Posts by enigmatic

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anyone up for the 3 /4 word story game?

by dezpbem in

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yesturday some of us had a great time playing the 3 word game.

i didn't get much done at work while doing it though!

with one change...instead of 3 words you have the choice of 3 or 4 as you go.. we make a story by everyone posting 3 words at a time.

what do you think about.................................

by defd in

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beards!

in my congregation it is frowned apon.

a male can have one but he wouldnt get any privilidges and would probably be labeled the black sheep.

there was the nicest brother in my hall when i was young that had a beard, but no privledges...

personally i like a little 2 day growth and this week im sporting a little johhny depp looking facial hair thing, though i shave everyday to keep it nice looking...

J

the whole stumbling thing, what a crock...they used that for everything..."no the bible does not say thats wrong but if it may stumble your brother you shouldn't do that" pretty much an all encompassing thing to ban anything they feel like.....

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A question about the 44,000?

by caz in

i studied with the jw's on and off for a couple of years and i could never get my head around the belief that 44,000 ( special ones) would be going to heaven and how they themselves worked out that they would be one of them?

i remember at easter one year i was invited to a 'special' meeting, i think they called it "the memorial" or something like that.

anyway, they passed around a goblet of what looked like wine and a plate of broken crackers and everyone just passed it around the whole room, from one person to the next.

enigmatic

thats funny I remember my mom and sis sneaking caduby cream easter eggs, I guess they were so deliciously sinful they could not help themselves....lmao

J

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My youngest son had an interesting question. Are there at this moment more

by avengers in

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xjdubbs than jdubbs?.

are there at this moment more xjdubbs than jdubbs?.

are there at this moment more jdubbs than xjdubbs?.

enigmatic

quote...I remember a post - a long time ago - by Maximus who said that for every 10 kids that are raised In The Truth™, 8 of them leave when they have the opportunity to do so. That would include baptized and unbaptized youths. The ones who get baptized would show up in the DFd/DAd statistics, but the smart ones who didn't get baptized would just disappear.

That must be part of the reason why they are letting kids get baptized younger and younger all the time... to keep some kind of death grip on them if they realize they will lose their family if they leave...end quote

sorry dont use IE...

Yeah I belong to the non baptized disappearing group, im a regular houdini ;)

J

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A question about the 44,000?

by caz in

i studied with the jw's on and off for a couple of years and i could never get my head around the belief that 44,000 ( special ones) would be going to heaven and how they themselves worked out that they would be one of them?

i remember at easter one year i was invited to a 'special' meeting, i think they called it "the memorial" or something like that.

anyway, they passed around a goblet of what looked like wine and a plate of broken crackers and everyone just passed it around the whole room, from one person to the next.

enigmatic

so if only the 144k are sons of christ, than what are the rest? sorry I was raised a dub but only till I was 12 so I have forgot quite a bit. J

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Is your congregation on medication?

by toby888 in

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over half my cong.

members have mental issues and are taking prozac or some other medication for depression or other mental problems.many are going or have gone to therapists... anyone have a similar situation?

enigmatic

Got a sis that still goes (recently disfellowshipped though, and I have not heard from her about it) but shes on a bunch of meds. J

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Music anyone?

by searching4? in

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you can tell alot about someone by the music they listen to.

my favorite singers are jack johnson and billy holiday, but i also love kanye west and green day.

what kind of music do you listen to?

enigmatic

Thats funny on the whole scott stapp mark tremonti thing. I used to live in tallahassee, fl and used to know those guys when they were just playing the local clubs there and would frequent partys I would have with my roommates. Scotts wife and my ex used to goto the same midwife clinic place. They were pretty cool back than , I would talk to Mark for hours about motorcycles. Back when they cut there first album they were still pretty cool peoples. Have not really been up on things about them though, they all moved along time ago and I dont think they have looked back since.

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Music anyone?

by searching4? in

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you can tell alot about someone by the music they listen to.

my favorite singers are jack johnson and billy holiday, but i also love kanye west and green day.

what kind of music do you listen to?

enigmatic

For sherry, Paul Okenfield is great!

Frankie Bones, Mettalica (older), Beatles, Hendrix, Bella Fleck and the Flecktones, Wu-tang, 50-cent, Nora Jones, Janes Addiction, Grateful Dead, Shadows Fall, Marvin Gaye, Alice in chains, Pearl Jam, Ozzy, could go on and on...but as you can see my music tastes are pretty varied...

J

Oh how could of I forgot Pink Floyd?

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Anonymous domain name registration?

by IT Support in

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does anyone have any experience regarding anonymously registering a new domain name?

there are a number of us registrars offering anonymous, or private, domain name registration, where the registrar registers the new domain name in their own name but the customer has full rights to use, trade, sell the name, etc.

they usually charge an additional $5 to $10 per month for the service.

enigmatic

Yes you can put whatever for registration details but I don't reccomend it, plus if you use a credit card for registration who anonymous is that?. Case in point: I did that and the site became pretty profitable. Well if its registered to Juan Dinero from mexico it makes it pretty hard for you to prove legal ownership. The only proof to your ownership is the email address you have registered (use this to make hosting name changes and so-on). If someone gets ahold of this email (or spoof's you email address which was happening alot "domain hi-jacking") How are you going to prove its yours? I had a ex that was quite devious and got a hold of my password and changed everything to her legal name, well long to make a long story short she is the pround owner of a decent website, that I slaved over to get going. Try Yahoo domains, I just registered a domain with them, it was under 10 bucks a month for the domain, with some basic webhosting and private registration is .75 a month extra. Hope this helps, if you have any ?'s message me, thats what I do e-stores and internet development.

J

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The Watchtower Caste System & How We All Bought Into It

by minimus in

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if you were a jw, you know that everything hinged upon getting privileges, doing more, climbing the theocratic ladder.

if we "made it" to ministerial servant, our goal was to reach out and be an elder.

if we were part of a family that had an elder, m.s.

enigmatic

the cool ones in the hall actually seemed like the biggest nerds to me, and looking back I was right. the tryed so hard to be trendy and impress other jw's (ohhh,ahhh, my my he drives a saab and snowboards). Thats cool? I hope not, lol. I mean how hard is it to impress people that are very sheltered and don't know alot about the real world. I'm sure many dubs stay for just this reason, be a little wordly and trendy and you got the horny dub girls chasing after you..lmao.. Most of those type of dubs live as close to the line as they can. I have cousins that are like that, they drive nice cars and go to football games and bars(restaruant bars of course) and golf, to some dubs there sooooo cool, but being there my cuz's and I know em, there really just normal boring dudes. The coolest ones are those who have the courage to get out and live there lifes.