i have been sick for the past few days and i havent been sleeping right until last night.
i took a few tylenol pm and they knocked me right out.
i slept most of today and now that its night time again i cant sleep.. so my question to you is, when you cant sleep... what do you do to finally go to sleep?.
I usually sleep good. Every now and then however, I have trouble getting to sleep. What helps me is too think back to the past and remenisce over something in my past that I really enjoyed. I try to remember all the details and actually try to put myself back there. I usually fall asleep in minutes, actyally it seems like minutes, but I don't really know. I just fade off to sleep.
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so the countdown continures to the election and it'll soon be over.
"thank goodness" some might say, eh??.
anyway, on a more personal level, how's the week been for you?
Hi Ozzie, I hope you had a great weekend.
This was one thing that irked me to no end. I was impatient and went looking after 1/2 hour. I don't know if anyone else did this or not, but in my Cong. we had "reminders" that if you got into a lengthy conversation, you still needed to be mindful of the others in the group, and leave off with, "why don't I answer that on my next (intrusion) visit". I would even remind people I knew that did that regularly before we got to the territory, I still had to go get them...LOL. I felt like going home many times, but never did. The people I was usually with liked sports, so we talked sports, until the 1/2 hour was up that is..LOL.
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hey everyone.
i have been away from the forum for awhile.
gosh, i guess it has been a real long while.
Wow, thank you all for a real nice welcome back!!! Tink has had a rough time for the past 8 months or so with her health. She suffered with pain starting in her back then after a few months with that, the pain spread into her right arm and down to her fingers. Then finally to her right leg and toes. All the while she underwent Tests up the wazoo. Two months ago she got the results of an MRI she had on her neck (finally one of the doctors figured out the source) and that revealed a severely herniated disc in her 6th and 7th vertibrea in her neck. She had surgery this past tuesday and is recovering. They removed the disc, put a bone graft in, and a steel plate with 4-screws, to fuse it together. She'll have fun at airports from now on...LOL. She is one tough cookie. I'm taking real good care of her. Spoiling her rotten (As if I didn't before...LOL)
I really appreciate you all welcoming my return!!
I'll keep you posted on Tink's progress. She say's Hey to all Y'all.
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hey everyone.
i have been away from the forum for awhile.
gosh, i guess it has been a real long while.
Hey everyone. I have been away from the forum for awhile. Gosh, I guess it has been a real long while. I just wanted to break the ice and say hello to everyone. I haven't read much here lately either. Before I read up, I wanted to say hello first, that way I'll feel alittle more at ease making a comment on anyones post. I didn't go back to the Borg. Didn't even think about it. I've just been wraped up in work, and family. I'll be making an effort to post more often. I look forward to conversing with you all again.
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so many of us on this forum have criticised the watchtower society for their obscene blood transfusion/fractions policies.
quite right too.. it begs the question though; what are you doing about blood now that you have a more tolerant and informed perspective?
it's a rhetorical question.
Yes! I donate blood every 56 days. The Red Cross comes to my place of employment. We have about 450 employees and usually get 30-35 people donate. The Red Cross volunteers said that 60% of the people in the US are eligable to donate blood, but only 6% actually do so. I thought that was pitiful. Just imagine if only the 6% doubled how many more lives could be saved. Last year when they came to accept blood donations they were unable to hand out Tee-shirts and hats, like they did on previous occasions. I was shocked to hear comments from some of my co-workers that they wouldn't give blood if the Red Cross stopped giving little gifts out to donars. How pitiful is that! I get a great feeling when I give blood. As small a contribution as it is I feel that someone somewhere is being helped out of a bad situation by the small amount that I contribute. I wish that someday the % of donars will go higher.
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we all know that we do not know the correct pronunciation of the name of god.
over 6000 times, the tetragrammaton is mentioned in the ot.
yet for some reason, most bibles do not use the name jehovah or yahweh but a few times.
I use the term "Creator" because I believe in a superior being who created all things. I do not use the name "Jehovah" for the same reason as Mulan.
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g?day all,.
so owyergoin?
mrs ozzie and i have been enjoying some farewell parties this weekend and we got to thinking about those weddings at the kingdom hall.
The Talk, definately. Gumby made a comment that was right on. It's more like a "marraige class". That's what Tink and I felt with our's. The Elder who did ours WAS a good friend of mine. He singled out Tink when it came to her "roles" as a good wife and really layed it on thick with the Psalms on a good capable wife, as if he was saying "...Now Nat, you better take good care of Craig..or else!!..."
The Music was lousy too. In our area in Ct., It always turned into a talent show with everyone taking turns singing popular love songs that were currently out. There wasn't enough cotton around to stuff in my ears!
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Blondie, Great job!!! I enjoyed reading it.
One saying I have come to hate is "Putting on the New Personality". This is my annalogy on that statement:
New Personality= Stop caring for mankind in general (Only show kindness to fellow Dubs), Do not take Blood (even if your loved one will die without it), Do Not give Blood ( even if you will save lives by doing so), Do not donate to "worldly" causes or Oranizations (Just show up at disaster sites and hand out WT dribble), Shun those opposed to the WTS (even when this includes your children, or your mate or best friends), Ignore all the things you hear about the WTS they are false(like child molestation within the Borg, and the protection of those who do it), Believe everything the WTS say's and never question it (even if your own common sense and concience tell you different).....and many, many more!
Old Personality= The opposite of everything above
Which one would you pick?
Thanks again for such a good post!
CC
to be safe, as usual i resort to fluff........ ok your favourite and worst top 3 films ever.... top.
1. starwars.... rotj.
2. jurassic park.
My all time favorite is Jeremiah Johnson. Next is Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Almost everything Paul Newman was in especially Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Hustler, and A Long Hot Summer. Apocolypse Now was is my favorite film about Vietnam, Martin Sheen is an intense Actor(he suffered a heart attack during the filming). Saving Private Ryan is my favorite Tom Hanks movie, The first three God Fathers, Pulp Fiction is my favorite in the past 10 years, with 6th Sense close behind. Also Brave Heart, As Good As It Gets, and The Patriot. I saw a great British Film recently it's called Secrets and Lies.
All time favorite comedy: My Cousin Vinny
Best foriegn film: Cyrano
Movies I hated: Road House or anything with Patrick Swasee, That gunslinger movie with Sharon Stone in it (so bad I can't remember the name), Almost everything with Adam Sandler except Happy Gilmore and Anger Management (Jack saved the day on that one), All the new Star Trek movies (sorry Trekkie's).
I have alot more I really liked and some more I really hated but these are the ones that instantly come to mind.
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i've managed to survive 33 years (and a couple of weeks).
what a long strange trip it's been.. in spite of some tell-tale signs of aging (wrinkles around eyes, gray hair, mystified and sometimes terrified by the current youth culture) in some ways i still feel like a little kid who doesn't know anything.
what have you learned since then?
Hey Dan...30 was my turning point (health-wise). I became ill with rhuematoid arthritis. I was married to a regular pioneer, was a MS, was unhappy in our marraige, and stressed out over all the responsibility the elders were dumping on me. That was in 1985. Three years after that I turned 33 and was really struggling with the illness. My life didn't turn for the better until I moved to TN in 1995. I was divorced in 1994, so I wanted a new start far away from Waterbury, Ct and moved south. Tink and I met right away and got married in 1996. She was re-instated from being DF'ed and out for over ten years. The elders in my new cong. tried to steer me away from her, but I went with what was in my heart.
We DA'ed in 1999, and we're both very happy together. leaving the Borg was the best thing that ever happened to both of us. I still struggle with arthritis, but without the BS from the WTS I manage a whole lot better. I turned 48 this past Sept. and am gearing myself for the big 5..0.
I wonder what would have happened if I listened to those elders back then. Probably would be married to another pioneer and be miserable as HELL!!!...LOL
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