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WN, Those pictures of Hershey are beautiful. I'm sorry for your loss. I know how special my Sampson is to me.

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CM, I'm praying too. You will get through this, keep remembering that. Something that I had to remind myself of all the time was, 'God loves me just the way I am'

rascal, you said a mouthful of truth!

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This article would be funny if not for being so sad!

I remember the first time I had a discussion about the pros and cons of gun control in England and America. A few months laters I saw on the front page of a british newpaper an article reporting on a robbery using a knife. My question at the time was, "so will the British government outlaw knifes next?"

Ron G., do you have the link to the article?

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Good post, thanks!

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I haven't seen either movie ;)--> But I've seen all three LOTR movies about 5 times. Now that's a movie!

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I'll be praying here too!

excathedra, Those are wonderful words by Roy Croft, thanks for posting them. I sent them to my sweety yesterday!

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gc hands David a cup of coffee and chickory. This will wake you up, for sure :D-->

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(edited because my smiley wasn't smiling)

Its pretty plain that the link I provided is a group who named themselves "The Way" and that it has nothing to do with TWI.

Uhm, it was a joke, a play on words. I have a winking guy there and everything. :)-->

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Originally posted by Second James:

...a very gentle guy...not ex -way but on alot of the Christian music stations now & then... JJ

JJ, I was browsing his site and his bio says that he IS ex-way! ;)--> He used to be in a group called http://www.the-way.cc/ The Way ;)-->

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Belle, I wasn't such a good kid either. I liked raising my son a lot better than I would have liked raising me Funny thing, I find my son and I to be very similar in a lot of ways.

My dad used to test me now and then, I guess to see if my brain was working ok. :D--> Once he asked me the difference between a bridge and an over pass, I flunked the test. To this day I never call an over pass a bridge! I have always figured it was because my dad never went further than the 3rd grade. Some of his siblings had a university degree and my mom had a 3 years of university. I was proud of him anyway. He ran his own business, and taught himself the working end of geometry because of the type of business he had, all on a 3rd grade education.

The gal that introduced me to TWI was my sister-in-law at the time. She was looking for the same things I was. I think there were more people truly seeking God and to understand what God wants from us than not. I think we got caught up in the "doing for...". Looking back though, I was trying to do it in my own strength, forgetting that the price was paid.

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Cindy!, I hope you are going to take some pictures of all this and post them here. The whole thing sounds wonderful, and I bet the kids love it :)-->

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With that kind of wisdon, I REALLY can't wait to the next movie! :D-->

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After reading about your family Galen, my family is absolutely normal...almost June and Ward style :D-->

I think my upbringing was basically normal for the times. The only hang-up I have is the word "stupid". I think my father used that word too often. We have some infighting, but I think that's to be expected since there are 8 of us left and most of us are all stubborn and pig headed.

Signals, I'm not sure you can gauge family stability on whether you joined a cult. When I look back on the reasons I joined TWI they were honest. I wanted to understand the bible and know what God was all about. Of course, I know less now then I did before I joined :D-->

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I absolutely hate hurricane season! I hate the boarding up, I hate the constant threat, I hate having to get everything worth anything off the floor, I hate wondering where the hell I'm going to go for the day it hits, I hate having to sit in traffic while escaping the madness and I hate the fear of coming back to a home under water. Did I say I HATE hurricane season? Well, I do!

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I'm wishing the same thing...a safe tour of duty, and a safe trip home again! :)-->

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XLIII

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height

My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight

For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.

I love thee to the level of everyday's

Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.

I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;

I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.

I love thee with the passion put to use

In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.

I love thee with a love I seemed to lose

With my lost saints,--I love thee with the breath,

Smiles, tears, of all my life!--and, if God choose,

I shall but love thee better after death.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Belle, I never brought anyone to twig, not even the man I was married to at the time. I very rarely witnessed to people, if ever. Once I remember a group of us witnessing, or at least we were supposed to, I don't remember actually doing the deed though (could be I played hookie that night). The only time I ever remember going out to witness was when I was 18, belonged to a different organization, I was on Bourbon Street and I was hit on a zillion times. It did no good :shrug:

I never signed anyone up for class either.

Its not that I didn't and don't talk about God, because I do. I just don't set out to talk about God in a witnessing fashion, it just comes up naturally (I think) Of course, when I talked to my family about things, it wasn't so natural since at the time I believed most of them to be heathen since all were Catholics with few beliefs.

I felt badly that I didn't and wouldn't witness, but I would have felt worse if had.

I have come to realize that I think the best way to witness is with our lives.

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Praying here too!

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We've had a Ruth's Chris here for years, but I never could afford to eat there. A few Christmas' ago my son gave me a gift cert. for my fiance and me to go. The food was delicious! Service was perfect! and the atmosphere couldn't have been better. It was a great present. :D-->

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WG, I'm praying for you too. It's sooo important to be happy at your job.

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WN, Thanks. I think I saw something about them some years back, so you might be right.

I agree, when you are taught from birth its so much tougher to get rid of. I know I can still kneel at the right time in a catholic church even though I've only been in one about 5 times in the past 33 years.

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I guess I should have been born a man ;)-->

I have clothes that are 15+ years old. I buy new tennis shoes and jeans because the ones I have have worn out. My mother offers to buy me new clothes and I won't have it! Most of my clothes are not 'trendy', you know, navy suit, khaki suit, black suit for funerals ;)-->, red suit for when I feel like it and 7 pairs of jeans!

I'm moving sometime in the next year so I've been going through all my things deciding what to store, what to take and what to put in a garage sale. I'm having a tough time going through my cook books..NOO, don't make me sell this book I know this will sound gross, but I still have my son's first teeth and his first curl that I snipped off before he had a hair cut at 4. Such precious memories

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I wasn't as cute as that outandabout! :)-->

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CoolWaters, did you watch the show?

I was given this link from a friend about the cult they highlighted.

http://www.rickross.com/reference/polygamy/polygamy186.html

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