holy crap, mini..........didn't know you were affected!!! glad you are okay!
Sunnygal41
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I Just Got My Electricity & Heat Back!
by minimus ini've been living in a sheraton the last 4 days because i got flooded out and due to the severe storm, lost power.
unbelievable few days!
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Sunnygal41
well, since I was 14 when I was brainwashed into the dubs, i really feel like i never got a chance to think for myself and form my own value system, so, i followed the things the wts taught. however, since leaving, my view now is that it is okay to do, as long as you don't harm anyone, including yourself. i think that pretty much covers it.
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/////// Rock and Roll Heaven \\\\\\\
by FlyingHighNow inthis is the dead thread.
pay tribute to those who've gone towards the light.
walked on the wind..... shannon, lead singer for blind melon.
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Sunnygal41
my SO, Dean says the best drummer he EVER knew: JOHN BOHNAM and legendary BLUES GUITARIST.......STEVIE RAY VAUGHN.........he said he was at a concert of his in the 70's and he rushed the stage and was able to high five him before his security guys got him..........
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1950s pinup model Bettie Page dies in LA at 85
by Sunnygal41 in1950s pinup model bettie page dies in la at 85 by bob thomas bob thomas thu dec 11, 11:56 pm et.
ap this undated photo provided thursday, dec. 11, 2008 by cmg worldwide shows bettie page.
page, the 1950s slideshow: pinup queen bettie page dies at 85 play videovideo: iconic '50s pinup model bettie page dies at 85 cbs 2 / kcal 9 los angeleslos angeles bettie page, the 1950s secretary-turned-model whose controversial photographs in skimpy attire or none at all helped set the stage for the 1960s sexual revolution, died thursday.
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Sunnygal41
1950s pinup model Bettie Page dies in LA at 85
By BOB THOMAS Bob Thomas – Thu Dec 11, 11:56 pm ET
AP – This undated photo provided Thursday, Dec. 11, 2008 by CMG Worldwide shows Bettie Page. Page, the 1950s …
- Slideshow: Pinup queen Bettie Page dies at 85
- Play VideoVideo: Iconic '50s Pinup Model Bettie Page Dies At 85 CBS 2 / KCAL 9 Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES – Bettie Page , the 1950s secretary-turned-model whose controversial photographs in skimpy attire or none at all helped set the stage for the 1960s sexual revolution, died Thursday. She was 85.
Page was placed on life support last week after suffering a heart attack in Los Angeles and never regained consciousness, said her agent, Mark Roesler. He said he and Page's family agreed to remove life support. Before the heart attack, Page had been hospitalized for three weeks with pneumonia.
"She captured the imagination of a generation of men and women with her free spirit and unabashed sensuality," Roesler said. "She is the embodiment of beauty."
Page, who was also known as Betty, attracted national attention with magazine photographs of her sensuous figure in bikinis and see-through lingerie that were quickly tacked up on walls in military barracks, garages and elsewhere, where they remained for years.
Her photos included a centerfold in the January 1955 issue of then-fledgling Playboy magazine , as well as controversial sadomasochistic poses.
"I think that she was a remarkable lady, an iconic figure in pop culture who influenced sexuality, taste in fashion, someone who had a tremendous impact on our society," Playboy founder Hugh Hefner told The Associated Press on Thursday. "She was a very dear person."
Page mysteriously disappeared from the public eye for decades, during which time she battled mental illness and became a born-again Christian.
After resurfacing in the 1990s, she occasionally granted interviews but refused to allow her picture to be taken.
"I don't want to be photographed in my old age," she told an interviewer in 1998. "I feel the same way with old movie stars . ... It makes me sad. We want to remember them when they were young."
The 21st century indeed had people remembering her just as she was. She became the subject of songs, biographies, Web sites, comic books, movies and documentaries. A new generation of fans bought thousands of copies of her photos, and some feminists hailed her as a pioneer of women's liberation.
Gretchen Mol portrayed her in 2005's " The Notorious Bettie Page " and Paige Richards had the role in 2004's " Bettie Page: Dark Angel ." Page herself took part in the 1998 documentary " Betty Page : Pinup Queen."
Hefner said he last saw Page when he held a screening of "The Notorious Bettie Page" at the Playboy Mansion. He said she objected to the fact that the film referred to her as "notorious," but "we explained to her that it referred to the troubled times she had and was a good way to sell a movie."
Page's career began one day in October 1950 when she took a respite from her job as a secretary in a New York office for a walk along the beach at Coney Island . An amateur photographer named Jerry Tibbs admired the 27-year-old's firm, curvy body and asked her to pose.
Looking back on the career that followed, she told Playboy in 1998: "I never thought it was shameful. I felt normal. It's just that it was much better than pounding a typewriter eight hours a day, which gets monotonous."
Nudity didn't bother her, she said, explaining: "God approves of nudity. Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden , they were naked as jaybirds."
In 1951, Page fell under the influence of a photographer and his sister who specialized in S&M. They cut her hair into the dark bangs that became her signature and posed her in spiked heels and little else. She was photographed with a whip in her hand, and in one session she was spread-eagled between two trees, her feet dangling.
"I thought my arms and legs would come out of their sockets," she said later.
Moralists denounced the photos as perversion, and Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee , Page's home state, launched a congressional investigation.
Page quickly retreated from public view, later saying she was hounded by federal agents who waved her nude photos in her face. She also said she believed that, at age 34, her days as "the girl with the perfect figure" were nearly over.
She moved to Florida in 1957 and married a much younger man, as an early marriage to her high school sweetheart had ended in divorce.
Her second marriage also failed, as did a third, and she suffered a nervous breakdown.
In 1959, she was lying on a sea wall in Key West when she saw a church with a white neon cross on top. She walked inside and became a born-again Christian.
After attending Bible school, she wanted to serve as a missionary but was turned down because she had been divorced. Instead, she worked full-time for evangelist Billy Graham's ministry.
A move to Southern California in 1979 brought more troubles.
She was arrested after an altercation with her landlady, and doctors who examined her determined she had acute schizophrenia. She spent 20 months in a state mental hospital in San Bernardino.
A fight with another landlord resulted in her arrest, but she was found not guilty because of insanity. She was placed under state supervision for eight years.
"She had a very turbulent life," Todd Mueller, a family friend and autograph seller, told The Associated Press on Thursday. "She had a temper to her."
Mueller said he first met Page after tracking her down in the 1990s and persuaded her to do an autograph signing event.
He said she was a hit and sold about 3,000 autographs, usually for $200 to $300 each.
" Eleanor Roosevelt , we got $40 to $50. ... Bettie Page outsells them all," he told The AP last week.
Born April 22, 1923, in Nashville, Tenn., Page said she grew up in a family so poor "we were lucky to get an orange in our Christmas stockings."
The family included three boys and three girls, and Page said her father molested all of the girls.
After the Pages moved to Houston , her father decided to return to Tennessee and stole a police car for the trip. He was sent to prison, and for a time Betty lived in an orphanage.
In her teens she acted in high school plays, going on to study drama in New York and win a screen test from 20th Century Fox before her modeling career took off.
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Please read condemnatory email sent to me and help me reply
by AndersonsInfo ini received the following emails, one yesterday and the other today and thought you'll like to see an example of the positive and the negative messages i regularly receive through webmaster at my website, watchtower documents, llc, www.watchtowerdocuments.com.. .
here's the negative message:.
"i must say that after reading your biography, i am shocked.
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Sunnygal41
She is a teenager. You cannot reason with teenagers, they know everything about everything.
bingo. great reminder. my nephew basically said the same thing to me when i left. i know someday he will look back on his comment and realize how inexperienced that young man was when he said what he said. time and life teach us compassion.
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announcement at service meeting last night
by isaacaustin inlast nite at my parents service meeting an announcement was made regarding the new triple meeting.
they said that no one can go over their allotted time at all during the tms.
if the bell rings you are to stop immediately- not even finishing your sentence.
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Sunnygal41
The elder also said that if you go over your time you may not be allowed to give any more talks. This was said in all seriousness.
I would have prayed to hear that back in the day!!! LMAO!
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shunning normal people now??
by chellechelle insorry i posted another one it was a mistake, i clicked enter by accident...... anyways, the dubs are getting closer and closer to shunning everyone not jsut those who have been disfellowshipped or left the religion.
today i got a phone call from my grandmother that one of her best friends can no longer talk to her anymore.
my grandmother always didnt like the fact that my family were jw's but she was always respectful to everyone and kept her views to herself.
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Sunnygal41
chelle, about two years ago, i went down to my mom in Texas cuz she was having a bad time with her health and i had money to afford the flight..........while i was there, my jw family members were polite, but distant, but, after i left, my mom had incidents of someone knocking on her door in the middle of the night...........my brainwashed sister asked my mom if it might be the demons because, after all, i was DF'd for spiritistic practices.........reading about astrology and reading my horoscopes online and in the newspaper......was i pissed? absolutely, but, at the same time, i can't help but shake my head in pity for all of them because they are soooo dark ages about everything.
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Star Gazers
by LouBelle ina friend of mine has 'reminded' me of how much i loved looking up into the heavens and gazing at the twinkling lights.
i love the stars, planets, galaxies, nebulas.
their designs, colours, vastness, the endless renewal of light.
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Sunnygal41
Lou, i have always loved star gazing! I am lucky to live on the fourth floor of a building and have a wide open view of the sky with three big windows in my living room and two in my bedroom..............i saw the beautiful crescent moon and jupiter and venus the other night looking out my bathroom window............next time that comes around, i'll be on the other side..........amazing stuff!
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Goodbye to JWD ... hello to JWN !
by Simon inas i announced some time ago, jwd as it is will not continue .... ... but .... it's clear from people's comments that they do like the site and many would like it or something else like it to continue.. one issue was the forum software that was self-developed and not really in a good state to hand-over to anyone but i've been working on that and can now reveal the first release of what will probably be called jwn (son of jwd):.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/.
it is still work-in-progress so not all features are enabled yet but it will allow you to browse the site in a similar way to this one and it is pointing at the same database (although because of the way the caching works, new posts made on this site won't appear immediately).
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Sunnygal41
yes, hon, i got it! i copied and pasted it so everyone would see it and we wouldn't continue to get people saying "i can't post!" i was being SUPPORTIVE, not poking fun or attacking......sorry you misunderstood..........
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Goodbye to JWD ... hello to JWN !
by Simon inas i announced some time ago, jwd as it is will not continue .... ... but .... it's clear from people's comments that they do like the site and many would like it or something else like it to continue.. one issue was the forum software that was self-developed and not really in a good state to hand-over to anyone but i've been working on that and can now reveal the first release of what will probably be called jwn (son of jwd):.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/.
it is still work-in-progress so not all features are enabled yet but it will allow you to browse the site in a similar way to this one and it is pointing at the same database (although because of the way the caching works, new posts made on this site won't appear immediately).
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Sunnygal41
Simon said in his very first post of this thread, you can not post it there yet.
IF YOU CAN'T POST YET, REFER TO THE ABOVE STATEMENT!
