Posts by Thegoodgirl

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I had an odd day today......

by love11 in

i finished my spring semester of schooling!

yay!

i got a call from my sister saying that she was arrested and in jail for 3 days for domestic violence.

That part about "then she looked a little sad" brought tears to my eyes. Sounds just like my mom, and I feel like I'm reading about my future when I read your post. My mom is in her 50s. I don't have kids yet, but I can so see my mom doing something like that and then regretting it 10 years later. (And mom lives in Florida!) That's one of the main reasons we don't move back there, because who knows at any moment she decides to cut me off, and then I've just moved "closer to family" for nothing. Anyway, thanks for sharing.

GG

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What's Your Favorite JW Expressions?

by minimus in

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friends

i like "theocratic strategy", "new light", "the slave", and "lovers of truth"......anything that you find amusing?

Thegoodgirl

We've left it in Jehovah's hands.

(Richie, nice picture, what a hottie!)

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Did you ever feel like you never fit in?

by Dragonlady76 in

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when i was growing up in dubland, i always felt like i never "fit" in with the other kids in the cong or their families.

i always knew deep down that i didn't like being a jw and their had to be more to life than meetings and field service.

i just wanted to be normal, like the other kids and have sleepovers, birthday parties, after school activities and christmas etc..... my folks were and still are devout dubs and my dad in particular is the nicest man you will ever meet, he would give you the shirt off his back if you needed it, no questions asked.

Thegoodgirl

Candid: Good point. I wouldn't want to be friends with them now. I too was the one "in between". Worldly people were too bad, and the kids in the congregation were just sneaking around behind their parents backs, so that left the old pioneers to befriend. Not bad, but no good for a teenager trying to find a peer group to identify with. I finally started making friends right before leaving when I finally decided to branch out to other congregations and found some sane 19 year olds, but now they won't talk to me cause I"m not going to meetings. The Witnesses who snuck out? Well, 2 are on drugs ( I mean hard drugs-one had a crack baby who she left with her parents to care for), a 2 are married, but have no money for jobs since they have no education, so have extra stress, plenty married and then divorcedbefore 20 years old, and the occasional still in the truth acting like perfect backstabbing witness elderettes. It's kind of sad.

My mom was never included in stuff because she was divorced and also was too "good." There would always be anniversary parties and stuff that we weren't invited to even though everyone else our age and my mom's age was at. When I was like 17, I finally got an invitation to my friend's parents 20th anniversary, and don't you know, my own mother wasn't invited. I was shocked. Everyone in the congregation was there. She was the pioneer that was really trying, Yet she was always left out of stuff in the congregation. It's disgusting.

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Describe Your Personality

by minimus in

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friends

what type of person are you?

are you outgoing, charming, sweet, thoughtful, humorous?

all right.

Thegoodgirl

Quiet and "sweet" on the outside, deep thinker on the inside. A pushover. Curious, but lazy. Want everyone else to be happy, but I rarely am. Though if it will make others happy, then I'll pretend to be happy. Cry at sad stuff on TV, but too much of a pushover/people-pleaser to get out and do something about the injustices in the world.

Am hoping I will build my strength with time and die truly as happy as I am on the outside.

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The verdict is in! Michael Jackson is . . . . . . . . NOT GUILTY!

by nicolaou in

the full list of charges faced by michael jackson at his child abuse trial.

count 1: conspiracy to commit child abduction, false imprisonment and extortion between 1 february and 31 march 2003. not guilty.

count 2: lewd act upon a child between 20 february and 12 march 2003. not guilty.

Thegoodgirl

I kind of think he was innocent too. He's a weirdo, and odd and probably has some mental disorders. No I wouldn't let my kids sleep near him, but you have to look at the fact that this family tried to sue anyone they can. As a nurse, I run across like every 10th or 15th patient is just determined to find something to sue us over. And more often than not, it's the old patient's grown son or daughter adoment in finding something to sue over. It's disgusting and annoying. They sit there with a pen and notepad and just write down everything we do and ask for a copy of the chart, etc. It's absolutely ridiculous, but that's reality, and there are just plenty of people out there like that.

That said....I think this mother of the child was one of those people, end of story.

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bugged out

by chachasmum in

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woke up early sat am reached over to turn my alarm off what do i see?

a dirty water bug running around on my rug.

so back to sat, what was going on these big dirty water bugs running around like they owned the place.

Thegoodgirl

Oh my God, that is disgusting. I'm so sorry for you. Your landlord should have paid for that pest control bill. I know we lived in a house in Florida growing up. When you keep seeing the critters, it means there's probably a whole nest of them nearby (like you saw in your basement). I think there was a nest of them below the floor of the lower cabinet in the kitchen, and once, when someone was mowing the backyard, they found the motherload living under some concrete blocks against the landlord's backyard shed. We kept telling our landlord, but he didn't really do anything to permenantly solve the problem. It was just so gross and awful. To this day, I am deathly afraid of roaches.

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Cook at home or eat out?

by greendawn in

do you know how to cook, even just a few simple recipes, or do you hate the idea of home cooking and prefer to always rely on restaurants and take aways, or just prepare easy snacks like sandwiches and melted cheese on toast?

Thegoodgirl

I am trying to cook more since I discovered and joined the local Costco. I have like pounds and pounds of chicken thighs, so I have been digging up new recipies lately. Right now in the oven is chicken with rice/cranberries/almonds/barberries/lime and some Persian spices. Last night made a dish with a recipe from the newspaper with lots of mustard. It was really easy and really good. Probably $5 for the home cooked meal, would have been maybe $10-15 at the cheapest to go out. But lately we've also resorted to frozen pizzas since we're so busy.

Evil force: I have never seen you use the word hubby. It's cute.

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Pink Floyd is REUNITING!!!!!!!

by Thegoodgirl in

did you guys hear the news?

july 2, in three weeks, you lucky dawgs in the uk will have the honor to have pink floyd, inclucing roger waters, perform live for that big benefit concert for africa.

gg

Thegoodgirl

Sunspot: You sound like a true fan, at the par of my husband who was so excited this morning, he was actually speechless, almost in tears. He just sat down on the sofa, his face red, and said "go look on the computer!" (he had the news article pulled up). He has Pink Floyd blasting now, from a 1981 concert, the last one where all four bandmembers were together.

Sith: I agree, all four of them together sound awesome. Too bad Syd can't join as well...

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What was your breaking point?

by soundbox_guy in

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friends

okay, i'm new as you all probably know, so my question may have been discussed several times in the past.

i'm just curious as to when some of you came to the conclusion that enough was enough and that you didn't want to attend the meetings anymore or not be a jw.

was it in field service, at home, at the hall?

Thegoodgirl

I doubted for a long time, but one of the reasons I held on was because I thought, what are the chances that they predicted 1914 and that was the year of the first world war. Well, then I said, the only thing that would show me they were false is that they would somehow change the rules regarding the "within this generation". And they did.

(Also, I really wanted to go to college, and community college was turning out to be a waste of time, and after three years of taking about every class possible, I stil lcouldn't get a job.)

(Also this guy in the congregation who liked me and I turned him down, well, he killed himself. So then it was really awkward to go to the meetings, and I just wanted to get away.)

(And then my little sister got DF'd, and I just couldn't shun her, and I hated everyone who did so.)

So I moved off to a university town, and immediately realized the world didn't fall apart, and bad things weren't happening to me for leaving. Wow. I like being normal. So I stayed out.

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Pink Floyd is REUNITING!!!!!!!

by Thegoodgirl in

did you guys hear the news?

july 2, in three weeks, you lucky dawgs in the uk will have the honor to have pink floyd, inclucing roger waters, perform live for that big benefit concert for africa.

gg

Thegoodgirl

Did you guys hear the news? July 2, in THREE WEEKS, you lucky dawgs in the UK will have the honor to have Pink Floyd, inclucing Roger Waters, perform live for that big benefit concert for Africa.

GG