Posts by enigmatic

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A Death in Yellowstone

by Preston in

my mom called me while i was at work today and told me that two people from my old congregation died in september.

i guess it was "national" news but it flew over my head.

drew and brent speedie were jehovah's witnesses that went to my old congregation and although they weren't "popular" or well known, i got to know them pretty well.

Overactive Celebrating

by searching4? in

i have found that since i was denied celebrating holidays as a child, i am like a kid when it comes to celebrating.

the holidays are so magical to me, and i always celebrate in a big way for all of them.

it's still new to me and i have so much fun with it.

Absolutley! I love Christmas and Thanksgiving. Christmas used to amaze me when I was a little boy (walking thru the mall was quite an experience when your 5 and its Christmas. So now days I am that little boy again on christmas, complete with a train going around the tree lights all over the house and christmas movies and music. My ex-girlfriend used to think I was so crazy, but she did not mind. She got what I missed out on. I missed out so much I'm making up for it now, and love every minute of it. J

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If raised JW - or in while young - how strict were your parents?

by Jamelle in

i'm just curious to know where my parents register on the scale of strictness...

growing up, i felt absolutely smothered by my parents (mostly my mother).

the things i couldn't do were above and beyond the limitations put on the other young people in our hall.

enigmatic

I guess my parents were not that strict. Me and my younger brother where more fortunate than our older brother and sister though, my dad used to be an elder than, (there around ten years older than us) I guess my parents mellowed out in time. They were divorced when I was 7 and my dad was disfellowshipped for awhile, so I got alot of leeway there. I could not join little league or any other type of sports, but I could play with kids from school or my neighborhood, and have them over the house or go over theres, no problem. Couldn't watch any R rated movies, but the print version was quite allright (still don't get that). Watched whatever on television. With my mom I was always screwing off and would hardly ever go out in FS and was always missing meetings. With my dad I would never miss anything, but from time to time he would take a sunday off and take us to a museum or something. Played with water guns (no gi-joe toys though), I guess pretty slack I guess but I can never get back the things I did miss.

Edit: Please note though that I got out of the dubs when I was about 12-13 so thankfully I had a semi-normal teenage life, with worldy friends and girlfriends and all the normal teenage things that go along.

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ITS FRIDAY....................................

by defd in

jw
friends

yabba dabba doooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

whats everyones plans.

i am going to relax relax realx.. wife is out of town, so i might go to the bar( just joking) watch alittle football on sunday.

enigmatic

well i am going out fishing tonight...not for fun though its my work. i own a shrimp trawler and are being taught how to captain it. we usually go out around 7pm and shrimp thru the night and the next day depending how good we are doing we stay out the next night also...so my weekend will be spent out on the ocean working hard, i need a internet connection out there bad...lol its beautiful out there on the water but can get boring at times...the droning of the engine and the spray of the water makes me sleepy... Josh

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Researchers slow light to 245 meters/second

by seattleniceguy in

jw
friends

...at room temperature!.

the advance could remove a major bottleneck at fiberoptic routers, where light must be converted to an electrical signal and then back to light, which is costly and time-consuming.

if incoming signal speeds could be modulated, routers could avoid this optical-electrical-optical swtich and dramatically increase throughput.. http://www.physorg.com/news6951.html.

enigmatic

thanks alot seattle i know what i will be thinking bout while trying to go to sleep tonight.....

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Limping on two opinions - mine and theirs!

by atypical in

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friends

i have been lurking at these sites for a while and have finally decided to post.

forgive me for not wanting to give any clues as to my identity, but i am still struggling as a fence-sitter - knowing how i feel but not wanting to be cut off from my family and friends.

so my meeting attendance is sporadic; when i go to the meetings i am told "i'm worried about you" or "where have you been, your wife has been coming by herself".

enigmatic

welcome atypical!

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OK, fess up. . . has anyone tried internet dating?

by carefully faded in

i recently signed up on a couple of internet dating sites.

i've been talking with one guy for about a week now and he's asked to meet for coffee.

i'm a little nervous and wanted to hear how many others have tried this.

enigmatic

yup sure have, its allright cept for the stalkers....

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PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION AGAINST ANIMAL CRUELTY

by Sam the Man in

jw
friends

please do not read if you get overly upset by animal cruelty .

in the indian ocean, they are using live dogs and cats to throw in as bait for sharks.

rspca petition.

enigmatic

i signed, thats horrible! i am a fisherman and i know you dont need live dogs and cats to catch sharks!

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Bon Jovi- is this the equivalent of porn for women?

by in a new york bethel minute in

if i am not allowed to watch porn, then my wife certainly may not listen to bon jovi.

am i right brothers?

bon jovi makes girls get all giddy in the loinal area.

enigmatic

thats the most digusting picture i have seen in a while elsewhere...lol, holy crap that guy must not have heard of a razor before.....

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Think Stephen King has personal experience with JWs? (long read)

by AllAlongTheWatchtower in

disclaimor:.

the following is text directly from a stephen king (under his pen-name of richard bachman) novel called the regulators.

if the mods must delete this for copyright or other legal reasons, so be it.

enigmatic

thats right captain! i have read about a dozen stephen king books and knew the jw's were mentioned somewhere but could not place it, but you hit it right on! i am personally a big fan of stephen king, i love the dark tower series but have only made it thru the third book, i need to buy the rest...lol