I was born in Hollywood CA and grew up mostly in Montana so I guess I've been everywhere in between as far as trips to and fro to visit family. Now that my sister moved to Seattle, I have added that to my trips out of town. Then the nephew moved to NYC and we got to go to the wedding so I got to visit NYC last year (but it was right after the bombing). Nothing like touch stones to get a person here or there. But as for REAL travel, guess we need to wait for the kids to get older.
terabletera
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Is Travelling Good For The Soul?
by Englishman injust a few days now, and her ladyship and i will be off on our travels abroad again.
i've lost count of the number of countries that we have visited, although i do still want to travel to oz at sometime.. as we have got older, and more free, we seem to journey abroad more often.
what i hadn't expected was the effect that travelling to other countries has on one's personality.
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You same people are always here?
by breeze inwhat do all you people do?
i come to this site and you guys are always here..reassuring i suppose, but still .
are you doing this at work??
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terabletera
Oh I was a-teasin. No real disorder but I am a bit on the hyper side and can't stand to sit still too long. Not working has me a little antsi. I try to keep busy and I've noticed that now the house is cleaner than it has been in ages (but then, all the kids are in school now, my youngest just started full time this year, first grade).
I am gemini so I have that short attention span so even watching tv is not an easy thing for me to just sit and do!
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You same people are always here?
by breeze inwhat do all you people do?
i come to this site and you guys are always here..reassuring i suppose, but still .
are you doing this at work??
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terabletera
Well I am not here too much but I drop in on some web sites a few times a day but the time on the puter is short and sweet then I get back to my obsessive cleaning disorder.
I am currently not working due to some personal issues that need my constant "revising"...to put it lightly, I have not had the opportunity to find a job that will work with my existing circumstances. Sucks sometimes cus I love working out side of the home. So I clean a lot. Man, just LOOK at this keyboard! Gonna go get some windex.
Tera
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We see things the way we want to see them
by kenpodragon inthe other night i was at my in-laws house for dinner.
they are both jehovah's witnesses and try every now and then to plant some thoughts in our heads to get us concerned.
this night was no exception, with small words and phrases popping up through the evening.
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terabletera
Things have gotten very bad many times over. Economy, Puh! There's much worse than that even. But what can you do? Think it is an end all? Or say you can make it. We all think about it...I think we all do anyway. You just keep going.
Hey remember the big influenza in 1914 or so that killed more people than the war? Every single person had a family member that died from it..so I read. Interestingly, and this is worrisome, they really still do not know how it spread. It just killed off who it could and the rest....were just lucky. The word influenza came from the fact that they did not know how it spread, "influenced" or by the air alone. I mean, people were not so mobile as they are now and yet a town out in the middle of NOWHERE would get the big flu and people started dropping like flies. This was on a public radio show I listened to once...we think this horrid disease cannot sweep through again? Sure it can.
Now, don't we all feel better about the economy? heehee.
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I married a stranger, did you?
by kenpodragon inin my current life i know a lot of people who live together.
some of them might have done this because they do not like marriage, and others have done this as a step towards getting married.
in all, in my post-witness life i find that i have no problem with either view.
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terabletera
That was great to read and so were all of the responses.
I married young I think. Well, young for me. I was an idiot. Don't know what he ever saw in me. Things were very tough financially too. But we've come a long way. And that road has been pleasant. I mean, he and I have always really gotten along. Is it because we knew eachother well? Naw, it was just luck more than a lot of it. We grew together. Both of us are mild tempered and avoid confrontation. I think I recall only twice in our 16 years of marriage when we actually shouted at eachother. And I don't remember what it was about. BTW, just got back from our two day honeymoon in the mountains....was very good. Very.
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just sharing a little somethin
by terabletera intoday not only did my daughter turn the annoying yet interesting age of 12, me and my husband are celebrating our 16th anniversary.
going away for the weekend to a cabin in red lodge mt and boy is it cozy.
have a great weekend you guys!
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terabletera
Today not only did my daughter turn the annoying yet interesting age of 12, me and my husband are celebrating our 16th anniversary.
Going away for the weekend to a cabin in red lodge MT and boy is it cozy. Have a great weekend you guys!
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It did not sound odd when I was a Witness!
by kenpodragon insome times i will go out to lunch with some friends, or maybe they will have me over to dinner.
in doing so they will some times ask me a question about the witnesses.
normally it is because one of them works with one, or knows one in the family and they did not want to offend that person with a question that might sound rude or even silly.
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terabletera
Madman said a cottonpickin mouthful.
I often feel downright foolish when others ask about "why this?" and "why that?" and how often I want to answer with "yeah...what's up with that crap?" I'd like to say I was smoking some really powerful weed or drinking heavily but NO, I wanted so much to just be where I thought I was supposed to be that I accepted so much. I do shake my head and smile now, it's all I can do. But I think it has been beneficial. I told one of my other XJW friends that as a JW it was like I was a capped up bottle of pop constantly being shaken. When the lid came off, I didn't just finally pour out, I exploded. I grew and became so much more aware of things in such a real light (not NEW light, real light) that I have changed so very very much since then and it's just been a year folks...that I refer to my time as a JW as my Neurosis. I am feeling much better now.
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can the marriage work
by DIAMOND inis it even remotly possible that a marriage can work if the wife is a jw and the husband who has been one for over 30 years is on his way out.
is there any advice on how this can work or is it just doomed for divorce!!!!
i love my wife and kids but she's not handeling this very well at all.
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terabletera
note to jim,
I must say you do sound committed to making to work, that's got to count for something friend! I wish you the best.
Tera
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Do you trust your instincts?
by haujobbz inits strange most of my life i have always gone with my instincts and they have proved most valueble, for instance i seem to sense things that will happen on a daily basis and most of the time my instincts are right.. like today i knew my landlord was going to evict me so he could renovate his house and i was right, today i got call to say he,s given us notice to leave.. also few years back i got robbed, and for some strange reason i knew my so called best friend did it,and days later i found out he had robbed me.. i seem to pick up a vibe from somewhere almost as if someones telling me something thats happening or going to happen.
its strange it must be some kind of sixth sense.
why didnt it work though when i was fooled by jws.
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terabletera
I think everyone has that ability. Some just do it better, so to speak. Some, like me, need to focus and work on it. Come on, look back at our humble beginnings as a species. We went from chasing large animals off of cliffs to eat to creating fax machines(something I still find quite fascinating!!!). Who's to say what is to come yet? Now that we have made our physical lives more convenient, perhaps we can begin to look at our "other" abilities not fully understood.
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20 + Somethings & Us Old Codgers.............
by Englishman ini reckon it must be great for all the 20 + something ex-jw's who visit this site!.
think about it, if you will for a moment.
when the 20 + somethings were still jw's, they had to respect the "older men", show respect for the "hoary head", be subservient to the "elders".. then they come here to find farkel, uncle bruce, larc, me and a whole host of over age 50 insubordinate silver surfers, all giving their respective 2 fingers to the wtbts.
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terabletera
Ha ha ha ha ha ha, well, it was funny.
I loved being 33. So much, in fact, that I have remained that age for four years now. Y'all can be proud of 50 plus but I AIN'T goin! So there.