Posts by TheClarinetist

the year is 1969. faithful followers of the watchtower society are gearing up for the imminent end of the system of things just as they had been for the previous ninety years.

a young witness named andrew is trying to decide what to do with his life.

andrew is a smart kid and he has an entire lifetime ahead of him.

What will the excuse be?!?

by brotherdan in

so we've all heard the ramblings of obves and larsinger about the coming end of the world this year or next.

i want to know what you think the exuses will be when they do not come.. harold camping is the one proclaiming may 21, 2011 as the time of the rapture and october 21, 2011 as the end of the world.

when no one disappears on may 21st, what do you think his excuse will be?

TheClarinetist

At least the end of the world will give me an opportunity to play Pokémon Black and White.

He'll probably say something about a merciful God giving the world another chance... Or maybe he'll just gloss over it with another prophecy.

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12 yr old Colorado boy shoots parents

by hubert in

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this is in the news right now, and on yahoo home page.. i tried to copy/paste the article, but can't do it.

can someone find it and paste the link or better yet, the article in a reply here so we can discuss it?

when i started to read it, it sounded so much like a j.w.

TheClarinetist

Home schooled....I know that isn't a factor in the killing, so I don't mean to offend anyone who does this, but just to point out many J.W. kids are home schooled, or their parents would like them to be.

I don't know... Home school could very well be a factor. I've met people like that, and they're usually extremely abused emotionally, and about ready to go crazy. EDIT: That's taking into consideration the rest of the way he was described. There are a lot of homeschool people that are fine, but he seemed to be in a high control situation without any outside socialization.

I think the "branch off of the W.T. tree" goes the other way, myself.

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12 yr old Colorado boy shoots parents

by hubert in

jw
friends

this is in the news right now, and on yahoo home page.. i tried to copy/paste the article, but can't do it.

can someone find it and paste the link or better yet, the article in a reply here so we can discuss it?

when i started to read it, it sounded so much like a j.w.

TheClarinetist

Erroneous link to violent video games in: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...

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I'm a new study, need advice.

by Resistance is Futile in

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a little background on me, i have never been a jw.

my spouse was born and raised in the cult, disfellowshipped as a young adult and is now completely shunned by family still trapped inside.

before i met my spouse i knew very little about the jws.

TheClarinetist

I don't know anything off the top of my head that could help you get through... Though I will say get ready for a rough ride. Both of my most recent girlfriends have had to deal with my JW parents, and neither of them came through without any battle scars. It's hard to live a lie like that, and I wish you much luck.

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Introduce A Girl To Engineering Day

by TD in

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the day is/was yesterday, today or tomorrow depending upon what you read:.

http://www.eweek.org/newsstory.aspx?contentid=237.

~tom (---who's doing his part).

TheClarinetist

@Razziel: I think that's a symptom of the problem. There isn't as large of a pool of women interesting in engineering to draw from, so when there is a quota to fill (for appearences sake or otherwise), the ones who take up the slots tend to be stupider than the men who are facing a more competitive entrance. It also means that the women who ARE as or more intelligent than their male counterparts have to work harder in order to prove themselves. Encouraging more women to enter the field solves both problems.

EDIT: And letting people slide on their classes is bad no matter how you slice it.

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Interesting Experience...

by TheClarinetist in

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so my girlfriend and i were walking to the post office and this really quiet guy comes up and comments that he likes my shirt (black shirt that says "lucifer" in white text).

he then goes on to say that he's a monk and wants us to have this "free" book on meditation.

my girlfriend is big into meditation, so she's like "okay" and starts looking at it, and then he tells us that he can't give it to us unless we make a donation so that they can pay to print another book.

TheClarinetist

Yeah... I think we have a winner. After a quick Google, I definitely recognize the book he was trying to give us as their holy book. On that note... Celibacy, Vegetarianism, and Abstinence from Drugs and Alcohol... Were they EVER talking to the wrong person. LoL

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Interesting Experience...

by TheClarinetist in

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so my girlfriend and i were walking to the post office and this really quiet guy comes up and comments that he likes my shirt (black shirt that says "lucifer" in white text).

he then goes on to say that he's a monk and wants us to have this "free" book on meditation.

my girlfriend is big into meditation, so she's like "okay" and starts looking at it, and then he tells us that he can't give it to us unless we make a donation so that they can pay to print another book.

TheClarinetist

So my girlfriend and I were walking to the post office and this really quiet guy comes up and comments that he likes my shirt (black shirt that says "Lucifer" in white text). He then goes on to say that he's a monk and wants us to have this "free" book on meditation. My girlfriend is big into meditation, so she's like "okay" and starts looking at it, and then he tells us that he can't give it to us unless we make a donation so that they can pay to print another book. Of course, I don't have any money for food or rent, much less for a book, so we have to turn him down. Sound familiar?

Anyway, this was a new one for me. I've never been proselytized to by someone like that, especially someone not Christian. Anyone else have any similar experiences, or maybe know what group this guy was with? It was really weirded me out. LoL.