tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27063199.post220473827058873073..comments2023-07-29T01:42:41.625-06:00Comments on In my element...: Angela http://www.blogger.com/profile/16751904636710437791noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27063199.post-15747663082716597252010-02-09T18:22:30.941-07:002010-02-09T18:22:30.941-07:00Memory sure is becoming cheaper and cheaper and ch...Memory sure is becoming cheaper and cheaper and cheaper. I wonder when we will finally hit the rate of 1 cent to 1 Gig.<br><br>I'm quietly waiting for the day when I will <i>finally</i> be able to afford a 20 terabyte hard drive . But for now I will be content with having a 16 gigabyte Micro SD Card in my R4i.<br><br>(Submitted by Nintendo DS running [url=http://cryst4lxbands.livejournal.com/398.html]R4i[/url] R4Submit)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27063199.post-23062544908574797152008-03-30T10:15:00.000-06:002008-03-30T10:15:00.000-06:00Good morning Joanne. :-) I know exactly what you...Good morning Joanne. :-) I know exactly what you mean by similarities. Several of your postings I have read and at the very same time I'm smiling as I was thinking along a parallel vien.<BR/><BR/>I like what you said "where I have always been and didn't even know it". As a child I can remember thinking, to myself of course, that if I hadn't been brought up christian then I never would have become such - and this was when I was very young. Age has given me both time and courage to assimilate my many conflicting views of the world - now I am trying to harmonize them.<BR/><BR/>I find that I rarely hold back when I write as I often surprise myself with where the words just seems to go. I especially liked your post on words being an imprint of a moment and apart from this they really just reflect that point in time, in how we were feeling or percieving reality - but once words go down, they become a permanent record and take on a life of their own.<BR/><BR/>Blessings to you on this beautiful day (at least it is in my neck of the frozen forest). aAngela https://www.blogger.com/profile/16751904636710437791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27063199.post-88692531731815331872008-03-29T06:24:00.000-06:002008-03-29T06:24:00.000-06:00JWs do NOT even live in the fantasy world of their...JWs do NOT even live in the fantasy world of their own creation.<BR/><BR/>The following will provide THE BEST and MOST ACCURATE info about Jehovah's Witnesses, their beliefs, and how they actually practice such day to day.<BR/> <BR/>SUMMARIES OF 1000 JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES LAWSUITS & COURT CASES<BR/> <BR/>The following website summarizes over 500 U.S. court cases and lawsuits affecting children of Jehovah's Witness Parents, including 350 cases where the JW Parents refused to consent to life-saving blood transfusions for their dying children:<BR/> <BR/>DIVORCE, BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS, AND OTHER LEGAL ISSUES AFFECTING CHILDREN OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES<BR/> <BR/>http://jwdivorces.bravehost.com<BR/> <BR/> <BR/>The following website summarizes over 500 lawsuits filed by Jehovah's Witnesses against their Employers, incidents involving problem JW Employees, and other secret JW "history" court cases:<BR/> <BR/>EMPLOYMENT ISSUES UNIQUE TO JEHOVAH'S WITNESS EMPLOYEES<BR/> <BR/>http://jwemployees.bravehost.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27063199.post-18012203891604200382008-03-28T11:40:00.000-06:002008-03-28T11:40:00.000-06:00The more I read the more similarities I see betwee...The more I read the more similarities I see between my newly discovered blog friend and myself. It is hard to describe really, a process that has taken and continues to take an entire lifetime, my fingers feeling like jumping across the keyboard to try to fit it all in to a tiny comment box. <BR/><BR/>I am currently in the process of migrating over my old blogs to merge them into one and this process takes a lot of formatting. Reading parts of my journey over the last several years has been quite interesting and has taught me a great deal about where I have been, where I am, where I am going, and where I have always been and didn't even know it.<BR/><BR/>Like you, I might have had a very different response to the JW knock at the door five or so years ago. In my own distorted bias I would have taken up the challenge to prove myself right and them wrong, how sad that "they" are not living THE truth. Interesting how when your mind opens you are able to see value in everything and approach others with an attitude of compassion and common ground, as opposed to an adversarial position born from separateness.<BR/><BR/>Myself I have been very drawn to the Sufi way with much overlap in Buddhism, and quite surprisingly to myself have a newly discovered love of Jesus in ways I never did when I was a supposed "follower". To realize just because a teaching is distorted does not mean there is no value in the teaching itself has been a huge revelation to me, not so much on an intellectual level, but more at the level of the heart. I can have a heart for the teachings of Jesus in ways I never knew when immersed in the biases of the past.<BR/><BR/>Letting the words just flow is something I too am doing more of. It can be frightening to be so open, so naked, so revealed, especially online, but I have also found a great deal of value in the times when I have been a bit more exposed, even in those times when I am misinterpreted. I know I tend to be extremely sensitive to judgment and criticism, and in exposing myself more to it, I am finding less of an attachment to my own ego sensitivities and elaborations.<BR/><BR/>Thank you for letting the words go where they would when you started and when you finished. Thank you for your open mind and your open heart.<BR/><BR/>And before I ramble any more and create an entire blog post in your comments (or maybe it's too late), I will wish you a beautiful day and a restful weekend.<BR/><BR/>hugs :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com