Posts by Bruja-del-Sol

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here a picture of me, and one of me and my son

by unstopableravens in

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Mood Music: New Year's Eve version

by valkyrie in

it's 18:00 here, the evening is young - but promising.. if you listen to music, to get you in a party or socializing mood, before going out on nye, please share it here.

i am currently house-bound, but i would love to hear the festivities, as they kick off!

[i live near one of the favourite nye fireworks locales in my city - a peaky park - so i'm fated to hear the noise later on.

Bruja-del-Sol

Here's my song for tonight: Viva la Vida by Coldplay (in some way the lyrics have a link to my previous life as a JW, but I like it mostly because of the melody).

Enjoy and Happy New Year Valkyrie!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvgZkm1xWPE

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HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ONE & ALL MY FELLOW APOSTATE FREINDS

by smiddy in

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and may 2014 be the beginning of the end for the wtb&ts ./ jehovahs witnesses.. smiddy.

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Bruja-del-Sol

Me neither Smiddy, it's just that you pointed it out

For all of you a very Happy 2014! I'll be off now, have to bake our Dutch traditional pastry: 'oliebollen' filled with raisins! My mouth's already watering.... mjummy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2wagZJfNQg

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Holiday laugh on youtube: I set curtains on fire during Christmas marionette show

by humbled in

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i made a short marionette show for my adult family and accidentally set the curtain on fire!.

it was years since we had all our sons together, and with no money for presents--i did what i had done before i jumped on board with jw-screw-the-holidays thinking.

we made stuff up and had a good time.. and we did it again after some really rough years.. i don't know how else to get there but go to youtube.

Bruja-del-Sol

Happy holidays! Thanks for the good laugh, was fun watching

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So done with expectations and waiting for 'when it happens'...

by Bruja-del-Sol in

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ok, i haven't introduced myself properly.

sorry for that, but i just never feel like i've got something really interesting to say.

so i rather respond on topics of other people.

Thanks again for all the kind words and ideas! I'm definitely going to learn Spanish real soon. And I will go out and see if I can find people with the same interests as I have. The idea of teaching English is also very appealing to me, just have to see what the possibilities are.

Tonight my husband and I watched the movie 'To verdener (Worlds apart)' together. We both thought he had a pretty good image of my life when I was a JW, but the movie had great impact on him. It was definitely an eye opener to him.

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When selling was preaching ...

by Hecce in

i am going way, way back.

history reveals that in the beginning the wt was just a publishing house, selling books and magazines; over the years it evolved into what it is today..

the placement of the original publications was mostly done thru sales people masquerading as preachers.

Bruja-del-Sol

I remember those days Hecce. And all of a sudden we were told that we were no longer 'selling' the magazines and books, no we gave them away. Well, no... we weren't allowed to tell the householder that it was 'free' or 'gratis', no we had to say that we gave them 'free of charge' (I don't know how it was called in English, in Dutch it was called 'kosteloos', which literally translates to 'free of charge'...).

And from that moment on publishers were no longer allowed to keep the money the householders gave them. No, everything was 'for Jehovah', so in the KH you had to pay (if you were honest :D) for the magazines, then give them away in FS and if you got paid by householders you had to give that money too... In my opinion this was double BINGO for the WTS, I didn't understand it and it always felt like a rip off for the publishers. So to be honest, after that change I never paid anything anymore for whatever book, magazine or whatever they came up with.

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New to JWN and excited!

by sunny23 in

have been visiting jwn for about a week now and it motivated me to join.

i look forward to meeting everyone i can and learning from their experiences and wisdom as i search for more and more reasons not to get reinstated.

here's most of my story:.

Bruja-del-Sol

Welcome Sunny23, this forum is a great place with people who know what you've been through and who will help you with whatever you will go through from here. It's a comforting place!

I'm curious to read your thoughts about Christmas, so bring it on

Happy New Year!

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Out of the mouths of babes

by dissonance_resolved in

since i started my fade, i've been really worried about my kids being taken to meetings by my husband and continuing to be indoctrinated.

i guess i needn't have worried, though, the wt is digging their own grave for me.

below is verbatim my young daughter's notes from a recent meeting (though names have been changed):.

Bruja-del-Sol

This is so funny, it reminds me of a DC when I was a bit younger. It must have been 1998 or 1999. We, my then husband, our children and me, were sitting on the same row with my parents and siblings, and my (much) younger sisters were writing little notes to each other. I was supposed to behave like an adult, of course, giving a good example to both my children and little sisters, but I also was their sister and wanted to join in their fun. So I did and wrote some funny things to them.

At one point my youngest sister wrote down her name and address for my daughter (they're the same age), as if my daughter didn't know that, and the eldest of my sisters thought that was ridiculous. Especially when she saw that our youngest sister misspelled her own name. So she rearranged the letters of her name in such a way that they formed a 'dirty word' and above it she wrote "stupid cow, you can't even write your own name!"... It was really funny at the time, I burst out in laughter (of course our youngest sister didn't like it one bit, but she was a pain in the ass anyway, so we loved to tease her. And afterwards we hugged her to make it up to her again) and I've kept that note as a 'souvenir for old times' sake'. I still have it and I came across it when we were unpacking our things in Spain and it really made me laugh again. The faces of those, then, little girls and the fun we had during those borings talks

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New Here, Introduction

by budbayview in

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i have been eyeing this site for some time (years) and finally joined.

i was born in the organization, and grew up not too far were c.t.

russell started it all.

Bruja-del-Sol

Welcome, nice to meet you!

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So done with expectations and waiting for 'when it happens'...

by Bruja-del-Sol in

jw
friends

ok, i haven't introduced myself properly.

sorry for that, but i just never feel like i've got something really interesting to say.

so i rather respond on topics of other people.

Bruja-del-Sol

Thank you all so much for your input, this really helps.

@Caliber: thank you for your kind words. 'Yearning' that's the exact word for what I feel every now and then when it comes to my lost family and friends and the loss of what used to be so familiar.

@Quellycatface: I like your new years resolutions. I think I'll adopt them, it's what I should do too, get out of the house more, meet new people, make friends and definitely need to lose weight! Thanks for the kind thoughts

@Garyneal: I've had that behaviour as well once: shop til you drop and then end up with debts... Not a very sensible thing to do, but it's like you said, there's often a lack of something emotionally to get that sort of behaviour. My thought used to be 'money has to roll, just spend it, don't safe it'. But that has changed. I'm a lot more careful with money these days. So there's still hope for your wife And I'm certainly going to live more in the now as in 'no more waiting for the perfect day'.

@Clarity: you're adorable, I'm really fond of you! Your copy/pasting my very own words made me feel like I'm 'seen' here. So often that I feel like I'm a nobody, that people just don't 'see' me. Don't know if you've ever seen the movie 'What women want', but in that movie is a girl who works in the archives and all she does is bring files around at the office. And nobody notices her. I often feel like that, like it doesn't matter to other people who I am and that I'm actually there. The Christmas cards-thing gave me that feeling as well. I've left and moved to Spain and even though I reach out to my former friends, they seem to have already forgotten about me, like I've never been a part of their life. Same with the JW's. Being DF'd and it's like you no longer exist. But you (and the others who responded) have shown me that I'm seen here, I am part of the whole on JWN. And that feels GOOD! So thank you very much!

@Abiblestudent: You're being very helpful as well! You've just given me a couple of ideas that I wouldn't have come up with myself. Thanks for reaching out and sharing your thoughts. And thank you also for the compliment about my English. I just love that language. So your idea of helping Spanish students with their English is a good great one, it would work both ways: me learning more Spanish, while I help them to get better at English. (I'll ask my hubby to watch the video with me. Thanks for the link).

for all of you!