Posts by Sweetp0985

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Evacuating in New Orleans...

by Bryan in

we just arrived last friday and now we are evacuating at 2 pm.

a crazy life we have.

bryan

I hope Lafayette is enough away....They have us on standby here at work...Sometimes its good having a law enforcement job,,but right now it isnt...I have to work...But I'll be glad if they close school tho'.....I have 3 tests tomorrow..

I hope it misses us..but if not...I hope it doesn't cause as much damage as Andrew did....

And to all those headed to Lafayette...major traffic jams here in BR....I'm glad I don't have to take the interstate....

UPDATE!!!UPDATE!!! NO SCHOOL TMR...NO SCHOOL TMR...MORE TIME TO STUDY...YIPPEE!!!

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Reading : " The Vampire LeStat",,,,anyone eles like the Vampire Chronicles?

by LyinEyes in

i am reading the anne rice novel " the vampire lestat", and it is quiet an interesting read.

i have always loved the old dracula movies, but being a good jw, felt such guilt if i watched "blood suckers".

i was just wondering if anyone eles has read the books about vampires writen by anne rice.

Sweetp0985

I take this time to make an confession: My name is Sweetp and I'm a Vampire addict.

I read all 3 of the Lestat books...Interview With a Vampire, Vampire Lestat, and Queen of the Damned....after those 3 I kinda lost interest. I forgot who said it but I also love reading the book first and then watching the movie. Sometimes I read the book and awhile later they make the movie..I try to go read the book again before i watch the movie (such was the case with The Notebook)....

IMO IWAV was a very close adaption of the book..They still of course left out some of the things that would have made the movie better but it was still good..

Now on the other hand QofD wasn't close to the book at all...I was kinda disappointed but Stuart Townsend changed my mind a little bit.(that man is so sexy..then he plays a vampire again in League of Distinguished Gentlemen)......

I also read Anne Rice's book Feast of all Saints...it wasn't about vampires or anything but I saw the movie in the video store and saw it was from Anne Rice so I went and found the book, read it and then watched the movie..It was OK....

Also if you want to read another good vampire story check out A. J. Banks..Minion...its about a female vampire hunter...pretty good read....I have the 2nd novel on hold at Barnes&Noble...(shoot they might have put it back already)

I LOVE VAMPIRES!!!!

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Hurricanes and Jehovah's Witnesses

by Sweetp0985 in

i hope no one takes offense to this, but as many of you know i live in louisiana.

many here are starting to really pay attention to ivan because he hasn't taken that dog-leg to the north that many of the forecasters have been talking about.

everyone is watching and waiting for it to happen..meanwhile they keep changing the projected path..even though it hasn't quite proved the forecasters all the way wrong...it's still leaving room for change..most of all its still causing destruction wherever it goes.....does this sound familiar??

Sweetp0985

I hope no one takes offense to this, but as many of you know I live in Louisiana. Many here are starting to REALLY pay attention to IVAN because he hasn't taken that dog-leg to the North that many of the forecasters have been talking about. Everyone is watching and waiting for it to happen..Meanwhile they keep changing the projected path..Even though it hasn't quite proved the forecasters all the way wrong...it's still leaving room for change..Most of all its still causing destruction wherever it goes.....Does this sound familiar??? JW's say the end is coming. They know its coming but don't know exactly when. They estimate, estimate, get proved wrong (but not in their opinion,in their minds only... something really did happen in 1914....lol) but they keep changing their projected paths. And they also leave alot of destruction along the way of that path. People dying because of not being able to receive blood transfusions, not signing a card (Malawians), and ruining families. I'm sure many can think of alot more..... It might not be a good comparison to you guys but as I was just sitting here discussing the hurricane with my supervisor I thought about this....It's coming, Armageddon is coming, we're just waiting on the dog-leg.... BEWARE OF HURRICANE JEHOVAH WITNESS!!!!

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Caffeine induced headaches

by Stefanie in

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i am trying to quit diet sodas, but if i try to go more than 12 hours i get a severe headache that not even asprin will relieve.. .

i dont know how on earth i am going to quit my bad habit!

Sweetp0985

I get the worse caffeine headaches. The weight loss medicine I'm taking has a major dose of it and sometimes I'm so tired in my classes I might grab a coke or coffee...BIG MISTAKE...and when I don't have anything with caffeine for over 12 hours..here comes the headaches....I keep a bottle of Naproxen(sp) close by at all times..

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I just finished Crisis of Conscience...

by Badger in

thanks to ray franz for writing it.

parts of the book have been talked about on the board before, but holy $#!+...seeing page upon page of evidence kept my jaw in a constant drop.... a few thoughts.... >franz seems to have little malice for the org, and it shows in the book.. >i looked at it with a very skeptical eye (as i do everything) and tried to see it from the perspective of a witness who sincerely believed.

i was still floored by the callousness of the comments of these people.. > control really does seem to be the watchword for these folks, and they've trained the rank and file well.

Sweetp0985

I just finished reading it recently too. I've yet to get my mind set on reading ISOCF tho'. But I was a skeptic also before reading and like a few already mentioned I got pissed at the double standards of Mexico and Malawi. Also how they make judgements on matters that will affect a person's life...by a stupid ass vote...no bible usage at all. I had to grab the JW proclaimers book I had borrowed from my mom (for research purposes only) and look at picture they had of the GB. I just wanted to see what type of men could be so heartless and stupid.....They know more and more people are reading this book and finding out more info on them on the internet (like I did, but I was already df'd, and was trying to find all the reasons not to go back to the borg) and they are getting scared.

IMHO thats why i think the increase of all the beware of the internet and beware of strangers bit. They know they are losing their grip because all the lies and things done in the dark are coming to light.

I know there is no use in kicking a dead horse, but I'm still curious as to why they needed to join the UN. That was some double isht for ya azz.....You can't join the YMCA but we can join the UN. Oh my bad, be a part of the UN just to use the library.....I bet any ordinary dub would get pulled in the back room at the speed of lightening if they came with some isht about they went to a church to use the library to do research on how churches are part of babylon the great.....

I'm sorry, I'm ranting...i always get carried away...sorry

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How Many Hours Do You Work?

by Englishman in

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just curious.. todays "times" says that americans do most things one hour before the brits do.. americans, it says, start work at 8am, brits rarely before 9 am.

american lunch is at 12 noon, the uk is 1pm.

american dinner is at 6pm, uk eats around 7.. but how many hours do you need to actually work?.

Sweetp0985

I think an easier question for me would be, how many hours do I sleep?

Ok here goes.

16 hours a week at school

10 hours a week at work study program-working in the library

39 hours 1st week of student employment

40 hours 2nd week of student employment- so that I won't have the full time hours of 80 hrs for 2 weeks

School should be consided a part of work too....so for 65 hours (1st week) I'm working and for 66 hours the next week I'm working.......So I get to squeeze in a few hours of sleep in there somewhere too....

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What did Noah eat after the flood?

by badboy in

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as the world was presumbly ruined after the flood,nothing was grown etc etc,what did noah eat.. if he have started eating the animals,they would have been none around,so what did noah and co eat to avoid hunger?

Sweetp0985

They also must have had some llllooooonnnnggg ass fishing poles too because from the pic in my old bible story book the windows were way up high on the ~~floating logs~~ ark. and they couldn't open the door..only Jehovah could open that..so how could they fish...unless....shoot there is no unless...lol

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What did Noah eat after the flood?

by badboy in

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as the world was presumbly ruined after the flood,nothing was grown etc etc,what did noah eat.. if he have started eating the animals,they would have been none around,so what did noah and co eat to avoid hunger?

Sweetp0985

Wasn't he in the ark for only 40days and nights? No, it rained for 40 days and nights, but it took a year for the waters to subside. (Gen 7:11, 8:14) Was this 40 regular days or 40 days Jehovah time????

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They hired a JW at my job

by dura-luxe in

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a new girl was hired at my job, and within 4 days it came out that she was a jehovah's witness.

amazing how you could go years without knowing another coworker's religion, but we all had to know about this girl within 4 days.

they had an assembly this weekend, and of course, we all knew exactly why she was taking the day off.

Sweetp0985

From my own personal experience, don't let on too quick that you're df'd...I didn't even make the mistake of doing this...My loving dub mom took care of it for me...As I have mentioned on many threads, even tho I'm a member of a Baptist church, and been df'd for over 7 yrs in my mom's mind I'm still a "on punishment" dub...NOT!!! But anyway, I had just started this job and I knew the girl as being a dub but she for some reason didn't recognize or rather remember me. So I was there for like 5 or 6 months and everyday she would come in and speak to me, hold conversations, etc. just like with all the other people. One day my mom came to my job (selling Avon) which almost got me in trouble, but her and the girl got to talking and WOW they are both dubs...Whoopee! But leave it to my mom to not leave well enough alone and put my business all out...She told the girl I was df'd and like I knew would happen...She stopped talking to me...Now mind you for the 5-6 months before this she was coming to my desk talking about books she was reading (if any of you know about books by ZANE, these are some freaky ass books) and yes she was telling me all about how she was reading them and they were so funny...The whole time I'm like hmmmm and you're supposed to be a dub huh? But I just looked at it like I always do and said to each his own....But after she found I was df'd she couldnt talk to me no more because I was the bad one...c'mon now..THis is the only thing about the dubs that pisses me off the most..I'm not sorry at all that I'm no longer one, but the ardasity (sp) of them to look down on me when most of them do the same or even worse things than me and they look down on me...

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How many on this board vote?

by Netty in

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i cant bring myself to get into voting.

i am registered, but when its time to vote, i just really never fell the urge to get there and get it done.

my husband is very political, and is always talking politics and about the importance of voting.

Sweetp0985

I just registered also for the first time last year at 26 yrs old. the closer it gets to election time, the more I'm feeling like Do I or Don't I? Then all the commericals just makes it even more frustrating....I guess this is just one of the freedoms that not being a dub anymore makes me able to do but I'm just not too excited about this one...