Posts by chickpea

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Did you Fade Gradually or Stop Attending Meetings Quickly ? Reasons ?

by flipper in

jw
friends

been thinking about this and curious about what makes us all come to the decisions we came to in our fade/exiting the jw organization.. i think for myself having been born-in & raised a jw my doubts about the generation doctrine had simmered for years within me quietly and by the time i finally left in 2003 i had reached my breaking point.

also seeing unjust treatment of rank & file witness ( myself included ) just propelled me into my decision even quicker.

so - one day after meeting with 3 elders in a back room before a meeting and seeing their judgmental aggression towards me - i just told myself " enough is enough ".

chickpea

we had a huge crisis with our kids that derailed the train...
distractions and debt, plus a pandemic depression started

we gave up the decade-long privilege of "book study hosting",
then began missing more meetings than attending, slack
FS, and a gradual withdrawal from the lunatics who could
only think to say "where have you been?" any time they
would encounter you in public....

i was in AGONY for months, feeling like i was failing g0d

i kept a sticky note in my line of sight in the bedroom
so every morning as i dressed i read a latin phrase
that jung had carved over the entrance to his home
and then ultimately on his headstone

vocatus atque non vocatus, deus adreit

summoned or unsummoned god is there

every day i begged BEGGED to know god's will...
are you jehovah? are you another? what will you
have me do or be or say or believe? it was hell

i was in a fade before i ever knew what a fade was

when my youngest kid revealed his unenviable
status as a female to male transgender, and i
considered his HIS chances of survival with me
slaving for a religion that would have me shun HIM...

that is when i chucked the whole thing and totally
embraced the life of an LGBTQ parent/advocate
and i have NEVER looked back....

i stumbled onto this site in nov 2007.... followed a link
to a link to a link to rickross.com to here... joined the
day i first read about the b0rg/cult's deceptive ways...

been sharing THAT good news with anyone who opens
the conversational door, as it were, blowing the cover
off the WTS with more enthusiasm than i could ever have
mustered in the D2D buffoonery

92

Does your Cat want to sit on your Lap while you are on the Toilet .....?

by flipper in

i don't know what it is ...... but it's becoming disconcerting.

he's going to just have to sit outside the door and wait.

i know it will be dissappointing to him , as he purrs like crazy while gathering in the experience.

chickpea

well not really my grundies...flannel jammie pants...
but rumble in the grundies is more catchy...

THIS cat is amazing!

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ea6_1289755150

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How many of you atheists, agnostics, deists are celebrating Xmas??

by SweetBabyCheezits in

jw
friends

we are celebrating xmas this year for the first time.

it's kinda weird because, even though we're doing a xmas tree, decorations, gifts, we're more or less taking the christ out of christmas.

so how about the rest of you non-christian heathens?.

chickpea

i have about 6 strings of lights
to light up the long cold dark....

i have one kid who really wants
to be xmas-y, so i am sending
her a box with gifts, mostly
thrift store kitsch with a winter/
xmas theme.....

none of the other escapees apostates
i call family give 2 craps in a handbag...
so they get a $100 kiva.org certificate ....
have to lend the funds once, and can
then withdraw them.....

basically, not gonna turn down an
invite to events if i dont have to,
but not sponsoring one of my own...
my good deeds and gifting truly ARE
NOT limited to a single holiday season

92

Does your Cat want to sit on your Lap while you are on the Toilet .....?

by flipper in

i don't know what it is ...... but it's becoming disconcerting.

he's going to just have to sit outside the door and wait.

i know it will be dissappointing to him , as he purrs like crazy while gathering in the experience.

chickpea

cannot speak to cats, but the rats, whose playground
is in the shower room of the upstairs bathroom, will
do pretty much like oldlightnewshite described of his
little daschund.....

the mother and daughter duo, adopted from the
high school biology class last summer, noodles
and jezzie (mamama and bebebe), after the morning
transfer to the playground, LOVE to scamper across
the floor to "rumble in the grundies" (flannel jammies)

of course, i stir them up, as they love to be tossed
and tickled.... whole thing takes about 3-4 minutes....
then they help me wash my hands and brush my teeth
(vivid and disturbing visuals of what my senescence
will be like) and they head off to their nest box for
a 9 hour nap..... seems to be a morning "happy to
see you" ritual

mamama is the white one.... they are in their fleece hammock

39

How did you vote this year?

by sooner7nc in

straight ticket?

pick and choose?

close your eyes and vote for whoever your finger lands on?.

chickpea

always been a pick and choose voter....

i am a little left of center... and will
stay there until equality is acheived

39

The Powerful Trend No One Comments On

by metatron in

jw
friends

i happen to work with a number of 20 - 30 year olds and i am stunned by the overwhelming social/tech trend that has emerged among them:.

the obsessive - minute to minute use of electronic devices (i. e. 'smartphones, i phones, and the like').

these people are so intensely addicted that they can't stay away for more than a few minutes and keep using them during critical functions at work.

chickpea

if there is a collective consciousness developing
then i suspect the next solar maximum is
going to collectively taste like a sh!t-cicle!

geomagnetic storms FTW.....

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The Powerful Trend No One Comments On

by metatron in

jw
friends

i happen to work with a number of 20 - 30 year olds and i am stunned by the overwhelming social/tech trend that has emerged among them:.

the obsessive - minute to minute use of electronic devices (i. e. 'smartphones, i phones, and the like').

these people are so intensely addicted that they can't stay away for more than a few minutes and keep using them during critical functions at work.

chickpea

if there is a collective consciousness developing
then i suspect the next solar maximum is
going to collectively taste like a sh!t-cicle!

geomagnetic storms FTW.....

9

Important Women's Health Issue

by chickpea in

important women's health issue.

* do you have feelings of inadequacy?

* do you suffer from shyness?

chickpea

i gave up tequila my sophmore year in college

otherwise, i might have had a little josé cuervo calling me mama

9

Important Women's Health Issue

by chickpea in

important women's health issue.

* do you have feelings of inadequacy?

* do you suffer from shyness?

chickpea

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ladies, were you paying attention??

28

Really COOL(or Really DUMB) Vanity plates

by serenitynow! in

so i have a 100 mile daily commute, so i see lots of plates.

i get a kick out of the good ones.

saw 2 hearses- toolate, lastrde, guy in a navy caprice classic-notfuzz; minivan-mmbeer.

chickpea

the ONLY time my husband took me to florida
was to west palm beach to pick up a 1963
ford country squire station wagon
(we were in WPB for 3 hours!)

the vanity plate?

6T3 4D

this is what it looked like