Topics Started by BrendaCloutier

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Kwintestal's Current Avitar
by BrendaCloutier in
1. jw
2. friends
kwintestal's current avitar looks like the fat lady singing, and her breast plates have slipped!

(along with what her breast plates were protecting).

hugs.
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What's your worst Turkey disaster? ... or Food disaster?
by BrendaCloutier in
1. jw
2. friends
there were those baked cookies and baked pumpkin pies for a friend's tg dinner that i tried to do one night while drunk.

i turned on the timer and passed out, totally missing the timer.

the cookies looked like charcoal brickettes!
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November is Gratitude Month - What are you grateful for?
by BrendaCloutier in
1. jw
2. friends
thanksgiving means more than turkey.

it means giving thanks for the things we are grateful for.. i am grateful i'm sober, relatively healthy, and have a terrific relationship with the love of my life.

i can no longer work, and he provides for me, pays my health insurance and medical, food, shelter, entertainment, travel.
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IS HELL EXOTHERMIC OR ENDOTHERMIC?
by BrendaCloutier in
1. jw
2. friends
i received this from a friend via email recently.

it is a modified and expanded version of one from u of okla.

subject: is hell exothermic or endothermic?.
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Fluff Stuff: I hate it when my mouse get's full of cat hair
by BrendaCloutier in
1. jw
2. friends
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my mouse starts acting demonized and i end up opening advertising sites i know i didn't click - and they're not popups, either.

must be the spirits left over from last night (halloween).. wishing y'all fuzzy mouses on this all saints day.. brenda
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I visited my elderly JW parents today
by BrendaCloutier in
1. jw
2. experiences
i had business in that end of town, and just stopped by.

i had been wanting to do so for quite a while.

my parents will be 87 each next month.
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Mt. St. Helens Erupts
by BrendaCloutier in
1. jw
2. friends
y'all will probably hear on national news that mt.

st. helens (60 miles n of portland, or-my home) erupted today.

lot's of sensational news for what appears to be a fart.
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Any word from/on Corvin?
by BrendaCloutier in
1. jw
2. friends
i've been off-line for a few days (moving back into remodeled condo) and i don't see anything from corvin.

any word?.

bren
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Adam's Rib
by BrendaCloutier in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
ok, this is a brain fart i had last night as i was falling asleep.. growing up jw i somehow developed the belief that women were not made in the image of jehovah, as men were, hence we were inferior to men, and therefore the requirement to be subservient.

it's been so long that i don't know if this was the teaching or my assumption.. counterpoint:.

god created adam in his image.. god then took one of adam's ribs and created eve (sounds more akin to cloning to me, after all it's only one silly chromosome that separates the sexes).. eve was created from adam who was made in god's image.. hence eve is made in god's image.. personally, i think when god made adam, he said "i can do better than that!".
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JW, WatchTower Society, Alcoholism, and Recovery
by BrendaCloutier in
1. watchtower
2. medical
i left the borg in about 1979 of my own accord after having my eyes opened (and experiencing) the hypocrisies around me.. in 1982 i sucessfully left my jw husband, who devloped alcoholism, and became a wife-beater when he could no longer control me.

the elders in the congregation (i married into) told me i was to subject myself to my husband, and his justice.. beginning in 1987, i realized my own drinking problem was alcoholism, and i successfully got clean and sober in 1990.. attending that first meeting, on a summer sunday evening in 1987 was shear hell for me.

it was in the basement of a baptist church!