Well, gee, congrats on that!
It was harder to get out then without the internet, but not impossible. And you did it! Nice!
GrreatTeacher
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My 20 year anniversary
by new boy inafter being a jehovah's witness for 52 years, today marks my 20 year anniversary of being out of the borg!
i turned in my letter of disassociation on september 18th 2001. it was read to the congregation on september 19th, my wife's birthday.
of course the years have had its difficulties but it has also had many wonderful experiences and epiphanies.
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Not sure where I want to live!
by Iamallcool insince covid have forced many stores not to be open 24 hours a day like wal-mart, etc…i do have one 24 hour kroger near my home.
if you want to know where it is, message me but i might not tell you if you have not been here long enough or i feel that i can’t trust you yet.
do you have 24 hour grocery stores near you?
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GrreatTeacher
If you like history, Maryland has been here since 1634!
While its capital, Annapolis, was serving as the nation's capital, George Washington resigned his commission as general and the Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the Revolutionary War. The United States' boundary was designated and differentiated from Britain's remaining colonial interests. (ahem..Canada)
Virginia is great for history, too. George Washington lived just across the Potomac River at Mount Vernon. Colonial Williamsburg looks exactly like it did in the early 1700s.
Also, George Washington apparently slept all up and down the east coast. The number of establishments that brag "George Washington slept here." is mind-boggling.
Anyhoo, just plugging the Mid-Atlantic. New England always gets focused on as the cradle of American history, but the Mid-Atlantic has been settled just as long. And we weren't religious weirdos like the Puritans. We were here to make money. The state of Virginia literally started as The Virginia Company.
I'll shut up now. I'm a history nerd and love literally walking the same steps as people did who were settled here 150 years before the United States was formed. Come visit Annapolis, you'll love it if you're into American and British colonial history!
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How do JW feel about CBD?
by Iamallcool ini am not so sure if i am willing to discuss cbd with my jw aunt.
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GrreatTeacher
Personally I think that CBD oil is a modern version of snake oil medicine. Can it really help everything from pain to toenail fungus to making your sheets brighter and whiter? It's ridiculous the amount of maladies it's reported to cure.
Mick, I have a prescription for Ambien, and have woken up in the morning with the remains of a large bowl of ice cream on my nightstand! No memory of eating it at all! It definitely induces amnesia!
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Remember when HITTING A WOMAN was just WRONG!
by pistolpete injust a few years ago, any man that slapped a women was considered a piece of shit.
today people are are paying and cheering to see a man knocking the shit out of a woman.
what feminists, social warriors, and gender recognition fighters don't realized is that their actions are actually causing the world to revert back to the days when the world treated women as property, second class species, with no rights whatsoever, whose only value was a sex instrument for the male species.
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GrreatTeacher
I was never particularly reassured when men would say, " I would never hit a woman."
I always felt like, 'Well you're halfway there, but I'd appreciate it more if you'd never hit anybody at all. Use your words!'
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Gigs and Music
by punkofnice init's nice to be getting back into the swing of going to see bands again.
also, playing in a band too.. we've done a couple of gigs, which was great.
one of which, we had to wait to be paid because most people were paying by card.. i went to see steve hackett at leicester de mountfort hall last friday.
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GrreatTeacher
I had forgotten how much I liked listening to music. My kid was always very sensitive to sound and he never outgrew it. He's 20 now and still doesn't listen to music.
The only kind he occasionally likes to fool around with is what I would describe as piano saloon music from the late 1800s. He's obsessed with trains and railroading and will add that as background music when he creates his train videos.
However, he's in college most of the day so I've had a chance to cue up Pandora radio and play around with song lists. I had forgotten how much I loved loud music and how it makes the time fly when working around the house!
Once Pandora morphed to playing 70s Yacht Rock and the cat loved it. Not my favorite, but I let it play. He was just chilling and I swear I caught him bobbing his little cat head.
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Just saw the segment on the 4 corners documentary involving Erwin Zaklin
by joe134cd intwo observations here.
(1) i just saw a segment on the 4 corners documentary involving erwin zalkin.
the u.s lawyer involved in the law suites against watchtower.
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GrreatTeacher
Anybody know if the 4 corners documentary is available for viewing in the US?
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I have never been to Las Vegas.
by Iamallcool ini would like to visit las vegas one day.
if you have a choice, would you want to live there?
low humidity sounds good to me.
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GrreatTeacher
Punky, the Canadian side of Niagara Falls is better. Much better view. You did good.
Although the American side has the Ride over the Falls in a Barrel ride and there was never any queue. . .
Yeah, stick to the "Maid of the Mist" cruise.😋
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I have never been to Las Vegas.
by Iamallcool ini would like to visit las vegas one day.
if you have a choice, would you want to live there?
low humidity sounds good to me.
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GrreatTeacher
Mick, that is an excellent summary for a visitor.
Iamallcool, if you have the chance, then go visit. Excellent advice about staying away from gambling and Mick has mentioned stuff that even I would enjoy seeing.
I could never live in the desert because of the heat and because I love the greenery on the east coast, but that's a personal preference.
BTW, the House always has the advantage. Keep that in mind if you decide to gamble. Set yourself a gambling money allotment and don't spend a penny more. Keep in mind that it is not an investment and will likely be all gone just like your food money or gas money. It's just paying for the fun of gambling for an hour or so.
I have an old slot machine that uses tokens. On the easy setting it takes an hour of steady feeding it your money before it hits the jackpot. On the medium setting it takes about 2 hours, and on the hard setting it takes about 3 hours. It's not random at all. The worst thing you can do is jump on a "hot" machine just after someone wins a jackpot.
But, yeah, go visit, have fun and find out if you like it!
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your last big assembly
by stan livedeath incan you remember the last big assembly you went to ?
by big--i mean bigger than a circuit job--so--district ?
whole country at a stadium thing.. my last one was old wembley stadium uk..about 1969 ?
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GrreatTeacher
Last assembly was Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in about 1990. Capacity was about 50 000 people. Not sure what the actual attendance was.
I was already mentally out and was annoyed because my dress came to just above my knees which is the best fit for short people. But the good kids wore their dresses way below the knee, maybe midway between knee and ankle.
Good thing I wasn't concerned about being in their ingroup. But, you could feel them looking and judging. I was really beyond caring, but it did please me to realize that I looked more professional than they who looked like they were trying to imitate that 1800s prairie style.
God forbid someone see a kneecap! Oh, the immodesty!
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Overweight Jehovah’s Witnesses
by minimus inwhat was your kingdom hall like when it came to overweight witnesses?
i remember counseling some people on their drinking habits.
a few snickered that if we were going to counsel them because they have had way too many at a wedding reception, what about very overweight witnesses that have a lifestyle of overindulgence?
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GrreatTeacher
This came up for discussion at the lunch table once. Each grade's teachers ate together at the same table every day.
Myself and another teacher were on the chunky side, not hugely obese, but maybe stuck between the end of misses sizes and the beginning of Plus sizes, about size 18. The other two teachers were skinny minis.
We were talking about weight one day and the skinnies remarked on how little the chunkies ate. I ate a piece of fruit, a yogurt and a premier protein drink. If I could even get that much down. I just don't have much of an appetite and neither did my chunky colleague.
The skinnies ate unhealthy microwave dinners and all kinds of crap. One of them whom I shared an office with snacked all day from snacks in her lunch box. She loved chocolate.
The other chunky and I had diagnosed endocrine disorders and were both on thyroid medication. We ate little, but our bodies hold onto fat like it's going out of style! And we were all physically active! You never get a chance to sit down when teaching elementary school. The other chunky even taught dance after school!
The point being that you can't tell if someone is overeating unless you see them eating every day. The physical result doesn't always correlate.
I have my thyroid checked and it seems to be getting worse as I get older. I think my lack of appetite might be related to that. I have trouble cooking dinner now because I am just not hungry and don't judge well how much everyone else will want to eat. Just like when you go grocery shopping on an empty stomach you buy more. I'm never hungry and don't buy enough.