Love Osso Bucco, and I am so happy for you and your family. I have been in the same situation and I was the one crying for forgiveness, I really can't believe it took so long to wake up!
Enjoy your family!
chicken little
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Please Join in Celebration! My DFed brother is coming to dinner!!!
by Open mind inwe're killing the fattened young bull and having osso bucco (spell?
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i'm going to the airport right now to pick up my long-time dfed, over 20-years shunned, gay older brother!.
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What's with JW's and X-mas lights?..........
by awildflower ini mean i remember growing up as a jw and then 15 baptized adults years, and every year all the jw's would say something to the effect, "lets go look at all the pretty lights", or they would tell their neighbors that they really liked their lights.
and i remember teaching my kids the same thing, that it's ok to look at the lights (but not ok to like anything else about x-mas, oh regrets!
) doesn't that seem weird or something?
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chicken little
We have a cottage in Sweden, last year was our first x-mass and we put up lights in November. Our neighbor had lights up too and I said how lovely it was to finally have christmas lights up. They look bewildered at me and said, " its not just for christmas, lights here are part of getting through the dark winter, we do this to lighten up the grey days". I was so taken back, of course it makes sense when you live in these parts of the world. I remember feeling depressed when I was a witness when the lights went up, I loved them but felt we just had to get through this time and then the bad feelings would go away. I was suffering from cd and didn't realize it. Now I have them at home in town as well as in Sweden, when we get the witness knock at the door I shall smile and tell them it is light therapy prescribed for winter depression. We have the world famous Tivoli here and that is a sight to see at Christmas!
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My mom died
by twinkle toes inshe has past in the last month and i have been trying to decide when i would post this development in my life for privacy reasons.
realizing this is quite ridiculous i am posting it now.
how sad!
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chicken little
So sorry for your loss of your dear mum. Witness funerals are no comfort, I know from experience. My mother died 2 years ago and she was an inactive witness, nobody showed up for her funeral. On a positive note the whole biker club my brother is a member of came. They were all in their leather jackets and came with lovely flowers. The priest we had arranged to give the ceremony did not blink an eyelid, took it all in his stride. I would have loved to have seen the faces of the witnesses if it had been in a kingdom hall.
You are now free to live your life exactly as YOU feel fit. Go for it!
All the best wishes
Chicken little
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Anyone here have any experience of moving to a liberal Muslim country?
by lifelong humanist ini'd like to move in the next year or two to turkey - a huge, self-supporting country at the far eastern end of the mediterranean.
i want to retire at 60 - my wife will then be 61. due to the local economy in turkey, this could just be a practical possibility, not just a pipe-dream.
although we'd prefer italy, which we've visited far more often, the costs there are just too expensive for our restricted budget!.
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chicken little
Had friends in Ankarra, they were missionaries but now they are there as ordinary jws, they associate with the english speaking brothers and sisters. Away from the capital the traditional muslim ways are much more entrenched and it can be quite a culture shock. I would recommend that you try a long term holiday 3-6 months renting a place before you make the final move over there. I have know friends that have moved to Spain and are back in less than 2 years, they just could not fit in, and that is not a muslim country.
All best for your plans
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the best sunday roast ever
by highdose inso its sunday and traditionaly time for a roast, i was wondering what everyone thought a perfect roast diinner should include?.
beef?
chicken?
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chicken little
I am coming over.............................can smell it from here! We can't get custard here.
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Camping for conventions
by EmptyInside inoutlaw's post about convention food reminded me of my family's experiences camping for the conventions.
fortunately, they did this before i came along.
but, it seems the whole congregation stayed at one campground.
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chicken little
I have just written on the Scottish thread about camping at the Edinburgh assemblies. Nightmare! We were one of the poor families in the congregation, the six of us had to make do with the old scout tent that was not waterproof and had old wood supports. In a terrible storm one night the whole thing came down and the pole trapped my head against the underlay. When we got out we were soaking wet and cold. The toilets were awful and everthing can be summed up as smelly and cold. I do remember having a girl crush on an italian tourist that was using the bathrooms and had a lovely Purdy style haircut in deep chestnut colour. I was besotted by her, I was in old shoes with cardboard in, they got threw out of the tent during the night because someone said they stank. I felt so shabby next to this exotic creature. Well I grew up into a pretty good looking woman myself, but I still remember that feeling at the camping site.
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Memories flooding back here. I have an unfinished love affair with Scotland. My father was stationed at Durness, way up north during World War II, he loved the area and anything scottish. He actually taught himself to play the chanter and moved on to the highland pipes in his 40s. He joined the Teeside Caladonian Pipeband and we went to many events with him. He had a heart attack while playing in one of the border towns and that put a stop to the highland pipes...he built his own northumbrian pipe with the bellows afterwards.
I love Oldshoremore and Kinlochbervie...anybody been there? The most fantastic scenery you can imagine. Still hope to go back one day...I live in Scandanavia now. We were assigned to Edinburgh conventions for many years even though we lived in the north of England. I loved going to Murrayfield Rugby grounds because we got to go to dance in the gardens on an evening. The scots are lovely people, the Jws are strict there...calvinists really. I have memories of rain, wind and floods at the camping site we used for the convention. One evening the whole tent came down on our heads, we were soaked through. Those were the days.
I still get emotional if I hear the pipes played. We were in Sweden in the summer and the Gothenburg Pipeband were playing...tears were rolling down my cheeks. My kids just laugh, they haven't experienced the stuff I have (thank goodness!). Some one on the whisky thread mentioned first footing, my father used to play in the New Year and was all dressed in his regalia and the whole street would follow him around while he went to each door. (Wierd because we were not allowed to do it really as witnesses, but my Dad was never really IN, he did his own thing, we tried to keep away, but secretly I loved to watch and see him).
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Which is your favourite single malt Scotch Whisky, and why?
by lifelong humanist inas a true scot, i'm deeply passionate about most things scottish, any possibly one of our small nation's most successful export is my main favourite - our single malt whisky heritage.. i'm writing this while savouring a 12 year old highland park - distilled in the orkney islands, the most northerly distillery in scotland.
it is one of my favourites - it was my late father's favourite tipple.
yet, only 500m from my house is scotlands oldest legal whisky distillery - glenturret, in crieff.
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Just logged on and saw your thread...I love single malts and have a really strange place for getting them. In Nice in France where I have a studio, there is a little exclusive whisky shop called Maclagan's finest scotch whiskies and most of his malts are from the Islay and small distilleries. I love peaty malts but my husband is not so keen. I was recommended to try Bruichladdich 12 year old...it is one of the only malts from Islay that is very lightly peated. It was just what my husband likes and I take a wee nip now and again. I enjoy Dalwhinnie 15years and Balvenie 14 year aged in rum casks...yummy! Macallan elegancia 12 is enjoyable too. Getting thirsty here. Oh I was given two lovely tasting glasses from my whisky guy in Nice, they are curved in at the top, very nice to sniff from.
Cheers, skål.
Chicken little
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...Good Food at Assemblys.....What Happened?..
by OUTLAW inin a time before many of you were born... assemblys had a great food... i left before the food started getting bad... .
i am totally amazed at reading... how food at assemblys got worse and worse... until finally food was`nt served at all... .
back in the day... food at assemblys was pretty dam good... there was quality cooking back then... jehovah`s witness`s actually looked forward to meals at assemblys... .
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chicken little
The whole thing took so much time and so many were missing out on the important spiritual food that it was done away with. (I loved the soup on the last day at around nine on the evening). We worked for days preparing the cakes at the bakery owned by a brother, then we had to finish them off at the convention site...we had great fun and felt important doing this work. Loved to get up during the talks with my overall over my arm and head out to the food section. It was an escape. Now nobody escapes...except the attendants.
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Elders? do the rest of us know what they know..?
by angel eyes inwhat things about elders do only elders know and the rest of us dont?
i never knew they had a hand book till i came on here.
unsure why they dont mention it because surely its not meant to be a secret?.
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My response does not have to do with pedophiles, but it is to show the limitations of elders and their inability to get to the truth of matters. I recently found an old friend on fbook, I was not sure if she was still a jw so I was cautious. Turns out she was disfellowshipped some years ago and was very happy to find me again. When I heard her story and the things she had gone through with her ex husband I was once again convinced that there is no holy spirit directing these men. When she told the elders at her jc that her husband was having an affair with her best friend, the wife of another elder, she was not believed. Her husband and the sister denied it. She was divorced from him and six months later the ex married her best friend. Neither of these were disfellowshipped.
This week I received a friend request from...my friends ex husband warning me that his ex was disfellowshipped and very apostate to the truth, did I know this? I wrote back to him saying how amazing it is what you do NOT get disfellowshipped for these days. I would say that shagging your wife's best friend and then lying about it would be high on the list to get you kicked out. I then told him I was out of this high control organization and free to choose my own friends and he would not be one of them.
Afterwards I thought again how ridiculous it is to think that elders are impartial and guided by holy spirit.