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well, I only have 196 more posts to go... PB, I might be half-baked some days, and most days I'm a thick-skinned, crusty fried potato... my grandpa potato was like that... he seemed grumpy as all get out, but he was soft and warm on the inside, like good potatoes should be. I'm almost never au gratin. too runny. whipped potatoes, we won't get into, but it depends on the recipe.

wow, that could have been fun. get a bunch of ex-twits together there on grounds to talk about life after twi. awesome!!

my advice to you, pink, is to go to school if you can. get alimony, as much as you can. your husband will not be fair with you, so get as much as you can now, since alimony will be determined by your circumstances at the time you get divorced. getting a job that keeps you stuck where you are won't help you. you have no retirement and no skills, and most states will take that into consideration in the divorce and make your ex support you for a period of time to allow you to gain skills you need in the job marketplace. I tried to be fair and didn't go for everything I could, and my ex used that against me so that we were actually homeless for a while, and my credit is now in shambles. it's more expensive to fix it later, so please, be ruthless. 25 years is a lot to sacrifice to a man who didn't deserve you.

hehe, that's why I didn't send the letter... I didn't want their version of love coming back my way! now, by posting it here, I've effectively sent it to twi as I'm sure they'll read it. maybe it will do more good for people who have the same doubts I started to feel, as I'm sure it won't change anything in twi. mine too! I could not resist but seriously, my integrity is a valuable possession. they beat us down emotionally and we sold ourselves out as long as we stayed, but we've all got a hold of our integrity again, and twi has none. thanks for the poem, pink... that is very true! I also heard leadership talk about and lie about people all the time. they constantly tore people down to others. real loving, huh. I feel you, pink. it sucks to be completely alone, and those men did not deserve us, or to be called daddy by our children. it makes it hard to carry on some days when you're in it. thank God that he got us out and led us here!

I believe you, dmiller! maybe I haven't posted enough to have the privilege yet. thanks for telling me where to look, and I'll see what one of the resident geeks can tell me.

every day!!!

:unsure: first thing I see is birthday settings.

urine off is a great product!! it kills the smell of cat pee. I've purchased it. now I know I can buy it from a link from greasespot cafe, even better. other ads I need to see are for pond supplies. I'll keep my eyes open. oh paw, cafepress for cups and bumper stickers. I'd buy a sticker for sure. mark them up, this is a good cause. I bought a mug from them a few years ago and the quality is excellent.

Belle, you crack me up yes, thanks to the GS geeks for everything you do! my squeeze is a geek, and I gotta tell you, geek boys are hawt. nothing sexier than a geeky brain in my book. you rewrote the song just right, excie.

I know this has been answered, but I searched and couldn't find the information on how to change the text under my avatar. dmiller is FiddlePicker, WordWolf is something cool in latin, and I sound like a mental case for thinking Raf is a weatherman. how do I change that text?

I really like the new features. I had to grope around a bit to figure out how to reply to a PM, but I'm doing ok now. love the new stuff in controls, and the multi-quote feature rocks!

before I was strong enough to leave twi, I wrote a letter to the BOT. I never sent it, because I knew how it would be dealt with. it would either go straight to the round file, or someone would be given the task of meeting with me to set me straight on my thinking... er... help me get healed. I knew it would make absolutely no difference, because there is no heart there to hear what I had to say. well, here it is... this was written just this past August. amazing how much stronger I am since then, thanks to you fellow greasespotters. sign me, potato

wow... this is from the familytables site, a plug for the Way of Abundance and Power Class... now I'll put a link to their page and cite my source http://www.familytables.net/times/WAP.html and state that I'm quoting it as allowed under section 107 of the Copyright Act. what's horrible about that statement is yes, I did need a family counselor for me and my kids to help us get control of our lives back after what my ex-husband and former Way International fellowship coordinators did to us. the Way International was a figurative prison. my family is now strong together since we've broken the shackles of their oppressive dogma. since leaving the Way International, I've learned to forget the poor advice of their leaders and I have become victorious in my life. I'm now peaceful where their was pain before. I've been set free. Jesus said "the truth shall make you free". the truth is, the Way International is a whited sepulchre of the most putrid kind... full of deliberate and politically motivated doctrinal lies. there are more stories than I can tell here because I can't break the confidence of people who've told me what they've been through at the hands of Way leaders. (ok, this was shamelessly seeded with keywords, but it is absolutely true)

my God, I feel sick to my stomach reading your post. a leader calls for a child... why???? why would he need your child? only one thing I can think of. call the police. your son was very likely molested from what you describe, and definitely abused. call child protection services... call everyone who can help. that pervert who passes himself off as a man of god more than likely required other children to make visits so he could use them, too. try to find those people. my prayers are with you and your son. and yes, get a lawyer! if you need to, set up a paypal donation account. I'm poor but I'll make a donation. for something like this, I will absolutely make a donation. also... do you have any idea what might have been done with the pictures and tapes? if they were distributed, then this might be a federal case.

dude, if you run into one of them I'd say the odds are not in your favor and you should not buy a lottery ticket.

darn, I said footednoted. that makes no darn sense. yes Belle, I think folks like veepee made a direct contribution to the protection that authors presently enjoy.

I'm just not that sweet... I'm kind of crusty on the outside, like I was dipped in batter and fried. but, you can look at my picture and see the mrs. in front of my name

RumRunner, I really like it.

I've heard of leadership advising people to get their families to buy them a house and "renting" it from them... the line went like this "if your parents care about you, they can buy you a house. what better use do they have for their money than helping you move the word?"... uh, let's see... staying in retirement at the age of 70 sounds like a better use to me.

that's the case now, Keith. didn't used to be, but it really isn't right to make people who author something work so hard to retain the rights they should be entitled to, which is why the laws changed over time to be what they are now. the Copyright Act is footednoted, and there's this cool history of copyright law http://www.arl.org/info/frn/copy/timeline.html for people who... uh... are as weird as I am and read stuff like this for fun.

well, potatoes are sort of androgynous, and it's not like I talk about giving birth to my tater tots all the time.... so it's totally ok at least no one calls me a him IRL. that would suck

I was a victim in many respects, by a man who abused me and made others believe he was a godly husband. it hurts. it really, really hurts. I wanted him to see the truth, embrace what was right, but he could not. I was angry for a long time, confused, aghast. then I started to let it go. once you start to let it go, you can turn around and look ahead.... maybe only over your shoulder at first. we all get there at our own pace. sometimes it takes many hands to help us keep our direction on the path. maybe this was what Paul was talking about when he said forgetting the things that are behind. you don't ever forget. you can't. but you stop remembering so much. then you start loving life again. Elizabeth, I felt like you did when my husband chose the unwise, ungodly counsel of others over the reasoning words of his own wife. here's to looking ahead. God bless you.

what I've been hearing is that twi doesn't want to lose more people, and they aren't attracting new people, so they're changing policy to try to keep people around. of course they can't come out and say twi policy is/was bull-doo, so they just quietly change it on the sly and and never explain themselves. at least lcm had a plausible excuse for making up dumb rules... you know, God told him.

heck no, I agree with you. he entered an established system and thrived for quite a while... you do bring up something interesting... anyone think that RR might be seed of the serpent? I'm not saying whether I believe the seed teachings as twi taught them, that's beside the point, but she fits the AOTS character list quite well, IMO.

somehow I manage to avoid working for free for the most part. I did participate in some work days, then of course hosted and fed in-residence corps so they could come out on the field and work for free (it was a learning experience, to teach them stewardship). in fairness, the FC couple who I hate because of their support of my abusive ex-husband, who were horribly abusive to everyone around them, actually paid me to babysit for them and didn't expect me to do anything else while I was there.... but they could afford a domestic to come in and clean and didn't have to justify the expense to HQ. in that area, everyone was expected to help everyone with special projects and moving, it got spread around pretty evenly. the worst events were a couple of weddings where most of the fellowship members were work crew and not guests at the reception... just free labor. that sucked, because supposedly we were friends of the couples getting married and we were completely excluded from the festivities. I've got my wedding planned to cost almost nothing and be as much fun as possible. I can't see giving someone a job that keeps them so busy they don't get to enjoy the day, when they got the job in the first place as some kind of stupid honor because they're such a good friend.