Pfffffff I got lost here! Haven't been here for a while I guess, thought I had made a mistake in the URL (it's .com now, instead of .net)... Took me a while, but ultimately I'm signed in too!
Merry Christmas everyone!
Bruja-del-Sol
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Finally got signed in!
by stillin ini was able to use my username in the email address box, as has been mentioned, but apparently the sign in page is case-sensitive.
i was trying different combinations along with my password in various forms when suddenly, a light in the sky!
i'm in!
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How did you feel when you got baptised? Seriously....
by stuckinarut2 inso recently, several over-righteous ones in the cong were discussing "how amazing it felt when they got baptised".
statements like "how awesome did it feel as you got raised back out of the water?!".
or the classic "i felt so close to jehovah as i came out of the pool"!.
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I felt insecure and confused... I had expected to feel something like a happy feeling, a proof of 'Jah' accepting me... but there was just this great blank in my mind! I thought I had to at least pray while being dunked, but there was no time for that. So before I knew it I was already on my way out of the water and felt like I needed more time to make the occasion more real. But no time, it was al going pretty hastily and there was still a line of other young people who wanted to get in the tub...
The rest of my JW-life I felt like I blew it, that my baptism wasn't good enough, like I did something wrong. I didn't even pray and it felt like I made a mistake somehow because of that. By the way, I was 17 at the time.
Oh and to make things worse: my parents gave me a new bible on the occasion, with 1 Kor. 13:4-7 written by my father on the first page (front cover)... about LOVE... They were the most unloving parents one can imagine. A couple of years ago I burned that bible in a firepit, which felt really good (at least it gave more warmth than my parents ever did!)
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Bruja-del-Sol
What WTWizard said is exactly what I meant. Thanks.
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Wedding question
by lostinthought incan a witness get in trouble for attending an inactive family members wedding?
just wondering because i am getting married this summer and my mom tried to blackmail me by saying she and other family members would attend but only if i returned to the meeting.
i told her i am not going back to the meetings.
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Bruja-del-Sol
As long as the wedding isn't in a church, I don't think they could get in any trouble for attending.
I married without my parents attending and I was relieved to have the wedding the way we planned it. My mother would've only made things horrible with her always judging people and 'keeping up appearances'. I didn't miss her killing look one bit!
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Finally sent that letter, but not to mom...
by Odrade inno not that letter.. so we hobbled along with the family relationship.
my parents (super-devout, highly involved and connected in jw-land,) spoke with me occasionally with that sad mopey voice.
at one point about 6 years ago, my mom quit speaking to me.
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After an attempt to tell my father how I felt when finding out TTATT (a year after I was DF'd), by comparing the WTS with a painting (when you're with your nose too close to a painting, there's no way you can see the whole picture, it takes distance to be able to get a view on 'the whole deal'), I received an email back in which he told me that he 'had read the book 'Bruja-del-Sol' and threw it out of the window'. In other words, I just had 'died' for him. He said I was egotistic and didn't care about other people's feelings. When in fact he's the one that has bullied all his children and never gave a second thought about how we felt. I havent heard from him since, nor have I sent him a reply.
Lately I've been thinking about writing my parents a letter after eight years of no contact, but I know they'll just use it to show others and tell them what an awful kind of daughter I am and how sorry they are for themselves... I don't want to enhance their feelings of pity for themselves or be the reason for another heart failure episode (or fake complaints about such from my mother). So I just leave them. I kind of enjoy hearing from my sister that out of 5 children (1 DF'd [that's me], 1 never a baptized JW [my sister and best friend], 3 baptized and still in JW's) only the youngest, JW daughter, still visits them. The other three, four including me, despise our parents.
So that should tell the outside world SOMETHING about how 'loving, caring, and supportive' they are as parents... they're NOT at all. To me they're dead already, and actually I'm thinking of hoisting the flag when one, or both of them, dies. (They're in their sixties, one can always hope for a speedy ending, right? )
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Bruja-del-Sol
Although I totally agree with Terry and others that it's a good thing to check, or double check, your spelling, we mustn't forget that a lot of the visitors on JWN do not have English as their first language.
And even if you do check your writings, a mistake can always happen. Even in the topic heading.
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Your favourite WTS publication?
by LoveUniHateExams ini realise that starting this thread may make me as popular as a ginger stepchild but was there any wts publication that you liked, or at least comfortably tolerated?.
my memory may be deceiving me but i think the greatest man book was pretty good, leaving out the gruesome detail of the crucifixtion and wts doctrine.. also, can anyone tell me the list of books that ray franz authored/co-authored?.
thanks.
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The songbooks. Not all the songs, but there were several songs from the purple songbook and the later brown one that I liked to play on the organ.
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Welcome to all "lurkers" and new forum members!
by stuckinarut2 init seems like we have had quite a few new members join up over the last few months!.
has anyone else noticed this?.
i guess that most of us "lurked" here for some time before we got the courage to actually join up and start as a proper forum member?
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Bruja-del-Sol
Welcome to all newbies, and to lurkers I'd say "just join in!". It's nice to be able to tell your own stories here and have interaction with others who can relate to whatever you're going through. It's a good place to be (and indeed, it can be very addictive).
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I'm sitting here listening to a JW try to recruit somebody
by Terry ini'm at starbucks .
just outside in the courtyard.. i'm trembling.
my hands are shaking.. wow!.
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Bruja-del-Sol
Wow Terry, what a nice experience this must be for you. Helping this young lad finding the truth and hopefully gaining his freedom... You said he needed a mentor, but I think he's found himself the best mentor he could get!
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My day
by Hortensia indecided to spend the day wasting time.
drove down to redding.
on the way i saw the real woody woodpecker -- every time i see one of those red-headed woodpeckers i think of the cartoon character.
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My day was kind of a waste of time also, but in a good way. Slept through the morning and got up at noon. Then had 'breakfast' with my hubby (everyday the same ritual: fruit in yogurt with a hand of mixed nuts and a bit of honey... love that!).
After that we went to a seaside resort where in the summertime literaly millions of people visit, but at the moment it's nearly a ghost town (compared to the summer). So good for us locals to be sure there's place on our favorite terrace for a cappuccino (or two, or three). Hubby and I sat there for about two hours, in the sun (nearly 25 degrees Celsius/ 77 degrees Fahrenheit, which is very nice for this time of year).
Then I had to go to a make-up store to buy a present for my daughter, who's having her birthday next week. After that we went for something to eat at Burger King (not our usual place for a bite, but they ran out of tuna sandwiches in the previous place, and our favorite restaurant is closed for their yearly vacation after being open 7 days a week for the last seven months). Burger King happened to be the first place we ran into where they had food (or something that looks like it ).
With our bellies filled again we went to a computer store to buy some things that hubby needed, after that to the supermarket for cat food and then we drove back home and on the go we enjoyed the sunset in the Andalusian mountains (we saw snow too, far away on the Sierra Nevada! The first snow this year!).
The rest of the evening we had work to do, which wasn't bad at all after the lovely afternoon we had had.
So, that was my day yesterday in sunny Spain.