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I don't think they're twi or anything, either...just too similar in presentation to keep me from having a waybrain fart. :)-->

For the taste! When we first went to unleaded we were still smokers...and the coffee/cigarette taste combination is a must in the morning for us. Then we quit smoking for a few years...and pretty much quit coffee...but we started smoking again last year so we went right back to coffee, too. **************** I guess I'm a real lightweight next to y'all...I'm still on my first cup from 4:30 this morning. Of course, it's a huge cup...nearly the size of a soup cup...hehehe.

Yes, it is....and...? ;)--> (Don't forget Darlene!)

--> Shellon! Well, Ma, I got involved in some TV watching...Nick @ Nite...hubs came out for awhile and we talked...then I read some...finally went to bed at about 2:30am...and got up at 4:30am when the alarm went off...and now I've got a cuppa Joe...

Awwwwwww! TYVM. And, yes, it does make me feel better. :D--> PS... I started this thread to try to keep off the other threads...I'm like all over the place! Thanks for helping me out. :)-->

I tell ya what... If it's this easy for me to get a good buzz going and something done...well, hell, I'm in for the ride. And legal and cheap to boot! Is this how we did so much when we were young?

It's a drug!!!! We hadn't used leaded coffee in years...but the unleaded wasn't on sale this week... And OMG!!!! I haven't slept more than 4 hours a night since last Friday...and mostly I catnap while another pot of Joe is brewing. I'm multi-tasking like nobody's business. My house is more organized than when I was a total control freak about it. I've lost my interest in most foods. Nearly 3 chapters of my book-I'm-writing-but-never-really-do have been finished this week. And look at the posts I've tallied up this week! Whoa! Wonder how my BP is doing...

IMO, this is a key. If one is going to hold to the doctrine, one might as well go back. Where else could one possibly fit in?

Ah, grasshopper, you have touched the eternal reality. Now your quest must needs be to find... To where? (This does relate to the topic...really.)

I getcha, Belle. I still recoil at anything remotely similar to twi's circus of 'teaching'. Just opening the front page made me think of that piffle video and the 'bookstores' at all of the major functions...

YW, stl. satori...I got the definition from Dictionary.com so feel free to let them know. ;)-->

Right on!!!!!!! ********************* LMAO, vickles!!!! I love being at the age I can say such things with such authority!!!!!! LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can you? Man boobs sag, too, ya know...as well as other man things... ;)-->

{{{{{rascal}}}}} You're doing the best first thing you can do...looking at it and considering your options. It takes a long time to undo what was done...to unthink what was thought...to unravel what was tangled. But it's worth it! Therapy...with a licensed, non-clergy/non-religious professional...helps more than one can imagine.

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Cindy!, Steve!, great insight! My hubs and I have done something similar. It's the only way we've survived twi brain in our marriage. We're still yelling sometimes...but I think we like to or something... ;)--> ********************* {{{{{Chas}}}} You've got such a wonderful heart. Your hubs surely sees it!

Everybody go "DUH"! lol We saw it. We read it 1000 times. We ignored it...because we were in a research and teaching ministry that used 'my people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge' as a reason to be 'ever learning and never coming to a knowledge of the truth'...like this little gem smurfette has brought up. Great going, smurfette!

Sometime 'long about 43/44 me and my friends started 'waking up'...now at 46/47 we're like 'how in the hell did we end up like this????'...I'm the only one left who is still married...and that took/takes LOTS of doing... It's not just with marriage, either. At 44 I completely dumped everything I knew about Christianity and went on what my husband calls my 'Pagan Trip'. I quit babysitting so much for my granddaughter, too...told my daughter that I didn't have a baby...I just wanted to have my granddaughter over for play. I also take a stand for myself more often now...and stick to my inner sense of values. As for younger men... Ladies, it's THE thing to do nowadays...and those younger men are relying on us...as if it's our job to raise them! Yeah...right...eye candy is one thing (and OH BOY is it a thing!)...but I'm through raising kids. Not a day goes by, however, that when I'm out and about some young thang lookin' so fine gives me one of those looks and starts up a conversation. It's a whole lot of fun for the ego, but who needs the cling-ons? A Bounce in one's purse helps. Hehehe. Anyway, this is the age of awakening, imo...and if that means one awakens to the reality of one's marriage, then the other best wake up, too.

It is eerie to watch...eerie to hear just how 'ordinary' this guy is on the surface. Code compliance...problems with enforcement officers all over Kansas major cities...doing things just like described...by a serial killer... In one of her books, Corrie ten Boom talks about some of the first signs of problems...one of them being Code Compliance... ::shudder::

No problem. I LOVE to play around with images. I put a couple of others in a PT for ya. :)-->

Here are 3 options for ya: http://feyaurora.com/images/gsc/outandabouta.jpg http://feyaurora.com/images/gsc/outandaboutb.jpg http://feyaurora.com/images/gsc/outandaboutc.jpg

From the Open Forum about the boy in Utah that was missing for several days and then found:

We watched an interview with the parents on CNN. His mother described her deep fear that he was going to be found dead. After he was found, the sheriff went out to get the parents and bring them in to see the boy. The mother described how badly she was shaking...she even fell down and nearly passed out because she was so sure that he was dead. She went on to say that even though he was standing right there, her mind wouldn't let her believe the reality that he was safe and alive. The father collaborated what the mother was saying. God is bigger than all that we can ask or think.

Well...yes...but then there's always the cemetary areas...

Belle! You???? Say it ain't so!!!!!!!! Funny that you posted this today...just this morning Bill and I were telling Micah that if he thinks we're freaky now, he should ask his sister what we were like in twi. He said he really didn't want to know. Hehehehe. Smart man!