Topics Started by Cady
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21Doubting our own intuition - reality vs. reality
by Cady inwhen someone asks about the jws, i usually find myself talking about disfellowshipping, the blood issue, the child-molestation problem.
but looking back i think, although those are the easily explained and perhaps somewhat sensational bad things about being a jw, they're not the only things that have left their marks.
in fact, only the disfellowshipping issue has personally affected me (although i'm not officially df'd, but of course you don't have to be to lose your friends/family).
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Slender, righteous virgin sought for marriage...
by Cady inhttp://seattle.craigslist.org/m4w/154705055.html
what can i even say?
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I'm going to an HRI conference in ENGLAND!! :-)
by Cady inmy prof wrote me and invited me to attend this conference: http://ro-man2006.feis.herts.ac.uk/.
i'm in absolute heaven!!
i don't imagine i'll have much free time, but if anyone's close by maybe we could grab a drink?
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Dating is either a nightmare or hilarious (depending on my mood!)
by Cady inso on rare occasions i get the brilliant idea that online dating is worth a shot.
i'm in the psych program at school, 90% of which is female, and since i work and am in school almost all the time i tend to only rarely run into single guys my age.. so this guy invited me to his company's yearly party sat.
- he actually works for this huge online retailer, so lots of techy people and what not, good drinks, whatever.
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Seattle people...
by Cady injust wanted to let you know my roommate is moving out (her bf bought a house and so she's going to move in with him) and so if anyone in the seattle area is looking for a roommate situation or knows someone who is, drop me a line.
i live near the u-district and i'm going to post at school, but there's always that uncertainty about a roommate you don't know or who isn't at least a friend of a friend.
ciao, cady
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iPod Advice?
by Cady inhey all -
so i got a free ipod when i bought my mac recently.
i'm going to give it to a 12-yr old kid i worked with at the group home over the summer.
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I'm livid...
by Cady inwalking one of the kids i work with to school this morning and there's a dirty syringe on the sidewalk.
this is just two blocks from the middle school and tons of kids walk down that sidewalk on their way to school.. i used to not think much about drug use - my attitude was, you want to screw up your life, go ahead.
but now that i work with kids who've often been deprived of a good home b/c their parents are addicts...when i'm 100 feet from a shooting that is drug-related...and most of all when i see the dealers drive by in their rides and the kids ooh and awe over them and see that as some kind of shining example of where their lives could go...i'm becoming very disgusted and angry in general.
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All those years as a JW have finally come in handy... :-D
by Cady in...when arguing against other fundamentalist dooms-dayers!.
not sure what the jw point was in mentioning it, but i remember reading in their lit a quote from plato about how degraded the youths were of his time.
(that doesn't help their "everything's getting worse" ideology so they must have been trying to counter it...) anyway, reading an article for class that says "it makes sense to recall the way morality was transmitted before youth disorder became such a distressing issue.
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Sect or cult?
by Cady inso i finally decided to get my a** to the library and read some real research on cults.
the book i'm starting with is "psychodynamic perspectives on religion, sect and cult.
in the introduction they mention margaret thaler singer's definition of a destructive cult as an organization in which:a leader claims divinity or special relationship with god.
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Salman Rushdie and Religion :-)
by Cady insalman rushdie gave a reading tonight in seattle, then answered questions.
the man was amazing!
he had you laughing hysterically and a moment later the room was totally silent.
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