were you considered a 'good mate'?.
did you feel like a piece of meat?.
guys/girls' opinions welcome.
LMAO @ Phantom. I was your female counterpart then. The mamas all wanted me to marry their son, 'cause I was such a good little witness girl I guess. One even cried when her boy married someone else, because she wanted him to marry me! LOL! Wonder what they'll all say when it comes out I'm a big bad apostate now. But I was such a total geek, all the young brothers were running the other way. hehe.
I'm still a geek... but I married another geek and he likes me fine!
Odrade
i just found out a friend i have know for 2 years,,,,,,,has cancer in a lymp node under her arm pit.
her blood work came back , with spots in it she said, and irregular.
she had breast cancer a year ago and some lumps were taken out,,,,,,,,,she was supposed to be well .. she told me not to cry when she told me the news, and i tried to swollow back the lump , it was on the phone so i could do it not seeing her face.
A good friend of mine is fighting ovarian cancer. She says it makes her feel loved when people donate time to things like race for the cure, or cancer fundraisers, in her name. Then she feels like no matter what happens with her cancer, some little part of her helped make an improvement in this world.
FWIW, I think what you are doing is wonderful. Sometimes I see people living with cancer being strong all the time for their family and friends. Having just one friend that they don't have to be tough for, that they can break down and be sad, or mad or afraid, is really a treasure. It's a treasure for you to be that friend too, even though it is hard for you.
((((dede))))
Odrade
whats your oppinion on gambling?
do you think its wrong?
or more specifically, is it wrong to have a bet with someone over who's going to make it to be a jedi first, especially when the bet involves large amounts of beer for the winner?
My first time in the casino, I won $50 playing the penny train. OMG, it was sooooo boring....
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look kids brainwashing can be fun!.
http://members.tripod.com/~charb46/
hmmm, probably not legal. All the pics are copied out of WTS publications--just minus color if they had it originally. You know how those Crooklyn Bethel attorneys like to go after copyright violations...
Odrade
i'm probably going to regret this post in the morning... piph is in the bathroom right now, trying not to puke, and i'm barely able to compose proper sentences.. i left my credit card behind at a local club, with a tab open... but you know what?
getting drunk is fun!
i don't intend to do it often... it makes one rather disconcertingly vulnerable.
And the winner for today's name play:
Pukerbell
right on. BTW, I only had 4 glasses of wine. No problems... kind of.
most articles in the publications recommended physical punishment, (corporal) when disciplining children.
the scripture says that "he will not die" if you beat him.
so many parents literally beat their children.
sooo----is spanking ok if it is clearly controlled?
Let me tell you about how my parents spanked us, Mini...
(Yes, I've related this before, so here's the short version.) We would "act up," sometimes it was at the meeting--like doing the push-fight over the armrest, sometimes it was during family study, too squirmy, not paying attention. Sometimes it was making too much noise playing on the jungle-gym in the backyard. So, we would get hauled inside for a "spanking." If it was mom, we had to bring a stick from the yard (easier for her to hold), if it was dad, he used a belt. We would get 3 hard blows to the butt. If we jumped around, then the legs were fair game. I jumped around, most of my "spanks" ended up on the backs/sides of my thighs. If we screamed, we got 3 more hits. Scream some more, 3 more. We usually didn't scream.
These "spanks" would leave huge welts, and sometimes bruises. Were the spanks out of control? NO. (at least with my dad... my mom? that's debateable. She would get in a particular rage if we wouldn't cry during the spanking, or particularly if my brother would laugh. Then she would keep hitting him all over the room until her arm got tired.) But with dad, he was doing what was "right" and he was NEVER out of control. He really believed that was the way to discipline. Got lots of commendation from the other elders on how well he disciplined his kids.
I'm not a parent myself, but I have lots of experience with kids, enough to know that effective discipline can be administered without injuring the kid.
I have no problem with spanking. I think a well-timed swat can be worth an hour of talking. But too many in the Org let the oldtimers and hardliners in the congregation teach them how to beat their kids, and convince them that this is godly discipline. It makes me sick.
The sad thing is, when those kids grow up and look back, the kids whose parents beat them out of control are more likely to clearly say "parent, that was wrong, you hurt me." The kid whose parents administered "controlled" beatings, will always be conflicted about who takes the blame...
Odrade
i'm probably going to regret this post in the morning... piph is in the bathroom right now, trying not to puke, and i'm barely able to compose proper sentences.. i left my credit card behind at a local club, with a tab open... but you know what?
getting drunk is fun!
i don't intend to do it often... it makes one rather disconcertingly vulnerable.
nope, not even a buzz here, but ask me after Meetup. It's in 1/2 hour. Whoohoo!
Odrade
things haven't been going so good the last few weeks so i decided to take a time out.
i spent a week in scotland at my aunts, then flew to ireland to see my sister.
i just got back this morning.
Yay Gadget! glad you're back--missed ya.
Odrade
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i just thought about it.. bradley
I was explaining to a counselor about the JW view of "independent thinking"... the look on his face was priceless. "So they think it's good to be a drone?" If it hadn't been such a serious conversation, I would have been rotfl.
Odrade
since so many of us here are having some bad times lately, i thought i would start a thread, just to let off some steam!
you know that new labor law?
the one that allows businesses to not pay overtime?
I'm chapped because I got suckered into going to a JW family gathering tonight instead of playing halloween. A whole LOVELY evening of keeping our mouths shut while they try to re-recruit us back into their cult.
phhhhbt!
