this has to stop !
... it took 15 minutes just to log on ... yes, the pop-up ads are getting so numberous i can't function, or make posts easily ...there are several pop-ups for a bigger penis - add 3" or more ... yeah, right, size matters.get bigger breasts ... like i need that at age 52 ... male ... mmmm use viagra ... right ... and with a 17" penis, it will go places that no man has gone before.buy insurance ... sure ... for what?
i am uninsurable.
I truly have felt your PAIN and AGGRAVATION!!!!
I was getting pop-ups everywhere here on my work PC, but my coworker wasn't. Found out that it was because of some 'spyware' that got on my PC....it would even 'hijack' my homepage every so often. I tried one thing that was already mentioned, Spybot, and it's been wonderful since.......little to no pop-ups at all. It removed the spyware that was already on the computer and now blocks new spyware from being installed.
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wanted you to meet lucy, she is the latest addition in my doggy family.
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What an adorable fluffball!!!! I just LOVE dogs....especially puppies! I just wish I could pick her up and give her a puppy hug.
~"Alana"
he lives at 3 houses down from the men's shelter where i am staying.
this guy has a history of violence and a rap sheet with the cops.
he was last arrested 3 weeks ago in the same house for some other charge which i don't know what.. the whole block area was cut off and the back area of the shelter was shut down, so no one was allowed to get outside until the whole thing was over.. talk about scary!.
Do you live in Indy? I used to live on the Eastside of Indy....in the Irvington Area....on Ritter just off of Washington. I went to the Irvington Congregation (which is no longer there, as they redid all the congregation territories before I moved).
~Alana
i recently visited my local library looking for books on jws.
checking the computer system i found that pretty much all the 'anti' books had been marked as 'lost'.
lost?
Well, as a teenage dub, I felt that it was my solemn and sacred responsibililty to hide any anti-JW books at our local small town library. I would never steal any, as I knew that woul be wrong, but I would relocate them to other parts of the library and/or hide them behind other books on the shelves. I felt that then people who may be inclined to read them would give up looking when they couldn't find them. Of course, I always made sure that the JW literature that had been donated to the library was prominently seen and available on the shelves. (I was such a dork!)
But, one day, I just thought I would take a quick peek inside one of those books, I believe it was "Visions of Glory" by Barbara Grizutti Harrison. I had always had my doubts, but just felt I was spiritually weak. Taking that peek really sparked my curiousity and as soon as I moved to a much larger community, I would then hide in some corner of the library and read these books. I didn't end up leaving altogether until years later, when I decided to intensely study and research only the Society's literature....and I found out that my doubts were real and had founded reasons. It wasn't until just a couple of years ago that I actually got my own copy of CoC, and it's all made so much sense to me now.
So, in a way, trying to hide that 'evil' literature actually helped me on the road to freedom....
~Alana
wondering if some old friends might be lurking around these parts.
jws to get a meetup together?
i've tried voting for the "official" meetup, but they always get cancelled.. if yer out there, give a shout!
I'm from central IL area, but my ex-husband, who is also an XJW just moved to Crystal Lake (from Round Lake Beach area). I can always see if he'd mind getting to know another XJW, if you'd like. (my first ex is also an XJW, and lives in Wheaton area, but he's told me before he wants to erase all memory of JWs and doesn't ever want to rehash it all, but my last ex sometimes likes to talk about it and how it has affected his life, etc. He is an ex-Bethelite)
~Alana
i believe that it was the history channel that i was watching this weekend....it was about egypt--land of the gods.
in it is talked about the ancient gods of egypt and the elaborate egyptian temples.
then, it spoke of how when the israelites left egypt how they at first had their movable tabernacle and then their temples and how the set-up of them with the courtyards and the holy and most holy places were based upon the pharoahic worship and temples of the egyptians.
I believe that it was the History Channel that I was watching this weekend....it was about Egypt--Land of the gods. In it is talked about the ancient gods of Egypt and the elaborate Egyptian temples. Then, it spoke of how when the Israelites left Egypt how they at first had their movable tabernacle and then their temples and how the set-up of them with the courtyards and the Holy and Most Holy places were based upon the pharoahic worship and temples of the Egyptians.
That certainly caught my attention.....of course, my boyfriend didn't understand why I was so interested in what was said and then I explained how JW's are to abhor things with pagan origins (or at least those which the WTS have hand-picked to have JW's abhor)....and to think that the ancient Jewish temple was based upon pagan religion would be hard to some JW's to handle. Remember, even the NWT had the drawing of the temple in it and I remember talks about how "Holy" the temple was....straight from Jehovah. Well, sounds like it wasn't straight from heaven after all.......Anyone else see this or hear of this before?
~"Alana"
just got off the phone with my mother.
she had a weird friend drive her to the er.
mom "well, i have no insurance and they have to treat me" .
Looking at this at merely a secular level, and not religiously at all, what your mother did is very irritating....not to mention illegal. I have over 20 years in the healthcare field (in the management part, not in direct patient care) and it is things like this--repeated by people all over, that helps to contribute to the rise in medical care costs. Using false names or addresses to obtain 'free' medical care is FRAUD...it is lying, cheating, and stealing.....it can be punishable by law. Now, factor in the religious aspect, and how can she truly rationalize that it's alright as a JW to lie, cheat, or steal?? Aren't JW's obligated to follow 'Caesar's laws'? As you can tell, this is a topic that can really get my goat. :-) Does she use a false social security number, too? There are ways to track people down and, if found, they can find out if a person has the means to pay and could pursue collection and/or legal action. But, it doesn't sound like she is open to much reason. Personally, I feel that people who try to cheat the medical system need to be turned in.... if not, all it just hurts the others who are honestly working to pay their bills, because it causes the fees to increase, etc....I just don't know if you want to be the one to do that or not....it doen't mean she'll stop, she just may go somewhere else in the future and not tell you....unless it is done anonymously. Just my 2 cents.........
anyone "lurking around" ever attend indianapolis eastside congs (eastgate, arlington heights, irvington, etc.
) about 20 - 25 years ago?
i've been df'd about 20 years and have never looked back.
Wow....it's so much fun when you find people who knew people you did and/or attended congregations you did! I attended Irvington Congregation for a few years when I lived in Indy. I moved there in 1988 and left Indy about 1992. A sister I knew here in IL moved there and got me interested in a brother over that way and I decided to make a move. This friend ended up marrying one of Glen Kleine's sons - Nathan. I knew the Needhams, Sparks, Staleys...and my good friends were Kevin & Cathy McAtee (I still get mail once in a while from them, as they apparently don't know that I am now an evil, inactive one) and Carl Bredensteiner. I also knew the Spencer's, who I believe attended the Arlington Heights congregation. I also briefly attended the College Park congregation, but I didn't like the 'attitude' of the brothers up there on the NW side....they weren't as friendly as my friends on the good ol'East Side. After I moved out of state, I know that they changed all the congregations up and have since torn down the old Irvington/Arlington KH and rebuilt a new Kingdom Hall there, but I haven't been back in that area to even see it. Anyone still in that area??
im new here.
there is alot of stuff to read.
its gonna take forever to catch up.
Welcome! Hey, I used to live in Houston, for about 2 years......I lived down in the Clear Lake/Webster/League City area........and I still wish I was back there in Texas instead of IL! I loved it down there and I truly believe there is no one like a TEXAN!
and i want to run away!....
hubby's mom and sister and brother in law (all jw's) are coming to visit him next week.
only for one day this time.
Blondie,
In my area, I have seen it twice where they have had the casket in the Kingdom Hall. One was an opened casket service (my ex-father-in-law) and one was closed (a 20 year old who died in childbirth -- along with her baby -- due to the blood issue) I really never understood it, unless it was another 'control' thing....so they could control the service and possibly who is there or whatever. But, my ex-husband is very DF'd and he was all over that Kingdom Hall just talking to everyone and even went up to the mike to say some things to the crowd before the service. I wonder if the elders cringed at that....I am sure that my ex (knowing him) loved every minute of telling them what to do and not letting them make him be the quiet DF'd person in the last row. :-) Then again, other churches do have funerals in them, so I guess it really isn't all that unusual. YIKES, that means they are doing things like Christendom!? OMG!
~Alana
