Posts by GrreatTeacher

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I got up yesterday morning (Saturday) and enjoyed the watchtower work

by Zoos in

reaching the fire watchtower on top of wayah bald overlooking the smokey mountains can be a difficult hike from nantahala lake up the bartram and appalachian trails where they straddle each other passing through this area.

the most enjoyable watchtower work i've ever participated in.. the views from the tower are spectacular.. .

looking across nantahala forest to the smoky mountains, described poetically as the most elevated peak; from whence i beheld with rapture and astonishment, a sublimely awful scene of power and magnificence, a world of mountains piled upon mountains.

GrreatTeacher

My son has a youtube channel called GearedProductions that has videos of trains, mostly steamers, around the Mid-Atlantic region.

He has really improved his film-making skills through time and is doing a great job, I think, for a 14 year old kid. He has not edited and uploaded our most recent adventure to western Maryland, but please check out his Strasburg Railroad videos from their Vintage Cars Alongside Vintage Trains event. It's a cool event where antique cars race steam trains. The railroad was so impressed that they asked him for permission to use some of his footage in their promotional materials!

He'll probably edit and upload yesterday's great train race by this weekend. Check back next week if you're interested.

Did I mention I was proud of him?

https://www.youtube.com/user/Geardproductions

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I had a melt down with my Father over my Mom and Sister not coming to my daughter's Birthday Party.

by adjusted knowledge in

last year my daughter had her first birthday and all my wife's family and friends were there.

my family didn't attend.

my mother and sister still believe in the jw teachings even though they are both considered inactive.

GrreatTeacher

Good lord, borgifiizes??

Maybe "borgifies" was more in line with what I really meant.

Sorry!

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I had a melt down with my Father over my Mom and Sister not coming to my daughter's Birthday Party.

by adjusted knowledge in

last year my daughter had her first birthday and all my wife's family and friends were there.

my family didn't attend.

my mother and sister still believe in the jw teachings even though they are both considered inactive.

GrreatTeacher

You don't realize it if you grow up without it, but denying birthdays is a way of denying the self. It denies the self as a legitimate, independent person. Not having birthdays borgifiizes one into the collective.

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Recent incident with lion and JW Governing Body member in Africa

by JWchange in

i dont know if you are aware but i was informed recently that jw governing body member tony pants morris was in a safari park in africa.

he stumbled across a skinny hungry looking lioness with cubs nearby.

not seeing a way to escape, he got on his knees and started praying, pleading for help.

GrreatTeacher

Actually, he probably does wear leopard skin undies under his oh so conservative suits.

Yeah, I think he's the type.

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Recent incident with lion and JW Governing Body member in Africa

by JWchange in

i dont know if you are aware but i was informed recently that jw governing body member tony pants morris was in a safari park in africa.

he stumbled across a skinny hungry looking lioness with cubs nearby.

not seeing a way to escape, he got on his knees and started praying, pleading for help.

GrreatTeacher

So, when you say tight leopard skin pants, do you mean that in the American way, as in trousers, or in the UK sense of underpants?

Because, ewww!

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I got up yesterday morning (Saturday) and enjoyed the watchtower work

by Zoos in

reaching the fire watchtower on top of wayah bald overlooking the smokey mountains can be a difficult hike from nantahala lake up the bartram and appalachian trails where they straddle each other passing through this area.

the most enjoyable watchtower work i've ever participated in.. the views from the tower are spectacular.. .

looking across nantahala forest to the smoky mountains, described poetically as the most elevated peak; from whence i beheld with rapture and astonishment, a sublimely awful scene of power and magnificence, a world of mountains piled upon mountains.

GrreatTeacher

Will work on that this afternoon.

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One of my JW friends posted this on Facebook. Totally cringeworthy!

by Divergent in

jw
friends

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GrreatTeacher

Thanks, Lisa Rose. I believe it. I guess I need to review what codependency is. Is it a need to be associated with something because it provides some benefits that meet their needs even though there are negative consequences?

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Intersting Visit from our local JWs yesturday

by little_Socrates in

jw
friends

way to early on a saturday morning we got a ring on our doorbell.

someone else answered the door.

after they left i walked by our entry way and gagged from the smell!

GrreatTeacher

Most people wear a reasonable amount of scent, but some folks just keep on dousing that perfume until it's overwhelming. Even if people are not allergic, you are still offensive.

A little goes a long way.

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I got up yesterday morning (Saturday) and enjoyed the watchtower work

by Zoos in

reaching the fire watchtower on top of wayah bald overlooking the smokey mountains can be a difficult hike from nantahala lake up the bartram and appalachian trails where they straddle each other passing through this area.

the most enjoyable watchtower work i've ever participated in.. the views from the tower are spectacular.. .

looking across nantahala forest to the smoky mountains, described poetically as the most elevated peak; from whence i beheld with rapture and astonishment, a sublimely awful scene of power and magnificence, a world of mountains piled upon mountains.

GrreatTeacher

We drove west passed the Appalachian trail and continued on to Cumberland, Maryland. The Western Maryland Railroad has a scenic leaf peeper steam train trip to Frostburg. The foliage was glorious.

Instead of riding the train this time, we chased it. We would race ahead to the next crossing ( they actually give you a map) and my son would quickly set up his tripod camera and take video of the old steamer winding through the mountains.

They stopped at Frostburg and we watched the engine turn around on the turntable and then had a little lunch while we waited for the train to leave. Then, we raced the train back down the mountain grabbing photos and video at the crossings again.

My son has his own youtube channel where he posts various trains that we have "railfanned." He's got a few followers and likes to put up a new video every month. That keeps us busy! Today's trip was 2 hours and three quarters one way. It was a long day and we blew a lot of gas, but this is what my son does. He doesn't play sports or march in the band. He chases trains!

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Intersting Visit from our local JWs yesturday

by little_Socrates in

jw
friends

way to early on a saturday morning we got a ring on our doorbell.

someone else answered the door.

after they left i walked by our entry way and gagged from the smell!

GrreatTeacher

Yes, but it's the overlayering of it that is the problem. You're wearing scented soap or bodywash, scented shampoo, scented body lotion, scented clothing from laundry detergent and then spray perfume on top of all of that? It's enough to gag you.

I use unscented soap and skip the scented body lotion because my skin is always oily anyway. I do use Dove shampoo, but I never use perfume.

I use unscented laundry detergent for my son who has very sensitive skin and mildly scented detergent for my own and my husband's clothes. I do not use either fabric softener or dryer sheets.

And I think we smell pretty enough. Any more and it would be overkill and make us rashy or headachey or nauseous. Surely other people have these sensitivities too.

And truly, it does seem that fewer and fewer people are wearing perfume or cologne like they used to.