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  Your Fav Weird or Whacky Songs

  by finallysomepride in

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  unbelievable that this is a david bowie song, i remember it from the 70s, but only just rediscovered it.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivi0r6dob0q&feature=fvst.

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  The Triumph of Failure

  by Terry in

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  experience in life teaches us ambiguity is a larger truth.. .

  good and bad things happen to us; often, at the same time.. .

  admirable people are flawed.

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  A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.

  Dude, that's profound. I'm gonna have to remember that one, the next time I start contemplating the sheer dystopia that the inevitable Bachmann presidency will bring or something like that, lol.

  I too fell for their "we're only human, so we'll make mistakes, but we're chosen by the Almighty himself to lead his people through these dark last days, so you'd better listen to us" spiel. But, after a while it gets to be too much for any thinking person to take. "It's better to die than to take a blood transfusion" (but we might change our mind on this one somewhere down the road). "Don't even plan for college, you young folks living in the year 1969". (oops, lets just bury that one - the light gets brighter, ya know?). "No true christian can accept Alternative Service in lieu of serving in the military" (Hey, we'll sorta vaguely admit in a coded way that that was what we used to teach when we totally reverse position on the issue a few decades down the road. But hey, you men that went to jail back in the day because your Bible Watchtower-trained conscience was telling you this was the only acceptable course - don't you dare murmur or grumble about it. The FDS has received Nu Lite on this issue, case closed). "Shun your kid that everybody knew was gay but got baptized when he was 13 only to come out of the closet a few years later" (years from now the hardcore shunning such as is practiced today may get a serious revision. But, until then, keep up the cruel shunning).
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  10/15/11 WT Has The Crackdown On Football Started?

  by yourmomma in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i've always felt that its only a matter of time before the watchtower cracks down on football (american, although soccer seems like its also referenced).

  its been one of the few things jw's can do, which means it has slipped under the radar since as we know, there are very few things that are not frowned upon or banned in watchtower world.

  we know that almost 99% of movies are wrong according to the standards of the watchower, and this is again mentioned in this article, but it seems like also football is in the cross hairs.

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  A restriction that peeing can only be done on rainy days would get farther than an outright ban on football watching in my area of the world, where a significant portion of the populace, both JW and non, eats-sleeps-breathes football from August to February. Football truly is the opiate of the midwestern masses. You even have a lot of prominent bros forming or participating in fantasy football leagues. Or have they banned that now?

  Anybody bro who took this counsel ™ seriously and got all puritannical about football watching would just be looked at as a douchey goody-goody to be avoided socially.

  Dan, former puritannical-douchey-goody-goody-socially-avoided bro
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  The (modest) success I'm having in the world feels so weird

  by fresh prince of ohio in

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  i left the jw's about 10 years ago.

  in the time since, i've managed to advance a bit at my place of employment.

  i went from customer service representative level i, to data quality i, to data quality ii, and now i'm business analyst i, which pays about 50k per year.. i don't have a college degree.

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  Thanks Sizemik! (and everyone else)
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  The (modest) success I'm having in the world feels so weird

  by fresh prince of ohio in

  1. jw
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  i left the jw's about 10 years ago.

  in the time since, i've managed to advance a bit at my place of employment.

  i went from customer service representative level i, to data quality i, to data quality ii, and now i'm business analyst i, which pays about 50k per year.. i don't have a college degree.

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  I think that part of my insecurity stems from the sheer dysfunction of my workplace. Anyone who works in corporate IT can probably relate. I've only been in the Business Analyst position now for a little over a year, and already they've got me playing a pretty visible role (in part because I'm all they've got, really -- we're understaffed like you wouldn't believe) in a very expensive and high-profile project that I just don't feel like I have the necessary skills to make the contribution to that they expect me to. And just last week, they announced a re-organization, and so now I'm reporting to a guy that formerly was 3 levels above me and whom I don't feel I've developed much rapport with even though I've known him for some time. There's many more layers to this onion but it's all enough to make me worry that it's all going to come crashing down in some personal jobpocalypse.

  My never-completely-gone JW hangover comes into play here where I feel like, no matter what I do, it's not enough to satisfy the people I'm reporting to. You know, all those years of, 'friends, we really need to examine our circumstances closely and ask ourselves, could I be doing more?' and all that. And, to a certain degree my workplace DOES have that kind of dynamic, and I'm so sensitive to that sort of thing after my JW experience that just a sniff of that dynamic brings all those feelings rushing back.

  Thanks for listening to me here and for your kind words, a lot of this is just me spewing out stuff that I'm constantly turning over in my mind to the point where it makes me crazy.
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  The (modest) success I'm having in the world feels so weird

  by fresh prince of ohio in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i left the jw's about 10 years ago.

  in the time since, i've managed to advance a bit at my place of employment.

  i went from customer service representative level i, to data quality i, to data quality ii, and now i'm business analyst i, which pays about 50k per year.. i don't have a college degree.

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  Thanks all for your responses.

  Just enjoy it. You can't know the future, so enjoy the good fortune NOW. In this job market, this is a true testament to your abilities. They could easily fill your position with thousands of people that will work for less---but they keep YOU. That really means something these days. CONGRATULATIONS

  Well, I'm afraid that's what they may do! My disease is to never enjoy anything i have and to constantly worry about what might happen.
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  The (modest) success I'm having in the world feels so weird

  by fresh prince of ohio in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i left the jw's about 10 years ago.

  in the time since, i've managed to advance a bit at my place of employment.

  i went from customer service representative level i, to data quality i, to data quality ii, and now i'm business analyst i, which pays about 50k per year.. i don't have a college degree.

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  I left the JW's about 10 years ago. In the time since, I've managed to advance a bit at my place of employment. I went from customer service representative level I, to Data Quality I, to Data Quality II, and now I'm Business Analyst I, which pays about 50k per year.

  I don't have a college degree. I've got a lot of college credit, but mostly Community College, 100 and 200 level stuff hat I've accumulated over many years. But, I read and write fairly well, am analytical, and am fairly tech-savvy, at least by the standards of my workplace. And I'm a lucky basterd too.

  It feels so weird to be in the position I'm in, and thus I have this constant, low-level doomsday feeling that any day now I will be exposed as a fraud. I know that a 50k annual salary is not mad money or anything, but throughout my 20's (the time I was involved with the dubbies) I basically scraped by, barely making above minimum wage, and so a 50k salary does seem like an outrageous fortune in comparison to the living that I eek'd out for most of my adult life so far. I never saw myself as being the type of person that would have a serious, middle-class-income career, and I don't think that many people who have known me over the years would either, especially given the laundry list of my Social Retard moments that I could tell you about. I often think, god, there must be 50,000 unemployed, degreed persons living in my city that would be so much better than I am at my job. In summary, the primary feelings i have in relationship to my employment situation are guilt and inadequacy.

  I know, this sort of thing is totally first world problems, cry me a river stuff, but seriously, I am having success in life and I just don't know what to think about that!
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  Can you recall the event, the time when you boldly proclaim, I,am not taking this anymore.

  by jam in

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  2. friends

  in my case, i was df, my nephew from bethel was in town,.

  he came to visit my family.

  he knock at the door, i answer.

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  In 2001 the straws nearly breaking my back were getting piled very high. The last one came during a Public Talk that was aimed at the youths ™ in attendance, and one particular point of counsel left me gobsmacked. The bro started going on about how much math is appropriate for Christian Youths ™ to take in school. I just sat there smh, and i knew on the drive home that i'd probably never attend another meeting. And I haven't.
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  Who's Your Favorite Comedian?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  i love people like jackie mason, larry david, chris rock and others that make you think about the absurdities in life.. who do you enjoy?.

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  Saw this guy in Columbus Ohio just a couple of weeks before he died. He was so foul, and so funny.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPTowp3e77k
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  How Did You Deal With God Destroying Non-Witness Relatives that You Loved?

  by DNCall in

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  2. friends

  startfragment.

  so many of my non-witness relatives were, and are, good people.

  i had to do something to deal with the likelihood of their being destroyed.. those i was close to in the faith, and i, had the hope that, sometime before the end, some issue would arise that would wake up our relatives and other loved ones to the realization that they had to come into the fold.

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  For most JW's, the ever-imminent Destruction of the Wicked isn't something they think about much in real world terms, if they believe it at all - it's just kept in their religio-fantasy mental compartment. I think i was like that.