i'm sitting here, typing with my left hand, because asleep in my right hand is a little mouse!
found the poor thing in the driveway, it almost looked like it had a stroke, it seemed to be dragging it's left side, flopping around trying to move towards the grass.
i didn't want the dogs to get it, so went and got my gloves, and scooped the poor thing up.
I know someone who had a pet snake, and he bought rats to feed it every month. (Sorry JH! ) Well one month he bought a rat, and put it in with the snake. The next day the snake had died (natural causes) and the rat was still alive and well. So he kept the rat as a pet instead... he named the rat DinDin.
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my favorite grandma died of cancer shortly before i was engaged.
her sisters including the recently deceased, stepped up and bought me all my china for my wedding.
they attended my wedding, for her and all said they would be my substitute grandmas.
I'm so sorry for your loss.
Is her son a JW? If not, you could call him and let him know what happened, and that you didn't know that your great-aunt had died until after the funeral. That would at least answer any questions he had about why you didn't attend.
If he is a JW, and you don't think he will talk to you, you could send a card, again explaining that you weren't informed of your great-aunt's death and found out from the obituary in the paper, but wanted to let him know how much she meant to you. You could even try to talk to him, some JWs will talk to DF'd relatives in the event of a death in the family.
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so hello everyone... i'm a brand new member and happy to be here... to know i am not alone.
i have been a jw since birth however i was never "encouraged"/forced to get baptised by my parents (lucky me!
) i always considered myself a member on the fringes of my congeregation and almost everybody treated me as a member even though i never commented or went in service.
Welcome, Miss8572!
Nice to have you here!
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i left the organization in my heart a year ago, i stopped going to meetings a week ago.
this was recently announced for the upcoming convention.
jeans and t-shirts are not to be worn in public after each day's convention program.
Holy crap, I had no idea! That should go over big with all the teenagers who are dragged to the convention.
Here it gets up into the 90s and really humid in the summertime. How pleased Jehovah will be that the drones witnesses can't wear shorts in the blazing heat, after sitting all day in suits and pantyhose (not on the same person, of course.)
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our dear mouthy is really having a tough time right now and needs our support and/or prayers.
as some of you may know, she's already lost 3 of her children in death and the other one to the borg.
in the last couple of days, she's had to worry about her 2 year old great-granddaughter being in the hospital with an illness and yesterday, her daughter had a suspicious mole removed from her back and was told there is a lump in her breast which has to be biopsied.
(((((((((((((((((((((Grace)))))))))))))))))))
Just wanted to tell you I'm thinking of you and hoping everything turns out well for you and your family.
We all love you!
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friends,.
treshappy contacted me today and let me know that the providence journal of rhode island reported that tonya fuller-balletta was aquitted because of insanity.
nothing has been reported about sentencing as of yet.. http://www.projo.com/news/content/fuller_balletta_26_05-27-07_1f5pql3.2677286.html.
((((((((((((Mario)))))))))))))
Thank you for the update. I can't even begin to imagine what the last few years have been like for you.
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for those who don't know i've been 'inactive' for around one year.
i stopped attending meetings late last year.
all during this time i was working on my wife (known on this board as amber rose), helping her see the problems with the watchtower.
My first thought was the same as Minimus'... that there would be a judicial committee formed as soon as this elder got back to the KH and came to his senses.
But this elder is already breaking some of the cardinal rules..... He visited you on a 'theocratic mission' alone! He agreed with what you said (big no-no). He expressed some of his own reservations to you (even bigger no-no!) He's obviously been doubting himself, somewhere deep down. You never know where this conversation might lead for this guy!!
Well done! You sound like you were very well prepared!
You have a pm.
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this is the first time i've been on here in about a month, though trev has been posting some days, so i've been able to keep up with everyone's news.
thankyou all so much for the well wishes you keep sending me, they all mean so much.
apart from my other problems, i've had a really painful back injury for the last few weeks, which has made it impossible for me to sit comfortably at the pc.
So good to hear from you Linda! You and Trev have been in my thoughts often.
Please let us know what the doctor says June 7th, in the meantime enjoy your break from chemo!
(((((((((Linda and Trev)))))))))))
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do the elders have to reinstate you if you start going back to meetings.
i was told a while back that you would be treated as a person on reproff with all restrictions but now i'm hearing that if i go back i will have to wait to be reinstated.....this is such bullsh**.
i really don't want to go back...but my grandmother just passed away last week and i went to the service(it was at the kh) and was able to see my family that for 4 years now has bearly talked to me...and i go to see my 2 beautiful nieces...whom i would love to have a relationship with.....so i started thinking maybe i could go to a few meetings to be able to have something to do with them.....well i went today....i was so upset earlier that i went and smoked a bit to calm me down...heeeeeeee .....so anyway....i was soo irritated and bored all the f-ing answers that some of them come up with....i guess i just keep thinking about the other side...they really do think that those of us on the outside are miserable......i was more miserable today then i have been in years just sitting there trying to pretend.
When you say you're dissasociated, do you mean that you wrote a letter saying that you didn't want to be a JW anymore, and gave it to the elders? Did they announce from the platform that "Heather is no longer one of Jehovah's Witnesses"?
If they did, then it's the same as if you were disfellowshipped. If not, then you might just be considered "inactive", and you can just start going to meetings again and everyone can talk to you.
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george dubya and his cronies have slammed the bill that would allow americans to purchase prescription drugs at a fraction of the astronomical price they are now forced to pay.
what a huge surprise eh?
the article says:.
Don't even get me started.
I have a chronic illness, and can not get health insurance. I've been denied by numerous companies. My health is too unreliable to get a job outside the home, so no chance of getting insurance that way. Our family-owned home based business could get group insurance that would cover me, but only if both of our young, healthy employees also accept the coverage. (Our company would have to pay 50% of their costs, too, which would put the bill at somewhere in the range of $2500 a month.) They can get better coverage on their own, so they're not interested. That shoots down that idea, too. So I'm stuck with no health insurance.
Last year I needed major surgery. Since it was a life-threatening condition, I could get the surgery even though it was known that I had no insurance to cover the costs. But now we're stuck with tens of thousands of dollars in doctor and hospital bills. It will take us years and years to pay them off. At least I live in a state where they can't take your house to pay your medical bills.
I'm feeling really crappy lately but I really can't afford to go to the doctor. Most likely it's nothing major. I spoke to the doctor on the phone, and they want to run tests. Expensive tests, and I can't afford it. So every day, I wonder if I'm being stupid by ignoring my symptoms and hoping they'll go away, or if I'm doing the right thing and avoiding thousands of dollars of extra expense by sticking it out. Should that even be a question I have to ask???!!?
I get our family's medications from India. Good service, same meds, generics at a fraction of the cost. It's illegal? Well, allowing your tax-paying citizens to grow sicker because they cannot afford medication that will keep them healthy is unconscionable. When you do it to protect the bottom line of some of the richest companies on the planet, it's criminal.
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