Posts by nowisee

btw, wanderlust guy, i loved both the movies you mentioned....and i was sooooo looking forward to seeing broken flowers with bill murray tonight, as a sort of follow-up to lost in transation. but, alas, i did not like it and felt disappointed when it was over, almost ripped-off.

the last movie i really enjoyed was "you and me and everyone we know". just quirky, funny and thoroughly enjoyable.

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What kind of kisser are you?

by LittleToe in

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what kind of kisser are you?

http://www.blogthings.com/whatkindofkisserareyouquiz/.

nowisee

part passionate, part playful.

yup, that's me.

for the past 17 years (as of aug.6) just with my wonderful sexy husband.

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9/11 tapes - horror revisited

by Shakita in

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as they release the 9/11 tapes for all of us to renew the horror of that day again, i feel my anxiety level raise almost as much as it did that very day.

i watched the face of the man i worked for stare in disbelief as he came rushing into the room to watch in absolute horror as the trade centers fell one after the other killing his close friend inside.

as he collapsed on the couch, i knew i would never forget the look on his face for the rest of my life.

nowisee

i have been horrified and terrified for most of my life....

cold war - duck and cover drills in elementary school

cuban missile crisis

kennedy assassination

rfk, mlk, malcolm x...

viet nam, pol pot

kent state

watergate

aids

nile virus, pandemics

911 (two dozen residents of my home town died)

iraq

no. korea, iran, syria, saudi arabia, osama

tornadoes, hurricanes, tsunamis

and on and on

it is a crazy world that we are in.

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Is Satan running the WTS. What say you?

by Lady Lee in

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so what evidence is there that satan is running the wtb&ts instead of god?.

what are their proofs that god is running the show and what evidence is there that god is not running the show.. could be interesting to see what we can all come up with.

nowisee

oh man, this is sort of an aside but very fresh for me.....

anyone ever hear of rye playland??

an amusement park in new york state.

last week a little boy, 7 yrs old died on a very safe ride. it was partially in the dark and apparently he went into it alone, got scared or something and stood up. he died of blunt trauma to the head.

his father was a pastor of a local christian church. at the services his mother spoke and said that satan worked all day to get him alone and that was why he died.

seems she decided to blame the devil instead of taking responsibility.........

this week the park has posted signs everywhere advising parents not to let their children ride alone on rides that might potentially be scary....

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Words You Have A Hard Time Saying or Spelling

by minimus in

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i have the hardest time saying "entrepeneur".....see, i'm having difficulty saying and spelling it!

any words you seem to have difficulty with?

nowisee

how about "nu-cu-lar" rather than nu-clee-ur (nuclear).

that just drives me crazy and makes me think that the one mispronouncing does not know what he is talking about!!

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Jehovah's Witnesses as "a people......"

by ScoobySnax in

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who out of all you nasty old apostates (tm) will agree with me, that if you take the gb that you dislike so much, and the watchtower that you hate out of the picture, will agree with me that at the end of the day, and on the whole, jw's really are a good bunch of people.

i did my same old rekky last sunday at the gillingham convention, and will have a good look around next sunday at twickenham convention.

i've been in lots of crowds, at stadiums and arenas, but an assembly is something else, it is somehow unique, its somehow different from any other crowds, there is a deep sense of "togetherness" i've not see any where else.

nowisee

scoob --

i recently went to the billy graham crusade in new york city held in june out of curiousity.

really not too different than the assemblies i attended in yankee stadium.

best wishes, nowisee

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What's your greatest achievement?

by JH in

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so, what's your greatest achievement you'd like to share with us here.. .

it can be either serious or funny .

i already made a 10 5 second long fart...lol.

nowisee

1) having a successful and happy second marriage and

2) being raised female jw by a thoroughly domineering father and told that i was to be obedient, silent and subservient....and dependent on the men in my life.

finally finding the courage and strength to break away and take care of myself.

have been self-employed now for the last 20 years. miraculous considering all the messages i was fed and believed for the first half of my life.

not making millions,....but definitely getting by.

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Dichotomy of a Schizophrenic God

by Amazing1914 in

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read at your own risk

dichotomy of a schizophrenic god

the following post was the basis of my arguments in a debate with jim penton in october 2004 at the northwest conference in wenatche, wa.

nowisee

jim w --

thank you for articulating this so clearly. i have been having trouble with exactly these, what seem to be mixed messages. trying to reconcile them is difficult; the fact that they are there at all is quite confusing to me.

best wishes, nowisee

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An End To Shunning

by Sunspot in

well, in my case anyway.

for those of you that may recall my posts about my family and that after i left the wts, how i wrote long (and painful) letters to my nonjw children among others.

i had tried to explain why i had shunned them and how very sorry i was, and for all the mistakes i had made throughout their childhoods as a jw mother.

nowisee

well i have just read this whole thread and i will just ditto all the happy comments and sentiments of all the above posters.

this was a real upper!

best wishes, nowisee