Posts by Nosferatu

You should downgrade to a Commodore 64. Mine has never been infected and the monitor still works after 20 years. If the monitor goes for crap, I can use my TV :)

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Were you a good witness in school?

by keyser soze in

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i have to confess that i really wasn't.

it wasn't that i was bad.

i just didn't do all the things that were expected of me.. i remember being envious of those kids they would interview at meetings and assemblies; the ones who could stand up in front of all their classmates and talk about "the truth".

Nosferatu

Elementary school through grade 7, I was a good JW kid. I didn't preach, but I let them know my religion. I also envied the JW kids at the hall who could start a bible study with their classmates. I couldn't get my classmates past "You don't celebrate Christmas? You're weird."

Grade 7 put my faith in Jehovah to the test. I was kicked and beat up daily because of being a JW, wearing clothes that made me, a follower of Jehovah "stand out", and I didn't fight back because Jehovah's people do not participate in violence. All of this would happen in front of the teachers, and they would do nothing. I also knew that if I said anything to anybody, I would get beat up even worse.

I would pray to Jehovah on what became an hourly basis (some days less) for him to give me the strength and endurance to make it through another school day. Jehovah rewarded me by giving me a bad case of PTSD. I would shake uncontrollably throughout the day and especially at my locker, when kids would walk by and randomly kick me. I was a complete wreck.

After that awful year, I got myself a girlfriend. My faith also started to fall by the wayside in the forecoming years. It really started to crumble when I was in grade 10. The Math teacher seemed to know that I was going through a personal crisis, and he allowed me the freewill to decide if I would stay in class for the national anthem or leave and join the other JW kids. I wish I could thank him for the understanding, but he's dead now :(

After grade 10, I switched schools. I told NOBODY that I was a JW and had the freewill to live my double life. The only time I saw JWs from my school was at the convention. None of them were in my congregation, and they seemed to just leave me be since they knew I didn't want to be a JW.

After I turned 18 and left home, I abandoned the whole thing.

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Your favorite new song......

by restrangled in

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rhianna...take a bow.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wxgzjuqpac.

Nosferatu

What I did to get mine to work was highlight some text and make a link to the youtube video (click on the thing that looks like a piece of chain).

Here's a newer song that I've been really into lately:

Travis - Flowers In The Window

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Do You Have an LP Record Collection?

by compound complex in

greetings, audiophiles:.

i have had my own records - 78s, 45s as well as lps - since the 1950s and was given an entire collection from a private lending library.

i wonder if those never opened are worth $omething .... and you?.

Nosferatu

I've got an LP collection. Just recently picked up some LPs by The Ventures.

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Lady Lee's Birthday 14th

by mouthy in

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lee i wish you a very happy birthday.

thanks for all you do for others.

i hope you will have many many,more .

Nosferatu

Oooh, have a happy one!

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Your favorite new song......

by restrangled in

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friends

rhianna...take a bow.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wxgzjuqpac.

Nosferatu

Orphan - Miracle

I dunno how to embed youtube videos here, so a link will have to do

...nevermind, it worked :P

...and I thought the thread title was "Your new favorite song", but now I see it's "Your favorite NEW song". Sorry, this thing came out in 1980 or something. Again.. :P

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An Actual 1955 Good Housekeeping article.

by digderidoo in

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the good wife's guide.

* have dinner ready.

plan ahead, even the night before, to have a delicious meal ready, and on time, for his return.

Nosferatu

...and who could forget the Kitchen Computer?