Posts by Sweetp0985

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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.

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.

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Is God able to help everybody all the time?

by Gopher in

let's assume that there is a creator of life who gots things started eons ago.

that's my persuasion, although i am not actively religious.. one major problem with belief in a creator is that he/she/it is supposed to be benevolent, loving and caring.

many evangelical christians feel he has helped them personally in various ways, emotionally, even financially.

Sweetp0985

One day when talking to my brother about biblical things he said in layman terms (hoping God doesn't strike me down right now as I type this) that God made "a bet" with Satan to see if Job would weaken and "curse God and die". We all know Job didn't do this but God knowing all things already knew Job wasn't going to weaken but allowed him to go through all this anyway. He did get his blessings in the end, but my question is, if God already knows who's going to make him happy and who he is going to have to destroy in the end, WHY NOT GO AHEAD AND GET IT OVER WITH???

It's like a scene from a movie where the person is tortured until he gives some info or dies or escapes. God already knows how the end is going to be, just go ahead and kill the evil ones, and let the meek possess the earth. Kill Satan and be done with it. When he got mad with the people during Noah's time he caused the flood. Then Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed. Ok then he sends Jesus Christ to die for all sinners. So if all sinners are accounted for by Jesus Christ death just go ahead and KILL SATAN or lock him the abyss or where ever he's going after the 1000 yrs of peace. Why does God test us imperfect humans like this and he knows we are weak? To win a bet with Satan just like with Job. He wants to prove to Satan that with all the tricks and temptations he gets people with some are still going to remain faithful to God. So why keep this going? I feel in my heart that I may not make it into this "new system" or "paradise" or even have the "heavenly hope" so for those that are going to be in those places go ahead and end it for their sakes. Why continue to let new lives(babies) enter into this wicked world everyday to suffer with all the evilness thats only getting worse and worse everyday?

And if JW's are the only true religion approved by God go ahead and wipe out everybody else or make everyone be a JW. I mean when they were building the tower of Babel(sp) didn't he confuse the languages so that the tower could stop progress? So if he was able to do that, he could make everyone be a JW if he wanted to.

This may be a bad example but its like Kingpin dealer letting lil pip squeak dealer get all the sales he can and Kingpin knowing full well he can get rid of lil pip squeak whenever he wants too but allows him to continue making his lil sales until finally he gets tired of lil pip squeak and then sends his "right hand man" to go get rid of him.

It's times like this when I just sit back and look at the world and the situation its in and wonder why do I want to stay here? Why do I want to continue here? But I have to stay here and suffer along with everyone else until Jehovah sends Jesus to get rid of lil pip squeak.

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Do you have anger issues because of mistreatment by JW's?

by LyinEyes in

i have been reading the thead on jw suicide the last two days and i have to admit, i am boiling mad, angry, and literally have thoughts of wanting to put my hands around some of the jw's who have abused so many......lol!!!!!!!

i realize this is not at all funny, but i do laugh at how i let this get to me to the point of fantazing of slapping some of the "higher than thou" jw's i have ran across in my life and those whom some of you decribed.

i read scully's story and wanted to choak the ones who did not pass her the emblems at the memorial.. i get so mad when i read how some of the jw's want to pass judgement on the one's who have committed suicide , saying they will not be resurrected.

Sweetp0985

Yes I do. I try to control it but when on this board and reading about alot of things others have been through and still going through from the holier-than-thou JW's I get mad. I just finished reading CoC and I can't even describe the anger I felt the way they treated Raymond Franz and this coming from the organization that is Jehovah's Mouthpiece. I refuse to get started with my ranting and raving today, but yes I do have anger issues because of mistreatment by JW's especially those in my immediate family that treat me like I'm Satan when people of the "world" think I'm an angel. Not bragging or anything but I do feel I'm a good person and the way the JW's in my family treat me, if for some miracle I was ever reinstated I can say I would then disfellowship myself from talking to them. I'm the same person I was then and I'm the same person now and you couldn't talk to me then because of a title I didn't have so now that I have that title I still don't want you talking to me.