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  Memories. .. share the earliest or most favorite childhood memory

  by MissFit in

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  my daughter tells me that experts say children tend to have false memories.

  apparently their brain tends to fill things in that may not be totally accurate.. i refuse to believe that my favorite and comforting memory might not be true.

  so here is to fond memories real or not.. the earliest memory i have is being put in a crib at a preschool.

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  We lived on Guam when I was little. My oldest memories are from Guam. I can remember pitching a terrible fit because there was a little octopus on a rock at the beach and I wanted to keep it. My parents explained it was alive and needed to be left alone and other stuff too, I'm sure. They wound up giving me a spanking because I wouldn't quit pitching a fit.

  I can remember the beach on Guam, eating hibiscus blossoms, living in a Quonset hut. I remember the trip back to California on a Navy ship much more clearly, I was a little older then.
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  What are your new year's resolutions?

  by rebel8 in

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  do you have any?

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  No point in making resolutions. I have no resolve! But, I'm all right with lists. My list is fairly short, includes finishing three current knitting projects, then starting a new one for which I already have the yarn. Also have a sweater to finish, and want to warp my loom so I can do some weaving.

  And become queen of the garden this year, unseating the current dictator/emperor. Might happen. Might not.
  
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  ever read this?

  by sowhatnow in

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  i got an offer in the mail for mother earth magazine.. anyone like it?

  im not sure if im a liberal or not, i think its a liberal based format.

  its not all political, sort of like a shortened readers digest?

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  I have a subscription, but am thinking of canceling it. It's about self-sufficiency, small and large farms, it's a sort of counterculture farmer's magazine. Lots about recycling, alternative energy and building greenhouses from leftover windows, that sort of thing. What's really annoying is that now a lot of their articles point to websites, so the articles are incomplete and you have to go look up the website to read more.It isn't as interesting as it used to be.
  

  
  

  
  
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  Please post new forum feedback or questions here

  by Simon in

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  well, the switchover happened - there were a couple of things i had to fix which meant the posting was disabled for longer than i planned but it's now enabled and some people have already posted.. if you have any questions about the new format or suggestions on how to improve it, please post them here.. if you are having trouble signing in or posting then you'll need to email me instead.. many thanks to everyone for their patience during the changeover !.

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  I would really like to be able to delete messages. And the icon says I have 10 new messages, when in fact I don't have any new messages.
  
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  I Let Go Of Faith Ten years Ago Today

  by cofty in

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  2. beliefs

  after more than 30 years as a jw and 9 as a born-again christian i finally let go of faith 10 years ago today.... it was on boxing day 2004 that news of the asian tsunami put the final nail in the coffin of my relationship with god.

  since that time i have listened attentively to every possible argument in defense of faith; there has never been a single moment that i have felt any discomfort with my decision.. life without god has been liberating.

  no longer do i have to defend the indefensible.

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  February, 1982 for me. It took a while for it all to sink in, although as someone else said on this thread, it was anticlimactic when it did. I've never come at it as intellectually or intelligently as you Cofty, which makes me appreciate all the more the information you share with us. I am sad that this is the only life, sometimes, but wishing doesn't change anything. Facing that truth does make me try to slow down and get the most out of the moments I have.

  
  
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  Merry Whatever lights up your winter

  by Hortensia in

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  i hope you get to enjoy the lights and sounds and food of winter.

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  I hope you get to enjoy the lights and sounds and food of winter.
  
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  What products have you bought that exceed your expectations?

  by skeeter1 in

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  well?.

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  My Toshiba laptop. I've had several, they last a long time and don't cost much, esp. on sale. Also, very seldom have any problems with them.

  Wool sweaters.

  Cast iron pans and pots. I buy grungy ones at yard sales and put them in my oven. Run it on self-clean and every bit of grunge comes off. Then I reseal them and they're like new.

  Electric tooth brush.
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  New forum 'parousia' is upon us! (software version)

  by Simon in

  1. forum
  2. announcements

  the time has nearly come to switch over to the new forum software.

  of course it's not completely finished yet (and never will be) but i think it's good enough to go live with and probably already better than the current one.

  i'll give you a quick overview of what to expect and post more detail about the changeover process later.. cloud platform.

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  What about deleting old private messages? Would love to be able to do that.
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  Joe Cocker RIP

  by NewYork44M in

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  who can forget the opening credit to the wonder years.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ob59hsrafu.

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  My favorite . . .

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRDe0PIPqj0
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  life after the wtbts

  by Hortensia in

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  you can't move forward to a new, more interesting, possibly much happier life, if you're still looking behind at the former life.. there is so much obsession on here about what the wtbts is doing, and discussing all the forms of injustice and bullshit in the wtbts, or how to bring down the wtbts.

  yes, their doctrines are crazy and they are a cult and cruel to boot.

  move on.

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  I guess I wrote this because of a creepy experience I had this weekend. Possibly over-reacting. I hang out here because I'm interested in what people do nowadays, because we have a shared experience in the past, and maybe to find someone I used to know that has escaped also. But I don't really understand the fascination with WT doctrine. Why care? And the desire to bring the WT down? I don't get it. Another one will pop up in its place. There are more dangerous religions on earth right now than the WT.

  Not apologizing, just attempting to explain.

  Maybe time to say so long? It's just that I like most of the folks here and really respect the intellect of some of you, too. I'm always curious. What's cofty going to say next? Or fulltimestudent? There's a lot of interesting conversation that goes on here. I just don't get the obsession with doctrine, or trying to sabotage the wtbts. I'm still a bit creeped out, I guess.