Posts by Sweetp0985

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toot toot toot lookin out my back door

by xenawarrior in

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so i'm sitting here having coffee and i hear a very distinguishable sound out on my deck.

i looked out and this is what i saw.

i know they are around but i've never seen one come so close to the house before!

Sweetp0985

Ya'll make me wanna go invest in a digital camera now. I still have an ancient lil 110 film type camera. My coworker was laughing at me tonight because we had our annual hot air balloon competitions all this week and we went out there to see the Balloon Glow tonight and I pulled out my lil whipper snapper camera and she laughed at me. Said I needed to step it up a notch. After seeing the pics on here I now want a better camera. I'm gonna get one too. I hope the few lil pics I took will come out being that it was nighttime. I took some pics of the fireworks too. My coworker said they might not come out because fireworks come out better on video cams and digital cameras. I'm gonna be upset if they don't come out but I'll still have the memories in my head. Where I work at the launch/balloon field is directly behind my office and I see them taking off all morning. I'm gonna try to take some more shots later on this morning when they start taking off around 7 am. Then they have a mass ascension at 6 pm. So I hope my lil rinkie dink camera makes me proud.

I should have been gotten a better camera because I love taking pictures. I just found this camera a few days ago when doing some ultimate cleaning in my room before school starts in a few weeks. I love taking pics. How much does a good quality digital cam run?

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How Many JWs or ExJWs Have Some Type of Mental Problems?

by minimus in

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do you think they are more succeptible to illness than others?

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Sweetp0985

My grandmother used to work at a local Mental Health Hospital and she told me there were alot of JW's that came through there for their weekly "treatments". She still refuses to tell me some of the names due to their privacy.

I love my mom. But I know for a fact she has problems mentally but the thing is everyone else around her can see it except her. I remember when I was still living with my JW dad and stepmom they always labeled my mom as crazy. I even had a friend that was never baptized but went to alot of meetings tell me that alot of the friends feel sorry for my mom and they know she has a problem thats why they let her get away with some of the "crazy" things she does. I didn't say anything at the time because this was a good friend of mine telling me this. But if I ever hear of another JW saying something about my mom, I swear they are gonna hear some words from me because my dub mom can't curse them out. I CAN!!!! But on the real I wish my mom would seek some kind of treatment but she doesn't see the problem she has. Hell I need treatment myself. No medicine, but just a good counselor or something. I live day to day by the skin of my teeth, most days waking up only to wish I had never woke up.

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the soria issue.

by the mole in

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any favorite TV shows you absolutely cannot miss?

by brwneyedgrl1 in

i dont have much time to watch a lot of tv b/c im so busy w/ work and school but i am obsessed with monk and i have to watch it every friday night.

i even hate making plans friday nights cuz i dont like to miss it...what a dork, i know.

i also like family guy on cartoon network...so hilarious.

Sweetp0985

I must be just weird. If I'm not watching a movie on HBO, Cinemax, etc. I'm probably watching Food Network or Cops. I guess I wouldn't want to miss an episode of Iron Chef. I also like Food Finds also. Everytime I see Cops on I watch that too. Not really a series or sitcom person. I flip through the stations alot too like if I'm watching something and a commercial comes on I keep flipping until I find something else interesting and when a commercial comes on that channel, I'm gone again.

I really been watching VH1 lately with the I love the 70's,80's and 90's shows. I feel so old when watching that because I remember all of that stuff.

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Why does it hurt so much?

by Purza in

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i am feeling pretty negative today.

i got a call from a family member (a successfully faded family member) who asked me if i was going to another family member?s wedding.

i told him i had not been invited.

Sweetp0985

Purza, I know exactly how you feel. I posted this another board before but, Ijust despise my JW relatives when on Sundays after everyone at my Grandma's house has just come from either church or the KH and we all meet up there to eat. My JW will talk to everyone else at the house and ignore me. Like I have Devil horns growing out of my head or something. At first it really didn't bother me but now I get pissed everytime because they are judging me. I had even considered trying to get reinstated just to avoid this and to start a new relationship with my JW dad but after I really thought about it. Why should I change my life just to talk to these hypocrites. Showing love is one of the greatest commandments in the bible. It didn't say show love only to other JW's. But thats part of their "sales pitch". Being nice/showing love to people of the "world" while they are studying or a steady return visit, but as soon as they see that person has no intentions of really becoming a JW but just reaping the benefits (giving them loans, taking them places, just anything to entice the person to joining) they stop associating with that person. Then the person is like oh wait, the benefits stopped I guess I just better go ahead and join the JW's so I can keep getting these "blessings". I've seen it happen first hand. But to them this is love, their versions of agape.

I still love my family because they are family, but if for some reason I was ever reinstated or the "policy" on df'ing was ended because of "new light" which I doubt would ever happen, I would still never feel the same for my relatives that have shunned me all this time. I mean would look me dead in my face and not say a word like as soon as I open my mouth I'm going to be trying to persuade them to do something bad. They don't know what I been doing with my life. All they know is I'm not a JW and they can't talk to me. That's why the friends I have that are not JW's mean more to me than my family does. They are there for me no matter what. Even when I was considering becoming a JW again, my friends said they would still be there for me. But on the other hand if I was to become a JW again more than likely because of the borg and not wanting to bring reproach I would probably have to stop spending time with them. What a crock of crap.

So Purza even though it hurts, just keep on thanking God that you aren't like that anymore. Showing love to a person only if the GB says its ok. I feel that one day when the ugly borg is really exposed for what it is and all the faithful lil dubs can't hide from the facts anymore like they do now, it'll be a good day.

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Sad news...

by bull01lay in

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i had a fantastic holiday in florida with some good friends back in 2000 - 3 couples and a single lass.

the link below to the news story was the seventh member of our party.. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire/3539662.stm.

feels really weird - was looking through some video footage of the holiday to try and get some extra pictures of her, for her best friend.. what could possibly have been going through his mind when he did this ??

Sweetp0985

I hope there is some way to sue them for that. That is such an invasion of privacy and then they made money off of something that was sacred and to have it shown all over TV. Not that it was something bad to show but right now the immediate family needed to see that and not the whole world. And it should have been left up to the family if they wanted to show it to the world or not.

Sorry about your friend. My prayers are with you and her family.

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The special room in high school for JWs

by Nosferatu in

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i don't know how many of you went through this, but did you have to go to a special classroom with other jws in it for the national anthem?.

i remember encountering this, and i thought it was weird.

i remember being told not to be in the classroom, but this was a classroom!

Sweetp0985

None of the schools I went to had that room. I had to go to whatever teacher didn't feel like going to the (x-mas,pep rally, against JW rule entertainment) they were having that day. One time I think it was a x-mas program and my teacher couldn't find anyone else that was staying in their room that day so she had to miss the program to "JW-sit" me. Oh did I tell you I WAS NOT the only JW at my school. I wonder where they were. HMMMM.....Why was I such an ~~ignorant~~ obedient dub?

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Mother Withdraws Permission for Transfusion After "Support" from JWs

by blondie in

http://www.examiner.ie/pport/web/opinion/full_story/did-sgbn3qtsldbicsg0aewfbadppk.asp

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irish examiner.com

Sweetp0985

I wonder if she got in trouble for giving her consent at first and then changed her mind after the "support" was given. She was probably pulled into the lil back room.

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JWs forced to accomidate Apostates at SF DC

by ezekiel3 in

i just got word that protesters have been allowed on the "cow palace" convention center property (near san francisco) with a valid permit.

see the link below for a the happy jw news release on this convention.

http://www.sanmateocountytimes.com/stories/0,1413,87~11268~2309259,00.html

Sweetp0985

Elsewhere, you mean the borg didn't ban all its members from going see the Passion. I asked my mom if she wanted to go see a movie about Jesus' life and I got the whole boring speech about it not coming from NY/GB so she didn't want to see it. Maybe its a "conscience" matter.

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no more newbie for me

by poppers in

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this is my 100th post - only 13276 more and i'll catch simon.

Sweetp0985

I just recently got out of the newbie status too. But my question is where can I find an avatar? I went to Yahoo and they wanted me to do all kinds of pick this/pick that look stuff and I got frustrated and said I just won't get an avatar but I see such cute ones on here that I still kinda want one but I don't want to have to design it myself.