Yikes...so many flavors...I usually go for pistachio; grapenuts (if I can find it) or anything with chocolate...panda paws is really good, too....
aarque
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What's your favorite?
by manon inmy favorite ice cream is chocolate.
i also enjoy butter pecan on a sugar cone.
what about you?
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Let me introduce myself...
by aarque ini've done a lot of lurking and have put in my two cents a few times on this board, but just realized i've never introduced myself here.. i'm one of five who was raised as jws.
my mom began studying not too long after she married; dad was totally against it.
coming from a divided household, we were treated as an nonentity in the congregation.
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aarque
I've done a lot of lurking and have put in my two cents a few times on this board, but just realized I've never introduced myself here.
I'm one of five who was raised as JWs. My mom began studying not too long after she married; dad was totally against it. Coming from a divided household, we were treated as an nonentity in the congregation. One of my earliest memories is having the PO threaten me that I would die at Armageddon if I didn't pay attention during the meetings. I was six years old and for years afterwards was terrified of thunder storms (remember that pic in the Paradise book?) When I graduated from high school, I went to work. The PO was after me to full time pioneer, but I told him my parents couldn't support me forever. I was one of the first sisters in the hall to go to work and they did not like it. A few years later I got married...he was studying at the time and was baptized a few months after we married. He was given a position helping out at the literature counter and was practically ignored after that. He couldn't understand why and couldn't understand why my family was treated so badly. As years went on, he and I had some problems, and requested a visit from the elders. They ignored us. We asked again, and were ignored. One day around the holidays an elder came knocking. He came in, looked around, then asked me if he could talk to me in the living room. We went into the room, he looked around, then left. Total visit:three minutes. It dawned on me he was looking for Christmas stuff (which we didn't have ) For me, that was the last straw, and we just stopped going. Eventually we split up I moved back in with my parents. The elders visited me just after I moved in and told me I could not divorce him, even though he had just been DF for apostacy. I told them he was divorcing me and I was not going to contest it. (I knew he had committed adultery but never told the committee...that was between me and God) I also told them that I was not going to live in my parents house and yet be married to someone...that was completely unacceptable to me. They left, and never bothered with me again. That was more than twenty years ago.
Out of the five of us, only one still attends meetings. One was DF, then reinstated, but does not go. The other three of us faded over the years. My mom, bless her heart, doesn't do shunning (neither does the one that still goes). She is elderly and doesn't get around much anymore, yet those at the hall never call on her; they just don't bother. It's sad...and Mom has been a JW for more than fifty years. She tried to get me to go back, but I told her I couldn't stand to sit there and take instructions from people that I have no respect for and I didn't need them between me and God.
Today, I am married to a wonderful guy and will never never never be a part of any organized religion.
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Colder than a witches.....
by ashitaka inarghhhh!!
it's cold in jersey today.
normally, my girth protects me, but as i was having one of my weekend cigars, i noticed that i had to keep switching hands while i warmed the other.....gar!.
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aarque
Here in the Adirondacks our high temp will be 0 F for the next few days. Right now it's snowing...again. One good thing about all this snow...it doesn't make any noise when it falls...
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Wanna know when your gonna die?
by gumby incheck this out!.
i guess i'm off to the wild blue yonder in 2028,march 11th kinda creepy.
http://www.deathclock.com/
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aarque
Hmmmm.....it said Friday, November 5, 2049..at the ripe old age of 96 years, 5 months and 24 days ...that means I have 46 years, 9 months and 17 days left.... I better get moving...there's not a moment to waste!!!!
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Did Most At The Kingdom Hall Ignore Or Talk To You
by minimus indid you find that you tended to find yourself alone, without many people to talk to, or were you generally able to chit-chat with the "friends" at the hall?
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aarque
My family was totally ignored. There were four of us girls close in age and we grew up as JWs. The PO's wife never bothered to learn our names..she would just brush past us and say "Hi kids" when we were in our late teens and early 20's. Most of the others could never get our names straight. I faded away more than twenty years ago and have never been visited by the elders.
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IDIOT AWARDS FOR THE YEAR.....
by Mary inneed a good laugh?
here are the awards for idiots of the year........... .
when his 38-caliber revolver failed to fire at its intended victim during a holdup in long beach, california, would-be robber james elliot did something that could only inspire wonder: he peered down the barrel and tried the trigger again.
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aarque
If you want to read more about really dumb things people get themselves into, then check out darwinawards.com.
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Should jws eat fried fish?
by badboy ini understand that catholic eat fried fish on friday,as friday is frigga's day and she is a pagan goddess,should jws eat fried fish in view of the pagan connections?
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aarque
Did you hear about the man who ate a nuclear fish? He got atomic ache...
Do you know where fish bring their lawsuits? To small clams court...
How much deeper would the ocean be if it wasn't full of sponges????
Fish is brain food.......you can tell I don't eat any!!!!
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Should jws eat fried fish?
by badboy ini understand that catholic eat fried fish on friday,as friday is frigga's day and she is a pagan goddess,should jws eat fried fish in view of the pagan connections?
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Fish is brain food....you can tell I don't eat it!
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Did you ever get put on the spot?
by Soledad inby that i mean from the platform at the kingdumb hall?
i remember some study conductors who had the habit of calling on people in the audience that seemed distracted or unprepared--on purpose so as to embarass them.
some were so out of it when the mic was handed to them they had to ask what was the question, why did you call on me i didnt have my hand up, etc.
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I remember a time when very young and we studying the "Your Will Be Done on Earth" book on Tuesday nights. The subject matter was way over my head and just before the study was over the conductor asked me to summarize the night's lesson. Of course I couldn't, so after the study, he took me aside and went over the whole night's lesson. I still didn't understand it. After embarrassing me in front of everyone, he totally humiliated me to tears with his comments of my not paying attention.
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Whats the dumbest reason youve been counseled?
by avishai inmy friend was counseled for having a bad attitude because he wore white socks w/ his suit.
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aarque
The first time I was six years old and couldn't stay awake during a Service meeting that ran past my bedtime. The PO told me that I was going to die at Armageddon if I didn't pay attention during the meetings.
In my teens I was talking to a young man my age before a meeting. It just so happened that at the previous meeting a single sister had been DF'd for being pregnant. I was pulled aside by the PO and told that if I didn't watch my step I would end up the same way.
Years later a MS told me that "all married women should wear girdles". I was a good dub and didn't say anything, but it was on the tip of my tongue to say, "what's a married man like you doing looking at other women that way?"
I left a couple of years later and never looked back.