Posts by lurk3r

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Any Starbucks fans?

by cameo-d in

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friends

what is your favorite type of coffee drink?.

i don't know too much about all these different kinds.. how does steamed milk affect the flavor as opposed to cold cream?

or is it a 'temperature thing' that makes the difference?.

Just a little tid bit... Many people would often come into Starbucks and order a good strong coffee to wake themselves...and logically one might think that the stronger the coffee, the more caffeine content it would have. Apparently though,as it was pointed out to me, that isn't the case. Since darker beans go through more of a roasting process, it's during that process that they actually lose some of their caffeine content. Off the top of my head, I think Breakfast Blend is a medium roast, and would have more caffeine in it than say a bold,like my personal fav Komodo Dragon.

Cameo-d (love your posts)- I'm not sure where the Starbucks name originated, but I have wondered the same thing with them having a Siren as their logo. any ideas?

LouBelle (thanks for the welcome) - Is it the flavour of the milk and syrups that you love?Or is it the actual coffee taste of the espresso? A tall drink is usually given 1 shot of espresso,a Grande (med) gets 2, and A Venti(large) gets 2 as well. I always found that when i ordered a venti with only 2 shots that it was just so sweet. I personally like a bit of the coffee taste and my drink of choice is a Grande,triple shot,extra hot, Caramel Machiatto.

AudeSapere - ( Thank you for the welcome)Yes..you are right about the upselling. I think it was more that computer talking to me and literally saying "you should do this", and "you should say this" that really got me jumpstarted.

Barbie - If it was all blended up together, it was a Frap. If it was milk with ice cubes in it, along with the syrup, it is referred to as an "iced drink". Most every specialty coffee at Bucks can be ordered as an iced drink...but boy they go down a lot quicker when your not sipping them!

All Starbucks food and beverages are NON fattening....if you eat and drink em slow...

lurk3r

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Life as a Jehovah's Witness viewed as a performance

by slimboyfat in

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i am reading the presentation of the self in everyday life by erving goffman at the moment.

it sheds much light on the experience of 'performing' the role of being a jehovah's witnesses: how a witness will strictly adhere to watchtower standards when we are 'frontstage' with an audience either of peers or outsiders, and how they may relax those standards when they are 'backstage', not in a setting where their fidelity to the identity of 'jehovah's witness' is being scrutinized.. an interesting point it makes is that we can present our roles either with 'sincerity' if we believe in the performance as much as we would have the audience, or with 'cynicism' if we perform our role without believing in it, but expecting that the audience will.

but rather than being a neat spectrum from sincerity, through ambiguous sincerity, all the way to cynicism, goffman argues that a performer will tend to one extreme or the other: either believing utterly in the role he is presenting, or presenting it totally without conviction for the benefit of the audience only.

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civics100 - "Some follow along not knowing for sure what they're getting into (until it's too late and they're baptized), others like the idea of a Paradise earth that is "soon" coming."

May I ask you why exactly you make mention of it's "too late and they're baptized"? What exactly is too late about it?

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Woo whooo!

by lurk3r in

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friends

kinda crazy, but finally being able to get on here almost makes me feel like i have just been released from prison.

i have had the privledge of doing nothing but read so many of your posts(for a solid 7 months i bet)...and i really wanted to say thank you, to the ones here who wear your hearts on your sleeves.. first off, i would like to thank the warden for making all of this possible (kidding simon...thanks for keeping this board going).

secondly, every single one of you regular posters here have been a great source of encouragment...looking at the many posts you have have contributed to the site really shows what dedication actually means.

lurk3r

Thank you for the greetings.

Yes...lets cut to the chase. I wish i was an effective typer , so please bear with all my run on sentences etc.

Im a 38 year old fella outta Canada. I was a born in and did everything the way my parents told me to growing up, cause "thats what your supposed to do". Baptized at 17. I was never hardcore, no pioneering...but did get encouraged to "reach out" and become a MS...my hours were a little low so I guess I was supposed to bring em up. It never felt right, so I just played out my teen years like most JW's...barely. Got married (i still dont know how i could have!) at 22...it was the thing to do at the time...you fell in love and then got married so you could have sex. Read CoC wheni was 23 ...and just like the rest of my life past, I did my best to ignore my thoughts and kept on going through the motions...faded away and kept in contact with many Jw's even after my divorce. My ex left the "truth" too....turns out the only thing we had in common WAS the truth. I wish i could take the shit out of my head...but it lingers like a bad fart. Recently, I have had quite a few of my JW friends come down on me...its all conditional now that I speak my mind a little more. minds kinda clouded right now...but if you have some questions..id love to answer them the best i can.

Lurk3r

(im still a newb and Simon has me limited to 10 posts a day...and this is 8 i think)

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Any Starbucks fans?

by cameo-d in

jw
friends

what is your favorite type of coffee drink?.

i don't know too much about all these different kinds.. how does steamed milk affect the flavor as opposed to cold cream?

or is it a 'temperature thing' that makes the difference?.

lurk3r

Please don't take what I am saying wrong....Starbucks was really a lot of fun, and it served me well. I spent many a lonely evening before and Starbucks really filled a void for me, enabling me to make some great friends.

Each individual manager is given a rulebook to follow according to the way that Starbucks wants the store to be run. Since Starbucks owns all the stores, they get to make the rules. One of the girls I worked with, who has worked at various locations throughout Canada,for many many years, told me that it was all about how much the particular manager of that store adhered to company policy. They can't let things get to slack though as there is a "District Manager" who oversees things.If there was ever a disagreement between people who worked there (referred to only as partners) with regards dress code etc,they would flip out the book to see what the policy was. Its all in the book. The part of training that really got to me, and made me think it was a religion of sorts is when i went through drive thru training on a computer in the back room. This lady's voice would talk to you and tell you how to take an order...and then she would tell you how to "suggest" selling someone a cookie to go along with their Vanilla Latte. It was right at that moment that i felt like I was back at the kingdom hall,in the middle of a presentation straight out of a Kingdom Ministry. I dont know, maybe i felt the "control" buttons being pushed or something...If i wasnt a Witness before, perhaps I wouldnt have noticed it as much?

lurk3r

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Favorite Quotes

by Abandoned in

i love inspirational quotes.

i read through them from time to time and i always feel better after sharing the thoughts of yesterday and today's greatest minds.

"if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.

lurk3r

I must say a word about fear. It is life’s only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unerring ease. It begins in your mind, always. One moment you are feeling calm, self-possessed, happy. Then fear, disguised in the garb of mild-mannered doubt, slips into your mind like a spy. Doubt meets disbelief and disbelief tries to push it out. But disbelief is a poorly armed foot soldier. Doubt does away with it with little trouble. You become anxious. Reason comes to do battle for you. You are reassured. Reason is fully equipped with the latest weapons technology. But, to your amazement, despite superior tactics and a number of undeniable victories, reason is laid low. You feel yourself weakening, wavering. Your anxiety becomes dread.

Fear next turns fully to your body, which is already aware that something terribly wrong is going on. Already your lungs have flown away like a bird and your guts have slithered away like a snake. Now your tongue drops dead like an opossum, while your jaw begins to gallop on the spot. Your ears go deaf. Your muscles begin to shiver as if they had malaria and your knees to shake as though they were dancing. Your heart strains too hard, while your sphincter relaxes too much. And so with the rest of your body. Every part of you, in the manner most suited to it, falls apart. Only your eyes work well. They always pay proper attention to fear.

Quickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. There, you’ve defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed over you.

The matter is difficult to put into words. For fear, real fear, such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end, nestles in your memory like a gangrene: it seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it. So you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don’t, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.

Yann Martel "Life of Pi" Ch 56

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so i made the meeting today....and lived!!!!!!!

by oompa in

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friends

all in all not really as bad as it could have been..........i am sooo grateful for that 30 min talk now....and though dreadful overall (if you were listening!

).....and that is the key to my success.

i am really good at totally tuning out what is being preached....i mean i could not tell you one single thing about the talk or wt study....i only even looked up one scripture and that was after the fact because i happened hear that stupid term "system of things" and i had only brought my tiny kj bible and of course it said "world"....and i kinda just smiled at how nice and simple that was.. my wt came in very handy as i was able to use it to totally hide my cell phone and was texting olin moles ghost who was doin his darndest to make me laugh (nice...thanks man) and also got to edit at least a hundred photos i had been meaning to e-mail or discard.....the only awful part was the songs, cause there is no not hearin that, and no way in hell was i gonna sing, so of course people were prob raggin on me for that.

lurk3r

...hugged her and waked off.....

Oompa, did you go to bathroom for this?

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Any Starbucks fans?

by cameo-d in

jw
friends

what is your favorite type of coffee drink?.

i don't know too much about all these different kinds.. how does steamed milk affect the flavor as opposed to cold cream?

or is it a 'temperature thing' that makes the difference?.

lurk3r

*strongly suggested ideals (my typo)

can we re-edit posts?

Maybe if Starbucks worried about making coffee instead of making money...they might not be in the shape they are today. sound familiar?

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Any Starbucks fans?

by cameo-d in

jw
friends

what is your favorite type of coffee drink?.

i don't know too much about all these different kinds.. how does steamed milk affect the flavor as opposed to cold cream?

or is it a 'temperature thing' that makes the difference?.

lurk3r

I worked at Starbucks for the better part of a year. I am in the trades, and thats what I do for a living, but after work left me a lot of spare time. Being a morning frequenter of my local Bucks and getting to know the manager there, I picked myself up about 10 - 15 hours a week, just for fun. I said it toa few people there and noone could really appreciate it, but Starbucks in itself IS a religion. Meaningless rules, formats to follow, ingrained presentations and strongly suggested presentations. If you don't conform, your out....only most everyone still talks to you..lol

BD-That milk drink your talking about, might you be thinking of a cold beverage called a Frappachino?Cold and blended with ice?

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Why did they end the orchestras?

by Lady Lee in

it used to be so nice to listen to the orchestras at the circuit and district conventions.

then they ended it and i know i missed it.

we had a couple of youn men in our cong who were in the orchestra.

lurk3r

going back to the money thing..if thats ok? Are any of the older ex jw elders here familiar with how things went down around that time with regards the transition from Orchestra to records and tapes? Did the congregations have to pay the Society for the tapes etc right from the congregations accounts? Or perhaps, like literature they "gave" the tapes (or records?) to the congregation and hoped they got some funds back? Was there a "price tag" associated with these things? I dont know how many worldwide congregations there would ahve been at that time, but im guessing that if the congregations had to pay for them, that would be a substantial amount of income when you add it all up.

oh how I fantasized as a young teenager how cool it would be to get a hold of a Kingdom Melodies tape and put a little AC/DC right in the middle of a song(just a couple lines!) so it would play while we were all singing our asses off! Oh to have that time back!

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Woo whooo!

by lurk3r in

jw
friends

kinda crazy, but finally being able to get on here almost makes me feel like i have just been released from prison.

i have had the privledge of doing nothing but read so many of your posts(for a solid 7 months i bet)...and i really wanted to say thank you, to the ones here who wear your hearts on your sleeves.. first off, i would like to thank the warden for making all of this possible (kidding simon...thanks for keeping this board going).

secondly, every single one of you regular posters here have been a great source of encouragment...looking at the many posts you have have contributed to the site really shows what dedication actually means.

lurk3r

Kinda crazy, but finally being able to get on here almost makes me feel like I have just been released from prison. I have had the privledge of doing nothing but read SO many of your posts(for a solid 7 months I bet)...and I really wanted to say Thank You, to the ones here who wear your hearts on your sleeves.

First off, I would like to thank the Warden for making all of this possible (kidding Simon...thanks for keeping this board going)

Secondly, every single one of you regular posters here have been a great source of encouragment...looking at the many posts you have have contributed to the site really SHOWS what dedication actually means. When you know the "Truth" dammit, you take the bull by the horns and show him where to go, and I am coming along for the ride.

When i originally wanted to join up here...I was hard pressed to think of an alias. I came up with decidedly_undecided, and PurpleSofa put a few posts up for me..Thanks Leslie. Since then, you all established me as a lurker...and hey, it stuck.

Lady Lee..Thanks for the posts as well.

Oompa..I hope you get some action one of these days.Meetings or no meetings. ;)

Beleive it or not...I was going to try and hunt a few of you down over at JWSF...but thank goodness it didnt have to come to that..lol

lurk3r