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j_goose
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and my daughter will never have to work again because she has a very large income coming in. She is content
Disability?
My family is not dysfunctional
Well, not anymore, they aren't under your boot anymore. they're free..... 
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| Jul 20 @ 5:43 PM |
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LaughTillYaPuke
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Wouldn't you like her to remember you as a woman of faith, one who overcame things with faith
What? Like whent he pipes froze? I live in freaking Wisconsin. I would have been waiting for months for God to appear and do something about it. Nawww. I think it was better for her to see me rip up the floor boards and work on the plumbing myself. The lesson she learned? That when everything goes to shit, have at it....you can't possibly make it worse.
Hello Bev! My daughter reality is just that REALITY.
I loved the fact that even when my kids were doing wrong, I knew HE was taking care of them.
 What? Were you smoking that wacky tabaccy while your kids were growing up?
I love it that my kids were and are safe. I love them, I don't want them to be at the mercy of fate or the results of their poor actions.
I wonder how many christian parents where hoping for the same thing when their teenage daughter got pregnant..... 
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| Jul 20 @ 5:48 PM |
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Heaveninawildflower
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Wouldn't you like her to remember you as a woman of faith, one who overcame things with faith and had no fear in her? One that life had no control over. One that gave her the foundation to live her life in the same one. Someone when life was throwing its slings and arrows at her, and it will, for such is life, can fall to her knees and pray and know that God has taken care of it for her?
No, no and no.
I want my sons to remember me as a woman who struggled through tough times, and with a little help from my friends, made it through to better times. One who bellieved that God/Universe/All that there is gave all of us what we need to make lives for ourselves, without going begging for more than he/she/it gave us, as if it wasn't enough! One who never fell to her knees when life got tough, but tried to find her own way, and when life got better, shared with those who were going through tougher times, and asked them to share with others too, when (not if) their lives got better.
I'm no saint...if someone is pulling me down I'll cut them out of my life, but not before I've at least made a stab at pulling them up.
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| Jul 20 @ 5:54 PM |
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hammertime
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Bev
And what important information are you leaving out? Are you afraid it will show dysfunction? How about telling us the truth for a change?
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| Jul 20 @ 6:21 PM |
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emptypages
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goose, I think what you're doing is great.  I kind of go back and forth on the whole religion thing, but I would never tell a child there isn't a god. I would let them learn about the Bible, and allow them to make their conclusions.
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| Jul 20 @ 6:24 PM |
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j_goose
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thanks.
Isn't it funny how a conversation can go smooth until the likes of the "blind Bible Bashers" come in and wave their blinders around?
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| Jul 20 @ 6:25 PM |
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16knots
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All beliefs should be taught in school as they do in Britain... "Religious Studies" or "Comparative Religions".
Emphasized on the historical significances other than spiritual.
Children have a beautiful innocence that should be encouraged by right views, right actions in mind, body and thought.
NOT taught the religious garbage that abounds especially in Christianity.
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| Jul 20 @ 6:28 PM |
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j_goose
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Hey knots!
They do that in many schools here, but not until later in their lives. Into high school, actually. That was my first theology class. 10th grade.
But I think the openness needs to be taught WAY before then.
By the time you're in your teens it's too late for many.
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| Jul 20 @ 6:29 PM |
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16knots
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Totally agree goose.
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| Jul 20 @ 6:30 PM |
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BandTMom
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And steer everything off-topic?? 
I want my sons to remember me as a woman of love and compassion who would never knowingly hurt another living thing. That I busted my butt to support them and care for them without a handout.
And above all, I want them to remember their mom as someone who taught them that they can be anyone they want to be and they will get back just exactly what they put into life.
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| Jul 20 @ 6:34 PM |
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LaughTillYaPuke
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Wheee Mom! 
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| Jul 20 @ 6:35 PM |
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BandTMom
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| Jul 20 @ 6:36 PM |
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bevrice
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disability, no. She and her ex had done very well, were very wealthy. She got a warehouse out of the divorce which he has to rent form her for ten years at a very large sum per month, and then after ten years, she can sell it to him if she wants, or keep renting it to him. She also got half the profit off of her house, she had a million dollar home on a bluff overlooking the Cumberland River and a yacht.
Heaven, like I said, life deals everyone blows, it is how we handle them and come out of them that matters. Personally, I wanted my kids to know that with faith, you could always come out victoriously.
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| Jul 20 @ 6:38 PM |
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j_goose
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David Koresh had faith.
Jim Jones had faith.
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| Jul 20 @ 6:39 PM |
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alivenwell351
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There's an inscription on a tombstone from 1922 in the town I grew up in ...
I hold responsible he who would teach the young, fertile mind something is fact, that has not been proven
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| Jul 20 @ 6:40 PM |
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bevrice
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Mom, do you think that love and compassion can't go hand in hand with faith?
My kids absolutely know I love them and that I loved and cared for others, they saw it everyday. They brought home homeless teens and families like other kids bring home stray puppies. I never turned a single one away. While, at that time, I wasn't making very much money, we always had a place for them to sleep and plenty of food for everyone to eat and our bills were always paid. No one ever went without.
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| Jul 20 @ 6:42 PM |
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16knots
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Heaven, like I said, life deals everyone blows, it is how we handle them and come out of them that matters. Personally, I wanted my kids to know that with faith, you could always come out victoriously.
There is absolutely nothing in existence that happens without a cause for it to happen and then its consequences.
Unfortunately, saying "life deals everyone blows, it is how we handle them and come out of them that matters." isnt correct although important. It is what we do in life in causations for something that happens that matters.
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| Jul 20 @ 6:42 PM |
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bevrice
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So, goose, you think they were God, or Jesus? Karesh even said he was part God and part Satan. They thought they were. Is that faith, no think so, at least, not faith in God, in Jesus.
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| Jul 20 @ 6:43 PM |
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LaughTillYaPuke
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 Bev...you don't have to be a chrisitan to do those things. And the reality is....it's only when you brag about those kinds of things that they become worthless.
It's not a gift of love if you have to brag about it.
And at no point did I see Mom ask you for a disertation regarding how to best raise her children. She seems to be doing a fine job without your beliefs.
In fact....we ALL seem to be doing a fine job without your beliefs.
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| Jul 20 @ 6:44 PM |
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16knots
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Mom, do you think that love and compassion can't go hand in hand with faith?
You dont need any faith for love and compassion. Love and compassion does not work by faith and we dont need faith to be aware of it.
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