yes, you looked much lovelier than in your headless pic....beautiful! and the cutest kids. lily appears to be 1/2 angel, 1/2 ham...(as in comedian, not the food) and aw, are those freckles i see on brooke?
chrissy
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Pictures of My Family at The "Holy JW" Wedding!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by whyamihere inwell here they are...i had a horrible time.
seirously, i did.
i was so stressed before the reception i collapsed.
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You can find nice blondes anywhere. I come to rant and rave like a rabid demonized apostate bastard from hell
yes but can you find nice xjw blondes (or brunetts or redheads)... who understand you this well and who can appreciate "rabid demonized apostate bastards from hell", just anywhere? doubt it.
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I must be healing, I'm starting to accept bullsh*t again! :D
by GetBusyLiving ini bought a book that james thomas (great poster, is mia from the board though) called "the power of now".
it's helping me get in touch with a spiritual side again, something i never thought was possible for me as an atheist.
anyways just thought i'd give a shout out for this great book.
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yes, where is this mysterious james thomas so many speak of?
PON has the airs of buddhism about it but Tolle does not affiliate himself with any religious or spiritual group, which i particularly appreciate. and i don't get the impression that he is just doing this as a sort of secret infiltration plan of buddism or new ageism onto the skeptical masses either, which may have crossed my mind initially.
I liked the stuff about the ego always fearing death and therefore feeling the need to be constantly defending itself and how it takes so much of our energy and also, learning to be the watcher of our thinking brain, or observing our spontaneous thought patterns.
in appearance, tolle reminds me of a friendly little hobbit.
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my first cup of coffee.....
by bikerchic init's been about two months since i've drank coffee, i quit cold turkey don't ask why........just wanted to say i didn't miss it at all and now i wonder how i ever drank this stuff in the first place!.
back to cranberry juice in the am for me!.
anyone else ever give up something and wonder later how or why they ever drank, ate or smoked it in the first place?.
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I quit cold turkey don't ask why
but, why? hehe.
I'll never understand having been slave to the stuff since age eight thanks in part to my grandma's influential diet consisting of coffee and secondhand smoke. oh and that little colombian man, juan valdez. you know the one with the poncho who won't stop bringing it up here on that tiny mule of his.
the media is reporting, at least as of today, that coffee is good for you and is the main source of antioxidant consumption in US diets. i guess that means we dont eat well or something...?
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The Things You Forgive (vent/eulogy of sorts)
by hemp lover inyou forgive her for never not once setting foot in your house.. you forgive her for yelling at you almost every day, because if she hadnt yelled at you, if she had been one of those calm-voiced, even-tempered kind of moms, the kind who wasnt enraged by a child who bumped the vacuum into the furniture or one who didnt always scrub out the sink with zud after washing the dishes, then you wouldnt, years later, have been able to recognize the shock and pain in your own daughters eyes when you lose your temper and lash out stupidly, momentarily, always apologetically (after the fact), but never, it seems, for the last time (unfortunately) and without the memory of a childhood filled with longing for an inch of approval from the one person who refused to give it, then you might not have recognized that same desire and need for acknowledgement in your own child and you might not give it to her at every opportunity (as you do, as she deserves).. you forgive her for waiting five days to take you to the doctor when you broke your wrist, because those five days of pain, during which you were encouraged to just stop babying it, will lead to the first of only two apologies she will ever extend to you.
she just couldnt imagine how anyone could break a bone the way you described it happening.
you seek a small measure of revenge by waiting 20 years to tell her how you really broke it.. you forgive her for slapping you when you laughed at her during one of her screaming fits.
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very sorry hemp.
ooo...mental hugs for your sore heart...ooo
chrissy
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WHAT was the nicest compliment anybody ever paid you? What did they say?
by Terry inwhen i was about 16 i had a terrible crush on an older lady (she might have been 30) who was the lovliest person ever.
she had poise, confidence, intelligence, wit, appreciation and culture.
i was just a skinny, shy, geeky kid that she took under her wing.
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that's not nice little boy...i'm telling your mother.
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WHAT was the nicest compliment anybody ever paid you? What did they say?
by Terry inwhen i was about 16 i had a terrible crush on an older lady (she might have been 30) who was the lovliest person ever.
she had poise, confidence, intelligence, wit, appreciation and culture.
i was just a skinny, shy, geeky kid that she took under her wing.
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A girl I worked with once told me I couldn't look trashy if I tried upon questioning the business appropriateness of my outfit. It was strange, but i accepted it.
I like those compliments that accidentally get back to you through a third party best. As in, "so and so said this about you."
My worst compliment came from the witnoid boy of my sixteen year old dreams saying,"you wouldn't look right with big breasts." not what a girl wants to hear, dork.
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What Type of Phone & Phone Service Do You Have?
by minimus ini no longer have a home phone.
i just use use my cell (verizon lg) flip.
i'm thinking of replacing my phone and possibly getting other "toys" like picture taking and so forth...any recommendations?
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it has no camera which is fine by me, but yesterday I saw a woman on the shoulder of the highway snapping a photo of her fender bender w. her camera phone. I can see how they would come in handy.
my plan is with cingular. verizon could not keep up with my relocating and still calls me once in awhile clueless about my prior contract with them and how yes it is expired and no i did not break the contract early. it was a mess and i have concluded that they do not have a proper inner-communications systems in place.
i have not had a land line since 2001 and i'm not sure why anyone still does. its sooo 20th century. hehe.
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Americans, would you buy a car this small to save on gas?
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/a30439-2004dec27.html.
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I dunno...its kinda cute and they are marketing it to be like, the anti-hummer. gotta love that.
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RANT: Desultory ramblings of a frustrated cult member
by dorayakii inafter almost a year of living abroad, away from my parents and away from anything even remotely watchtower related, having allowed myself to not worry about these silly little things (yet convincing my parents that i was still going); now that i've been back for about 6 weeks, i feel that i have to put on a double effort to cover over things that i've said or done, and avoid using "suspect" words or phrases like "cheers" or "good luck".
its driving me crazy at the moment, and 10 times more than it was doing before i moved out.
today, i had a mini panic attack at having told a "worldly" friend of mine "good luck".
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so maybe its time for me to just pack up and go...
I think you have the solutions to your problems in this. I cannot imagine going off to live abroad for an entire year, leaving the wt behind and loving life's freedom, only to return to the same ol-same ol monotonous mind control junk. Don't hang around there. Fading will not be easy with your dad's position and the congregational duties he holds...ever. The only thing worse than the initial guilt you may face from fading within close range is the guilt that will follow from your dad being forced to step down and your entire family and cong. looking at you like its all your fault and, "thanks you pathetic evil-doing piece of shit, how do you think this makes your father look?" No you do not need that burden.
Under normal circumstances I am not one to encourage running away from life's problems. But these are not normal circumstances and henceforth I say do run and do it as quickly as you can. You saw how easy it was to live abroad and seems you enjoyed it immensely. Similarly, I packed up and took off when I was slightly younger than you and I have not looked back once. I honestly feel, from experience, that when you are born into this religious infrastructure, and all of your friends and family are witnesses, the only way you can free yourself psychologically is to isolate yourself from the rest of the group. It is bound to suck for awhile with loneliness and whatnot, but no one ever said the road to freedom or the life of an xjw was an easy one.
Even after some time has passed you are likely to revert back to the old jw ways of thinking but hopefully by that time you will no longer be a prisoner to it. Like a few weeks ago as I was talking on the phone w. a witness gal I grew up with, something she said caused me to scream out, "christ no!" Immediately after there was a moment of dead silence as I thought uht-oh, now look what I've done. But I ended up laughing it off and thinking christ, what do I care?...she called me and I dare her to say something.
Whatever your next move may be... do not succumb to the pressures of accepting a ministerial servant position. And when they ask you again just say heelll-no. Even if only in your head. I am really rooting for you here.
good luck guy,
Chrissy