a friend sent me this invitation and i asked her if it was ok to post it on this site.. so to all who at one time associated with any congregation in chicago or the north, northwest, west suburbs of chicago ---palatine, arlington heights, desplaines, morton grove, northbrook, barrington, round lake, grays lake, libertyville, woodstock, to name but a few --- duing the mid-1970's, please go to the link including to sign up and/or find out more information about this event.. expanded-mind.
dear friends, .
i am a quiet voice of the many thousands that remember where they were in 1975. .
I went to that Roller Rink too, wasnt it called Fireside. I was a kid, about 9-10 years old lets say 82-83. My mom was single, and she met my step dad there, and they eventually married and he adopted me. We were from Addison at the time, and he was from the Elston Ave hall.
Funny thing about that letter posted, is that I went to the Round Lake and Libertyville halls, you dont see those hall names posted often.
Nikki
i've mentioned before---i'm all "religioned" out!.
i don't have a certain set of beliefs yet i still hope there is a god and contrary to what some have assumed, i'm not an agnostic or athiest (yet)..
I too am all religioned out. I don't feel its important for ME, and frankly want it as far away as possible. I still know right and wrong without religion.
Nikki
i've had this yearning since thanksgiving for a warm homemade blueberry pie with vanilla ice cream on top!.
I love McDonalds french fries.
Nikki
i was going through some old photos today, i found one of myself when i was a devout jw.
it was really shocking!
i'm so thin, my cheeks are hollow, i'm as white as the wall behind me, i'm standing hunched over, and in my eyes you can see real misery.
I always loved fashion and could not express myself with it while a JW, even at 35, out 17 years, I still dress rebelious! It is a constant need.
Nikki
i don't normally give a rat's arse what happens on dancing with the stars, don't see it every week even, but i did watch the finale.
having seen the last couple of episodes, i thought for sure mya would win...should win.. but donny osmond??.
maybe the end is near....
I m with you, I am so mad about it, that I am ready to stop watching...but can't say never cause I am such a sucker for it!!!
Mya scored the highest, but there is a large public following of Donny. He was alright, but Mya deserved to win technically I think.
Nikki
I ve been drunk many times in my life, but I am 35 now so its not something I look forward to anymore. I hate hangovers! Yet, when I was younger, I could party like a rock star. I got my hair done last night, had 1 glass of cheap wine, and felt loopey quick, need to build up my tolerance!
Nikki
alot of members don't have a flag or country name beside their user name, and well frequently one doesn't know where that particular person is from, tell us your country, state, county or what ever you feel like giving out.
if you are going to post please at least devulge your country.. me, i'm originally from taranaki, new zealand via auckland.
for the most of this decade i have been living & working in brisbane, queensland, australia.. .
Chicago, IL, da bears, da cubs, da bulls...
Nikki
I am way too hyper, sometimes I forget to relax and listen. I talk too much too. Trying to follow the motto, loose lips sink ships...hard for me cause I got so much to say sometimes....working on that.
Nikki
first off lmao, i was just joking by my title guys.
im only 24yrs old and i like to have fun!
anyway, this is my very first post on this wonderful site.
Welcome dub r!!!
You know, Nova was on last night, program called being human I think, was really interested in watching it more, but my 2 year old wanted to watch something else, so we shut it off BUT I have been thinking about this alot since:
They have found bones of people much older than the biblical people mentioned in the bible, how come if the bible is true, we have not found anyone person (bones) living at that time but we have found numerous human like/ape like species older than people referenced in the bible? Am I right about this? If I am wrong about this point, please educate me, perhaps I missed discoveries over the years...I know about the dead sea scrolls in such, but perhaps the bible was written because it was fashionable to believe in Gods.
The program yesterday (based on findings) showed those bones/people older than the bible had their rituals too, they did things for their Gods etc...but in that period they had so much less, less influences because of less people, only lived to be 30 on average.
Those people mentioned in the bible lived far longer, have their been discoveries of anyone biblical that showed they lived over 200+ years??
Perhaps I should have started a topic on this, meant to welcome dub r, but I am also agnostic, and this show got me thinking...
Nikki
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I wish I brought my camera to be able to take picture, perhaps another day, although I would be flaunting my tat, I am too humble for that, NOT.
I agree with keeping it discreet for me, I too work with the public so they cannot be seen. I so want a little diamond stud in my nose but cannot do it because of my job.
You know, when I got my tramp stamp, it was about 9 years ago, I was 26, I was thinking how cute it would be there, did they call it tramp stamps then? Oh, my mistake that was my 1st one on the belly, got the tramp stamp in 2002, did they call it tramp stamp then?
Getting it done on my stomach was far more painful than on my back, although both tats gave me the shakes afterwards cause of holding onto something for so long to tackle the feeling of the needle. Anyone else get the shakes?
I am going to get another one on my back for xmas from hubby, it will be a pair of cheetah pattern high heels, I thought it would be cute, on back, left top back of shoulder area, who cares when Iam 90 and my tats are sagging? Everything else will, right.
Nikki
