i am looking for a female from this board who might be interested in being a buddy with me re:daily/weekly exercising, encouragement, etc.
any bidders?
thanks (oh yeah, i am female also:).
Hi all,
I will be 40 early next year, can I play? I recently joined a gym, and I usually enjoy working out once I get there, but make a million excuses not to go. I have a young child, a full time job, and a husband, so spare time is at a premium. Any encouragement I can get is soooo wonderful.
Thanks, ladies!
Happyout (thighs expanding as we speak)
most of you know that my son is in bootcamp sd.
he made presidential security team yaaaaaaaaaahhooooooooooooo
this means he will be in the states.......
That is the coolest!!!
Congratulations to him, and to you and Thunder.
Happyout
don't you sometimes feel like "coming out" on this board..... as in my name is blah blah and i was in this cong etc etc.
i know some who have done so here.............it's not that i'm embarrassed about giving my details or letting people know here........the only thing that stops me is ...............ahhh f**k it.
jgull.
I would love to "come out" but my family is too well known, and it would get back to them and hurt them.
If they ever pull the wool from over their eyes, I will come out and do my wonderful happy dance
Happyout
how many jws are there currently in the wt who want out but are held back by things they feel they can't control?
i hear posters say that if they're still jws then they must believe it.
what about the people whose whole family are jws and don't have any outside friends to turn to or for whatever reason are relying on their jw family for financial help and know that if they expressed doubts they would be cut off no questions asked.
I kew I wanted out for at least 4 years before I started my fade. Fortunately, after one token visit, I never got any "shepherding" calls.
Happyout
a year to the day that i found and joined this site, after some years out of the org, it never crossed my mind that a place like this would even exist, and i'm not afraid to admit that it took three weeks to stop myself from crying every time i came here, for over 10 years i thought i was on my own with my borg past, the shunning etc etc.
this place has allowed me to deal with my past and will with my future too........i could write many words of course......but sometimes words are not needed.........accolades abound for you all here..........thank you.. jgull .
the record shows.
Happy Birthday to ya
Happy Birthday to ya
Happy Birthday
And glad to have you hear
Happyout
i just had a jw come to my door and i had to threaten her to get her to leave!
i told the woman right off i was 'apostate' and had no intention of changing it.
she kept asking me personal questions which i told her were none of her business and she said she would have the elders come by and i told her that if they came by the better be wearing bullet proof vests!
I think primitivegenius came up with the perfect answer. One of those big honking super soaker water guns. Post the sign on your door saying no JWs, then if they come anyway, ask them to leave once, then FIRE! I don't know that this would be considered illegal, especially with the sign and the request from you to leave.
Rayvn, I hope you are feeling much better today (((((()))))))))))
Happyout
i hope i am not sounding like a whiner.
i just started having them in earnest a few weeks ago, & have had funny little tremors for some time.
i am going to the neurologist on monday, & want to get on disability, because working @ a group home w/ severely emotionally disturbed kids gets me hit in the head a lot, which can cause adult onset epilepsy.
Avishai,
I just want to wish you good luck. Also, if there were some way to show that the seizures are coming from a work related injury, there is a possibility that you could get re-training paid for by the state (or your employer). You have to be able to prove that you can no longer do your job because of something that happened at work, though.
Take care, and hope to hear good things from you soon,
Happyout
would you or have you used a blood tranfusion since you the left the wt?
i was wondering what your feelings are on it now
Welcome Tyler and Ignorance is Strength,
If I knew about the surgery in advance, I would store blood and have them use that. If it were an emergency, I would ask my husband to donate first. If that was not enough, then I would have a transfusion. Not my first choice, but definitely an option.
I donate blood to the Red Cross, too.
Happyout
as a complement to my justice series it seems only fitting to have judicial stories told from the perspective of those who have had to sit in the "hot seat" and face the watchtower tribunal of the three stooges ... many, maybe most, elders have never had to face a judicial committee.
were this to have been the case, maybe we would not have the horror stories, but rather more tempered justice among jws.. .
before i was an elder, i too faced the trinity of elders ... and sat in the infamous "hot seat" ... for what?
Great post! I had the pleasure of going before a JC once. It was humiliating, especially since they brought my mother in with me. I was over 18, so I didn't want her to come in, but I lived in her house, so had no choice.
Fortunately, one of the elders really loved my family, so they did not question me too closely about all the details.Plus, I had come forward of my own volition, and no one ever would have found out about it unless I did. They just asked for the story, I gave it to them, and they decided to privately reprove me.
Happyout (who would laugh hysterically now at anyone who suggested she "confess")
i'm sitting at work today, listening to all the different "cliques" around me, typing here on these boards a bit (don't tell), and it occurred to me again that i just don't fit.. .
it seems like i don't "fit" anywhere.
i'm always on the outskirts of alot of "groups", always on the fringe, but never inside.
PG - I had to accept a long time ago that I am "weird". I hated it in high school, because there it's all about conformity. But, once I left the Borg, got my own place, and spent some alone time, I really grew to love me. I'm kinda allright.
Because of my family, I've always been well known, but not popular. S'aright with me, I am really kind of a hermit. Other than my family (husband, son, mother and siblings) I could go weeks without needing more than a token interaction with anyone else.
No one - I have sometimes felt the same way on the forum. I don't know if my posts are too bland or what, but sometimes it seems like they are ignored. I mind sometimes when I think I have said something pretty interesting, but the truth is, it's ok. I don't really have the time to devote to going into chat and posting a lot, so it's cool when someone responds, and ok if they don't. I know what you mean about choosing to live every day, when I first left the Borg, that was exactly my attitude. I am glad you have found something to hold onto (your wife) and I hope you will find more and more.
Happyout
