Topics Started by Fleur
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Slaying the Demons in My Basement Part One
by Fleur inever since we moved into this place almost eight years ago, there have been demons in my basement.
no, not those kinds of demons.
not the smurf-controlling, videogame-inhabiting and musically-backmasked, legendarily-jw-feared sort of demons.
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"Jehovah our Rock, our strength, and our might..."
by Fleur inin among the bags and boxes of keepsakes that my mother gave to me from my grandmother's belongings, something of an emotional nuclear bomb was hiding on me.
or more like a landmine; because i didn't realize the damage it could do until it was too late to do anything about it.
mom had given me first choice of most of grandma's things, knowing how close we were, and i had wanted the box of ancient k-mart brand cassette tapes, now 30 years old, which had recordings of her voice, and mine, when i was tiny.
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Aye, Avast!
by Fleur inomg i wish i'd gotten tickets for the midnight premiere of pirates of the carribean, dead man's chest!.
i probably won't get to see it until next week but i'm just on pins and needles...jack sparrow can do no wrong in my eyes...my god i cannot wait to see this movie!!!.
anyone going this weekend???
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JW's commit the biggest sin IMO, wasting time pretending that...
by Fleur inpeople who are alive, are dead.. in their half witted brain washed wtbts indoctrination, they are taught that they have to shun people they love if they find themselves out of the borg's good graces.
doesn't matter what the 'crime' is, could be simply disagreeing with something in a wt article, could be any one of a million things.
it's not always the "big f" that gets people disfellowshipped.
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Moms: watch the message you send to your children about dieting
by Fleur inthis should be obvious but i wonder sometimes if we moms realize how much influence we have directly over our children no matter what we say because of our own body image and our own food issues.. recently i have been losing weight after discontinuing several medications known to add weight to you.
my daughter picked up on the fact i have also eliminated a lot of the sugar (most of it) from my diet and has begun wondering if she needed to go on a diet.
she is very athletic and has not a bit of body fat, so i sat her down straight away and explained to her that the weight i gained was unhealthy for me and that the medication was the main reason, that it has nothing to do with her or her body.. i am so worried about navigating the coming teen years with body issues for her because i had such bad problems with this in my own teens and adult life too.
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"Leaving the Saints" By Martha Beck
by Fleur inhas anyone read this whole book yet?.
beck has always been a favorite of mine, and i bet there are a lot of similiarities here to what many jws have been through in leaving/abuse issues...but honestly i don't know if i have it in me right now to read the whole thing.. it looks like a fabulous book, though.
excerpt here.... http://www.leavingthesaints.com/excerpt.html.
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Holidays: It's all about gratitude
by Fleur in"holidays" have nothing to do with religion anymore anyway!".
it looked like, to many of them, the most religious experience associated with the whole thing was knowing they got.
the fictitious bajorans supposedly have a great celebration every year known as the gratitude festival.. .
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What would these people think of JW's?
by Fleur inif they're upset over the dismissal of one sunday school teacher, what would they think of the headship 'arrangement' which ensures women will always be second class citizens (third, or fourth, actually, after teenaged boys and children who happen to be boys!
) and women praying with napkins on their heads?.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/us/08/21/menonly.sundayschool.ap/index.html.
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Worth your time, please read.
by Fleur in.
sometimes it takes a child to cut through the beaurocratic nonsense and get to the heart of the matter.. http://cuddletheorphans.com/index.htm?sub=article&id=27.
hearing this child read her book...be prepared.
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Has anyone heard from Dedalus?
by Fleur ini've had him and his family on my mind lately, wondering how he is and i miss him.
wonder if they've added any more little ones to the family?
:d. does anyone know whereabouts he is these days?