you know what i hate??
when you're talking to someone and instead of acknowledging you or whatever you're saying, they just stare.
For some odd reason, eatting with anyone other than my family and very close friends. If I have to sit around a table with people I don't know all that well and eat a meal, I just about come out of my skin. I avoid it at all costs.
I also get very very nervous when people give me things for some reason. And I can't stand awkward silences. Sometimes compliments make me nervous.. OK well actually alot of things make me uncomfortable
a good lesson for all:.
learn to put away all badness of this old world, and make the necessary changes to prepare for the kingdom of god.
pay back caesar's things to caesar, but god's things to god, especially god, because he owns all things, and will ask for an accounting from everyone.
Brownboy,
I will have a good Friday, thanks
You going out in feild service tomorrow? Have a nice time! I'll be sleeping in!!!
~Sarah
as some of you on the board knew i was expecting a baby, i feel i should let you know that things have not worked out for us.. when i went for the 20 week ultrasound scan last thursday, severe problems were found with our baby's internal development.
only one kidney was detected, and it was very enlarged and polycystic.
there was no long term hope for the baby at all; if it survived to full term it could only live for hours at most.
I am soooo sorry
~Sarah
i remember one of my childhood friends was found dead and the police said he committed suicide.
i just could not believe it because my friend was a "devout" jw almost franatical about it.
now years later since i have seen both sides of the coin i am beginning to wonder if my friend did indeed kill himself.
No ,not JW's anyway. I pray that none of my friends ever do..
i have talk to several people about this topic and i was informed that several stories and character were "borrowed" from other cultures such as the perians and babilonians.
i was informed that the biblical scholars inserted morals into these stories.
i was given the examples of adam and eve, flood of gilgamesh=flood of noah, the devil/beelzebub of persian origen.
I always wondered if alot of the stories were meant to be taken as metaphors. Like what redhotchilipepper brought up about Adam and Eve. I think that's one of the things that makes it so hard for me to understand the Bible..and plus everyone talked so different back then. and PLUS it has been translated from one language to others,..
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=592910
mentally-ill girl who was sold for sex faces death penalty in iran by angus mcdowall in tehran.
14 december 2004 .
I almost cannot believe what I just read about this...just when I think people can't get worse. OH MY GOD....It's heartbreaking. Brought me to tears. I always thought that everyone had some good in them. MAYBE NOT. I can't even think of a word that describes this.
Completely in shock and sooo sad..
~Sarah
i have been wondering, maybe one of the moderators knows,.
how does someone start a thread and block certain posters (like ones they'd rather not participate) from responding to a particular thread?.
or do we just leave ourselves open to any and every post and comment on a sensitive issue once it is started?.
I would suggest just posting whatever you want to, on whatever subjects, and sort of "screen" the posts in response to it, if that makes any sense. If someone who you think will upset you or whatever replies, just look at the nicknames and dont read their replies. That's all I can think of to help ya, sorry.
~sarah
maybe if there is a god, that maybe he doesn't want us to know who he is?
maybe he only wants to know us through prayer.
maybe the bible is a hoax?
Redhotchilipepper,
I think about that kind of stuff all the time. I used to just think about that kind of stuff sometimes, but ever since I was involved with the JW's for a short time, I've had that stuff on my mind constantly. I think the JW's kind of screwed up my view of God.
well i fianally saw the orthopedic surgeon the other day and from the results of my latest tests and x-rays my left hip and right knee need to be replaced as soon as possible.
my hip is so bad, and that explains why i have been in such tremendous pain.
so this wednesday coming up i am going to the hospital for a floroscopy with cortisone both in my hip and knee.
orangefatcat,
I am so sorry about the pain you are in..it must be awful. I hope that the knee and hip replacement give you relief from that.
~Sarah
do your pets miss you when you leave them?
i think my dog misses her master, (my boyfriend) i miss him too.
he is away, in china for two weeks.
AWWWWWWWWW.....I know pets miss "their people" while they are gone. When I was 13, some dumb circumstances made it so that I left my house one day and did not see it again for two years....My Beagle dog, Dixie, never stopped looking in my room, I hear. And she would sleep by the door, like your doggie, waiting for her person to come home. She slept there for two years, and now that I am home she sleeps wherever. Usually by me. That's sad Just give the doggie extra attention and some treats and it will help perk her up.
I had to take a road trip that only lasted about 8 hours this morning,but I am SO paranoid about leaving "my babies" home alone. I always run through the house a few times to make sure there are no fire hazards and that they have food and water and the doors are locked.
Your doggie will come out of it. Just give her extra attention and fun stuff to do.
~Sarah
