Twinky

IN MEMORIAM Twinkle Twinkle, the family cat, has finally passed on, aged at least 16 years. She was found dead in her kennel this morning. Twinkle was a self-rescue cat. She was abandoned or did not travel with neighbours who moved out from down the road from my Mum, at least ten years ago. The cat wandered around for some months, scrounging what she could. Mum took pity and made a “nest” in a safe covered area. Gradually, the cat found her way into the house and onto laps. Mum did not want the tie of an animal and when she moved to a new house, left the cat with me. When I moved to my present city, the cat remained with Mum in her new home until I was settled. She never left her new home. Twinkle went missing last summer for several weeks (there’s a thread where people prayed for her safe return). She turned up, with her collar round her leg and neck, and with large open sores. The vet pronounced her generally healthy, and the sores would recover; but she was found to have a growth round her tummy which was inoperable. The vet said she would eventually be unable to pass food. Twinkle was a very affectionate cat. When she first came, she was aggressive and earned the name “Slasher” for her adeptness at hitting at people and animals. With kindness, however, she became a most dear and gentle pet. She was very purry and loved to be fondled. I called her a “bendy toy,” as she could be positioned however anyone chose. She enjoyed meeting visitors and sat on everyone’s lap when Mum’s house group came round last Wednesday. Twinkle slowed down, ceasing jumping and wanting to go out about a month ago. She stopped eating significantly about two weeks ago and has been looking for quiet dark hiding places. She did not eat or drink for the last three days and was found curled up in a normal sleeping posture this morning. She has been buried in her favourite spot in the garden. She will be greatly missed.

Sort of like this? There seems to be a nice arial sticking out of the side.

(looks on enviously, as she puts on another sweater and looks at the snow gently settling on the ice on the fish pond)

Hey Cheranne, how about also posting your Pumpkin Biscuits recipe on a thread Pumpkin Pie (and other pumpkin recipes) which is currently halfway down page 1 in In the Kitchen? (Easy to spot, for some reason this thread has acquired 4 (grease?)spots by it.)

Where is it you live, Leafy? Must be warm; those are summer things, not very early spring things. What do you plant in the summer?

No, Leafy, I meant the big stripey one that looks suspiciously like a ... tiger !!! Anyway, back to gardens... Just to show you what a great gardener I am, how timely, how absolutely ready... ... I've only just planted my daffodils and a few tulips. They should have been in the ground in October, latest November. But the weather was wet, cold and generally abysmal. That's my excuse, anyway. Right now, everyone else's daffs are showing 2-4" of leaf. On going to my shed to find the bulbs, what do you know but they have given up on waiting for me and started without me! There are nice little shoots appearing. So I've shoved them in - and some may produce flowers, a little late. They'll do better in the ground than they would in the shed, anyways. And they've certainly had their cold/chill period - well, actually, they're still having it but outdoors now; my fish pond has frozen over again this afternoon and the forecast is for very cold be very cold all this week.

Thanks, yes, there's lots of stuff out there, in booklets and online. Just wondering if people have found them helpful, and not (as prophesied by VPW) that they let you down. If people find them helpful in overcoming or rebutting TWI doctrines. If people found they were enabled to deal with things in their lives, walk closer with God.

Well, it took some of us a looooong time, years, to come to our senses, depending on how long we'd been in and what "level" we had achieved. We have to give him a loooooooooooooong time to come to his senses and then maybe he'll begin to realize, really realize, what he's done. Then, if he tried to go back to TWI (would he?), he'd be on spiritual probation for a further jolly loooooooooong time, supervised by RFR - who is too ambitious and too comfortable to ever give up the Prez-ship. Shedloads of WC did go out and simply start up new fellowships, from scratch, new people they witnessed to. It must be years since LCM "witnessed" to any new person. I reckon he would have tried. Then wondered why nobody wanted to listen to him. Especially if he got into his private interpretation of some of the most basic scriptures that churchy Christians know. Thanks for bringing this thread to Cafe attention again, WW.

Thanks for bringing up that old thread, WW. Interesting.

Thanks, Mark. I know the Buzzard website. I don't think I'd consider the STFI lot, knowing its roots. Yes, there are books out there, some available, some out of print. How to choose from a welter of things that you can't see?

I just found this thread and really have not much to add but thanks, for the very thoughtful posts. The world teaches us "guilt" from an early age. TWI really knew how to push the buttons. VWP (sorry) said it was unethical [was it really "unethical" he used??] to worry about something that you couldn't do anything about. And then he gave us the worry-doubt-fear-unbelief scenario. Maybe guilt fits into unbelief? Dunno, but take him at his word (in this at least) and stop the spiral. If it's unethical to worry about something, it surely must be more unethical to feel guilty about it. I go through periods when I don't bother to read a Bible much. Or at all. Doesn't stop me thinking. Doesn't stop me talking things over with my Dad. It's not a commandment of the Lord to read the bible every day (it was a commandment of TWI). It is a commandment of the Lord to meditate on the scriptures. I have a Bible called "The Passion" by Holman. It seems pretty accurate, is in modern English, is very fresh and many times I think - huh, so that's what KJV was getting at! I can't stand to read KJV but it's what I think, use, if I want to check out a reference. And WG: Hey, God knows you aren't perfect and He loves :wub: you anyway.

Only slightly off topic - Anyone know of any scholarly (well, not too scholarly; something readable) study of the scriptures to support the idea that JCNG? We all read VPW's book, but is there anything else sensible out there? I for one have never believed that JC=G and it was with some astonishment that I came to understand that some people really do believe this. They really do and have prayed for me to receive deeper understanding (LOL).

Mark, give it up. Mike will never change his mind. Stop giving him bigger shovels to dig himself in deeper with.

The fashion show item put me in mind of something from AoS. What the heck do priests want to wear this weird stuff for anyway? In this day and time? Outmoded tradition dating back to medieval times, clerical garb then. And some attempt at Levitical dress. I guess JC just wore what was normal for him. Nothing fancy or special.

Is that your daughter singing? Nice voice!

I've always wondered why different animals ... nah, I can't post that here.

I saw that, TheHighWay and wondered about making up a fake address. You know, logging on as "GreaseSpotCafePatrons" with a hotmail or yahoo address.

Cheranne, have you used any of these little booklets? If so, what have you learned or seen that's helped you? Other Cafe patrons: If you've used this type of booklet but no longer do so, is that because:- It "let you down"? It was not helpful? Or is it just that you are on some other sort of study program/regime/timetable? Or do you prefer to just "do your own thing" when it comes to reading the Bible rather than follow a loosely-structured booklet? A link to the online version for the day, for those who may be interested. One further click will give you the continuing content of the Bible section; click on Main Point for the thought they'd like you to consider for your own life. http://www.scriptureunion.org.uk/2981.id

Secretive, huh? Absolutely no idea of who it is or where they are based. Whoever it is - learned well. And at least they are open in their beliefs and idol-worship of VPW. Now, the integrity of the Word might be at stake, but the integrity of their website is lacking. From the Statement of Beliefs: Two sentences, three errors. Suggesting to me: sloppy workmanship.

Some of you may recall from PFAL that VPW said that these daily bible reading booklets "would always leave you short" or "would let you down just when you really needed help". We weren't told not to read them, but they (along with mainstream churches) were looked down on, and we were discouraged from having anything to do with them. It's easy to see why: it might distract from what was taught in PFAL, and it would give us a source of reference outside TWI so that TWI's control over us could not become a stranglehold. Over several recent months, I have been given the up-to-date bible study booklet - mine's called Daily Bread (from Scripture Union), but there are lots of others. The current readings (for two weeks) are a study of Nehemiah, and the integrity of the life of a leader. Other studies for this quarter include: Journeying with God; Looking back to get ahead; Judgment and mercy. In my bible I have a page that I tore out from the reading for 9 August last looking at Luke 13:10-17 which really hit me in the heart. I wonder if any of you read from these little booklets, and if you find them helpful? They may take you to bible passages that you wouldn't otherwise think to read. They may develop a line of thinking that is new for you. If so, is there anything you would particularly care to share? And before this thread is derailed right from the start, can I just say, it's not not not not NOT about the actual words used by VPW but it's about whether the booklets have helped you see something new, different, or helpful to you.

Mike, I have to say that I admire your dogged persistence on this thread. Can't say I admire your dogged head-in-the-s*** thinking, but you certainly are convinced that you know that you know that you know.

DO NOT POST THESE VIDEOS WITHOUT A HEALTH WARNING!!!!! Just when I thought I had got that danged song out of my head, there Cheranne goes, reminding me to renew my mind. Grrrr, girl!

Hey, I just found this ancient thread. Which is strange because I was just posting on some other thread about RFR owning property. Here is a fresh link to the website mentioned above - the link indicated doesn't work. http://gismaps.cravencounty.com/maps/map_c...04%20%20%20-002 So it's 288 acres valued then at just under £100K of forest but seems to have no building improvements. And it's jointly owned (in a previous name for RFR) with Virginia Fox - a sister?? Our poster is not a happy person about RFR...

Sorry, RR, musta missed that. Got lost under a drift of copyright complaints.

I wonder how much they give away, to help the people in their fellowship/area/branch or whatever these things are called now? I wonder how much they put, financially, into their own community? I wonder... They might be good guys. But the article reads like a commercial. And not for their"secular" businesses.