are you highly sensitive?
guest article by jenna avery, clc, life coach for sensitive souls
do you often feel overwhelmed by your environment or the people around you?
Thanks Sunnygal for sharing this article, it's defiantly a keeper. Wow, that article describes me 100%, I aways thought something was terribly wrong with me, I've always felt like the odd one out. I felt like this even when I was a small child. To make matters worse I'm very introverted. Like some of the others have already said, I too fight to suppress this, trying to appear normal (what ever that is). My Mom is the same way, I guess that I inherited this from her.
Hapgood
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inquiring minds want to know!!!.
growedup
They will deny it, then blame it all on those evil apostates. I like this quote, don't know who wrote it.
"Only persons truly responsible for injustice prefer silence and seek to impose it."
Hapgood
as a fader i still get the occassional dub visit.
it is very rare but i guess at this time of the year it is to be expected!.
as i was out in the garden yesterday a brother and his family drive up in their very expensive car on their return from rural witnessing.
So far no invite. But there's still 4 weeks left. Last year was the first year that I didn't go to the memorial, so maybe they think I'm a lost cause. I can only hope.
Hapgood
i feel guilty that i don't give a hoot about anything that i believed in over the last 4 decades.......what are you feeling guilty over??
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I feel guilty that I brought my daughter up in the JW religion.
Hapgood
I never thought that I was good enough to live through Armageddon. What a terrible burden to carry.
Hapgood
several years ago, an elderly brother was no longer able to take care of himself.
credit, a witness couple related to him, took him into their home.
sadly, the other witness.
Very chilling story. Makes you wonder if we are forever wired to this cult even when we escape, it's so deeply ingrained in our brains. This man forgot everything that was important in his life, everything but the JW religion, like you said all that was left of him was the JW programming, that still worked. No wonder the JW religion is so hard to escape. I think the nick name "The Borg" really fits.
Hapgood
many here are familiar with the current watchtower doctrine that jesus is the mediator for only the 144,000. .
members of the great crowd who know and believe wt doctrine on this subject will deny that jesus christ is their mediator.
those of the remant who know and believe wt doctrine on this subject will claim to have jesus christ as their mediator, but will deny that the mediator is a man.. however, the bible says that the mediator is .
I didn't find out that Jesus as our mediator is denied to most JW's until I visited "apostate" sites. Wow, was that a shocker to me. The Watchtower sure doesn't have this view stated very clearly in their literature if the average JW does not know about this. I showed my hubby, he didn't know this either. Didn't do anything to change his mind though, he's still a loyal JW. But to me when I found out that the JW's taught this I found it shocking.
Hapgood
there seems to be a problem with incense burning now!
this is from the watchtower website: http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2003/6/1/article_01.htm.
a) they are running out of crap to publish.
Unbelievable!!! If this wasn't so pathetic it would be funny. I don't really like Incense, but I think I might just go buy some. I'm due for my yearly "Shepherding" call from the Elders (hope they forget about me this year), maybe I'll have some Incense burning then, have to have the house smell nice you know, I have cats and they can be smelly little things :-)
Hapgood
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in the congregation, were you a meek, mild, sweet person or did you find yourself always getting counseled because of your mouth??
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I was always meek and mild, the perfect submissive little lamb. Always considered the nice person, didn't want to make any waves. I never gave them any trouble until recently, that's why I don't think they know quite what to do with me now (a story for another time when I get brave enough to tell it).
Hapgood
i was asked by my mother today "are you going to the memorial this year".
i declined most graciously and said thank you for thinking of me, and although i haven't been for the last eight years i thought no more of the ritual invitation.. then suddenly it dawned on me that my mothers response was quite abrupt and something along the lines of "well i have done my christian duty by asking you".
it was if she was literally washing the blood from her hands and she had tried to save me yet again.. has anyone else experienced this my mother has always talked to me with all civility about the "truth", i just wondered if there is new counsel now in how to deal with daughters and family that have fallen by the wayside.. appreciate your help.
Last year was the first time that I didn't attend. And I will not be going this year. My hubby is a jw, so it was a challenge not to attend, it would have been easier just to go. I told him that my conscience would not allow me to attend, I explained why, and he accepted it. I can't help but feel that I'm rejecting Jesus if I attended now that I know the truth about the jw religion.
Hapgood
