having been raised as a jw, racism was something that was never promoted.
i now have a 9 year old that has been visiting her biological grandmother and my ex-wife.
it is my child because i adopted her.
Nine years old is old enough for your daughter to know it when she hears it and express her own views, which I hope you are helping her to have. A nine year old can say things like "I have friends at school who are (fill in the blank) and I think they are very nice."
Bigots are pretty shallow people and a child that is actually thinking can be a powerful thing.
after at least 8 excrement findings, police in massachusetts finally caught this woman who would poop in a parking lot and leave her crap as well as some tissues.
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i just thought you should know about this đź’©.
Too bad they caught one but they didn't catch them all. I realize that some comments here are just like that, without the smell. ;)
todays my birthday.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9gqijm2sue.
I'm sorry to be picky, but the note on your post says that you posted this 7 hours ago, which was yesterday.
You're officially older now. I hope you had a happy birthday.
i got the amazon echo dot and it’s pretty good.
do you use it for anything?.
Cofty, Alexa would say that that's not very nice...
i got the amazon echo dot and it’s pretty good.
do you use it for anything?.
I would rather have a real servant. A nice full-service servant.
...so he's being cut from the the programme.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-51158261.
the world is going bonkers!
Don Rickles would have had no job in today's world. People take themselves too seriously!
every once in a while you hear people say they actually “miss” their old witness friends and or family.
some would have even stayed in the organization if they became a bit more liberal and open minded.
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I still stop by to visit a few of the older ones who remember better times with the Organization. I want them to know that my friendship isn't conditional.
But to get wrapped up in all of that competitive, self-righteous, judgmental garbage? No thanks!
i appreciate all my friends who stop to read what i write and post.
you help me more than you know simply by being there as a sense of 'family of friends' for me to talk to and 'share' thoughts with.i guess if i didn't have stories left to tell or people to listen, i could pack it in and join elon musk in a colony on mars.january 15, 2020. .
which world is this?_________________when the doctor pulled my screaming body out of mom all those 7 decades ago, i landed in a post-wwii world.it was--compared to today's world--an alien planet.the world i live in today has nothing in common with the world in which i grew up.there were no cell phones back then--there were black telephones with a dial-tone and an operator who placed your call.everywhere you found telephone booths!
Hey, Terry, Happy Birthday! Glad that you're still with us and that you are still coherent. I'm only a couple of years behind you and I'm realizing, too, that the world had come a huge distance since I was a kid. It is hardly recognizable!
Thanks for waxing philosophical "out loud,"
i don't know if this topic has been covered before - it might 've been.. i also recommend flipper's excellent music thread ('what songs have you been listening to?
', or similar).. but, i'd just like to start a thread about certain songs giving me goosebumps.
y'know, when you hear a song that profoundly effects you in some difficult-to-describe way and the hairs on your arm stand on end even though the room temperature's comfortably warm.. so, which songs give you goosebumps?.
Fink, Janis gets me every time with that one!
This one starts out mellow, but check out the pipes on this lady!
grant us peace______i was 12 years old.a jesuit (substitute teacher) entered my 6th grade classroom and beamed a handsome smile.. 1959 and this was music class.our actual teacher was unable to attend and sent her priest instead!how very odd.. i had never beheld an actual catholic priest before that moment, never had a human being with such a beautiful expression appeared.there is a word for it: numinous.. his name : michael.
the archangel.. he seemed to open his arms to the classroom...to enfold us inside wings of a theatrical presence.. he spoke and we were instructed.the song was dona nobis pacem (grant us peace.
)his mouth opened.
Numinous is new to me. But I grew up as a Catholic and an altar boy and in the choir. I have had a few of those transcendent moments as a Catholic, but I can't say that I ever had one as a Witness. Sure, sometimes a light would go on in my head when I grasped a piece of the doctrine. But, all in all, the experience of being a Witness was pretty dry.
Thanks for your posts.
Dominus vobiscum
