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  No internet after this weekend

  by pamkw in

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  just wanted to let you know after monday, i will not have internet for awhile.

  since i lost my short lived job, i just can't afford it.

  i can't afford anything right now.

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  Hi everyone,
  
  Just wanted to let you know after Monday, I will not have internet for awhile. Since I lost my short lived job, I just can't afford it. I can't afford anything right now. I can't even look for a job until I get my son back in school. Right now he is doing homebound studies with a teacher two hours a day. Then of course I have to be able to find a job that will let me leave when the school has trouble with him.
  
  During the last few weeks, this board has been the place I have came to, to get a laugh or to think about something besides the mess I am in. I will miss it, but I will check in from time to time at my sister's.
  
  My oldest son is now in Alaska working in a fish processing factory. We kept in touch by email when he runs out of calling card minutes. I will miss that too. Who knows if he makes enough money, we may all just move up there.
  
  Well, I will be around some this weekend, then who knows when I will get back.
  
  Miss this place already,
  
  Pam
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  High School Days

  by Dimples in

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  high school is supposed to be one of the most memorable years of your life.

  i had fun in my high school days, as i didn't become a jw until after i was married and had a child.

  those of you who were born into the borg, your high school days must have been boring.

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  High school as a jw kid. Boring would have been nice. It was hell. I did go to dances, but never danced much. Everyone knew I was different. And I couldn't dress as nice (anything up to date.) I tried to go out of sports, but my mom and step-dad made it so uncomfortable I ended up quitting. My sister did play volleyball. My mom NEVER came to see her play. I went to prom because my grandma thought it was stupid not too. She probably would never have became a jw, if it hadn't been for my mom. My grandma always had questions and her own ideas. (she didn't shun me when I was df.)

  I raised my oldest son 11 years as a jw, but I wasn't as strict because I knew how it was to be different. My youngest son has got to enjoy being like other kids as much as he possibly can. He gets to do all the parties and I let him try sports. With his bi-polar condition, life would have been awful if he was a jw kid.

  I spend many years forgeting my highschool years. They were just too painful.

  Pam
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  JW Teacher Tapes Students to Chairs

  by blondie in

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  i hope this is not a duplicate:.

  http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/6987929.htm.

  posted on sat, oct. 11, 2003coral gables.

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  The bad part of all this is the kids are rarely believed. My son is 11, and right now not in school because the teacher is mean and verbally abusive. She even went so far as to call him a name in front of his case manager. Lucky for me, the case manager is not lying for her. I took him out of that class and am now fighting the school for another placement. She also restrained my son,and when he fought back and elbowed someone trying to get away, she had him arrested. Because she had him arrested, I lost my job when I went to get him.

  I really hate teachers sometimes.

  Pam
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  Who else is having a hard time with depression right now?

  by czarofmischief in

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  i'm a loonie, but it seems that i've been dealing with some pretty severe waves of depression lately.

  her majesty the czarina went on prozac last month and it was working wonderfully, until suddenly last week she suddenly had a bad day, and then another, and then another... it's been a week now and we're both in the blahs.

  and my one co-worker had an anxiety attack and is kind of blah now, too.. anyway, that makes three people i know of who are having a bad time.

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  Me too. It has been that way for a few weeks now. Pam
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  Do You Live For Today or Do You Focus On The Future???

  by minimus in

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  me-----i live to enjoy my life today.

  tomorrow, i could be dead....and you??

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  I live for the moment. I try to enjoy whatever I am doing right now. The future never works out the way I expect, so I am trying to learn to enjoy the ride. And right now it is all down hill. Pam
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  Canadian U.N. Peacekeeping Soldier killed: Family Friend

  by RAYZORBLADE in

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  when i picked up the paper the other day, i read the news, and a plethora of material relating to the ontario provincial election.

  i quickly skimmed through it, and went to my usual favourite sections.

  but when i went to fold the newspaper back up, on the bottom half of the front page, were two photographs of two canadian soldiers.. .

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  Ray,
  
  
  I am so sorry. And here you have been writing me and cheering me up when you had all that on your mind. You are a great guy. Write me if you need to.
  
  
  Pam
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  Ex-JW Convention in Pennsylvania coming up!

  by Dogpatch in

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  for those who are inclined, i recommend this convention.. october 17-19, 2003. pfo?s international convention will celebrate its silver anniversary in 2003. from humble beginnings in 1979, the convention has been a consistent source of counsel, support, and encouragement for people whose lives have been torn apart by the watchtower society.

  during the past twenty-four years, help to jehovah?s witnesses who desire to break free from the organization and to families who have lost loved ones to the sect have been a primary focus of the meetings.

  the three-day conventions are filled with doctrinal teaching, examinations of jehovah?s witness doctrine and practice, and wonderful testimonies by those who have made their exodus from the watchtower organization and have found true salvation through jesus christ.. http://www.pfo.org/2003wnfj.htm.

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  I met Grace in 1999 in Pennsylvania. She is the greatest person. I don't know if you remember me Grace, I went with Chatty Cathy. I didn't have that good a time, but it was interesting and I got to met a lot of email friends I had been writing for months. It is not my cup of tea now, but if I had the money I would go just to see my friends again. Pam
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  Are you getting grey?

  by JH in

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  although i'm in my early 40's, i still didn't get grey hair yet.

  i may find one or two gray hairs once in a while, but not more.

  same thing with the beard.

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  I am in my early 40's but no grey hair. I have been told red heads grey slower than most. I know my great-grandmother was way in her late 60's before she turned grey. I got my red hair from her. So I think I have a few more years to be a lighter shade of the red I was when I was young. Pam
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  If Your Child or Friend Told You They Were Gay, Would You Be Disturbed?

  by minimus in

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  as a jehovah's witness, you know that you cannot practice homosexuality.

  it's considered a sin.

  if your friend or relative revealed that they were gay, you would be obligated to "report" them to the elders.

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  I would not care what sex my son't partner is as long as that person treats him well. I have never understood the hatred that people feel toward gay people. I figure love is a hard thing to find, and when you do what difference does it make if that person is the same sex or not.
  
  
  In fact, when my oldest son first became a teenager I was worried that he had no sex drive at all. I was happy when he finally started showing interest in girls when he turned 19. I would have been happy if it had been a boy, just as long was he actually had some sort of normal sexual feelings like most people do. Of course after he started getting some, he lost all his common sense (he didn't have much to begin with). But that's a guy thing isn't it?
  
  
  I would never turn anyone in for being gay. In fact the only time I turned someone in was this girl who was studying and everyone made such a big deal about her. She was single and had 3 kids I think. She thought that we were very much alike. I was single with 2 kids. Anyway, the elder's wife who studied with her thought she was so perfect, and recuited people to help her with her kids. No one helped me, I deserved my troubles after all I was babptized when I made my mistakes. This girl was still smoking and coming over to my house. I turned her in for one because I wanted to see her get what was coming to her, and I didn't want to get in trouble because I the elders didn't trust me anyway.
  
  Pam
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  Wedding Present: The Family Happiness book

  by Nosferatu in

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  my mother told me that after i get married, she's going to give me the "family happiness" book.

  i've never read the thing, but i know it's a wts publication that often gets given or mailed out to newlyweds who aren't in the troof.

  what's your opinion of this "fine christian publication"?

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  Basically, women like to work under a ceiling of authority, provided that it is exercised properly. I have never liked being under any authority. That is probably why I am divorced. He wasn't a jw, but he had the man as head crap down real good. I told him that was not how it was going to be. And I ended up making most of the decision, especially the ones concerning my kids. Stuff like the above was why I always wanted my children but not marriage. My mother could never understand that. Pam