Posts by calamityjane

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Polyester skirts and recipe cards

by joannadandy in

ahh yes.. eyegirl and i were taking that long dirty and shameful walk down memory lane.

tonight's topic.

the second school, and why it sucked monkey nostrils to be a sister back there giving a talk.. you would think, no sweat, smaller crowd, less pressure.

calamityjane

thanks for the memories.

cj

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Do you address people by their "religious" titles?

by happyout in

jw
friends

even though i have been out of the borg for over a decade, when i run into an older witness, i sometimes still slip and say brother or sister so and so.. i was married by a baptist minister, and my husband insists that i address him as reverend.

this tends to make me a tad uncomfortable, although i don't know why.. when i lost my daughter, the hospital chaplain came by, and i easily referred to him as father, and never thought twice about it.

i know there were a lot more important things on my mind, but i wondered about it later.. what about you?

calamityjane

I'd rather not. Their human like me, not God.

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LIFE AFTER FEAR

by Dansk in

when i was a jw i prayed regularly and often and i thanked jehovah in prayer again when events turned out favourably.

however, sometimes things worked out unfavourably for me or a member of my family but we never blamed jehovah.

having now been out of watchtower clutches for over seven months i began to realise that jehovah couldnt lose!

calamityjane

Hi Dansk. Nice to hear from you. I totally agree with you. We can finally get rid of that ball and chain and live life and enjoy it to the fullest without restrictions and being guided by our heart, and conscious.

Love

cj.

31

The English Aversion To Root Beer.

by Englishman in

jw
friends

when we were kids, our mothers would treat our cuts and grazes with an antiseptic cream called germoline.

it's still widely used today.. to mask the antiseptic smell, thereby making the product more acceptable to kids, the manufacturers would mix in sassafras to the finished product.

sassafras has a very distinctive smell.. root beer also contains sassafras, which duly imparts it's distinctive aroma to the drinker.. so, to your average brit anyway, drinking root beer is akin to swallowing antiseptic cream, because it smells just the same!.