Posts by Xanthippe

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Pets aren't people, says speaker at Regional Convention. Fido and Mimi better watch out! And instead of drinking wine or beer go do some gardening or play golf.

by oppostate in

a big discussion driving back from the regional convention about what exactly was meant about pets.. the warning was obvious to me.

don't get pets, they cost time and money and you would do better to spend your time and money supporting the organization and going in field service.. as to the wine and beer, because the bro during his soliloquy admitted that the first thing he would like to do is relax after a hectic day at work with a glass of wine or beer, his conscience was traumatized.

however he came up with a perfect idea, he'd go tend the garden (obviously a solution for a married bro) or hit some golfballs at the driving range (maybe he's not married).. maybe jesus should have told the wine guzzlers at cana to sober up and go till the fields.. .

Xanthippe

Magnum, love your kitten rescue story. We have rescued two strays that took shelter in our garden. I re-homed one with a work colleague but my daughter decided she was keeping the other one. He was a sorry sight, so thin and starved. He's made a lovely big tabby now and seems none the worse for his ill treatment, very affectionate. So we added him to our cat family, and then there were four!

Yes they can feel sadness and be lonely and even jealous which doesn't surprise me as we evolved too and we feel all those things.

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Party in the kingdom hall!

by StephaneLaliberte in

check it out and download before i am forced to take it down!.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf_rfrusa1c.

Xanthippe

Magnum I don't think we did see the same one as you noticed the one you watched is a shorter version of the one in the op. I watched the longer one. To me they have been abused by a mind control cult. Many will still get out. Many were dragged along as small children as I was and know nothing else, by design, because of the information control. I just see human beings. I am treated condescendingly too by my JW family but I do believe that if they ever get out they will be mortified by what they've done to me.

I don't think a lot of those people were actually having fun. They were just going along with the crowd. They don't know how to actually have fun. They just go along with the group; they give in to peer pressure. - Magnum

Yes exactly but peer pressure is very strong especially when you have been fordidden friends outside the group from childhood on. The GB who have been allowed to meet a wide range of people, have travelled all over the world and some who have degrees, they are responsible for controlling the information to these ordinary people.

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Party in the kingdom hall!

by StephaneLaliberte in

check it out and download before i am forced to take it down!.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf_rfrusa1c.

Xanthippe

Watched it with the sound off - it's late here. Interesting just watching the pictures. Just people havind fun, brightly dressed, eating with their friends, kids having fun. Lovely people trying to enjoy their lives. They deserve better than all these lies. I'm not bitter about these lovely people who just want to enjoy life but they are weighed down with rules. That's all, I'm having trouble putting this into words, it's late.

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Advice Needed

by HeyThere in

so my situation is changing and i am trying to figure out the best way for me to handle this.

i am an unbaptized publisher married to a dub who was inactive when we met and when we married and during the course of our marriage, and just went back active a year and a half ago.

he is a full believing dub.

Xanthippe

I'm glad most of your family aren't in the religion HeyThere. You have a good support system. Your marriage is important and beliefs run deep so softly softly sounds good.

Perhaps you could stop FS on the basis of you don't feel it's right to preach something you're not sure of but without the formal need to announce to anyone you are stopping? I like the idea of sometimes going with your husband to meetings to show him how their attitudes to you will change which they will.

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What a huge difference this year.

by quellycatface in

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last summer was pretty crap for me.

lots of "social" things going on in the congregation but i wasn't invited.

you know what i mean, hey??.

Xanthippe

Happy Birthday QC for this weekend

Enyoy the wedding too

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What have you created?

by new hope and happiness in

i think it's wonderful that be all posses creative power of thought, and i think this form of creative manifestation comes most commonley in the form of arts.so many posters have mentiond they are writing a book, but i bet some of you create music or make a wonderful soup.. i ask this because i was reading my old school reports and my art teacher wrote " michael is the post constructive, imaginative pupil i have ever had.

his enthusiasm wonders a bit but on the whole an excellent pupil" ....sadly i think if that statement was true i have rather let my self down with my artistic expression.

still it's never to late and i intend to involve myself in my art again this summer..

Xanthippe

A garden. It's a work in progress but I'm getting there.

Plus, a life, which is also a work in progress.

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So Happy to Learn About Homemade Weed Killer

by Iown Mylife in

three days ago we mixed up the recipe and sprayed the driveway cracks and several places where the weeds have been hard to get rid of.. today the weeds are dead just like when we've sprayed commercial weed killer.. mix one gallon white vinegar, 1 cup salt, 5 to 6 tablespoons of dawn dishwashing liquid.

note: don't spray if it's fixin' to rain, wait for dry weather so the stuff will stay on the weeds.

and don't spray where you want anything to grow ever!.

Xanthippe

Brilliant thanks Marina I've been looking for something that's safe for my cats.

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For those who have been out for 5 years or more.......

by Phizzy in

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........... do you find you are now far more relaxed about things ?

things in general, and things wt/jw related ?.

i find i am much more relaxed and pragmatic about life in general, mrs phizzy and i do what we can, but we don't get overly upset at what we cannot do.

Xanthippe

I've been out twenty-five years and it's just a silly religion to me now. I live and let live, have gay and bi-sexual friends and am pretty relaxed about life. Only cruelty and injustice shock me. As jwfacts says if you can survive it all your perspective is a lot clearer, in fact I think I'm happier than most people I meet possibly because we have to work so hard for it don't we. I don't give up my happiness just because it's raining!

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Here's Your Butterfly Picture!

by agonus in

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for cofty et al.... .

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also check out my new blog post: benpogge.blogspot.com!.

Xanthippe

Agonus it's absolutely beautiful. What medium did you use ?

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Android or iPad? Help please.

by Xanthippe in

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it seems i am going to have to teach people to use a tablet as part of my job and i don't even have one!

any advice would be most helpful please.. i keep reading blurb on amazon etc and now i'm really confused.

what should i buy?

Xanthippe

Shirley I work in a public library and have done for the past fourteen years. The job description has changed enormously in that time. I spend much of my day teaching people how to do things on almost forty pcs that are provided for the public. Imagine a person who can barely speak English, has hardly touched a computer and has been sent from the employment office to apply for a job online. Welcome to my day.