get a life -- 10 facts (page 11)

JW83

This thread is great!

1. I am 24 and female and Australian.
2. Haven't been to meetings for a year. My parents are still dubs.
3. Leon Uris is my favourite author.
4. Sylvia Plath - poet of the millenium.
5. My favourite movie is Reality Bites.
6. I am in my first year at uni and loving it! I am studying history and politics and want to be a famous historian one day.
7. I can't cook.
8. Seven006 cracks me up
9. When I'm depressed I read Agatha Christie - she is so sensible!
10. I love bushwalking and travelling - losing myself in silence.

Jayne
9.

peaceloveharmony

joelbear, what a great thread! this has been so interesting. wonderful to get to know you all better.

so many lefties here! lol, not only was i a weirdo jw kid in school, i was also one of the few lefties. hehe, always had a hell of a time getting comfortable in those desks, my school didn't have left-handed desks! oh the memories

jan, i KNEW you'd wanna be the bad guy! lolol

love
harmony

Most people think, Great God will come from the skies, Take away everything And make everybody feel high. But if you know what life is worth, You will look for yours on earth: And now you see the light, You stand up for your rights.~~Bob Marley

joelbear

I was born left handed and still do most things left handed, eat, use scissors, comb my hair, bruch my teeth, etc.

My first grade teacher was very anti-Jehovah's Witness and was very mean to me.

Perhaps the meanest thing she did was force me to write with my right hand. I couldn't write hardly at all and almost failed first grade. I still wonder how different my life would have been if I had grown up writing left handed.

Now that I can use a computer to communicate, I can type out my feelings and that is much more fun. Writing is still very difficult for me.

hugs

Joel
www.joelbear.com

peaceloveharmony

joel, what a bitch! i can't believe your teacher! that just pisses me off. grrrr!

i'm glad you can write here comfortably (thank god for technology!!), your posts are always great!

i write, eat and shoot pool left-handed but throw, bat, and use scissors with right hand. my father, a rightie, taught me how to throw and bat

love
harmony

Most people think, Great God will come from the skies, Take away everything And make everybody feel high. But if you know what life is worth, You will look for yours on earth: And now you see the light, You stand up for your rights.~~Bob Marley

Cowboy

OK,as much as I enjoyed reading about everyone else,I guess I should play,too....

1-I live in s.w, Oklahoma,always have,probably always will

2-I do enjoy travel,especially the parks and scenery of the western U.S.,but I would love to travel abroad someday....

3-I love music-classic rock,southern rock and good ole honky tonk country mostly.......but I'm listening to Creed at the moment.

4-born in,3rd generation JW...drifted away around age 18,which,btw,was about 18 years ago

5-went to the same small school from kindergarten through high school,(had the joy of being the only JW there) but made up for that with four colleges.....

6-have a B.S. in agriculture education,taught high school ag for a couple of years,then went back to the farm

7-three kids,boy-8,girl-2,boy-2

8-I have broken lots of bones,as a result of horses,cattle and motorcycles.My lower right leg sets off metal detectors....

9-I love this place...

10-I think we should all get together,too.Anyone for Vegas?

Dave,you are hilarious man....Take the advice you gave me and run far and fast from those wild Aussie women...,

'Nuff Said
Cowboy

"I know there's a balance,I see it when I swing past"-John Mellencamp

bboyneko

ten facts about my lunch

1) It contains 16 grams of fat
2)8 of those grams are from saturated fat
3)It contains 10% of my FDA recommended daily dosage of vitamin C
4)Partially Hydrogenated palm kernel oil has been used in it's creation, why it is only partially hydrogenated I don't know.
5) Citric acid has been added to preserve freshness. I'm sure freshness is a measurable scientific standard.
6) It is manafactured by the highly respected Oscar Mayer company located in Madison, Wisconson
7) Sorry, I am not a winner. But I am encouraged to 'try again'
8)Apparantly, it is the 'FUN' variety. I guess they were sold out of the 'BORING' type at my supermarket
9)At all costs, I must keep refrigerated, but NOT frozen. Possible world calamity would result otherwise.
10) U.S. Inspected and passed by the Department of Agriculture. I am truly porud to be eating this fine lunch.
10b) It is yummy

-Dan

MrMoe

Joelbear - (((joelbear))) Sorry honey, I had a teacher that was mean to JW kids, too. Funny how prejudice works sometimes. Nobody should be treated babdly for thier beliefs, even more so a child. I suppose that we are all guilty of prejudice from time to time. Have any of you ever seen the movie Time to Kill? (I think that's the title.) anyhow, I never thought I was prejudice until his closing comments "now imagine she's white."

Prejudice stems from fear. Perhaps your teacher was afraid of you - not as a threat, but often people are afraid of what they do not understand.

Who wants to start a new post on "Prejudice and being a JW"

WildHorses

1. I am the youngest of five children.
2. I own a residential cleaning service.
3. I love History, especially 18th century History. (found out doing a family history search, that Jessie James once camped out in my great, great grandfathers barn).
4. I love most music, except hard rock and rap.
5. I have a Chihuahua named trixe, but call her little girl.
6. I have three children and am a single parent. (two boys, age 17 and 12, and a girl 9).
7. I am 38 but feel 60. Kids will do that to you at times :)
8. My mother is my best friend. She was never judgmental of me when I was a JW and gave me support when I left the JW's.
9. I am the only one from my immediate family that was ever a JW but have been told I have distant relatives who are currant JW's in Minnesota, where I was born.
10. I live in Fuquay Varina, NC and love it here.

WildHorses

Had somehow posted this twice, so I came to delete it.

Scorpion

This is a great thread and good topic.

1. I live in California (USA) and am 43 years old.
2. I have three kids, two daughters and a son and a fantastic wife. Two of the three kids, (daughters) were on the honor role last year. My son is in 6th grade. I have two brothers and a sister. MY oldest brother is still an elder in the WT.
3. Favorite color is blue.
4. Favorite sports are boxing and football. I used to box for several years with Senior amateurs turning pro in Sacramento CA. I had my nose broken three times and reset it myself in the gym bathroom. EEEEEEOOOOWWWW. I was reprimanded by the elders of the congregation I was in several times for boxing. Remember Pay attention 1981 page 150, no self defense classes? My brothers and I were also reprimanded for playing chess, we loved it. According to the WT at that time it was a war game,(AWAKE! 3/22//73 pp 12-14)
4. I used to run a mill for a seed processing company and helped build four different plants, one in Washington and three in California. I started my own landscaping and maintenance business in 1984 and turned over much of the business to friend of mine who did a fantastic job with it, he is an atheist, I am not. I still own the Warehouse, residential and commercial cleaning end of the business.
5. I left the WT in 1989. Because of the lies spread around about why I left, I sent out 35 letters to churches in my area along with a flyer from Bethel Ministries at that time (Freeminds now) exposing the WT. I was contacted by a church to speak about the WT and ever since have spoken at several churches and private gatherings to thousands of people about the WT and Mormonism. I have sent out several thousand pieces of info exposing the WT. I have had several hundred ads in the local papers about the WT as well as continued TV ads on our local cable stations that have ran since 1996.
6. I like family gatherings as well as barbaques with friends.
7. I read a lot, but do not have a favorite book.
8. About the only TV I watch is the History channel and Animal Planet and the weakest link, and boxing. I am just too busy to watch much TV. Football season is around the corner so I will be watching that.
9. I believe in God but do not believe the Bible to be inerrant.
10. I set goals for myself every year and usually accomplish them. Most of these are family and financial goals.

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