open fire glass - Pot makes me depressed. The handful of times I've tried it I've kind of wanted to die the next day. I don't think that's the desired effect, right? Cause that would result in there not being anymore pot smokers after a short while.
Posts by Cady
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24Keep me company!! I'll be up all night packing...
by Cady ini'm moving tomorrow, it's incredibly hot here in seattle (and it's never hot, so who needs a/c?
except uh, for now!).
i'm melting, and up late getting ready to move.
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Keep me company!! I'll be up all night packing...
by Cady ini'm moving tomorrow, it's incredibly hot here in seattle (and it's never hot, so who needs a/c?
except uh, for now!).
i'm melting, and up late getting ready to move.
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what-a-c - I think that's the packing list for people who have no life other than packing! My packing has consisted of stopping by the local grocery store/liquor store every couple of nights, scoring apple boxes and enough vodka boxes that my new landlord is going to be really worried, and then randomly throwing things in the boxes. Well, actually a few weeks ago there was some sense of order. Tonight it's dishes mixed with Theraflu and I think I threw a pair of scissors and some rice in one box. Hmm, maybe the scissors and bag of rice were a bad mix.
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Keep me company!! I'll be up all night packing...
by Cady ini'm moving tomorrow, it's incredibly hot here in seattle (and it's never hot, so who needs a/c?
except uh, for now!).
i'm melting, and up late getting ready to move.
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I'm moving tomorrow, it's incredibly hot here in Seattle (and it's never hot, so who needs a/c? except uh, for now!). I'm melting, and up late getting ready to move. Tell me a story, what did you do today, post something random, call me and talk at me if you want...
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Oh Dear...College is Bad?
by forgetmenot inhello all, i haven't been here in forever!
i just had to vent.
sometimes we think we are past the healing process; that our lives can go on like everybody else.
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forgetmenot,
Congrats!! Wanton nudity and drugs...lol. Yeah. Right after I leave the lab at 1 a.m. lol
Cady
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Bicycling - A Dangerous Sport
by Lo-ru-hamah inso, on tuesday afternoon i am driving in downtown austin.
there was this car in front of me that must have been lost and was completely stopped.
i decided i did not want to keep waiting behind him.
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It is not safe to ride to the far right next to parked cars as you run the risk of being "doored" (when someone opens their door into you). One of my coworkers broke his collar bone this way.
I can't speak to Texas, where distances are much larger and riding a bike is not nearly as feasible, but in Seattle biking or driving is a choice. By biking, you reduce the number of cars on the road. I'm curious how much the one biker you wait for slows you down in comparison to how much worse traffic would be and the resulting time loss if everyone who bikes to work decided to drive instead.
Most people can't imagine their lives sans a car. But I lived w/o a car for over six months and that I have one now is just a matter of a number of circumstances. Living w/o a car reduces your expenses, your stress level (slows your life down and biking itself is exercise which reduces stress), and for me is a great choice.
It's unfortunate that a tiny fraction of poorly behaved bikers are viewed as representative of the whole.
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Bicycling - A Dangerous Sport
by Lo-ru-hamah inso, on tuesday afternoon i am driving in downtown austin.
there was this car in front of me that must have been lost and was completely stopped.
i decided i did not want to keep waiting behind him.
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Cady
I've heard nothing but horror stories from other bikers about biking in Texas, the midwest, etc. Here in Seattle bikers are fairly well respected, but even here I've had some scary moments. The biker wasn't right to yell at you like that, but his losing it at you and not being angry with the driver who actually hit him makes me feel like there's more to the story. And again, he absolutely shouldn't have yelled at you, but it's very frightening to almost be killed, in fact I bet more frightening than being yelled at.
Btw, Princess is the sweetest woman ever, and I can't imagine anyone ever saying to her face the grumpy things said on the board.
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Show us your picture
by Honesty in.
that is, if you are able to without the prospect of facing a three-man kangaroo court appointed by jerhover to keep the congregation clean from apostate influences.. i'll go first: .
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Spark, you're gorgeous!!
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Doubting our own intuition - reality vs. reality
by Cady inwhen someone asks about the jws, i usually find myself talking about disfellowshipping, the blood issue, the child-molestation problem.
but looking back i think, although those are the easily explained and perhaps somewhat sensational bad things about being a jw, they're not the only things that have left their marks.
in fact, only the disfellowshipping issue has personally affected me (although i'm not officially df'd, but of course you don't have to be to lose your friends/family).
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Cab -
Thanks for the kind words. I've sometimes wondered if it was the JWs that left me with the spectator view or if it was b/c I felt so old watching the crap happening at home and trying to keep my family in one piece. Not that it makes a difference I suppose.
c.
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Doubting our own intuition - reality vs. reality
by Cady inwhen someone asks about the jws, i usually find myself talking about disfellowshipping, the blood issue, the child-molestation problem.
but looking back i think, although those are the easily explained and perhaps somewhat sensational bad things about being a jw, they're not the only things that have left their marks.
in fact, only the disfellowshipping issue has personally affected me (although i'm not officially df'd, but of course you don't have to be to lose your friends/family).
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The greatest evil is the unfocusing of your own mind by relying on the opinion of others. It is a moral blindness and derelection of self. Your number one purpose is to discover what is true about the universe with your own eyes, ears and determined analysis of how things work by testing them against what works. The opinions and wishes of others are irrelevent. A pretty story does not a truth make.
Terry, But we have to rely on others. We can't very well test and examine each and every supposition on which we build out lives. (Btw, sorry still red text, I can't seem to change it...) I'm in science for a living now, and that requires a great deal of trust in the ppl who came before. Everytime you take a medication you're trusting the research that went into it. Everytime you believe something somebody says about anything (friends, colleagues, etc) you're trusting someone other than yourself to tell you something about the world. I guess for me the problem seems to be that I know I have to trust ppl in some things, but that core deception that we suffered as JWs makes trust a really hard thing to manage. And I don't think I'm going to be whole again until I can trust. Cady -
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Doubting our own intuition - reality vs. reality
by Cady inwhen someone asks about the jws, i usually find myself talking about disfellowshipping, the blood issue, the child-molestation problem.
but looking back i think, although those are the easily explained and perhaps somewhat sensational bad things about being a jw, they're not the only things that have left their marks.
in fact, only the disfellowshipping issue has personally affected me (although i'm not officially df'd, but of course you don't have to be to lose your friends/family).
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Yeah this gets to me... not just the fun I didn't have, more the important lessons I didn't learn. I really ought to be older than this. I remember being told as a kid that I was very mature, and just figured that as the years went by I remained so. Nobody said it after primary school though - and that's because witnesses are kept to an emotional age of pre-puberty - denying ourselves the right to adulthood and all the lessons that go with it. I'm so embarassed that I was such a twonk for so many years. Every day a dozen stupid things I said as a young adult make me cringe.
Same thing for me - ppl used to say I was "6 going on 30." But now I realize I'm really rather immature emotionally. I'm not sure why we're immature emotionally - is it just not being able to make decisions for ourselves? What makes a person emotionally mature?
It's funny b/c of late I've been feeling a bit more like other people around me. My friend and I went to his company late at night and were kicking around these big plastic balls on their soccer field in the mud (long story). But while he and his friend were both totally into it, it was a forced sillyness for me. There's always part of me that's holding back, not really able to let loose. And I feel like that a lot of times in other ways, too - like I'm watching the world around me but not really engaged in it. I do things but I've very rarely ever fully immersed w/o a part of me standing back and evaluating everything.