it's been out a while and i know it's already been commented on here but i really enjoyed the village.
the creation of fear and the control that it allows must surely strike a chord.. recently i saw christian bale in the machinist.
bloody awesome!
An old movie I recommend: "Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb" this is a comedy from around 1963 or 1964.
Another old movie: "Young Frankenstein" by Mel Brooks... hysterical
A new movie: "The Lake House" with Sandra Bullock, a love story but with some substance, not too sappy
our dear friend, panda's, husband died of a heart attack a night ago.
she is a sweetheart, and she didn't want to tell us because she was thinking that it would make people feel bad.
she is feeling very bad, that's forsure.
Panda, I am new to the board and have been able to meet you yet, but please know that my heart goes out to you and I am very sorry about your loss.
today while unloading my groceries, i witnessed a random act of kindness... someone in a ford explorer was waiting for a car to leave a parking spot so they could pull in there, they had been waiting for several minutes when finally the car in that spot backed out and left.
before the person in the ford explorer could pull into the spot, a lady in a ford taurus pulled on into that parking space.
the person in the ford explorer who had been patiently waiting, just sat there, they didn't honk or flip the person off, then the lady in the ford taurus realized that the other vehicle had been waiting for that spot and backed out to find another spot, letting the guy who had been waiting have his spot.
Dear stealyourface... what a precious little girl you have. Really a sweet story.
today while unloading my groceries, i witnessed a random act of kindness... someone in a ford explorer was waiting for a car to leave a parking spot so they could pull in there, they had been waiting for several minutes when finally the car in that spot backed out and left.
before the person in the ford explorer could pull into the spot, a lady in a ford taurus pulled on into that parking space.
the person in the ford explorer who had been patiently waiting, just sat there, they didn't honk or flip the person off, then the lady in the ford taurus realized that the other vehicle had been waiting for that spot and backed out to find another spot, letting the guy who had been waiting have his spot.
Sorry KennyC but you did do a random act of kindness... you made me laugh.
i don't usuallypost about personal issues; i am still fading; besides, i was raised in a family that would say we were doing well even if our house was burning down.. for the last month i have been stressing about seeing family from the west coast; my brother, out for many years but now back in and gung ho, is bringing his son and daughter out.
family reunion, of sorts.
i wanted to host, but then i realized that my disfellowshipped daughter would not be included.
I am so sorry for what you are going through. Heartache is so all encompassing and you have alot to deal with this week. I understand the pain of wishing your family were different. I hope that with time the pain of losing your brother will lessen. When my father died I felt so guilty because I didn't get to spend much time with, he was in New York part of the year and in Florida the rest and I was in Oklahoma raising children on my own. What helped me was trying to remember the good times we did have together. By wanting to remember your brother in a memorial service, it will help you to remember those good times and heal. Your kind heart will get you through it.
Jayhawk, that is because the sisters hid in in the cabinets in the library!!
Truthfully, I have made so many stupid decisions in my life, many times I wonder if I would have followed bible counsel better, would I have been happy as a JW? I feel sometimes that I have so many weaknesses that the reason I was never really a good witness was my fault. When I finally left the organization after DA'ing in 2003, after I discovered how hypocritical they had been regarding the UN and other issues. I realized that I am not a bad person, just was overreacting to the stifling oppression that I had lived under since I was 5 years old. I did some things I would have never done otherwise because: 1) I feel I never learned how to make decisions on my own because of how controlled my life was. I didn't learn on my own because someone always told me what to do and what not to do. 2) Because of hating the oppression and control as I got older, I would occasionally lose my inhibitions and do stupid,immoral things that I don't think I would have done if I had grown up in a more relaxed atmosphere............... Of course I would be punished for my bad acts and then I would start all over again, acting right, hoping to be in the organizations good favor again. Now I think back on all of this and when I hear my Mom talk about stuff that is put in the WT, the talks, the Assemblies, it makes me pissed off and tired of the bullshit they put out and I allowed myself to put up with......I am still learning to try and make wise decisions on my own, but at least I don't feel like a failure at every meeting, etc.
hello dear friends... well, many of you are aware of my on going daily saga.
my husband and i left the organization about a year and a half ago.
we have not been disfellowshipped, nor have we disassociated ourselves.
NO Don't Go!! Definitely a setup and it is not worth the emotional pain you will go through all over again when they turn you guys in. Why put yourself through this, when they spread rumors of you being bad association???
Witness's will stop at nothing to get information on you to use against you when you try to fade. The brothers in my congregation would ask my son who was 20 at the time questions about what I was doing since I had not been to meetings for almost a year after divorcing my abusive witness husband (not the kid's dad, the man I married after husband #1 and I split). They then used this innocent information to form a witch hunt to try and form a JC against me. I told them that I was no longer claiming to be of Jehovah's Witnesses and no longer went to meetings, so they didn't need to do anything, nor did they have any right to know my business. They then decided they were going to disfellowship me if I didn't write them a letter disassociating myself because I was dating after my divorce was final. They will use anything they can find on you to publicly humiliate you and you don't deserve that treatment from anyone.
my old computer died and was eaten up with porn viruses...(long story, no pun intended) and well i thought i had lost this.
so today i am working and i came across this file my brother said he tried to save what he could on.
i lost it and today i found it and have to share!
What a beatiful family you make. I loved looking at your pics, thanks for sharing them with us!
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i' curious how everyone came up with these unique alias names.
my partner gave me mine because my favorite meat is ham.. hambeak
mine pathetically means nothing except that I was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma ("Okie from Muskogee" song by Merle Haggard) and I am 46 years old. Therefore Okie46
