PotHoles! We got your potholes here in Central Florida!! More like sinkholes!! Those will take your house and a highway!!
Beachbender
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Do you have "Nice Roads" where you live?
by JH in.
here, the roads are in terrible shape.
with 4 distinct seasons, we have many potholes this time of year, and they don't pave streets very often....like maybe once every 40 years for secondary roads, and maybe once every 10 years for major arteries.. all they seem to do around here is patch roads, not pave entire lengths like they used to not so many years ago.. i was just wondering if this was just here...
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Newbie!
by checkmate1996 ini was born into the jw religion for 16 years.
7 years after i left, i accepted christ as my personal savior.
best move yet!
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Beachbender
"Welcome CheckMate"!! Nice place to hang, and gather info.( or not! ), beauty of it? YOUR decision.
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thanx for the welcome
by tijkmo inthanx for all your welcoming comments..im really quite nervous about this..some of you spoke about spiritual abuse and i understand this but im also aware that victims of abuse can rationalise that it will be the last time and at least its attention which i guess is why im still struggling to make a clean break..aswell as my family all being jw and i dont have friends elsewhere..to let you know a bit bout me...unlike many here i loved it..nothing about being a witness was ever a problem for me..i pioneered straight from school because id always wanted to,not a sacrafice although i was good at everything academically musically sportily(im sorry its just a fact) loved the pioneer school..hated window cleaning but it was good money and i only worked a couple of days..i loved being ms..mags lit mikes hall cleaning..loved being an elder..i was not a bully i genuinely liked helping people..loved my group which was never boring liked training newer ones in the ministry helping with their talks loved sheperding..gave great talks and a rivetting wt study was on circuit and district assemblies and elders schools etc..esp got on well with young ones..i was a baptizer i did weddings and funerals cooked at quick builds and helped out on bethel constuction..i wasnt proud of myself i just took great pride in using all my time effort and abilities in serving j......and then i made a mistake....and what they did to me was neither scriptural organizational or humane...as a result of which i had one nervous breakdown after another along with several bouts of suicidal tendancies for which i was hospitalized my marraige failed my relationship with my family strained to say the least and even though ive been reinstated about 18 months now none of my former friends want anything to do with me...im picking up the pieces slowly and doing a music course at college(oh no i said the c word) there are still days when i think that stoning was less cruel than what they did to me....if i still prayed i would ask j to hurry up with armageddon already to put me out of my misery....thanx for listening..still got plenty more to say..tijkmo
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Beachbender
Tijkmo a big howdy to you & welcome! Nice place to start healing.
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need to vent - just got off phone with mom
by jaredg inman i hate the predicament that this religion has put me in.
i love my mom so much and to hear her cry is the worst thing in the world.
it's so frustrating when she thinks that things are so bad b/c i'm dfd.
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Beachbender
Well done people! This is all very excellent advice jared, wisdom comes from experience. Love heals all wounds in time. Definite A+ support group.
Hang in there guy.
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Tampa, Fla..... Anyone?
by CaptK in.
anyone from this area?
with the cold weather still in most of the usa has anyone stayed in sunny fla?
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Beachbender
Hey there! I *stay* here all the time! I live on the east coast though, Cocoa Bch.
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Another Journey...
by Bryan in...into my own past which i never knew.
yes, i have just arrived in north east america, and in about an hour and half i will meet my great-aunt, my mother's aunt, who knew my mother well.
she broke the news to my mother, just 8 days after i was born, that her own mother (my mother's mother) had died.
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Beachbender
Hope things are going fine with your meeting up. Keep us posted, so enjoy reading about your story.
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Gas price in your area?
by JH inhere in quebec, ordinary unleaded is 94.4 cents a litre.
(that's the cheapest gas!!!).
there are 3.78 liters per american gallon, so this would give $3.57 a us gallon..... what's the price of gas in your area?
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Beachbender
YIKES! Sassy, that`s high! It`s about 2.15-2.20$ a gallon right now here.
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Name things that suck
by Elsewhere inmean people.. working on the weekend.
vacuum cleaners.
women .
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Beachbender
The fact that my jeep *sucks up* the gas! and now gas prices are up again!!! Grrrrrr!
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Newbie
by writegirl ini stumbled on this site by accident and i'm kind of glad i did.
in the past i have typically avoided these sites because most people on them seem newly bitter and i didn't like the tone.
i was raised a witness by an alcoholic father and an abusive stepmother.
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Beachbender
"Howdy" & welcome!
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Man am I bummed....
by upside/down injust got off the phone with my brother who lives in socal (nondub) and was informed that my dad just had a stroke!.
he's my "dad", not the sperm donor that helped concieve me and my brother than abandoned us so he could "find himself".
he's 74, very intelligent old school retired ex marine, that served in the korean war.
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Beachbender
Positive thoughts for the both of you today, keep your head up.