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Some good news
by gypsywildone in
1. jw
2. friends
our kid told me this week end that her classes at college are not challenging enough, they are filling her schedule up with projects & busy work, & that she is either going to law school, or for her degree to become a history professor at the college.

she was going for elementary education.

lawyer was what she really wanted to be in the first place.
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The way to get the jw's goat!
by gypsywildone in
1. jw
2. friends
the way to stick it to the borg is not self defeating behaviors.

it's not smoking a cigarette, & saying "nah,nah,nah look at me".

it is not putting yourself at risk in risky sexual acting out.
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Undaunted Danny & Junction Guy are on the right track.
by gypsywildone in
1. jw
2. friends
i was at the jws for jesus convention yesterday, even though i don't subscribe to their religion, & there are many other topics discussed.

two different speakers said that signs work!

they have experimented with advertising in papers & opening a phone line, but they are getting the most interest from non-confrontational, thought provoking signs posted around town.
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anyone seen the new eminem parody of Michael Jackson?
by gypsywildone in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
what did ya think?

foxnews just ran it.
Political Gag gift t-shirt on Ebay for those seeking different candidate
by gypsywildone in
1. social
2. current
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/ebayisapi.dll?viewitem&rd=1&item=3934977395&sspagename=strk:mese:it

ebay item number: 3934977395. hey, don't yell at me!

but i think it's funny
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Contrast of a Catholic funeral for 21 year old drug overdose
by gypsywildone in
1. jw
2. experiences
i had to go to a neighborhood kid's funeral today.

a 21 year old drug overdose, dropped off at the hospital by 3 scared punks that split.

an unidentified "john doe", clinically dead.
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Histrionic Personality Disorder-ever met one?
by gypsywildone in
1. jw
2. friends
the dimensional perspective

dimensionshere is a hypothetical profile, in terms of the five-factor model of personality, for histrionic personality disorder (speculatively constructed from mccrae, 1994, pg.

high neuroticism chronic negative affects, including anxiety, fearfulness, tension, irritability, anger, dejection, hopelessness, guilt, shame; difficulty in inhibiting impulses: for example, to eat, drink, or spend money; irrational beliefs: for example, unrealistic expectations, perfectionistic demands on self, unwarranted pessimism; unfounded somatic concerns; helplessness and dependence on others for emotional support and decision making.. .
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warning people does some good
by gypsywildone in
1. jw
2. friends
excerpt from a note from a good friend:

what i know about jw's i've learned from you except for the few kids that would come to our house and i would tell them i had an ex-jw friend and that they need to think about going to college because they have their whole lives ahead of them to make their own decisions about religion.

also, i said if they ever needed help going to college to come to my house and i would help them get financial aid and that my husband is a teacher and would make sure that they got whatever they needed in terms of educational advisement.
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How many members on here in total, & q about pre-1975 jws
by gypsywildone in
1. jw
2. friends
a long story condensed in order to keep private things private, but first of all, how many active members are on here now?

second of all, were the pre-1975 jws less hard core, would you say?

is that around the time they "stepped it up"?
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Daughter just chopped off 14 inches of her hair!
by gypsywildone in
1. jw
2. friends
she donated it to locks of love & this week was the first i saw it.

she was born with enough hair to hold barrettes!

it was always long, curly & super thick.