Oh, I wanted to add this: My children were already grown when I found the UUs, but I really liked their childhood education program. I wished at the time that I'd found it earlier, while the boys were still little. And our local UU church has a lot of adult education classes that are really good--much better than what is taught through the local parks and recreation department. I think we benefit from having a lot of educated people in this town and in the local church, so the classes are quite interesting.
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What do you know about Unitarian Universalists?
by Good Girl or Bad Girl? ini'm just wondering if anyone has looked into this faith or church or religion or whatever you might call it?
it seems like a positive community, but i have also read things about it that seem borderline scary to vulnerable people who are looking to fit in somewhere... .
i'm not looking for a religion to convert to or anything like that.
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What do you know about Unitarian Universalists?
by Good Girl or Bad Girl? ini'm just wondering if anyone has looked into this faith or church or religion or whatever you might call it?
it seems like a positive community, but i have also read things about it that seem borderline scary to vulnerable people who are looking to fit in somewhere... .
i'm not looking for a religion to convert to or anything like that.
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jukief
I joined my local UU church about 12 years ago. Moved away, came back, and joined again. But I hardly ever go to services. That's the beauty of it! The minister at our church is really fabulous, and he's the biggest draw for me. The very first time I went, his sermon was a mock debate in which he played both characters. The subject of the debate was whether UUism was a relevant religion for the 1990s. After much hilarious back and forth, he turned to the audience and told us that the whole debate was moot because UUism isn't even a religion. Cracked me up, and sold me on the church--and him. I like the whole idea of UUism. The local church here is very liberal, considering how conservative the town is. There's probably an equal mix of people who believe in god and people who don't. Lots of gay families and couples. Lots of university professors (this is a university town--CSU). Lots of community involvement. The only reason I don't go is because I'm too damned lazy to get up on Sunday mornings and go to church. I'd rather be out riding my motorcle or lazing around the house. When I do go, though, I come away feeling very refreshed.
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My new ride!
by Bumble Bee inok, it's not really mine per say, but i will be learning to ride it and i'm so excited!!.
as i posted on the daily journal thread - we picked this up on saturday.
hubby has been wanting a bike for so long, and with the price of gas, and his commute - it will pay for itself in no time.. it's a suzuki boulevard m50, 800cc, fuel injected, liquid-cooled, v-twin engine (whatever that means!!)..
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jukief
Dang this forum. Can't use a Mac with it. Let me try that again. Using IE on a PC this time. Hope it works. If not, I give up. :-)
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v108/jukief/Vulcan_Mountains.jpg[/IMG]
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My new ride!
by Bumble Bee inok, it's not really mine per say, but i will be learning to ride it and i'm so excited!!.
as i posted on the daily journal thread - we picked this up on saturday.
hubby has been wanting a bike for so long, and with the price of gas, and his commute - it will pay for itself in no time.. it's a suzuki boulevard m50, 800cc, fuel injected, liquid-cooled, v-twin engine (whatever that means!!)..
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jukief
Congratulations on your new bike! Here's my baby. It's a Kawasaki Vulcan 1500 Classic FI. [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v108/jukief/Vulcan_Mountains.jpg[/IMG]
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What happened to AlanF
by toreador inanybody heard from him lately?
i havent seen a post from him in a long time.. tor.
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jukief
Alan's around. He's been working a lot of overtime for the past few months. Plus, he's also gotten to the point in his life where he's not as obsessed with JW things as he used to be. Personally, I'm not complaining!
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Judicial Committee Audio Recording
by Shaolu inabout a week ago i had my little meeting with "the bobs" (yuk yuk), and i got the whole thing digitally recorded.
it's available online, along with a written transcript here...
http://www.ichthusstudios.org/cults/jw/
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jukief
I have to address Wasanelder Once's comment about people being aware of what they're getting into when they get baptized (even a 13-year-old child, which is nonsense). My husband once asked his mother--a lifetime JW whose parents were also dubs and who is married to an elder--what she would do if someone she was studying with asked "difficult" questions. Her reply was that she would try to avoid dealing with those questions until after they were baptized. I was a third-generation JW, and my father was an elder. But when I was baptized at age 14, I didn't really have a clue about what was involved and what Nazis the elders were (my father wasn't that type). Of course, I didn't really have much choice but to get baptized. And, being the nice submission female I'd been taught to be, I never would have thought of rebelling back then. Mild control is a difficult thing to fight, especially when you're a child.
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Has the "House" TV show had its run? (possible spoiler)
by AlmostAtheist inguys, i love the tv show "house".
hugh laurie is perfect in the role, great supporting actors, deep character development.
the plotlines are a little formulaic, but all the dialog and character interaction makes it ok. .
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jukief
I still like House a lot, if for no other reason than watching Hugh Laurie. The show I've stopped watching is Nip/Tuck. I really liked season one. Season two was so so. Now it's just awful, IMHO. I can't stand to watch five minutes of it. I have to say one show I never get tired of is Monk. Tony Shaloub is absolutely fabulous and I love Ted Levine.
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How should I report zero hours for November?
by OnTheWayOut inthis was my topic november 3rd;.
for the first time in my jw history, i turned in a slip with a big zero written in every column,.
turned it over and wrote "zero tracts" below that, i wrote "stumbled by the co".
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jukief
The last 10 years I was a Witness I just couldn't go in service anymore. I couldn't preach something I didn't believe myself. But it took those 10 years for me to extricate myself from the dubs and my JW husband. In the meantime, I turned in five hours every month. I wanted to keep them off my back. I'm sure they knew I wasn't really getting the hours in. We had the book study in our house, for Christ's sake, and I never, ever went to the meeting for service, which was being held in my basement on Saturday mornings. Instead, I often watched people's young children while they went out. No one ever questioned me. I think they were just happy not to have to deal with it. The lie worked for all of us.
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fibromyalgia or chronic fatigue syndrome
by reneeisorym ini remember when i was in the dubs, there were tons of sisters all with the same set of mild depression and fibromyalgia/chronic fatigue syndrom symptoms.
i wonder if this was related to the hell jws put you through or if it was just something one woman had to have because the other did.
i haven't heard of hardly anyone having it outside of the dubs but in the congregation about 75% of the women had it!
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jukief
The last 10 years I was a dub I often faked illness to get out of meetings and service (but I was OK when it was time to do anything else--no one caught on to that). Fast forward 20 years. About five years ago I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia when I started having a lot of pain; they discovered that I had an extremely high antinuclear antibody count and they ruled out everything else (rhematoid arthritis, lupis, etc.). I'm still not so sure about the diagnosis, although I do have defnite flare-ups and my entire body is one giant tender point. I think CFS and FM can be bucket diagnoses, so I'm still skeptical, even though my doctors swear up and down that's what I have.
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HOW DO I GET PRESCRIPTIONS FROM CANADA - LIVE IN US
by juni inany help appreciated.. health plan changed and the med i'm on is now $88 a month instead of $20.. anyone know of a site to go to for reputable refills on prescriptions from canada?.
thanks much.. juni (in the usa).
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jukief
My mom buys a lot of her medications from Canada Drugs. She's been doing it for years. They're the very same drugs sold in the US, from the same manufacturers, dispensed by licensed pharmacists, but they're a heck of a lot cheaper.
