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WERE THERE BORING MOMENTS IN YOUR KH?

by badboy in

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?

kitties_and_horses_oh_my!

This thread reminded me of a game I use to play at the KH. I would look at my watch and then try and count the time in my head and then when I thought 5 minutes had passed look to see how accurate I was. I got a mars bar at school once in a biology lesson for timing one minute spot on. When I left the dubs I had an talent for perfect time comprehension. On the downside when I left the dubs I lost said talent due to substance abuse. Oh well wont need it again.

This is so funny, I did the exact same thing! Funny how counting seconds seemed more interesting than what they were saying on stage...and yeah, I have an amazing time comprehension now, too. I can be somewhere and think "oh, it's been 12 minutes" and it has. Oh, and the comment about everyone being relieved when the speaker didn't show up for Sunday meeting? Yes, yes and yes!! One funny inicident though: this incredibly socially challenged brother started giving a talk, then half-way through said "okay, that's all, I'm done" and walked off stage. We all looked at each other in shock, then he walked back up on stage and said "nah, just kidding" and finished his talk. LOL Poor guy, then he ruined it by going to BETHEL!!! Kitties

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are young children still being

by tenrats in

spanked, beat, whatever at kingdom halls?

still in the washroom or do they now have rooms that children can be disciplined in?

is the wooden spoon old light?

kitties_and_horses_oh_my!

No, I'm sorry, I think they save the heavy artillary for home or at least in the stall in the bathrooms.

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are young children still being

by tenrats in

spanked, beat, whatever at kingdom halls?

still in the washroom or do they now have rooms that children can be disciplined in?

is the wooden spoon old light?

kitties_and_horses_oh_my!

Welcome tenrats, I don't believe I've ever said hi, so hi!

As to the wooden spoon, I do fear that is old light. The wooden spoon was replaced, even in my not-so-long-ago era, by a leather belt (used only after the appropriate scripture was read - by me! - to justify my getting "spanked"), the open-handed slap (good for when you're just really angry and don't want to waste time pretending the scriptures are behind your "discipline") and the good-ol "just scream at the kid for hours, that'll show her how to handle problems when she's grown up!" But perhaps the wooden spoon is still in use in some old, not so progressive homes. Actually, I think the only reason it went out of style chez moi was b/c my dad broke it over my sister's butt. Or, wait, no that was the wooden cutting board....

Kitties

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to all parents..please please answer...

by gotcha in

hello it's been a long time since i was here just needed some input please from all loving parents...would you rather your daughter be:

1. married to a guy who's not really that great (history of having lotsa women, irresponsible) but seems to love/like your daughter.

2. be gay (with woman who is quite good, responsible and everything but - a woman...).

kitties_and_horses_oh_my!

Gotcha,

Dear woman, I'm sorry you're going through this. Please feel free to PM me anytime. I have a dear friend who goes back and forth from Mormon to wiccan, from straight to bi. (I know, quite a variation, but I think she's not so unlike exjws, feels what she thinks she should be and it conflicts with who she really is.) When she found out that I knew she was bi she cried, she kept asking me all night if I still loved her. It was so painful to me to see her going through this. How could I not love her? Not "in spite" of her being bi, but because she is who she is and the orientation does not matter! Dear Gotcha, people who truly love you will always love you. My parents don't talk to me, and it kills me, but I know they still love me. Sometimes people will treat you poorly b/c they don't understand how to deal with their own biases and conflicting emotions. In the end, though, you will still be in their hearts. Not much comfort, I know - but the truth is that not everyone will accept you or your choices. So they will always love you, but they may not be able to accept you. That's when it comes down to you accepting you and making the decisions that are right for you. The jw's preach against this - how dare you do something for YOU?? - but that's bs. You have this life, make the best of it. We have moments of joy, moments of happiness, and all you can do is enjoy them when they come and be grateful. Living your life in someone else's image of what it should be will not bring you more joy or happiness.

Best wishes, Kitties

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OldSoul is Temporarily Offline

by jst2laws in

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oldsoul asked me to start a thread to let you know he will be offline for a short time.

he did not know if it would be a few days or a week or so.

he very much regrets this sudden absence considering he has made many friends in a short time and may have left a discussion or two in suspension.

kitties_and_horses_oh_my!

I esp like his avatar of Stewy. Everytime I read something from him I cant help but hear the condescending english tone of voice. Its great!

Hey, just feel the need to mention that Stewy was Doc's avitar first!!! I know, I know, some people just feel the need to copy the best.

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You know you were a little girl of the 70's/80's

by closer2fine in

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1. you wore that rainbow shirt that was half-sleeves and the rainbow went up one sleeve, across your chest and down the other.

2. you made baby chocolate cakes in your holly hobbie easy bake oven.

you washed them down with the snoopy snow cone machine.

kitties_and_horses_oh_my!

OMG, this is heaven! lol

colorforms
Wonder woman
Big Wheels
Chips - *I was in love with John*
Garfield everything
Transformers - More then meets the eye...
Burger King's paper king hats
McDonald Happy meals came in paper boxes with cool toys
99 red ballons
A single pony tail on the side of the head
Leg Warmers!
Rainbow Brite
Sasson Jeans
Tab cola
Weekly Readers
Smokey the Bear and Hooty the Owl (ya

Okay, wonder woman so rocked!! And Chips - forget John, it was the Hispanic guy - Ponce? - he was hot!! Oh, and book orders! And the best: after-school specials! I loved those cheesy movies with the little moral at the end. :-) Oh, Fraggle Rock!! And Pinwheel: Pinwheel, Pinwheel, spinning around, look at my pinwheel and see what I've found...

Kitties (of the "now in la-la-land for the rest of the evening" class)

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Sick Nostalgia...

by kitties_and_horses_oh_my! in

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lately i've been feeling overwhelming nostalgia for my time as a jw.

i know it's foolish and stupid, but it keeps happening.

today i was at starbucks and i saw a family come in after meeting.

kitties_and_horses_oh_my!

Thanks so much! I think you're right about it being a form of grieving, realizing that my parents really are gone from my life. Also, Euph, I think you nailed it when you said that I'm missing the feeling of belonging. I think that's so much of what it was - when I saw those Witnesses @ Starbucks, I just felt so comfortable in their presence. You know, the slightly socially inept teenage boy, the girl with her long hair and white tights with sandals, the dad in his ill-fitting suit - odd how those things make me feel comfortable.

I see a counselor once in awhile and one of the things we discussed today was labels...she said how very safe JWs feel, with their simple labels of "good" vs. "bad." It's not until you enter the real world that you see how unstable reality is, how in reality most everything is good and bad, true and false. So perhaps I'm missing the simplicity, the safety of being a JW. Life gets so much more complicated when you realize you are no longer a "good JW" but a student (who sometimes does a great job and othertimes can be pretty lazy), a wife (who sometimes is wonderful and other times falls on her a**), a friend (who sometimes is loyal and true and othertimes more selfish than she'd like to admit)..there are no more simple labels. But it's reality, and better for me to embrace that than to chase after a "truth" that is really an illusion.

Love you guys, Kitties

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Anyone vegetarian and why??????????

by BLISSISIGNORANCE in

i'm not vegetarian.

being italian and brought up on the mediterranian diet i tend to eat a lot of fruit, vegetables, cheese, pasta, rice and some meat.. i'm just curious to know who here is vegeterian and why?????.

cheers, bliss

kitties_and_horses_oh_my!

I've been a vegetarian a few times, about 6 months each time. I really want to go back to being one, but a few things keep me from it:

- it's expensive if you have to eat quick vegetarian food like boca burgers and stuff

- people get pissed when you're a vegetarian, as if you're saying you're better than them

- even if they don't get pissed, I feel like I'm inconveniencing people with my "picky dietary restrictions" - people get hurt if you don't eat their mother's famous italian sausage lasagna, or say you're causing problems if you can't find anything to eat at the local fast food restaurant they always want to stop at, etc.

- people always want to moralize the topic: "you're not really making a difference" - "we're made to eat meat" etc. etc. etc. They don't seem to get that I'm not expecting to change the world, I just feel better knowing I'm not stuffing my mouth with some poor dead carcas of an animal that both lived and died in pain.

I try to eat as little meat as possible and I buy the eggs that are from vegetarian-fed, cage-free hens. I do want to go back to being a vegetarian, but I swear, it's exhausting arguing with people who feel compelled to change your mind. It's not like I would ever even tell people about it, they just would endlessly question me about why I wasn't eating hamburger, etc.

Kitties - of the "refused to eat dinner at the age of five because she found out it was rabbit" class

P.S. - I know my spelling is awful, I'm too tired to care, sorry!

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Sick Nostalgia...

by kitties_and_horses_oh_my! in

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lately i've been feeling overwhelming nostalgia for my time as a jw.

i know it's foolish and stupid, but it keeps happening.

today i was at starbucks and i saw a family come in after meeting.

kitties_and_horses_oh_my!

Lately I've been feeling overwhelming nostalgia for my time as a JW. I know it's foolish and stupid, but it keeps happening. Today I was at Starbucks and I saw a family come in after meeting. It was apparent from a mile away that they were dubs, and all of a sudden I saw myself on these perfect, almost-spring days, on break or out in service with friends. Then I remind myself that when I was on break I was dreading the break ending, that my "friends" were the same people who would stab me in the back as soon as I turned around and that I wasn't allowed to ever have wants or desires of my own. Yet, I still feel this craving for the sing-alongs at the dorms by Gill Coliseum where we used to have our summer conventions. Am I losing it?? I sometimes wonder if it's because I'm prepping to go to grad school and I realize now that this transition - for some reason, more than any other - will seal my fate in the eyes of my family. I will never be let back in and part of me is aching for the love of my parents.

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Most hated WT publication

by Nosferatu in

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what is the wt publication you hated the most?

why did you hate it?

for me, it was probably that damn pink great teacher book.

kitties_and_horses_oh_my!

Day's Text - because half the time the comments had nothing to do with the scripture, and I always thought it was my fault for just not getting it!

Great Teacher book - I never read a single story in that book, the cheap paper and black and white pictures were terrible.

Revelation book - made no frickin sense, took things and twisted them and made something out of them that was never there to start with!

I did enjoy the Bible Story book and I liked the Mankind's Search for God book - read that the night we got it, amazingly, the first and only book I ever did that with by choice. Too bad I know now how inaccurate that book is, but it was more informative than most of the drivel they published.

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