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  What Were You Doing When You Found Out about 9-11 5 Years Ago??

  by mama1119 in

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  everyone has a story about what they were doing and the emotions that followed after the twin towers were hit...what is your story?

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  we were living just outside d.c. at the time, and i had just gotten back from dropping my girlfriend off at the metro station. she was under the pentagon at the train stop when the pentagon was crashed into. it took me about 3 1/2 hours to go 15 miles to pick her up. there was a huge black cloud in the sky, and no planes overhead for the next few days. it was eerie. a friend of mine worked in the towers, but got an unexpected phone call to go to a meeting instead of to her office, thus narrowly missing being in the second building.

  -- puck
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  Scissor Sisters Appreciation Thread

  by Crumpet in

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  i don't understand why scissor sisters have not taken off in america the way they have here!.

  i've been dying to see them and i managed to get tickets before they sold out for wembley in november this morning.. has anyone seen them live?

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  i love them -- they're one of my favorites.

  crumpet, i'm *insanely* jealous!
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  Film: Grizzly Man

  by MegaDude in

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  what a whacked out character timothy treadwell was.. this documentary and story, told mostly through treadwell's own video, is about a man who wanted to be a friend of grizzly bears and perhaps maybe be a grizzly bear.

  he took off for alaska where for long stretches of time he would "commune" with these huge killer bears and film them.

  he seemed to think he had nothing to fear because he was operating at a higher level of spirituality and that the bears sensed it.

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  i saw this movie when it first came out over here. the bear that killed him wasn't one of "his" bears -- he stayed longer in the bear territory than usual, and the bear that killed him apparently hadn't gotten enough food to store up during hibernation. i do wish that we'd gotten to see more of timothy treadwell's footage -- i think it's a very interesting story, even if he was quite a bit unbalanced. and i also think it was pretty cool that he was on a one-man campaign to save the bears by going to local schools and talking to the kids about it.
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  Whats the tallest tale you've spun and someone's believed it?

  by misspeaches in

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  i was just remembering how one day i told my good friend that bed mattresses are made out of cigarette butts.

  well i must have been very convincing because about a week later i happened to over hear her telling someone else about this 'fact'.

  i had to quickly stop her and tell her that i had only been joking!.

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  i convinced my girlfriend that i had a prostate. i told her it was a "genetic anomoly" and runs in my family. (i'm a woman...) she was so mad when i *finally* confessed.
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  describe yourself...

  by Calliope in

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  come on, be vain for a moment.

  maybe you haven't posted your picture because you're trying to maintain some level of anonymity, .

  maybe you have posted your picture... .

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  i'm 5' 1" (and 1/2). i'm slender, with very short naturally red hair, although it's getting more brownish as i get older. right now it's platinum (every summer). i, too, am a freckle-face and burn easily.

  i have a dry, sarcastic sense of humor, except when i hear a dumb joke. those crack me up. i am easily amused. apparently i'm funny and cute. i also get angry fairly easily the last few years, but don't do much about it.

  i work in a coffee house, so i deal with the public a lot. i don't much care for it.

  i'm obsessive-compulsive about cleaning and counting. i often have insomnia.

  i tend to be generous, cranky, serious, and kind -- sometimes all at once.

  that's quite enough for now...
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  Fluff Topic for the evening: What would you have pursued if you could have?

  by restrangled in

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  i had 3 loves, art, dance and animals.

  how i wish i could have followed up on one of those 3. i have picked up gardening of exotic plants, ....doesn't pay anything but brings me joy.. what was the dream you gave up beacause of being a jw?

  tell us if you have picked up that dream or found another!.

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  thanks, robdar!

  we've done a lot of shows in the past (and my gf recently got her master's in directing), but this is our first effort at having our own company... hopefully it goes well... see, even if you *were* raised a jw, you can still do what you wanted sometimes.

  puck
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  Fluff Topic for the evening: What would you have pursued if you could have?

  by restrangled in

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  i had 3 loves, art, dance and animals.

  how i wish i could have followed up on one of those 3. i have picked up gardening of exotic plants, ....doesn't pay anything but brings me joy.. what was the dream you gave up beacause of being a jw?

  tell us if you have picked up that dream or found another!.

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  i would have done a lot more theatre, too. but it's not too late! my girlfriend and i are in the middle of getting our own theatre company up and running -- our first show opens the end of this month. (and let me tell you... none of the witnesses i know would approve of it! all the better! )

  puck
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  The Fourth of July, and Letting Go

  by under_believer in

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  background for those who are not aware of my situation: my wife is an active, faithful witness.

  i am inactive and in the process of attempting to fade.

  we were both raised "in the truth.

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  i know what you mean, ub... i've only just started celebrating things in the past few years (due mostly to my wife), and still have a huge sense of guilt and a bit of horror that i've started celebrating any of the holidays that were so anathema to me when i was a witness... so don't tell my mom, okay?
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  Who has Tattoos?

  by Good Girl or Bad Girl? in

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  hey y'all,.

  how many of you have tattoos, and if so what are they?

  what is the meaning, if any, behind them?

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  puck

  i have two -- one says "puckish" (all the letters are combined, so it looks like a design, not words) on my stomach, and one on my back, just above my right hip -- it's an imp. i'm planning on getting an arm band soon... something from edward gorey, maybe "the uninvited guest". i also have my tongue pierced -- boy did that freak everybody out the first time i went home for a visit!

  -- puck
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  I'd love to hear from anyone who grew up in the truth and is gay

  by PaulMarshall in

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  hi.. i have decided to join this site and hopefully connect with some people who will know what my story has been.

  i guess it is best to read my profile, but the upshot of this new found technology is that i am no longer alone in my isolation.

  i can hopefully reach out and connect with people who really understand what it is like in my head!

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  puck

  hi paul --

  i'm gay, too, and left the organization about 9 years ago or so. my homosexuality was a big part of that. it was really hard to hear how horrible i was for feeling something i couldn't control. i was also very involved -- a regular pioneer, my dad was a ms, and i *almost* got married, but backed out shortly before the wedding. welcome! this is a good place to be, even if you aren't in the middle of coming out anymore (either as "a gay" , or as a witness).

  cordy -- i love buffy, too! and angel -- cordelia is even better on that show!

  -- puck