sometimes it be good to write just completely unjudgementally.
feel free to do this here, on this thread, talk bollocks, talk bullshit, take nothing seriously, have fun with what and who you are, frollick with words and make them dance if need be.. any commonsense thread is immediately disallowed.
simply write fun and let words tumble forth, cascade upon your typing fingers.. this is your space and no one will judge you at all for what you write.. if someone is dumb enough to ask anything not pertaining to enjoyable daftness, celtic will rampantly inspire in his mind, complete junkish compliments to ranckle your mind, until you write absurdity.. there be fun out there, who first?
I love this thread! I love this thread! Nakedly I run through cyberspace munching on Peppermint patties screaming yelling mindlessly " We represent the lollipop guild, the lollipop guild, the lollipop guild" Woo hoo! Nah nah nah nah nah.... no one can judge me now!!!! Wheeee!!!!!
Gawd, that felt good!!!!-
have you had any close calls?
what's the closest you've ever been to kissing it good-bye?
did your outlook on life change because of it?
On the operating table. When I finally realized that what I thought to be the end was near, actually I felt peaceful and ready to go. (Not at all the feeling I expected). After I "came to", I asked how close I was to "checking out". (I wanted to make sure that I was not exaggerating my state). I was told that I was very close. And yes, it did change my life. I figure I'm on 6 years of borrowed time and decided to enjoy the ride. After reading the harrowing stories of what happened to everyone else, I feel very lucky, um,... fortunate, um... blessed ,um..., ALIVE!!!!
The humid steamy restrooms. Floors mopped up using buckets filled with dirty water, huge rolls of toilet paper that had previously fallen on the wet floor and picked back up for use. The smell of stinky bodies coupled with warm urine and other "stuff"... Ahhh, who could ask for anything more?
this year at the dc, we were expressly told to wear our badges at all times, even when going to a restaurant or some place else, so we could "give a witness.".
did any of you hear follow through with this arrangement?
did you have one of those "fantastic" experiences, when someone commented on your badge?.
That's the one thing that I was downright adamant about! I stopped wearing a badge around 1980 or so. When I DID wear a badge, I never wore it in the prescribed fashion and in the prescribed badge holder. I always used a badge holder that I got from some secular convention or other function. And when I DID wear a badge, that sucker came off in the car on the way out. I NEVER wore it out to dinner or anywhere else. Mostly because I didn't want any other witnesses coming up to me, introducing themselves and saying "That was a fine program! Do you not agree? Come, join us for dinner so that we can further discuss the events of the day." (Ugh! as if I hadn't heard enough already) Subconsciously, and now looking back, I think that was the REAL beginning of the end for me. Badges started to mean "label" to me; and I HATE being labeled. Period.
i told my husband that i'm pretty sure i wasn't allowed to play with these when i was younger but i can't remember the reasoning behind it?
was it because they had special powers?
or was it because one of them had a four leaf clover on him?
| Don't know about the rest of them, but the description below of this particular bear is a classic "no no" in JW terms and enough to make any JW start having conniption fits! We personally have the Care Bear movie in our home video collection. Good Luck Bear is loaded with luck and he loves to share it with anyone who can use a little more good fortune. You'll almost always find this bear with a big smile on his face. Even the symbol on his tummy is lucky?a four-leaf clover! | |
| Caring Mission: | He shares his good luck with others. |
| Symbol: | His four-leafed clover symbolizes the luck that's always with him. |
| Personality: | Happy and self-confident. |
| Character Quirk: | He can make broken machines work with a snap of his fingers. |
| Color: | Green. |
| Best Friend: | Funshine Bear |
| Relationship Challenge: | Cheer Bear?for some reason, his good luck doesn't work when she's around. |
| Motto: | Lucky for you I'm here ! |
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aside from the reasons jws give as it being a pagan holiday renamed..... i do not like the fact that parents think nothing of lying to their children about this mythical santa claus.
and the constant hollywood movies making anyone who exposes the gag as an evil monster...while giving children reasons to believe that santa claus really does exist after all...ignore your older friends who have been poisoned by the secular world.. i find it appalling to ever teach a child to simply expect people to give them things just because the calendar says a certain day.. i find the mindless devoution to christmas to be just as appalling as the brainwashing jws do against it... i see people in my office acting like german clocks... the clock strikes easter and the decorate the office, strikes holloween and they decorate again...strikes christmas and more decorations..... then the frets and worries over what to get who and how much to go into debt over it.. i knew one lady who spent over $300 on a child less than two and was very depressed about two weeks later when the novelty wore off and only very inexpensive things returned as the main attraction.
I may be odd man out on this one. I was born and raised a JW and I've ALWAYS liked Christmas. I agree with not promoting the Santa lie and gimme gimme gimme 'cause you gotta. To me, it was never about the "stuff". It's the smells, the atmosphere, the food, the songs (O Holy Night always gives me the chills), the visits from friends, (most of them JW's) etc;. Did I say, most of them JW's? The hardest part about all this was that I had to keep most of this happiness to myself, appear to be somber in public and "tsk, tsk" everyone who celebrated because I "felt sorry for them" . There were a select few JW's who privately admitted liking Christmas as much as I do. The feeling I get is probably the same feeling that the little Whos (from How the Grinch Stole Christmas) felt when the Grinch stole all the presents and they all joined hands and sang "Fah who for-aze! Dah who dor-aze! Welcome Christmas, Come this way!" They had not presents but the spirit lived on. I like that.
they say that memory is all about association.
when we recall a happy or desperate time in our lives, a song or tv programme or even an ad can bring the era concerned flooding back.. these are my "leaving the dubs" selections:.
my song was "beautiful sunday".. my tv programme was "monty pythons flying cicus".. my tv ad was "click on here and turn up the speakers.
This one does it for me. I remember a specific place and time and smile whenever I hear...
Diary (By Bread)
I found her diary underneath a tree.
and started reading about me
The words she'd written took me by surpise
you'd never read them in her eyes.
They said that she had found the love she waited for.
Wouldn't you know it, she wouldn't show it.
When she confronted with the writing there,
simply pretended not to care.
I passed it off as just in keeping with
her total disconcerting air
and though she tried to hide
the love that she denied,
wouldn't you know it, she wouldn't show it.
And as I go through my life, I will give to her my wife
all the sweet things that I can find.
I found her diary underneath a tree.
and started reading about me.
The words began stick and tears to flow.
Her meaning now was clear to see.
The love she'd waited for was someone else not me
Wouldn't you know it, she wouldn't show it.
and as I go through my life, I will wish for her his wife
all the sweet things that she can find
all the sweet things they can find
hey!
ok, we all know of this uncanny word play about not saying, "you were lucky," and not saying "bless you" after someone sneezes.
but this is a bizarre one i heard.
If you start getting a strange feeling in field service and have an uncontrollable urge to turn around and go to a particular house, more than likely that person was praying for you to come.
hey guys, .
was just wondering what is your worst jw buzzword.
probably all of us hate the "just leave it in jehovah's hands.
One final one from me and I'll retire from this thread. Drum roll.....for the buzz word I hate most of all:
ENCOURAGEMENT!!!!
To therapy I go hee hee, to therapy I go ha ha...
hey guys, .
was just wondering what is your worst jw buzzword.
probably all of us hate the "just leave it in jehovah's hands.
(In prayers) ``give us a portion of your spirit" (which portion: white meat or dark?)
This one almost made me wet my pants!!!! ROFL
