I'm glad that everything worked out fine for you and your daughter.
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we're back from the hospital
by BlackSwan of Memphis inok well the tonisllectomy went well.
they got the tonsils and the adenoids and didn't go ahead with the tubes in her ears.. they kept her overnight because of her history with the apnea and with the anasthesia, they wanted to keep an eye on her for one night.
we got back this morning.. she did awesome!!!!
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I could sure use some kind words today.
by Abandoned inhey guys.
i've had a pretty tough day today and i'd sure appreciate some good vibes and words of encouragment.. thanks..
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Thanks everyone. I appreciate your kindness very much. I'm feeling a bit better.
Edit:You guys are the best people on the planet. I LOVE everyone of you.
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OK, it's cheezy, but how about, "Dam Timber!"
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"I Wanna Be Around (to pick up the pieces)"
by compound complex inpatsy cline made us cry when she 'went to pieces.
' tony bennett wanted "to be around to pick up the pieces when somebody breaks your heart".
as i was reflecting upon johnny mercer and sadie vimmerstedt's hit "i wanna be around", it occurred to me that we have had our collective hearts broken.
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Thanks for the poem - I love Emily Dickenson - and thanks for reminding me of the song, "What a difference a day makes." I know things will look up again. I know this is only temporary.
Thanks!
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I could sure use some kind words today.
by Abandoned inhey guys.
i've had a pretty tough day today and i'd sure appreciate some good vibes and words of encouragment.. thanks..
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Hey guys. I've had a pretty tough day today and I'd sure appreciate some good vibes and words of encouragment.
Thanks.
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Fight like a disfellowshipped person. (scrapping hard)
by Sparkplug inlately i have been thinking.
there are things i want.
i am so tired of working so hard for goals just to watch the prize be taken by someone else who is only slightly interested in the finished product.
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I think this is the first time ever in my life I have been told not to forget to help others.
I'm sorry that I made it sound like counsel rather than just a statement of my beliefs. I still have a bit too much jw in me I guess.
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True Religion
by purplesofa inhow long was true religion really on the earth and when?.
thank you .
purps.
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Well, I'm not an expert and since two weeks agoI would have loved the opportunity to kick the almight in his kiester (reevaluating that since it may not have been him that lied to me and all), but from where I stand now, I think those with true religion don't tell others about it and may not even know they have it themselves. I think it's how you live your life and I think just being who you are is probably one of the first big steps.
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Fight like a disfellowshipped person. (scrapping hard)
by Sparkplug inlately i have been thinking.
there are things i want.
i am so tired of working so hard for goals just to watch the prize be taken by someone else who is only slightly interested in the finished product.
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Wow, I don't know how I missed this thread. Yeah, this is my kind of attitude. Humility is awesome and so and so and such and such, but there are times when you have to go toe to toe and stand up for yourself. And yeah, getting pushed down can really cause you to reevaluate motivations and what holds you back.
Great post! You go girl. Kick butt. And have fun, and oh, don't forget while you're fighting back that some still can't and could use a hand.
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..Screw It!!..
by OUTLAW inthe one thing i love about my life is not doing any mantitory wbt$ bullsh*t..it`s not voluntary..none of it..just try to stop..you will be attacked on all sides..you have a gun to your head..your trying to keep your family and life together and the wbt$ will tear it apart..many are still there because of that.it`s not easy on them.....some of us say screw it!.do your worst it!..once i decieded i was out,i was out.it was done in a heart beat..everyone i knew,made my life as difficult as possible.i made a new life and they are all still stuck there.waiting for armageddon and can`t remember what they preached in years gone by..you`ve heard of alzhiemers.jehovah`s witness`s get jozhiemers.it must be contagious,they all have it.....from the time you wanted to leave,till the time you left,how long did it take you to say screw it!
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I didn't really decide to leave, I just realized I wasn't good enough and so I slowed down and quit. I also started smoking again in 2000 or so. I kept it hidden for a year but I'm sure some must have known. The PO told me a story once while I was helping him install a bathroom in the kh. It was about a "brother" in chiapas, mx who had to be df'd because he just couldn't quit smoking. I don't remember when this was, around 2000, but I'm sure it didn't pop out of nowhere.
I was ugly for the smoking of course. I was ugly becasue I enjoyed video games. I was ugly for so many things that I just accepted I was going to be destroyed and tried to live my life. From 2001/2002 until now, I managed at varying rates of success to put all this jw crap in the back of my mind and live in the moment.
That stopped working this year. I had a lot of AWESOME and a lot of terrible things happen to me in the last eleven months. I broke up with a girlfriend January 10th. I quit smoking february 22. I won poetry contests and was villified at work because my ex-gf and I both worked at the same alzheimer's facility (she a supervisor. OOPS!)
Anyhow, I fell into a huge depression from march until may. I finally came out and in June whereby my work, due to increased pressure from my ex (still supervisor) convinced them I was crazy. They made me go see a shrink (illegal) and wouldn't let me back to work until I showed them my diagnosis (also illegal).
Work had me take a three week leave with pay. Cool, but all the rumors that came from that were not worht it. During that time, however, I published a joke book for an elderly lady who wanted to see her jokes in a book. I did it through lulu.com so it was very affordable and the book turned out great. I had a story published in a local newspaper and just today, I received a copy of the LTC:Inteface magazine that bought one of my stories. During this time, my ex continued to increase the pressure.
During this time, I received notices from four creditors that are going to be garnisheeing my wages. I can't file bankruptcy due to the george w. bush changes to the bancruptcy laws and I can't afford to make my payments while my wages are garnished. So, I took on another job and a week later, my first job became unbearable and I quit. I now work two low-paying jobs, but I don't make enough to garnish and even though I'm not sure how, I'm making it financially. I just hope I can hold out until the democrats undue that bancrupty fiasco. I meant really, the only people who can afford to file now are those who wouldn't qualify anyways and those who qualify, can't possibly afford all the crap you have to go through. Sorry, touchy subject.
I turned forty this year and last month, I was going over my life and I realized how screwed up I was. A lot of this crap is just me making bad decisions but quite a bit is based on decisions I made as a good jw. I quit my high-paying job and followed my wife to mexico when she got kicked out of the country and I watched as my new car was ruined on the roads down there. I watched as my finances went from exemplary to total disaster while I was trying to take care of her and commute between two countries (especially difficult after 9/11). I wasn't making enough to pay my quarterly self-employment taxes but I couldn't count my dependents since they weren't americans. I was doing what I should and trusting in that thing the jw told me to trust in and I just kept sinking until 2004 when my wife packed up our things and left.
So, I came back to the US and I came back to MN, and I left ever last piece of jw paraphalia that I owned in a pile on floor of our old apartment. Similar to jezebel, I didn't even give that refuse a decent burial. Maybe there's a crow somewhere shunning his crow family.
So, with all the good and the bad and the ups and the downs, I finally realized that I needed help. I needed help from people who have been wehre I was and could understand. So I came here. I just lurked for awhile and then, when I was sufficiently pissed off over what I was learning about the UN scandal, the abuse scandal, the lies, nearly everything that happened before 1950, and all the other crap that this god dishonoring organization managed to keep hidden from me, when I was sufficiently pissed off from all that, I signed up for an account here and I haven't looked back. That was about thirteen days ago or so.
Yeah, so I guess it took me four to five years or longer, but each of us has a "screw it" inside of us waiting to come out and satan help his watchtower society when all of us let loose.
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"I Wanna Be Around (to pick up the pieces)"
by compound complex inpatsy cline made us cry when she 'went to pieces.
' tony bennett wanted "to be around to pick up the pieces when somebody breaks your heart".
as i was reflecting upon johnny mercer and sadie vimmerstedt's hit "i wanna be around", it occurred to me that we have had our collective hearts broken.
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What helps you personally move forward to aid others, in spite of your pain, your "broken heart"?
This is a good question. I think the main thing that drives me to want to help others is spunk - I'm not easily intimidated, I can smell bullshit a mile off, and I love bringing crap back to those who spread it out. I spent too much of my life afraid to stand up and be noticed, afraid to participate in all that was going on around me because god would be mad or my "brother" would be "stumbled."
Well, I'm not that person anymore and I'll go ten rounds with anyone who tries to make me return. Plus, I remember what it was like as a human porta-potty so when I see one who hasn't escaped yet, I have a powerful desire to help - both because I can understand where that person being crapped on is at and also so I can p*ss off the jerk handing out the mistreatment.
Long answer: the above. Short answer: spunk.