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  MY BROTHER-IN-LAW HAS DIED

  by Mary in

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  this is one post i had always hoped i would never have to do, but after a long and brave battle, my beloved brother in law has died.

  i have done a couple of threads on this in the past, so many of you know the battles he was facing.

  he had been diagnosed earlier this year with myelodysplastic syndrome and the mortality rate of this disease is quite high.

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  chickpea

  godspeed you, ((((mary))))
  and all who mourn the loss
  of this beloved man, to a place
  where comfort is manifest
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  Have You Heard of This Word?

  by snowbird in

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  chthonic.. can you use it in a sentence?.

  thanks for replying.. sylvia.

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  chickpea

  chthonic

  1882, from Gk. khthonios "in the earth," from khthon "the earth, solid surface of the earth" (mostly poetic) from PIE root *dhghem- (cf. first element in chameleon, also L. humus "earth, soil," humilis "low;" Lith. zeme , O.C.S. zemlja "earth;" Skt. ksam- "earth" (opposed to "sky"); O.Ir. du , gen. don "place," earlier "earth"). Chthonian is from 1850.

  http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=chthonic&searchmode=none
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  Handy ladies

  by beksbks in

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  i'm curious how many of you gals get excited about tools?

  i just love having the right tool for the job.

  i got an excellent socket set and tool box full of stuff for xmas a couple of years ago, but i keep discovering cool stuff that i want.

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  the biggies?

  one of my (female) mates and i built a 4 stall stable
  attached to a pole building, and i did the wiring after
  spending 3 evenings at a library reading books on
  wiring design... including a 3 way switch

  did a rip and tear to totally gut a 2 story house,
  leaving only the frame, jacked it up to demolish the
  field stone foundation that was shitting out at the corners,
  built forms and hand mixed concrete for the new foundation,
  hauled sand for weeks, one wheel barrow at a time to fill
  the former crawl space in order to pour a slab under the house,
  and help lay the tubing for an infloor zoned heating system
  prior to the concrete "pour"whch turned out to be a wheelbarrow
  job since the truck couldnt reach the house.....

  tiled a couple of bathrooms

  re-roofed a multi-purpose building last fall, with the same mate
  that i built the horse stable with

  built 2 tongue and groove knotty pine closets in a basement bedroom

  built a handicap access ramp for a 20 year old doberman
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  untitled

  by BorgHater in

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  i always think about the thousands of jw's who have lost thier lives over the years by refusing blood transfusions, but sometimes i forget about all those poor witnesses who died in concentration camps during ww2.

  when i was a jw i would comfort myself with the thought that although those brothers suffered, they were doing it for jehovah.

  now i realise what a needless, tragic waste of precious human life that really was it makes me so sad.

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  chickpea

  yeah, lemme tell you my hope is to see the b0rg hit
  right where it hurts them the most... in the old cha-ching!!

  too bad it will be on account of a tragedy based on misguided belief

  i second your response, questioning everything

  i am HORRIFIED to think i might have made a decision
  that led to the death of a child because of a cult....
  i WOULD HAVE DONE IT!!!!!!

  gives me a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach

  decidedly has turned me off from religiosity in every form
  where a higher power is the influence.....
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  FRIENDS VS Theocratic FRIENDS - Gag Alert!

  by Girlie in

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  a jw associate emailed this to me.

  exudes of typical jw smugness towards "worldly" folks.

  has this been your experience in the borg?.

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  chickpea

  what a crock of crap....

  theocratic friends let the GB
  tell them who their friends are.....
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  Just worn out

  by EmptyInside in

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  i thought it best i stay a lurker.

  it's just right now, i'm going through some doubts and just plain discouraged.

  sometimes, trying to do everything just wears me out, and i feel like i'm suffocating.

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  chickpea

  welcome to the boards

  as was said... many people in those
  marriages you observe are emotionally
  exhausted and disappointed and feeling
  "weak" because they cannot live up to the
  demands of the WTS...

  it is exhausting to keep that hamster wheel turning...

  most of us have been where you are, thinking there is
  something wrong with US because of how we genuinely
  feel, but i for one have come to discover, it never was
  about how weak i was, just how unaware....

  godspeed
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  Funny or offensive?

  by wouldacouldashoulda in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejjl5dxgvam.

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  i cried.. w.

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  @*&^!#$ funny!!
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  Did You Ever Spank Your Kids?

  by minimus in

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  were you spanked?.

  is spanking "wrong"?

  (they say your iq might be affected adversely from being spanked)..

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  i was beaten,...

  my mother used a riding crop she bought in mexico..
  called it a quirt... she was a raging drunk with anger issues...
  she didnt care where the blows fell, she just kept swinging....
  here's to ya lizzie!

  i did spank my kids...

  in private, under control and limited to 3 swats...
  they actually had great influence in whether we
  got to 3.... by the time they were double digit in age
  we had moved beyond that
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  Who Or What Influenced You The Most To Get Out Of The Religion?

  by minimus in

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  for me, i think it was time and the realization of the idiocy of the beliefs and man made doctrines.

  i just couldn't ignore it any longer..

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  chickpea

  i have a 16 YO transgender female to male son.....

  he needed me to be his mother
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  Anyone from;Michigan,Wisconsin,Minnesota,North Dakota,Montana,Idaho,Washington?

  by jookbeard in

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  i've always wondered which is the coldest state in the winter, these ones that border canada?.

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  chickpea

  another cheesehead representin' !!

  gets plenty cold here on the south shore of the upper lake...
  i suspect nodak is the coldest, altho international falls, mn
  gets a lot of "coldest place in the US"weather reporting....
  (the template for the bullwinkle town of frostbite falls)

  i have had more than one neighbour to the north tell me
  winnepeg manitoba is the coldest part of the country...
  goes by the moniker "winterpeg, mani-snow-ba"
  ( i suspect nunavut has a quarrel with that)