ok i just finished watching antwone fisher.
it's not the first time i've watched it.not even the second or third time.
i've seen it a lot.
Good Will Hunting always makes me cry when Robin Williams tells him what happened to him is not his fault...sniff sniff.
I watched Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants this weekend and cried a lot.
Steel Magnolias...that's a box of kleenex right there!
I also recently watched Beyond Borders with Angelina Jolie and cried a bunch...
WG
we were out christmas shopping and drove past the kingdom hall.
7:30 pm on a saturday night..not an empty parking space to be found.
there were more cars than when the memorial happens.. drove by at 9:30 pm and more than 3/4's of the parking lot was still full.... why would there be a meeting?
Blondie,
A lot of the churches here decorate for Christmas. Quite a few of them have Nativity scenes, but some of the others have full blown chrismas light coverage.
One of the Catholic Churches - La Sallette Shrine has a massive Christmas Light Festival with 50 different Nativity scenes from many different countries. We go every year and its amazing.
WG
the subject of politics often comes up on this board, inevitably.
whatever our opinions on the subject are, most of us share a common.
struggle against the demands of religion(s) that seek to dominate and ruin your life, whether the "truth" or something else.. sad to say, everytime the human race seems to be generally ready to shake off the shackles of controlling religious bigots, something.
I think 9/11 was shocking for a lot of people and it brought a lot of attention to the Muslim community - to people like me...Oprah watching minivan driving soccer mom's.
When Muslim extremists come here to the USA and go into an grade school and do what they did to the school in Beslan, Russia it will be over.
I feel the minute all the Mothers in the USA get off their starbucks drinking, minivan/suv driving, play group organizing butts....this world will be a better place.
It's great that we are here taking care of our kids...but we can't hide our heads in the sand that the world is a dangerous place and getting more dangerous by the minute.
I feel its up to the women...because when Momma aint happy....nobody is happy.
Just my humble opinion.
WG
we were out christmas shopping and drove past the kingdom hall.
7:30 pm on a saturday night..not an empty parking space to be found.
there were more cars than when the memorial happens.. drove by at 9:30 pm and more than 3/4's of the parking lot was still full.... why would there be a meeting?
I personally would love to see someone decorate the kingdom hall with all kinds of holiday decorations...Christmas, Halloween, Easter, Thanksgiving...Then have a sign that says " We don't believe in any of this cr*p" I'm sure their neighbors would love them.
WG
lumpectomy or mastectomy???.
outnfree and i chose differently.
i know the doctors gave me the survival rates................the same.
Hi Sally,
Last december I found a lump in my breast...I didn't do anything for 3 weeks except worry. Then I finally told my husband and he made me go to the doctors. I was terrified because of my family history with cancer. I went and they did an ultrasound and blood tests and found it was nothing but they want to check it again when I am done breastfeeding my son.
I have already thought about what I would do if I was diagnosed with breast cancer because my aunt has had it. I would have a mastectomy. I couldn't stand to not be here to watch them grow up.
I'd do whatever I had to do to be here.
I am sorry for this happening to you - if there is anything I can do or any of us here please don't hesitate to ask.
WG
what was the most shocking news you have ever heard ?.
for example: jfk assassinated in dallas!.
elvis found dead in bathroom!.
#1 shock in life was going to high school one day and watching my best friend be shot in the head by her boyfriend on our way into Algebra class.
#2 OKC bombing - a member of our family was going to the federal building that morning and we were frantic.
#3 911 - I was watching on TV with our first son.
#4 One month later, my cousin was killed we drove through NYC on our way to NC and I could still see the smoke in the air from the WTC. Wish you were here by Incubus came on the radio....I couldn't stop crying.
WG
i have relatives in the jehovah's witness religion still, and in-laws.
because my spouse and me were never officially disfellowshipped, they have a hard time with how to shun us.
basically, they don't.
My mother who is not a JW would die if she didn't have access to her grandchildren.
My husbands mother who is a JW comes and goes. She doesn't have any bit of the love or bond my mother has with our children.
It's really sad and disgusting that love is polluted and defiled with some JW's. They don't really know the true meaning of uncondtional love.
It's funny and sad to me because my MIL's next door neighbor is a JW and she has commented to us that she doesn't understand how MIL could treat our children this way. Their own son is completely inactive, celebrates Christmas, drinks and smokes and they have his son every weekend and even give him Xmas gifts and easter baskets because they don't want to seem like the bad grandparents....
I'm a bit jealous.
WG
i'm looking for people who have had the experience of becoming very sick with chronic pain, an auto-immune disease, or some major health problem (collitus, diabetes, etc.
) while being involved with jehovah's witnesses, who then had a complete reversal after leaving the jehovah's witnesses.. i am planning to write a book about my experience, and i'd like to get an idea of how many people out there have had a similar one.
i was diagnosed with advanced grave's disease (hyperthyroid), which is an auto-immune disease, and it amazingly "went away" shortly after i left the organization.
Our friends son was diagnosed with Crohns (sp) Disease when they were very active.
Shortly after they DA'd the son is off his medications.
They aren't the type of people to lie...so maybe he was cured?
WG
we were out christmas shopping and drove past the kingdom hall.
7:30 pm on a saturday night..not an empty parking space to be found.
there were more cars than when the memorial happens.. drove by at 9:30 pm and more than 3/4's of the parking lot was still full.... why would there be a meeting?
We were out Christmas shopping and drove past the Kingdom Hall.
7:30 pm on a saturday night..not an empty parking space to be found. There were more cars than when the Memorial happens.
Drove by at 9:30 pm and more than 3/4's of the parking lot was still full...
Why would there be a meeting? Hubby said maybe a special needs talk or the CO visiting.
On a side note....Both houses on the sides of the KH were obnoxiously decorated with Christmas lights...I mean Christmas light overkill with the blow up Christmas things and many a plastic reindeer.
I am going to go back and try to get a picture because it really made my day but then I felt bad for all the jw kids who have to go by it on their way to the meetings...made me sad for them.
I'm done.
WG
since defd is not here to start this one as he normally would... (sorry, i know it's a bit late for some.).
what's everyone doing on the weekend?.
my office is having a gathering tonight to have drinks and discuss recent changes and welcome our temps.. the rest of the weekend i'll spend shopping and hanging.
Darling husband and I are taking our two wonderful boys to see Santa and have their pictures taken.
We will be doing some form of home improvment torture as usual since we own a beastly old church that is now our house that was built in 1899.
We will also be going to see the beautiful christmas displays at La Salette Shrine http://www.lasalette-shrine.org/lasalettechristmas.htm
WG
