Velvetann

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  A journey into my colon -- and yours...Important read for those over 50...

  by zeroday in

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  if you are 50 or older you should read this very important...i had this procedure 2 years ago and glad i did.... http://www.miamiherald.com/dave_barry/story/427603.html.

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  Velvetann

  That is so funny how he wrote that article. The 40 ft Colon in Miami was hillarious too, I can't imagine crawling around in something like that.

  I am a certified colon therapist so I find this very interesting.

  Velvet
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  Old folks next door

  by mouthy in

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  she is 86 he is 87.... he is deaf.

  they were on holiday ...he mentioned he must find a bathroom.

  i will look in the stores as we need to find a souvenir".

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  That is so funny. I can see that happening.

  Velvet
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  !!!Now I have really seen it all... Watchtower Jewelry!!!!

  by Princess Daisy Boo in

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  sitting at home on a friday night - browsing through all the jw groups on facebook and this catches my eye.... we help support our full-time ministry with this website.

  please have a look at the "watchtower" -style pins and pendants.

  with a link to this website http://jeffreydesign.com/index.php?main_page=index&cpath=7 aside from the fact that it really ain't pretty, how pukeworthy is this??

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  This Ring has a design that might be questionable for JW's to wear. http://jeffreydesign.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_13&products_id=388

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  Exercise Check-In Log

  by White Dove in

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  after loubelle's exercise thread, i thought it would be a fun idea to keep a log here and check in with everyone.. i walked 30 minutes yesterday plus after walked to the police station and the witch store about 3 miles away from the y.. food: .

  breakfast: 2 pieces of toast: one with pb and the other with honey, coffee.

  lunch: hardboiled egg, ham, cheese stick.

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  Velvetann

  Hey FA you are doing great with your new Health Regime. Care to share how much you have lost since you started your diet,

  Velvet
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  Exercise Check-In Log

  by White Dove in

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  after loubelle's exercise thread, i thought it would be a fun idea to keep a log here and check in with everyone.. i walked 30 minutes yesterday plus after walked to the police station and the witch store about 3 miles away from the y.. food: .

  breakfast: 2 pieces of toast: one with pb and the other with honey, coffee.

  lunch: hardboiled egg, ham, cheese stick.

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  Velvetann

  Great Idea White Dove.

  I started Weight Watchers on June 9th, as I have to lose 20 lbs. i have lost 4 lbs.

  I have severe back pain because of disc degeneration and the doctor said to exercise and lose weight to help with it. Weight loss takes the pressure off my spine. Exercise is difficult for me in the form of walking or anything involving standing because I also have MS which affects my balance. What a mess I am. Because of the pain of my back I haven't exercised this year at all. I am a big Suck.

  I was at The doctor/Neurologist yesterday and he says do EXERCISE and gave me a special tape to exercise to yesterday. It involves sitting exercises so I will start that tomorrow. I have a treadmill and I can do that too as I can hang on to the railings walking. I can only do 10 minutes at a time at this point but I could do that 2 or 3 times a day.

  So all that said I will join you in exercise each day, this is a great incentive. I am the same as you, If I don't have someone to answer to I won't do it. I am doing the diet with a friend via email.

  My menu yesterday (I am allowed 27 pts a day)

  Breakfast

  Raspberry herbal tea - 0 pts calories Strawberry Banana soy smoothie 6 pts (Yummy)

  Lunch

  2 Wasa crackers, 2 slices of low fat Turkey breast, tomato, lettuce, mustard 3 pts, cherries, 2pts Total 5pts

  Dinner

  1 Lean Cuisine Sesame Chicken Dinner 8 pts Broccoli with margarine 2 pts 1 Skinny cow fudgicle 2 pts Total 12 pts

  Total for day 23 pts

  VELVET

  Breakfast
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  Funerals = JW infomercials

  by Lady Zombie in

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  one of the more asinine practices of jws is to turn someone's funeral into a borg infomercial.

  every single jw relative i've had who has passed away, had an infomercial funeral.

  hardly anything was ever said about them as people, except of course in how they served the borg.. "sister x was a very pugnatious woman, even into her late 80's, as i'm sure her family can attest to.

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  I was totally disgusted when I discovered what JW funerals were all about. I had never gone to one while I was a JW, so had no idea what I was up against when I did go.

  You hit the nail on the head and the term "infomercial" is THE PERFECT way to describe JW funerals.

  My experience with JW infomercial funeral came when my Dad died in Dec 2001. He had been zealous in the truth for years and a elder, special pioneer etc and then he saw what was going on and he just up and quit the "truth". So he was unofficially DA for 25 years. My Mom was totally still in and insisted that we give him a JW funeral. I said OK but not at the Kingdom Hall so she agreed to that thank Goodness and we had the service at the Funeral Parlour. She didn't object I think because she wasn't sure if my Dads funeral would have been allowed at the sacred Hall anyway. Then she talked Ernie Funk from Canada Bethel to give the talk as he and my parents went way back to the 50's in the truth together. My husband and I decided to do a Eulogy for my Dad (thankfully) and I did a collage of photos of his life and family. I was not experienced with funerals so just trusted that things would be to say good bye to my Dad and talk about him.

  So the funeral began and I had my children there, my exhusband, My current husband at that time and friends of my childrens family and some of our business colleages there (all who were not JW's and some not knowing about them).. Well were we in for a shock, It was a total infomercial, and my fathers name was maybe mentioned 2 times but it was like we weren't there about him. Scripture after Scripture and a lot of them subtlly referring to the fact that my Dad might not have a resurrection hope. I was so embarrassed and bored. My Mom sat beside me, not a tear in her eye and she was so happy having A Bethel Brother giving a talk for her husband. She had her bible and looked up every scripture as he read them. I was so disgusted. After Ernies talk he introduced my husband and said he would give a Eulogy, Well that was all about my Dad and he did a good job. Afterward a lot of people even JW's came up and complimented Robert on his Eulogy, and a lot said that if it hadn't been for the Eulogy we wouldn't have know we were there about my Dad.

  One more thing...When I told my Mom that I wanted to do a Eulogy for my Dad but that Robert my husband would give it as he was a good speaker she said she would have to check with Ernie to see if that is OK. Unbelievable, its her husband and she is paying for the funeral and she has to ask the Bethel God if her daughter can give a Eulogy. Well I didn't make a big fuss but I was seething inside. I had to speak to him (Mr. Holier than thou Ernie) on the phone at my Moms and he instructed me what I couldn't say. I had to fax the Eulogy over to Ernie at Bethel and wait for him to critique it. He had told me we couldn't say any thing religious against the JW's or say that he might go to heaven. I told him he didn't need to worry my husband and I are not religious so its going to be all about my DAD. He approved the thing but Geeeeeesh I just thought it was absolutely crazy.

  Ok now I got that off my chest and I feel better too that I wasn't the only one that had to go throught this kind of fiasco.

  My Mom died in October 2006. I am the only child and was exector so I arranged the funeral. I let the JW's give the talk but I told them that NO WAY would they do all that scriptures stuff. I said talk about my MOM and I gave him a limit of 2 scriptures. He did it and it was very nice funeral talk. It was nice to be in control for a change with them.

  Thanks for listening

  Velvetann
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  Something you may not know about me ....

  by troubled mind in

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  is that i am unreasonably terrified of dentists .......i am talking panic attack ready to happen kind of fear ....and well this weekend one of my molars broke .

  i just made an appointment to see the doctor at 3pm .

  it has been so long since my last visit they didn't even have any information current on me ....i think it has been at least seven yrs.

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  I hear you, I was totally terrified of Dentists for years,. When I was a little girl the Dentist I went to hurt me and that drill vibrated my whole head and he was mean and grumpy because I was scared and screamed. My Mom had to hold me down. It stayed with me for years and I avoided Dentists at all costs unless I was desperate. I used to sweat and be nausuos when I went to see them.

  Lately in the past 15 years I have gone and they haven't hurt me at all, they have such new modern methods and equipment. The only thing that HURTS is the Bill. I don't have dental insurance

  Velvet
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  Letter to My Mother--FINAL!--After 2yrs3mos--Incomprehensibly Long...

  by Confession in

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  [2 john 9 11, nwt].

  [john 14:6, nwt] .

  [john 14:6, nwt] .

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  Velvetann

  All I can say is that your letter is Overwhelming and so well thought out. I am going to save it to my Documents for future reference.

  Velvet
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  Are Witnesses Sexually Normal?

  by minimus in

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  jws are obsessed with sex and sexual sins.

  the elders are specifically told what classification a sexual sin falls into.

  touching the breasts, genitals, looking at porn, looking at various types of pornography, kissing, petting-----you name it----it is technically classified so that the elders know which charge they can hit you with judicially.. even if you're married, the watchtower disapproves of certain consensual sex acts.

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  It was archaic but I think that was just bad luck for me to chose a Old Fashioned man from a country that views women as chattels. I didn't understand that as I had no experience with men. I am sure if I had gotten together with someone from our culture it might not have been so bad.

  I jumped at him because i wanted to get away from my parents and by so doing I jumped from the frying pan into the fire. I met him at the London, Ontario District Assembly when I was 17. He thought my parents were awful because they wouldn't let me see him without them being in the room all the time. That was a story too which really put me off my parents. He drove, from Hamilton Ontario to Long Sault, Ontario to see me one weekend. My parents said he had to stay in a Hotel room and wouldn't let him bunk out on our couch. The only thing we did was go to the Sunday meeting and sit together but my Mom sat with us. He wanted to take me to a movie but my parents said NO unless they could come too but they didn't feel like it so we sat on my parents couch and talked with my Dad glaring at us. Then the clincher..........my Dad had to go Pee so he called my Mom in from the kitchen which was 15 feet away and said she had to sit in the livingroom and watch us until he got back. What did he think we would do, strip off our clothes and so the dirty while he was in the bathroom. It was so stupid. Anyway that drove me to leave home and move to Hamilton to be near this Jerk. Then I find out he is as uptight as my parents were. Geeeeeeeeeesh
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  Are Witnesses Sexually Normal?

  by minimus in

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  jws are obsessed with sex and sexual sins.

  the elders are specifically told what classification a sexual sin falls into.

  touching the breasts, genitals, looking at porn, looking at various types of pornography, kissing, petting-----you name it----it is technically classified so that the elders know which charge they can hit you with judicially.. even if you're married, the watchtower disapproves of certain consensual sex acts.

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  Fortunately I never married a JW but I got engaged to one when I was 18 and that put me off JW men. It might have been a cultural thing too because this guy was a immigrant from Turkey. He was 28 and I was 18 and he was a prude and a virgin. We kissed and necked a few times and I know he got aroused and then he would shove me away and treat me like I had done something horrible to him. He made me feel dirty and guilty because he got aroused and then he would ignore me after. I was naive and didn't understand. I pushed harder and harder to get his attention and would look for opportunities to catch him off guard so I could try and seduce him. Well a couple of times he "popped" LOL and messed up his pants *giggle*. He was so mad at me and he said we couldn't kiss again until we got married. Then he got suspicious because I was so "H***y" and said I might not be a virgin. Well I was. He took me to the doctor to have him examine me and prove it. He also told me I couldn't wear pants and my skirts had to be at ankle level. That was it for me. I took off to Florida and sent his ring back in an envelope. I was really messed up then, and that didn't help. I felt like there was something wrong with me. Then I met a worldly man and that led to my demise with the JW religion.

  Velvet