Emmylou

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  Why Do I Always Confuse Dagney With Kudra?

  by snowbird in

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  i'm of the opinion that all posters project an aura.. for some reason, dagney's and kudra's have crisscrossed.. has anyone else experienced that?.

  sylvia .

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  Emmylou

  Just had to respond to this subject. LOL.... I am Dagney's sister and have not gotten confused yet about who she is. There may be others I am confused about though...
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  No More gum chewing

  by Iwonder17 in

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  we have this hounder in our hall who doesn't like people chewing gum in the hall.

  now i can understand kids but come on..... so he gets up there a few weeks ago and says:.

  "a brother told me that he was talking with a gb member, and the gb member said that chewing gum is rude".

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  Emmylou

  Gum chewing could be much better than bad breath. Soooo nit picky.
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  My Story

  by XJW4EVR in

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  i was adopted into a jw family in southern california.

  my birth mother gave me up after 6 months (the terms mom & dad refer to my adoptive/real parents).

  she gave me up due to the fact that she already had a three year old boy, and back in the late sixties it was not as socially acceptable to be a single mother.

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  Emmylou

  Thank you for writing your story. It brought back many memories for me. I sent a PM to you.
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  EARTHQUAKE IN LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA

  by What-A-Coincidence in

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  ...the end is near!!!.

  where is my nearest kingdom hall???.

  i felt it ... it was a roller not a shaker.

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  Emmylou

  It was a roller here in north San Diego County. My cat looked up at me as if to say "what the heck was that?". He proceded to want outside.
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  Where To Go For 10th Wedding Anniversary?

  by sweet pea in

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  besty and i will be celebrating our 10th anniversary in september of this year.

  we would like to do a week or weekend somewhere special and as we currently reside in la, we are considering hawaii, mexico or a city like san francisco.

  we will probably be taking the podlets along with us so they are a consideration too.

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  Emmylou

  I think cruises are great for families because the children have activities. The parents can have some alone time together. Also when my children were young (3) we brought our neighbor who was a teenager along on several of our road trips. She was the best babysitter and had never been anywhere outside of our city. She loved it. She told me years later those times were some of her favorite memories. Those vacations were so much easier for us too.
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  embarrassed about having been a witness?

  by purplesofa in

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  last weekend witnesses came to where i work....i work at a barbque restuarant (hey it's fun!

  ) i recognized two elders before they came in and freaked!!!!!.

  the elder obnoxious was at the register and i was sure he did not recognize me.

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  Emmylou

  I had my first opportunity to say I am no longer a JW. It was to an old friend I hadn't seen in twenty plus years. He came over to my house to visitymy husband who had died last year. He was not aware of that fact so he became emotional. Later out of the clear blue he asked if I was still a JW. I don't know what prompted him to ask but I could tell he had been drinking the smell could have knocked me out and it was noon. His grandson had driven him over thank goodness.

  I told them I was not a witness anymore. He asked if anyone is calling on me. I said no and do not want anyone to call on me. I told him I felt I was very spiritual and didn't need putting in hours and attending meetings to be able to communicate with God. It felt sooooo good to say it out loud and to someone I knew even if he was drunk.
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  songs that help you cry....

  by wings in

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  no matter how much you want to avoid it...crying is necessary sometimes.

  for me, i need help with it....too many distractions in my life.

  i almost have to plan crying....so for me music aides in releasing emotion, helps me just be me for an interval of time.

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  Emmylou

  I have one that even saying the title makes me emotional let alone hearing the song. It is "He ain't heavy, he's my brother". I wonder if Dagney knows that about me.
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  Medical Marijuana

  by wha happened? in

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  has anyone tried it?

  if so for what ailment and how effective was it?

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  Emmylou

  This is my first real post since lurking for several years. This is something I have personal experience with. My husband was termnal and had been getting some MJ as best he could from the street to help him deal with pain and stress. I got him to a special doctor for authorization to purchase from a distribution center. He was so pleased by the quality and ease of getting it. It made his last days so much more comfortable. He was on heavy doses of morphine in addition. There is nothing that would calm him as well as this "alternative medicine". So it wasn't just for pain but helped appetite and stressing out from his circumstance. His Oncologist nurses and hospice doctor and nurses were upset that it isn't accepted by the medical community and the powers that be. They would complain that it is so policized.

  I met people that would not be able to work full time unless they used it for chronic back pain and other painful ailments. I have a frend that used it for MS and had favorable resuslts but discontinued because of guilt of using it in front of her family. How sad is that?

  I always treated it as medicine and did not use it myself but was always grateful he had it. In his last days I was also able to have it delivered because he could not travel to obtain it.

  I will eventually post my WT story. I was in over 50 years so it is never too late.
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  Where does a JW start to research?? It's all LIES

  by horrible life in

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  2. friends

  i came to jwd because i was angry and scared of a person.

  in my anger, i wanted to scream about my past life as a jw.

  as a jw, if i was told to research, where would i start?

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  Emmylou

  I was fading and realizing how so much was wrong in the WTS. I would go to meetings really reluctantly but had to at that time. So to keep occupied when scriptures were cited, I would read the whole chapter. I realized almost every scripture cited was out of context or did not apply to how it was being used. It was amazing to me because I had no idea. A close relative who was ahead of me in the process of fading told me to read all the scriptures in context. It was so tangible and easy to see.
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  Just had to say...

  by Dagney in

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  god bless rock and roll.. not sure if there is a god...but if there is, thank you very much.. "men crying and girls dancing...can't get any better than that.

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  Emmylou

  I could hardly wait to find out if you had a great time. So I thought I would put my first post here. It sounds like "The Boss" was as good as ever.