Posts by joelbear

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Dad very seriously ill..... How did I find out?

by Gretchen956 in

first let me start off by saying i am very sick myself right now.

i have a virus that settled in my nerves (very very painful and no it isn't herpes), and now two weeks in i caught a very bad upper respiritory bronchities.

i spent my day in bed as i have been for most of two weeks now with no end in sight (dammit).. not trying for sympathy points, but this just isn't a good time for this!.

joelbear

Sherry, I'm sorry this happened to you. It hurts really bad. all you can do is realize that your mother is insane and try to forgive her for her sick behavior.

I hope your dad is okay and you get to visit him.

HUGS

Joel

10

WE WON

by JeffT in

first time ever the seahawks are going to the superbowl.

joelbear

Mike Holmgren is hot. Hope for lots of shots of him during superbowl.

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Do you fall back to blaming the "Wicked Sytem of Things" for everything?

by AK - Jeff in

as witnesses it was the 'catch all' phrase.

we blamed illness, crime, economic probs, job issues, marital probs, and whatever else came down the pike as the fault of the wicked old system.

recently a former friend of us, a long time witness had a stroke.

joelbear

no, my philosophy doesn't really consider evil and wicked to be real.

there is an ongoing cause and effect that makes things happen, not mysterious forces like evil, good or wicked

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I am in love with Richie Rich

by joelbear in

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i plan on beginning to stalk him on his 18th birthday.

i am going to dress up like the men in brokeback mountain.

joelbear

we are openly seeking two cubs to join our relationship. i think Richie will do just fine.

37

Are you a "loner"?

by JH in

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friends

do you like being alone most of the time?

i don't know if it's due to the fact that i don't have many friends, but i get along fine all alone.

just posting here i don't feel alone.. .

I am in love with Richie Rich

by joelbear in

jw
friends

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i plan on beginning to stalk him on his 18th birthday.

i am going to dress up like the men in brokeback mountain.

joelbear

I plan on beginning to stalk him on his 18th birthday.

I am going to dress up like the men in brokeback mountain.

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Pots for sale

by joelbear in

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friends

in about 2 weeks i will have my first pots ready for sale.

andy has dibs on first pic.

i will sell these first 5 pots at cost which is about $20 plus about $15 to ship them.. pm me if interested.

joelbear

In about 2 weeks I will have my first pots ready for sale. Andy has dibs on first pic. I will sell these first 5 pots at cost which is about $20 plus about $15 to ship them.

PM me if interested. I will post pics of them at www.joelbear.net

14

Lyme Disease, anyone have experience with this?

by free2beme in

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friends

it's weird, but always thought lyme disease was something you got from ticks and it was this minor thing that could be fixed with a pill.

i had no idea how serious and destructive this disease really is.

my sister got bit by a tick about four years ago and thought nothing of it, after all she lives in the country and has animals, and ticks were just common life issues.

Nathan Knorr and Bethel Life in the seventies

by Boxed elder bugs in

when i was at bethel in the 70's the president of the watchtower society nathan knorr was really unpopular among a lot of bethelites because he supported the four year oblligation for bethelites to stay at bethel and stay single for four years.

i had heard that over nintey percent of the people who left bethel fell away from the jw religion afterwards, i was among that number, and i had heard that the majority of people who came to bethel did not keep there four year commitment but left in less than a year, i know the majority of people i started with lasted about a year at bethel, i was dumb enough to stay at bethel three and one half years.

i guess it was because i was raised in the witnesses and didn't know what to do after i lost my faith in that religion while i was there.

joelbear

i got to the farm right after Knorr died. i worked with his wife in the subscription department. she was very nice. i heard lots of stories about knorr from the guys.

the bureaucracy of bethel was very hard to resolve with the loving unity one had always been taught about back in the congos.

it was truly sad.

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How does Shunning feel?

by DaveNwisconsin in

just curious as i had never really been a true jehovah witness.

i would think that you make friends and suddenly you don't exist.

i would think a board like this is a true godsend.

joelbear

i loved my friends and family that are jehovah's witnesses. i knew a lot of witnesses in south georgia and north florida because i had pioneered, been to bethel and had been on assemblies several times, plus i always volunteered at assemblies so i got to know a lot of people, plus that's kinda the way south georgia is, everybody is related by blood or marriage.

Chris, Julie, Robyn, Lisa, Janice, Calvin, Dale, Pam, Connie, Bobby. we were once family. i haven't spoken to them in almost 20 years now. does that leave a hole in your heart? yes.

Cheri, Eddie, John, Kim, Eric, Jill. we were once family. i haven't spoken to them in almost 20 years now.

how does being shunned feel? kind of like hell. my mind can't accept it. its probably the one most prevalent factor in my almost daily thoughts of suicide.

my parents don't shun me. none of my family shuns me although access to my oldest niece is limited due to her husband who is no longer a witness but is still homophobic.