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  I sold my soul for lobster

  by joannadandy in

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  ok so my parents big deal has always been while i may not go to meetings they are free to ask about my religious status, and invite me to meetings (i do not have to accept the invitation) as long as i live under their roof.

  my parents other big deal is to go out to lunch after the sunday meeting.

  in fact, they usually say "say, wanna come to the meeting tomorrow?

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  joannadandy

  lol...Englishman, it's really not so bad, you might like it if you tried it...HAHAHAHA!

  Anyway--thought it was time for an:

  UPDATE...

  So last night my boytoy calls me. He wants to get together on Saturday night. I again joking around said "Gee I dunno, I have to go to church" to which he said "WHAT?" And I said "I sold my soul for lobster, I don't see how I can get out of it". (A bit of background on him--he hates religion. All of it! Since knowing me, and learning about the whacky dub faith, they are his new hated target, he told me the other day he thinks he hates them more than he hates Catholics.)

  His solution was thus: I come party with him saturday night. I bring the wine, and he is going to grill steak and do some stuffed lobster tails. Yeah did I mention this boy really knows how to cook? There is more in his bargain too. After dinner, we shall sit on his deck, watch the sunset over the river, and he'll even let me smoke one of his "good" cigars. Oh yea, and I might *ahem* get laid.

  Frankly the Kingdom Hall offer can't compete.

  So unless I go hang out with him, and then drag my ass home in the wee morning hours so I can go to the meeting and stink of booze, sex, and cigars...ahh who I am kidding...problem solved.

  GOD BLESS THOSE WORDLY BOYS!

  Edited by - joannadandy cuz I speel bad like and grammartac bad

  Edited by - joannadandy on 2 August 2002 16:47:14
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  Which Power Puff Girl are You?

  by MrMoe in

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  http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/watch/tv/ppg_starpower/index.html

  click on the quiz me bit in teh middle of the page.... .

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  LOL Preston!

  I am buttercup too...I don't wanna be...I wanna be bubbles!! :(

  I look more like her anyway...lol
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  Happy Lammas, if you survived it...

  by The_Bad_Seed in

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  just thought i'd wish all of those wiccans out there and in here a cool, happy, and safe lammas.

  don't get naked with your friends without the spf 3000 today -- you'll likely end up a bunch of fried love poppets.

  to all the rest of you, myself included, happy august 1st.. today is hotter than a mexicans lunch, again, here in fetid and festering southwestern ontario, mercury having risen to 39 degrees celcius with the humidex at 48 in this part of the province.

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  "Islamabad?"

  "No no! Llama is good!"
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  Starting to feel good

  by truthseeker1 in

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  its been a few weeks since i went to a meeting.

  it feels strange not having a whole bunch to do every night, but i am liking it.

  it is starting to feel normal again.

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  Sadly it has cost me much, but I am young and can rebuild everything I have lost in a short while.

  Amen to that! And just keep that in mind. Everyday gets better and better, and the new little joys you find in life are amazing. You'll be in a giddy state every time you do something normal that you never got to experience before. At least I am. But I eat a lot of paste, so I dunno if you should be listening to me...

  Congrats! Life is grand!
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  * t g i f *

  by zev in

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  so, whats up for your friday nite, my fellow 'postates?.

  whatchya doing to chill/relax/unwind?.

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  I am taking my dog for a walk, giving him a bath and then doing laundry. But don't cry for me Argentina, I will drink plenty of beer, and sit on my washing machine during the spin cycle--I ask you, who needs a boyfriend when you have a maytag?

  And then I can expect a phone call around 9 from my friends saying--"DUDE--we're going out, meet us at the bar" And then I will...good times!
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  WHICH MEETING WAS THE MOST BORING?

  by minimus in

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  the more meetings you go to the more drivel you hear.

  elder's meetings were terrible because all you ever did was gossip about how everyone wasn't doing this or that.

  meetings for field service sucked.....enough said on that.

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  Ok Sunday never failed to annoy me. LONG LONG LONG. Boring brother who was a short bus rider for sure! And you know the hall he came from sent him out cuz no one in their hall wanted to listen to him. Then the watchtower study, never studied for it. And I got to hear everyone rehash what was just read WORD FOR WORD from the paragraph...YAWN!

  Can I just add, my all time favorite meeting--written review night! Ahhh yeah! Oh the silence, and unstructured time to dork around! Not to mention all the great answers I got to make up on my own (never studied for that either, and since my listening skills always *ahem* faded during the regular parts, my memory had a swiss cheese feel to it). Made for some great answers tho. My dad and I would always compare our best answers. He usually was more creative than myself. Ahhh and the freedom of correcting your own work, I always got 100%--I RULE!!
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  Who Here Believes in God?

  by The_Bad_Seed in

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  personally, i do not believe god ever has or ever will exist.

  i have my reasons -- i guess i could be considered an agnostic, rather than an athiest.

  i was curious to see what the larger part of the former borg community believed, now looking from the outside in, rather than the opposite.

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  sometimes...(one word, lots of letters--crap I didn't beat ona!)
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  How Do You Feel About Indian Mascots?

  by Kenneson in

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  since i live in tallahassee, i will state that our city derives its name from the tallahassee seminoles who were the original inhabitants of the region, when the americans began to arrive circa 1823. the word, however, is of creek derivation and means "old fields.

  " early on, starting in the 1820s efforts to remove the seminoles from the state, led to several seminole wars.

  the majority were finally persuaded to leave (1842) and these eventually became one of the five civilized tribes of oklahoma.

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  Ok--being I am a little college binx and NDSU is the Fighting Sioux, and my college wanted to ban them from playing here, and didn't want sports casters to refer to them as the Sioux and wanted to fine the college sportscasters who did say Sioux, I know how this thing gets out of hand.

  My high school was the Milaca Indians until 1993, I believe, when the had to change it Wolves because Minnesota forced all schools with native american mascots to change. I was quite pissed at the time because I thought Indians were WAY cooler than a pussy wolf. I also never got why native americans were so upset. Hey I was 13.

  Fastforward to my college days when they force you to take diversity classes etc. I took a Native American Literature course. Very very interesting stuff. The mascot issue came up in that class. I finally got it. People are upset because of the sterotype. It's not about respect, nor education. It's about promoting false information about an ethnic group.

  they think the mascot has nothing to do with hwo they are or relevence today

  Exactly! Which is why they should be gotten rid of. Indians do not whoop, do a thamahawk chop, or anything else. It's actually worse than how it is described as a team being called the "New Jersey Niggers". Because of most of the "sacred things" being misrepresented are religious ceremonies and practices that are very important to the native american culture. So it would be more like calling a team the "New York Christs" and having a guy in a robe, sandals, and fake beard throwing fish and bread to the crowd. It wouldn't get too far.

  Plus there are always stories of how native american students who go to universities that play teams like the Seminoles and Fighting Sioux that have to look at posters that say things like "Kill the Sioux" ... etc. Overly sensitive. Maybe, but I think they have a right to be a little offended. Mass genocide will do that to a culture, go figure.

  Mascots are larger than life images that play on every sterotype. I will use my own eye opening example. JanH pointed out to me Vikings NEVER wore horns on their helmets. I being a good little Norweigan girl--NEVER KNEW THAT! I guess you can take this issue either way, and see it as harmless, Ignorance is bliss, Or quite disrespectful. Ignorance does breed hate. Racisim (and yes I do see these mascots as racist now) is very subtle. If it were in the wide open it would be easy to get rid of.

  I think this issue can be taken too far, as can always happen, as in the case of my college wanting to fine it's own student newscasters for saying the word Sioux. But I do think it is time for a change. And my own view is it's not nearly as harmless as it seems.
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  Salty Streaks

  by joannadandy in

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  so what do you do when someone makes you cry?do you let them see?do you pretend you have something in your eye?do you change the subject/blow it off?do you have it out right then and there?do you never speak to them again?do you try and make them cry?

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  Not Interested-I think this one sentence may have single handedly pulled me out of my funk...

  and when i had to ride in your mimi-van

  Oh my gosh, I haven't laughed that hard in a long time...*hugs* thanks you for that!
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  Has this place changed you?

  by OUTLAW in

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  when i first came here i was happy to find a place where i could laugh, get pissed off or just speak my mind on a subject.the people i have met here are some of the most,kind,careing,informative,helpfull souls.

  i couldn`t have asked for a better group to be involved with.i do not always agree with my board mates.even with the ones who piss me off,there is still a comradeship(yk comes to mind,lol).finding this board has taught me one important thing.we are not alone,we have each other...outlaw

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  This board has changed me.

  • I spend too much time on the internet now
  • I don't feel alone anymore
  • I am starting to feel like I have a social network again--it's hard when your friends from childhood stop talking to you
  • I no longer view religion as passe and harmless
  • I no longer think the Borg is just misguided--they are downright criminal.