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  Any Red Hatter's on this Board?

  by Panda in

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  at the end of this month i will get to wear my red hat!

  for now i'm still a pink hatter.

  i've got my new red hat ready.

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  Richie Rich, LOL Didn't Red Hatter's get started in North Carolina? The group (club) is based on a poem which in part says

  "When I am old I shall wear a red hat and a purple dress which does not match."

  So you've got to be 50, wear a red hat and a purple whatever. The original ladies in CA somewhere began as a tea social were in a magazine and voila there are thousands of women wearing red boas red hats and purple dresses. In the south we drink iced tea during the daylight and well you'll understand oneday when your own Mom becomes a free spirit. The lady who wrote the poem was probably an old hippie like me! Who else would dress like this?
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  Where does the subject "Books" belong?

  by Panda in

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  hey all.

  i wonder about this because i read tons and want to talk about the stuff i like best.

  i know we had the red tent discussed here.

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  Hey All. I wonder about this because I read tons and want to talk about the stuff I like best. I know we had the RED TENT discussed here. Did we do Women who run with the Wolves by Estes ?

  How about Jarhead? Or The Death of Woman Wang ? or The Shape of Snakes written by a Brit and even if you don't live there you get the feel of the place. How about The Selfish Gene by Dawkins; terrific and understandable science.

  Have you ever joined a reading discussion group? I belonged to one and now I'm starting another with the Red Hatters. So how about a section called Books-Luv 'em or hate 'em
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  Any Red Hatter's on this Board?

  by Panda in

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  at the end of this month i will get to wear my red hat!

  for now i'm still a pink hatter.

  i've got my new red hat ready.

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  At the end of this month I will get to wear my Red Hat! For now I'm still a Pink Hatter. I've got my new Red Hat ready. Last week I was welcomed at the meeting . We had about 60 Red Hat Ladies there for dinner and talking and planning a trip in August.

  Our group is named:

  Sassy Red Hatters from Six Shooter Junction Our town used to be called six shooter junction because it was a railroad junction and the shootings usually occurred at the station downtown.

  What I like is that there is no pledge or formal what you've got to do. Well okay you must wear your red hat... oh and purple outfit if you have it... maybe I'll acctually get out my embroidery machine and learn how to use it. Also... I am not the only atheist. I wonder if this exuberence will fade?
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  Them thinking that pioneering is equal to my full time job!

  by LongHairGal in

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  this was a topic that annoyed me and i got into a bit of an argument years ago over this.. some sister (who never worked a day in her life i might add) with the cushy life, affluent husband thought that because she pioneered it was equal to me having a full time secular job.

  there were others there who naively thought the same thing.

  somehow i gave them an inferiority complex because i worked so they had to dream this up to make themselves feel better.. while i agree that someone who pioneers may be physically tired at the end of the day, there is no comparison to what i have to deal with in going to and from and being on a full time job.

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  Delilah, Okay. Ya know I remember the way some friends would look at me real strange when I moved to Texas and had a conversation. Finally my friend LL said to me " Ya know the way you talk well THEM'S FIGHTIN' WORDS" In the last 20 years I've learned the Texas way, so whenever I talk to my NJ family I get taken aback a bit, and must remember that to them those ain't fightin' words. Once when a friend visited from "back east" he told Mr.Panda that Texans were "Fakey" yeah apparently "nobody is really that nice." Anyway my point is that I realize you weren't being dogmatic and all knowing or snobbish ... Just Canadian.(I mean that in the nice "hello northern neighbor way)
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  How much whiskey do you consume in a given day?

  by IronGland in

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  would you consider 1 flask+1 bottle red wine per day too much?

  assuming no obvious ill effects..

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  I like cognac or red wine. But I don't drink even once a month anymore. I'm on too many drugs which say "do not take with alcohol."
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  Explaining BORG belief about the UN

  by Panda in

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  have you ever tried to explain about the united nations place in revelation as the beast?

  i was explaining to a frind who had read that fundementalist christians hate the un.

  well i made an attempt and she said "say, what?

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  tmo1965, What the heck are you talking about? Obviously, all you saw was the word atheist somewhere and felt the need spout. However, My friend simply wants to see what the heck fundies find as proof that the UN is evil... I've shown her the stuff, and she stil wants more of an explanation as to WHY I ever fell for this stuff.
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  Them thinking that pioneering is equal to my full time job!

  by LongHairGal in

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  this was a topic that annoyed me and i got into a bit of an argument years ago over this.. some sister (who never worked a day in her life i might add) with the cushy life, affluent husband thought that because she pioneered it was equal to me having a full time secular job.

  there were others there who naively thought the same thing.

  somehow i gave them an inferiority complex because i worked so they had to dream this up to make themselves feel better.. while i agree that someone who pioneers may be physically tired at the end of the day, there is no comparison to what i have to deal with in going to and from and being on a full time job.

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  Delilah, I guess you've never been to Mexico... I live near the border and used to go often... I wouldn't want to live there. The dust dirt and humidity and heat are awful most of the year. Unless she spoke Spanish she would probably have been someplace like SanMiguelAllende which is gorgeous and luxorious for the Americans who move there.

  I knew some snobby pioneers, but I figure every dog has their day, and to quote Dolores Claiborne "Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has left.". The young single brothers who were pioneers were the ones who got the most help from the congregations. They never had to buy food because the sisters would constantly ask them over for snacks and/or dinner. Whenever MrP worked with one of these young guys he always complained that they would sit around and not get work done.

  My most difficult time was with sisters who were jealous. At that time I was fantastic looking. I sewed my own clothes because I couldn't afford to buy anything (I worked PT at a fabric store and would get free discarded patterns and also made display garments for free because I would later be able to wear them). And we had no kids. Anyway I felt osterosized, alone and back stabbed, gossiped about, and evil eyed. THEN whenever some picnic or whatever was coming up I would be told I had to bring something baked or cooked. I was intimidated by these women. I totally broke down at one point and ... well ... decided I was not good enough.

  I would not have been joyful because some asshole elder got caught having sex w/someone. If everyone knew they should have told the sister. So it seems to me that those who knew and didn't tell and were over joyed by the divorce were the same as all the backstabbers and snobs ("I know something you don't know neh neh ne neh neh") who you claim to dissaprove.
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  Them thinking that pioneering is equal to my full time job!

  by LongHairGal in

  1. jw
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  this was a topic that annoyed me and i got into a bit of an argument years ago over this.. some sister (who never worked a day in her life i might add) with the cushy life, affluent husband thought that because she pioneered it was equal to me having a full time secular job.

  there were others there who naively thought the same thing.

  somehow i gave them an inferiority complex because i worked so they had to dream this up to make themselves feel better.. while i agree that someone who pioneers may be physically tired at the end of the day, there is no comparison to what i have to deal with in going to and from and being on a full time job.

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  When I pioneered I worked 3 PT jobs; one in retail, one with another sister stripping and waxing floors at a donut place(in the middle of the night while they were closed), and one cleaning offices (and stairwells and bathrooms )various time schedule and except for the offices and bathrooms everything else took a week to get done (and then start again). Then field service and I never padded my pioneer hours. I thought that Jah would know, and good bye new system.

  Mr.Panda cleaned at a supermarket at around 5AM and came home, changed and we met with the group for service. We had no time to breathe and got by on little or no sleep. We weren't the only ones working like dogs to support ourselves... Once when MrPanda broke his ankle we got food stamps ... I was so embarrassed that I made him go into the store with me so people would see the stamps were for an injured person.
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  Elder Save All the Mailing Addresses and Phone# of the Friends You Can Get!

  by frankiespeakin in

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  i will post more later, got to go back to work right now.

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  FS, That was an unfair teaser!!!
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  JW urban legend? Has anyone heard of a JW clone group called "The Princes"

  by Check_Your_Premises in

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  a dub i know found some info about the christadelphians.

  it was quite remarekable to her that there was a group with so many ideas, so similar to the dubs.

  such a reailzation is a bit of a challenge to a dub, since they spend so much time fancying how unique they are.

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  The Princes ? Aren't those Michael Jackson's kids?