i haven't been posting on the board often enough and now that i'm around here i want to take the opportunity to thank every kind word, private message, and piece of advice that;s come my way.
there are beautiful people with grand hearts on this forum and i've decided its' time to maybe get my lazy butt off my chair and organize a meetup around where i am.
i hope there are enough of you around here to make it.. next month perhaps?
I haven't been posting on the board often enough and now that I'm around here I want to take the opportunity to thank every kind word, private message, and piece of advice that;s come my way. There are beautiful people with grand hearts on this forum and I've decided its' time to maybe get my lazy butt off my chair and organize a meetup around where I am. I hope there are enough of you around here to make it.
Next month perhaps? Paris?
A nice cafe, some wine and cheese?
Who's interested :)
apologies if this has already been posted but i am speechless.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnbmyudrwgs&x-yt-ts=1422327029&x-yt-cl=84838260#t=72.
hi everyone, fyi :.
at the mid week meeting we had a letter, and a video to explain the extension project for the french bethel for the next 3.5 years.
the video was 5min long, in 3d (nice job in fact...) to show the future buildings for flats and offices (translation, video dubbing...).
well, the switchover happened - there were a couple of things i had to fix which meant the posting was disabled for longer than i planned but it's now enabled and some people have already posted.. if you have any questions about the new format or suggestions on how to improve it, please post them here.. if you are having trouble signing in or posting then you'll need to email me instead.. many thanks to everyone for their patience during the changeover !.
it is xmas time and perfumes and colognes are on the list.
what do you really love for a scent if you were being given a gift?.
Etoile from Fragonard :)
Summer day scent, just lovely!
i find they don't have a category for that on eharmony or match.com.
i wonder why?.
this is such a cute thread! :D
I suddenly wish I was an old fart who liked coffee and was ready for a trip!! :P
This was big news those many years ago. I went to a cong with lots of Filipinos and so maybe that;s why followed this news item interestedly.
I have to say though, the Filipino sisters in our cong did a lot of door to door sales in the guise of preaching. Or was it vice versa?
When we first started studying the bible with the JW's,my mum joined a filipino regular pioneers sis in a day's preaching. (There were lots of zealous jw peeps, they were wonderful happy people, who think didn't always follow JW rules to the letter. No wonder they were the happier lot)
So anyway, mum went on this big preaching spree with this sister, but discovered that this sis was counting her RP hours while selling herbal products that were really illegal. Some of them were even aphrosaidiac. She hardly ever preached. SHe went from door to door with poor mum tagging along, and just tried to sell her herbs. Newly inducted mum was in a state of shock. She came home and decided she wasn't filipino preaching again.
Like I said, no wonder, they were happy heople.
i come here to learn, but i also come here because it feels like a private club and i'm privy to be a member of the "in" crowd.
it's a great place to socialize.
does anyone else feel that they are a member of a special "club" when they come here, that only some people in this world will understand the jw world?.
I think what Kate said is struck a huge chord with me. I never really had my own belief system. My values, sense of right and wrong, my freaking conscience were supposed to be tied to the WT rules. Coming out has been difficult in some ways because I then realized I saw bday celebrations, and xmas the same way I looked at lying, cheating and stealing. Needed and still need to hone my own conscience/
This lovely group has taught me a lot. I come here to read off experiences from others, who as some said "get it"! I come to get excited to see a newbie secretly hoping it's someone I know. So many genuinely nice people from my cong trapped in that relgion. I wonder what they would do if they saw through this scam.
Another reason I'm here is selfish. I need to "keep up". Since I skype with the folks pretty often, I must be careful about what I say to them. They imagine I'm still going to the meetings so I'll have to make sure I say the right things. Blondies comments you won't hear at the WT study are such a BIG help. Thank YOU blondie!!
Finally, I fantasize that some deep dark scandal potentially from a WT insider gets posted here.
So many reasons why I come here. Big hi-fiv3, hugs and bises to the amazing people that respond each time with kind words and real advice evertime I'm in a conundrum. Ur the heart and soul of this group.
... but most of my new (post jw) friends either don't know my birth date (if people don't specifically ask i won't tell them), or they are 2500 kilometers away in the netherlands... so all that's left to celebrate with me are my hubby, the two doggies, cat and my two rabbits... mixed feelings, i miss my friends and family around and haven't found friends in spain yet.
luckily our daughter will visit us the end of the month... and yesterday we've found a new rental house and we're moving into it next month already!
i'm thrilled and really looking forward to it, then we will finally be able to let all the rest of our belongings come to spain (2/3 of our stuff is stored in the netherlands).. so with this in mind, i'll just say 'happy birthday to me' and will enjoy my third birthday in espana .
Joyeux anniversaire Bruja del Sol :D
Where in Spain are you at? Cities in Spain are so much livelier, friendlier and heartily fun (not to mention cheaper) than Paris
I want to celebrate my next birthday in the south of Spain :D
thought i am gonna introduce myself.
i am a girl from a country in europe, and not an english speaking one, so if i am writing strange or something, you know why.
anyway, have been reading here for a while now, the other day i thought it was time to register as a member.
Ur funny Humbled xD
welcome powermetal! I'm a 20 something year old living in a country where English isn't the first language (niether is it mine!)
my parents were overbearing and still are :) I was dependent on them for ages but happy to be independent now. Welcome to this forum. May u find everything I've found here: relief that ur not alone, flabbergastedness at how we've been duped, a one way door out of a closed mind, empathy and don't forget fun and laughs :)
