i used to drink captain morgan and diet coke but i've switched to jack and diet.. i like a flavored vodka martini as well as lite beer.. .
My favorite drink is White Wine, next is Red wine as long as its light and fruity. I also love frozen Margaritas done up in the blender. If the weather is hot this coming weekend I am going to get out the tequila, triple sec and lime juice, some salt and make up a batch. Put on a Jimmy Buffet CD and sit by the pool and enjoy
Velvetann
a man commits loose conduct with a sister in his congregation but feels guilty about it, so he confesses to an elder.. "brother, i committed a serious sin when i got involved with sister hottie.
however, i just rubbed against her and didn't put it in ".
elder: "well, brother, your loose conduct is still a serious committee matter and so, rubbing up against her is the same as putting it in.. i suggest that you pray for forgiveness on the matter ........... and perhaps, just to show your appreciation, you could use the .
LOL very good.
Velvet
after loubelle's exercise thread, i thought it would be a fun idea to keep a log here and check in with everyone.. i walked 30 minutes yesterday plus after walked to the police station and the witch store about 3 miles away from the y.. food: .
breakfast: 2 pieces of toast: one with pb and the other with honey, coffee.
lunch: hardboiled egg, ham, cheese stick.
I am not doing well witht he exercise thing. I am still eating properly but losing weight slowly so I need to exercise. But it HURTS. I will go on the treadmill today and report back in.
Velvet
i had thought i had read it before,,,i lived in vancouver when it happened,,,i am so moved by it.
i so hope he is better now,,and his wife who stood beside him:).
wendy.
That book was so moving. I read it in December 2001, couldn't put it down. His name is James Kostelniuk and he lives in Winnipeg now and works for public transit the last I heard. I related so much to him as he is a couple of years older than me and grew up in the "truth" in British Columbia as I did. The tragedy that happened was certainly terrible, the poor man.
I was so moved that I wrote him a letter and had the publisher forward it to him. He contacted me and we emailed each other and spoke on the phone a several times. We were going to meet up in Toronto when he visited, my husband and I loved playing pool and he did too. His wife did not like him communicating with me so we lost touch. He is a very nice man but he was a very sad man.
Velvet
here is an excerpt from my book .
currently in editing.
this was the hardest chapter to write, since it has some technical explanations.. whadya think?.
Estee what a good writer you are. I was mesmerized. I want to read more. Let me know when your book comes out. I grew up in British Columbia in the 'truth".
Velvet
you have to understand three things to comprehend the significance of 1975.. 1975 was the end of the watchtower society as we who lived in the 50's and 60's once knew it.
it would forever change because it was exposed for all the world to see as a group of liars and deceived dupes.. it all began with a baptist farmer named william miller who sat down with only his bible and a concordance and a crackpot idea that a .
a "day for a year" and the gentile times meant something profound which would effect his own day and time.
Terry I really enjoyed what you wrote. It lead me to read about your "story" in freeminds. You are an inspiration and you express yourself beautifully. I am so sorry you had to spend your time in prison for nothing. What a horrible religion it really is to do these things to young people.
What you said is so true:
What I fault the New World Society for mostly is how they steal people's futures from them.
I was alive and a teenager through those times, It affected my deeply. The urgency that Armageddon was around the corner. I was always in fear of dying at Armageddon but I hated being in the religion. So much so that I rebelled and got myself disfellowshipped. My parents went on that Europeon Assembly tour in 1968. They gave up everything and became Special Pioneers. The congregation chipped in and paid for their trip to Europe to attend the Assemblies that year. my Mom and Dad wrote me letters keeping me up to date on how I was going to die if I didn't come back into the Truth before 1975. The Urgency came through and I was SCARED. I was an emotional mess. 1975 came and No Armageddon. My Dad left the truth because he did some thinking on his own, my Mom was still devout and said it was a misunderstanding and that the Society hadn't said that, it was some over enthusiast brothers who had started that rumour. She convinced me and I went back into the nightmare of believing the "truth". Got reinstated. I wasted another 7 years of my life serving that religion. Messed up my poor husband and kids for that time period. Then I did some thinking and left.
Thanks so much for your contribution of The year of the Big Lie.
Velvet
the following is a response to a jw friend who still occasionally tries to save my soul, or at least understand it.. his questions are in italics.. i have not yet sent this email.. ========================= what exactly is it that makes you disbelieve there's a god, or makes you unsure he exists?
i think a more sensical question is what makes you so sure he does?
when debating the existence of something invisible, the burden ofproof rests solidly on the shoulders of the believer.
I came to HATE religion after being brought up in that whole JW fiasco for years. I said to myself I would rather die at Armageddon than have to live like this with a God that has so many rules and NoNo's. A life of being a puppet or robot.
I never even thought about God for years and didn't want to. Now for some reason I often think about it and I just don't know who God is and what he wants from us. Its just to confusing, and why does he make us solve a big puzzle of the Bible to find out who he is and what he wants. Then of course there is the other religions who believe God is someone else than the Christian God. Their God has different agendas.
I personally think with all the confusion going on and so many different opinions if there is a God who cares for us in this tiny planet then he should give us instructions by means of a miracle that all can see. If he doesn't do that then I don't know what direction to go. So all I can do for now is just try and be a good person and live my life.
I cannot base my beliefs and life on Faith, we have all seen what that does for you. Gets you killed or you die without a reward or answer to all the years you put into the faith of God you had.
Velvet
the following is a response to a jw friend who still occasionally tries to save my soul, or at least understand it.. his questions are in italics.. i have not yet sent this email.. ========================= what exactly is it that makes you disbelieve there's a god, or makes you unsure he exists?
i think a more sensical question is what makes you so sure he does?
when debating the existence of something invisible, the burden ofproof rests solidly on the shoulders of the believer.
What would God need to do to prove his existence to you?Verifiable evidence.
This would include hundreds of things that supposedly happened ALL THE TIME in Bible
times! Seeing someone walk on water after all method of cheating is ruled out? Hearing a
voice from heaven that a whole group of sane people also hear? One regrown limb? One
unaccountable prophecy?
Without the demand for evidence, what makes us different from the Aztecs spilling blood
so the sun will return? Or faithful Muslims flying a plane into a building because their
religious leaders asked them to? Demanding evidence for belief is the only way to protect
ourselves from our deadly inborn tendency to be misled by the weirdness of the world.
Thousands of people in the past (according to the Bible) were offered just such evidence,
and it didn't violate their free will, or screw up God's plan. Why do we today get nothing
but 17th hand information traced back to a world populated by highly credulous and
superstitious people?
If there is a god, all I am asking for is concrete proof that he cares about the mess he
has made.
AMEN TO THIS. My thoughts exactly.
Velvet
we have 9 grandchildren (including 2 step granddaughters, that we have had since they were 3 and 1 ....now 19 and 22, so we are grandma and grandpa definitely) but only one girl born to us, who is 10 now.. our youngest son and his wife have a little 2 year old boy, and are expecting again in november.
we just found out it's another boy.. i guess we are just boy breeders.
(we had 3 boys and one girl).
Mulan you are blessed, lots of boy babies and grandchildren.
I have 4 children, 2 girls 2 boys. My oldest son has given me 3 grandsons, identical twins that are 4 and a 5 year old and my daughter is expecting a boy in October. I haven't caught up to you yet but it seems I am getting all boys too.
Velvet
i'm giving you until a 3:00 pm deadline to listen to this phone recording and post your thoughts on it.. http://www.holytaco.com/2008/06/27/the-douchiest-phone-message-in-history/.
in all my years of studying douchebaggery, never have i encountered anything like this.
its such pure and unadulterated douche that i wish i could bottle it and use just a drop of it at a time.. the back story on this is that a girl named olga was out with her friends in the marina district of san francisco (known for being a popular hang out for douches), and she talked to this guy named dmitri for all of two minutes.
Believe it or not there are lots of guys out there like that
When I found myself newly single after my husband died in 2002 I joined one of those Dating things that involved Phone Intros and messages. (Online wasn't that popular yet because the guys my age generally don't know how to use computers 50+) The Ladies were free to leave messages and put the ads in but the guys had to pay for the messages. This demitri sounds like a lot of the guys answering my ad, which got the delete action happening a lot. One guy got verbally abusive with me because I wouldn't return his stupid messages which were like this one.. he was so mad I didn't get back to him. He threatened to come and punch my lights out. I saved that message and had his account removed. Some people are so full of themselves.
Velvet
