Posts by Xanthippe

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baby or no baby?

by Dudu in

that is the question for the next months ... i am 32 and i will turn 33 on december....i am freaking out!!!

my hubby and i have no children and we are not looking for one right now because im studying a masters.

i will finish subjects in june and after that i will write my thesis (6 more months).

Dudu don't panic, I was a month off my 37th birthday when I had my daughter and she was perfect. It only took seven months for me to get pregnant and apparently the average for a woman in her twenties is six months.

You are still young and you have worked so hard for your degrees. I totally agree with Clarity you will need a career, especially after your family has grown up. After all your hard work to get qualifications you deserve a job you enjoy. Why shouldn't women have it all!

Good luck, whatever you decide.

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what does jehovah eat ?

by bigmac in

yeah yeah---i know--spiritual food.. .

or maybe---beans ( human beans ).

for those on here who still believe in a god---how do you perceive him / her / it ?.

Xanthippe

Innocent little children who think they are going to have a lion on the lawn and live forever. Crunch those cute toddlers.

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Regular pioneering is a financial double whammy.

by hoser in

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not only does it steal your time from earning a living and having personal time, it also costs you real $$$ in fuel vehicle costs and maintainance .

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Xanthippe

True, fuel costs, winter clothing, good walking shoes and boots, that's where all my money went. Never bought casual clothes unil I left the borg, except for jeans. All my casual clothes were ex-ministry clothes that were too tatty to wear. Yuck!

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Bible - War in heaven - Satan cast to earth - Why?

by berrygerry in

reading the oct 1 1953 wt about gog of magog because of the posts about the changes of identity.. basic question:.

why would satan (whether gog or not) be cast to the earth?.

why not cast him to quadrant 4 of the galaxy?.

Xanthippe

berrygerry I totally agree with you. I have made this point myself :-

http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/bible/266561/1/Isn60t-the-scripture-at-Rev-12-12-13-Pointless-Woe-for-the-earth-because-the-Devil-has-come-down-to-you-having-great-anger

a) A very unloving thing to do to dump this monster on humanity

b) Proves it was written by a primitive society that thought their solar system was the whole universe

12

The Americans are back!

by Xanthippe in

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today will be the third time this year there were american tourists at my local national trust stately home calke abbey, derbyshire.

nice to see they are coming back to visit the uk.

haven't been many around in my part of britain in the last few years.

Xanthippe

My son who is 13 desperately wants to visit the UK. He's a railfan and is obsessed with the Flying Scotsman. I think he also believes he might meet up with some of his Minecraft friends.

I told him we could go when he graduates from High School. That's only 5 years away. I'd better start saving! - GreatTeacher

GreatTeacher ah yes steam locomotives, I can understand the attraction. There are dozens of railway museums, some with working steam locomotives in the UK.

http://www.heritage-railways.com/index.php

This one in the midlands does half-hour trips every weekend.

http://www.gcrailway.co.uk/

My wife and I bounced around UK a few years ago and totally enjoyed it. Castles, stately residences, pubs, the National Museum, cathedrals!Could have stayed a lot longer - stillin

stillin, yes I love castles, art, museums, architecture and pubs too! Rome was heaven for art and history I must say.

I hope we continue to get many US vistors to the UK. They are a masive boost to the economy and all those I've met have been extremely polite and incredibly enthusiastic - bemused

So do I bemused.

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The Americans are back!

by Xanthippe in

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friends

today will be the third time this year there were american tourists at my local national trust stately home calke abbey, derbyshire.

nice to see they are coming back to visit the uk.

haven't been many around in my part of britain in the last few years.

Xanthippe

Doesn't seem like such an odd question or assumption for them to make after having only just having met the royal couple on board a commercial flight themselves. Who'd have thought that would happen? Maybe they wanted to find out if this is a more common occurance than one would have thought especially since since England is a small island country rather than a large continent - exwhyzee

exwhyzee do you really think I just wrote that the heir to the British throne and his wife were on a commercial flight and the couple at the next table in our restaurant just met them? At first I thought you were joking but you're not are you?

My daughter and I were on a plane when Buckingham Palace made the announcement to the press that William and Kate were having their second child. By lunch time the next day we hadn't had chance to see an English newspaper, the hotel TV only showed news in Italian and although I had just figured out how to log on to the hotel wifi on my ipad I was more concerned with finding directions to the Colosseum that looking at news.

I may come from a small island country but at least my reading comprehension is above first grade level.

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The Americans are back!

by Xanthippe in

jw
friends

today will be the third time this year there were american tourists at my local national trust stately home calke abbey, derbyshire.

nice to see they are coming back to visit the uk.

haven't been many around in my part of britain in the last few years.

Xanthippe

Today will be the third time this year there were American tourists at my local National Trust stately home Calke Abbey, Derbyshire. Nice to see they are coming back to visit the UK. Haven't been many around in my part of Britain in the last few years. I wonder if it is because of 9/11?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calke_Abbey

We did see a few Americans in Rome. The day we visited the Colosseum, we were sitting in a restaurant opposite having lunch when the American couple next to us said something to my daughter about having a baby. She said she thought she'd eaten a lot of pasta but well!

Turned out they meant William and Kate which had been announced the previous day when we'd been on a plane, so they knew about it before we did. Then they asked her if she had met the royal family, in all seriousness. She thought it was so funny she had to text all her friends.

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How Has Turning Athiest/ Agnostic Affected You?

by minimus in

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many jws believed in god.

now many here, do not believe in a deity.

how has this affected you in your life?.

Xanthippe

In every situation I have to decide how to act, whether ethically, with compassion, or not. It's all up to me. I like it!

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What is a morally upright life?

by jgnat in

is it relative, or do all human societies and cultures hold at least some things to be good?.

i don't think right and true is "universal" other than what is right and true for people.

a dolphin or a praying mantis may have alien perceptions of what is "good".

Xanthippe

The only way to get your conscience to tell you that you are worthy is to do what you think is worthy. Finding an entire group that thinks you are worthy, good luck with that! The rise of individualism has made that practically impossible, thank god! Be your own person but make friends who genuinely care about you.

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What is a morally upright life?

by jgnat in

is it relative, or do all human societies and cultures hold at least some things to be good?.

i don't think right and true is "universal" other than what is right and true for people.

a dolphin or a praying mantis may have alien perceptions of what is "good".

Xanthippe

We have uniquely experienced that lack of social acceptance is not in fact death. Well those of us that have left the Watchtower have. We are quite able to notice that we no longer live in caves or mud huts and yet we do not want to feel bad among work colleagues, neighbours etc., even though we have to accept that 30% of people will just not like us according to sociologists. I was shunned, I did not die but I made my own ethical standards. As thousands of us have! Perhaps it is also about integrity, following through on what we have decided to believe ethically. Self respect has become important but I am not sure why. If I wait long enough someone will tell me