I saw it in the central Pennsylvania / Grantville circuit. Effete, learn'ed, travel'ed, experience'd, selective, elegant, discretionary, discriminating. In a word, better than you.
Posts by rmt1
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42Why do all the COs have food intolerances/allergies/special dietary requirments?
by Julia Orwell init's a well known phenomenon i've observed from jwn, my own cos. a new co we had once who was fresh from being a normal elder and after a couple of visits he said, "well i've finally become a true co...i now have food intolerances.".
i mean, only once did my husband and i ever have a co around for dinner and they couldn't eat this, he couldn't eat that, she couldn't eat this...it was so hard to cook something with none of the zillions of things they were 'allergic' to.. and then after all that the wife couldn't come anyway because she had a naturopath appointment or something.. why do all co's seem to have weird dietary problems?.
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Intro - First time Post- Ventilation (it's a good read actually)
by BLWashington incurrently from houston, tx, but spent most of my life in chicago.
i've never had an opportunity to just get this out... so i apologize for the long-windedness in advance... .
i spent the first 17 years of my life in a jw home, then the real world caught up to me.
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rmt1
Epic intro. Made me think of The Forgotten (2004) with Julianne Moore.
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GUESS What I Can Enjoy Now, That Being In WT Kept Me From?
by Iown Mylife inbarbershop harmony singing groups!
i've enjoyed that type of music since i first heard it as a kid.
just today ran onto a local group that welcomes visitors.
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rmt1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpm3EGJlHF4
FRED - I Got Rhythm (barbershop)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fe11OlMiz8
Straight No Chaser - 12 Days (a cappella)
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rmt1
I doubt present JW conventioners experience as much dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphins as before 2000. It's clear as day that 13 years since then is going to be 14 years since then. Then you got yer 15 years since then, and pretty soon, it's 20 years since 2000, and what have you got? It's murder in slow motion. oooooo I recommend Marooned in Realtime (Vernor Vinge, 1986)
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I really need some help to get out of this religion
by doughnutkitty inhi, i've been lurking on this site for quite a while after recently having doubts about the "truth".
i've read a lot of posts about problems with the doctrines, mind control, the beliefs, brainwashing that jehovah's witnesses and their literature, as well as their history.
now only being a sixteen year old born in who isn't baptized or unbaptized, i've come to find all this information incredibly overwhelming.
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Depending on their own age, retirement planning, fiscal foresight, you may be able to say, >without saying<, that it is prudent to have the resources to help out family members in times of need. Do not refer to >them<, but point to local / KH / anecdotal elderly folks on limited income with no help from family. Perform this naively, and don't openly represent that you imagine they will grow old in this system. Aging JWs already worry about this, and your avoiding the point allows them to see this fiscally responsible you as an ally. Of course, stay off the JW's fine-tuned radar for indescretions, or you lose the advantage of that alliance.
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I really need some help to get out of this religion
by doughnutkitty inhi, i've been lurking on this site for quite a while after recently having doubts about the "truth".
i've read a lot of posts about problems with the doctrines, mind control, the beliefs, brainwashing that jehovah's witnesses and their literature, as well as their history.
now only being a sixteen year old born in who isn't baptized or unbaptized, i've come to find all this information incredibly overwhelming.
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rmt1
I woke up at 14 but institutional/structural ignorance and cowardice (a coin, those two) kept me in till 25.
Something I didn't see mentioned: Arrange where possible to meet the parents of your non-JW friends. Display maturity, trustworthiness and a sense of knowing, self-aware acknowledgement that you are honoring your parents and honoring your parents' roof. I.e., give indication that you are smart enough not to be owned by this cult, but that you are also smart enough not to give grounds of wrongdoing to suspicion. In fewer words, use this time to network outside the KH. Build links and connections that will save you and can lead to inside opportunities, jobs, advance notice of certain resources. Growing your list of allies is crucial. At the same time, you must beware that allies can out you, inadvertently or otherwise.
To stay above JW suspicion of waywardness, dress well, stay 'professional', stay respectful of the JW adults, and demonstrate real-world knowledge that adults who live in the real world must possess in order to survive. Car, job, bills. GET THEM, or their analogues in degree of responsibility. The sneer that some JW adults would wish to cast on you will be reflected back on them. And, while you are still in, some other JW adults may actually say you are 'mature for your age'. If you escape the JWs with everything intact, as well as advanced skill sets for your age, you will be taking with you the hopes and dreams of many who are helplessly and quite knowingly in that prison for life. -
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In Case You Had Any Doubts About Dinosaurs
by metatron inhttp://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/15/tyrannosaurus-rex-really-was-a-ferocious-hunter-new-finding-confirms/.
nature red in tooth and claw.
if jehovah is the creator of all, he made some very vicious, nasty stuff.
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Since leaving watchtower what has been your biggest act of rebellion?
by 3rdgen ini'm in a pissy mood and would love to hear your stories.
personally, i'm thinking of getting a tatoo on my rear end saying wbt$ kiss this!.
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@ Truth seeker 674. That's a subtle distinction. On the one hand, achieving liberty to be your own person means just getting on with your life and demonstrating by word and deed that the WTS was a hypocritical sham. That's good for you. On the other hand, you can pay forward (or pay back) by taking actions that intervene, in any small way, in someone else having their own life stolen by these vultures. That's good for another, like Jesus said... :0
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Since leaving watchtower what has been your biggest act of rebellion?
by 3rdgen ini'm in a pissy mood and would love to hear your stories.
personally, i'm thinking of getting a tatoo on my rear end saying wbt$ kiss this!.
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Got tattoos, celebrate birthdays and holidays, voted, got Bachellors in humanities and another in science, got puking drunk a few times, puffed on A cigarette, went to a Unitarian church service, got palms read, got fortunes read, seldom shave, am participating in a Hubble Space Telescope proposal to take data on a hot jupiter. The Holy Grail of exoplanet science being the quest to find extraterrestrial life, ergo, evidence of evolution.
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Another kid just lost her education to JWs. Know there's gossip going round about me. My fabulous non-JW family. More.
by Julia Orwell ini didn't think any of these things really deserved their own threads, so i've cobbled some random observations, incidents and reflections together.
some are sad, like those poor jw school kids i know, and some are warm, like my friendship with my mother.. a year 10 girl who was enrolled in the a level science class was absent: i noticed because i used to be good friends with her jw mother, who recently ranted at me and unfriended me on fb.
i've supervised a couple of aisha's* classes this year, and found her to be a quiet sort of kid who gets on with her work.
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JWs are the entitlement demographic sine qua non. Nobody is as green with envy over the joyful experiences and modest enjoyments of normal people.
