Posts by Bruja-del-Sol

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.