CoolWaters

My husband didn't give me permission to show you all my boobs...so please, Pawtucket, don't ruin my fun! ;)-->

Seaspray...

Happy Belated Birthday!

Happy Belated Birthday!

Better late than never...Happy Birthday!

Ginger...

Chwester, your image is not showing because the url you're putting in between the tags is incorrect.

Here is a screen shot of the html to make the image of the screen shot show here (there are no spaces at all in the url...it just looks that way because of wrapping text...so don't put any spaces in the url...but there is a space between img and src):

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[This message was edited by CoolWaters on June 16, 2003 at 9:21.]

Happy Happy to one and all! :D-->

Beautiful! Did you write this? It is awesome! Thank you for posting this...my hubs teared up. :D-->

Happy Belated Birthday!

Finally decided that I'm no more offended by this than I am by "dumb blonde" jokes. Just had to think about it for awhile.

However I would like to say that there are many, many jokes/satires/etc. that go beyond funny...and that I don't laugh at those.

I don't think I was offended by this thread...but I'm not sure because of the turn it took when someone pointed out that other groups could be made fun of, too.

Maybe that's just me. It is uncomfortable to be laughed at, but I know people do laugh at me. Of course, I'd rather be laughed at than taunted, teased, tormented, etc.

I tell you what, though...I'd go to that beach if I could afford it! In a heart beat.

The assumption that fat people would go to a beach just to eat is kinda weird, though. I'd go to that beach so that I would be able to swim without the sniggers, jeers, torments, etc. I am a very good swimmer. Swimming is the absolute best exercise for someone of my size because it is low impact and does not endanger the joints...and even just languid "dog-paddling" or floating is a whole lot more exercise than the quarter block I am able to walk without extreme pain. Swimming is also very relaxing for me...I am a water child and to be wholly in the water is nearly a religious experience for me.

Thank you Mandii. :)-->

Kit, Dot, Mark, vickles...thank you very much. :D-->

Our day was so very wonderful. It was the first day in many years that forgiveness had come back into our relationship.

Thank you very much, act2.

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Dear Bill (my hubs),

Today it is 23 years that we've been married.

It hasn't been easy, has it?

We started our marriage in twi. We nearly ended our marriage because of twi or twi offshoots.

We've been through heart attacks, cancer, car wrecks, loss of children, repeating of cyclic behavior we both learned while growing up, homelessness, extreme poverty, separations, therapy, loss of extended family members, and a whole bunch of crap. Not too long ago I told you that I didn't know if I ever loved you...or if you ever loved me.

Bill, on this our anniversary, I am publicly telling you I'm sorry for all of the sorrow I've ever brought into your life...and I forgive you for any sorrow you've brought into mine.

I am also publicly telling you Thank You.

Thank you for staying around when it would have been much simpler and less sorrowful for you to have sought another life.

Thank you for all the work you've done and are doing to make things better for all of us.

Thank you for helping me to raise Katy and staying to raise Micah.

Thank you for being the only and the best Grandpa Renee has now.

Thank you for praying when you knew there was nothing else to do.

Thank you for showing me this beautiful country.

Thank you for never letting me get set in my fears.

Thank you for cheering me on when I'm scared to death of doing something.

Thank you for our home.

Thank you for going to work every day at a job where you aren't appreciated and that you can't stand.

Thank you for keeping our dreams in mind.

Thank you for planning on growing old together.

We don't have much. I can't take you to dinner tonight. You can't have flowers delivered to me.

But, Bill, we do have each other, our children, and now our granddaughter.

It's all I've ever wanted.

Thank you.

I love you...and I know you love me.

And...

Happy Anniversary, baby...got you on my mind.

So glad to read this, Dot!

Did you ever find out what it was?

Goodbye, Judge Buchele.

I will remember you always as teaching me a little bit about mistakes and forgiveness.

Johnny...you're in Alaska? Wow. What part, if you don't mind me asking.

My daughter and I used to live with the Mo (when she was married to S****)...back in the bad old days of my twi life. Our son was born in Palmer, but I don't recognize the folks names you mentioned.

Do you know if Annie (don't remember her last name) and her husband are still in Wasilla? Or Chuck and Lorna P*** in Big Lake? Do you ever talk to Mike? I would love to hear from/about any of these folks.

YW, Steve. I just remember vpw (and others) always saying, "You have to be possessed to commit murder." I believed it then...because it explained why my father would murder my mother...but now that I've grown up a little bit, I wonder if the OT folks were possessed when they were told to murder others. Things like that make me think...

Something that I have realized after dumping my twi-tainted glasses when reading the bible...

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19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. -Galations 5:19-21(KJV)

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To me, this is setting a difference between what is of the flesh and what is of the spirit. To me, if these things were "of demons", would it not say as much?

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Originally posted by Steve Lortz:

True, they appear to have access to some "laws" of physics that we don't yet understand, but that doesn't mean they aren't subject to the same physics as ourselves.

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I get you now...and I think I agree with you.

From what I've learned and experienced and seen written, the "spirits" must use what is already there...i.e., atoms, molecules, etc. A good example of this is ectoplasm, I think.

Did I get you? Or not?

Dot, please tell us that you've gone to the doc's and you're getting medical attention. Prayer is terrific...but ya gotta get some medical attention, too...as of course you know.

Again, let us know how it goes.

(BTW...I'm with mj on this one...sounds like it might possibly have been a plant.)

OK, Steve, I'm trying to follow what you're saying...but something's slowing me waaaaaaaayyyyyyy down.

So there is not a spiritual realm and a physical realm? Is that what you're saying?

Mike! You've got a sense of humor! I'll be danged...whodda thot? :D-->