Hey that's me too! We didn't have nintendo, too poor, but we did have Care Bears, Cabbage Patch (until they were declared demonized), etc.
Had a hand-me-down atari for a short time, we thought it was just great.
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Children of the 80's!
by MelbaToast inalright, i admit, i was a child of the 80s (or what i can remember) but the real reason for this thread is i have noticed that there is quite a few of people on this site that are close to me in age or just a little bit younger or older.
i will be 28 in june.
i think that this period in my life is a deep questioning period, because at younger ages i didnt give a flip about anything jw or ex-jw for that matter.
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Dubs telling people who they should and should not marry.
by LongHairGal ini know of several experiences of couples who got married against the unwanted advice of the busybodies at the hall.
and i am not talking about a sixteen year old girl marrying a seventeen year old boy either!
these were people way over 30. .
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Cybs, THere's no logic, of course. And I think those are like a congregation to congregation rules type of thing. Wow, that must have been an awful wedding with the poor girl crying in the backroom! How can the elders have possibly done that? And then she gets a divorce less than a year away???? Isn't a divorce worse than breaking off an engagement?
Grrrrr...
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So I'm at the meeting tonight.............
by JV ini'm looking through the new awake magazine (great article on shoplifiting by the way) and this older sister comes and sits beside me.
she started talking to me about this great little piece in the magazine about fish or something that should be on my dinner plate, something that i don't really care about, then she turns to me and said and i quote " where else but jehovah's organization can we learn such things?
i sat there with a dumbfounded look on my face thinking " are you kidding me?
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Hecklerboy: I'm 26 and also getting my masters in Nursing.
It's so true the ignorance. I didn't really get how bad it was until I took my worldly fiancee to one of the Memorials and they quoted a "UNIVERSITY STUDENT" as saying the magazines were some of the most interesting and mind-stimulating things he'd come across. My fiancee was like, HUH? That was one in millions of university students, probably one smoking something. Then I realized how silly those Awake magazine testimonials really were.
Yeah, when the Nov 1992 WT came out about education being okay, my older sister decided to become a nurse (community college) and the congregation was like "Gasp!". One other family that particularly ragged on us about it pulled all their kids out of school and home schooled them. The kids are okay today, but employed by the parents' personal small business since they really have no other skills.
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Please pray for my little sister...
by TresHappy inshe's in the hospital suffering seizures.
i don't know much more than that.
i'll go see her at the hospital tomorrow.
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Thegoodgirl
Hope all goes well and they stop the seizures asap. Thinking of you and your little sister.
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Dubs telling people who they should and should not marry.
by LongHairGal ini know of several experiences of couples who got married against the unwanted advice of the busybodies at the hall.
and i am not talking about a sixteen year old girl marrying a seventeen year old boy either!
these were people way over 30. .
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Yes, my older sister, same thing. She was engaged, fiancee started showing his true colors, but she was told by him and others that engaged was as good as being married (Why just look at Mary and Joseph!) So she married him and thankfully they got a divorce 4 years later before they had any kids.
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Dixieland Delight, Mountain Music, Song of the South--Alabama
Small Town (who sings it?)
And that song that goes, "Let the Bible Belt Come and SAVE MY SOUL!" (I'm bad with names of artists, but I love to sing out loud to that one.)
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KH Parking Spaces....
by Will Power inare they assigned?
are they in any way related to status?
if you usually park in the same space every meeting, then one day you arrive to find someone else there...... .
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Parking wasn't a problem, we had this huge hall, huge parking lot (with very few attendees). But I'll never forget in a "local needs" talk, the brother on the platform told everyone to pick up their stuff, stand up, and move three rows ahead. I guess no one was respecting their "Reserved for parents with children" signs posted on the back three rows. The brother said, "Now is that so bad?" The new arrangement lasted for about a week.
And I remember another old-style elder said during his talk that he didn't understand why so many people were sitting on one side of the hall. He wished we had spread out more. He said if this was a boat, it would sink, because the weight is not even. I was interpreting sign language at the time, and it was ever so difficult to interpret that one. The deaf lady looked at me like , HUH?
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Foster Care...
by Golden Girl inok..discussions are being raised about child abuse..sexually and physically.i thought about alternatives to staying in the home.
calling the police evertime you are threatened or the children or beat.. .
if the mother is young..has no schooling..has several kids..no family or friends..how does she cope?
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WhyGeorgia, that is a great story, exactly how the system should work.
I worked in a child and adolescent inpatient psychiatric unit, and OH MY GOD, the stories were absolutely horrible. Of course the kids we saw were the worst cases, that's why they were in that unit, but I tell you, physical, emotional, sexual abuse did take place at the hands of some foster parents. One girl I remember to this day, unbeleivable what horrible adults can do to a normal child's mind and psyche. She actually healed emotionally/mentally a lot in a few weeks with us, it was amazing. But when she came she was like a child raised by wolves, that's all I can compare it to. Didn't know how to speak anything that made sense, couldn't really tell make-beleive from reality, had no idea how to interact with other kids her age, and didn't care to. She actually had been abused by her own parents, then sent to relatives, who abused her, then sent to a foster home who abused her even worse. And other kids too with histories of abuse at the hands of foster parents.
But then there were the kids who came in and their foster parents actually came to visit them every day, better than most of the parents. So I dont' know what the stats are, but it can be a bad situation.
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Hi everybody, I´m a new member from Spain
by benito infirst of all, i want to apologize for all the mistakes i will probably make, i m not very good at english, it s very hard for me to think in another language different than my native tongue (spanish, of course!!)..
i ve been lurking through this forum for a long time but i didn t dare write here because of my lack of knowledge of the language but i changed my mind.
i think i can give a different point of view from other members of usa of uk, it seems that most of the members are from theses countries.
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Welcome Benito! Look forward to hearing from you!
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just got df'd
by susu812 ini am very nervous about being in here.
i just got df'd last week and am unsure of how i feel about it.
i feel guilty but at the same time not.
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Welcome SuSu, your whole life is now ahead of you. You had a conscience, tried to do what was right, and got the bad end of the deal. It really sucks. I know, all the kids in the cong are doing the same thing, but only one or two will get the big DFing. It's terrible. But as others have said, you'll find out it's actually a huge benefit to you, you have a jump start on seeing the world for what it really is: nothing to be afraid of.