JavaJane

They're actually very fun and love water - they're related to the Porteguese Water Dogs - same family.

Is it just me, or do these dogs have mullets? Because that would be a manly haircut, now wouldn't it?

Glad you're smarter than that, Smarter. Nice to see you here.

I did some sleepwalking in my pre-teen years... embarassed the hell out of my parents when I walked down the stair butt-a$$ naked into the kicthen where they had some male friends hanging out. Woke up when my Dad took me upstairs. I was embarassed as hell about that one.

and I had a babysitter tell me that I walked downstairs one night and told her that I really wished we could have world peace. I then went back to bed.

Not as exciting as Johnny's...

Is sleepwalking common in pre-teens?

Read it to my husband and he laughed and laughed and eloquently put it "that's frucked up!"

How about, if you know what "self-structured vertical" time means?

Oh yeah, it means you let someone tell you that you can't take a nap even during "free" time.

That's f***ed up!

Well Johnny, that is kinda neat. Just wonder, how many details do you remember? Time of day, weather, etc?

I often dream that I'm levitating as I'm moving around. I can direct the direction I'm going mentally in the dream. It is kinda neat when I KNOW I am dreaming.

But it is always a night scene. Maybe I'm a "creature of da night"

Maybe you're a flying squirell, but you don't really know it - kinda like that scene in Dumbo where they get drunk and start flying and end up in a tree... But I suppose you usually wake up in a tree, right, Mr. Ham?

There is a whole lot of "junk" DNA they have not idea what it does.. and the pattern is passed on.

Personally, I think we are all connected, somehow. All part of some greater whole.

Jung talks about archetypical images. They seem to be wired in somewhere.. common to people across cultures.

Yes. Archetypes are incredibly interesting. Seems like there are only a few stories to be told, but a infinate variety in the telling. I read a very interesting book several years ago (that got thrown out as being "devilish" ) on the various similarities tying together fairy tales across many different cultures... Hansel and Gretal is a great example - there are tons of stories of children abandoned by their parents and picked up by witches or monsters... Even in cultures (like some Native American tribes) where child abandonment is unheard of.

The wicked stepmother is another recurring character, as is the dead mother who protects her children after death in some other form...

I love that stuff. It's incredible what has been hard wired into us as human beings.

As for dreams... I have a recurring one about a house - it's different on the outside but the same on the inside every time I see it. It could be anywhere, and look like anything, but once I go inside, it's always the same. I used to run away from the house because when I would get to one specific room it would turn into a horror movie... It doesn't do that too much anymore. It's mainly just surreal now - like something out of a Lewis Carroll book...

Any takes on this one? I have my own theories, but I want to hear what you guys think. The first time I dreamt this dream I literally thought it was a house I used to live in as a kid, because the memories were so REAL, like I had been there before, but when I looked back on it and examined all the houses I have ever lived in, none of them were like this one. Inside it is opulent and plush, but a little run down... and it's OLD.

I'm trying to learn how to whistle in and out, but have not yet mastered it.

The revolving door got to be too much. I finally just walked through and never looked back.

Yeah... I know the feeling.

"Don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya!"

Love it!! (And yet hate it at the same time!)

My books were gone through as well - and a lot of good ones got the torch - ones I wish I had now.

What a waste! You could have used that book on witches so you could see the witch-hunt they were on a little bit clearer!

INSANITY!!

Speaking of tacky weddings, anyone get married in the BRC at HQ? I can remember those weird trellises they would set up for weddings.... Didn't they have some script at the top or something?

Still got 'em last time I attended one... Can't remember what was at the top.

But I can still remember that terrible red carpet and the distinct smell of the BRC. I imagine it would be hard to match those colors for a wedding...

Was talking to some people at work about weddings today and they told me that the tradition here in the styx is to go home and change into "nice bar jeans, a blouse, and heels," and bring your own booze. Of course, these girls also told me that when they get married they just want hot wings and pizza ordered so the clean up would be easy.

Since I am from the city, I was a bit taken aback. I've been to western and country themed weddings where people wore denim and it was very nice...

....but what the heck are "BAR JEANS?"

If St.Victoronius' ecclesiastical succession at the sacred city of New Knoxville were even one iota of half the man the holy father had imagined himself to be - or wished to be -, the first session of "the Power" would be broadcast 'round the globe for free - to every man, woman, young person and child and any other created thing above, below and upon the inhabited planet. The Path would be broadcasting its doctrines 24 hours a day via satellite and shortwave, drawing from the archives of the sacred father's recorded utterances from the BRC on the mount.

DVD sets of the Power would slide through the pews like hot pancakes.

And everybody would be talking about it.

And there would be much dancing of wallets and pocketbooks,

leaping for joy in New Knoxville.

But we live in the Dark Universe.

Dan, that was beautiful.

still looking for this character to show up here..

That crazy darn squirrel is talking to himself again

My husband doesn't seem to have that gene that makes him want to be accepted in a group... He missed that section of the genetic code - so he never gave a crap what anyone thought ever about his relationship with me. I think more than anything he was just sooper-dooper proud of himself that he caught me and liked showing me off to all the leaders who had told him to back off of pursuing me and focus on spritiual matters.

Me, on the other hand, was a different story - I was always trying to get him to do things in the pre-approved twi method, which he didn't give a rat's butt about anyway, but did some of it just to keep people off my back.

:wub: :wub: :wub:

Welcome to Hell.

(That is twi. We learned to bait and set snares for each other, only to fall in ourselves.)

How very very true, Mr. B. Sorta like the blind leading the blind falling into a ditch...

Ironic about Donna M. I remember roa '81; during one afternoon she taught about what it is to be a woman believer and she actually addressed some of the stuff said on this thread. She said she had seen women who, when single, were dynamic, bold, enthusiastic about life, etc. but after they married, they lost their fizz and became like Stepford wives or non persons, as stated on this thread. DM was not happy about this; said it was wrong.

What an example of how what was preached was not practiced!

The moment when I knew something was really wrong in this category was when I had done a very hot teaching about loving God - so hot that people after fellowship didn't get up for a while because we were all talking about the teaching with smiles (real ones) on their faces - I got pulled aside moments later and told that I needed to get some help on my teaching skills, because I really came across as being bossy.

What response are you supposed to have for something like this? People were blessed, excited, and happy. I did my job. I did not teach something that was wrong doctrine (I did ask) - nope, my "tone" wasn't submissive enough.

Well... There's how "women who, when single, were dynamic, bold, enthusiastic about life, etc. but after they married, they lost their fizz and became like Stepford wives or non persons" - they get beat down and conditioned to respond like Stepford wives.

Don't get excited about God or His Word and show it - and God help you as a woman if you can get a spark out of a room full of people who have been bored out of their minds for weeks on end!

Praying here as well.

I have to admit - I did try really really hard for a while to be a good obedient submissive wife who does everything her husband says, but my husband would not have it.

He likes a good fight... probably one of the reasons I married him.

We got into a long discussion one night about why my personality had changed since we got married - why did I seem like such a wimp?

See, when we met, he pretty much decided almost immediately that I was going to be his wife... I told him he was full of it, and that basically, he didn't stand a chance in hell. He grew on me when I saw how he didn't allow people to push him around, but when he saw that he was wrong in a situation, he changed. He's a very good man... and he loved me even though I was a bitch to him at first. He liked that I didn't back down easily, either.

Anyway, why was I such a wimp? I told him that I thought I was supposed to be submissive and obey him. He said - "OK. Then obey this - I WANT you to DISAGREE with me. I command it as you husband!"

Ever since then we've been fine. We fight. We make up. We fight. We make up. It's all good... and as we get more and more used to each other, we fight less...

He likes independant smart women... For you Tolkien folks, I knew he was the guy for me when he thought Eowyn was the woman he would want out of the Lord of the Rings - not Arwen. He wanted the woman who would fight!

Nothing like eating your alcohol!!

Get some cherry or grape tomatoes, and thread them on skewers... throw those on the barbeque - keeps them little buggers from falling down the cracks!

Speaking of stopping the cleanse early...

...On day 6 of fasting, I could stand no more and went to a Mexican restaurant with some friends...I ate a combination plate and had two beers...it was fabulous!...until I got home!

I just about made it to the comode (running and pulling my pants down at the same time)...I EXPLODED!...afterwards, I laid on the couch, white as a sheet and shook for several hours...it was horrible. :(

You poor, poor, poor, thing!

And if you were living on staff...

Those poor, miserable, pitiful housekeepers!!!!

Another way to know you're at a twi wedding:

Bachelor parties with a 2 drink limit and your clergy's wife doing a strip tease (heard from a real good friend - he wanted a LOT more to drink when that one happened!)

Bridal showers with cheap gifts because no one has the money to spend on anthing since they are busy living the ABUNDANT LIFE (not.)

I could go on and on... But I have to go back to work.

Love ya all!

Jane

Groucho,

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Maybe some Kool-aid? 'Ya know.. I always LIVED for those break times though about all we ever got was weak coffee and carrot and celery sticks. But we could smell the coffee brewing about 30 minutes before break. No half and half for it though... got coffee creamer. And ranch dressing for carrots and celery. That was probably a Grace Bliss thingee.

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Not in any class where I was in charge, buddy!! Best coffee around - strong stuff - with half and half and maybe some of those frilly creamers... and finger sandwiches, or homemade cookies, or cinnamon rolls... MMMMmmmmMMMMmmmm....

I ain't called "Java" Jane for nothin'

I made sure that coffee was darn strong for those of us on the crew, 'cause Lord knows we were WIPED OUT and falling asleep in the back row most nights.

JavaJane... I can "one up" that...

You know you are in TWI if you've done a coffee enema! :blink:

Yuck. Probably with day old stretched coffee, too, huh?

You have been on a group colon cleanse mandated by God Himself.

(proving they were all full of sh!t and new it!)

I'm just glad I never became the full-fledged Stepford Wife with perfect pre-approved haircut and makeup... Nope. Never did.

And my husband cleans the house while I bring home the bacon and fry it up in the pan...

Anyone else find that their teachings suddenly needed to be critiqued immediately after they were married? I did. Before marriage, I was told I had a gift ministry in teaching...

Guess that was conferred to my husband when we got married.

You know you're in twi if you the color of your nametag determines your position in the body of Christ.

Nametags? We don't need no stinking NAMETAGS!!

I think that little note was about the McMullen trespassing incident. Got him barred from even thinking about aproaching twi grounds..

Funny she calls it "victory" after the martindale fiasco..

"we have PREVAILED!!!!"

It was about McMullen - I heard it as a direct quote from her own mouth.