i put this on "friends" cos i think you are!
mr c(crumpet) has gone away on holiday until sunday at 5. i am all alone and with 8.00 to last me the whole time from now until then.
i think i am going to feel lonely - in fact i am already - so this is an open thread.
Aw, Crumpet. I am so sorrrry for that.
Last thing I would want to do is remind you of what you can't do.
Uhm, out of curiosity (maybe this is somewhere else but...) what the hell did you do?
oh and.......
How long til cast comes off?
((((hugs))))
BlackSwan
this may seem a lil' pre-emptive, but if any of you in louisiana, fl, have lost or lose anything, lemme know here., or pm me.
i don't have a lot of $$$, but i do have a lot of cool stuff!!
especially clothes.
I don't know if this is the place to say it, but perhaps we can all say a prayer, send some positive vibes, whatever, to all the poor (the sick, the street folks, those who have no means and no help) who cannot leave the city and who may suffer greatly ...
My thoughts exactly.
I've been watching the news and I cannot imagine the fear and sorrow being felt down there. While the loss of property will be immense, my immediate concern are the lives of those affected.
My prayers go out to all of you.
I do have clothes. A lot of kids clothes.
Keep us posted re: this care package idea. This is an incredibly destructive hurricane.
Blessings
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ever had the experience where you meet someone and you have this small hope that they will turn out to be one of those persons you totally connect with, yet as time goes forward, it becomes painfully clear that it just isn't going to turn out the way you had hoped?.
Ever had the experience where you meet someone and you have this small hope that they will turn out to be one of those persons you totally connect with, yet as time goes forward, it becomes painfully clear that it just isn't going to turn out the way you had hoped?
since you have been posting/lurking/reading here, what have you learned?.
how do you feel?.
wlg
What have you learned?
1) Why the WTBS warn people about the dangers of the internet.
2) That no matter which way you try it, 1914 just does not work
3) That in some ways ex-witnesses are way more united than witnesses
4) That "apostates" are not evil, devil horned people waiting on the outside of district conventions wanting to sacrifice you on an altar to Satan
5) That there are some really hot men on this board
6) Wtf an avatar is
7) That if you go in a chat room, that does not necessarily mean you have to have a torrid love affair and leave your family for some guy across the country (or world as the case may be)
8) How to really research a topic
9) That wanderlustguy is such a cutie
10) That these braids have gotta go
one of my biggest pet peeves at the k.h.
was when i would see those not in the right clique get forgotten.
so easily they would slip between the cracks.
Auntie Jane, Maybe it wasn’t too late. Maybe it was on schedule in a way. You learned so much from this experience. Maybe it was one that you wouldn’t have learned any other way. I think the whole thing shows, that you Are a pretty compassionate person. Do you realize how many people could see first hand the living conditions a person survived in and still walk away uncaring? Side note: I would have to say, that most of the people on this board have a strong sense of right and wrong. Only because, when we look at one another, we see people that have chosen to do what is right, despite the enormous sacrifices it has cost them. So, while, we may look at each other at times and see people that are so different, ones that maybe make us shake our heads at times and say “wtf?“ we can see people with whom we have so much in common. I guess, what I was thinking when I wrote this, was very similar to what you posted Auntie. When I’m about and about, I tend to be one of those persons that’s willing to strike up a conversation with just about anyone. Even if they seem to have a language barrier, which around here happens quite often, I think why not smile and say hi and be friendly? 99% of the time people reciprocate. I have a short chat with them and often learn something new. You made a point, that I won’t forget. You were friendly with this person, but there was so much more going on, that you weren’t aware of. Hm… Thank you for the lesson. Many thanks blackswan
one of my biggest pet peeves at the k.h.
was when i would see those not in the right clique get forgotten.
so easily they would slip between the cracks.
Although I know I can be a little arrogant at times
Ex, I can honestly say I’ve never thought of you as arrogant. I enjoy your posts.
Yeah, you guys see what I mean. Knowledge comes from the most unexpected of places (persons). Often times we learn the most from the most challenging of ideas.
Terry, true re: that young people learn so much from these various sources.
Mentoring. I would think, that to some degree we see this in the work force itself. True, not quite the way you see in the past. Still, I see this happen in different trades.
I have to say, when I hear the word mentor. I think of George Costanza and his mentoring the kid who had wanted to be the architect. Funny, though,he didn't go into it to help this young man, so much as he went into it for his own ego.
I also get a really good laugh when I think of that episode.
I have to say, Jaffacake, you made a point re: classifying people. Much like what Talesin said re: those who can be fluffy.
It’s easy to look at the few posts a person may make and then classify them. However, if you were to meet this person, without knowing who they are, perhaps at an aposta-fest and just start talking to them, you might find that this person is as Talesin said, very complex and has some very valuable qualities to add to a conversation. Then you realize who you are talking to and are pleasantly surprised.
So that, now your opinion and “classification” of them has changed.
Reminds me of high school. Ya know, there were the jocks, the cheerleaders, the burnouts, the nerds (ok, maybe my high school life was a little too reminiscent of Pretty in Pink).
Pretty in Pink…..Actually, yeah. Put all those different people in a room with their different personalities and by the end of the day they had all walked out of the school with a new perspective of one another. Each of them had something to offer to the group. A person that one would think had nothing to offer to a conversation, classified as a loser, offering some of the most beautiful insight into human behaviour.
So, has anyone ever had something like this happen? Anyone in your life, someone specific that really surprised you with what they had to share and you walked away with a new perspective? Any lessons that have been learned that you’ve not forgotten? I don't mean necessarily on the forum either.
Ps Maybe I missed this in past, but valis, where and/or what do you teach?
peace
BlackSwan
one of my biggest pet peeves at the k.h.
was when i would see those not in the right clique get forgotten.
so easily they would slip between the cracks.
Yes, that is exactly what I was thinking, along with learning that if you get the kitty litter they Don't like, the consequences of such actions.
Or on the other hand, responsibility, compassion for life cutting coupons for cat/dog food.....
meow
Black(cat) Swan
one of my biggest pet peeves at the k.h.
was when i would see those not in the right clique get forgotten.
so easily they would slip between the cracks.
Hehe, considering I have 2 kids 3 and 5 yrs old, I know what you mean. My oldest has taught me so much.
Valis, for some really strange reason, at one point when I was thinking of this last night, I thought of your cat Sinnamon.
I guess, the point there was, maybe there is so much we can learn from our pets.
blessings
one of my biggest pet peeves at the k.h.
was when i would see those not in the right clique get forgotten.
so easily they would slip between the cracks.
One of my biggest pet peeves at the k.h. was when I would see those not in the right clique get forgotten. So easily they would slip between the cracks. These were the people that meeting after meeting would look longingly for someone just to say “Hi how ya doing today Brother so and so?” I honestly can remember very specific people, often times older ones who couldn’t get around quite the way they used to. The nicest people in the world. Some times these ones were disabled and others didn’t know how to approach them. Many times they were ones that had become the target of slander. There was so much to be learned from these individuals. I learned a lot from them. I wonder how they might have affected the lives of the people who by passed them. Interestingly, when I look on this forum, there is always someone I can learn something from. I got some great advice recently. It basically went something like this: To keep myself open to be taught by a person(s) that I wouldn’t expect to be a teacher. That what I have to learn will come from so many different kinds of persons. Now, we all have our favorite posters on this board. Ones that we look to for certain kinds of information. Some we might look to for more info on the org itself, others pass along specific info re: the child abuse, still others we look to for a great laugh. Are there any posters on this board that we might not expect to learn something new from? Do we already have some people categorized and don’t look much further then that? Are there any posters that if we tried a different approach we might get something new and more valuable then we ever thought we would? What about other forums? What other ones are there you could go to, that you wouldn’t think to go to, that could be incredibly valuable? What about in day to day life? Neighbors, baby-sitters, certain family members, the cashier at the grocery store? The elderly man in line behind us at the pharmacy who has maybe a quart of milk and a couple of cans of soup perhaps? As witnesses we were always taught to share our knowledge with people we meet on the street. What about learning something from these people? Have you ever ended up learning something valuable from some one you didn’t expect to learn much from?
Blessings
BlackSwan
now that you are no longer a witness, whether you are d/a d/f faded/inactive, .
what is the one thing you will not do?
pace.
One example I can think of is that now I'm more responsible about the environment. When I was a JW I was taught it didn't matter to conserve, avoid creating extra garbage, recycling, etc. because J was going to clean up the earth soon anyway. Now I show consideration for others and for future generations. Boycotting smurfs is much less significant than that.
Yeah. I can relate to that. Taking care of what I have now is important to me.
Getting sick on Tues, Thurs and Sund.....lol, by last summer when I really stopped wanting to go, I said to people,
"The kids are sick." then they would say "Weren't they just sick?" then I would say "Yeah, it's been a bad month"
pace
BlackSwan
