Ok, my attempt to attach a photo didn't work but the pic can be seen at http://www.geocities.com/caskydver/sno04a.jpg
Leilani
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Leilani
Here's a pic of our drive from earlier today. We live on a pretty good sized hill so now we're waiting to get plowed out the rest of the way. Even 4WD can't always get you out.
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!
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Leilani
Where I am in Indiana we already have 9 inches and we're expecting possibly 6-10 more inches overnight. My sis, who is only 80 miles north of us, hardly has any snow. I'm just glad it's snow and not freezing rain. Enjoy! Woo hoo! It's now officially winter!
Leilani
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Just for Fun! Your Santa's Helper Name
by heart2heart invery cute and fun!
find out your "santa's helper name" and email it to your friends and family for a laugh!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/derby/fun_stuff/christmas/santas_little_helper_names.shtml.
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Leilani
Mine is Frosty Dancing-Helper.
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What is Mankind's Greatest Mystery?
by Blueblades inis it the mind / body riddle?
or, the material brain / and consciousness.
what to you is mankind's greatest mystery?.
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Leilani
>>Why can't I stop having Bob Saget fantasies?<<
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What is Mankind's Greatest Mystery?
by Blueblades inis it the mind / body riddle?
or, the material brain / and consciousness.
what to you is mankind's greatest mystery?.
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Leilani
If we had the smelling abilities of dogs, would our brains explode from sensory overload?
When facing death do we ultimately go back to the fundamental beliefs/upbringing of our formative years of childhood? Are they so ingrained we can truly never escape them?
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Re-introducing myself. :)
by Sunchild ini haven't posted here in ages, so i doubt anyone remembers me.
in any case, my name is rochelle, and i used to be a witness.
i started studying with them at age 17, got baptized at 18, and left at 24 or 25 for a lot of reasons.
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Leilani
Belated Happy Birthday. I'm very new here so I'm glad you decided to reintroduce yourself.
Leilani
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New Member Introduction
by Leilani ini recently found these forums and have been browsing them.
i thought it time to introduce myself in case i ever have something to say.
here is a very brief history (it may not seem brief but with all that has gone on and is going on, trust me, it's brief .
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Leilani
outnfree,
My condolences at the loss of your mother. It's hard to lose a loved one. Fortunately, even though my mom had pain, the doctors were able to control it with morphine until she died so she didn't suffer in that way too much. I think the chemo was the hardest on her.
To answer your question, no, I'm not worried about my remaining family shunning me. I can't anticipate that ever happening, even when my brother gets reinstated or if my sister gets baptized. We've been through too much as a family to be torn apart by that. My sister's cancer and my brother being shunned, now that worries and bothers me.
Leilani
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New Member Introduction
by Leilani ini recently found these forums and have been browsing them.
i thought it time to introduce myself in case i ever have something to say.
here is a very brief history (it may not seem brief but with all that has gone on and is going on, trust me, it's brief .
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Leilani
Thanks for all the welcomes! They are really appreciated. It really is strange how 30 odd years later the whole JW thing can still rear it's ugly head in my life. I tried so hard to put it behind me as so much of it terrified me growing up. Not that I didn't have my warm and fuzzy feel good moments, but those came during the daylight. At night I would be a quivering scared little girl who might get possessed if she did anything wrong. Alas, I'm older now and can think better for myself.
Happy Dad, I'm so sorry you lost your wife to ovarian cancer. You're right, it's a silent killer. Ovarian cancer, it whispers.....so LISTEN! Thanks for the links. I'm finding out more than I thought I would ever want to know about this cancer. My sis just had the genetic testing done and is wating on the results.
Leilani
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New Member Introduction
by Leilani ini recently found these forums and have been browsing them.
i thought it time to introduce myself in case i ever have something to say.
here is a very brief history (it may not seem brief but with all that has gone on and is going on, trust me, it's brief .
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Leilani
Hello everyone. I recently found these forums and have been browsing them. I thought it time to introduce myself in case I ever have something to say. Here is a very brief history (it may not seem brief but with all that has gone on and is going on, trust me, it's brief )
I'm 49 yrs old and spent much of my youth in the religion. My mother never got baptized and when I was 15 yrs old she divorced my father. I had been baptized and 2 yrs after the divorce I was disfellowshipped. Though the congregation shunned me, my father refused to do so. My father died in '92 after refusing blood transfusions for a blood disease along the lines of leukemia. The transfusions would not have cured him, only prolonged his life if he had them on a weekly basis.
Five years ago my mother was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and the last couple years of her life she went back to studying with the Witnesses. My mother died from the cancer a year ago this past September. My older sister, who had never been a Witness, was diagnosed with stage 3 ovarian cancer (she's now stage 4) two weeks before my mother died. In fact, she was recovering from surgery in the hospital when my mother passed away. My sister has since started studying with the Witnesses.
My younger brother, who is baptized, was disfellowshipped a year ago this past October and has been frantically trying to get reinstated since.
I guess I'm introducing myself because everything just seems really whacky lately and I might need others to talk to who can relate to some degree with what I might be feeling. All this Witness stuff with my family is bringing back feelings I thought I had put behind me.
Thanks for reading this.
Leilani
