Posts by lisavegas420

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Secrect Santa Again This Year????

by kelpie in

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wondering if anyone is interested in doing secret santa again this year.. last year was soooooo much fun.

i am quite happy to put up my hand and organise it... .

christy did such a fantastic job last year i will have a lot to live up to.. let me know what you all think.. merry christmas.

How did you imagine Armageddon?

by JH in

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when you were a jw, how did you imagine armageddon would be like?

did you imagine it would be short, long?

i remember some saying that they would live in beautiful houses that god spared, just for them.

lisavegas420

Re: How did you imagine Armageddon?

I imagined it was going to be any minute now....no, maybe this weekend. Most certaintly before I graduated highschool.

Lisa

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Creative Ways in Which You Have Gotten A Job

by berylblue in

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a little too tipsy right now to elucidate...but i think i've already bored you all to tears on my job situation...so..... i'm doing all the "normal" things.. in what ways have you gotten jobs other than the usual?.

thanks,.

lisavegas420

I was going to say if you continue as you are, you will become physically sick. But

I am literally physically sick at the thought of yet another day of this crap

it's too late, it's already happening.

I've had jobs that made me feel this way. My husband and I rode back and forth to work together, he said my personality actually changed as we got closer to work. After 10 years, I had to quit.

Hope things get better for you. (((((berylblue))))

Lisa

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"We Miss You! (but only at the meetings)"

by Funchback in

it has been a good (7) weeks since i've last attended a kh meeting.

this weekend, however, the calls of "encouragement" came rolling in.

on saturday, a brother (actually a very decent, likable, and genuine man) left me a message and said that he misses me at the meetings.

lisavegas420

Funchback, are you close to any of these people? I mean did any of them give you the time of day before you quit attending their meetings?

This is the woman I would contact, via a letter, it sounds to me like she already has her own doubts/questions.

also received a letter from a 50ish year-old sister who wrote that she misses seeing me at the meetings but she asked that I not write back because she won't be able to bear the weight I might lay on her (regarding why I'm not attending).

Lisa

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what is the meaning of life??

by zen nudist in

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one thing which kept me trapped as a jw far longer than necessary was the fear that if i left and no longer believed, my life would be empty of meaning and futile and ultimately end in a meaningless death.

i could not find any meaning in the world apart from the view jws had imposed upon me... all other ways seemed to lead only to meaninglessness.. but once out and even without a belief in any god[s] i still found my life meaningful but it took several years before i understood my new source of meaning and now see it as the only valid source... i will explain this after i see some of your ideas as i do not wish to bias your answers in advance.

lisavegas420

DTM said:

I see all the faces in the crowd who know nothing of my life, I know nothing of theirs, and never will. I study faces and marvel at the incredible complexity and diversity of the human family. There's so much I don't know, there's so much I haven't experienced.

I do the same thing. I watch people, I try to figure out what is going on in their lives,maybe learn something about myself, especially when they aren't aware that I'm doing this, Like in a restrauant or in a store line, I listen in on their conversations, and how they relate to their children, spouse, and others around them. You can learn alot about people by just quietly listening and watching.

Lisaopps, thats evesdropping isn't it

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You're Going To Get A Whippin' !!!

by Perry in

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for those who were raised/born in the truth: .

1. were you ever beaten as a child?

and, i mean where the parent really crossed the line, not just spanking.

lisavegas420

Could always count on a beating every meeting nights, and most other nights. They used belts, switches, telephone cords, or ping-pong paddles. Yes, it was abuse, drew blood and left bruises.

Last one that I remember was the night I graduated from High School. This one was so bad, I called the elders myself. They didn't come. I just got whipped a little more.

I think things may have been worse if they hadn't been JW's.

Lisa

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What do you think of Hummers? (and spare me the obvious jokes)

by DanTheMan in

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imho, the very embodiment of everything stupid and excessive in american culture.

to extrapolate on winston churchill's famous comment about democracy, capitalism is the worst economic system there is - except for all the others.

lisavegas420

I tried to convince my husband that I wanted my son's first car to be a Hummer. I reasoned it was a save alternative to a tank. But then he sent me this.....

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So who has a song which mentions her/his name?

by berylblue in

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smile a little smile for me, rosemarie, rosemarie.

lisavegas420

When my daughter was pregnant I would play these songs and sing them to her all the time, finally she took the hint and named her daughter "Heaven"

Knockin On Heaven's Door by Bob Dylan

Holding Heaven In My Arms Tonight by Tracy Byrd

and

Heaven Ain't Hard 2 Find by 2 Pac

Lisa

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JWD Maps America America

by Lady Lee in

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well here is the start .

if your name is not on it then either it wasn't on the old texas map or it wasn't added to the previous list so... .

if you want your name added please say so and let me know what state you are in.

lisavegas420

Stick me over there in Ohio....

Thanks,

Lisa

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PICS...Time to brag on our children , what are they up to in school?

by LyinEyes in

i thought i would start this thread going , always feel the need to brag on my kids.

i guess it makes me so proud that they are living the normal life that so many of us didnt get to have.

my son is a sophmore this year and is playing football again this year.

lisavegas420

This is my granddaugher, Heaven. She won first place in the scarecrow contest....