I'd have to say so far it's been Salzburg, Austria. The town is soooo beautiful and I had a ball shopping all week. Germany was beautiful also but I only got to go there for one day so it looks like I will have to go back. My ancestors are all from Bavaria so I really want to travel there next.
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For those who have traveled outside of the US...your favorite destination!
by restrangled inmine is garmisch germany....spotless and dog friendly, in the heart of the alps, just on the border of austria, driving distance to anywhere in italy....an absolute dream.
the town is small, (near where sound of music was filmed) beautiful shops including, chocolate, designer fashions, local specialties and the best food you have ever tasted from every part of the world.. it is a professional skier's destination, and at the same time, cows are driven through in the morning and evening with most traffic coming to a halt to allow the same.. driving in form munich, about an hour, you climb mountains and then suddenly come into beautiful fields with the mountains rising above you.
absolutely breathtaking.
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As a Fader Does Some of your Family Shun You , Even though not DFed ?
by flipper inhello my friends.
this is a real subject here , so i welcome your responses , advice , and any experiences you can add that might help others and myself .
most of us have family that are jw's , whether we are faded or dfed, or dissassociated .
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annalice
My husband and I are faders . We have been out now for several years. His whole family including aunts uncles and cousins have all decided to shun us now after seeing that we had put up Christmas decorations last year. We are not Disfellowshipped. Tha last time they saw us and spoke to us was August 2006 our little boy was 22 months old last they saw him. He has just this month turned two and they have not even attempted to see him or even call or write and see how he is doing. They have also chosen to not have any contact with our new baby boy who has just turned 6 months old ,and I have to say is the absolute most adorable cuddley , huggable little baby . They would not even come to the hospital to see him when he was born ,even though we did call them and tell them we had just had him. They never even called to see how I was doing during my pregnancy even though they new that we had a pretty bad scare during it. I guess its hard for them to come see us , I mean they do live a whole 30 minutes from our house. They do not need to treat us this way ,we have not been DF'd ,yet,. but it is their loss . I truelly really feel bad for my husband , to have ones own parents, brother , sister , aunts unlces and cousins all do that is unforgivable, its un-natural and cruel and in my opinion VERY Un- christian. I look at my two little boys and think " I could never in a million years do that to them" . I am sooo thankful every day that we got out of all that mind control crap .I am so sorry to hear that you are having to go through this same thing.
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Nutra -System ? Jenny Craig? Weight Watchers?????
by annalice inok i seriously need to drop this baby weight.
has anyone had good results from any of the three weight loss companies listed in my subject title?
i was thinking nutra -system but wondered how the food was.
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Ok I seriously need to drop this baby weight. Help! Has anyone had good results from any of the three weight loss companies listed in my subject title? I was thinking Nutra -system but wondered how the food was. Does anyone have any suggestions? I am starting a weekly workout plan also ,so we will see how that goes. I guess I should stop using my workout machine to hold my clothes. LOL. So if anyone has tried any of these companies I would really like to know what you liked and disliked about them . Thanks!
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Need Help Again! Article About "Pinatas" ...origins...what they mean today
by smellsgood indo you guys know which one i'm thinking of?
the one that flies in the face of all their other reasoning of banishing other celebrations/practices?
i'm meeting with a jw in the next week, so sorry for all the requests, but it's most helpful :)
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A main concern is, not what the practice meant hundreds of years ago, but how it is viewed today in your area. Understandably, opinions may vary from one place to another. Hence, it is wise to avoid turning such matters into big issues.
Ok does any one see the the importance of this statement from the society? So can we not say the same for Christmas? ,Halloween , Easter, Birthdays?? , Etc.? In my family Christmas has never really been about Jesus and his birth , it has always just been a time for all the family to get together and sit in front of a decorated tree and exchange gifts and eat WAYYY to much food. Halloween is just for getting as much candy as possible so we can spend all of our money at the dentist. Easter is all about the candy and the egg hunt. Oh yeah and more overstuffing of the food. LOL. I could go on but I am now hungry thinking about all the holiday food and candy coming up in the next several months.
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Fall Fair: Or Pumpkin and Apple fare :o)
by Sunspot ina few miles from our home a fall fair is held every year.
it is held between an apple orchard and a pumpkin farm next to a christmas tree farm.they were having pumpkin tosses, face painting, hay wagon rides, horse and buggy rides, horseback rides, scarecrow building events, apple tasting, wine tasting, cider tasting and events for the little kids to take part in.. there were adorable alpacas that were so cute, and a place where sweaters, hats and scarves made from alpacas could be bought.
there were several goats, and a booth where goat cheese and other edible goodies made with goats milk could be had.
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We have all sorts of apple festivals here in upstate NewYork. Some of our orchards in the area do awsome corn mazes. I love to go and get hot apple cider and a couple of cider donuts one for each hip .LOL. This year we will be bringing our two year old for his very first time and letting him pick out his pumpkin for himself and for his little 6 month old brother. Its so wonderful to be able to do these things now.
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JW's saw my halloween decorations -YIKES!
by annalice inso i just got all my new decorations up for halloween .
they look awsome!
and who stops by?
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So I just got all my new decorations up for Halloween . They look awsome! and who stops by? My good old friends from my old KH. (SHUTTER). So I have nothing to say to them so decide not to answer the door but my husband goes and opens it up and goes out to talk to them. :( I refuse to speak to them ,all its for is so they could keep their time going on the way back to the Hall for noon break. I was a pioneer I know how it works. ,and they could get a glimpse of our home and if we had decorated it for the upcoming holidays. So now I'm sure we are the "hot Topic" of the gossip line . I would also not go out to see them because I have a new baby and I didnt want to risk vomting all over him as they oooooed and ahhhhhd all over my baby. They make me sick . These people who were my friends since I was a child and who now would'nt be caught DEAD being seen with me out in public ,never invite us over anymore and treat us like the plague ,want me to answer my door so they can count their stupid time! I think NOT!. They are wolves in sheeps clothing. I dont know what came over me I have been feeling very happy and had a "I could care less" attitude about all of them ,but for some reason when I heard them out side talking to my husband like they all just loved him and loved seeing him , I was filled with a massive amount of rage to the point that i was making myself sick. So they finally left and my husband came inside. So now they can all go back and spread some gossip around about us. Now the elders will be calling so they can disfellowship us. OOOOOOOOOO I' m Soooooooooooo frightened. :) Let them come ,I'm armed and ready now! I have a Brain of my own to fight them with . AHHHHHH AIN'T Freedom GREAT!!!!!
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How to stump someone that believes the noah's flood happened.
by 5go inone of the key peices of evidence that people sight to try to prove the flood happen is the fact the most cultures have a flood myth or story as they put it.. i was just watching a program that also points out the most, if not all cultures believe in dragons.
even cultures that evolve in isolation have beliefs in dragons and they are all simular though not the same.
just like the flood myth.. so if they believe the flood happened because so many cultures have flood stories.
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When the flood is spoken of and man describes it as covering the earth, well back then when man looked out over his surrounds to him the earth ended at the horizon. so someone back that long ago would write it down as the flood covered the whole earth ,becuase in his ancient mind , it did. So a large flood may have occured but not over the entire earth .
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Pics from my recent trip to Lake Placid
by memario inall i can say is wow!!!!.
looking south from whiteface mountain.
looking east.
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Nice pictures! Isn't Lake Placid beautiful? When I was younger we always had our JW assemblies up there at the Olympic Iceskating arena. We live a few hours south of L.P. Have not been up there in years . Now I want to go, forgot how great it is.
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WTBTS Now hinting at having LARGE families?????
by annalice inok so i don't know if this means anything but, i was just over on the watchtower official web site.
( i like to keep up on the crap they write).
anyhow there is a article titled "large families united in god's service".
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Ok if you want to read the article go to the Watchtower official site ,scroll down to the picture of the old couple and click on "How to Succeed In Marriage" On that aticles first page on the lefthand side is the article you want " Large Families United in Gods Service".
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WTBTS Now hinting at having LARGE families?????
by annalice inok so i don't know if this means anything but, i was just over on the watchtower official web site.
( i like to keep up on the crap they write).
anyhow there is a article titled "large families united in god's service".
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OK so I don't know if this means anything but, I was just over on the Watchtower official web site. ( I like to keep up on the crap they write). Anyhow there is a article titled "Large Families United In God's Service". it talks about all these different families who have 7, 9, up to 11 children and how blessed they have been having all these schildren and wonderful its been to raise them all and see them all get baptized ( very young of course). Now last time I was at a KH maybe eight ,nine years ago if you had one child it was one to many according to some . It was thought by many that waiting till after armagedon was a better thing to do and that it was crazy to want to bring a child into this system of things. Many of the couples that we knew from then have never had children . Sad, Sad, Sad. So now articles are being put out there about how wonderful it can be to raise a large family??? Is the society finally figuring out that all those years of frowning upon young couples having children in this "system of things" is now backfiring on them? They're making themselves go extinct. LOL! So now what they're going to start breeding like rabbits? YIKES!