i will spare you all the gory details until she is ready to post them.
my mom (mulan) is having trouble with my grandma again.
looks like this time she has finally burned her last available bridge and will be moving out.
Here's a link to the University of Washington Alzheimer Disease Research center website:
http://depts.washington.edu/adrcweb/
The website has general information on Alzheimer's and other types of dementia. There is also information for caregivers on self-care, managing stress, etc. Hope you find this helpful.
Mrs Rocky
i am cassilines husband.
i know cassiline has alot of friends that monitor this board so i thought i would post a surgery status on cassiline to let everyone who cares about her know how everything is going.
first of all, i would like to say thank you to the owner of this board, friends and aquintances of cassinline, for all the help you have provided not olny for her but for others that are out there with problems who seek the assistance from people that have a similar state of understanding about the jw religion.
((((((((((Cassiline and family))))))))))
Ouch! hope you're not in too much pain. Hoping for a smooth recovery.
Mrs Rocky
i will spare you all the gory details until she is ready to post them.
my mom (mulan) is having trouble with my grandma again.
looks like this time she has finally burned her last available bridge and will be moving out.
((((((((((Mulan))))))))))
My heart goes out to you. You are have done the noble, loving thing by having your mom live with you. There comes a point where letting her go live somewhere else is the healthiest choice for her and for you. Don't buy the ticket for the guilt trip - you've done your best!
Mrs Rocky
i just found out that my car insurance will not be renwed next month because my agent is no longer with that company.
so now i'm shopping around for some and was wondering if anyone knew of some good sites or plans that could help me out.
i'm in fl btw if that helps any!.
Oooo - been there done that with trying to find car insurance. We've got Safeco, but have friends who got cancelled with one late payment. Not a good thing. The oldest Rockster isn't driving right now because her insurance doubled from last year. Since she is only home 3 months of the year, the rest of the time living where she can ride a bus, she decided it would be better to drop the insurance. Not an option for everyone, probably not you Ven. There have been lots of ads for GEICO around here. Don't know if they are in Florida.
Another option, if you have AAA (American Automobile Association), they have special deals for their members. Might be something to look in to - membership isn't expensive, lots of cool perks (travel service, discount car rental, flat fixes, AAA Plus has free towing up to 100 miles). With all the traveling you do that might be a good place to start!
Hope this helps!
Mrs Rocky
thought everyone would like to hear some great news about the calgary blood case.
i was sent the following, which i've modified to protect the guilty:.
at the witnesses' request, the trial has been put over till october.
Thanks for the update Alan. In the next couple of days Rocky and I will be talking to a couple of people who were there. I'll be sure to post any good tidbits. Would have liked to have been there!
Mrs R
last saturday, a former ministerial servant and pioneer committed suicide in the woodinville washington kingdom hall parking lot.
he was disfellowshipped several years ago, and according to the old sister that related the story to me today, he was depressed because no one would talk to him.
i don't know how i kept calm when she explained to me that "we couldn't talk to him...he was disfellowshipped.".
Hello armchair_detective,
Your post reminded me of how easy it is for rank and file to easily dismiss what they see as weaker ones. Makes me think of James 2:1-4: "My brothers you are not holding the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, our glory with acts of favoritism, are you? For if a man with gold rings on his fingers and in splendid clothing enters into a gathering of you but a poor man in filthy clothing also enters yet you look with favor upon the one wearing the splendid clothing and say: "You take this seat here in a fine place" and you say to the poor one: "You keep standing," or: "Take that seat there under my footstool" you have class distinctions among yourselfs and you have become judges rendering wicked decisions, is that not so?" Wicked to the core. How can they ignore the damage they do when this shunning results in so many deaths? IMHO they really do not understand what self-sacrificing love is.
Mrs R
last saturday, a former ministerial servant and pioneer committed suicide in the woodinville washington kingdom hall parking lot.
he was disfellowshipped several years ago, and according to the old sister that related the story to me today, he was depressed because no one would talk to him.
i don't know how i kept calm when she explained to me that "we couldn't talk to him...he was disfellowshipped.".
((((((Sabine))))))
Regarding suicide statistics in the WTS. The statistical results will be somewhat lower than the rest of the population because many suicides occur in the one who have been DFd, no longer counted in WTS statistics. More telling would be the rate of suicides amongst those who have been DFd.
Disfellowshipping/shunning, according to WT theology, is supposed to encourage the sinner to repent. WT needs to get their heads out of the sand and see that it does not accomplish this. JWs do not develop normal emotional responses....the guilt and worthlessness are drummed into rank and file so much that when they make a mistake the emotions are too great to handle.
My heart goes out to all who suffer from depression and overwhelming feelings of worthlessness. To those who have never been there, you don't want to go there. It's not an easy place to escape. But do try to have some compassion..."life is a journey, not a destination." Wouldn't it be better if we could help each other along the way?
Mrs R
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take a look.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/horsey/viewbydate.asp?id=658
Cool - at least someone got the point.
Mrs Rocky, a friend of Stratton
omg.
this is just wrong on so many levels.
thongs for young girls!
I haven't figured out why anyone would be comfortable wearing thong underwear anyway. When I was 10, heck 16, and even now, I tried desperately to keep my panties from doing that. Ick! People pay money for those things now! Omygosh!
D8TA I have to agree with. Rape victims have fought against the provocative clothing scenario for years. Predators don't need provocative clothing to pick a victim, although it doesn't deter them. Their minds are already twisted. But it doesn't help for society to sexualize everything either.
Mrs R
now that i'm out of the borg and realizing that i've never dated, i think it's in the near future for me.
so i was thinking about my age of 30 and never being on a date.
but even worse, i was thinking of those of you who dated while in the borg and had to deal with an audience - actually i had to laugh when thinking about the absurdity of the scenario.
Ah - the whirlwhind romance, complete with chaperone. Rocky and I were allowed our first date without a chaperone. Pizza and a movie in the big city an hour away. That was the last time we were ever allowed to be alone, other than the evening he proposed to me. Not that anything happened on that first date. Maybe it's because Rocky's mom was more trusting of him than my parents were of me, and we were on his turf.
I remember going to see Superman (this dates me, the one with Christopher Reeves). Every time the screen got bright my brother, who was sitting about 4 people to the left of us (we went in a big group), would lean forward and look down the row to make sure hands were where they were supposed to be.
My family didn't want us to sit on the sofa together. We couldn't look at each other, let alone hold hands. So maybe that's why we had our first date in late November, were engaged in January, and married in May.
BTW - we weren't teenagers when this all happened. I was 21, he was 24.
