if men could get pregnant
abortion would be a sacrament
chickpea
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If Men Got Pregnant
by Bangalore inif men got pregnant.
maternity leave would last two years ... with full pay.
there would be a cure for stretch marks.
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Are you a blood donor?
by GLTirebiter inin another thread, creativhoney said:.
the bible says there is no greater gift than you lay down your life for another, the bible refers to blood as life.
i conclude we should all give blood.. and chalam replied:.
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chickpea
more than a gallon
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advice for throwing a first-ever birthday party
by 2pink inwe are having a first ever birthday party for my daughter in a few weeks.
i have never been to a b-day party, as i grew up jw.. my daughter is turning 5.. any advice or party tips?
how many kids should i invite?
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chickpea
happy birthday to your youngster!
having grown up "worldly" i remember
the rule of thumb was invite as many
guests as the age of the child...up to around age 10!! that is a lot of kids!!
in second grade i went to a party that was
all boys except for me... we played yahtzeeanother game i remember is tying a long
balloon to everyone's ankles and having
a free for all trying to pop each other's
-once both your balloons popped you were out
- the last person with a balloon won a little prizegrowing up in proximity of the mexican border
piñatas were at most parties i went to....keep it simple, especially since it is your first
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Which coffee person are you?
by Newborn inespresso (single or double)?capuccino?latte?latte macchiato?american coffee?coffee with flavour?black coffee with milk or sugar?i am definately a latte person!!
gotta have one each morning.. i regret we don't have starbucks in sweden.
/newby.
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double double
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so am i DF'd or what?
by chickpea inthe thread started by brainwashed-from-birth.
about attending one's own df announcement.
has me giving a little thought to whether i have.
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chickpea
marked !
that seems the logical alternative...
thanks for that input, aguest...bet the front page newspaper article
re: the lobbying i did in washington with
my (unbaptized) transgender son was
fodder for that gristmill!!i havent been to meetings in
something approaching 4 years
so i not only have no idea of
what is going on officially in my case...
i also find i have forgotten the names
of so many people that i assumed they
would be forgetting mine as well....had that disproved today when a guy
from the KH said hello, Xxx as we passed
in the corridor at the tech college...it took me forever to remember
his first name, WHICH IS THE
SAME AS MY HUSBAND'S!! then
it niggled for hours til i could conjure
his last name.....eventually, we are moving from this burg
and then i won't even know if i have
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so am i DF'd or what?
by chickpea inthe thread started by brainwashed-from-birth.
about attending one's own df announcement.
has me giving a little thought to whether i have.
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chickpea
the thread started by brainwashed-from-birth
about attending one's own DF announcement
has me giving a little thought to whether i have
missed the opportunity or not...
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/members/private/184141/1/Being-At-Your-Official-DF-Announcementi have mixed signals from the members
of the KH i had attended for nearly 20 yrs...some, including an MS, still greet me
when we see each other in public....
i will admit, if it is a case of me seeing
them first, i am as likely as not to do
a dodge... to avoid the awkwardnessbut the ones to whom i had been close,
had at the BS in my home for 10 years,
including 2 younger women whose births
i had attended, clearly shun my sorry a$$...(my response always is to touch my heart
and flash the ASL sign for "i love you"
and keep smiling! hubby has always said
"kill 'em with kindness; it'll drive 'em nuts!)is there ever a formal notification
to the DF-ee from the DF-ers?
should i even care?
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Official visit from two local elders one fine Sunday morning
by SnakesInTheTower inwell, it finally happened.
a week ago sunday my fiancee and i were sitting in the living room drinking coffee and watching the morning talking heads when we heard the crunch of tires on the gravel in the driveaway, about 10:30 or so.
we looked at each other with that "are you expecting anyone?
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chickpea
only here to cheer you on, snakes!
i know what it feels like to actually live
a real life without any real care about
what the b0rg and its minions might
decide to do about it. according to their
rules and precepts....my attitude has boiled down to
"they can blow it out their collective
a$$es and light a campfire with it"funny to see the careful staging they
arranged to get to the heart of the matter....
the oh-so-subtle remark about the marriage license
is soooooo like something i know would be directed
to me should there ever be a "call" at my door....i sure hope you are enjoying yourself...
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like crapola... my first time in a secret santa !!
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I am gay and Jehovah Witness
by yosisoy inhello, i am jehovah witness and gay.
i am from puerto rico.
i would like to know how hard is to leave the organization.
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chickpea
"I would like to know how hard is to leave the organization."
it is really quite easy...
you decide you cannot be involved
with an organization that is as judgmental
as the b0rganization happens to be....
they dont have the Truth tm and never dideventually, one way or another, you will find
a community that accepts you for who you are.....
even churches in the realm of Xianity are starting to
make inroads into acceptance of variant expressions
of human sexuality.... many are becoming what they
cal RIC (reconciled in christ)..... so you do not have to
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I am gay and Jehovah Witness
by yosisoy inhello, i am jehovah witness and gay.
i am from puerto rico.
i would like to know how hard is to leave the organization.
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chickpea
this past summer i was undertaking
a mainline relgion's bible study
that focused on what the bible really
says about the sin of sodom , which
is so often the basis of fundie Xns'
attacks on homosexuals..... (gen 19:1-11)
firstly, the names of sodom
and gomorrha are descriptive
names of the destruction rained
down upon these two cities
sodom from a hebrew word for burnt
and gomorrha meaning pile of ruins
remember from gen 13 that abram and lot
separated from one another as their holdings
overlapped and contentious behaviour was
being exhibited by their prospective herdsmen....
lot choose to go in the direction of the river jordan...
the city that came to be known as sodom
was wealthy and its inhabitants greedy,
as attested to in rabbinical writings quoting
ezekiel 16:46-50This was the guilt of your sister Sodom :
she and her daughters had pride, excess
of food and prosperous ease, but did not
aid the poor and needy. They were haughty
and did abominable things before me;
therefore I removed them when I saw it.
further traditional rabbinical descriptions of sodom
Rabbi Nathaniel said: The men of Sodom had no
consideration for the honour of their Owner by
not distributing food to the wayfarer and stranger,
but they even fenced in all the trees on top above
their fruit so that so that they should not be seized;
not even by the bird of heaven...
a point was made that the inhabitants of sodom
were so jealous of their wealth that a stranger
coming into their midst was suspected of desiring
to usurp some of that wealth and they were treated
maliciously and despicably, ie raped and robbed, in
order to discourage their settling there... heterosexuals
using rape in the way prison rape is used, as coercion
and a violent show of power...
lot apparently escaped this treatment as he brought
his own wealth with him
the jewish tradition teaches it was their
overwhelming inhospitality that brought
wrath from the heavens upon them....archeological evidence, or lack thereof, aside...
the point of the lesson in this study aid called
"Claiming the Promise" is an interpretation of
the Sodom story that discounts the hysteria
about "homosexuality" being the sin that incurred
the wrath and destruction assigned to the city of the plains....
the lesson references jesus' remarks
in the 10th chapter of luke
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Whatever town you enter and they do not receive you, go out into the streets and say,
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' The dust of your town that clings to our feet, even that we shake off against you.'
Yet know this: the kingdom of God is at hand.
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I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom on that day than for that town.
the spin in this particular bible study book
is that jesus was warning that any town
showing a lack of hospitality would fare
worse than sodom did for its gross failure
to extend a cultural expectation of civility
towards and protection of strangers....as far as the rest of that narrative,
including "here, rape my virgin daughters
instead" or the pillar of salt bitch-slap for
singular disobedience, or the let's-get
daddy-drunk-so-we-can-get-preggers weirdness...
well, that is for some other line of study beyond the scope
of "Claiming the Promisegotta love those books of antiquity...
nomadic desert living sure can get excitingbronze age living: it's not for everyone!