My guilt pleasure.... the only thing I have ever found to sum up all the nerdy and geeky things I like is:
So much so that I started volunteering my time.
LH
dkeithia
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What are your Guilty Pleasures of a geeky/nerdy variety?
by Crumpet ini don't mean the ones we know about already - things people wouldn't think you did or enjoyed to look at you.. i love watching ray mears extreme survival and learning about how to survive and find food and shelter in extreme climates even though there is a strong possibility that i shall never try and escape naked from a japanese prisoner of war camp, or crash without a flagon of water into the sahara, or come stuck in my ship in a freezing ice plateau in deepest antartica.
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what's your guilty geeky pleasure?.
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Another method of witness time-wasting
by ldrnomo inyesterday as i was getting ready to go out i noticed from my bedroom window two women dressed in witness garb heading toward my house i didn't recognize them so when i answered the door they asked me if i was spanish speaking i said no and they then asked me if i knew of anyone the the neighborhood that was and i said no they thanked me and went off to the next door (doing the pioneer shuffle) to ask the same question.
so this must have taken up a whole morning.
my wife and i thought they could have spent their time so much more affectivly sitting in a coffee shop and saying olaaaa to each customer that came in and when one answered back they could have spewed their bs on them in spanish..
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dkeithia
This made me thinking of the time I was trying to get some LDS missionaries to leave me alone. I had just moved into my own tiny apartment with my daughter when the missionaries started coming around. I am too nice by half at least to most of them, since they dont preach hard when they come by and well it was really hot out (it being the middle of the summer)so I always told them that I wasnt interested in their religion but if they wanted a glass of cold water I would give them one. The first two sets that came by were nice, the first set said no thank you and walked on, the second set said yes, thank you and drank their water thanked me again and walked on. The third set, well it was late evening and they all but banged my door down. I looked and they were a new set of recuits as I like to call them. I was tired from a long day at work that evening and an emotional wreck due to having a fight with my ex. So when they banged on the door a second time ( I guess they figured I was home due to the loud music playing in the background) I jerked open the door and greeted them in Japanese. They ask me if I spoke English and once again I answered them in Japanese. With that they walked away and right after that no more missionaries visited me.
LH
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Birthdays, Christmas, New Year and more!
by Chalam ini just found another verse on this-the title of the section is perfect!
colossians 2 (new international version) .
freedom from human regulations through life with christ .
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dkeithia
Good question: the answer though is a simple one.
They are taught not to read the whole Bible just the parts that the WTS wants them to read.
Which means most have not read the Bible entirely and if they did they went and asked an elder or looked at a WTS publication for clarification.
LH
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Hello
by letsgetout inhi everyone, i have been a longtime lurker to this website, but i have never posted.
so here is a little bit about myself:
i was raised a jw, got baptized at 13, became a regular pioneering right out of high school, i was used extensively at the hall and on assemblies, came from a nice jw background.
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dkeithia
No matter what happens with your family always know that you are doing the right thing for you and your life. If they cant understand that then try to not let it get to you. I know its hard but you have friends and your soon to be husband. As my husband and I learned relatives are people that you had no choice to be related to, family is people in your life that you love and trust. Make your own family. If your parents truly love you and not some version of you then they will still love you no matter what. When my mother found out that I wasnt Christian she told me that she would pray for me because she thinks I am going to hell. I know that she loves me otherwise she wouldnt pray for me. I may not agree with her but I know that she cares about me.
LH
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Need help with MIL
by TweetieBird ina few weeks ago she asked if we still believed it was jehovah's organization.
i hadn't heard from her until this morning.
i asked her to show me from the bible only where it says that this is j's organization.
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dkeithia
I agree with changling. I to have a MIL that is a die hard JW and no matter how much proof we have given her that she is wrong and that the organization is wrong she still wont listen. Its sad because deep down we care about family but unfortunately when you come up against someone who is like talking to a brick wall all you can do is climb over and move on. Something I learned along time ago is that you cant control other people's decisions but you can control how you think, feel and act.
LH
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Astro-travel
by LouBelle inastro-travel or out of body experience....your spirit/soul leaves your physical body to visit the spiritual world or astro-plane .
there is no hard proof and information is based on personal experiences.
i'm not too clued up on this, but one friend of mine says you meet a guide ( he/she has to earn your trust???
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dkeithia
Astro- travel can be done in several ways and not always with a guide. Depending on who you study it from sometimes guided meditation is considered astral travel. However the way I was taught was that there are several kinds: ( I am not going to list all of them because I really dont want to write a novel)
1. Guided Meditation - a form of astral travel done with a speaker or music giving direction to a person or group of people who mentally walk the instructions given. These are often done as a training technique for other types of astral travel as well as a way to help focus the mind.
2. Shamanic Walking - (there is a better name for this but I cant remember it off the top of my head.) Where one after meeting an animal spirit guide is then shown or taken to places and things in order to teach a lesson.
3. Astral-planeing - The act of one falling asleep and then in dream mode (this requires lucid dreaming btw) falls asleep and then wakes themselves on a astral plane and and explores to learn things and to meet others.
4. Astraling - The act of mentally walking around ones plane of exstistance out of body.
I have done all of thee above and all the rest (with the exception of the "little death" style which is unsafe and unhealthy since it requires the person to put their body in a coma). Guided meditation is by far the easist and safest. I was taught that when astral traveling to always leave a thread of myself attached to my body so that I could find my way back. While it is hard to prove the reality of it I have known people who have gotten lost while trying it, lucky for them they found their way back.
LH
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Ok I am Freaking Out Right Now!
by dkeithia inok so in a previous post i told all of you a little bit about my inlaws and what they put my husband and i through.
i asked all of you if you thought it was ok to keep them cut off and out of our lives, if it was the right thing to do.
many of you posted and stated that you thought my husband and i were doing the right thing and i thank you all for making me feel better in my decision.
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So we went as a whole family to meet with my FIL and the grandparents at Starbucks in the inlaws town (its about a 20 minute drive from our place). We meet in the afternoon while MIL was at church so she wouldnt be there. Apparently from what I gathered and then what was relayed to me by my husband who translated there has been a huge misunderstanding. My MIL parents (eg my husbands grandparents from Germany) had been told as I knew they had a bunch of lies about my husband and myself. Also apparently the email that came from my husbands Aunt all those months ago was false. Apparently she spoke for the grandparents without telling them what was going on. So we spent almost three hours chatting with my husbands grandparents straightening things out. We will see what falls out over this. The grandparents now do not believe my MIL and believe us. My FIL just stated that everyone has their own problems and is attempting to be the neutral party. They are all spending the next week in Hawaii so we will see what happens. They all now know about our youngest daughter. The grandparents were thrilled and proud, my FIL was happy and upset at not being told at the same time but was wise enough not to say anything this time around. The grandparents told my husband that my MIL would like to hear from him from time to time to know that he is ok. So we will see. All in all the meeting was fine and the grandparents accept me and the kids and my husbands decisions.
LH
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Ok I am Freaking Out Right Now!
by dkeithia inok so in a previous post i told all of you a little bit about my inlaws and what they put my husband and i through.
i asked all of you if you thought it was ok to keep them cut off and out of our lives, if it was the right thing to do.
many of you posted and stated that you thought my husband and i were doing the right thing and i thank you all for making me feel better in my decision.
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dkeithia
Thank you Velta. I have heard that god works in mysterious ways and the longer I am alive the more I believe that. The first phrase you said to me about truth, well you have no idea how much that helps. Thanks
LH
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WELCOME NEWBIES - all of you! Check in here, I'm losing track of you.
by AWAKE&WATCHING ini just saw the eighth post by botheyesopen.
i noticed aliciaj, dogaradodya, chicken little, cognac, hypnotic, mochalatte.. some have been welcomed and some have not.. .
we have so many i can't keep up so.... .
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dkeithia
*waves hand and then realises that you all can't really see it* Hi everyone! Yes I am a newbie (wow its been a few years now since I have had that title).
LH = DK = *shrugs* its really both
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Ok I am Freaking Out Right Now!
by dkeithia inok so in a previous post i told all of you a little bit about my inlaws and what they put my husband and i through.
i asked all of you if you thought it was ok to keep them cut off and out of our lives, if it was the right thing to do.
many of you posted and stated that you thought my husband and i were doing the right thing and i thank you all for making me feel better in my decision.
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dkeithia
Ok so in a previous post I told all of you a little bit about my inlaws and what they put my husband and I through. I asked all of you if you thought it was ok to keep them cut off and out of our lives, if it was the right thing to do. Many of you posted and stated that you thought my husband and I were doing the right thing and I thank you all for making me feel better in my decision.
So here it is now several weeks later and we get this phone call from my step-dad. Not only is it weird that he is calling us (usually it my mom) but he wants to talk to my husband. So I hand the phone to my husband and he gets really quiet and an upset look forms on his face as he listens to my step-dad talk to him. Then he writes down a phone number and says good bye to my step-dad and then hangs up the phone. He turns to me and tells me that his dad called my parents asking to speak to him. My step-dad aware of our not speaking to my husbands family wisely tells my FIL that he will give my husband his phone number and my husband will call him back if he so chooses. My husband then tells me that FIL said it was urgent. So here we are thinking that someone has died or is dieing or something horrible as my husband calls his father back. Turns out it really wasnt that urgent. Apparently my husbands grandparents are in town for three days from Germany as a stop over before heading on to Hawaii and they want to see us. The first thing that I think of is that email that my husbands aunt sent us after her visit almost two years ago saying that no one there of the family wanted anything to do with us till we apologized to MIL. My husband tells this to my FIL and then tells him that we will only see the Grandparents if MIL is not there (since she is the one thats the worse of the two). FIL states that we could meet while she is in church (he doesnt attend, not sure if he ever joined or he faded) tomorrow afternoon. My husband says he will think about it and hangs up.
So we know this is trap, we know something bad mojo wise is going to happen, and yet after talking it over we feel that we need to give the Grandparents a chance. I know meeting with them (yes in a public place where we can just walk away and leave if need be) is the right thing to do but I am freaking out! Every time I have come into contact with any of my husbands family they have done and said things to hurt us and try and destroy us (like his mother one time tried to get us thrown out of our apartment.) Yes I know most of it is from MIL but they all listen to her.
All I want is to live my life with the family that I have made in peace.
LH