just to say merry christmas and a happy new year!
i hope wherever you are that you have a lovely holiday, even if like me your celebrating on the sly hehe in which case happy christmas on the sly.
xxxxxxxxxx.
Only an hour and a half til midnight here in Maryland.
Just drove by the NSA. Only a skeleton crew running it looks like.
The Chesapeake Bay is very foggy. You can hear the fog horns from my house. Lovely sound.
I can't get my 14 year old kid to go to bed. He's watching The Simpsons. And texting someone. This makes Santa's job hard.
The tree stays lit tonight. Wouldn't want Santa to trip in the dark.
Merry Christmas, everyone!
inspiring, funny...you choose.... i'll start with inspiring: .
frodo: i wish the ring had never come to me.
i wish none of this had happened.gandalf: so do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide.
i can see it now, we are the most beautiful and smartest people in the world.. steve harvey will never be the host of another beauty pageant.
lol.
i was thinking, don't you think it's time for our society to move on from beauty pageants?.
Tom boys rock! Had I not grown up a JW, I probably would've never worn dresses just like I don't now.
Though I certainly did enjoy the feeling of power that dressing up had on certain other demographics during my teenage years.
according to a pew research survey ... and it has evolved little since 2007.. eden.
I observed an amusing anecdote of cognitive dissonance in my mother the other night. I had been staying with her for a few days while she was convalescing from some car accident injuries.
As you might know, Apple products are currently being worshipped by JWs.
The other evening, a program came on TV about the success of Apple as a company. She was loving it and telling me tidbits about how the organization uses Apple technology for this or that and how all JWs use iphones, etc.
In a later segment, they started interviewing the CEO Tim Cook about coming out as gay! Well, she was disgusted by that and then she kind of got a little perturbed. You could see she was thinking, "Is Apple good or bad now?" Very black or white thinking.
I wonder if any other JWs were watching the same program and also having the same thoughts.
Is gay okay if you head up the wonderful kingdom supporting company Apple?
omg.
i have the entire service group coming over for dinner on sunday.
i don't mind when my wife has a couple over that are cool, but with more than 2 or 3 extra people in my house i get nervous.
questions from readers .
say, who is that in your avatar slimboyfat?
from brother i. m. curious, usa.. that's archibald belaney aka grey owl.
In the American south, some of those claims of Native American ancestry are borne of racism.
There is a lot of African American ancestry in the white American genome of the South. Lots of black folks have a white great granddaddy, and lots of white folks have a black great granny who could "pass."
This was absolutely unacceptable to the whites involved and so it became a common thing to instead claim a Native ancestor to explain the darker skin.
So, some folks who think they have a Cherokee grandmother actually have an African American one.
The more you know...
the noble fir.
the fir tree stands silently in the corner of our living room: proud, erect, strong.
even unadorned, it is beautiful.
Since you brought up my mom and dad, I won't feel like a threadjacker if I mention them.
My dad has had his hip surgically repaired and will be in a rehab hospital until the end of the month. My mother is home with 24 hour supervision. My brother,sister and I as well as some of her friends from the KH are staying with her in shifts. It's obvious she has some after effects from the concussion. She can't multitask anymore, and when she tries and can't she cries. She's emotional and is still in a good amount of pain with the broken ribs. They say the concussion effects can last several months. And my dad will be using a walker for several months as well. It's still going to be a long road.
Thanks for thinking of me.
the noble fir.
the fir tree stands silently in the corner of our living room: proud, erect, strong.
even unadorned, it is beautiful.
A beautiful piece of prose. I completely missed it last year.
Yes, the first few Christmases are about freedom.
After about 20 years, you have to remind yourself that there should be a deeper meaning.
So, I'm thinking about that right now...
i just watched this clip on youtube....i can't begin to say how it made me feel.
, i'm not sure who i am more annoyed about.
the bloke doing the commentry, the punk shouting at a serious and should be respectful religious event, or some of the youtube comments that follow.. and i find this so disrespectful.
It seems to me that the "if it helps just one person" rhetoric is ill-conceived.
Shouldn't we be looking at net benefit? If it gets one person out but drives ten people further in to where they're less receptive to TTATT, was it really worth it?
omg.
i have the entire service group coming over for dinner on sunday.
i don't mind when my wife has a couple over that are cool, but with more than 2 or 3 extra people in my house i get nervous.
Huh. The Witnesses at my mom and dad's hall all went out together last night to see Star Wars on its premier night.
I guess they are in a "social club" congregation.
