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What was your very first job ?

by xjw_b12 in

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do you remember it ?.

did you you learn anything from it?.

freeman

At 13, most kids in my area had paper routes or mowed lawns or did something similar. I was a bit different; I worked in a TV repair shop. My first real job was as an electronic technician. Yep, I was a boy working with 40+-year-old men. Needless to say some of the guys I worked with felt a bit uncomfortable having me work with them, doing essentially the same job normally done by adults. After a while they got more used to the idea of having me around and stopped trying to compete with and test the whiz-kid-freak boy.

When they realized that I was not after anyone?s job or trying to show anyone up (something I could not do anyway, as with their experience they were much better then I was, they started sharing with me some of the tricks of the trade. That was a turning point, but the real sign of full acceptance came later on. I knew I was fully accepted when at our noon lunch break one of the guys showed me the collection of girly magazines and offered me a beer.

Beer and soft porn, just what a young boy needs! That was more then 30 years ago, one of the best days of my life and I can remember it like it was yesterday!

Freeman

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Jealousy, and why it has no place in a relationship

by Maverick in

the watchtower likes to use being jealous for jah as a theme in many of their articles.

of course we all know they are talking about being loyal to the wts and not the true god.

but i wonder if many people get confused about the general attitude of jealousy and its place in a relationship between couples.

freeman

I like what you said Maverick:

AS I see it, jealousy is a sign of insecurity and a weakness.

Lets not forget that 1 John 4:8 tells us ?God is love;? and then 1 Corinthians 13:4 says that ?love is not jealous? and then we learn in Exodus 20:5 that God is ?a jealous God.?

With that in mind, it appears Maverick that you are mature, secure, and do not contradict your own standards, something apparently foreign to the likes of the Watchtower and their god. Bravo!

Freeman

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I Got A Call Yesterday............

by minimus in

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by a really weird brother telling me he missed me and that jehovah missed me too!

he called me at work and i simply thanked him and just hung up.

freeman

Next time one of them calls, act all excited about the timing of their call to you. Tell them how you were just praying that very day, asking Jehovah for a simple sign that he still loved you, and that you asked him to show he still cared by providing badly needed help painting your house. The worst thing that will happen is that they won?t be calling on you again any time soon, and if you are blessed with a nice gullible drone, you just might get your house painted.

Freeman

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US Presidential Elections: Statistics G. Washington to George W. Bush

by Shaft in

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i think this is a fascinating website.

http://www.uselectionatlas.org/.

it has totals from every presidential election and maps of the electoral college.you can look up the county you lived in as a child and see how your parents as well as your friend's parents and neighbors voted.

freeman

And bush won that by taking Florida...and therein lies most of the dispute over the 2000 result.

The real truth is that Mr. Gore didn?t just lose it all in Florida; his first loss was in Tennessee! Had Al Gore just won his own home state, he would now call 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue home. I?ll bet that fact really haunts him to this day.

Freeman

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Billions to discover if Life ever existed.

by shotgun in

billions of dollars are being spent to determine if life ever existed on mars, while life on various parts of the earth fades away at an alarming rate.

it always annoys me how much taxpayer money is used on crazy or useless things while at the same time many organizations try to sqeeze the average joe for more money just to help the poor and the homeless.

taxpayer money at work

freeman

Shotgun,

While I do agree governments seem exceptionally gifted at wasting large amounts of their peoples treasure, I do however also believe that the pursuit of knowledge in the form of space exploration is hardly a foolhardy endeavor. I?ll be quite open and candid with you, I?m not exactly unbiased when it comes to matters concerning NASA; I have in fact received many thousands of dollars from them during my tenure as a consultant and engineer. Of course that was years ago and I don?t own my living to them anymore. That aside, I believe that money spent on the space program is money well spent, even from a pragmatic perspective. I understand your passions and that you would like to see this money spent in what you would consider more practical ways, i.e. putting food in hungry children?s stomachs and curing their diseases. Perhaps you are unaware that the technologies developed because of the space program are in fact helping the world grow greater quantities of food and more efficiently (global mapping) and that maladies such as cancer are being detected much earlier while the disease is still treatable (non-invasive MRI body scanner).

I?ll bet most people are unaware that for the first time in their lives, several poor remote villages now have non-polluting solar powered refrigeration and phone service. Once again, this is thanks to NASA and the space program. In fact speaking of refrigeration, within the next few years you will probably see the efficiency of all new home refrigerators go up about 6 - 8% due to a NASA developed technology being incorporated. If my math is correct, that should equate to about a barrel and a half of oil per year / per refrigerator and a savings of about 48 dollars on your electric bill. Multiply that times the millions of refrigerators sold and we are talking about a reduction of oil consumption equaling millions of barrels and a savings of millions to billions of dollars on electricity.

If you would like to start saving money and oil now by incorporating this NASA technology into your existing refrigerator or freezer you can buy an add on device for about $25.00 at stores like home depot etc. Sorry I don?t have a brand name for you to shop for but often they are called ?green plugs?. Technically it is a motor power factor controller. They are very easy to install, all you need to do is buy the device, plug it into your electric outlet, and then plug your refrigerator into the device. The savings start immediately and if you live in an area with high electric rates (such as I do), the device will pay for itself in about 6 months or so and continue to save you money for years and years to come.

Again as I stated earlier, I?m not exactly unbiased when it comes to NASA or the space program in general. I admit it, I am a huge fan, and have been since I was just a kid, but at the same time I am also very much aware of the many practical contributions the space program has made to improving life on this planet for everyone.

Freeman

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In Other Words..............dead

by simplesally in

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rather than say someone is dead some people say funny little things likehe bought the farmhe's taking a dirt nap.

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freeman

He or she has assumed room temperature.

Freeman

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What do you collect?

by FlyingHighNow in

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besides dust?

what do you collect?

heather

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I collect coin-operated machines and related paraphernalia from the sixties, seventies, and eighties. In my collection I have pinball, arcade, gambling, jukebox, and soda machines. All of them were not working when I first acquired them, but I have since repaired and restored them. Growing up the kids loved having such cool stuff, and even now having a soda machine stocked with ice-cold soda and beer out by the pool continues to be a big hit during summertime parties. My wife says she is leaving me if I come home with just one more thing. Boy, I sure will miss her.

Freeman

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They found life on Mars

by JH in

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this picture was taken from spirit today.

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I hope one day they do find intelligent life out there, God knows there isn?t any down here.

Freeman

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Do you know?

by Schizm in

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a certain jw doesn't believe in the 1914 doctrine any longer.

this, of course, naturally gives rise to certain serious problems.

for example, how can this person now continue to participate in field service activities and make use of the publications produced by the wts?

freeman

Some years ago when I dared to start seriously questioning some basic JW doctrines I asked to borrow an AID book from an Elder friend of mine who then proceeded to ask me as to why I needed it. I said I just wanted to do a bit more research on the destruction of Jerusalem. When I gave it back a few days later he asked how my research was doing, and I said, well, I hit a bit of an impasse, I just can?t seem to find any support for the destruction of Jerusalem in the year 607 BCE outside of the AID book and other Watchtower printed literature. All the historians and scholars point to a different date. He said, and I will quote him verbatim, ?Well they are obliviously mistaken because if it didn?t happen in the year 607 then everything which is built off of that date like 1914, 1919 would just not be true.? I said oh yes, I see what you are saying; I guess you are right, they just must have it wrong.

Incredible is it not? He had given himself the answer, but he was just too dense, too brain-dead, and too brainwashed to ever see. Regrettably the poor SOB is still in.

Freeman

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The Dark Tower, a prison without bars

by freeman in

three days ago i was chit-chatting with my wife about the impending cold weather and snowstorm forecasted to hit our area when the conversation unexpectedly turned a bit negative.

she made the statement that they might cancel the meeting if the roads become too dangerous, i replied that they just might but really if she went to the meeting or not, the decision was up to her based on her best judgment.

her retort was to the effect of not to tell her what to do and that she would go to the meeting if she wanted to.

freeman

Three days ago I was chit-chatting with my wife about the impending cold weather and snowstorm forecasted to hit our area when the conversation unexpectedly turned a bit negative. She made the statement that they might cancel the meeting if the roads become too dangerous, I replied that they just might but really if she went to the meeting or not, the decision was up to HER based on HER best judgment. Her retort was to the effect of not to tell her what to do and that she would go to the meeting if she wanted to. Oh boy, I guess I pushed the wrong button again. Honestly I was not implying that she needed to stay home but was trying to assure her that it was OK if she didi and that the decision was ultimately with her, i. e. not based on a phone call from some elder telling her it was OK to stay home.

The subject was dropped and yesterday we got belted with snow and bitter cold as predicted. Well she got the big call from one of her handlers and when she got off the phone she was in high spirits saying these words ?I?m free, I?m free, they canceled the meeting?. I couldn?t believe what she was saying, enunciating in no uncertain terms that she so much wanted to stay home and not go out in the bitter cold. I was just dying inside to point out how much control she was under, but I just held my tongue and instead said "wow that?s great babe, how do you want to celebrate"? She asked me to fix her an adult beverage and so I did. We spent the remainder of the evening enjoying each others company, just like normal people do all the time, just like we did before we joined a cult.

Message to lurkers: This is just another real-life example of just how much control the Dark Tower has over your life. Get out while you still can!