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Post by Mystie on Jan 25, 2019 2:12:17 GMT
Catholics are not being mocked or vilified on that thread, and anyone who has read it knows your statement is BS.
Perhaps if Islam was as heavily represented on this board as Catholicism is, someone might ask that question of Muslims. With only a couple of Muslims on this board, I don't think it would be much of a conversation.
Stop trying to proclaim persecution where it doesn't exist.
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Post by Mystie on Jan 25, 2019 0:42:02 GMT
Small vanilla cone, sometimes dipped in chocolate, sometimes not. I love peanut buster parfaits, but they're a bit too much for me now. We're down to just one DQ in our town now, so we haven't been in ages. We had an old DQ in our town forever.. just last summer they built a brand new one down the street from the old one. Either location though, at least in the summer, there is always a line... almost as bad as our Chick-Fil-A.. haha It's weird, people just don't seem to be into ice cream in this part of the country. We have a DQ and a Cold Stone, and I don't think either of them is busy much. This is a good sized urban area too. We moved here from Ohio, which is a a very ice-cream intensive state, and it still strikes us as odd how people here don't care about going out for ice cream.
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Post by Mystie on Jan 25, 2019 0:32:35 GMT
leftturnonly Well, I'm glad you'll reconsider Stephen King! I find his writing wildly uneven and often self-indulgent, but I am in awe of how effortlessly he creates a story and yanks the reader in. My favorite of his books is The Shining (much better than the movie.) I also like Needful Things. I confess that I read Salem's Lot in college 30 years ago, and again a few years ago, and both times I remembered absolutely nothing about it within like two weeks after finishing. I always hear people talk about how scary that book is, and it made zero impression on me! So weird. I don't read much science fiction, but I have read a bit of dystopian fiction, and I have enjoyed a lot of apocalyptic/end of the world stories--the telling of what led to the dystopia, lol. It does seem to me, from what I've observed of the sci-fi my husband reads and tells me about, that it's a genre where the author's political underpinnings may come out more than in other genres. Seems unavoidable to me. Your politics shape your worldview, and in science fiction, you're usually creating a world.
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Post by Mystie on Jan 24, 2019 18:45:36 GMT
Have you read Stephen King's Salem's Lot? This is one of his earliest books and is about vampires. I read it as a teen back in the late 1970's and it scared the crap out of me. I reread it recently and while not as scary in my 50's it was still scary. I don't remember thinking "vampires wouldn't do that" while reading Salem's Lot.Yeah, that was probably the book with the vamp's I remember. All these dystopian stories have one thing that is mandatory - true Christian faith doesn't exist. It's easily cast aside and people go on, without hope and are made more vulnerable to true evil which somehow does exist. The basic premise is ridiculous. We have thousands of years of human history that has tried to take God out of our hearts and look where we are today. God is still alive in hearts and souls in real life, but not in the dystopic fantasy. King was especially disdainful of Christians. He receives my disdain, well-earned, in return. It's interesting you say this...from what I've read about him, it seems that King does believe in God. And I have found definite spiritual/Christian components in some of his books, The Stand, in particular. I think he is very suspicious of organized religion, with good reason, but I don't think he's disdainful of Christians or people with religious beliefs. He does explore how far those beliefs can take a person in the face of great calamity or great evil but I think that's a worthwhile effort. And so much of his fiction is about that endless battle between good and evil and the forces that help us win in the end. Good usually wins eventually, with King.
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Post by Mystie on Jan 24, 2019 17:50:35 GMT
Small vanilla cone, sometimes dipped in chocolate, sometimes not. I love peanut buster parfaits, but they're a bit too much for me now.
We're down to just one DQ in our town now, so we haven't been in ages.
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Post by Mystie on Jan 24, 2019 16:15:32 GMT
My husband's sister married a Catholic guy, didn't convert herself as far as I know, but they attended and have raised their girls in the Catholic church. We were talking at Thanksgiving and she said when this latest Pennsylvania report came out, they stopped attending their church and are trying to decide if and where they will find a new church. They live in northeastern PA, so right at the root of some of the worst of it.
My brother-in-law's family is all deeply Catholic, it's part of their heritage and their family structure. And I'm sure their faith is a source of comfort for most of them. I know he felt so much disgust that he simply didn't want to be a part of it any more, because he is a deeply decent guy, but I know it's painful for him to even think about walking away for good.
It seems to me htat for Protestants, it's easier to move from one denomination to another...there are differences among them, but nothing huge. For a Catholic person who wants to keep worshiping, the change is much bigger and more disorienting. So I wonder if a lot of people just want to stay in their comfort zone where their friends and family are and where the ritual is a deep part of their faith experience. I can understand that. I think my brother-in-law will never feel 100% at home in a Protestant church. It's terribly sad, all of it.
For me, I don't think I could stay in a church with that kind of deep systemic evil. I don't delude myself that there haven't been abuses and abusers over the decades in my denomination, and if something this widespread and...organized...came out about my denomination, I would leave, but it would break my heart.
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Post by Mystie on Jan 23, 2019 20:33:16 GMT
My neighbors wake me up every morning with their huge SUV parked right under my bedroom window (on their driveway, but unfortunately right under my window.) The engine is so loud it vibrates my headboard and that wakes me up even more than the noise does. They let it run for anywhere from five to fifteen minutes before they all get in and rev it down the driveway and drive away. And it's never at the same time, but almost always before my alarm goes off. So I never know when I'm going to be woken up. This morning it was 6:40. And then again at 8:00, but of course I was up by then. I have no idea what to do about it, but I'm tired of waking up mad. 😱😱 that would drive me crazy!! Every morning I feel a little closer to losing my mind! I missed two hours of sleep I could have had this morning because of that truck.
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Post by Mystie on Jan 23, 2019 6:30:01 GMT
My husband and I are almost high school sweethearts. We were in the same class, but started dating the summer after graduation. We got married after college. Our 27th anniversary is in May!
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Post by Mystie on Jan 23, 2019 6:05:15 GMT
I'm not broken, but I'm slightly cracked.
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Post by Mystie on Jan 22, 2019 20:16:05 GMT
My neighbors wake me up every morning with their huge SUV parked right under my bedroom window (on their driveway, but unfortunately right under my window.) The engine is so loud it vibrates my headboard and that wakes me up even more than the noise does. They let it run for anywhere from five to fifteen minutes before they all get in and rev it down the driveway and drive away. And it's never at the same time, but almost always before my alarm goes off. So I never know when I'm going to be woken up. This morning it was 6:40. And then again at 8:00, but of course I was up by then. I have no idea what to do about it, but I'm tired of waking up mad.
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Post by Mystie on Jan 22, 2019 14:54:16 GMT
I checked out our Habitat ReStore in its new location last week and found this oil painting for $15. I have a lot of vintage art in my home, picked up cheap at antique stores and flea markets, and the warm colors in this are perfect with my decor.
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Post by Mystie on Jan 22, 2019 14:44:15 GMT
I don't have any advice, I just wanted to give you a hug. I know you are frustrated and I probably would have hit my limit a long time ago. I have to say, I hate this attitude some seniors have. My dad is almost 71. He's active and in good health. But he says all the time that he will never go to a home. And it just makes me so mad that seniors can be so selfish, demanding their children sacrifice to care for them. I will never do that to my kids. My dad has also said that for years. He has brain cancer and I know it will be absolute hell when we reach the point where my mom can't take care of him, or if God forbid she dies before he does. I tell my husband we're not going to have the luxury of selfishness, because we don't have kids.
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Post by Mystie on Jan 22, 2019 14:24:40 GMT
Curtains. Most of our rooms don't have any because I can't find ones I like. Bedding has also been an issue for me. A few years ago I found a duvet cover at Pottery Barn on clearance and I loved it. It's great quality and still looks like new, so I'll probably still be sleeping under it 10 years from now. I bought a duvet cover at the Pottery Barn outlet about 20 years ago, and we still use it and I still like it! Helps that we only have it on the bed 2 or 3 months out of the year (on our down comforter in the wintertime.) It's wonderful quality fabric.
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Post by Mystie on Jan 22, 2019 14:14:54 GMT
Just sending you a hug across the seas. You have gone far beyond and above for your mom and it sounds like you've come to the end of your ability to do that. If you need to walk away, I think you should do it. I hope her doctor will have some helpful ideas.
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Post by Mystie on Jan 22, 2019 2:42:35 GMT
I read that whole freaking 26-page walk down memory lane and I'm simply amazed at the stuff Peas remember! Much of it rang a distant bell with me, but there was other stuff I don't remember at all. And there are so many Peas I really miss, and some...I don't. At all. My signature says I started at Two Peas in December 2000, but I think that was after a board re-set. I'm pretty sure I found the boards in the fall/winter of 1999. I was very active at a board called Scrapbook Addict, and hung around dMarie and ScrapJazz and a couple others. Two Peas got mentioned at Scrapbook Addict and I moseyed over for a look. I would say I really got active (to the extent I was active, ie not too much) in early 2003. Not too much has changed in my life--I've moved three times, live in a different state, and am fatter and grayer. In 2000 I had two adorable little nephews, and now they are young men and in the intervening years, I also gained six wonderful nieces who are all gorgeous young women. Oh, and I stopped scrapping about four-five years ago.
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Post by Mystie on Jan 21, 2019 23:37:48 GMT
I'm really, really sorry. It's such a scary feeling. I pray that you and your husband will both find something just right--and quickly. Hang in there.
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Post by Mystie on Jan 21, 2019 15:15:52 GMT
I read The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware. I think it's had mixed reviews here, but I liked it. A financially desperate young woman gets a letter stating that her grandmother has died and she is in the will...only thing is, they've mistaken her for someone else. But the lure of a chunk of money draws her into a strange family with mysteries that may coincide with some of her own. Just a nice non-demanding mystery, sometimes that's just what you want. I liked it better than The Woman in Cabin 10, which is the only one of Ware's other books I've read.
And I read The Year of Reading Dangerously by Andy Miller. I don't know why I'm always drawn to reading memoirs, especially because I almost always find them disappointing. But this one had been on my Kindle for a couple years, and I wanted to feel like I'd finished something. This is just a light-hearted recounting of the author's attempt to get back into serious reading in his mid-thirties, which actually did interest me, because of my own drastic drop in reading the past few years. The book is funny, and I took away the idea of committing to reading fifty pages a day when the book is especially daunting (Middlemarch was the first one the author applied this to, at the suggestion of his wife.) But he reads and writes about some dreary obscure books and I felt like that derailed the book.
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Post by Mystie on Jan 18, 2019 19:22:41 GMT
So glad to hear this!
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Post by Mystie on Jan 17, 2019 17:14:03 GMT
This might sound strange but talking about books you re-read one of my favorites is World War Z... now before you roll your eyes it’s nothing like the movie, not a zombie thriller. It is about a zombie like apocalyptic event but it’s the way it’s written that I love. The main character interviews people of all different backgrounds as to their experience and it’s that part I love. It’s really about how people react to disasters and how they view the world. I would recommend it! Keep an open mind. I love World War Z!! It's such a creative way to tell a zombie story. It's too bad they threw away the whole story for the movie.
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Post by Mystie on Jan 17, 2019 4:29:38 GMT
Wow, that takes me way, way back. We used to shop at Shopko when we lived in Idaho in the mid-90s. I'm kind of amazed they're still around, frankly!
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Post by Mystie on Jan 16, 2019 20:49:59 GMT
Did anyone watch this last night. Can't believe how open they are about the abuse, and having 5+ witnesses to the incidents and there isn't enough evidence to arrest David Misgavich. Insane!!! He just seems to be uber-protected there in his little kingdom and above the law, doesn't he? The level of abuse they were describing last night makes me think even more that he killed his wife Shelley in a fit of rage and it's just all been covered up by his brainwashed minions.
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Post by Mystie on Jan 16, 2019 2:48:18 GMT
For some reason I never got into that one but OMG Louie Anderson as the mother. I could watch that forever. Right?? I like the show okay, but Louie Anderson does some of the best acting I've ever seen. I'd watch that character in anything!
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Post by Mystie on Jan 16, 2019 2:38:20 GMT
Oh man, I saw that on the broadcast tonight and tears!!! So wonderful.
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Post by Mystie on Jan 16, 2019 2:37:16 GMT
I'm so sorry to hear that.
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Post by Mystie on Jan 15, 2019 15:00:44 GMT
The podcast Oh No Ross and Carrie did a two-parter on urine therapy a couple months ago. (They investigate fringe beliefs.) It was fully as disgusting as you'd think, but pretty enlightening. I dont remember them talking about anyone who was trying to use it as a source of nourishment, though. More of a healing treatment, orally, topically, as a gargle, as eyedrops, etc.
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Post by Mystie on Jan 15, 2019 2:04:30 GMT
I pray that it will go really well and solve the problem. And I pray for calm for you, too.
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Post by Mystie on Jan 14, 2019 20:40:03 GMT
That is really terrific news! It sounds like Logan is finding his groove.
My husband mentors one of our local robotics teams, and I have listened to many "robotics moms" tell me what having a group like that has done for their sons. So many boys really need a group of peers and adults that just GETS them. I'm extra glad that Logan has people looking out for him there, too.
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Post by Mystie on Jan 14, 2019 13:49:16 GMT
I finished Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Olympics. It's always been on my to-read list, but for various reasons I never got to it until now. I very much enjoyed it, but it was a slow read for me.
It was the same for me, took me forever to read it, but I was glad I did.
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Post by Mystie on Jan 14, 2019 6:39:09 GMT
The thing that is never talked about is any kind of weird sex cult stuff, or pedophilia. These kind of cults are always about control, and sex is always a part of it. Can it really be pure and innocent, when everything else is so bizarre? There have been several women on the show who have talked about being molested in the camps and schools for kids of Sea Org members. I would imagine that kind of thing has been rampant, they yanked so many of those kids from their families and put them under the control of other adults with no escape. But I don't recall hearing any adult sexual weirdness or non-consensual stuff. The Sea Org seems pretty sexless, IMO. Every scrap of energy goes into their duties, and coupling up doesn't seem like it's real encouraged.
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Post by Mystie on Jan 14, 2019 6:18:06 GMT
I finished another book from Amazon's top books of 2018 list, Virgil Wander by Leif Enger. He's a great writer, but only comes out with a new novel every ten years or so. This was a story of a small town on Lake Superior and the man who runs the ancient movie theater there. He has a near-death experience, and it causes him to see himself and the people around him with new eyes. This was a quiet but very joyful. loving story; I really liked it.
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