I am a potter. My husband paints and sculpts. My daughters are all in gifted art programs. I have an extreme problem with the way that JWs squelch artists. I had many people in my JW life, including my own father, who lived in agony because they were led to believe that their artistic pursuits would only stand in the way of their "spiritual" goals. AAAAAAHHHHHH!
Posts by rob
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45How many Artists here? Which field of Art?
by invisible ini know i asked this absolutely yonks back, then by the name of celtic, but with so many newcomers here i thought no harm but to ask once again.. how many artists do we have here or working in art related fields including film, music, theatre, environment, gardening, sculpture, graphic design, illustration, fine art, photograpy etc etc?.
what hobbies do you have?
how do you see your future artistic horizons opening up?
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Happy snakes & simple pleasures....
by thinker inthe other day at work i saw two harmless brown water snakes in a pool of water.
the pool was fed by two large pipes that allow a stream to pass under a road.
the water drops a couple feet from the pipe to the pool.
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rob
Some of my favorite things:
The smiles I see daily on the faces of my beautiful daughters.
Having a handsome , loving, true man in my life.
Watching the goldfinches at my bird feeder.
Feeling that through my work, I really can help people make a difference in their lives.
Knowing that I have true friends now, such as Thinker and Thinker's Wife,who though I don't get to see them very often, are always in my thoughts. -
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Can A Witness Eat Organically Grown Food?
by Englishman ini wonder if jws are aware that organic food is grown in soil that is improved by enriching the soil with manure, fish-meal and dried blood?
lots and lots of dried blood?
http://www.ext.vt.edu/departments/envirohort/factsheets2/fertilizer/jan89pr6.html.
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rob
As manager of a thriving health food store, I can attest to the fact that a few health-conscious JW's in my own community eat organically produced food. Bear in mind, however that they routinely consume massive quantities of manure with daft smiles upon their faces. The use of dried blood as a fertilizer... I'll have to research how widely it's used here in the US. This could be an interesting little topic to toss out there when I wait on my JW customers (the ones that will still talk to me...).
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Older men make better lovers
by rekless inlondon (reuters) - older men are better lovers and have fewer impotence problems than their younger counterparts, with the "male menopause" a myth pedaled by drug companies to sell their products, according to a british psychologist.. dr. lorraine boule, from sheffield university in northern england, told the british psychological society conference that men became more skilled sexually as they get older, british newspapers reported on saturday.. "older men sustain erections for longer, are longer coming to orgasm, and satisfy women better.
sexual activity does diminish with age, but the quality should get better," she was quoted as saying by the daily mail.. boule's conclusions were based on a survey of 185 married professional men aged 30 to 60. while 22 percent of men under 46 suffered erectile problems, only 16 percent of those over 46 did.
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rob
Yeah, baby! My husband is 15 years older than I am and would still like it twice a day. Then he wonders why I'm tired!
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rob
Having a dreary day? Check out www.jesusdressup.com.
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My brother's anniversary (*spoiler warning)
by lauralisa ini posted this previously.
tonight is the anniversary of his suicide.
sorry to any who are unduly provoked.
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rob
Feb. 6 will be the 11th anniversary of my brother's suicide also at the age of 27. He was my only sibling. Suicides have become so prevalent in the borg that my parents run sort of an eastern US suicide "support group," all within the organization, of course. I'm so sorry that you have ahd to experience this also.
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rob
I hail from the northernmost point of Virginia. The Winchester area to be exact. Where are my fellow Va. residents, Poohbear and the Thinkers?
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Please Respond To Survey! 25 more needed please.
by Big Jim init seems like to me the majority of people who are in the truth, are were in the truth was a result of either a family member are a friend witnessing to them and not many seem to have been found in the door to door work.. from my years of associating with the borg i cannot recall many coming in the truth from the door to door work.. how were you sucked in?
for me it was my aunt who has now even though i am not disfellowshipped decided to write me out of her will to the tune of about $150,000.00 (maybe i should hang around a couple more years)dont think i will.. please respond .
thanks.
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rob
My parents began to study when I was a toddler. They were baptized when I was about 8. Was da'd at 37.
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boob jobs and sisters
by jurs inwarning: this is a very shallow post.
now that i'm out, i'm trying to see the humor of my past life as a jw.
when i was new in the truth , only baptized 4 months, i became good friends with this one sister.
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I am not making this up... My grandmother, an active JW had a boob job at the age of 68 in an effort to win the affections of a man who was studying at the time. She pulled strings, got him baptized in a hurry and is now happily married with perky little breasts. Oh, those spiritual priorities!!!
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Do all Bethelite marriages end up happy?
by freddi ini just wanted to know if anyone out there knew the stats for bethelite marriages ending happily ever after.
whenever i would visit bethel, it seemed as though all the married couples were in it for life.
i know that marriage is supposed to be until death do you part but we all know that things do occur.
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rob
One of my former best friends married a Bethelite. They left Bethel and moved back to our hometown. Things quickly deteriorated, they had only been married a couple of months when Alice showed up on my partents doorstep, beaten. She had snuck out, her husband would not normally have allowed her out of the house, he was afraid she'd have an affair with any man she came in contact with. They divorced shortly after that, but she was so traumatized that she did not remarry for many years.
I have had other friends who have dated and/or married Bethelites who have found that thse men were not always able to adapt to life in the real world.