jeb
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JEB
Apr 16, 2009 12:16:43 GMT -5
Post by jeb on Apr 16, 2009 12:16:43 GMT -5
Hey y'all, John here ~ just wanted to pop in with a quick intro. I say quick as in brief and you should be grateful 'cause I was vaccinated with a phonograph needle. It's hard to realize that some of you may not even know what that is. LOL I am here because I have a special interest in Vyckie but that is an, as yet, unwritten chapter to her story. So I'll just leave it to her to tell in her own words and as she sees fit. Y'all be good to yourselves now, y'heah?
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JEB
Apr 16, 2009 15:04:37 GMT -5
Post by Kaderin on Apr 16, 2009 15:04:37 GMT -5
What is this... strange creature? *gasp* Testoterone? On this board? *g* Nice to meet you, John. Hope you have fun here and I can't wait to find out how you fit into Vicky's story
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JEB
Apr 16, 2009 16:40:19 GMT -5
Post by tapati on Apr 16, 2009 16:40:19 GMT -5
You've been hinted at, if not discussed in detail. So welcome, Jeb!
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jeb
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JEB
Apr 22, 2009 17:18:28 GMT -5
Post by jeb on Apr 22, 2009 17:18:28 GMT -5
Thanks for the welcome. I've been reading along in all of the comments threads and have to say how much I admire those of you who have come out of difficult marriages, families, churches. Makes me think back many years to when I was still living at home. My Dad's mother, Hettie, was 4' 11" but her husband called her Little Hitler because when she put her foot down, by god it stayed down. He liked to drink but he had to do it out in the garage because she wouldn't let 'the Devil's Brew', in the house. She did allow he and my Dad to smoke in the house. Now she was very, very fundamentalist and tried to raise her sons that way. It took (oh my, how it took) with my Dad's brother but not with my Dad. So when my Dad came home from 32mons. as a German prisoner of war in WW11, he and my mother split and I went to live with my aunt and uncle who, after a month or so instructed me that I wasn't to call them aunt and uncle anymore, they were my Mom and Pop. This would be my Dad's brother and his wife. I and their first child took many a beating as they tried to raise us as Grandmaw would have raised us to be Good Christian Boys. Fortunately for their later children (of which there were 4) they eased up considerably in the discipline department. I tell you all this because I was amazed at the difference in these two men . . . my Dad and his brother. When he, my uncle/pop and aunt/mom came to visit my wife (of that time) and I in 1992, Mom came to me one morning and asked if I had a washcloth with a label on it. When I asked her why there was a need for this (I did find one) she said that my Grandmaw had taught Pop that the upper part of your body was the clean part and the lower part of your body was the filthy part and and you had to use a different side of the wash cloth for the two different parts of the body and without a label you couldn't tell which side was used for what. He was in his late 60s early 70s at the time but still adhered what 'Mom told me to do'. Blew my mind because, of course, following every little thing that my Grandmaw told him was the Christian thing to do was a way of life for him throughout his whole life. Kind of the opposite of the patriarchal norm, eh? Didn't hurt him I guess because in the church they went to he was a much loved and respected part of the community. And when he died, just short of 78yo, he was still doing 3 sets of 50 push-ups as well as walking 8 miles every day. Maybe there's something to that washcloth label trick, eh? LOL ;D
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JEB
May 8, 2009 23:07:56 GMT -5
Post by krwordgazer on May 8, 2009 23:07:56 GMT -5
You seem to be very good for Vyckie, John. Glad you're posting here.
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JEB
May 8, 2009 23:42:48 GMT -5
Post by Vyckie D. Garrison on May 8, 2009 23:42:48 GMT -5
KR Wordgazer ~ I am so glad that you are still around and still posting. Thankfully, the historicity of Jesus thread didn't scare you away from NLQ. After reading your comment here, I had to pause a minute in my responding to comments to send a little love letter via email to John. He's long since gone to bed (a morning person ~ ugh!) ~ but it'll be in his inbox in the morning while the kids and I are sleeping in. I do appreciate John very much ~ FINALLY, I am enjoying a relationship in which I do not feel controlled, manipulated, taken advantage of ~ none of the typical crap which I'd come to believe is normal, or at least ~ unavoidable in any man/woman relationship. Sweet. It feels good and I am grateful.
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JEB
May 9, 2009 13:47:50 GMT -5
Post by krwordgazer on May 9, 2009 13:47:50 GMT -5
Thank you for your kind reply, Vyckie. No, I'm not scared away-- just more determined than ever that I don't want to get into believers-vs-unbelievers fights here. I think they're non-productive, and what I'm hearing from you is that you want productive discussions that bring people together to help one another. I'm on the same page.
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