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  personality test

  by pr_capone in

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  http://test.thespark.com/person/ .

  activist.

  (dominant extrovert concrete feeler ).

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  LMFAO @ Brummie
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  personality test

  by pr_capone in

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  http://test.thespark.com/person/ .

  activist.

  (dominant extrovert concrete feeler ).

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  MrMoe

  ARTIST (Dominant Introvert Abstract Feeler )
  
  

  amanda

  Like just 4% of the population you are an ARTIST (DIAF)--creative, adventurous, and deep. Although you are an introvert, your dominant ideas lead you to assert yourself often--especially through your work. You actively put your creativity to constructive use, and because you are ruled by your heart you are less likely to be inhibited by logic. You have an intuitive understanding of emotion and know how evoke it in others, but the real world can be a prison of foolishness and embarrassment if you don't get your head out of the clouds a little more. Also, you are 87% likely to write poetry. Please, for the love of God, stop now.
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  Anti-Apostacy Apostacy In Minnesota?

  by Valis in

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  just a reminder to the minnesota flock.

  just because i am not there to oversee the festivities does not mean i don't remember what happened the last time i visited greater north.

  i would hate to think that there are divisions among the flock that would not allow for partaking of spiritual food.

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  is it me or is Scootergirl a total cutie?

  Looks like ya'll had a blast.
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  Goodbye, Everyone!

  by OrbitingTheSun in

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  i have spoken with a number of you already about my journey this winter, but i thought i'd share the story with all of you before i leave this thursday.

  this fall i was asked by one of the professors at my school to go with her on a mission to guatemala.

  her proposal sounded very interesting, but i didn't think i would be able to go because of my family's financial situation (my widowed mother has been paying my tuition and my brother's tuition while we both attend private institutions).

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  MrMoe

  I WILL MISS YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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  Til death do us part - divorce

  by Lady Lee in

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  wedding vows .

  til death do us part

  (note: although i speak about women here this can easily be reversed) .

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  MrMoe

  Lady -- Well, I lived it also, so for me it isn't a theory. Each person is different, and has thier own reasons for staying in an abusive relationship. The instinct for love may perhaps be great, but abuse causes a mentally unhealthy state, and so lots of things normal or typical can and are easily tossed out a window. No stable person looks for or wants abuse. Take a relatively stable person and toss in a comment here and a shove there until it grows like a disease. It happens over time until you become swallowed by it.

  There are many types of personalities out there, perhaps I was just speaking for myself.

  Hugs,

  Amanda
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  Til death do us part - divorce

  by Lady Lee in

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  wedding vows .

  til death do us part

  (note: although i speak about women here this can easily be reversed) .

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  MrMoe

  It seems there is something called traumatic bonding that keeps many women bound to an abuser or to the same kind of man. Complicating this is that some women think that some of this behavior actually means he cares. - cares enough to yell and hit.

  It isn't so much love as it is a primal instinct to submit to dominance. The alpha male beating his mate insto submission.

  Lady, I feel for you, but you came out on top, and so I also admire you. It takes a very strong woman to be able to learn to love herself when she has been denied that right by the very one she chose to spend the rest of her life with.
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  My Brothers

  by MrMoe in

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  i wrote the following on my blog...and i thought it was a little piece of me that would be nice to share with all of you.

  i was adopted by my grandparents when my mother took her life 21 years ago.

  through this, my uncles became my brothers and my grandparents became my parents.

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  Thanks for posting.

  Aztec -- I hope he stays clean, looks like he will.

  DeDe -- sorry to hear, I sure do understand what that is like.

  The more time goes on the more people you know who's lives are effected by substance abuse. Years back before I had Emma I was exp with some pretty harsh things here and there myself. Not sure where it all would have led me, just very glad I never reached the point of no return. I also denote much of my mother's issues with drug abuse in her early years, and it caused damage that simply could not be fixed.

  On another note.. how common is substance abuse for JW's? Both my brothers were raised in it, perhaps the whole co-dependence thing simply carried over. The vast majority of former JW kids rebel in a huge grand way and often through sex, booze and drugs - and far from light, they seem to go all out compared to many of my "worldly" friends I have seen.
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  Til death do us part - divorce

  by Lady Lee in

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  wedding vows .

  til death do us part

  (note: although i speak about women here this can easily be reversed) .

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  MrMoe

  This is a damn good post, one of the best I have seen here.

  Til death do us part... in some cases that ends up becoming rather literal.

  There is a lot I could say here, but I won't, just thanks for such a positive honest message. Spousal abuse is far more common than people can begin to realize.

  Amanda
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  My Brothers

  by MrMoe in

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  i wrote the following on my blog...and i thought it was a little piece of me that would be nice to share with all of you.

  i was adopted by my grandparents when my mother took her life 21 years ago.

  through this, my uncles became my brothers and my grandparents became my parents.

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  MrMoe

  I wrote the following on my blog...and I thought it was a little piece of me that would be nice to share with all of you. ~~~~~~ I was adopted by my grandparents when my mother took her life 21 years ago. Through this, my uncles became my brothers and my grandparents became my parents. Weird, huh? I of course drew very close to them over the years, and about 5 years ago one of them, Charlie, passed away from complications due to AIDS. He was the sweetest guy, and sad to say spent much of his life in prison for crimes he committed to feed his drug habit. My other brother Ray is still around, well at least sometimes, and is fast approaching his 50th birthday. Ray is handsome, smart, funny as hell, and an all around fascinating person. When he enters a room, every head turns. He has this presence that I can't form into words, this depth... Ray is just one of those "special" people. He is so smart, so very smart, I just know to my very core he could have really done some amazing things with his life. Enter drug abuse, and this explains as to why I say he COULD have and SHOULD have done grand things, but never afforded himself the chance. Right now, Ray is sober and off of drugs, but I have seen it before, time and time again. He battles with a life long addiction to heroin, and as wrong as this may sound... and as harsh it may seem for me to judge him, I know it is only a matter of time before he goes back to all that sh*t once again. I have seen it far too many times to know what lies in store. The last time I saw him, that handsome face just wasn't glowing the way it used to, and it seemed the years of self-abuse were finally taking it's toll. It is almost as if I barely recognize him behind the sunken eyes and pale skin, this face that was once so beautiful women would throw themselves at his feet. The sad thing is, he was on a drug binge when mom passed away early last year, and he never even bothered showing up while she was sick and dying in the hospital, or even to her funeral. I remember calling him, hearing his slurred voice on the other line, barely coherent to what just happened or the fact he lost the one person who cares the most. His own mother. What a waste of such an amazing life. What a f**king waste.

  It's A Shame About Ray

  The Lemonheads

  I've never been too good with names
  The cellar door was open I could never stay away
  I know it's probly not my place
  It's either or I'm hoping for a simple way of saying
  It's a shame about Ray
  In the stone under the dust his name is still engraved
  Some things need to go away
  It's a shame about Ray
  If I make it through today
  I'll know tomorrow not to put my feelings out on display
  I'll put the cobwebs back in place
  I've never been too good with names but I remember faces

  Edited by - MrMoe on 6 January 2003 20:39:51
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  To My Mother

  by MrMoe in

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  at about 6:30 this evening my mother passed away.. .

  the best mother and the best wife anybody could ever be blessed with.

  she was not only my mother, she was my friend.

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  Estee --

  My mom was jw when she died. I was disfellowshipped two weeks after she died. The elders sure do have a keen sense of timing and sensitivity about things like death.

  I did get her wedding rings, though. She had them hidden in her bedroom. The stepkids would have NEVER found them. I wear her wedding rings all the time, on my right hand. I still feel close to my mom. I visit her grave whenever I am in Selkirk, Manitoba.

  Sorry darling. So so very sorry. When I was DF'd my mother refused to shun me. I was later reinstated though, and I did it for her and Dad.

  I have Mom's wedding rings, too. I wear them, on my right hand, just like you do.