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  Ambiguous Avatars (what is it?)

  by Preston in

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  ambiguous avatars (what is it?

  winston smith :>d : devil babe in a mini skirt?

  minimus : the ?spot?

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  and i've heard rumours to the effect that that indeed IS ratboy's bod....
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  What's your favorite book?

  by nb-dfed in

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  ozziepost's post about what we are all reading now made me wonder what everyone's favorite book is.

  my all time favorite is to kill a mockingbird - harper lee.

  i also love shogun by james clavell and east of eden by john steinbeck.

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  favourites that i read at least every few years:

  the mists of avalon by marion zimmer bradly

  half asleep in frog pajamas by tom robbins

  the griffin & sabine series by nick bantock

  the catcher in the rye by j.d. salinger

  the fountainhead by ayn rand

  newer favourites:

  the harry potter series by j.k. rowling

  the amazing adventures of kavalier & clay by michael chabon

  the series of unfortunate events series by lemony snicket
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  Anyone else like comedian Stephen Wright?

  by Makena1 in

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  steven wright, very low key, monotone delivery, but one of my favs.

  his mind sees things differently than we do - for example:.

  i woke up one morning and all of my stuff had been stolen...and replaced by exact duplicates.

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  LOVE stephen wright....my fave bit is him on the plane next to the blonde asian chick who has a thing for jewish cowboys..'so, what's your name?' and he said 'bucky goldstein'....too funny!!
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  The JW to X-JW Lexicon

  by Preston in

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  jw xjw.

  brother dub.

  glean parody.

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  harleyquinn

  very cute, preston...

  although, i did shiver at the word 'glean'...to this day i hate that word....
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  The Judicial Committee

  by minimus in

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  have you ever been called before one?

  were you ever on one?

  what happened???

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  i was involved in, i think, about 5 during a month period....i don't remember a lot of it (i think i blocked a lot of it)...but it was in front of 3 elders of my cong...one 'good cop', one 'bad cop', and one indifferent one...i mostly remember that they asked the same questions over and over again at each meeting, whether i had answered them before or not...like checking my story...i tried, lamely, to kill myself before my second-to-last meeting by slashing up my wrists and arms pretty good...that meeting, which was at my home, i remember as a disembodied experience, because i was just sitting there, blood running down my arms and on my jeans...not one of the elders said anything about it, they just stared and asked their questions...then, when i paused too long for one of the questions (i think it was 'have you ever had sex') the 'bad cop' elder stood up, walked over to me and stood within a couple of inches of my face and screamed that jehovah knew if i was telling the truth or not and that i should tell them what they wanted to know...i think he also called me a name, but i don't remember totally...at that point i kind of woke up from my stupor and told them all to leave...i don't think he fully realized what he had done, as he freaked out a little...the other elders just looked at each other and then started fumbling for words, and i just sat there and kept repeating that they needed to leave....after they left the 'good cop' elder (who was actually friendly with me) called me and apologized for the behaviour of the other elder...i just told him that jehovah would take care of him like jehovah was going to take care of me....a couple of days later, they asked me to meet them at the kh and told me that i was being df'd...

  it was an awful experience and every non-jw person that i've shared it with now despises the religion and a couple of them have even mentioned the treatment of 'bad jws' to jw's that have come to their doors...
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  Were you illegally disfellowshipped?

  by hubert in

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  based on "official" bible based doctrine, were you "illegally disfellowshipped?

  i have been reading many threads on disfellowsipping, and it makes me wonder if there were many who were disassociated, or thrown out of the org.

  for reasons other than what the watchtower officially teaches?

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  do you know if they keep records of all the df's that they do? just curious....not that i want to go back, but it would be interesting if there was a way to get an official copy of something saying why...
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  Were you illegally disfellowshipped?

  by hubert in

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  based on "official" bible based doctrine, were you "illegally disfellowshipped?

  i have been reading many threads on disfellowsipping, and it makes me wonder if there were many who were disassociated, or thrown out of the org.

  for reasons other than what the watchtower officially teaches?

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  i hear ya, sistah! *high five*

  my younger sister lives with my hardcore jw mom, is baptized and (a) dating a man in jail for his 3rd strike for murder, (b) smokes pot and has been drinking since 14, (c) been on reproof at least 5 times, and (d) has several tattoos.....is she getting df'd? nooooo...she gets 'shepherding calls'....and my mother just tells me that the the society (and it's rules)haven't changed and the elders are 'on it'....whaaaa???
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  Were you illegally disfellowshipped?

  by hubert in

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  2. beliefs

  based on "official" bible based doctrine, were you "illegally disfellowshipped?

  i have been reading many threads on disfellowsipping, and it makes me wonder if there were many who were disassociated, or thrown out of the org.

  for reasons other than what the watchtower officially teaches?

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  i was df'd for 'bad association' and drinking....and i'm sure my suicide attempt right before my last judicial meeting was included in that somewhere (even though it was never mentioned)...i'm not sure that those were "disfellowship-able" charges, especially since i was (in their eyes) a good jw until then and had never been on reproof of any kind....however, at the meeting the week after i was df'd the 'special talk' was about drinking and sex, and (like you, sp) i never admitted to any sexual indiscretions and none were ever proven....
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  Do you read the funnies?

  by desib77 in

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  what are your favorites?.

  here are my three favorites.

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  i love boondocks, opus (although i miss bloom county), and foxtrot....
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  woo hoo....JW Mom is coming to my wedding!

  by AuSet in

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  ....my whacked out jw hardliner mom just informed me this morning that she and my entire jw family will be coming to my wedding on oct. 1st.

  this has come totally out of the blue as previous to today she did not give any indication of caring one way or the other whether i got married or not, and had said to me a couple of times "oh, i'll just stay and watch over the food.

  i think my more liberal jw sister has managed to talk some sense into her at last.

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  that is awesome!! my hardcore jw mom decided to come to my 'worldly' wedding as well...even with the threat of my hubby's lesbian humanistic jew rabbi aunt performing the ceremony....which, unfortunately, didn't happen...but we did have a female jewish cantor perform our non-denominational ceremony...which included a lot of american indian elements, (not to mention my vows which included bruce lee & missy elliott quotes) and was out in 'the showiness of nature'..haha she actually commented that it was a nice ceremony, "considering"...