Confusious say:
"man who live in glass celophane house, make spectacle of self"
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ps...of the "not at the Memorial tonight" Sheep Class)
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Go Green~Cellophane House
by purplesofa ini was in a waiting room today and browsed through a magazine and found this article on cellophane house.. brad pitt is getting with the designer to modify to help with rebuilding homes in new orleans.. .
read moreblogsite mapsite indexsearchcellophane house the museum of modern art, new york, ny cellophane house is a five-story, offsite fabricated dwelling commissioned by the museum of modern art's exhibition home delivery: fabricating the modern dwelling, on display july 20 through october 20, 2008. the 1800 square-foot residence has two bedrooms, two bathrooms, living and dining space, a roof terrace, and a carport.
an online journal tracking the fabrication process can be viewed atwww.moma.org/homedelivery.
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Anybody know about statutory rape - especially Illinois?
by jws inthere's a 19-year old in the family (non-jw) who got his 16-year old girlfriend pregnant.
from what i can tell, that could be considered criminal sexual abuse in illinois with a potential sentence of up to a year in prison.. anybody know anything about this?
especially in illinois?.
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SnakesInTheTower
I posted on this somewhere on the board.. cant find it with the search right now...but big tex's post looks right...
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As an active JW, did you find the Memorial to be special?
by Robert7 ineven as active jws, my wife and i always found the memorial to be anti-climatic, overhyped.
it was supposed to be the most important event of the year, but it just felt like another meeting.
i just never felt compelled to have to go.
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I knew it was overhyped when I finally became an elder. I knew it was really hyped the year I gave the Memoral™ Talk. It was also the same year that the Society introduced the "SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT" to be read at the end of the event... just another WT Informercial about the Special Talk™.
4 hours and counting... I am headed out to do other things... not going to the Memorial...lol
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Anyone know of a PDF of 'Paradise Lost - Paradise Regained'?
by AK - Jeff inpm or email if you do.
please...!.
jeff.
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SnakesInTheTower
I have the real deal... you need something specific or the whole book?
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hate the memorial meeting tonight
by slimboyfat ini have to go to the memorial tonight but i hate it.
i feel so bad today.
i feek sick all the time and i nearly fainted this morning.
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SnakesInTheTower
M-time is about 4.5-5 hours away for this time zone... I am not going. I am going to the office, then I am going to get some carry out... and then going home and watch Survivor... much more interesting than Memorial. I may lose my remaining JW "friends" if I miss a second year in a row...
I dont envy those who are pressured directly by family to go to this Time Wasting Non-Event.
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Did you feel "Stoopid" when going out in service?
by Quirky1 inman, i always felt like a complete idiot!!
dressing up in a suit riding around with a carload of other "stoopid" people speaking "stoopid" shit!
wtf was i thinking??
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oh yeah... I hated every second of field service. Even (and especially) when I was a regular pioneer. I did it because that is what I thought God wanted me to do. Ironically, I often admitted this fact from the platform, even during public talks... I would say "we go out in service because that is what Jehovah expects of us...but ...do you reallylike it?" long pause..... "cause I gotta tell ya..it's just not a natural thing to go knocking on strangers doors to talk about an unpopular topic..... and to be honest...I really hate knocking on doors." {{gasp}}.....from the audience...I could always tell who the elders were in a cong I was visiting...their eyes would bug out.... and then the nervous twitter of laughter..as I let them in on the joke...
"and yet brothers and sisters, we go out in service because we looove Jehovah....right?" Then everyone relaxes as they zone back into their Borg-induced coma..... and yet I would get invited back repeatedly..... to tell more zingers like that one....
...zingers such as the times during a public talk when I called certain unannounced shepherding calls ... "Gestapo Visits".....yeah that was fun ....as I counseled the elders from the platform to show kindness by scheduling an appointment...... (something the Society told them and often was ignored...gotcha calls were a power play)...those talks always got the loudest applause and best response...well, except for most of the elders...and I still got invited back...go figure...lol....
so yeah...I hated service....fake doorbell ringing....light knocking....work by myself...volunteer to drive the group....suggest return visits and coffee breaks (once I figured out that taking the breaks got me out of door knocking, I quit criticizing the long breaks).... offer to "go back and get the car" (which was parked a block or two away)... offer to keep the car warmed up/cooled down..... yeah...I got out of a lot of conversations at the door doing those strategies...lol
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Who has a blog?
by DT ini've noticed a lot of xjw blogs popping up lately.
i think that is great.
blogging could be the next big phase in combating the influence and propaganda of the watchtower society.
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SnakesInTheTower
http://www.snakesinthetower.blogspot.com but as I say on my profile here, I am lazy about updating it..
Maybe soon... I will have something exciting to post..... until then... its more a placeholder for the snakes moniker.
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Meeting other ex-JWs
by stillAwitness inhow do you meet other ex-jws in your town safely?
i've tried meetup.com, apostafests, but they always only have about 3 or 4 members and they happen to be far away.
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SnakesInTheTower
I met up with a bunch at the Toronto Apostafest in Oct 07 and that was a blast...nice to put real names to real people behind screen names and avatars... hearing their stories told me I had made the right move. Those fests are the best because they are in public locations.
I am seriously thinking of putting a Meetup group together for St. Louis...there might be enough interest.... of course, in doing so, I am taking a chance on being outed from my fader status and getting an upgrade to apostate status.
What part of Georgia? My non-JW brother (raised in it, never baptized) is north of Atlanta.... I may be making a trip down that way in May...
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Top 10 Memorial Excuses
by rebel8 ingood excuses.
pinkeye.
(highly contagious, and you aren't supposed to touch other people's dishes and glasses.)tuberculosis.
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ummmmm... I don't have time for repeats...and I gave the talk a couple of years ago....I still remember it....can't get it out of my head. (true)
I tasted the crackers one year (afterward)...they taste awful...and the wine is no better. (true)
Just had gastric bypass surgery....no room for memorial emblems... (not really)
I am having exploratory surgery and the doctors say I have a 90% chance of finding a life..... but if I go to the Big M the chances drop to near zero. (no surgery...but my chances of finding a real life are increasing exponentially the longer I stay away).
If I see a certain racist elder I will drop kick his a$$. (this one is true).
I have an appointment with ...... I will think of something. (true..I may hide my car in the garage if I am home).
Radical lumpectomy of my a$$.....because the elders are still on it. (actually, no elders have called on me in official capacity recently..and none have invited me to the Memorial at all).
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Top 10 Memorial Excuses
by rebel8 ingood excuses.
pinkeye.
(highly contagious, and you aren't supposed to touch other people's dishes and glasses.)tuberculosis.
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troubled mind:
Ummm you said Thursday night ........sorry new episode of Bones is on , and I can't miss it don't have DVR you see .
Ummm you said Thursday night ........sorry new episode of Bones Survivor is on ..and it is so much like congregation politics it is all I can take.
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