closest metro area is 200 miles away
that would be the twin cities of
minneapolis/st paul, mn
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Does anyone play an instrument just for fun?
by keeshondgirl ini like to play the piano, the drums, and i am teaching myself to play the flute.. i can play the trumpet too but i have to practice it more..
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chickpea
can't read music but i can play
(sorta) by ear, so i pick out tunes
i like on a tenor recorder and a
bagpipe chanter..... thinking about
a penny whistle too( piano lessons killed me..
no strategy we tried allowed
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Sisters crying in the kitchen/lobby
by highdose inyears ago i was at the revamp of a kingdom hall.
one of the sisters told me that since they got rid of the kitchen it was so much better, becuase there were always sisters out there crying!
and now they have no place to go, so they just have to stay in the hall and listen to the meeting!.
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chickpea
i think it is fair to say lots of women at
the KH i attended had occasional lapses...hard not to when you live in the fear of
judgment with every breath you draw,
compounded with the misery of impossible
standards and unmet expectations....
hell's bells i might just start bawling now!there was a "sister" with significant
mental health issues, including a
crushing depression.... the well-meaning
but totally WRONG JWs would counsel TM her to
"wait on jehovah" and "make paradise real"she made it real all right.... blew her head off
with a high caliber pistol she borrowed from
a neighbour.... to "scare off pests" so she
could get some peace.....seems suicide ran in the family
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Cuppa T char?
by highdose inin convasation with a american recently i was introduced to the horrific concept of putting cream in tea?!?
they in turn were appaulled by the idea of milk in tea with 12 sugars ( al la builders tea).. so before i put the kettle on, how do you take your tea?.
( mine is english breakfast, milk no sugar, middle strenght).
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chickpea
jasmine oolong
just leaves and water
nectar of the gods
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On a scale of 1 to 10
by paul from cleveland inare you at peace with your beliefs?.
1 = very anxious / confused / searching.
10 = complete peace / totally confident in belief system.
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chickpea
i found JWD about 2 yrs ago
still fervently praying to a god
that was called jehovah...spent the ensuing time reading
thinking observing learning...
heavily rooted in life sciences and
historical/anthropological studiesi am reasonably convinced
about my beliefs so i am going
with the 9.9 sure of myself....puts me in fine company
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I survived a 3 minute open mic
by Irreverent inat a local comedy club.
it was something that i always wanted to do!!
two of my co-workers came to witness my performance.
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chickpea
kudos!!
i have survived my first open mic too
and am dying for another go-round!good for you for seeing it through!
that dry throat quiver? sux, doesn't it?
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Living in the western "rich" world we are spoiled and don't understand harships! Agree?
by Witness 007 injust saw a documentary on bolivia how a woman gets up while it's dark, puts a barrel on her head and walks 10 miles to get water for the day from a filthy well we would not swim in!....thats what 1 billion or more people have to do everyday!
they also scavenge for a hand full of rice or dirty flour...meanwhile, i buy 4 litre "springwater" and run down to the supermarket to pick what fruit, vegetables, meat, i want to eat today.. our kids want nike shoes and ps 3 while there kids need food and medicine.....and clean water!
i jump in a nice car and complain about petrol prices, while they walk many miles a day to work and home......i think we are lucky but don't know it, just born on the good side of the world.. agree?.
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chickpea
i suspect i easily "spend" $114/day and then some
utilities, property/income taxes, groceries, fuel, phone/cable/internet
tuition, insurance, mortage, car loan, that damn $60 gasket for the freezer door
plus the tire for my son's car....it isnt about what comes out of your
pocket for a night at the movies...
it is how much wealthier populations spend as
maintenance costs as a per day sumsh!t, i WISH it was only $114/day!!!
yeah, i think we dont get what it is like to
have to harvest your food from a dump
where a bunch of cattle and dogs are
scavenging for the same things you are...or living in a barrio where the streets are
an open sewer, or occupy the crypts in
a cemetary because that is the only shelter
available to house your family....or sell your 11 year old daughter/son to
pedophiles who travel to your country
to f*ck children who havent reached
puberty...i dont think we get that at a visceral level, at all
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Fellow student killed in car wreck last night.
by John Doe ini just got an email from the dean.
i didn't know him well, but we are listed as friends on facebook.
it's really an odd feeling looking at his facebook page and reading all the comments from the people in shock, but what's really weird is seeing his last status update--20 hours ago.
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chickpea
amen to bizzy bee's comment
godspeed all who mourn
this tragic loss to a place
of manifest comfort -
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chickpea
back in the mid-1980s, a minneapolis
television station did a special report
on soaring traffic fatalities, the causes
and the solutions... no big surprise, DUI
was a leading contributing factor...at the end of the program, they did a
"roll call" of the dead from the previous
year, running photos of the minnesotans
who had died as a result of MVAs...
no names, just one photograph after
another of the faces of mothers, children,
grandmothers, soldiers, cowgirls, firemen,
high school football players, little ballerinas....
us....that was their point.... this was us dying
on the roads in record numbersthis piece "to the unknown man"
was played as background....
(there are actually 3 more minutes
to the song, but this is what was
played on the documentary)even today, just listening to this music
i see so many of those faces and feel
the same great sadness for the senseless
loss of so many lives -
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Opening Pandora's Box - By Barbara Anderson
by flipper inbarbara wanted me to ost this information about her discussion at a seminar which was held in europe first, then chicago just a week or two ago.
you'll find this link interesting.
all comments welcome.
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chickpea
@ barbara: thank you for the significant work
you do with such diligence...the WTS cannot
stand in the face of the real truth... its diminuition
is looming, and your continued exposés of their
heinous practices surely contribute greatly to that end!