equality my a$$. a better sign of racial and gender equality would be if we had SEVERAL people of color and women to choose from...not just two representatives from communities that makes up 26.1% (~ %other than white) and 50% (~ %women) of the U.S. population
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USA - Who to vote for President = Woman {Hilary} or Blackman {Obama} -cool!
by Witness 007 in.
and thank god george bushes term will soon be over and he did'nt start armagedon......{dumb texan accent} "now what does this button do..." blaaaam..
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How many x jdubs want to write a book?
by Alex Delta inif i only got a nickel every time i heard an x jdub say i should write a book, i'd be a zillioniare.
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hopie, I read your book! My father some how got a hold of a copy (maybe a conference in Eastern WA last year?!?) . I was busy the day my father met you; busy reading your book. It lended a great epiphany for me. So books are good...we can never have too many. Notes In General: I wanted my family to write a book together. If we communicated better and were more open, I would like to get everybody to write their take on my father's disfellowshipping and my immediate family leaving. I'd even like my grandparents (still JW's) to contribute. But than again, we just don't communicate well...(go figure...) It'd just be interesting to see the contrast between two sides; the sides that tried to tear me apart. It'd be like reading the movie "Jesus Camp" but with some ousted, "that's crazy," people's viewpoints. (We can all tell they are crazy, but can they? No. I'd like to try and convey what that's like and delve into, how do you know you're not just falling for someone's line?) I also think my MOTHER (she's on this forum somewheres) should write books!!! I always thought she'd be a great writer.
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Being a Pro-Life Atheist
by B_Deserter init's strange and i'm not sure if it's because of my upbringing, but i just can't be pro-choice.
i just don't see the rational justification (other than a situation where the mother's life is in danger).
i don't, however, see a problem with stuff like the morning-after pill, when the embryo is just a group of cells with no consciousness.
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Plain Truth Ministries Article
by forgetmenot inheres an article i found while wandering my university library.
probably, most people know about the lies but its always good to find an outside article that reminds us how crazy jws are.
http://www.ptm.org/07pt/julaug/watchtower.pdf.
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Here’s an article I found while wandering my University Library. Probably, most people know about the lies but it’s always good to find an outside article that reminds us how crazy JW’s are.
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Hidden Social Conditions
by forgetmenot inyou know it's relatively easy to break the stated rules of jws: smoking, drinking, riding in cars with the opposite sex, saying god bless you, signing up to vote, singing the national anthem, etc.
it is freaky in the beginning but you get over it.
however, i have found some extra baggage that i carry from being a jw that i never recognized.
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You know it's relatively easy to break the stated rules of JW’s: smoking, drinking, riding in cars with the opposite sex, saying God bless you, signing up to vote, singing the National Anthem, etc. It is freaky in the beginning but you get over it. However, I have found some extra baggage that I carry from being a JW that I never recognized. I realized that as a JW you are trained to please. If you’re going to have cult, it sure helps to have people that conform. But conforming to somebody else’s doctrine/belief system/definition of perfect for so long sure leaves some scars. I find it interesting because I just realized it and just realized the pattern I go through: I meet somebody new, a potential friend. Then subconsciously by paying close attention to their body language and conversation, determine what they want me to be. Than I try my hardest (until now, without really recognizing what I’m doing) to be that. Now how did I realize this was happening? I freak out at the moment. Either I cannot be what they want me to be, cannot figure out what they want me to be, don’t want to be what they want me to be, or.... It creates anxiety, jealousy, anger. I’m not really sure what to do about it yet, but I suppose now that I know why I care too much, it’s a start. Sometimes I liken leaving JW to the following illustration: I was in a glass box watching the world from inside; The glass box broke and sent shards flying in all directions. You slowly pick out the shards but you will be picking them out a long time. I guess this just one of those shards, but it took so long to work its way out. Mostly, I wanted to ask two things: did anybody else go through this weird phenomenon and what other unspoken rules have you had to deal with that weren’t at first apparent?
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My very 1st trip to the hall....EVER!
by A-Team in....to sum it up, what a snoozfest!
i guess that i have went to a different kh, because i wasn't greeted with love, but only by 2 people.
part of this may have been i decided to keep my full beard.
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It's called brainwashing.
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Oh Dear...College is Bad?
by forgetmenot inhello all, i haven't been here in forever!
i just had to vent.
sometimes we think we are past the healing process; that our lives can go on like everybody else.
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Thank you all for the great support! I just realized that I hadn't checked back in a while....So...I am now a college graduate! (Can you just feel the super genius vibes emanating from me? hee hee)
Okay my story (in a nutshell): Extended family almost all JW’s. Immediate family not dubs since (9+5) = 14+1984 = 1998 (left all together except older sister who hung on for additional year). High school sports: tennis and cross country; participation helped move me farther into “bad influence category” but made my grandpa (raised Lutheran; inactive when married JW grandma) extremely proud in this last years of life. Running start in junior and senior years: to get away from small town. Fell in love with culture and looking beyond self.
H.S. diploma and A.A. awarded w/in one week of each other. Trip to
Participated in multicultural community as student mentor and tutor. Good at everything, why not do something hard? Found agricultural engineering as major. Enthusiasm for helping people, esp. disadvantaged people, exploded! Later junior year: research in environmental engineering: strong sense of boredom. Later senior year (this summer!): absolutely thrilled with biomedical engineering (project involving children with disabilities)!
Future (the way I hope it will go): Finish full-time, year-job at University offered immediately after graduation to: raise money. For What? Second degree: biomedical engineering, minor: mathematics (only two classes to complete both!). Study for Graduate Record Examination (GRE). Take GRE. Study for Admissions Test (MCAT). Take MCAT. Volunteer and shadow doctors. Apply to M.D./Ph.D. programs. Get into awesome program with NIH funding (called a medical scientist training program (MSTP)). Conduct clinically relevant research and eventually teach and research as a professor. Before settling down: practice medicine to help (if the world goes my way):
1) Children in war torn areas who have been victims of mine accidents. Providing practical and inexpensive solutions to disabilities in the third-world.
2) Improve AIDS education in and help fight tuberculoses.
3) Doctors move beyond paradigm of “fixing” disabilities and realize that a person is more than an arm, leg, or body part. Holistic approach.
4) Inspiring students of all backgrounds and disciplines to use their education and privilege to better the world in meaningful and effective ways.
And first and foremost: live my life as a model to inspire others. Generosity to the point of ridiculousness.
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Oh Dear...College is Bad?
by forgetmenot inhello all, i haven't been here in forever!
i just had to vent.
sometimes we think we are past the healing process; that our lives can go on like everybody else.
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Hello All, I haven't been here in forever! I just had to vent. Sometimes we think we are past the healing process; that our lives can go on like everybody else. But our past is inherently part of us, always with us.
So I finally am graduating from univeristy. I will have a B.S. in engineering come this August. I was named the outstanding senior of my college. Yay for me! (They like me; they really like me...)
Here's the deal: I am so happy to be a college graduate. I enjoyed most of college. A lot. But my extended family, including cousins, aunts, uncles, both sets of grandparents, think that college was/is a waste of time and money. They are dubs. When I asked my cousin about it (i.e. do you have any desire at all to go to college?), he responded: the only thing good I can get out of it is wanton nudity and drugs. Now granted, if that's what your are looking for in college, you can find it. But you probably won't be there for long, since college is first and foremost to learn. You can also find that anywhere you are.
I am so frustrated with their inability to dream.
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My Book of Bible Stories
by Taylor S. ini just got my hands on a copy of my book of bible stories ... (1978).
at first i was excited when a friend pulled it out of his bag, said he'd gotten it as a kid.
then i started flipping through, looking at the pictures, feeling the memories spin in my brain.
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I must have been a morbid kid...
I really liked the Jezebel story, mostly because I found her makeup and jewelry fascinating. Of course, I still find the evil people in stories/movies fascinating.
My sister?s favorite story was the one with the furnace and the three Hebrew boyz who got thrown into the fire because they would not bow down and the lord saved them.
I also really liked the Dinah story. Have any of ya?ll read the Red Tent? Much better story than the Dub?s depicting of the incident.
Now that I think about if for realz, those are really messed up stories. But if you just read the old testament, that?s pretty messed up to. Think of all the weird incest and s**t that went down. Scary stuff.
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Does anyone else do this?
by Sunnygal41 inever catch yourself thinking about a coworker, and noticing little quirks they have, like anything they do, they have to like announce it???
lol!
yesterday, my coworker was doing a weekly hour balance for our drivers.
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Hmm...I'm just thinking...sometimes I will let people know what I'm doing, kind of like what your coworker does, but my intention is to make myself open to criticism. For example, I am currently working on a business plan for a group project, but I am the only one working on the business plan in the group. But because it is a group project, I am under the impression everyone should contribute, so I let the group know my own musing, outline, etc. So that they can criticize or add to it. Is this different than what you have described?