Netty, they are pretty much all in the box unopened, basically mint. I am working on a list, if you're interested I'll PM you a copy..
Markfromcali
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Interested in Star Wars toys?
by Markfromcali ini have a bunch of star wars toys from a deadbeat tenant that left a bunch of crap in my place, some of them i guess is worth a little money and i'd like to just get something to help with the cleanup cost of my place.
i hope this is not inappropriate, i don't care about getting the best price i can and i know some of you guys are fans or have kids who are so i thought maybe i list a few things, give you all dibs on it first instead of listing it and the whole 9 yards.
here are a few items, which are unopened:.
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Birthday Ideas
by Aude_Sapere indoes anyone have any ideas for a birthday gift/surprise/whatever for a 24 year old?
my brother turns 24 tomorrow and has never had a family member do anything for his birthday.
i would like to do something but really have no idea what to do.
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Markfromcali
That's today then isn't it? My idea would be a t-shirt that says "I was born into a family of Jehovah's Witnesses and all I got for my birthday was this lousy t-shirt." Ahh, if you think he'd think it's funny..
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Interested in Star Wars toys?
by Markfromcali ini have a bunch of star wars toys from a deadbeat tenant that left a bunch of crap in my place, some of them i guess is worth a little money and i'd like to just get something to help with the cleanup cost of my place.
i hope this is not inappropriate, i don't care about getting the best price i can and i know some of you guys are fans or have kids who are so i thought maybe i list a few things, give you all dibs on it first instead of listing it and the whole 9 yards.
here are a few items, which are unopened:.
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Markfromcali
I have a bunch of Star Wars toys from a deadbeat tenant that left a bunch of crap in my place, some of them I guess is worth a little money and I'd like to just get something to help with the cleanup cost of my place. I hope this is not inappropriate, I don't care about getting the best price I can and I know some of you guys are fans or have kids who are so I thought maybe I list a few things, give you all dibs on it first instead of listing it and the whole 9 yards. Here are a few items, which are unopened:
Shadows of the Empire comic and action figures set:
Prince Xizor vs. Darth Vader UPC# 076281695679
Boba Fett vs. IG-88 UPC# 076281695686Power of the Force Stap and Battledroid w/firing missiles no. 84069 UPC#076281840697
Queen Amidala Red Senate Gown 1999 Portrait Edition UPC#076281617749
Anyhow, maybe those who are interested could PM me, I have a lot more I can list..
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Transference of delusions
by Satanus intransference of delusional feelings/beliefs.
the danger of destroying delusions.
this has been mentioned before, and i think it's worthwhile to have it's own thread.
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Markfromcali
S, I would emphasize though that emotion in itself does not measure how deeply you are immersed in it. Regardless of the particular emotion involved, if you pay close attention you can distinguish between when you are totally identified, when it hits close to home, that gripping feeling, and when it is essentially hollow and empty. I think this is very important because that old judgemental mind might automatically assume an emotional reaction as the first, whereas when it is seen through there may still be emotional artifact but it essentially has no power anymore.
It's like the energetic tendency to accumulate in that particular structural pattern is still there, but the identification is no longer there. In my own experience it was interesting as the particular insight was that there is no ego, not as an actual entity, but if anything just in the verbal sense of being an activity. After that time there was still this tendency to reassemble, but there was just a deeper part that just didn't buy it. Regardless of the intensity of the emotion it just had a different quality to it. And I will say that even if you forget, from what I have seen that doesn't really matter. The thing is to think there is a problem is itself a delusion, because that implies the belief that there's this egoic entity. The movement back toward the same pattern does not become ego until there is the actual identification, which could just be the belief in it instead of a thought regarding yourself.
The classical pattern of spiritual awakening helps shed some light on this process, because essentially it is a movement away from your body and conditioned existence, so it's a matter of being free from it all - but then there is the change in direction to embody that realization and that's when you have to deal with the conditioning, where the rubber meets the road so to speak. In that movement back to your conditioning is the actualization of what you realized.
The thing is it isn't really a sequential process, people can have some insight and then some of that will come through and some conditioning is freed up, but when the initial realization is not total and thorough then you've got that demon haunting you, whereas when you see through it you can still have all that conditioning but none of it bothers you, and of course then it'll just come with time. In terms of freedom from suffering it makes more sense to go to the point of realization, otherwise you can be somewhat functional, perhaps even more functional than some realized individuals, (certainly more than a lot of newly realized, not-so-functional people) but still suffer.
In the case of the exJW we can see how some people are doing a lot of work in educating people and 'spreading the word' about the WTS, but if you ask them atleast some will no doubt by their own admission acknowledge that there is some degree of suffering. As an aside, some may believe that their work is fueled by the anger and basically that attachment, and that may indeed be the case. What I would say to those who believe this is it doesn't mean you wouldn't care anymore if you do become free and no longer suffer over it, or that you would no longer do this kind of work - it could just be coming from a place of freedom rather than reaction. You can only be more functional as you are not identified with any kind of rigid structure.
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PINATA?????
by integ indoes anyone know where i can find any information in any of the watchtower material in regards to pinatas???
i have heard that the society did a flip/flop on the issue, saying that it was okay to celebrate it now, explaining that we shouldn't be so nit-picky about how a practice was celebrated in the past, and concentrate more on what its meaning is today....that despite the pinatas' pagan roots, the practice of celebrating it or whatever, does not have the same meaning today, so it's up to an individuals conscience now.
i've asked this question before, but have not received any response.
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Young man....young man?!?!
by logansrun inwhen is a man no longer a "young man"?
i, for instance, am twenty-eight years old (ignore the avatar) and am still called "young man" to this day, by both people i"ve met in person as well as on this message board.
is it really my age?
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just wanted to share a thought
by moanzy ini had a visit with an elderly friend of mine yesturday.
she grew up as a protestant living in england.
when she moved to canada she converted to mormonism.
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Markfromcali
The eastern stuff can be pretty accurately described as "I can't believe it's not religion!" Perhaps that has something to do with the appeal..
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People's Sex Lives
by love2Bworldly inreading another thread got me to thinking about my past sex life.
i want to know if my thinking is old-fashioned.
i was a virgin until i was almost 22. i married my first sexual partner.
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Markfromcali
I think the reason I feel bad sometimes about my past is because until the last few years of my life, I felt socially awkward or really didn't know who I was. It was not only the JW teenage years, but growing up with deaf parents. They were not social people and did not react normally to the outside world. I guess it took me a long time to grow up emotionally, if that makes sense.
I hear you. There is the emotional and social growth, although I would say it comes down to knowing who you are, and what you really want. We get caught up with our mental and physical behavior, and how they don't quite agree with each other, but who you are is not limited to that, even if those factors shape your life. As useful as a psychological view may be, I think at some point we have to let go of that kind of judgement as well. (though it's certainly more useful than the good/bad kind) I think that last part of the poem ties it together nicely: "announcing your place in the family of things." In other words, it doesn't matter if we are not as emotionally mature as we'd like, but we are included in that family. So often there is this idea that it's about how to identify, isolate and carve out the bad part as if it is some tumor, but in this view it is about being included, it's about being loved.
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People's Sex Lives
by love2Bworldly inreading another thread got me to thinking about my past sex life.
i want to know if my thinking is old-fashioned.
i was a virgin until i was almost 22. i married my first sexual partner.
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Markfromcali
Well frankly being true to yourself is not the same as being true to a moral code you've adopted. You'd think one includes the other, but often we have the ideas whereas the simple truth is we cannot program our entire being so easily. I wouldn't view it strictly from that perspective of my moral code, but more along the lines of a broader perspective including all of yourself so that nothing is left out.
This poem seems appropriate:
Wild Geese
by Mary OliverYou do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting —
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things. -
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People's Sex Lives
by love2Bworldly inreading another thread got me to thinking about my past sex life.
i want to know if my thinking is old-fashioned.
i was a virgin until i was almost 22. i married my first sexual partner.
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Markfromcali
Putting aside the guilt and the possible judgement of "I am a promiscuous person" or "I have an old fashioned view" for a moment, you might just ask yourself why you think you were that sexually active. It's hard to get a clearer picture when you are caught up in feeling guilty. I think any time when you are bottled up like in the case of being a JW it is natural to go to the other extreme and act out after the fact, but then the time comes where we settle down and just ask what do I really want?