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  "Thou Shalt Conform"

  by forgetmenot in

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  hello all...i hope ya'll have had a good summer and all...mine was (...well...) pretty crappy.

  anyway, i have a new room mate @ my university now.

  it's my fourth one in less than a full year (i think).

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  Can you complain to your RA about religious harrassment?

  Or decorate your half of the room with freethought slogans and posters or Darwin fish (available at evolvefish.com). Or pagan/witchcraft symbols.

  GentlyFeral
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  1 Hour to my sons Judicial Committee

  by freeman in

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  well this is about as real as it gets.

  in about an hour my son will be appearing before a judicial committee for the second time in as many weeks.

  unfortunately i just happen to be about 3000 miles away right now (business trip) so i cant be there for support and i cant get the ancillary information that i would normally get just by being present.

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  GentlyFeral

  My prayers go with your family, freeman.

  joy2befree said,

  Then I suggest to you to run and get your son his own copy of Crisis of Conscience to help him see the Dark Tower for what it is. Slip a copy to your wife, too!

  Ah, but it's possible that CoC will frighten your true-believing son too much.

  Might be better to get him a copy of Steve Hassan's Combatting Cult Mind Control, and invite him to read it for contrast w/ the jaydubs - which is why I read it in '95, and which spurred me to leave.

  GentlyFeral
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  Are You Surpised By What You Don't Believe In Anymore?

  by minimus in

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  jehovah's witnesses must "believe" whatever the watchtower bible & tract society publishes.

  now that you aren't forced to accept beliefs that you might not have wholeheartedly endorsed, there must be many different things that you don't accept.....what comes to mind?

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  GentlyFeral

  Things I never expected to believe:

  • God is real, just not Jehovah
  • Poetry and other arts are important
  • Punk/goth kids are cute
  • I'm damn good at what I do
  • Gay is good
  • Bend those genders!
  • "Fornication" and "debauchery," even "casual" "anonymous" sex, can be good for the soul
  • Seventeen is a reasonable age at which to begin using marijuana; preferably under the supervision of parents or other trustworthy loved ones (from experience w/ my kids. Hi, Mulan!)
  • The Bible is a storybook
  • Donating blood is a SPIRITUAL act
  • As the Unitarians put it: "We believe that to question IS an answer"
  • "Pleasure heals" - modern Pagan saying
  • "When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that there is a creative force in this Universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows. Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Oh, and minimus,

  How many here believe in the Bible's view of morality, now?

  Questioning the Bible was the first thing I did on leaving the Spoof. Nothing was left standing but the Golden Rule. I still believe that.

  gently feral
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  What are the three things your coworkers, acquaintances or...

  by berylblue in

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  ...neighbors know about you?.

  1. i have two beautiful daughters whom i love dearly.. 2. i am a huge al stewart fan.

  3. i drink copious amounts of diet pepsi.

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  1. eBay been very good to me.
  2. I'm into allkinda weird hippie/pagan s.....
  3. I'm a poet - come to think of it, not sure everyone is aware of this one.
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  Ozzie's Midweek Survey: How long did you doubt?

  by ozziepost in

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  yep, it's mid-week and so we could take a little respite to do some scientific research.

  here's the survey question:.

  how long before you quit did you entertain doubts about "the troof"?.

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  #1. Just a few flashes of doubt about peripheral issues, such as:

  • no sex/marriage for the resurrected: that's just cruel.
  • On reading Awake! article saying that AIDS was a judgement from God: "I don't know how much longer I can keep teaching this shit. Oops! Did I really think that?"

  Each of these doubt flashes were efficiently suppressed.

  #3. But they were spread out over about ten years.

  #5. How could I doubt? I actually bought into the party line on all the major doctrines and issues, because the first lesson they taught me, I learned too well -- that all outside authorities are suspect.I didn't consider leaving until I saw what a corrosive effect Keeping Integrity TM was having on my conscience - and when I first made up my mind, I phrased it this way: "This may be the true religion, but it's making ME a liar!"

  gently feral
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  Girl Safety Alert.

  by Francois in

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  well, here he is in all his handsomness and sly girl-chasing potential.

  grayson miller darby, my grandson extraordinaire, especially so since he's the only one i've got at the moment.

  ain't he sumpin'?

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  GentlyFeral

  From the come-hither grin, I can see he takes after his grandpa.

  GentlyFeral
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  Reckless eyeballing

  by Maverick in

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  on another treat some of the ladies commented on the married brothers hitting on them or making sexual remarks to them.

  this brought back to mind the personal custom i had about not looking the sisters over when they walked by at meetings.

  i would look away or down when and sister passed by.

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  going "hubba hubba !!"

  Simon! I had no idea anyone actually said "hubba hubba !!" any more!

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  Can Yall Gell?

  by Frannie Banannie in

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  can anyone out there wield those "too-wedgied words" and gell 'em?

  i know there's a lot of humorous brainiacs here on this forum....remember how it was written that the "light" would become congealed?

  without gettin' on a religious high-horse, think about it... what if the wt-bats' translation that they rely so heavily on in their publications (pubs) were so snarled or gelled up that it would become difficult for them to read or say the scriptures out loud....just how cleverly can any of yall re-translate the words they use?

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  I think Frannie is talking about the same process that produced Ladle Rat Rotten Hut, only she'd like to see it applied to scripture.

  GentlyFeral
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  Back in the meat raffle of life!

  by joannadandy in

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  of late i have been rattling on about my new boy toy- .

  it was a wonderful summer romance that began with the kick off of memorial day fireworks, peaked on the fourth of july--and fizzled out before labor day.

  oui?

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  GentlyFeral

  JoannaDANDY

  Men have many reasons for cheating and I don't understand them all, but maybe you were too nifty for him and he wanted to distance himself from all that blinding glory?

  Oh hell, maybe he just wanted to put you in yr place, woman!

  Still sucks ass anyhow. My suggestion:

  KEEP those lacy bras & panties. Model them for the camera. Show him the pics and whisper in his ear, "You ain't gettin' none."

  GentlyFeral
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  Four 9/11 Moms Battle Bush : or, Why I'm voting Dadaist in '04

  by GentlyFeral in

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  i hate embedded pages, so here's the link.

  i've pasted the url to the title, which you could use as a search term after the article migrates off the front page.

  -- gentlyferal .

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  GentlyFeral

  I hate embedded pages, so here's the link. I've pasted the URL to the title, which you could use as a search term after the article migrates off the front page. -- GentlyFeral

  Four 9/11 Moms Battle Bush

  by Gail Sheehy