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Cosmic Mojo

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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 06:21 AM

We were counseled by our church leaders to forget our concerns about my sexual orientation and move ahead with the relationship. They said if we had enough faith and enough trust in God, our marriage would be successful.

THEY WERE WRONG, they were lying to to your manipulate you.

Now, you know the truth.

Get divorced. For your life.

It's high time your soon to be ex got a job anyway, this will be good for her to create self love through self sufficiency.

And the kids will learn about truth, authenticity, life.

Go do what you KNOW you have to do for your survival.

Thursday, October 30, 2008 12:56 PM

it's not social anxiety

You think you don't deserve what you want, so you force yourself to be with someone you aren't attracted to as punishment (this is all I deserve). Fix that. Now.

Thursday, October 30, 2008 12:57 PM

"She" is 31 yet still uses offensive words like "retard" like a 12-year-old?

If only that were true. The woman across the hall from me used that word frequently until I told her supervisor it offended me. (of course, not I"m the witch)

Wednesday, November 5, 2008 04:53 AM

lw

you're only 25

Wednesday, November 5, 2008 04:55 AM

Anandasubramanian

this is NOT about you

Friday, November 7, 2008 05:32 AM

It's annoying and unsettling.

To YOU.

Luckily we all get to choose our own intimacies which don't have to be approved by our freinds.

MYOB

Monday, November 10, 2008 12:45 PM

I believe that the adherents of all belief systems are called upon to keep the truth of their respective beliefs.

^ w. o. w.^

I hope I remember that wording. It's the best I've ever heard.

thanks poodle

Thursday, November 13, 2008 05:57 AM

turn off the drama

you seem to get some sort of feed from the drama of it all, the complications, the twists. Break off from it all and restart at the basics.

Friday, November 14, 2008 05:32 AM

to cary

You'll be Ok.

My husband had a huge scary monster cut off his neck (he let that thing grow til it was practically talking back to me).

It was a little scary beforehand, but he had a good cutter and you can hardly see the scar. These things are usually isolated even if they're cancerous, my husbands's was, but they cut enough around it to get everything with little risk of spreading. Then you get to be pampered for a few days.

peace

Friday, November 21, 2008 12:42 PM

eh

I'm a middle aged liberal feminist, but I see little value in Hillary. She has so much negative baggage and she's not inspiring, she's a hack and i was hoping her public days were over.

Tuesday, November 25, 2008 12:46 PM
Original article: I hate my boss!

no

healthcare

Tuesday, November 25, 2008 12:53 PM
Original article: I hate my boss!

thanks for the Bing reference

going to the library tonight.

Could this be the source of Chandler "I need your WENUS Report" Bing's name?

Wednesday, November 26, 2008 12:31 PM

We live in a country with a generous social welfare system

That assumption is wrong. Surviving on welfare is not GENEROUS. REmember, welfare as we knew it was eliminated and those few recipients are put on "welfare to work" programs. That whole myth of the welfare queen was always an exagerration and all the more so now. Men, rarely get welfare since they rarely have dependant children. Most beggars are homeless and have serious mental illness that would make them unemployable. Give or don't give, but don't base your selfishness on the falsity that welfare is generously given to anyone who doesnt' want to work and that it's a breeze living on free money. Life on welfare is hard. Have seen where most poverty stricken people live, if they DO have a home?

God knows how your sweet son got a heart. Not from you. Let's all pray he keeps it and you don't spoil it. Let him do as Jesus did and help those in need.

Wednesday, November 26, 2008 12:42 PM

MY BAD

did not read to see LW not in US.

My comments still stand however: living on welfare in any country is not an easy life.

You ARE selfish even if you do give some at work. YOUr son understands true giving. You ARE selfish. Your son is doing a good thing and you want the money for yourself. Let the boy learn humility and compassion, there'll be plenty of tiem for the consumption of consumre goods. Let him learn the joy in giving UP what is one's to someone as a sacrafice for the good.

Wednesday, November 26, 2008 12:47 PM

I give money to a registered charity every month by direct debit!).

I think you can appreciate how that is very different from spontaneous giving of all the money in one's pocket. Your son's giving was not tax deducatble, it was responsive and from the heart. It wasn't calculated or analyzed or planned to get credit at work. It was real. It was GIVING. Is it really giving if it doesn't hurt a little? You need to sacrafice part of your comfort for the ease of someone else, if just for a day. That is giving.

Wednesday, November 26, 2008 12:49 PM

We read stories and parables at home of being generous, kind and compassionate to the poor.

But we prefer to just READ pious stories and tell our church friends how Christian we are rather than actually ACTING generous.

One is supposed the LIVE morally, not read and talk about it.

Wednesday, November 26, 2008 12:56 PM

once you and your spouse reach retirement age

and retirement age in Europe is 50-- much younger than the 65 or 70 in US.

Wednesday, December 3, 2008 07:17 AM

go follow your future

You see your time there has ended and so does he. He feels its a very primate intimate family process, helping one's mom die, and he doesn't need or want you there. He dones't consider you part of the family and you don;'t belong. YOur time of love and helping has passed, now you're just intruding. He's letting you go cuz he needs to be alone with his family now. Accept that gracefully and get your life back on track.

Don't ever give up a great academic spot for a new boyfried. call that school, ask if it can be considered a postponement, git yer butt back in that great opportunity and move forward with your life. It ain't in Eireland anymore. Life moves forward.

Wednesday, December 3, 2008 07:20 AM

type

its a very priVate intimate family process

Wednesday, December 3, 2008 12:52 PM

watch moonstruck

snap out of it!

Friday, December 5, 2008 04:59 AM

hopefully your parents will kick you out soon

so you'll start learning to be self sufficient.

Until then, it's all just baby cry, mommy coddle, baby cry, mommy coddle. Grow up, and take care of yourself fer cerist's sake! wah wah wah.

Ever heard the phrase nessessity is the Mother of Invention? Hunger is the Mother of Motivation. Until you NEED money for food and rent, you'll continue your dependant lifestyle. Stop. Feel the hunger and you'll snap into survival mode soon enough and carry your own weight. I have no sympathy for users who won't TRY to take care of themselves and expect BF or Mommy or Daddy to take care of them.

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