Inspirational eccentric
You are happy in your own skin and totally aware that you are a little eccentric! You are curious by nature and willing to give anything a go – from pea shooting to toe wrestling! You are totally absorbed by your interests and enjoy your own company – losing yourself in your deepest thoughts is favourite pastime. You're a visionary – thinking using visual images by day, vivid dreams by night. You relish in your own individuality and the power you have to inspire others.
FaithfulDoubter
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ARE YOU ECCENTRIC-TAKE THE TEST
by tijkmo in.
i am...a humourous eccentric...or am i a humorous eccentric.
http://nationaltreasures.yahoo.co.uk/quiz/question/1/
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Double life, anyone??
by dinah inhow many of you lead double lives while growing up (especially those who grew up jw)?
in the last few days, it seems that bothers me about my adolescence.
i had to be one person for my mother, while still trying to be myself.
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FaithfulDoubter
I'm probably alone in not living a double-life. Worst I did was have a few worldly friends, which my parents knew about. I aux-pioneered in summer and did all that jazz. Still, I was treated like crap by the congregation. For some reason I was labeled as a 'bad association'. Despite seeing other kids do far worse things than I ever did, and raised to have priveledges in the congregation. Maybe it's because I only got a few hours in service each month. I dunnos. So, I've lived a fairly boring 'good-JW' life. No good music. Never been kissed. Never done the naughty. Never been drunk. Never been to a concert. Never done a lot of stuff..... *sighs*
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What is something that you consider attractive, and unattractive?
by free2beme inin human sexuality, we all have things that turn us on and things that turn us off, things that attract us and things that don't.
often people think it is all about what you see in advertising, but often it is smaller things we think less of and yet it dominates our sex drive.
for example, in a case study we did, we found that a lot of people would immediately answer things like "eyes" or "legs" and yet as we drove deeper into their answers, we found that eyes and legs were not what attracted people.
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Major turn-ons: good personality (intelligence, and laughing at my lame jokes...)
Major turn-offs: weight extremes (skinny or fat) to the point of it being unhealthy, oh and SMOKING.
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This just occurred to me;
by 2112 inwe all know that the nwt is a truly lousy version if the bible.
when they started using the bible why did they not add their own writings.
i know they use the wt and other books but i mean, in the lines like the mormans did.
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FaithfulDoubter
I got into a discussion with a JW about this EXACT same point.
The facts are very simple: not all of the Bible books agreed to be canon were widespread, there were (then) widespread books not included in canon, the canonized books reflected the Church fathers idealogies of the time (largely a rejection of Gnosticism). This is canon used by the WTB&TS.
I made this point, and was responded to by saying that "God didn't wait for manmade councels", and that "true Christians new the books of the Bible". I responded by pointing out that most true Christians didn't have, and some probably didn't even know about, all of the Epistles. At this point, the JW got more and more hysterical, and eventually broke down to saying that "the wheat and weeds" would make it impossible to tell the true organization. He was more and more vehement and offended as I pointed out that the Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox organizations were the only visible organization for hundreds of years, despite his insistance that there always has been a true organization to turn to.
I don't think he ever allowed himself to realize that it was the Catholics that chose the bible as it is today, and was offended I even suggested it, despite the massive amounts of historical evidence to the contrary. In the end he changed the subject and tried to move on.
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Guess they didn't like...
by TallTexan inthe emails i sent out to some of the myspace "jw - light of the world" forum members.
watch out for an apostate who has this information.
cyrus male 26 bryan texas.
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What did you send him?
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A drinking game...
by FaithfulDoubter indisclaimer: this is meant in humor only.
please drink responsibly, and be of legal age when drinking..... ok, if you're anything like me, you get copies of talks sent to you on a regular basis.
now, when asked if i listen to them, i have to him and haw, and say no.
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DISCLAIMER: This is meant in humor only. Please drink responsibly, and be of legal age when drinking....
Ok, if you're anything like me, you get copies of talks sent to you on a regular basis. Now, when asked if I listen to them, I have to him and haw, and say no. So, I tried to think up a way of breaking the monotony of listening to talks.
Here goes:
You'll need your favorite brand of alcohol (Beer might be a good idea, but if you want you can go with Whiskey, Tequila, etc..., just stay clear of everclear with this.... hehe...)
Buzz level: super-exceedingly-duper-hospital-requiring high
Take a shot when the speaker says or mentions:
- paradise earth
- this old system
- worldly people
Take 2 shots for mentions of apostate thinking or apostate.
Take 3 shots when the speaker mentions 'Waiting on Jehovah'.
Based on recent meetings, my guess is that the average person will only last through half the meeting. For extra fun video record the procedings and send them to the PO so he can see how evil you are...
DISCLAIMER: This is meant in humor only, though I might try it one day. (No, I'm not a lush, despite the efforts of half the people at my college, I've never been drunk...) Please drink responsibly, and be of legal age when drinking....
Further warning: BE VERY careful with this game when listening to a few talks, such as Beware of the Voices of Strangers, or 'Waiting on Jehovah'....
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"Do Burned CDs Have a Short Life Span?"
by one in"do burned cds have a short life span?
john blau, idg news service
tuesday, january 10, 2006
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FaithfulDoubter
Hrm, I don't know how much I trust this "expert". He seems to be in the minority about 'tapes' being good. Tapes DO degrade over time, and digital tapes have arguably even more problems, ESPECIALLY if you use them often. (Stretching the tape often results in data loss and degredation.) I wouldn't trust tapes or CD-Rs to do real archival for much. (I'd lay good money that those people using tape for archival are using it purely because of capacity issues, NOT longevity...) That said, there are CD-Rs, and then there are CD-Rs... Some claim to have 100 year life-spans, and I know that I have several 7+ year old CD-Rs still good. The question is really how well you treat them and store them. If you store them at room temperature, out of the sunlight, in a CD-Bible or jewel case, I don't see having many trouble. And does it really take that much effort to reburn important CDs, or better yet store them on a nice network server....
Next thing you know, I'll be hearing about people storing things on floppy again because CD-Rs are so unrelaiable...
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Are you paranoid about posting?
by wombat inpoor jwfacts got sprung when the jw trawlers were able to join the dots.. no, that's wrong - they knew it was him but it took something else for them to be able to prove it.. i am not game to post a bio about myself.
my jw siblings are very litigious.
one even sued another jw for libel.
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FaithfulDoubter
Hmmm, yes, paranoia is a good thing. I haven't told any white lies, here anyway. I have in other places. I've also accidentally revealed my full name to a couple of people! (They asked me to e-mail them on the board, and I stupidly replied with my From: field with my full name filled out.) I realized what I'd done only after I sent a few e-mails out. Luckily, those people weren't JW moles in the slightest. I'm already starting to prepare for being outed, but I don't know the emotional toll it will take on me. I have a close relationship with my JW parents, and despite my father having physically abused me on a couple of occassions, wouldn't want him to know that I've told other people about that - and that I still felt he had, even though he did, or something...
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Did you know of any JW elders or JW pioneers that were "racist"?
by booker-t ini know this might sound like a question from "la-la" land but as a black ex-jws most of the white jw's that i did have contact with were really nice.
i was talking to a hispanic ex-jws the other day and he was telling me of some of the racist experiences he had as a jw.
i did not contradict him but i never experienced racism from caucasian jw's.
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Another true story:
After a sister had chastised a young brother for dating an african-american sister, she was counselled on how race and such didn't matter. After reading several scriptures and so on with her, the brothers thought she was beginning to get the message. A few weeks later, talking to the younger brother she chastised before, in reference to the young african-american sister the brother was dating, she had this to say, "At least she wasn't a Mexican". Old habits die hard I guess.
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Did you know of any JW elders or JW pioneers that were "racist"?
by booker-t ini know this might sound like a question from "la-la" land but as a black ex-jws most of the white jw's that i did have contact with were really nice.
i was talking to a hispanic ex-jws the other day and he was telling me of some of the racist experiences he had as a jw.
i did not contradict him but i never experienced racism from caucasian jw's.
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FaithfulDoubter
I have a couple stories...
Once I expressed interest in a black sister, and some family members strongly dissuaded me saying that the "worst thing I could ever do was mary a black sister". They then went on and said that interracial relationships don't work out, and so on and so forth. I chalked it down to age, but I've since heard rather similar comments from others.
I also heard of a congregation, that after segregation and so on was done away with, would self-segregate. All the black brothers and sisters on one side, white brothers and sisters on the other. After the meeting ended they wouldn't meangle together, and left rather quickly. I was shocked to hear about such a thing in the Organization!
Not trying to hijack the thread too much, but I've been thinking a lot about this issue lately. I don't think the JWs are really that much different in regards to race relations. It really is a function of age that determines who 'racist' you are. The later generations today are probably the least racist of any that have come so far, but it's still a definate problem. I see people sometimes make their living on feeding racism, some well meaning, and some that I think are just hateful. (I saw a bone-chilling speech on C-SPAN where a black former university professor advocated the final solution of killing all white people.) I don't think any JW would go that far. I think you'd be suprised what some of the older friends would say about different ethnic groups. I know I was.