I have already done my part to save the planet.
There are so many ways we can cut back and reevaluate our impact. Food is just one thing
finding my way
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Would you become a Veggie to save the planet
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quite a debate has been going on in the media this week regarding carbon emissions and it has been suggested that we should either become vegetarians or at the very least drastically reduce our meat consumption.. lets face it .
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Would you become a Veggie to save the planet
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quite a debate has been going on in the media this week regarding carbon emissions and it has been suggested that we should either become vegetarians or at the very least drastically reduce our meat consumption.. lets face it .
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finding my way
I read "Diet for a new America" and was moved to become vegetarian but my physical desires got the best of me when I went to grandmas and she cooked meat at every meal. I eventually cracked and now I'm a meat eater again, but I eat much less meat and I certainly do not consume it daily.
I also try to purchase humanely raised meats, though hard core vegetarians see it as bad either way.
I think Being vegetarian is a very good thing but it's also important not to be overly hard on yourself. People tend to fiddle with their diets when their lives are out of order. It's important to annalyze yourself and make sure you are doing it for the right reasons and not pushing your view as "right" upon everyone else. That's just what witnesses do and we can't stand it!
~fmy
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18-Year Relationship Ended Today...
by jamiebowers in...when i had my dear old cat, puss puss put down this morning.
i had her for 18 years.
last night i bathed her and used the blow dryer and brush on her matted fur, and she didn't even try to fight me.
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Witness girl in the metro
by the real life inthis morning on my way to work, i saw a girl reading a new world translation in the metro.
i live in paris and i don't see witnesses very often, except occasionally holding out magazines in the street looking grumpy.. i had the urge to talk to her.
my reaction is different every time i see witnesses.
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It is good for Witnesses to see that former Witnesses are doing just fine and living "the real life"
I think so too. That was one of the many things that woke me up. I had assumed my step Brother was inactive because he liked to have premarital sex with his lady and smoke pot all the time. I thought he didn't want to fess up to the fact he was wrong and he was just being stubborn.
Sure he does those things, but upon further examination and spending some actual time with him, I found that he has one of the happiest peaceful lives I can imagine, he writes songs that move me to tears faster than any other song can, and I think he's got a beautiful pure heart. He has a song that starts out happy and funky and God is creating the world "and it was good". Then it goes sad and he looks down and sees the world and "It was bad". We both sang and cried together and I felt more spiritually connected with that song than I ever had at a meeting.
Anyhoo, after spending some time with my step family I could feel the difference between a struggling witness personality and a person being true to themselves. He could be himself and be wonderful and my sisters were constantly going back and forth between laughing with me and telling me how much they missed my laugh, to judging me and preaching to me. They hardly let their authentic self out of the box. They seemed miserable compared to a person who has been freed to be "real".
Also, I don't think every witness likes their bubble. I never felt easy breezy for more than a month at a time. It was like being bi-polar. I'd LOVE field service and then be horribly depressed.
~fmy
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6-Year-Old Girl with Brain Cancer Hid Love Notes for Her Parents to Find After Her
by SixofNine ingoogle_ad_section_start death.
what an incredibly beautiful thing for the parents.. http://neatorama.cachefly.net/notes-left-behind.htm.
>>>snip.
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Diary of a fornicaterin' slow fade...kinda long
by jesussaves insummer of 1992 - all is well, graduated from high school as the salutatorian.
one would think i had college dreams, but alas i did not.
i was planning to take my data information processing certificate and get a part-time job while i pioneered!
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For Posterity's Sake - Some of my Gilead Artifacts
by AllTimeJeff ini have debated about doing this for a while (i still don't even know if the pics will show up good enough) coming across sir82's "insider" notes got me looking through my stuff today, and i thought i would share a few of the letters with you.. i also do this for another reason: i know occasionally, that "trolls" (so called) come and go, and people here get worried or upset.
i don't worry at all, i personally think they aren't here to "save" any potential lurkers, they just come here to tick us off.
but i also realize that some authoratative information might help to ease some concerns.
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A little happy news about my Mom
by finding my way inmy mom who has shunned me off and on for 4 years had decided about a month and a half ago to fully shun me.
no responses to e-mails or anything.
it's rough, but i've been dealing with it.. i know she loves me and thinks she's doing the right thing.
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That's a great idea! I have a webcam, I just hardly use it. I think that's a wonderful way to introduce her to the baby.
~fmy
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A little happy news about my Mom
by finding my way inmy mom who has shunned me off and on for 4 years had decided about a month and a half ago to fully shun me.
no responses to e-mails or anything.
it's rough, but i've been dealing with it.. i know she loves me and thinks she's doing the right thing.
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Keep it up Newborn. I guess you never know when something might change. Something changed in all of us..
I'd love to invite her over but I live in Hawaii and she lives in Kansas :0)
I think regular pics of the baby once she gets here will be good though. She's missing out and she knows it. I'm missing out though too.. I really miss my 6 year old brother. He's a sweetie!
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wife took it pretty well i guess...it's over...
by oompa ini guess it only took three years, but they were hell in so many ways for both of us...she was not happy and lived in denial as much as possible...i was not happy and lived in a bottle as much as possible and glad that is over for me....but it was one of the saddest things i have ever experienced in my life....as was the visit to my parents before i told her....but yes...she said she kind of expected it...was thinking something was going to happen soon as she noticed i had more and more trouble saying i love you back to her when she said it on the phone at the end of goodbyes...and when i was leaving the house...i had noticed it for over a year and it was killing me..... i told her how sorry i was for changing so much again....and that she still walks on water...and is a great person and so pretty....and that she will be ok because she was happy single before me for many years and had all she needs for that again...her closeness to jehovah and her freinds in the congregation...she is very close to both and will be ok i hope...it was very surreal....very calm...very sad.
my bitterness and disdain for wt rules came through when talking to my parents and i was very open about how i feel as to their upcoming shunning of me, and how it feels to my son since he was just 17....and how the fear of losing them had kept me trying in my marriage for the past few years...dad was firm in his position of future action....mom said they will still always love me...and will still talk to me until i get dfd.....oh how this hurts.....dad said there is a name for people who only live for themselves and deny god but could not think of what it was....i told him i was not living just for myself...that i am a good person and there are values from him and the bible i hope i always have....i cry so hard as i type this and tell you just so you can know how painful this is....i told him i so loved the rule of treating others how you want to be treated and have always done that...even allowing myself to be wronged on so many occasions to keep peace....... he said that was a good rule....i agreed and said it was a big one too....and that while i could do it...treat him the way i would like to be treated...he would not be able to!.......left as i became emotional...big hug from mom, but i just barely put an arm on dad............oompa.
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I've lost a couple great pets and I know it's so hard. ((hug))