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Watching this video with the 4-year-old french fries that look exactly like "fresh" ones ALMOST made me drive past Mickey D's last night. I expected to have trouble eating french fries from there again, but no-o-o-oh. I did get chicken selects instead of my usual quarter-pounder with cheese, but I ate the fries like I normally do and didn't even think of how nasty they really are. Kinda like hot dogs, which I enjoy very rarely, but if I stop to think about it I won't eat hot dogs. Whew, close one there! :wacko:

Funny stuff!

We ended up with about a half-dozen chatters last night. It went really well. It really felt good to be in touch "real time", in my not so humble... I'm going to try to be there again this evening around 9-10 pm Eastern Time. You might consider checking it out.

I'm there now with a couple GS fellas - it's very cool!

My daughter laughed out loud when she saw your avatar, Shell! She was looking at Jeff's and enjoying it when she glanced up and saw yours and asked me what that said. Oh, she laughed hard!

As a matter of fact, yes, you can say nozzle here. Not only that, you can say douche chills (as defined by an urban dictionary I found online), douchebag, douchey, all sorts of douch-abilities!!! And wait!!! There's more!!! You can actually get these definitions on a mug! No kiddin, eh - I wouldn't douche ya!!! Here's the link: http://www.urbandict...m=douche+chills douche chills 94 up, 20 down The intense feeling, very similar to a shiver up your spine, that can be invoked simply from being in the presence of a douche bag. Usually triggered by a specific douchey act or statement. Here's more from the same wonderful site!!! douche chills 32 up, 15 down Originally from the Howard Stern Show in the 1980s, when Robin described friends of hers experiencing a shiver while cleansing their vaginal palette. Howard generalized this to mean a kind of overload of the senses. This first episode was re-aired on the "History of Howard Stern" broadcast during the last week of 2008. Hearing someone else get credit for that term just gives me douche chills. douche chills 3 up, 3 down the chills you receive when someone is acting like a TOTAL douche. the only cure is to destroy said persons babymaker and put them in their place. im gettin some serious douche chills from you. i couldnt handle the douche chills 24/7 so i broke up with him. he gave us all serious douche chills so we destroyed his babymaker and hes aight now. douche chills 14 up, 36 down A 2008 expansion team in the La Resistance Football League. Wow, the Douche Chills are so good this year, they give me douche chills. Okay, I'm done. For now. Oh, and yes, I get your initial point. Same thing happens to me sometimes. I get really surprised at what people think they need to post on the world wide web for all to see... Makes me wanna stop posting altogether. Well, almost. LOL

you seek out what you believe will be wise counsel from your limb leader regarding challenges other "believers" accuse you of having (but you don't seem to see) because of your marriage to an "unbelieving believer". You are convinced by said limb leader that the "unbelieving believer" is holding you back in your service to God and that your only two choices are to either stay married and never achieve your potential with God or leave the "unbelieving believer" and go wow (grow spiritually ten years in one!). So you leave the person you swore before God to love, honor and cherish til death do you part, go wow and into the family corpse only to be tossed out in the first week for being found out to be a lesbian sneaking a child molesting homosexual teenager onto "their" campus. Of course, you've sold all your possessions and poured every penny you had into the so-called theological education program so where are you gonna go and how are you gonna get there? And of course, they never allow you to know or face your accusers. Yeah, definitely way screwed up. Survivable, but outrageously screwed up.

Cool!

Or when they kick you out for being a lesbian when you know damn well you're not (not that I agree that it would be reasonable to kick me out if I were... I'm just sayin')

I figured it'd be seen by more if I put it here. How many people do you think would've seen it if it were in the Doctrinal Forum? LOL

Always a treat to hear this delightful song! Thanks, Waysider!

The Children's Bible in a Nutshell In the beginning, which occurred near the start, there was nothing but God, darkness, and some gas. The Bible says, 'The Lord thy God is one, but I think He must be a lot older than that. Anyway, God said, 'Give me a light!' and someone did. Then God made the world. He split the Adam and made Eve. Adam and Eve were naked, but they weren't embarrassed because mirrors hadn't been invented yet. Adam and Eve disobeyed God by eating one bad apple, so they were driven from the Garden of Eden.....Not sure what they were driven in though, because they didn't have cars. Adam and Eve had a son, Cain, who hated his brother as long as he was Abel. Pretty soon all of the early people died off, except for Methuselah, who lived to be like a million or something. One of the next important people was Noah, who was a good guy, but one of his kids was kind of a Ham. Noah built a large boat and put his family and some animals on it. He asked some other people to join him, but they said they would have to take a rain check. After Noah came Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Jacob was more famous than his brother, Esau, because Esau sold Jacob his birthmark in exchange for some pot roast. Jacob had a son named Joseph who wore a really loud sports coat. Another important Bible guy is Moses, whose real name was Charlton Heston. Moses led the Israel Lights out of Egypt and away from the evil Pharaoh after God sent ten plagues on Pharaoh's people. These plagues included frogs, mice, lice, bowels, and no cable. God fed the Israel Lights every day with manicotti. Then he gave them His Top Ten Commandments. These include: don't lie, cheat, smoke, dance, or covet your neighbor's stuff. Oh, yeah, I just thought of one more: Humor thy father and thy mother. One of Moses' best helpers was Joshua who was the first Bible guy to use spies. Joshua fought the battle of Geritol and the fence fell over on the town. After Joshua came David. He got to be king by killing a giant with a slingshot. He had a son named Solomon who had about 300 wives and 500 porcupines. My teacher says he was wise, but that doesn't sound very wise to me. After Solomon there were a bunch of major league prophets. One of these was Jonah, who was swallowed by a big whale and then barfed up on the shore. There were also some minor league prophets, but I guess we don't have to worry about them. After the Old Testament came the New Testament. Jesus is the star of The New. He was born in Bethlehem in a barn. (I wish I had been born in a barn too, because my mom is always saying to me, 'Close the door! Were you born in a barn?' It would be nice to say, 'As a matter of fact, I was.') During His life, Jesus had many arguments with sinners like the Pharisees and the Democrats. Jesus also had twelve opossums. The worst one was Judas Asparagus. Judas was so evil that they named a terrible vegetable after him. Jesus was a great man. He healed many leopards and even preached to some Germans on the Mount. But the Democrats and all those guys put Jesus on trial before Pontius the Pilot. Pilot didn't stick up for Jesus. He just washed his hands instead. Anyways, Jesus died for our sins, then came back to life again. He went up to Heaven but will be back at the end of the Aluminum. His return is foretold in the book of Revolution.

Stinkin' hacker freaks! I've changed my passwords today. I'm glad you weren't mugged at gunpoint over there - that sure would've ruined your nonexistant resort vacation over there! I just had some big issues with one of my computers with malware, spyware, and trojans - I suspect they got to me through facebook and I barely ever go there. I ended up needing a new hard drive and am so thankful for all the available free antivirus, antispyware, antimalware, etc... Quite a reminder of why we need to keep up on our "housecleaning"!!!

and I don't think there's been any gs gatherings in the midwest besides the gs girls gone wild a few years back... I'd be up for something if there was interest - I might be able to attend one in another area even - haven't done any traveling in too long! The Weenie Roasts I attended were fabulous and very well worth all it took to get to them. Oh, and no, Tommy - I've not happened upon any gsers without knowing ahead of time I was going to. Very cool that you did!

How rude were you - you ask? Why, no ruder than I was when my Roman Catholic sister-in-law presented me with a lovely sterling silver cross necklace with a diamond on it and as she watched in anticipation of my being delighted to receive such a beautiful gift and instead I asked her "If Jesus had come today and been put to death by electric chair, would you have bought me one of those babies on a chain?" Yeah, we really sucked big-time, but I really try to look at those episodes as I think God does - he looks on our hearts. Our hearts weren't to hurt people, we thought we were educating them. I'm so thankful so many of us are free from all that bondage. I love that you made "cultassface"!!! Outstandingly gigglishous!!! Oh, I forgot the rest of the stow-ry. I took that necklace back to the jewelry store she bought it at and traded it for a pair of "holy spirit dove" earrings - so much more "on the Word," don'tcha know...

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Two more predictions for Jeff. ">

Bowtwi's prediction for Jeff's future.

And, back when we were involved with the cult, we believed it when the trustees said that we were always welcome at the way, that there were no strangers there, that the way was OURS, the grounds were OUR HOME, and that we could take the PFAL classes for free once we were grads... I know I couldn't have imagined a time when I'd not only not be welcome at the way, but would have no desire to go there 5 or 6 times every year! I was floored to hear people couldn't just go visit their loved ones buried in the woods - seems that was the last nail on the twi coffin for me. I don't even have anyone buried there - it just rattled my cage so terribly to hear that. Even for twi, that was low.

Have you decided not to replace Chat or is that still on a list to be done?

No, this man never did contact me with an answer to any of my questions. Just shows me what he's made of and what he's not. I really was set free from all things way with this exchange. I really no longer care why me, why my child, why anything. I'm really just thankful to be making my own decisions and living my own life. I've found a wonderful church family and community and I have great peace and joy in my life. The friends I had before the way have been slowly finding me and returning to my life. I'm so much better off without the way international. Thanks for asking.

Very cool! Thanks!!!

Bow jr (12 years old at the time) and I were there too - we were rather thrilled to be in that particular meeting, truth be told. Oh, the spiritually mature elite we thought we were! I've never heard a "pastor" or "reverend" or "minister" ever speak half that profanely before or since the way. In fact, if I ever did again, I'd not wait around to see if they were spitters or if veins burst in their necks or temples as they "lovingly reproved" "their" people. So many red flags as I look back - I'm so glad I'm not a kool-aid drinker anymore. The pastor whose church I attend now lives by "the right thing to do is always the right thing to do", not who else can I screw???

That kind of math gives me a headache, but I can tell you it cost me my marriage. I can't put a price on that.

Thanks! I tried a meatloaf with zucchini chunks. The meatloaf was okay, but way softer than I'd expected. I think I'll go back to the oven for that. The zucchini was kick-butt good - will do that again!