Posts by nowisee

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I love you all!

by talesin in

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i will soon have to be offline.

to those of you that knew of this, my friends, i'll talk atcha on email.

anyone who would like to keep in touch, my email is buggurlatgmaildotcom.. .

nowisee

hey tal!

where ya goin??

i'm outta the loop.

anyway, whenever i check in you are a nice reassuring presence. i have enjoyed our contacts. i will miss you!

best wishes, nowisee

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I got published!!!!!!!!!!!!

by Sirona in

firstly let me say wooohhooooo!

then i think i might say woooooohooooo!.

i got two short stories (flash fiction) published in a creative writing magazine.

Two pictures of my mom...

by bebu in

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one was taken about one month ago, near a beach where our family was camping.

my parents boated over to see us, and it was a beautiful day.

i happened to take one of the best photos i've ever seen of my mom: relaxed and confident, smiling with eyes twinkling, enjoying the beautiful day.

nowisee

dear bebu,

i am so sorry about your mom. though the picture you posted is small she still looks beautiful.

i lost my dear grandmother to ovarian cancer, and though it happened many years ago i still miss her and wear her wedding ring.

you are often in my thoughts, and i will keep you and your mom and your family in my prayers.

much love, nowisee

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Bebu needs our support, prayers, and good vibes.

by hubert in

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bebu posted this thread....two pictures of my mom... it's about her mom who has developed a tumor in her brain, and was operated on today for it.

(wednesday), with questionable results.. in fact, the doctors give her mom 12 to 18 months to live.. so, please respond to her post about her mom.

i think many of you don't realize that that post was meant as a plea for support, prayers and good vibes because of the title she used, although it was a proper title.

nowisee

thank you hubert. bebu has done so much for, apparently, so many here. i may have missed her thread if not for yours.

best wishes, nowisee

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do you resent your parents for bringing you into the WTS?

by kid-A in

for those born into the wts, do you ever feel resentment towards your folks for forcing this upon you?

i went through a stage of strong resentment and anger, but no longer feel this way.

i think they sincerely believed they were acting in my best interests.

nowisee

i do not resent my parents for bringing me up jw. i believe they were doing what they thought was in everyone's best interests -- life on paradise earth etc. etc.

i do resent the closed mindedness of the wts and unwillingness to entertain any other possibilities except the ones they set forth.

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do you resent your parents for bringing you into the WTS?

by kid-A in

for those born into the wts, do you ever feel resentment towards your folks for forcing this upon you?

i went through a stage of strong resentment and anger, but no longer feel this way.

i think they sincerely believed they were acting in my best interests.

nowisee

i do not resent my parents for bringing me up jw. i believe they were doing what they thought was in everyone's best interests -- life on paradise earth etc. etc.

i do resent the closed mindedness of the wts and unwillingness to entertain any other possibilities except the ones they set forth.

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proof of everlasting life?

by peacefulpete in

one of the evidences offered by the wt that humans were "designed to live forever" was the vast number of eggs a woman has yet she ovulates once and exposes 1 egg for fertilization each month.

it seemed logical then that women were designed to live incredible lifespans.

well, reality is something different.

nowisee

hmmmm....

it is intimidating to realize a male person (at least i think you are) knows more about me than i do!

very interesting.

best wishes, nowisee

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Where were you on the a.m. of 9/11/01?

by rebel8 in

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i was at work -- a manager in a hospital that is the regional treatment center for one medical specialty...region includes nyc.

someone came & grabbed me hard by the arm and pulled me into a room, where i saw every single mgr.

sitting silently watching tv.

nowisee

jillbedford --

i am so sorry for what you have been through. my heart goes out to you.

pratt1 - truer words were never spoken.

live now, and have no regrets.

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What Is The Worst Movie You Have Ever Seen?

by horrible life in

sonnyboy hated napoleon dynamite .

elsewhere hated deuce bigalow; european gigolo .

my all time worst movie was arnold i saw it in about 1974. had roddy mcdowell.

nowisee

mary reilly with julia roberts. oh it was awful. she was awful. can you imagine her playing a 19th century brit?? gag.

some have mentioned lost in translation which i loved. however i was totally disappointed with broken flowers. what a letdown.

generally i listen to the critics and usually manage to avoid the really bad movies. i have better things to do with my time and $.

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Where were you on the a.m. of 9/11/01?

by rebel8 in

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i was at work -- a manager in a hospital that is the regional treatment center for one medical specialty...region includes nyc.

someone came & grabbed me hard by the arm and pulled me into a room, where i saw every single mgr.

sitting silently watching tv.

nowisee

9/11 was such a traumatic day for me -- i remember coming here and checking back to the date but nothing much seemed to have happened here. it seemed very strange to me.

soledad -- i read your story -- my heart goes out to you -- what a terrible day.

i was at home. i was living in the attic while contractors were doing work on my house. i came downstairs and one of them asked me if i knew a plane had hit the wtc. i had not and we turned on the television in the downstairs lr. the workers, my husband and i watched as the second plane hit live. i said, "all those people in there are dead." i could not watch anymore and went out to walk it off, but took my headphones with me as my husband turned the tv off and the contractors went back to work.

as i walked i heard -- the pentagon hit -- the first tower collapse --. it was my normal routine walking route and i saw someone that i saw almost every day and i asked him, "have you been listening to the radio??" he said, yes, and that he was so happy, he was waiting for something like this to happen, he had been in viet nam and hated the us government. "but what about all the innocent people?" i asked. he just shrugged.

i never forgot this person, who i run into periodically. i contemplated reporting him to the police in the wake of 9/ll.

when i got home i told my husband all the subsequent bad news -- the pentagon -- the collapse. we turned on the tv in time to see the second tower collapse live.

my husband's sister had moved from the west to about 2 hrs away from us that very week and he promised that he would help her move in on 9/11. he was preparing to go and i was begging him not to go -- who knew what would happen next???? i was terrified.

he said he had to go and he did. meanwhile i went to the back and withdrew cash, bought bottled water, filled the gas tank. i live within eyesight of wtc and as i went about my rounds noticed that the state police were lined up along the highway...about 10 cars in a row. don't know what they were prepared to do but they were there -- just waiting -- for what? something else that never happened.

what a bizarre, terrible, sad, traumatic day.