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  loving multiples

  by chickpea in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  loving multiples is about being friends with people who are did, what used to be called multiple personality disorder.

  what is disordered, what is askance, what is forever damnable is the reason these splendiferous souls are so fragmented....... the horrific abuse foisted on them by the souless perversions of humanity that harmed them to their very cores, and beyond.

  my beloved (((((snicks))))), a gorgeous junoesque brit with the flaming red hair of her norse ancestors, towering above me at 6 feet, whose inner system populates a castle... i had the rare and distnctive privilege of naming her 18 yo alter, she who held the music, who used her age as her designation as she felt undeserving of even a name to be known by ...... her 3 and 5 yos who sat with me on the parlour floor and learned to make balloon animals.... the 10 yo keeper of anger, the worst assignment in the system, because there is rarely ever peace for them in the swirl of chaos and upheaval that is the toxic residue of their moment of creation...... the sweet 8 yo who remained hidden for years even after the others were found.... who cried because i was leaving and she had not been "out" to meet me...... you cannot begin to know the joy i had seeing her laugh while i read her a book and did all the voices and animal sounds.

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  chickpea

  loving multiples is about being friends with people who are DID, what used to be called multiple personality disorder

  what is disordered, what is askance, what is forever damnable is the reason these splendiferous souls are so fragmented....... the horrific abuse foisted on them by the souless perversions of humanity that harmed them to their very cores, and beyond

  my beloved (((((snicks))))), a gorgeous junoesque brit with the flaming red hair of her norse ancestors, towering above me at 6 feet, whose inner system populates a castle... i had the rare and distnctive privilege of naming her 18 YO alter, she who held the music, who used her age as her designation as she felt undeserving of even a name to be known by ...... her 3 and 5 YOs who sat with me on the parlour floor and learned to make balloon animals.... the 10 YO keeper of anger, the worst assignment in the system, because there is rarely ever peace for them in the swirl of chaos and upheaval that is the toxic residue of their moment of creation...... the sweet 8 YO who remained hidden for years even after the others were found.... who cried because i was leaving and she had not been "out" to meet me...... you cannot begin to know the joy i had seeing her laugh while i read her a book and did all the voices and animal sounds

  it had to look ridiculous! this woman is nothing if not impressive in stature, and yet she would sit scrunched up next to me on the floor to have a better look at the pictures in the book and suck her thumb and giggle around it like a toddler when i trumpeted like a heffalump .... she may be adult in size but her total demeanour, her face and eyes, somehow transform..... and i watch as she is transported into the realm of what SHOULD HAVE BEEN INNOCENCE and see her delighted by bubbles or terrified by flashbacks and memories of unspeakable criminality

  she is one of several i know, and each has several, some have many, inner dwellers..... they have to be some of the most special people in the world and to have them as friends and be allowed the honour of knowing their systems gives a depth of meaning to my life that never would have occurred had i knocked on a million doors

  THIS is what i have come to consider a "ministry".... walking a healing path with the most wounded among us...... survivors of CSA
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  WT Comments (1/21 ARE YOU READY?) FEATURING NOSFERATU

  by V in

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  2. bible
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  chickpea

  never before have i laughed thru a reading/study of the watchtower....

  just remind me not to eat the snacks at your house...... i am not totally convinced about the p00p scriptures (d@mn!! does that mean i am not ready for the great day?!)
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  Jehovah on cafe press

  by loosie in

  1. social
  2. humour

  http://www.cafepress.com/buy/jehovah/-/pv_design_details/pg_1/id_14857087/opt_/fpt_/c_666/.

  http://www.cafepress.com/buy/jehovah/-/pv_design_details/pg_1/id_13292728/opt_/fpt_/c_666/.

  http://www.cafepress.com/buy/jehovah/-/pv_design_prod/p_storeid.178423376/pno_178423376/id_22886788/opt_/pg_/c_/fpt_.

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  chickpea

  i remember back in the day when a young pioneer sister was with my family at a major amusement park, sneering at the people wearing christian slogan t-shirts and calling it a cheap ministry

  i believe i will get her a gift card to cafe press.....or not

  actually, i believe the first birthday gift i will have given my son in nearly 20 years will be an xJw graduate shirt.... that's the ticket

  thanks for the link, loosie
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  Fun Songs.... share your favorites

  by Scully in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  here's a favorite of mine: escape (pina colada song).

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvdhzwk7cs8.

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  chickpea

  this one is sorta the anthem of a fader.... at least for me anyway

  dance hall crashers " lost again" ( lyrics here>>> http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Lost-Again-lyrics-Dance-Hall-Crashers/C305075B1B60000248256C1C00327714 )

  http://youtube.com/watch?v=q6mqU9lbX4M&feature=related
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  We Just Adopted A Son....

  by brinjen in

  1. jw
  2. friends

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  he's a year old, technically a male (he had the surgery yesterday) .

  any suggestions?

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  chickpea

  mazel tov! and congratulations to all parties!!!!

  legend is a strong name for such a noble creature
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  Were U Surprised When Certain People Left The Organization?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when certain "pillars" left the fold, were you shocked?

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  chickpea

  my sentiment echoes GoddessRachel's in that it was my departure that i find most unbelievable...... the ones who departed in the nearly 2 decades i was "in" surprised no one

  even as i struggled with an immense crisis involving my children and arrests and courts and cops and lawyersand shrinks and social workers, i still considered myself a witness, addressed my prayers and lamentations to their god and stayed as firmly in the faith as one can on the way to a nervous breakdwn...

  maybe it was an all encompassing numbness that melded with that aspect of my life and ultimately allowed my decision to just let it die a natural death....

  the right circumstances and anything is possible for anyone..... so there are bound to be surprises in lots of congros
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  Microphone Man

  by startingover in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i wonder if someone who had never been to a kingdom hall would think this is funny.

  http://youtube.com/watch?v=_8vtmqf0wfe.

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  chickpea

  such an insider joke!! too spot on to be made up!

  for some reason, the other day, i recalled the privileged ones who did the sound at the DC/CA and how serious and robotic they were "handling the mics aright", coiling the wire just so, and the short speedy steps they took on the platform readying the stage for the next portion of blather and spew.... such bragging rights for their proud parents, eh?
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  I think I just became an unbaptized bible study student apostate

  by AddaGirl in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i had some major questions regarding 607 bce which directly affect the doctrine of 1914. my teacher, admitting being weak on history, could not answer my questions.

  i started researching and found that the appropriate dates for the "seventy years" were appearing to be 609 bce to 539 bce, the ruling period of babylon.

  this meant that everything i was being taught based on 1914 was in effect, a lie.

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  chickpea

  boy, do i wish i could make a declaration like that!!! instead of having to say>>>> i was assimilated

  nothing they can and will tell you makes their 'religion' the truth, and the best outcome in this case is that maybe someone of them will have an independent thougt....

  good for you!
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  What are your favorite museums in your area?

  by coffee_black in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what are your favorite museums in your local area?

  what museums would you suggest to someone visiting your area?

  tell us a little about them.. heres my list:.

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  chickpea

  i WISH there was a major museum closer than 85 miles away!!

  that being said... i would rather go to a museum than the beach!

  Texas Memorial Museum on the campus of UT in austin.....DINOSAURS!!

  Field Museum of Natural History Chicago

  Minnesota Museum of Science St Paul

  Pavek Museum of Broadcasting Minneapolis

  National Irish Museum ( Arts and Decorative History) in Dublin

  Te Papa Tongarewa - Museum of New Zealand ( Wellington)
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  the unkindest cut of all?

  by chickpea in

  1. social
  2. family

  never believing that a foreskin was a birth defect, i left my sons intact...( called genital integrity in some circles).

  what, if anything, makes circumcision less of a mutilation than fgm?.

  dont kill the questioner!!

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  chickpea

  i can see that many of the rationales offered can be seen to favour adult circ.... but not infant circ....

  i told my sons if they were mocked at school they could offer this>>> well, maybe i will have mine chopped off too, if i choose to..... but you aint never growing yours back and you had no choice in that decision.....( harsh, i know, but sometimes ya gotta make an impression in order for insights to occur)

  the point about a prophylactic measure to reduce already rare occurrences of penile cancer.... there is no statistical evidence that the rate of this cancer is less in countries that havve high rates of circs than those that have low rates of circ .... there are more deaths from circs than from penile cancer... the amer. cancer society does not promote circ as a preventative measure but warns against tobacco, HPV and multiple partners ( think dozens) as contributory.... http://www.cirp.org/library/disease/cancer/

  same for cervical cancer.... ACS does not support the notion that intact partners are causative.......sexual activity at an early age, multiple partners, tobacco, HPV all are listed as etilological sources..... not smegma http://www.cirp.org/library/disease/cancer/

  i will PRAY to whatever powers might be that my sons' intact penises will make them unfit for war!!!! seriously, it was the lack of hygenic conditions, not the foreskins themselves, that led to the infections described in the war stories.... balanitis is not a condition limited to an intact penis... happens to the circ'd as well http://www.cirp.org/library/disease/balanitis/

  as far it goes, any male who chooses as an adult to remove his foreskin, or tattoo or pierce or modify his genitals in any manner, hey.... knock yourself out soldier!! i have no concerns about YOUR choices

  my concern continues to be the babies...