Posts by Incense_and_Peppermints

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SOPRANOS
by sandy in
1. social
2. entertainment
any sopranos fans out there?

i just started watching it from the 1st season this past fall.

i love it!!!
Incense_and_Peppermints

I can't stand Tony Soprano's sister named Janice.

isn't she gross? she's soo not lady-like! (that's what i call great acting)
Adiana is not dead. She's in the witness protection program and living in Southern California under a different name.
you know, you never actually saw him shooting her... i always thought Tony faked her death and has her in a lil lovenest somewhere...
Inocense: I am with you on that...I find him to be so sexy and it baffles me because it goes against my feminist ideals...oops! Of course I would never date a man like that in real life but its fun to sort of fantasize. The sad thing is, is Tony reminds me of my father, wow Freud would have a field day with me...but I am quite positive that him reminding me of my father is NOT the reason why I find Tony Soprano sexy. Another sad thing is...is I have distant yet not-so distant connections to the mob but thats all I can tell you otherwise I would have to kill you
o0o i know... it's all that POWER. he knows how to make a woman feel all warm and squishy...
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Spiritually raped
by Tigerman in
1. jw
2. experiences
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are people ' spiritually raped ' by jehovah's witnesses?.
Incense_and_Peppermints

The JW's religion is good for some

really?
who?
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HOW LONG ............???????????
by vitty in
1. jw
2. friends
how long did you phisically stay in the truth, after you had mentally or emotionally left?

and how much was the reason you stayed was cos you didnt want to be wrong!

(pride is a terrible thing).
Incense_and_Peppermints

I got out physically when I went off to college.

hooray! i luv hearing people say they went to college. it's like saying "so there"
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My JW mom wished me "good luck"
by jwbot in
1. jw
2. friends
...on the phone.

should i have told her that "satan is the god of good and bad luck"?

hehe.
Incense_and_Peppermints

omg
thank god the days of gasping in shock when someone inedvertently says "good luck" or even "bless you" are over... sheesh.
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Hello everyone
by Ticker in
1. jw
2. friends
just wanted to say hi.

ive been reading the posts for quite sometime now but never actually ever posted.

wanted to thank everyone for the posts and for helping me to break free from the guilt after 20 years of it.
Incense_and_Peppermints

hi Ticker. i like your avatar...
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HOW LONG ............???????????
by vitty in
1. jw
2. friends
how long did you phisically stay in the truth, after you had mentally or emotionally left?

and how much was the reason you stayed was cos you didnt want to be wrong!

(pride is a terrible thing).
Incense_and_Peppermints

i didn't deliberately "fade"... but for about a year the questions kept mounting and going unanswered and i got offended one day when i approached the wife of an MS who i had always admired and i told her i had these questions and she told me i was spiritually weak because i had all these doubts, which hurt because it wasn't true, not to mention i was so clean and pure i squeaked. i mean, i didn't even think bad thoughts. anyway, family circumstances changed which caused us to have to move, and the same time i came of age and thought wow i can really leave now if i wanna, so i moved out of the house, neighborhood and KH when i was 18 years and two weeks old and never looked back...
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Have you re-read the bible since leaving the Kingdom Hall?
by Eyebrow2 in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i always wanted to re-read the bible after i left the org; to be able to read it without having to feel like i had to apply something, or to have to read it out of obedience, etc.... well, i have always liked the new world translation, i know it isn't perfect, but i think it is better than some.

but i have always wanted to get a different modern english translation, and read that.

well, i finally picked up a new international version at wal-mart the other day...under $6, what a bargain.. started last night, and finished genesis today, and am just starting into exodous.
Incense_and_Peppermints

i always read it when i was in, highlighting appropriate verses and making margin notes, memorizing book names, order, chronology, etc. then i really began dissecting it when i was out, looking for inconsistencies, which weren't hard to find. then i got tired of that and bought myself a gigantic expen$ive bible...one with lots of beautiful pictures and gilt pages..'cause i always thought the austere NWTs didn't do justice to such a divine work. i never read it now but it's pretty to look at sometimes, and great for making pressed flowers...
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We had snow in South Texas
by Panda in
1. jw
2. friends
unbelievable... we had snow starting on the 23rd and ending on the 25th.

out at our place we got 6 inches.

in victoria and goliad they got 1 foot!!!
Incense_and_Peppermints

Must be a new ice age.

it's a sign of the end, i tells ya. i'm headin' to Costco...
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SOPRANOS
by sandy in
1. social
2. entertainment
any sopranos fans out there?

i just started watching it from the 1st season this past fall.

i love it!!!
Incense_and_Peppermints

Yeah I agree....Tony Soprano is quite a pork chop as well....

call me crazy, but Tony Soprano is the sexiest thing alive! i think it's a power thing...
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Spiritually raped
by Tigerman in
1. jw
2. experiences
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are people ' spiritually raped ' by jehovah's witnesses?.
Incense_and_Peppermints

i think of it as a calculated seduction, coercion or brainwashing... you slowly surrender your will for the greater good of the collective. the Stockholm Syndrome enters my mind...