Posts by Bona Dea

Are you letting out trade secrets? I never heard of that one before. And my wife just got me to buy a new washing machine couple of months ago, a Maytag yet, supposed to be the best, the old one worked fine in my opinion. Seems to me she did say something about the spin cycle, not working very good.

I thought everyone knew about that! Well, I'd keep an eye on the wife. One day she's doing laundry and the next day she's running off with the Maytag!

Bona

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The Kidnapping of Cindy Frulik

by expatbrit in

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interviewer - why not?

interviewer - and why do you think they would tell you that?

interviewer - why was that?

Bona Dea

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Attacks on Kingdom Hall

by Kenneson in

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in today's paper: "church worries about rash of vandalism.".

http://pasco.tbo.com/pasco/mgab8nacrbd.html.

while i certainly don't agree with jw doctrine, neither do i condone such activity.

Bona Dea

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San Francisco man first American to grasp Irony

by Simon in

san francisco man becomes first american to grasp meaning of irony .

jay fullmer, 38, yesterday became the first american to get to grips with the concept of irony.

"it was weird" fullmer said.

Bona Dea

there I went and did it again...

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The Smoking Gun on Michael Jackson

by Yizuman in

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Bona Dea

You people that feel sorry for him , make me wonder and make me sick!

Lady, you don't know me from Adam! Sorry if my trying to be empathetic is sickening to you...

One thing *besides many things* that bothered me is that MJ has no regard for women unless they make babies as gifts for him. He refuses to let the kids interact with their mother and when the reporter asked Prince about his mother and he replied "I dont have a mother" it really broke my heart!

Wow, I hadn't really thought of that. That is very sad.

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San Francisco man first American to grasp Irony

by Simon in

san francisco man becomes first american to grasp meaning of irony .

jay fullmer, 38, yesterday became the first american to get to grips with the concept of irony.

"it was weird" fullmer said.

Bona Dea

Some Americans aren't obese, ignorant, socially unacceptable, Jerry Springer watching malcontents who are bubbling over with fat, don't know what Pericles is and who wrote it, and always thinks that being able to kill a man in one shot is a badge of honor

Who's Jerry Springer?

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One out of every 286 people is a Jehovah's Witness

by Country Girl in

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one out of every 286 people is a jehovah's witness?

yikes!

could this possibly be true?.

Bona Dea

Kody Kleinman is a junior journalism major from Homer and serves as sports editor for The Tech Talk.

I missed that little tidbit of info while I was butchering this article. I suppose he is older than 14...

LMAO @ notperfectyet

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The Smoking Gun on Michael Jackson

by Yizuman in

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I agree with most everyone has said here. I have always like Michael Jackson and never really thought he was ever guilty of anything kind of malice against children. I may be wrong, and he may admit tomorrow that he has committed crimes against children (I am a crappy judge of character), but I honestly believe that what is going on behind that face is mostly what has been described here...the manifestations of a deprived and miserable childhood. It is amazing that people (including myself) can carry the wrongs commited against them as a child around for them until the day they die. It is a hard thing to get over, knowing that you can't turn back the hands of time and change anything. You just have to go on living and accepting that what's done is done. It seems to me that Michael is indeed trying to live that life he was never allowed to live as a child. Hanging on to the what never was, what he so desperately wanted to be (a normal child), and trying to get back all that he missed out on. It is really sad...

Plmkzy...that was great. I didn't see the documentary, but what you said pretty much sums up everything I've ever thought of Michael.

Bona

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Why do you think......

by copsec in

so many people who come out of the borg are so depressed and angry and freaked out?????

i have been out for 7 years now and i am happier than i have ever been in my life and was from the very first moment i left!

the only reason i even go into ex-jw groups is i like to make fun of them and other exs are the only ones who understand what i am talking about when i make a funny comment??

Bona Dea

I think my experience was kind of like a fish out of water. It wasn't just my need or attachment to the WTS that "freaked me out" but it was the idea of putting everything I had ever known behind me and starting over...and not even knowing where to begin to start over from . Although, I was never a baptized JW, I have always been in some sort of church/religion/belief system that centered around the bible. Slowly and gradually, I didn't just lose faith in the church, the religion, or the borg; I finally completely lost faith in the bible. That was sort of like cutting my pinky toe off, ya know? That was a year ago. I am still a little dazed and confused and feeling around like a blind man in unfamiliar territory without a stick. Each day I reaffirm my decision by reading the bible and reading other books and websites and I am truly amazed that I wasn't able to let it go sooner. I guess it was my security blanket. I held desperately to the imaginary protection it offered me from unknown things and the comfort it brought me just thinking that I had some hope in it.

It is hard for me to be happy about this "enlightenment". Don't get wrong. I do enjoy it - finally...I really didn't at first simply because it was so frightening just letting go of all I ever believed. It's just, it seems since this has happened, my life has gotten harder. My husband has become more fervent and more determined to become baptized and to ingrain the dub mentality into our children. I have a hard time telling my kids why I no longer go to the Kingdom Hall. I tell them I don't agree with what they teach, and leave it at that. I have a hard time praying with the family (because of the extremely heavy usage of the name Jehovah). They know I don't believe in Jehovah anymore, but I don't know how they feel about that and the last thing I want to do is make them feel uncomfortable talking about spiritual matters with me.

For a while there, I was taking them to a baptist church, but I just can't do that any longer because I don't believe what they teach any more than I believe what the JWs teach. I feel like I need to do something to counteract the crap he's feeding them, but I don't know what. I want to be completely honest with them about how I feel about Jehovah, the witnesses, christianity, religion...but I feel they are too young for the lengthy explanations that I would want to give. And I do not want them to feel that they have to believe as I do to gain acceptance and/or love from me. I want them to come to their own conclusions, but I know that can't happen...because if I stand back and try to just allow them to flourish in their own individual way, then my husband will seize that opportunity and use it to force his own ideas on them. Definitely a rock and a hard place...

Bona