Ohiocowboy we have two great friends in Texas and another two are moving out there soon from Oregon. Texas has alot of lakes and these guys fish! The real estate market is good if you want to buy I hear. Best wishes to you and your pup for a safe journey!
Posts by anewme
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43I'm off to the Big D!!!
by ohiocowboy ini am finally ready to move to dallas!
i pick up the moving truck friday morning, load up and head out of ohio about 1 a.m. monday, which will get me to dallas monday evening.
i'm moving from a 4,200 s.f.
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the society is "encouraging" chinese converts to go back to china to preach
by in a new york bethel minute inmy mother told me this at dinner tonite.
has anyone else heard of this?
she didn't know if the work was still under ban there, and neither do i. but either way it's pretty stupid.
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anewme
Gee! Is Jehovah going to wait for all the Chinese people to receive a thorough witness this way before he brings on the four winds of destruction? We'll be waiting forever!
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You can make a difference in a little chicken's life!
by anewme indid you know that 99% of the egg farms throughout the world apply the same barbaric methods to produce the eggs we consume?
these methods were printed in detail in our local newspaper this sunday and they are shocking!!!
first off: all the baby chicks are separated by sex.
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anewme
Oh I forgot to add the happy part!!!!!
Silly me!
A Northern California Humane Society rescued 700 of the chickens marked for destruction and brought them up to N. Calif. to be adopted!!
I think that is so great!
You see I used to have chickens and I definitely want chickens again in the future. Right now is not a good time for us. Right next door though the neighbor has quite a few and a few roosters too. I would feel sad without the crow of a rooster or two in the morning. Every now and then they escape the hen house and I get to see them scratching about. They look happy. Chickens dont need much. My husband tells me of so many funny stories of the chickens he has raised. People all over the world love their chickens.
One thing I must say in behalf of the rancher, he allowed the chickens to be adopted out. I guess he just didnt know what to do with them. But there is only one big egg farm around here so the Sunday paper pointed the finger at him. The editor wrote a second scathing article shaking his finger at all who dont buy free range after this!
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You can make a difference in a little chicken's life!
by anewme indid you know that 99% of the egg farms throughout the world apply the same barbaric methods to produce the eggs we consume?
these methods were printed in detail in our local newspaper this sunday and they are shocking!!!
first off: all the baby chicks are separated by sex.
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anewme
Did you know that 99% of the egg farms throughout the world apply the same barbaric methods to produce the eggs we consume? These methods were printed in detail in our local newspaper this Sunday and they are shocking!!!
First off: All the baby chicks are separated by sex. The male chicks are then either stuffed in plastic trash bags and left to suffocate or are masticated while alive in a giant masher!!!
The females are shoved 11 to a cage into little 2 X 2 cages and stacked 3- 4 high and left to live out the rest of their lives in filth and misery. The hens at the bottom cages are often sharing inches of space with dead or dying other hens and all are covered in feces from the cages above.
Their little beaks are melted off with a hot blade without any anasthesia so they wont be apt to peck one another in their inhumanely tight quarters.
After they have spent several years and their egg laying days are over they are let out.
But most cannot walk and are emaciated and sick and so are not fit for food.
They are then killed and thrown away!
Ive raised chickens. They are very fun little animals and have a love for life like anyone else.
Not only do they give us feathers, but eggs to eat for many years. They eat the bugs in the yard and eat the left overs from your kitchen. Rooster are great alarm clocks!
Anyway the article said to buy only CAGE FREE OR FREE ROAMING HENS to ensure you are buying your eggs from humane ranchers. The cost is from .20 - 1.00 difference. So for .20 you are saving a little chicken from a horrible existence and barbaric death!
I just had to vent! The article sickened me. And we are talking about chickens here. How much more worse it is when humans treat other humans so wickedly. -
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Pat Robertson again sticks his foot in his big mouth.
by William Penwell in.
this is one good reason why i am not a religious person with ah like pat robertson and he calls himself a christians......
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anewme
You know I may agree with the WBTS on one thing------this guy is AWFUL!!!!
Just a dreadful Babylon the Great puppet type guy!
The U.S. may have a secret policy to kill foreign dictators, but its very bad form to announce it! PULLEASE!!!! -
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Which person in history would you like to be?
by DannyBloem inif you could choose, which person in history would you like to be?.
(okay, i allow bible characters.
danny.
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anewme
Hmmmm.....maybe Mary Magnalene or Cleopatra who was married to both Marc Antony and Caesar who instead of being murdered by the Romans, allowed one of her own asps to bite her and died quickly before the Romans could get to her.
I have often wished I was born a man. There are so many men I admire.....brilliant men
maybe one of the great composers of music......Mozart or Stravinsky
John Muir
Abe Lincoln
I'd like to be the best govenor of California there ever was or the best president the united states ever had. -
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Is your heart bigger since you left?
by Ingenuous ini was amazed how, in a matter of days after leaving the org, my heart seemed bigger.
i was free to love people - truly love them as they were and without condition.
i was no longer required to sit in judgement of them because they didn't believe as i did.
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anewme
I would not say its bigger yet. I still have yet to do anything for anybody since I left. I have been secluded and cloistered since my dfing. I am still pretty sensitive to fundamentalist thinking and avoid people like that. After my divorce I got a couple of jobs for the first time in years. The way people treat each other in the work force outside of the K.H. was a rude awakening. It was sure different. No one cared how their comments landed on you. I got used to it somewhat in order to get along. But being around real stupid low wage trash-mouthed fellow workers got me to do some thinking.
I had to now set my own standards of conduct and decide what I stood for and what I would personally put up with. I had to pick all new friends. I am surprised with the conclusions I came up with over the last 4 years. It is my first time as an adult to make these decisions for myself. Most other people would discover these things in their first year away from home at college I guess or their first job at 17.
I think as a Witness I put up with more "weirdies" in my life than I do now. I was more generous with my time and energies and resources than I am now. -
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Could You Stay Friends With Someone Who Visited Prostitutes?
by Englishman ina while back, an aquaintance of mine told me that he liked to visit prostitutes.
although we weren't that close, i'd worked on and off with him over the years.
i knew his wife too and would often see her around town.. he'd told me that when he had something to celebrate, like his birthday or maybe a commercial win, he and a pal of his would do the pubs and clubs first and then go kerb crawling until they found a pair of street girls who would play the swopsy's scene.
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anewme
With all the STDs out there today I dont believe there is a prostitute who is disease free. I looked up the center for disease control and did research on the STDs out there and they are all quite contractable and unavoidable and all bring a little heartache of one kind or another along with them.
Now if a man feels no remorse about seeing prostitutes behind his wifes back, maybe he'd think nothing of seeing your wife behind your back.
It comes down to a lack of respect for the marriage arrangement. Marriage is mans oldest sacred ceremony.
Many of us have left the JWs and we are re-evaluating all values.
You make your own rules now. If I dont like or want to associate with someone for this reason or that I dont have to because I dont want to.
Conversely if I want to associate with someone who the witnesses say I should not, what is that to me?
We all can decide for ourselves who and what repulses us and who and what doesnt.......who corrects us now? -
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Do conflicts/arguments strengthen friendships/relationships ?
by JH ini think that conflicts do strengthen friendships or relationships.
it sets boundary lines and defines what's acceptable from what's not acceptable.
naturally it will strengthen the friendship or relationship as long as both respect the boundary line of the other one.. or, maybe conflicts mean that things aren't going right and the relationship/friendship isn't going good, and that the tolerance level has become very low, and arguments errupt for little nothings.... .
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anewme
I like when I hear old married couples describe the secret ingredient for their marriage's longevity.
They almost always say "Give and take" is the key. Each partner must be honest about what they like and dont like, but should be willing to give in sometimes to the whims of the other.
What is absolute POISON to a relationship is while arguing names are called.
My ex and I were first loves. We knew each other from H.S.
We took each other for granted.
We started treating each other casually and like brother and sister on hot tiring days. Both of us frustrated and mad at life etc. We began to tease and taunt each other. At first it was funny and silly and stupid. It did not seem to hurt. We both were just playing. But then the teasing would begin another day. And occur again. The teasing became a game during arguments and discussions.
The occasional jab became more frequent. Our love life became destroyed.
Our marriage became an appearance only thing... a business partnership.
Our hearts longed for a loving friend who did not speak that way to us.
Anyway, now in my latest marriage we have a rule.....no teasing. Its not for everyone I know. It sounds severe, but my husband is very loving and sweet and sincere and insists we only treat each other in a loving way. I listen to him because I came from an abusive home and my first marriage turned out so weird, so I am trying to be genuine and loving all the time. On these hot August days I find myself returning to old ways........teasing a little here and there....he sees it as abuse and puts a stop to it.
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What do you think of your in-laws?
by ButtLight inmy bf has a large family.
his parents and 10 brothers and sisters.
im just about done with the whole bunch.
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anewme
While I was married to my then elder husband I had no idea how the family really felt about me.
I was so concerned about their feelings and taking care of everybody else and how my conduct reflected on Jehovah's name, I was completely oblivious to the lack of true friendship in the family.
It has been now 4 years since I have seen them. I still almost daily go over details of the past, trying to understand what happened.......why I cracked.
Not having a healthy sense of selfesteem it was so easy for me to take the subtle abuses for years and years from mother in law and husband and sisters in law.
My mother in law owned our house. We rented from her for 20 years. We got reduced rent in return for fixing it up...new flooring, fixtures, roof etc. that was great for us.
But she lived right down the street and would walk in without knocking right in the front door. We could not break her of this habit. As landlord and mother she felt a right to enter. After years of reminders she finally developed the habit of knocking and saying yoo hoo just as she opened the door and came in! She was not a witness and so we were very careful not to show anger towards her. Renting from her put us in this very bad situation. My husband refused to move us from there.
My sisters in laws were all snots. All elders wives. The older brother of my husband was not a witness. His wife was the only sweet sister in law but they lived on the other side of the U.S. The ones I saw daily at the hall would not give me the time of day. It was a source of pain to me and torture that I could not figure out a way to gain their friendship. My husband would always say I was making too big a deal out of small things. I had family parties. I gave surprise gifts and wrote loving notes to all of them. I had no children of my own and so loved all their children with all my heart and gave the children tons of support and auntie love at meetings, assemblies and conventions.
Well, I left that family and now have my new non JW family, my husband and his mom and his sister. My new sister in law is 20 years younger than me and a snot as well. So is her husband. By mistake one day I received an email from someone I did not know. Funny thing my name was discussed in the email and it was apparent the conversation was between this stranger and my new sister in law. It was not flattering to me.
Apparently my new sister in law forwarded a loving note I sent to her about how happy I was being married to her brother and how happy I was to be in their family. She forwarded the happy letter to a psychology colleague of hers for review. The stupid colleague made her critique and clumsily sent it to me instead of to my sister in law. My new sister in law feels my husband and myself are white trash or something. We live modestly in our canyon cottage instead of going into debt above our heads like her to live the showy display.
We have made the trip to Santa Barbara for the last 3 years to visit her and her husband for Thanksgiving and Christmas. We always bring her mother with us. Although visiting the Bay Area many times she and hubby have never visited us or called. Duh, wake up time!!!!
Now I am married to a man who loves me. Her name and the name of her husband has been stricken from our list of friends. We will never visit her again until she has a change of heart about her family.
Now that I do not represent Jehovah, my actions reflect how I feel.