It's good to be single.

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17Bees

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Gojira said:
Hey... virtual popcorn don't cut it lady!
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Hey, EVERYTHING here is virtual! I've been here since 2013 and there's more Google info on 17Bees than there is on me! I'm starting to suspect that I"M the virtual one.
 
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Gojira

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17Bees said:
Hey, EVERYTHING here is virtual! I've been here since 2013 and there's more Google info on 17Bees than there is on me! I'm starting to suspect that I"M the virtual one.
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LOL
 
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Godsgirl83

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Gojira said:
Hey... virtual popcorn don't cut it lady!
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Well, then I guess you don't want to join my friends and I over in Speak Your Mind Thread since ALL the coffee, donuts, other sweet treats and nummy brunch and dinner parties are virtual

17Bees said:
Thank ya Love! Do you have butter ...... strike that.....a cow to go with that?
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Do I even want to ask?
 
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17Bees

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Godsgirl83 said:
Well, then I guess you don't want to join my friends and I over in Speak Your Mind Thread since ALL the coffee, donuts, other sweet treats and nummy brunch and dinner parties are virtual


Do I even want to ask?
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He he....oh you know, there's probably not enough butter for so much popcorn so I need a cow to make more butter and..... oh never mind. I'm not real anyway. Don't know if you knew that.
 
I_am_Canadian

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SomeDisciple said:
Half a man? He would be a whole man with all his ribs! I'm sure he would find something to do with his time having dominion over the entire earth and all.


There's no emotional or spiritual benefit that you can get from being married that you can't get from your Christian brothers and sisters. Marriage is of the flesh. This is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh... therefore, a man shall cleave from his mother and father and cleave unto his wife and the two shall become one flesh. Of course it is holy, and sanctified, and symbolic of spiritual things. But would you call Jesus "half a man"? Or was Paul, in his demonstrating the longsuffering of Christ "half a man"? Indeed it is not good for man to be alone, but that doesn't mean it's not good for him to be single!
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No, not half a man with a missing rib, half a man as in not whole in a fulfilling way, a depressed man from lonliness, a man whose whole life revolves around an empty lonely home,, a man with no real purpose except to just work and just exist. A man with dead heart. It's great if you can stand being single, but I can't anymore.
 
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Gojira

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Godsgirl83 said:
Well, then I guess you don't want to join my friends and I over in Speak Your Mind Thread since ALL the coffee, donuts, other sweet treats and nummy brunch and dinner parties are virtual


Do I even want to ask?
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One has nothing to do with the other :p
 
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Gojira

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17Bees said:
He he....oh you know, there's probably not enough butter for so much popcorn so I need a cow to make more butter and..... oh never mind. I'm not real anyway. Don't know if you knew that.
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Oh. I knew.
 
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Gojira

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Godsgirl83 said:
Well, then I guess you don't want to join my friends and I over in Speak Your Mind Thread since ALL the coffee, donuts, other sweet treats and nummy brunch and dinner parties are virtual
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Ya know, I just thought of this ('cuz I'm so smart): Virtual treats are SOOO much healthier than the real ones. I'll take 4 helpings please :D
 
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17Bees said:
Hey, EVERYTHING here is virtual! I've been here since 2013 and there's more Google info on 17Bees than there is on me! I'm starting to suspect that I"M the virtual one.
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2013 CC Club has just started! Cheers!

Hovering over your name it says, 2016. You sneaking in 3 more years?!?! :)
 
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anytime someone starts a good to be single thread here someone else is compelled to spoil it by being 'woe is single me'

those people dont deserve to be single! lol
 
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3angelsmsg

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Lol... I enjoy being single. In the beginning it is difficult but the longer you practice. The more you enjoy it.
 
Lynx

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I_am_Canadian said:
No, not half a man with a missing rib, half a man as in not whole in a fulfilling way, a depressed man from lonliness, a man whose whole life revolves around an empty lonely home,, a man with no real purpose except to just work and just exist. A man with dead heart. It's great if you can stand being single, but I can't anymore.
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I am 43 and still happily single. Are you staying my life has no purpose?

If this is what you are saying, and if by some strange chance you are correct, please don't tell my grandmother. Or my dog. Or my music collection. Or the church where I am a minister. Or a lot of other people who are a factor in my life, as I am a factor in their lives. Or any of the other things I take joy in.

And please definitely don't tell chocolate. My precious chocolate would be heartbroken.
 
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Lynx said:
I am 43 and still happily single. Are you staying my life has no purpose?

If this is what you are saying, and if by some strange chance you are correct, please don't tell my grandmother. Or my dog. Or my music collection. Or the church where I am a minister. Or a lot of other people who are a factor in my life, as I am a factor in their lives. Or any of the other things I take joy in.

And please definitely don't tell chocolate. My precious chocolate would be heartbroken.
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I never said your life didnt have any purpose, its just from my perspective and experience of being single its boring, lonely and unfulfilling and depressing.

I was always taught that a pastor had to be married to qualify for the ministry in accordance with 1st Timothy 3:2
“A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;”

I guess we are all ministers of the gospel in a sense, maybe I am thinking of the term minister in the wrong context.
 
Gardenias

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Whatsoever state you find yourself in be CONTENT!
Three marriages,1psycho2 cheaters.

It is good to be single!

Single 16 yrs now w/o the worry or bother of another to share my space, mess up things I'm passionate about, nor coerce me under their will!

Age brings much contentment with life and has the ability to truly help us see ourselves w/ o a veneer!

60 plus and many times I find myself saying" if I'd have just known then what I know now"
😂😂😂😂😂
 
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Gojira

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I had the opposite experience. And therefore, I miss it.
 
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Gojira

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Gardenias said:
Whatsoever state you find yourself in be CONTENT!
Three marriages,1psycho2 cheaters.

It is good to be single!

Single 16 yrs now w/o the worry or bother of another to share my space, mess up things I'm passionate about, nor coerce me under their will!

Age brings much contentment with life and has the ability to truly help us see ourselves w/ o a veneer!

60 plus and many times I find myself saying" if I'd have just known then what I know now"
😂😂😂😂😂
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But... I feel for you and am sorry you didn't have the kind of marital experience a more Godly spouse would have given you. But, you're obviously able to not let it ruin you. You're finding happiness in life with what it has given you. That's a skill, IMO.
 
Gardenias

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Gojira said:
But... I feel for you and am sorry you didn't have the kind of marital experience a more Godly spouse would have given you. But, you're obviously able to not let it ruin you. You're finding happiness in life with what it has given you. That's a skill, IMO.
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Thank you for your thoughts and kind words.
I wish I had an experience of true love and forever bc Im a romantic and hold to faithfulness through any storm except breaking your vows.
Life goes on and so must we. I'm a caregiver at heart and instead have poured my love into my family !
 
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