Posts by jelcat8224

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Make up: Love it or loathe it?

by Crumpet in

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i have just gotten around to taking off last nights trowelling and what a relief that is!

i rarely wear make up - maybe once a month, so i probably go over board.

i feel like my skin just suffocated for 24 hrs.. what do you love or loathe about make up?

jelcat8224

So why does Johnsons Baby oil say its great for removing makeup then.

I know!! It says that because it DOES take it off of your lashes very well. They just don't tell you where the pigment goes after that!!!

jelcat

75

Make up: Love it or loathe it?

by Crumpet in

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i have just gotten around to taking off last nights trowelling and what a relief that is!

i rarely wear make up - maybe once a month, so i probably go over board.

i feel like my skin just suffocated for 24 hrs.. what do you love or loathe about make up?

For your eyes, I HIGHLY recommend blinc mascara (kiss me mascara) and eye products. They are waterproof in that they won't run or ooze if you cry or go swimming, but when you want to take it off, you just get it wet and slide it off between your two fingers. It creates little tubes around each individual lash instead of gooping them. It won't leave dark circles by staining the skin under your eyes when you wash it off, (which by the way ladies is where a lot of women's dark circles come from). Even if you sleep in it you won't wake up to racoon eyes, just maybe a few flakes here and there. I won't live without it!!!!

As far as the makeup goes, I personally only use the minerals. Like other women have said here, it is so easy to use and looks and feels like you're not wearing any. My personal favorite is Jane Iredale. I usually only use the powder foundation, my eyliner, and my mascara. Eye shadows I have to be in the mood for. I like my lips natural. I hate the feel of lipstick, but sometimes I will wear a sheer gloss. (I have about fifty of them all only about one shade apart but hardly ever use them).

Whatever you do, NEVER remove your eye makeup with an oil based product. It will carry the pigment and deposit it in the delicate skin under your eye, creating dark circles!!!!

jelcat

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Where do you think you would be now?

by brinjen in

just a thought, wondering where does everyone think they would be right now if they hadn't found the truth?

i mean the real truth, not the wts.

would you be single?

jelcat8224

hanging on by a thread, trying to keep my head above water in the org. I would be single. I would prob end up an old maid or married to a 'worldly' man. My depression more than likely would have consumed me either way. Might have ended up being a shut in knowing that I could never really do enough for the WTS no matter how much I did. My guilt and feelings of worthlessnes in God's eyes would have compounded daily. My future would have been worse than bleak. I honestly know I would have been anything BUT happy. Reading my journal entries from the years I was in, gives me insight into what I would have become.

jelcat

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LOST spoiler questions??

by Bob Loblaw in

why did charlie have to die?

why couldn't he have swam out of that window?

he was such a good character.

jelcat8224

The shut down code didn't call Penelope. It's just that when the jamming equipment was turned off her call was able to get through. (it alerted Charlie of an INCOMING call)

Now remember, when the hatch blew up there was a signal put out, and those guys in what looked to be a research facility in antarctica saw the island's positon on their radar screen for a brief moment due to all the electromagnetic force that was put out. They then proceeded to call Penny to tell her that they may have located Desmond. What I think, is that since that day she has been putting out a frequency to that area in the hopes of being able to pick somehting up, and when Charlie disabled the jamming equipment, her signal was able to be picked up.

jelcat

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Were you a non-spiritual JW?

by moshe in

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i sure tried to act spiritual in the beginning of my jw life.

i could go through the motions of being a good jw, but i just never could get turned on with being spiritual.i gave great talks and when i was an elder i could fill in for a no-show and never miss a beat.

however, my wife at the time always complained that we didn't do the family study or study the wt lesson ahead of time.

jelcat8224

I would have to say that I was just going through the motions as well. I also used to get highly praised for the talks I gave (even though they were usually thrown together at the last possible moment).

I too only had one serious study. She progressed quite well and even went over the questions for baptism. The elders denied her for baptism. She was furious and eventually stopped coming altogether. I honestly didn't blame her ... I wondered who they were to tell her she couldn't publicly dedicate her life to God?? I later realized that they were actually saying she wasn't fit to publicly dedicate herself to the WTS. I just wish I could have seen it earlier.

I auxiliaried for a little while but I hated it. I only did it because I was out of high school, wasn't in college, and worked mostly at nights, and if I DIDN'T increase my ministry I knew I would hear it from all sides! So I did it to avoid the grand inquisition.

motions motions motions ... that was pretty much as deep as it went with me. I wouldn't say I was non-spiritual, but I never felt that what I had was completely true, and was never truly motivated to serve the WTS.

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LOST spoiler questions??

by Bob Loblaw in

why did charlie have to die?

why couldn't he have swam out of that window?

he was such a good character.

jelcat8224

The weird thing was how he said to get his father upstairs and "if he's drunker than me, you can fire me!" As if his father wasn't dead anymore???

Great catch scully ... I didn't even notice that!! Very strange indeed!!

jelcat

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LOST spoiler questions??

by Bob Loblaw in

why did charlie have to die?

why couldn't he have swam out of that window?

he was such a good character.

jelcat8224

Why did Charlie have to die? Why couldn't he have swam out of that window? He was such a good character

That's EXACTLY what I said!! So glad there's someone who thinks like me!! I refuse to believe that Charlie is dead. If you notice, we didnt actually SEE Charlie die. We saw him cross himself ... it was IMPLIED that he died ... but my guess is that next season will pick up right there with him turning around, finding the window, and realizing that he can swim up to the top in a flash.

I don't know who's funeral that was ... and I was quite suprised AND impressed with that little twist at the end. I LOVE how they ended the season. That not being a flash back was perfect. Leaves us all where they want us!

jelcat

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How did you spend Sunday?

by Crumpet in

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i spent mine enjoying a traditional sunday romp in the rural idyll that is england, communing with nature.. this, for those who dont know, translates as getting lots of manure on my shoes, nodding politely at passing ramblers, edging away from the well endowed bull, walking for a couple of miles, limbo-dancing under electric fences, and then fighting for a table along with the countryside's finest and their dogs, tucking into a traditional sunday lunch and a pint, then walking it back off - wondering if i a) i just ate one of the bull's babies and b) if i did, can he smell it?!.

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jelcat8224

walked around downtown with my man, browsed a few boutiques, meandered around the park and the lake, laid in the grass for a while, had a nice lunch at a new restaurant, (we try to eat at a new place every sunday), explored some hidden historical neighborhoods ... we basically walked and wandered around aimlessly all day. It's perfect. (I was not a slave to my air conditioning today! ) The best days are the ones when time means nothing and there is no such thing as a schedule!!

jelcat

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Did You Personally Know of Sex Offenders In The Congregation?

by minimus in

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i knew of 1 person that should've been reported to the authorities for fooling around with his sisters when he was an older teen and they were much younger.

it was hushed up by the elders, as this was considered a very prominent family.

the allegations were made probably 20 years ago, well before i was ever in that hall.

jelcat8224

yep ...

one of them, a ministerial servant, used to hug me all the time and would tell everyone, including his wife that if he were my age that I would DEFINITELY be his girlfriend. I always noticed his wife was made to feel very uncomfortable by this, but I just thought it was due to the obvious inappropriateness of the comments. I didn't find out until MUCH later on, when I was in my early teens, and my parents sat me down and told me they had found out he is a registered offender. From that day on I was to NEVER allow him to hug me again.

another of them, another ministerial servant, used to flirt with me relentlessly. I was in my early teens at this point so it was thought at first that I was the one instigating the behavior. (not that that makes it ok anyway, but in JW land we all know how twisted it is) So one day he cornered me in the library and was telling me how beautiful I am and how my hair is so pretty and how he wished his wife had hair like that. Well, I told my father and let's just say this man regretted EVER having laid eyes on me. My father TORE into him. Later on we find out that he had been accused MORE THAN ONCE of abusing his younger sister, but nothing ever came of it of course since there were not 'two witnesses'.

there were other cases that I heard about but they were all shrouded in secrecy since no one ever wanted to name names out of fear of it being traced back to them.

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Atheists, Why the Anger?

by XJW4EVR in

ok, so you deny the existence of a god, or you lack belief in a god.

my question why do you get so angry over a mythical being?

no one gets as upset over the tooth fairy, santa claus or the easter bunny, as i have seen some of the atheists on this board get over the slightest mention of god.

jelcat8224

ok ... speaking as a believer, I think that the problem arises when either side asserts his/her view on others. Just for the record, I have disagreed with almost everything perry has said. I have found his comments to be offensive and dogmatic. Now, this being said, theists can disagree with each other just as much as they can with atheists. I have never had two athiests in the same room with me but I am sure there are atheists who disagree with one another as well. Every person has different morals, different values, different prioirities. One cannot genrealize atheists any more than one can genrealize theists.

just my two cents

jelcat