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  Two pictures of my mom...

  by bebu in

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  one was taken about one month ago, near a beach where our family was camping.

  my parents boated over to see us, and it was a beautiful day.

  i happened to take one of the best photos i've ever seen of my mom: relaxed and confident, smiling with eyes twinkling, enjoying the beautiful day.

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  anewme

  Just heard about this story. Best wishes to all. Hope we hear good news in the future.
  (((((((hugs!)))))))))
  Anewme
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  Wormfood

  by onacruse in

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  i don't mean to be insensitive to the impending mortality issues that face many of us in this community...but i found the following article (hillsboro, oregon, 503-648-5444) quite laughable:.

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  eco-friendly "green burials".

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  I understand the need to respect the memory of the dead. After all they were the mothers and fathers and sons and daughters of the living today. But walking through a cemetery you can quickly see that many of the graves are very old and that most likely the descendants of the folks buried there are not alive anymore either. How often do the great great grandchildren search out and visit their grandparents graves?
  Why do we memorialize people forever? Is it a wish to see them again? Does our memory of them keep them alive in a way?
  
  I personally have no children. All my nieces and nephews are JWs and consider me dead. There is no one to miss me when I die....ok my new husband says he will miss me when I die. But he says he will kill himself on the day I die, so I will not have someone to miss me for long.
  
  I think for my body to become part of a lovely green park would be the best arrangement for me.
  Why pay all that money for a grave and memorial stone and nobody visit it anyway?
  
  For many the green buriel idea is perfect.
  
  I did ask my new hubby to cremate me and scatter my ashes in the Humbolt Forest of California. Then he can visit this spot of beauty and think of me and our love and my ashes will do the redwoods some good.
  This costs about $1,500-$2,000 with Neptune. They take care of everything and give you some ashes to go and scatter or keep as you wish.
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  Wormfood

  by onacruse in

  1. watchtower
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  i don't mean to be insensitive to the impending mortality issues that face many of us in this community...but i found the following article (hillsboro, oregon, 503-648-5444) quite laughable:.

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  eco-friendly "green burials".

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  I agree Kid-A! What an awesome memorial grounds it would make! Very beautiful! Better than all the memorial tombs in the grave yard. And there is kind of a competition thing going on in those cemeteries, have you noticed? Some memorials are huge and expensive, others are modest and some are just copper plates on a marble wall (mausoleum crypts). I get so claustrophobic when I think of being jammed up in an airtight marble wall forever!!!!!
  
  The green buriel sounds clean and pretty to look at and everyone is equal. It would be a place to visit and rest and meditate.
  
  I used to have alot of pets. One by one they passed on and I grew a rose garden around their graves. 50 roses of the sweetest scent and color with a bird bath in the middle is what I created for my little loves.
  Ducks, chickens, a turkey, my beloved dog Gucci, various crows, pigeons, a cat and kitten, doves, etc. are all there. But eventually someone will turn the soil there someday and find very little of my little pets.
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  Wormfood

  by onacruse in

  1. watchtower
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  i don't mean to be insensitive to the impending mortality issues that face many of us in this community...but i found the following article (hillsboro, oregon, 503-648-5444) quite laughable:.

  finally.

  eco-friendly "green burials".

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  anewme

  Oh, I might add that today the cost of buriel in a cemetery is extremely expensive. It can cost up to $20k to buy "at need" buriel site, vault, casket, service and maintenance.
  
  I think anything to lower the outrageous cost of buriel is a good idea.
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  Wormfood

  by onacruse in

  1. watchtower
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  i don't mean to be insensitive to the impending mortality issues that face many of us in this community...but i found the following article (hillsboro, oregon, 503-648-5444) quite laughable:.

  finally.

  eco-friendly "green burials".

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  anewme

  I'm sorry. I am missing the humor here. I think ecological buriel is a good idea. The alternative is cremation which many find disagreeable. I'd like to know more about this frankly.
  There is a cremation society called Neptune I have always been interested in.
  This would provide another alternative, natural buriel.
  
  I say its great!!!
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  Welcome Hideme!!!!!

  by Legolas in

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  welcome to the board!

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  Welcome Hideme! We await your posts and your friendship!
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  Biodiesel... until the car fueled by water is reality... :)

  by bebu in

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  my husband and i are planning to make biodiesel for our diesel car.

  looks like it will be a hobby for him-- he enjoys chemistry.

  we will make a fumeless processor, and put the whole setup in our basement.

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  How fun to try this! My husband and I bought an old diesel Maxima and drove it around until the price of diesel exceeded the price of regular gas here. We were so enamoured with the idea of running vegetable oil in it when the poor engine gave out on a road trip to L.A.!! We smoked black smoke all the way home 400miles!
  
  We had to give up on the venture for that car. We have another diesel, a huge chevy suburban. Who knows?
  We are also interested in solar living and windmill energy. We bought a great book from the Real Goods Co. called Solar Living Source Book; The Complete Guide to Renewable Energy Technologies and Sustainable Living
  
  All of us must try to conserve the natural resources.
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  I got published!!!!!!!!!!!!

  by Sirona in

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  firstly let me say wooohhooooo!

  then i think i might say woooooohooooo!.

  i got two short stories (flash fiction) published in a creative writing magazine.

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  anewme

  Congratulations!
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  In the middle of spiritual agnst, what do you do?

  by ginger77 in

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  please, huge warning, if you're an angry ex-jw, save your bs advice, i dont' need to hear you put jw's down just to give advice.. i was raised a jw & am still bitter over injustice growing up at the hands of my elder father, and bitter over the abuse of my ex-husband.. i miss my fam, i miss peace, i miss a sense of belonging.

  any advice on how to gain inner peace w/o selling myself out?.

  ginger

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  anewme

  You must realize that people will let you down. But God will never let you down. Many of the troubles people here have had with the WBTS have been people issues and procedural issues, some interpretational issues.
  But alot here still love God and are great people.
  
  It a real individual thing....which religion you choose. There are dissappointments in every religion.
  If your focus is on the people, you will be dissappointed.
  
  Jesus did not focus on people, he focused on his father.
  
  Take your time and read here and relax.
  
  Many opinions are expressed here and so it is a good education.
  
  Welcome and enjoy.
  
  Everything will work out and you will be fine.
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  Could you go to another religion?

  by ButtLight in

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  is it maybe cause i have only learned the "truth?

  " i have a hard time sitting at worldly weddings.

  like in the catholic church, up down kneel, up, down, kneel!

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  anewme

  And you know what?
  
  If I dont like it, I can always leave again!
  
  That's freedom man!