Posts by Mystla

This was on Yahoo news today, cracked me up! Croatia tempts tourists with cheap dental care http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061016/od_nm/croatia_dentists_dc_1

I particularly enjoyed this line: "It is a perfect opportunity to combine holidays and dental care,"

LOL, that's what I want to do on vacation.. get my teeth worked on!

Misty

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"Newbies"

by Butters in

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uh, hello, uh, well, i wanted to know how long it will be before the "newbie" title comes off?

i noticed that some others who have been here since 2004 still have the title "newbie".

how many years do you need before you move up?

Mystla

What you need is a post like this one!!!

(note the # of this post) :)

Misty

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Are Faders "better" than DF'd or DA'd?

by ESTEE in

this is something i've been mulling over.

just would like to hear opinions as to whether faders, or inactive ones think they are superior to disfellowshipped or disassociated ones?

what is your experience with this?

I'm proud of who I am now, just not in a superior kind of way! lol At least who I am now is based on me, not what they thought I should be. Whats funny is that underneath my superior attitude I felt completely worthless, I could never get it right or be good enough.. how's that for contradictory?

I shudder when I think of how I used to say "worldly" with that tone.. you all know the one I mean. UGH!! Actually it's similar to how I say JW's now! Lol, I guess I should work on that!!

Misty

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Are Faders "better" than DF'd or DA'd?

by ESTEE in

this is something i've been mulling over.

just would like to hear opinions as to whether faders, or inactive ones think they are superior to disfellowshipped or disassociated ones?

what is your experience with this?

Mystla

I was raised a Dub and pioneered for three years, so I know what feeling superior is like! LOL!! I am so glad that one of the things I shed along with that religion was my superiority complex!! When I think back to my nose in the air attitude...ach! it's so emberessing!

I'm a fader who wishes she had the courage to DA! And am grateful I never got the additional kick in the gut that DF's get, it was hard enough without that!

Misty

oh! the superiority complex runs in the family, btw, my sister and her hubby were recently made CO's Her nose is so high in the air.. if it rains, she'll drowned for sure!!

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In-laws getting in the way...

by roflcopter in

my marriage has been hitting rocky roads lately because the in-laws know my stand as far as what i feel about jehovah's witnesses.

every 3 days or so they send my wife a letter full of propoganda and how she needs to come back home, yadda yadda.

it truly is recking my marriage.

Mystla

Wow, that was a really heavy pile of guilt to put on someone you are suposed to love. JW's excell at finding ways to guilt you out and your MIL has learned from the best. Tell your wife she doesn't need all that guilt!!! It's her life!! I know that's simplistic, but it makes me so mad! My mom still tries this crap on me from time to time.. but I change the subject right away, I know I don't have to listen to her crap anymore.

Seriously, how can someone put that much guilt on somebody they love? Your MIL sounds like a real drama queen.

Hang in there and show your wife as much love as you can, she needs it!

Misty

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My Trip to the Dentist's Torture Chamber

by Alpheta in

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hola all.

well, i won't go into all the gory details, suffice to say it was absolute .

fricking torture for four hours.

Mystla

MsMcDucket.. the reason novacaine makes you feel like your having a panic attack is that it's full of adrenalin. Or so I was told by my dentist. I was shaking from head to toe, shaking so hard I could hardly stay in the chair. I told the Doc that I didn't understand 'cause while I wasn't unafraid I wasn't terrified, either. He said some people react that way to novacaine. The next time I went in they couldn't get my tooth numb and gave me three shots.. it was rediculous! My feet were bouncing all over the foot rest and my teeth were chattering.. they couldn't get going again til the effect wore off some!

I was in the middle of having a cavity filled once... mouth all braced open, drool running all over.. you know how it is, when something crashed in the next room over and someone screamed and everyone ran to see what was going on.. everyone but me, of course.. I layed there for awhile wondering if I should try to get up, but about ten years later they came back. Apperently the patient next door had had an epileptic seizure. I decided that laying there alone for a little bit wasn't so bad after all. The dentist was so shaken up he was talking 90 miles an hour and his hands were shaking worse than mine!

Ach! I brush and floss and gargle and take my calcium, etc. and my teeth are a mess.

Misty

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Did I miss my opportunity?

by StillGroggy in

im a long time witness but the last district convention with all of it's "don't think for yourself" propoganda led me to this board.

lately i've been trying to formulate a plan, to try and reason with her and get us both out (although her whole family is in, and probably will be till death)

my wife has at times been dissilussioned with the org, but, ironically, i'm usually the one to comfort her and tell her to wait on jehovah.

Mystla

I highly recommend going way back on this forum to when ithinkisee told his wife and what it led to. I particularly enjoyed her (freedomlover) first few posts here, watching the evolution of a freed mind :)

Here's a link (I hope) to the where it started http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/9/96258/1643345/post.ashx#1643345 It takes awhile to read, but it's worth it.

Good luck with your wife :)

Misty

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two birds with one stone, without getting stoned. possible?

by TheKings in

i really need some help from the experts.

the situation i'm living in now is that i'm currently saving money to move out.

my family are jw's, but actually only my mom is baptised.

Mystla

I, too, kept my boyfriend a secret for a long time. I was already out on my own, which made this easier. In fact we had been living together for over a year before I told mom about him.

I don't have any advice about what to say to your family. I know none of them would ever have listened to any "apostate" info and would have quickly shut me out permenatly. They don't like my current wordly way of life, but I was never Df'd so they still talk to me. I figure the best "witness" I can give them about the WTS is to be happy and sucessful away from that religion.. which they think is impossible, of course. I should be miserable now that I am in the world:)

I can tell you that not pretending any more feels great. Keeping my boyfreind a secret was a terrible strain on me, and once they knew about him they knew I wasn't an active JW anymore. It was such a relief!

Misty