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  God is not Great

  by hamsterbait in

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  anybody seen this book,.

  i was at a friends tonite, and read a bit on jihadist cretins in saudi arabia, who have banned george orwells "animal farm" because the farm ends up run by pigs.. godly honest - hearted moslems are also seeking to ban piglet, and charlottes web from schools.. apparently the eyes of innocent moslem babies cannot be defiled by reading about unclean animaux taking over the world, but.

  they can go to market to shop with mommy and see starving thieves having their hand sawn off (but humanely given a novocaine shot in the arm so they can watch but not feel it).

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  jukief

  Alan just finished it and loved it. He gave it to me last night, so I'll start it next.
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  What do you know about Unitarian Universalists?

  by Good Girl or Bad Girl? in

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  i'm just wondering if anyone has looked into this faith or church or religion or whatever you might call it?

  it seems like a positive community, but i have also read things about it that seem borderline scary to vulnerable people who are looking to fit in somewhere... .

  i'm not looking for a religion to convert to or anything like that.

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  Oh, I wanted to add this: My children were already grown when I found the UUs, but I really liked their childhood education program. I wished at the time that I'd found it earlier, while the boys were still little. And our local UU church has a lot of adult education classes that are really good--much better than what is taught through the local parks and recreation department. I think we benefit from having a lot of educated people in this town and in the local church, so the classes are quite interesting.
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  What do you know about Unitarian Universalists?

  by Good Girl or Bad Girl? in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm just wondering if anyone has looked into this faith or church or religion or whatever you might call it?

  it seems like a positive community, but i have also read things about it that seem borderline scary to vulnerable people who are looking to fit in somewhere... .

  i'm not looking for a religion to convert to or anything like that.

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  jukief

  I joined my local UU church about 12 years ago. Moved away, came back, and joined again. But I hardly ever go to services. That's the beauty of it! The minister at our church is really fabulous, and he's the biggest draw for me. The very first time I went, his sermon was a mock debate in which he played both characters. The subject of the debate was whether UUism was a relevant religion for the 1990s. After much hilarious back and forth, he turned to the audience and told us that the whole debate was moot because UUism isn't even a religion. Cracked me up, and sold me on the church--and him. I like the whole idea of UUism. The local church here is very liberal, considering how conservative the town is. There's probably an equal mix of people who believe in god and people who don't. Lots of gay families and couples. Lots of university professors (this is a university town--CSU). Lots of community involvement. The only reason I don't go is because I'm too damned lazy to get up on Sunday mornings and go to church. I'd rather be out riding my motorcle or lazing around the house. When I do go, though, I come away feeling very refreshed.
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  My new ride!

  by Bumble Bee in

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  ok, it's not really mine per say, but i will be learning to ride it and i'm so excited!!.

  as i posted on the daily journal thread - we picked this up on saturday.

  hubby has been wanting a bike for so long, and with the price of gas, and his commute - it will pay for itself in no time.. it's a suzuki boulevard m50, 800cc, fuel injected, liquid-cooled, v-twin engine (whatever that means!!)..

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  Dang this forum. Can't use a Mac with it. Let me try that again. Using IE on a PC this time. Hope it works. If not, I give up. :-)

  [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v108/jukief/Vulcan_Mountains.jpg[/IMG]
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  My new ride!

  by Bumble Bee in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ok, it's not really mine per say, but i will be learning to ride it and i'm so excited!!.

  as i posted on the daily journal thread - we picked this up on saturday.

  hubby has been wanting a bike for so long, and with the price of gas, and his commute - it will pay for itself in no time.. it's a suzuki boulevard m50, 800cc, fuel injected, liquid-cooled, v-twin engine (whatever that means!!)..

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  Congratulations on your new bike! Here's my baby. It's a Kawasaki Vulcan 1500 Classic FI. [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v108/jukief/Vulcan_Mountains.jpg[/IMG]
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  What happened to AlanF

  by toreador in

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  2. friends

  anybody heard from him lately?

  i havent seen a post from him in a long time.. tor.

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  jukief

  Alan's around. He's been working a lot of overtime for the past few months. Plus, he's also gotten to the point in his life where he's not as obsessed with JW things as he used to be. Personally, I'm not complaining!
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  Judicial Committee Audio Recording

  by Shaolu in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  about a week ago i had my little meeting with "the bobs" (yuk yuk), and i got the whole thing digitally recorded.

  it's available online, along with a written transcript here...

  http://www.ichthusstudios.org/cults/jw/

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  jukief

  I have to address Wasanelder Once's comment about people being aware of what they're getting into when they get baptized (even a 13-year-old child, which is nonsense). My husband once asked his mother--a lifetime JW whose parents were also dubs and who is married to an elder--what she would do if someone she was studying with asked "difficult" questions. Her reply was that she would try to avoid dealing with those questions until after they were baptized. I was a third-generation JW, and my father was an elder. But when I was baptized at age 14, I didn't really have a clue about what was involved and what Nazis the elders were (my father wasn't that type). Of course, I didn't really have much choice but to get baptized. And, being the nice submission female I'd been taught to be, I never would have thought of rebelling back then. Mild control is a difficult thing to fight, especially when you're a child.
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  Has the "House" TV show had its run? (possible spoiler)

  by AlmostAtheist in

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  guys, i love the tv show "house".

  hugh laurie is perfect in the role, great supporting actors, deep character development.

  the plotlines are a little formulaic, but all the dialog and character interaction makes it ok. .

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  I still like House a lot, if for no other reason than watching Hugh Laurie. The show I've stopped watching is Nip/Tuck. I really liked season one. Season two was so so. Now it's just awful, IMHO. I can't stand to watch five minutes of it. I have to say one show I never get tired of is Monk. Tony Shaloub is absolutely fabulous and I love Ted Levine.
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  How should I report zero hours for November?

  by OnTheWayOut in

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  2. friends

  this was my topic november 3rd;.

  for the first time in my jw history, i turned in a slip with a big zero written in every column,.

  turned it over and wrote "zero tracts" below that, i wrote "stumbled by the co".

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  jukief

  The last 10 years I was a Witness I just couldn't go in service anymore. I couldn't preach something I didn't believe myself. But it took those 10 years for me to extricate myself from the dubs and my JW husband. In the meantime, I turned in five hours every month. I wanted to keep them off my back. I'm sure they knew I wasn't really getting the hours in. We had the book study in our house, for Christ's sake, and I never, ever went to the meeting for service, which was being held in my basement on Saturday mornings. Instead, I often watched people's young children while they went out. No one ever questioned me. I think they were just happy not to have to deal with it. The lie worked for all of us.
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  fibromyalgia or chronic fatigue syndrome

  by reneeisorym in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  i remember when i was in the dubs, there were tons of sisters all with the same set of mild depression and fibromyalgia/chronic fatigue syndrom symptoms.

  i wonder if this was related to the hell jws put you through or if it was just something one woman had to have because the other did.

  i haven't heard of hardly anyone having it outside of the dubs but in the congregation about 75% of the women had it!

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  jukief

  The last 10 years I was a dub I often faked illness to get out of meetings and service (but I was OK when it was time to do anything else--no one caught on to that). Fast forward 20 years. About five years ago I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia when I started having a lot of pain; they discovered that I had an extremely high antinuclear antibody count and they ruled out everything else (rhematoid arthritis, lupis, etc.). I'm still not so sure about the diagnosis, although I do have defnite flare-ups and my entire body is one giant tender point. I think CFS and FM can be bucket diagnoses, so I'm still skeptical, even though my doctors swear up and down that's what I have.