Posts by monophonic

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Should DF'd people talk to other DF'd people??? YOU be the judge...

by slmdf in

ok all... i was in a store looking for bedroom furniture and in walks this former elder with his new woman - they too are shopping for bedroom furniture.

he got df'd like 5 years ago so he has no idea i'm df'd.

recently, i've been thinking about how, when i got df'd, i would sit in the parking lot of the kh waiting for the meeting to start, and so would other df'd people.

monophonic

"WBT$ staircase of shit"

Outlaw, that should be a band name. :)

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i originally owned just one website with a few friends called winxperts but recently we've started to branch out in the hope of getting more hits, more content and more people around.. we decided to buy http://www.thetechcommunity.net and make that a head network site which will eventually give a description on all our sites, will provide updates on site status, latest staff positions (volunteer basis of course) and latest content.. your thoughts?.

nothing is really finished, its all works in progress.

we own more domains we intend to give links to from that page too when they are developed.. .

monophonic

are you using a content management system for the backend of the linked sites?

just curious, b/c i need to buckle down and get my sites together for easier encoding...i'm stuck in y2k, practically editing my html in txt files and using tables, etc.

btw, web 2.0, what's the buzz word mean?

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Should DF'd people talk to other DF'd people??? YOU be the judge...

by slmdf in

ok all... i was in a store looking for bedroom furniture and in walks this former elder with his new woman - they too are shopping for bedroom furniture.

he got df'd like 5 years ago so he has no idea i'm df'd.

recently, i've been thinking about how, when i got df'd, i would sit in the parking lot of the kh waiting for the meeting to start, and so would other df'd people.

monophonic

i think you did the right thing and if he response seemed judgemental, no reason to invite him into your life.

but, i'd wouldn't let this encounter discourage you from saying hi to others who are df'ed who you might think are cool....that would be letting him make the choice for you b/c of his actions.

my philosophy is, stay open, but if i sniff psychoness or a gut feeling about someone, i cut them off fast. it has worked well over the years....and whenever i don't listen to my gut about someone, it usually turns out my gut was right all along.

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I have a super secret prank for tomorrow's convention

by ColdRedRain in

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i got dragged to the convention with my folks again because i got a court order stating i have to be with my mother at all times.

so tomorrow, i'm playing a prank.

only a few people on this board know what that prank is.

monophonic

"It involves the contribution boxes, that's all all i have to say."

actually gives me some ideas, b/c the volunteers assigned to look after them seem to try not to notice how much you're 'giving to jehovah', so wrapping something in dollar bills might be some fun....like rotting fish, or a condom full of dye that would be hard to get off the other money in the box....what's something that's small that can spread quickly?

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Service is so easy now

by coaster in

i just knew the gb would find a way to keep on going when the end never seems to come.

well, new light shining brightly we all recently learned that the 144k are still being selected.

no more need to "graft" new ones onto the broken branch.

monophonic

coaster, you bring up a funny thing that i see at every memorial...the big display to pass the emblems to the speaker, where he actually has to touch the plate and then give it back.

it always cracks me up b/c you're right, just having them there on offer after the talk the 1/1000 of the person who partakes in each hall can discreetly partake...but there's no reason that everyone has to touch the glass and the plate. next year, i'll keep my hands down and make sure the people on either side of me pass it to each other...i'll give it a cosmo kramer type wave off like i don't want to touch them.

i'd love to hear more of your personal experience if you're comfortable with that, like your reason for joining the board, things that made you start to question, etc.

and if you're not comfortable w/ that, that's cool as well. personally i think it's great that there are still active jws here, we can score scanned KMs if we wanna read them and i think the most important thing is information availability and exchange, which the wtbts has shown itself not to be too forthcoming in their failings....the other day a relative said, 'sometimes the brothers get it wrong' and my reply was, 'yes, but they don't apologize and/or take responsibility....when i was still IN, the minute i went to the wrong concert or saw the wrong film i was instantly given a sheparding call and held accountable for my supposed faux pas'.

just like the 'new light' on df'ing, where the elders are supposed to lighten up the length of the time some people are out of the borg....it's all worded like the elders have been doing it wrong and need correction when the original teaching was straight from bethel.

again, compare that to a person who acted the same way w/ double talking and not apologizing for when they error and that person is usually an abusive asshole.

oops, rambled. :)

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I hate Walmart!

by Elsewhere in

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i rarely ever set foot in the place and will go out of my way to avoid shopping there.

tonight i made the mistake of giving walmart the benefit of the doubt and walked in the door.. they didn't have the main item i was looking for, but they did have one other small item.

i headed to the front to check out only to find they had only a few check-outs open and all of the lines were far too long.

monophonic

i have never been to a walmart thanks to the city i live in not allowing them to open one w/in city limits.

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Service is so easy now

by coaster in

i just knew the gb would find a way to keep on going when the end never seems to come.

well, new light shining brightly we all recently learned that the 144k are still being selected.

no more need to "graft" new ones onto the broken branch.

monophonic

thanks coaster....if you or someone scanned and posted the questions for readers in another thread and wants to hit me with a link via pm i'd appreciate it.

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Service is so easy now

by coaster in

i just knew the gb would find a way to keep on going when the end never seems to come.

well, new light shining brightly we all recently learned that the 144k are still being selected.

no more need to "graft" new ones onto the broken branch.

monophonic

welcome coaster.

oh gawd, is this seriously the 'new info' in the km?

this should get the emotional-jws, whose only personality trait is that they're jws, wet in their pants.

i'm partaking next year...at the only meeting i go to once a year, the memorial, for family obligations as well....45 minutes a year is better than getting shit about it for a couple of weeks....and xanax and a notepad for all the sudden poetry inspiration i get, i almost wish it was twice a year.

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What you are listening to/What you listened to recently?

by KW13 in

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i am playing mr blue sky - electric light orchestra - love this song and matches the mood i am in right now.. you?.

monophonic

billy childish - crimes against music on my new record player. :)

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A year since my brothers death

by purplesofa in

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today it's been a year since i got the call about my brothers suicide.. i posted on the board that i would be gone for awhile.

the support i got was unbelievable.

comforting.. as this first year has passed, the missing part is still there.

monophonic

suicide is hard. i've had two family members kill themselves, one try real good, and two close friends commit suicide.

it's been about 9 years since the last suicide, but i was really messed up there for a while b/c of that stretch of time...and it was when i was still 'in' and i've given my experience here before, but the elders demonized us in the early ones since they assumed it was b/c of secret sins, which really f*&ked me up further.

the hurt, the love, the memories are all still there and my dead friends and family are a part of me and i pay homage to them on the anniversaries of their deaths. but instead of open wounds, they feel like scars now....and there's still feelings of anger which fuels a bit of sarcasm and absurdity about depression and suicide.

i was a lot more suicidal closer to the times of those deaths....now, those thoughts have decreased a lot and if/when i do have them i talk about them in therapy and it seems to help.

my thoughts are with you.