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  My first manuscript is done

  by Lady Lee in

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  i finally got it done!.

  tommorrow i take it to a writer-in-residence at our city library for him to read.

  hopefully he will give me some good feedback.. after whatever changes he recommends it will go off to some publishers.. right now i am pretty calm about it.

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  Congrats LadyLee!

  Ditch the nervousness and bask in the light of your accomplishment.

  Pardon my ignorance, but what is your book about?

  Thunder
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  Should jws eat honey cakes?

  by badboy in

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  i understand from reasoning from the scriptures that honey have a pagan connection,eg were placed on the temple altars of artemis.. there4 should a jw eat honey cakes?

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  Harley and Liesh love honey cakes!

  Thunder
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  Trust

  by joelbear in

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  i used to trust everybody.

  i really still do give most institutions and people the benefit of the doubt although i am let down 95% of the time.

  people do not seem to value the trust that other people put in them.

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  Joel,

  Sad as it may seem, life makes you vulnerable. Everyone gets a free shot. If you duck and cover too much you may miss out on meeting and becoming friends with some great people.

  I find that if I refrain from opening up fully to new friends, I don't feel as bad when and if they prove themselves to be unworthy of my friendship. I don't want this to come of as snobish or uppity, I just feel that what attentions I have to offer to my frineds need not be shared with those that wouldn't fully appreciate.

  Put some value in what you have to offer in all your relationships and you will find that others will respect that and if their intentions are less than pure they will not pursue your friendship, it will be too much effort for them. People that betray friendships are lazy. They exist by taking advantage of good hearted people and discard you as they get the whim.

  Sheila often, as she posted, comments on not having many friends. I think it is because she wants to please others too much. I tend to come off as if I don't give a flying flip whether I am liked or not and everyone loves me. Go figure. I hold my friends as dear to me and would never betray or abuse those relationships. They know that.

  Only you can decide who and who not to trust. Make people prove themselves.

  Shutterbug,

  Thanx for busting Sheila's chops. You are so right. She just won't believe me when I tell her. She has more friends than she knows.

  Thunder
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  Where's Dutchie ???

  by Guest 77 in

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  whatever became of dutchie?

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  I guess I'm confused why is that so suspicious? Lots of people cut their hair now for cancer patients etc.

  <sorry this is Sheila M>
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  Windchaser

  by SheilaM in

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  i was in the kitchen and looked over at my potholder that windchaser made me.

  everytime i se it,it makes me smile

  2nd post: april thank you <can you tell i'm out of posts

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  Wow, that was great to read, SheilaM is out of posts. She was supposed to be cleaning house

  Thanks so much for posting that reply James

  Thunder
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  your catch phrase

  by SpiceItUp in

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  so i'm sitting here at work and it just dawned on me that i use the same phrase over and over subconsciously.

  in my job i have lots of people that thank me on the phone and for some reason instead of saying "your welcome" (which i do use occasionally) i say "not a problem" or "no problem".. what is your little catch phrase that you subconsciously use?.

  spice of the fluffy friday class

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  I often say, "Don't do anything I wouldn't do."

  "Right is Right"

  "I'm the best there is at what I do."

  "Jesus Christ on a jumped up chariot driven crutch."
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  And then the phone rang .....

  by Thunder Rider in

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  yesterday was kind of a bummer of a day.

  the sky was gray and it rained all friggin day.

  i had 2 jobs scheduled and neither went as expected.

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  Yesterday was kind of a bummer of a day. The sky was gray and it rained all friggin day. I had 2 jobs scheduled and neither went as expected. The mail arrived void of any checks for jobs already completed, and I foound out that I had to work today and would miss a motorcycle charity ride. Needless to say it was not a great day for me. I went to bed to nap.

  Sheila was stuck at the house because our son took the car without telling her. She's still bummed about not making honor roll at school, and her dog got into the trash and left her a mess to clean up. She was not having a great day either.

  Then the phone rang.

  I hate the phone. I hate talking on the phone. Sheila answered and it was "Razor" Ray, calling from the great white north. They chatted for some time about anything and everything. I heard her laughing and got up to see what was going on. I was happy to see her smiling from ear to ear and chatting like a school girl. I made some tea and listened in.

  Before long time came for her to leave and she handed the phone over to me. I hate the phone. I hate talking on the phone.

  I had only known of Ray from reading his posts on the forum. I was a bit worried that I wouldn't have a thing to say and would come off as rude or ignorant.

  How wrong was I? Ray and I hit it off immediately. I found it easy to converse with him. The commonalities in our lives was uncanny. He knew many of the same places I do. He had experienced many of the same situations and emotions that I had in my dealings with the WTS. Before too long we were chatting like old friends. It was great. The crap that had made for a bad day before his call was banished and Sheila and I talked later of how much that call from Rayzor made our day.

  I think the forum has been a place of healing and validation to a lot of us. I find myself wondering sometimes how many of you are doing, though we've never met. I look forward to checking each morning to see whats going on with everyone. I feel like I have a wealth of friends here that want nothing more than to share stories, feelings and experiences, without the ulterior motives I was subject to when I was a dub. Perhaps you know that feeling of being totaly alone in the crowd. Myriads on myriads of strangers, that is how I always felt.

  Thanx Ray for the call.

  Thanx to all of you who have expressed an interest in Sheila and I.

  I look forward to meeting as many of you as I can.

  Thunder

  We don't feel alone anymore.
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  EUTHANASIA

  by Mary in

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  how do you feel about euthanasia for people that are terminally ill and have no hope of recovery?

  should it be made legal for them to be allowed to die a peaceful death by a simple injection as opposed to dying a painful and agonizing death?

  i ask, because a co-worker of mine is dying of cancer and he's in alot of pain.

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  I think quality of life should be considered when treating the terminally ill. A lot of the extreme measures taken to keep someone alive are more for the families benifit than the patients. When pain makes every waking moment unbearable, the kind thing to do is allow the sufferer to pass peacefuly to whatever awaits. Oblivion beats agony any day of the week.

  Thunder
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  I can't find the damn thing!!!!!

  by Thunder Rider in

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  please forgive the following rantings.

  several months ago i lost my watch.

  it is somewhere in the house.

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  Friends,

  Picture if you will, a grown man at the end of his wits, wandering around his home in his shorts, hands cupped to either side of his head trying to locate the antagonistic beeping that has vexed him for months!

  Not a pretty site. Hope none of you read that while eating breakfast.

  I did that this morning and the mystery deepens. I could hear the beeping in the kitchen, family room and livingroom. It quit before I made it down the hall to the bedrooms.

  Then it dawned on me, the furnace!

  Yes folks, I have solved the mystery beeping. My watch was in the furnace case. I must have laid it there back during the winter when I had to work on the thing. I had to replace one of the limit switches and I had laid the watch on the bottom of the case and left it there. The sound was funneling down through the duct work and so was audible in every room.

  So much for my alien consiracy theory. I wonder what I will do with those extra 20 seconds of free time every morning? Can't think of anything.....

  Thunder

  Oh by the way thanx for all the suggestions and reassurances that I was not the only one to have experienced this type of dilemma.
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  What Do You Think Jehovah's Witnesses Are Obsessed With???

  by minimus in

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  what do you think???

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  Well, when I was in the colective my greatest brag was that dubs were all good people above reproach.

  They obsess about being better than everyone else. Claiming the highest rung on the moral ladder sure made for a bad fall huh?

  Thunder