i have two cats.
brother and sister.
good cats and i love 'em, but the male cat is really clingy.. it's usually no problem, but every time i answer the phone, the male cat immediately jumps on my lap, demanding attention.. it makes it really challenging when i am at the computer, attempting to search files, etc.
our little dog mothers everything, especially the guinea pig. she puts her chin on top of him to protect him. One day I saw her on the patio with her chin on the cement and I knew she had something. I lifted her chin and there was a June Bug she was mothering.
We had a Siamese cat that mothered the hamster and our baby rabbits.
And Rocky, our Corgi mix dog lies on his back and jerks himself up off the floor several times when his back is apparently bothering him.
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large numbers of jw congregations are going to be trouble long before they lose their last elder to death or resignation.. most congregations i know have at least one - and often several - elders who can barely function at all, due to illness, old age.
or just plain inability to accomplish anything.
the society seems loathe to remove these men, despite their 'elder in name only'.
We visited a congregation in Arizona when we were on vacation several years ago and right away they wanted to know if we were moving there because they needed elders so badly. Every one they had was so old that they all had to sit down to do their meeting parts. They were worried about suddenly losing them all. By now they are surely all gone. And no, we did not move there.
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i am going to start this debate of by saying that those of us who were raised in the so called truth, and i being one of them, can only come to terms with our past by accepting that our parents infected our minds like a virus infects a computer.
we wouldn't categorise children according to their parents' political stance, since they are too young to make up their minds about such matters.
but they (jw) segregate them from the world.
I stopped believing the Bible-hence no need for religion. You are supposed to learn from your mistakes.
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i heard about this on the hispanic channel the other night and looked it up just now and found this link.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1609256/posts.
they plan a one day boycott in which they will not spend one cent on that day.
They also do a lot of jobs Americans DO want but for a lot less money. Fast food, motels, even machine shops, construction, are all staffed with Mexicans who work for a lot less. The jobs they can't do are sent over seas.My daughter-in-law's mother has a severely retarded son and the only work she could do was cleaning. Now she cannot do that because the Mexicans do it for so much less. She has to live on what she gets for taking care of her son and that is poverty level. Look at how many trucks are driven by Mexicans and most have phoney ID and no real driver's license. When I lived in Phoenix, they were always running stop signs and red lights and driving drunk. Of course they have no insurance. And then there is the rapidly rising crime rate....
This country is committing suicide.
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I started studying when I was in Milwaukee. Jackson Park Cong. Moved to Oconomowoc and got baptized. Moved to Watertown from there.. Moved out of state and faded off into the sunset.....
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i am so hooked on this show!!
when i work til 8 i try to get out early!!
last nites show was great!
Here are some neat facts compiled from the internet about TV show Lost.
several areas were marked CVI, CVII and CVIII. Those happen to be Roman numerals for 106, 107 and 108, the last of which is the hatch clock's countdown time in minutes.
While we're on the subject, there was more grist for Lost's numerous numerologists and students of the 4-8-15-16-23-42 sequence:
* The number on the safe deposit box in which Locke's father had stashed the retirement-con cash was 1516.
* The card that Sawyer dealt to Jack from the bottom of the deck was an 8.
* Henry Gale's address on the driver's license was 815. And the ZIP code of his hometown of Wayzata, Minn., is 55391 - which adds up to 23.
Other coincidences (or not): Many readers noticed that the woman whose house Locke is inspecting in his flashback happens to be Nadia (played by Andrea Gabriel), Sayid's old girlfriend from a past flashback. And by the way, both planes that flew close over the Flightline Hotel were - everybody, now - Oceanic Air.
As long as we're talking about Lost's eclectic and growing bookshelf, why was Sawyer reading Judy Blume's pre-pubescent classic Are You There God?
It's Me, Margaret?
In the night's biggest mystery, if Jin is infertile, who - or what - is responsible for Sun's pregnancy? (Sharp-eyed readers note that the name of the corporation that made the pregnancy test, Widmore, has popped up in earlier episodes.) And in possibly the night's smallest mystery, why was Hurley's chocolate bar unmelted?
In response to our continuing request, more than a few eagle-eyed viewers of the most recent new episode (Feb. 15) told us they noticed that the soldier who interrogated Sayid in Iraq was Kate's father, Sgt. Austen (played by Lindsey Ginter), whom we met in a previous flashback. To make sure we'd pick that up, the writers had him pull out a photo of an obviously younger Kate as he asked Sayid if he had a family.
Sharp-eyed viewers responding to our weekly search for clues for the ABC island mystery (Wednesday, 9 ET/PT) spotted one in Sawyer's diner scene. The waitress is Kate's mom, Diane (Beth Broderick), who was introduced in a flashback in November. And the music that Sayid and Hurley picked up on their radio was a big-band tune by Glenn Miller, who was presumed dead after his plane disappeared in 1944.
the washer-dryer in the hatch is much newer than the rest of the furnishings, which sharp-eyed viewers also had noticed. So is there a way that items (and people) continue to move to and from the island?
As Kate visits her adoptive father in an Army recruiting station, Sayid appears on a TV screen; some say he looks like a military prisoner. This type of sighting is reminiscent of the Season 1 episode in which Hurley appeared on Korean TV during Jin's flashback.
Coincidences? We think not.
in the hospital where Shannon's dad died, you see Jack hurrying by in his scrubs. Was Jack's future wife - who was in the hospital after an auto accident - the driver of the SUV that killed him?
108
* It's the number of stitches on a major-league baseball. (This ties into the Yankees' retired-number theories covered earlier.)
* It's a sacred number in Buddhism; a prayer strand traditionally has 108 beads. (This ties into the name of the mysterious island project, the Dharma
Initiative.)
* It's approximately the number of minutes some satellites take to circle Earth.
* The shark that chased Sawyer and Michael on the raft had a Dharma Initiative mark on its fin. Another apparent Dharma logo was at the compound where the new group of survivors was found. (Adrift)
* The actor who played Hurley's boss, Randy (Billy Ray Gallion), played Locke's boss, too - also named Randy. (Everybody Hates Hugo)
* The numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42 total 108, which is the number of minutes the computer operator has to reset the counter. (Man of Science, Man of Faith)
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my soon to be three year old son asked me yesterday if i was dying.
i was shocked that he knew the word 'dying' and asked where he heard it.
he proceeded to tell me that his aunt (a jw) read him a story about jesus twiste (christ) and jesus was dying.
My two little grandsons came home from their other Grandmother's house, the JW one, and were distraught that they were going to turn into piles of salt. I asked them to explain why they were worried about that and they told me how Grandma Cindy read them a story. So I just kind of brushed it off telling them that it is a fairy tale and not meant to be taken seriously. They seemed much releaved and have never brought it up again. Now they live in a different state than Grandma Cindy and she has been instructed by their parents to not talk religion in any shape or form to the children.
I did not want to get into a battle of the grandmothers so what I said came across as a "clarification" to them that it was a made up story.
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i was given a cat whose name was "piti".
i found it strange, but i kept it.
a rabit named Sir Hopsalot
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dear fellow sojourners (i love addressing y'all as such!).
i have found myself in a very "odd" sort of space lately.
in this space, i am having some very very strange and "deep" dreams.
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In dreams, we often use children as aspects of ourselves. What part of you does he picture? The wolf is a symbol of a fear you have and apparently that fear threatens that child aspect of you.
The "friends" are now bloated snakes =JWs.
The dream is showing the progress of your life and the fact that you have a fear you still need to deal with.
You must remember that we dream in symbols. You get your emotions involved and start taking it literally. That is why it is hard to understand our own dreams.
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so far, i've been left alone.
no one's bugging me.
i hear the c.o.
When we moved from Wisconsin to Arizona, the elders sent our records to the wrong congregation in Phoenix. We stopped meetings right about that time and heard nothing for three years. Moved to Texas and been here since June and have heard nothing and have not laid eyes on a JW. All the people we knew for 30 years in Wisconsin refuse to talk to us since we told them we do not go to meetings. None of us are DA'd or DF'd. Real friendship.
So if they ever do decide to come after us, they have lost our records.
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