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  What's the Strangest Dream You Ever Had?

  by Perry in

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  i just woke up from a dream where my girlfriend and i were testing a new spacecraft for nasa.

  the new craft could achieve near orbit on it's own power and speeds of 18,000 miles per hour.

  my girlfriend seemed very impressed that i could fly the craft and was astonished that i was a nasa operative.

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  All my dreams are too strange for words, and most of time I can remember them in graphic detail.

  A good many of them involve me killing my mother, or being intensely angry at her. Either that, or exhuming dead bodies of long-dead relatives. But the absolute strangest of them all.....

  I was behind my grandmother's old homeplace, in the woods. A creek runs through there, and I was looking down into a ravine, down into rushing rapids and rocks. My grandmothers body was down there on the rocks, dressed in a blue/white dotted dress. I crawled down and retrieved her body, put it over my shoulder, and walked to my great-grandmother's house. In reality the 2 houses are a short walk apart. In the dream, the walk took an eternity. Her body was normal, but her head was all decayed and rotting away.

  I remember being afraid to reach my destination because I knew I'd have to see her head. I went inside and hid the body under a bed, covering the head with a styrofoam plate. I remember the walk, the weight of her body, the dripping water, and my emotions very clearly.
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  Pet Peeves

  by patio34 in

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  anyone have any pet peeves they'd like to air?

  here's one that just happened at work that is an annoyance for me: when you are speaking and the person interrupts the conversation with a corny play on words or the like.

  for example, "i had to sit on the phone on hold for about 5 minutes, waiting .

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  A *FEW* of my many pet peeves:

  "Touchers"--ppl who just HAVE to touch you or be in extremely close proximity to you while carrying on a normal conversation.

  Ppl who can't live without constantly gabbing, yammering, blabbing to at least 5 other people. Subject content usually something IGNORANT, or idiotic gossip about another person. I work with ppl whose need to talk is so great that they'll just talk to themselves in their cubicles. SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!

  Ditto on all traffic issues.....
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  Afghan girl from National Geographic cover found

  by razorMind in

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  .....does anyone remember the "girl with the green eyes" on that national geographic cover (taken in 1984)?

  they've found and identified her, after 17 years.

  i thought it was pretty interesting, anyway.

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  .....does anyone remember the "girl with the green eyes" on that National Geographic cover (taken in 1984)? They've found and identified her, after 17 years. I thought it was pretty interesting, anyway.

  http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/03/0311_020312_sharbat.html
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  Whats your fav song or band?

  by Beans in

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  other than the kingdom songs i`m sure we must have squeezed in some time to listen to the radio between territories and on the way to the mettings.. my musical tastes vary from classical to heavy head banging music,basically i like everything!i love the cult,rush,van halen,boston,etc anything from the 80`s retro era.. but my favourite song would be everything counts by depech mode and she sells sanctuary by the cult!.

  beans.

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  Fave groups/bands--(in no particular order)

  Wutang Clan (esp. Raekwon, Ghostface, Method Man)
  Redman
  Mobb Deep (esp. "Trife Life")
  Bjork (esp. "Pagan Poetry")
  Bob Marley (almost every song he made is my fave)
  Chuck Berry
  Beenie Man (esp."Ganja Farm")
  Janet Jackson
  Fleetwood Mac
  Creedence Clearwater Revival
  Sam Cooke (esp. "Bring It on Home to Me" & "That's Where It's At")
  Wilson Pickett
  Sam & Dave
  Marvin Gaye
  Otis Redding
  Notorious B.I.G.
  Eric B. & Rakim
  Madonna.........too many more to mention.

  Favorite songs? Way too many to list....
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  Wasted life as a JW?....Be Optimistic!

  by ISP in

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  its not too late to learn or be educated or retrained etc!

  its easy for me to say i guess...but it cannot be anymore.

  times have definitely changed.. in the uk most folks planned on retiring at 60..possibly 55. it was important to get ahead while in your early 20s and hope to be coining it in your 30s, 40s.

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  razorMind

  Actually, you gave the Borg the power to tell you what you could and couldn't do. It's tough, but there it is.

  ????????????????

  Unfortunately, I was born into the JW's to strict, hard-core-dyed-in-the-wool, devout, EXTREMELY "ZEALOUS" parents. My father has been an extremely active elder since I can remember.

  My sisters and I had no choice. We didn't "give the Borg the power" to tell us what to do. Our parents had that power and we had no say in the matter.

  Also wanted to add--

  Even though I left home at about 23 and almost immediately became inactive in the Borg, I retained the mindset and beliefs for almost 5 yrs afterwards. I've only now started to see the Borg for what it really is, at age 31.
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  old JW virgins

  by edster in

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  if a jw never gets married and follows the watchtower to the letter till the day they die, that means they would have never had sex in their lives or entertained masturbation.

  scary thought.

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  razorMind

  Because of the extreme weirdness, I won't elaborate, but....

  ...my parents literally raised my sisters and I with this goal in mind. We were shunned by our parents if we introduced male friends to them. I was also shunned for attending a JW friend's prom with him. (after much negotiation for permission to go, strictly chaperoned) All subjects pertaining to us and the opposite sex were spoken of in hushed tones, if spoken of at all. We weren't allowed to date AT ALL, not even "group dating" nor "chaperoned". Nor were phone calls from males allowed.

  Too strange to be believed.
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  ah.....Ludwig!

  by razorMind in

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  does anyone remember a little cartoon in the 1970's, in which the main character was a egg-like crystal(?

  ) creature named ludwig?

  when it came on, ludwig would fly into the scene with a little propeller, to the tune of a little violin musical ditty (beethoven, i assume).

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  Does anyone remember a little cartoon in the 1970's, in which the main character was a egg-like crystal(?) creature named Ludwig? When it came on, Ludwig would fly into the scene with a little propeller, to the tune of a little violin musical ditty (Beethoven, I assume)

  When landing, Ludwig would produce arms, legs, a violin and bow out of his panels, and begin playing. Also, a guy with a Sherlock Holmes hat and cape would always look on with binoculars. He'd say bemusedly, "ah.....Ludwig!" The show always came on this way.

  Very, very few people remember this. I'd like to know if anyone here does. (Also, hopefully to verify that I am not insane)
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  JW criminals I've known...

  by target in

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  they are an honest bunch all right.. i lived in a smaller city in wisconsin.

  there was yet a smaller city right to the south and there was a restaurant that was owned by the uncle of a witness.

  this restaurant was robbed one day by a non jw guy and his jw girlfriend.

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  My ex-roommate (actually my 2nd cousin-but I hesitate to claim her as a family member) gets fired from almost every job she gets for stealing. She has a long criminal record for stealing $$$ on the job (5 grand from one job). I mean, an actual criminal record, a.k.a., time in the slammer. She has stolen from almost every family member living in the area. She is a true predator, devious and cunning.

  Most recently, she stole a book of checks from her co-worker, walked into a bank with MY i.d., and cashed a check using it AND my signature. The only reason it came out into the open is because the theft victim reported the stolen checks to the police immediately after they turned up missing.

  As far as I know, the ex-roommate remains a baptized Witness in good standing.
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  What I am Reading, What I am Listening To

  by mikepence in

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  in the interest of getting an idea of what interests people here, use this thread to post what you are into right now.. i am reading.... susan sontag's "in america" ( http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/0374175403/mikepence-20) what an incredible author.

  this book won the national book award.

  see the reviews on amazon.

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  razorMind

  Reading....

  ..."The Complete History of Costume & Fashion-From Ancient Egypt to the Present Day"--by Browyn Cosgrave

  ..."The Great Knitting Book" by American School of Needlework

  ..."Shelf Life--Modern Package Designs from 1920-1945" by Jerry Jankowski

  ..."Pictorial History of the American Indian" by Bil Yenne & Susan Garratt

  I am listening to...

  "Vespertine"-Bjork
  "The Infamy"-Mobb Deep
  "The Man and His Music"-Sam Cooke
  "Voice of an Angel"-Charlotte Church
  "All is Full of Love" maxi single-Bjork
  Various Wu-Tang Clan CD's
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  Being a JW Kid

  by Scully in

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  i've always felt that the adult jws got off pretty easily compared to jw kids.. for instance: .

  my dad went to work, and didn't bother his co-workers with jw stuff.

  it wasn't allowed.

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  razorMind

  To sum it up, JW's work hard to prepare their children to fail in life. Unfortunately, they've been quite successful at it...

  CLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAP

  {{{LOUD APPLAUSE}}}

  From 2 former JW kids, my sister and I!!! Thank you Scully, for this thread. Fortunately we never endured the abuse and neglect of some other JW kids here, but...

  ...sometimes the only other ppl who can understand and truly "get it" (what we had to go through, that is) are other former JW kids.

  Again, so much lost, but my sister is making sure my niece won't experience that! She won't even allow my parents to take her to the Hall.