Posts by chickpea

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need to get over it but cant :(

by bez in

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friends

i text my little girls friends mum today as her daughter left some clothes (funnily enough, they were army pants and a t shirt, what ever happened to not supporting the army by not wearing calmoflage print etc!!!)..

i told her i would put them in a bag and told her she could call in for them whenever she was passing... anyway i just had my reply, hi, just keep them, *** will be out of them by next year anyway, so *** may as well just have them.

hope your all ok...x. so i take it thats her in basic words sayin... keep them cus i dont want to see you again and your apostate influence... i knew people would take this approach to our decision to not continue going to the meetings but i just am really struggling to deal with it without feeling like i have a disease that they do not want to catch :(.

chickpea

dont let them distract you from how
totally awesome a real life can be....

rather than getting over their nastiness,
bumfuzzle them and get on with "it",
your genuine wonderful LIFE!!!

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How did you choose your screenname for jw.net?

by Voices in

jw
friends

alright, i'm curious now cause i've been wanting to know how certain people go their screennames.

now some people have their names involved with makes sense and so forth.

but i guess i'll start out.

chickpea

before i realized i was "fading" (certainly
before i even knew such a concept was actually
formally named) circumstances in my life found
me involved in a community of adult survivors of
childhood sexual abuse, facing the very real
situation of executing an "operation" of removing
a young woman from current jeopardy, helping
her to move 900 miles away from her perp and
setting her up to finish her degree program and
launch a career in the health care field....

she used to call me chickpea

it all helped me realize that my life was being
wasted in the doomsday cult of the b0rg

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New Zealand earthqauke 7.0

by Mattieu in

jw
friends

black sheep & karter, hope you guys are ok, looks like it made a mess of christchurch... http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/earthquake-pf-74-magnitude-rocks-christchurch/story-e6frf7l6-1225914075673.

chickpea

I wonder how long it'll be before some dickwit tells me Jebooboo put it off for the convention

knowing full well that had the quake happened
DURING a convention it would have been the
work of satan the debbil, targeting johos

btw... NZ building codes rock during earthquakes

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Could you die without anyone noticing?

by AK - Jeff in

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friends

not long ago i had 100 'friends' - or so i thought.

i certainly had 100 or more people who said they were friends.

then i left a cult, and found myself with very few friends - those kind in the flesh, in the community.

chickpea

under exact circumstances, possibly
it could take a few days

at least i could still feed the dogs.....

and not care that they were doing
their business in the house....

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Encounter with JW's on the Street

by OnTheWayOut in

i was pushing my sister's wheelchair as we were enjoying the perfect .

saturday noon weather.

we were going to a local restaurant to get .

chickpea

at the very least they went running to their elders
and then got to watch the elders do a song and
dance about evil apostates, loving arrangements,
and yada yada yada....

but what has been heard cannot be unheard!
with apologies to the more famous >>>>>

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Best Texas BBQ

by Voices in

jw
friends

okay, i might be moving to fl (might be) ...so i'm going to be driving through texas...and i miss the bbq.

all 'ya'll' (lived there for 2 years) texans out there......i need a place that's so deliciously good that i'll regret not order 4 plates to take with me.

(i'm rather thin but i love bbq).

chickpea

i was just this weekend educating my
british friend about the differences
between "grilling" and bbq-ing, and
how some people (like me), when
invited to a "bbq" need to know if
there will actually be bbq and not
just burgers and brats on a grill....

wish i could be of service to ya, mate...
but i moved from tejas some 2 dozen
years ago, but still carry the hankering
for genuine pulled pork bbq sandwiches
with a slice of sweet onion, sesame bun
and a dill pickle spear on the side <sigh>

oh and chicken fried steak with cream gravy too!!

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Why DO Horrible Things Happen, Anyway?

by Farkel in

the insane things that occur to people who just happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time is scary and creepy to me.

a little girl is holding her teddy bear and as a coincidence is tragically on that same street when a bunch of gang-bangers decide to stage a gun fight because someone looked cross-eyed at one of their girl friends (you mamy insert any other bullshit reason here), so they start shooting and the little girl is shot and killed because she is innocently in their cross-fire.

when captured and arrested, the gang-bangers says they are "sorry" for snuffing out the life of that little girl.

chickpea

Terry: Bad things are possible. Bad things happen.
Nobody is in charge of the universe to make certain life is fair, just, balanced and true.

no shit!!!

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No More Bookbags in Service?

by White Dove in

every time i see jw's in service, they are not carrying bookbags but rather plastic holders and small fold over purses to hold them.. what ever happened to the big ol' bookbag in service?.

chickpea

i havent been to a KH in over 4 years
but i remember the trend developing
(as "suggested" by the elduhs) to
carry only a bible and a folder with
the offered litterature...

DEMONstrations during the service meetings
to show how simple it all could be...

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