CoolWaters

Happy Bday OC. Love your orange cat... ******************** ******************** I was in a cult for too many years and in an offshoot of that cult for too many years. Obviously I had major deficits in my ability to think for myself, in my ability to live life as an individual, in my ability to trust myself. All I have to offer here is my story. Maybe that's enough for someone to think twice about twi and twi offshoots.

We share birthdays! Too kewl! Hope yours was as happy as mine! ******************** ******************** I was in a cult for too many years and in an offshoot of that cult for too many years. Obviously I had major deficits in my ability to think for myself, in my ability to live life as an individual, in my ability to trust myself. All I have to offer here is my story. Maybe that's enough for someone to think twice about twi and twi offshoots.

Thank you berry mucho! (How's that for mixing up my languages and stuff? LMAO!) My bdate is in my profile. ******************** ******************** I was in a cult for too many years and in an offshoot of that cult for too many years. Obviously I had major deficits in my ability to think for myself, in my ability to live life as an individual, in my ability to trust myself. All I have to offer here is my story. Maybe that's enough for someone to think twice about twi and twi offshoots.

OIC....you all actually know Hmmmm! ******************** ******************** If cleanliness is next to godliness, and if godliness includes obsessive-compulsive house cleaning tendencies, then bless my mess!

Congratulations! Don't take anything too seriously...you will end up laughing at things in 10 years. ******************** ******************** If cleanliness is next to godliness, and if godliness includes obsessive-compulsive house cleaning tendencies, then bless my mess!

I'm doing Samhain with a few of my friends. We're also going to do a safe little haunted house thingy for the neighborhood kids. Life is so much more fun now that I'm no longer afraid that I'm gonna break out in demonic pustules or anything like that! ******************** ******************** If cleanliness is next to godliness, and if godliness includes obsessive-compulsive house cleaning tendencies, then bless my mess!

What do you call two polar bears sitting on the ice too long? * * * * * * * * * * * * * Polaroids! LMAO! ******************** ******************** If cleanliness is next to godliness, and if godliness includes obsessive-compulsive house cleaning tendencies, then bless my mess!

Sorry...wrong time/place...I thought the first post was just posted today...sorry...hope your birthday was kewl!

corrydj, My husband and I do not follow the same path. He follows xianity, I do not. When we were both following twi's form of xianity and, later on, mainstream xianity, our marriage was horrible because we could not allow each other to be different from ourselves. It was terribly hard for my husband when I found myself on a shamanic path. Really, he freaked out pretty badly...even suggested that we return to the twi offshoot church. But he finally realized that it is my life, my mind, my heart, my path. For the first time in 25 years of marriage, we're getting along. The mutual respect it takes to allow another person to choose is the very same mutual respect it takes to build a decent marriage. http://www.cafepress.com/cp/store/store.aspx?storeid=CoolWaters'>http://www.imood.com/query.cgi?email=CoolWaters@cox.net'>

I think it's today already. Have a whole bunch more as long as you're part of the GSC fellowship...doncha know... Tee hee! http://www.cafepress.com/cp/store/store.aspx?storeid=CoolWaters'>http://www.imood.com/query.cgi?email=CoolWaters@cox.net'>

Here's . On my credit pages there are links to sites with literally thousands of smileys and stuff. http://www.cafepress.com/cp/store/store.aspx?storeid=CoolWaters'>http://www.imood.com/query.cgi?email=CoolWaters@cox.net'>

Awwwww Norm! You were just getting the conversations to liven up a bit. Don't go! Things get awfully stifling without someone to liven them up around here! And if you go...then someone else like you goes...then others go...well...then...all we've got left is the GSC "household". Who wants that?!?!?! http://www.imood.com/query.cgi?email=CoolWaters@cox.net'>

Out on the field with my ex (he was a WOW, I was not...he had lied and said he was not married...when twi found out that he was, they sent me to live with him) we were in the middle of the Catskills during the blizzard of '77/'78 with no heating oil and using the kitchen oven to stay warm. At night we piled on sleeping bags. (The other WOWs had moved out--JAL told them to because he felt that me and my baby were too much of a burden for a WOW family--and we could not afford the apartment...so heat was the first to go.) Then my ex moved out to be with the other WOWs (years later I learned that he was pressured to choose between me and the "ministry that served you the word"). Me and my baby were left in that apartment with no food, no heat, no transportation, no money, no furniture, nothing. Anyway, one night I cried to god and begged him to show me what I was doing so wrong. I dreamed that night...I dreamed a dream from which I could not awaken until it was all over with. In the dream I got up from where my baby and I were sleeping and went through the living room and into the kitchen because I wanted to find out why the light was on in the kitchen. In the kitchen it was very cold (which was odd because the oven was still on) and I could hear music coming from the back bedroom. Circus type music. But the back bedroom was on the left of the kitchen in my dream (in real life, it was on the right of the kitchen). I went to the back bedroom and tried to push the door open, but it would open only a crack. I peeked in. There were dolls everywhere! Chatty Kathy dolls that talked without their cords being pulled. Clown dolls that pointed at me and laughed darkly. Remember those old monkey doll bands? The monkeys were playing their drums but without being wound up. And on and on. The shelves were floor-to-ceiling and stuffed so full of dolls that it appeared there were no shelves at all...just dolls. Rows and rows and rows of animated dolls! Except for the very back wall. There were clocks on that wall. All sorts of clocks. The clocks all had different times the sound was almost musical. But it could not be heard above the cacophony coming from the dolls. Together, the noise the clocks and the dolls were making was the circus music I had heard. On the far left wall was the counter where a bespeckled old man was working on one of the dolls. He repeatedly looked up at me and pointed at me with his flathead screwdriver. Just did that over and over again. I decided I needed to get into that room and find out what in the world was going on, so I squeezed inside and the door shut tight. There was no way out! So I tried to walk back to the wall with the clocks and get a better look at one of the cuckoo clocks I had seen from the door. But once I got within easy eyesight of that clock, poof! I was back in the bedroom and everything would start all over again. Except each time it all started again, something new was added to the dream. First, red and blue flashing lights all over the walls of my bedroom. Then icy fingers holding me to the bed were added in. Then I would go to the kitchen window and pull in the laundry (we had a clothes line that went between apartment buildings and reeled in from the kitchen window). Then my daughter would be crying and crying and crying. Then my ex came into the bedroom and kicked a hole into the wall. Finally, my ex was on top of me choking me. That's when it all stopped. I don't know how or why...and really don't want to know how or why...but at first light (the last dream came just before dawn) I saw that a hole had been kicked into the bedroom wall. http://www.cafepress.com/cp/store/store.aspx?storeid=CoolWaters'>http://www.imood.com/query.cgi?email=CoolWaters@cox.net'>

Or you could use the simpler UBC codes of [ img ] at the beginning and [ /img ] at the end of the URL....take out the spaces, though. http://www.imood.com/query.cgi?email=CoolWaters@cox.net'>

Two years ago my husband had kidney cancer. His kidney was removed, the cancer is gone. That's the way with kidney cancer...it's either not found in time and has spread so much there's nothing that can be done (kidney cancer does not respond much to chemo or radiation), or it's caught in time, the kidney is removed, and it never comes back. There are 3 major risk factors for kidney cancer: smoking; exposure to toxins; and disease. Of course, there are other risk factors...like being a male, genetics, diet, weight, etc. My husband was repeatedly exposed to agent orange in the military. In civilian life, he did a lot of bottom painting on boats (bottom paint is absolutely one of the most toxic substances around...full of pesticides and heavy metals, etc), worked with asbestos before there was much noise about its toxicity, used epoxies in closed, unventilated areas, etc. He also smoked and his diet was terrible...and his father had kidney cancer. Funny thing, though...the cancer surgery went well and he was out of the hospital within the week...but two weeks to the day that he got out of the hospital, some young gal (18yo) dropped her cell phone or something and plowed into him head-on. Ruptured his spleen and he damn near died. That was the only accident he had experienced in over 20 years. Of course, he was not in twi when all this happened, but was involved in an offshoot. Maybe gawd protects only the household of twi? Just joshing widya! http://www.cafepress.com/cp/store/store.aspx?storeid=CoolWaters'>http://www.imood.com/query.cgi?email=CoolWaters@cox.net'>

Testify rascal! http://www.cafepress.com/cp/store/store.aspx?storeid=CoolWaters'>http://www.imood.com/query.cgi?email=CoolWaters@cox.net'>

Fer real. I got a whole lot of email from anonymous remailers today with a whole bunch of dumb pics in them. This was one of them. Judging from others that I got, I have a feeling there's a hoax going on somewhere on this ol' internet thingymabobby. But who knows? I've been wrong lots of times in my life... http://www.cafepress.com/cp/store/store.aspx?storeid=CoolWaters'>http://www.imood.com/query.cgi?email=CoolWaters@cox.net'>

I dunno...this is what I got in an email... http://www.imood.com/query.cgi?email=CoolWaters@cox.net'>

I used to believe the twi line I was taught: no water except "under the heavens" (read "on earth"), so no life anywhere else. Then I read C S Lewis' Out of a Silent Planet trilogy. Now I can admit that I just don't know...and that I have lots of fun thinking about what might be out there besides earthlings...and that my sci fi bend isn't devilish. http://www.cafepress.com/cp/store/store.aspx?storeid=CoolWaters'>http://www.imood.com/query.cgi?email=CoolWaters@cox.net'>

I've been really sick the last several days, so I've been watching a whole lot of TV. Last night I finally got to see "Rocky Horror Picture Show" in its entirity without being stoned. Wow! What was the official twi word about this? I also got to see "Look Who's Coming to Dinner" in its entirity, rewatched both Austin Powers movies (what does twi say about him?), rewatched a bunch of "Twilight Zone" (where the dolls do come to life...and there's an interesting story about that from when I was on the WOW field in NY...) and "Outer Limits" episodes, saw a "Brady Bunch" episode I had never seen before (Ken Berry moves in next door and adopts 3 boys...one white, one black and one Asian), and got stuck flipping between HGTV, FOOD Network, and the Hallmark channel reruns of "Bewitched" and "I Dream of Jeannie". Still wonder why twi didn't just out-and-out ban the whole '60s and '70s...what with all the witchcraft and jeannies and ginns... http://www.cafepress.com/cp/store/store.aspx?storeid=CoolWaters'>http://www.imood.com/query.cgi?email=CoolWaters@cox.net'>

Mark, I am not familiar with Freehand, and have had only limited experience with Corel. However, I know lots of folks who may be able to help. If you will email me, please, I will see what I can do for you. CoolWaters@cox.net http://www.cafepress.com/cp/store/store.aspx?storeid=CoolWaters'>http://www.imood.com/query.cgi?email=CoolWaters@cox.net'>

To me, what you're defining here is heated disagreements...which, imo, are not fights but are rather heavily laced exchanges of ideas. For example, the way Ron and Garth go at it you'd think they were greasing shotgun barrels and getting ready for the hunt. But from what I've seen (and I may be wrong here), these men don't really dislike each other or have any particular animosity for one another. (BTW...since I'm a liberal of sorts, I would love to get in on those discussions...but I have a feeling that would end up to be a knock-down-drag-out fight. Whaddya think? I think I could really get ol' Ron's blood a pumping but good! ) Oooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh! Another wonderful example is Satori! He gets downright personal and insulting...but he often makes such good points that I can read past that stuff...and he is just a bad boy, ya know?....and he does himself in often enough that nobody else really has to do it for him. Hehehehe..... On a milder note...you and I have had our instances where I felt insulted/attacked a couple of times...and I think you maybe felt the same from me...and we worked that out (at least I feel that it's been worked out) right on the boards. I didn't feel it was fighting, either. I felt that we exchanged words that may or may not have been the "right" words (who could judge that, anyway?), but we got through the issues and here we are. I'm not trying to make warm fuzzies here or anything, but I absolutely agree! One thing that I think differentiates heated discussion from fighting is who the participants are addressing. IMO, a fight is a "he said/she said" battle for attention and group approval...the participants don't talk to each other, but rather about each other...and the point is to be right, not exchange ideas. A heated discussion, on the other hand, is often directed right to those involved...and the point is to exchange ideas, not make someone right or wrong. Is that clear as mud? And this is not to say that a fight should be avoided at all costs. I want to reserve the right to tell somebody where to get off. But I think that if I reserve the right to tell, I must also accept the fact that I will be told.

It has been my experience that these fights are often inspired into the cosmic realms (fueled) by the very fact of an audience. IMO, the sparring parties and three others (one on his side, one on her side, one to witness it all just to make sure things stay private) could go to a private message forum. Then duke it out! One rule above all others would apply: no taking the brawl to the open forums. Or some variation of the above. IMO, the very lack of audience would keep these things to a minimum and they would die for lack of oxygen. Or not.

Wasn't looking for ya...saw something about signatures and looked at that...and there ya were! I wasn't gonna tell anybody that was you... And since you're advertising a pic of yourself, you gotta email it to me now. No excuses anymore...since it's right out here in public that you took that pic of yourself. http://www.imood.com/query.cgi?email=CoolWaters@cox.net'>

I'm still figuring out the kinks...