I just became a doctor? Juris Doctor to be exact. Done, caput. I just finished law school tonight. And my dog just sleeps on the couch, like any other evening. You would think at least he would be impressed.
Whatever.
Shoshana
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Would you believe...
by La Capra ini just became a doctor?
juris doctor to be exact.
done, caput.
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divorce
by deda inif a spouse has been unfaithful and a legal divorce has been finalized is the marriage over in the church's eyes?
i've been told by the elders that i must witness the adultry or provide two witnesses that can speak to the adultry.
my ex-spouse will never confess to his past or current sexual acts.
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La Capra
If two elders can park all night in front of a woman's house in their 1982 VW Vanagon to observe a "brother" go into the house at night, and not leave until the morning, and call that "fornication," it would seem as though you and another reasonable person could do the same. (Except I'd skip the part where you sit out there all night. Just bring someone who will say she sat there with you...Bearing false witness, all in a good days' divorce...)
Shoshana
(just don't testify to it in an actual court. That's perjure, and a crime...)
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Math Problem
by Scully ina riddle for you to figure out
three kids go into a store to buy a picture frame for their mom for mothers day.
they find a frame that costs $30.
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La Capra
Slacker, your logic is flawed. Each kid spent ten and got 1 dollar back, not $.666666. (High School math teacher here, not trying to be a smart ass for no reason, but I do have some ego to protect....) Your logic is the same as the problem.. You are combining what the shopkeeper kept with what the shopkeeper gave back. They are mutually exclusive funds.
Shoshana
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Math Problem
by Scully ina riddle for you to figure out
three kids go into a store to buy a picture frame for their mom for mothers day.
they find a frame that costs $30.
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La Capra
Ah, man, Scully, I am supposed to be studying for my last law school final ever....
The kids were supposed to pay 25 dollars for the frame, but in the end they paid 27 (30 - 3 that was returned). The shop keeper kept 2 dollars. 25 + 3 + 2 = 30.
The set up of this combines the negative (what goes to the shopkeeper) with the positive (what came back).
Shoshana (of the will be done with law school in about 12 hours class)
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Where were you when the realization hit, that the WTS was not in the truth?
by whyizit ini was listening to a testimonial by valerie acuff and she said that she was sitting in an assembly, looking around at the crowd and thinking to herself, "this is your family, these are your people.".
she said at that moment she heard a voice inside say, "these are not your people, this is not your family, get up and leave now, and don't ever go back.
" so she took her two children at that very moment and left, and she never went back.
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Summer 1987, sitting in a redwood grove at my college with one of those "worldly" people who were more loving than the "friends at the hall." He was trying to get me all mystical, about the origins of god and the universe. And it hit me. It was all nothing. He turned my brain on, and I haven't turned it off since. No evidence I have seen, read, experienced, or heard has changed my mind. Of this, I know it's true. (thanks B.T. -those 30 minutes gave me a life.) Now, I'm an agnostic, practicing Jew who believes in some sort of singular force that connects everything in the universe (and that force would be nothing. Or perhaps I should capitalize that, Nothing...), but I doubt that Nothing is an intelligent creator.
Shoshana
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Is there anything that's disconinued that you'll love to have around today?
by JH insometimes we get attached to certain products and they get discontinued for some reason.
i miss my marcelle shampoo.
it was the perfect hypoallergenic shampoo for me.. so, what do you miss?
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Campbell's Chili Beef.
They stopped selling it around here (California) about 25 years ago. There's a Campbell's Soup available in some parts of the US called Fiesta Chili Beef. I have no idea if it's the same thing. Haven't seen it in my travels (albeit limited travels since I started law school) since I learned of its existence.
Oh I miss Campbell's Chili Beef.
Shoshana
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A little story of JW-childhood-horror, and am I evil?
by Hellrider inthis all happened when i was a kid, and i think i must have been around 8 years old.
we were at a meeting, and my dad (ms) had held a speech.
this didn`t happen very often, actually, this one time is the only one i can remember.
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La Capra
If it helps any, I do the same thing to myself. I re-live incidents and episodes in my childhood (and, unfortunately, my adulthood too), in which I didn't conduct myself in the way, in retrospect, I wish I had. I never called it being evil. I call it being "horrid." Whatever descriptor you put to it, it is the same thing. As children, we were raised with the ever-present conditioning that we were damaged, sinful, evil, horrid (insert your favorite self-loathing term here, it works) human beings,...on the one hand. Then, on the other hand, we were conditioned to believe that we belonged to the only true religion. We were right, everyone else is wrong. Such a bizarre juxtoposition of contradictory positions...
Embarrassment, or shame, is not an unusual reaction in response to an outsider (walking into a kingdom hall, in a completely unorthodox context-as a rescue worker....) encroaching on our own private universe. The reaction of shame is to be expected when confronted with anyone who does not live in the same, conflicted, closed universe that we did. JWs are the masters of compartmentalization. When their JW lives interface with their "outside the kingdom hall" lives, watch out. Weird things happen.
To combat my feelings of truly being horrid, I have learned to review all the evidence in my life to the contrary. What takes practice is starting the review of unhorridness before I get too far into dwelling on the horridness. (That really is the trick.)
Take care with your heart, dude. Shoshana
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Attending the Funeral / Memorialof Your JW Parent
by roybatty ini'm just wondering if any df'd or da'd here have gone to the kingdom hall to attend a memorial or funeral service for a jw parent or on the other hand decided not to attened.
do you regret going / not going?
how were you treated?.
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La Capra
I won't go to my mom's memorial, if it's a JW memorial service. I could just see it, me in a T-shirt printed with, "Millions Now Living, Will Never Die...My Ass." Then on the back..."What a Bunch of F***ing Liars. All of You."But, thankfully I wouldn't go, so I could save $39 to have just such a t-shirt made. I'll do other things to memorialize my mother.
Shoshana
Edited to add: Of course I'd be sitting in the front row, flanked by the biggest, buffest bailiffs from the court house, in case their goons tried to escort me out, or worse, cover my shirt with one of their polyester sports coats... See why it's better I just don't go...
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WTS Circle of Reasoning...
by Confession intake a look at this, and tell me if it flows properly.
could this be simpler?
is it missing something.
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I have a small suggestion. Eliminate pronouns, so it is really clear to whom (WTBTS) "they" refers. It doesn't affect the content, or the meaning, but it does make it clearer and therefore more powerful.
There are several of these you could build. One about the generation of 1914, too, I'd imagine...(millions now living will never die...)
(my only flowchart brilliance is one for factoring quadratics for my algebra students...I love flowcharts.)
Shoshana
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Told Mom it would be immoral to go tonight
by La Capra inyeah, i did.. i called her this afternoon, after i got home from work (to check on my dad, and, well, you know...).
it turns out she picked up the nasty flu: fever, chills, scratchy throat, snot everywhere, sensitive eyes, she sounds like grover.. i gave her all the advice she usually gives me, including her favorite (and one that often kept me home from meetings in my youth), "stay out of the night air for a few weeks...".
to which she responded, "but i have to go out tonight.
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Yeah, Mulan-I thought of that. But it would mean talking to an elder (there's a reason I left).
And besides, they wouldn't tell her not to go anyway. She's probably resposnsible for delivering three or four of the frail feebles herself. They wouldn't want to lose those numbers from their tally. (I know that sounds bad, but it's true. If anyone needs somebody to go 25 miles out of everybody's way, it's my mom they call).
Shoshana (the apostate daughter of a doormat)