed that I didn't want to be a witness. I wish so much that I had taped the conversation. I had been hit with a terrible blow from my father's suicide and finding out that my mother *whom I hadn't seen in 13 years* was dying of breast cancer. It's a long story and I wont impose all the details to you. Everything was just too much for me to take at the time. I was sef medicating myself TOO much and was very very depressed. So I admitted myself in the hospital. I wanted help, I needed help. This was 1999. After the elders caught wind of this, it was their duty to help me also!!! I told them that I was in no condition to deal with a *elder's meeting*. It was only a few months after being release from the hospital. I was fragil, not to be whining, but on top of all this, I was learning from the net that the org. was a cult, nothing more but a org. that controled by control. That itself was a blow for me, by itself! My whole life had been a waste of time, a lie, so many things finally fell into place, so many pieces of the puzzly was being put together in my head. For once in my life, my head and my troubled soul was recieving *food at the proper time*, so too speak! =;o) But I just wanted time to myself, to sort through all these feelings. I was in counceling also *which the elders resented*, I could get *worldly* help, but I couldn't recieve help from them. The following Thursday night meeting, it was announced that hubby and I had dis-associated ourselves. My mother passed away a few months later *with the feelings of disapointment and fear of not seeing me in the *new order*. Most of my j.w. family didn't even speak to me, and the j.w.'s that did speak, kept it brief. Since then we've moved almost 2 hours away from everyone we know. Hubby is closer to work and we are happier than ever. We've come a long way. We try to live a quiet life and mind our own business. I could write more, but I'll stop. =:o)
This has been my soft place to fall for so long. I dont know what I'd do if I didn't have such a safe place to come and heal.
Tink =;o)
i guess it's time for me to tell my story on this forum.
my parents came into contact with the "truth" during their engagement and so i was born into a borg family and quickly "assimilated.
" the congregation i grew up in however had very liberal views on many subjects, such as higher education, secular careers, and the like.
Welcome Mackin!!!
Hope too see you around the board more often!
Tink =;o)
anyone on here have a "most embarrasing witness moment" from childhood?
mine is from 7th grade- that was 20 years ago- but i still cringe when i think of it.
almost too hard to write down- but maybe it will be therapeutic & part of the healing process?
Some of these are so funny and some are so horrible!!!
True story............
When I was 16 years old. My mother tryed to get me to date a j.w. brother at the kingdom hall. He was a very nice person, but he was not my type and someone that I wanted to date. He wanted to come over one night and *I swear to you* he wanted to study for the watchtower. I didn't want to because I thought it would lead him on. My mother insisted I do this and I was having a fit with her over this. I literly hid in my closet refussing to come out and she grabed me by the hair of the head and pulled me out!!!!! MADE ME sit with this guy for over an hour and study this crap! I don't mean to sound ugly toward to guy, but he stunk, he wore his pants TOO short....his hair grezzzzzzed down....bad glasses and he talked through his nose, real nazally. It was many of my childhod moments! I've got more!
Thanks for sharing these stories, some were so funny!!!
hello all- recently joined, had some probs getting logged in, but here at last.... anyway, the question is: for those that can relate, when your heart feels heavy from the hurt, pain, regret, sorrow, bitterness, anger... and the lost years, stolen time, forsaken friends, broken relationships, wasted energies, abandonment, and lost love weighs on you --> caused by wt org.
stress.... how do you get past it?
what heals you, brings you relief, rescues you from total worthless feelings of inadequacy, comforts your wounds, keeps you from jumping on the train tracks?.
You take care of yourself!
You take it one day at a time!
Surround yourself around possitive people that you love and respect and that love and respect you!
I write me feeling down!
Last, but not least, I come here .........this is my soft place to fall.
Hang in there my friends!!!
Life can be good, life is good, life is worth living, we all get better and learn with time and patience.
Tink =;o)
