once upon a time there was a daddy who really, really liked alcohol.
he drank too much all the time and smelled like wine, cheap wine from a box.
) the daddy's boys also grew up.
(((under_believer))) -- wow. it's so horrible to hear all that, and not to have ever had any inkling when we were growing up around one another. i'm truly sorry to read about it. what a courageous thing to post, and i hope it helps you in some small way to get it out.
-- puck
ever snitch on anyone??
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speaking of which, u_b, you still have yet to tell me your full story... (of course, this may indeed qualify). i know you have a limited amount of time to do so, considering your circumstances, but i'm still interested. also, dunno if you heard (probably, considering the witness grapevine), but my little brother just got df'd.
this past weekend i decorated my house for halloween, i know its early but i had a free weekend and i love being the first on my block to decorate, i have celebrated halloween for almost 17 years now, i think halloween and christmas are my most favorite holidays.
any one else decorating the house for halloween?
any one planning a halloween party?
i love halloween. i do a lot of theatre, and any reason to dress in costume...
what if a couple of bible-believing christians were going door-to-door?
and what if they were preaching the kingdom of god?
what if they had biblesalone and were not handing out any other literature?
this happened to my mom a few years back. she ended up placing literature with the two mormon fellows who came to the door. i thought it was hysterical.
i had a couple of mormons come to my door a year or so ago, and talked to them for a while. it was kind of fun, to discuss "spiritual" things with people. hadn't done it in quite a while. they were somewhat astonished that i knew some things about their faith, as i'd grown up in idaho and montana and it's a predominant religion out there. through the course of the conversation, i told them that i was gay, and their reaction (creepy curiosity) was funny. but i was tired of the discussion by then.
well, in nearly forty years of being a dub, i've read some bs but some of it really takes the biscuit.. take for example the watchtower of november 15th 2006!.
always accept jehovah's dicipline.
para 3 .
my little brother just went to the elders to confess something that he did some time ago, and they told him (after a few meetings with them) that he wasn't "repentant enough", and df'd him. there was no oil involved. you'd think they could at least grease him up to make his exit a bit more smooth...
i had no idea there was such a strong support line for ex jehovah's witnesses.
i was raised from birth as a jw, son of the presiding overseer in my congregation.
i was groomed for "great works" according to the elders, and started giving my own talks at the age of 8. my father died when i was 9, and i think that if he hadn't i would still be a witness today.
welcome, pgwvp --
i also left because i am gay. i don't post a great deal, but am often lurking. there are a good many of us, more than i would have guessed when i first left. glad you're doing what you need to, and not just what is expected.
-- puck
everyone has a story about what they were doing and the emotions that followed after the twin towers were hit...what is your story?
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we were living just outside d.c. at the time, and i had just gotten back from dropping my girlfriend off at the metro station. she was under the pentagon at the train stop when the pentagon was crashed into. it took me about 3 1/2 hours to go 15 miles to pick her up. there was a huge black cloud in the sky, and no planes overhead for the next few days. it was eerie. a friend of mine worked in the towers, but got an unexpected phone call to go to a meeting instead of to her office, thus narrowly missing being in the second building.
-- puck
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i don't understand why scissor sisters have not taken off in america the way they have here!.
i've been dying to see them and i managed to get tickets before they sold out for wembley in november this morning.. has anyone seen them live?
i love them -- they're one of my favorites.
crumpet, i'm *insanely* jealous!
what a whacked out character timothy treadwell was.. this documentary and story, told mostly through treadwell's own video, is about a man who wanted to be a friend of grizzly bears and perhaps maybe be a grizzly bear.
he took off for alaska where for long stretches of time he would "commune" with these huge killer bears and film them.
he seemed to think he had nothing to fear because he was operating at a higher level of spirituality and that the bears sensed it.
i saw this movie when it first came out over here. the bear that killed him wasn't one of "his" bears -- he stayed longer in the bear territory than usual, and the bear that killed him apparently hadn't gotten enough food to store up during hibernation. i do wish that we'd gotten to see more of timothy treadwell's footage -- i think it's a very interesting story, even if he was quite a bit unbalanced. and i also think it was pretty cool that he was on a one-man campaign to save the bears by going to local schools and talking to the kids about it.
i was just remembering how one day i told my good friend that bed mattresses are made out of cigarette butts.
well i must have been very convincing because about a week later i happened to over hear her telling someone else about this 'fact'.
i had to quickly stop her and tell her that i had only been joking!.
i convinced my girlfriend that i had a prostate. i told her it was a "genetic anomoly" and runs in my family. (i'm a woman...) she was so mad when i *finally* confessed.
