No matter how on point the remark was, I don't think one would see past the insult of being called fat to understand she's being a hypocrite. Of the hell hath no fury like a woman called fat class (even if she is as big as a VW bus). Shoshana
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Disfellowshipping for Gluttony?
by Smoky inis that possible?..have there been any cases like this?.
my family have been on my case about me hanging around with people (non-jw family) that like to drink alot.
they went as far as to call me "a drunk"...now i do admit that i have been gotten drunk before on occasion, but i am not a drunk or an alcoholic.. so, i told my mother (obese) that if i were "a drunk" for getting drunk from time to time (not every day), then can she be considered "a glutton", for eating to much, obese, having health problems, all because of the way she eats?
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Literature not for Disf'ed people says Elder.........
by Balsam ini had an interesting encounter today, actually my son and i both.
well my good intentioned ex-husband and father of my son thought he would have the local congregation elders call on us and try to get us back to meetings.
well i had been getting literature from this local elder's wife without her knowing i was ever a jw.
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La Capra
Visit the laundromats. There are usually some magazines there. Also, figure out where the "favored pioneers" get to "street witness." They may be set up at a table at one of the local malls. With a little planning you could have a little contact with lots of different JWs, rather than a lot of contact with just one. Malls that allow them to set up a table may tell you what their schedule is.
Shoshana
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I just don't answer the phone. Some have started leaving automated messages, which I also ignore. What drives me nuts is that my neighborhood seems to get lots of door to door sales people who have started to target the dinner hour. I walk up the peep hole to make sure it isn't a neighbor, and when they hear me they have actually started to talk, even if I don't open the door, and don't say anything. Last night it was the pest control company that comes around every other day, and tonight it was someone selling windows.
I have got to call the pest control company and ask them if they have anything that eradicates door to door salespeople...(I asked one that question once-he wasn't amused....)
Shoshana
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Can you imagine what would happen if the JW women, in solidarity, went on a strike for equal rights (er "privileges")...No more service, no more comments, no more bible studies, no more writing their husbands' talks. If the women at Bethels stopped cleaning and doing laundry,...stopped providing marital due...
Hoo boy. In Lysistrada, they stopped a war (and were funny about it too..)
I might show up to watch that.
Shoshana
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Can you imagine what would happen if the JW women, in solidarity, went on a strike for equal rights (er "privileges")...No more service, no more comments, no more bible studies, no more writing their husbands' talks. If the women at Bethels stopped cleaning and doing laundry,...stopped providing marital due...
Hoo boy. In Lysistrada, they stopped a war (and were funny about it too..)
I might show up to watch that.
Shoshana
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My Cake is Doughy in the Middle
by Gary1914 ini am trying to help my wife out by baking a pound cake.
i volunteered after going over the recipe.
actually it seemed simple enough and i thought it would be a snap to do.. i was wrong.. the problem is it looks fine in the oven.
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Make sure the pan is exactly the right size. Glass pans can be put in a slightly cooler oven.
BUT TRY THIS
Make sure the oven if 100% preheated before you put that poundcake in.
Use an oven thermometer to make sure the oven really is as hot as you think it is.
Do the toothpick or knife test. Slip one into the highest part of the cake-it should come out clean, or with a couple of really tiny fully cooked crumbs. It should not look like you just stuck it in a bowl of pancake batter.
Shoshana (who treats baking like her high school chemistry labs-follow all directions exactly, leaves nothing to random chance...)
P.S. pound cakes are hard to get right, because of the density of all the ingredients. But the ones at Whole Foods are quite perfect.
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Top 10 Reasons Why the CA Bar Exam is NOT like the Deliverance at Hand Conv
by La Capra intop ten signs the california bar exam is not the deliverance is at hand convention... .
10. there is a seven dollar per day parking charge.. 09. everyone has packed a lunch.. .
08. it's 105 degrees outside and the shade offers no relief while "they" make everyone wait outside until the afternoon session starts.
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Top ten signs the California Bar Exam is NOT the Deliverance is at Hand Convention...
10. There is a seven dollar per day parking charge.
09. Everyone has packed a lunch.
08. It's 105 degrees outside and the shade offers no relief while "they" make everyone wait outside until the afternoon session starts. There's a schedule to keep, dammit, and ALL the CA bar exams, up and the state, must allow the exact same amount of time for each session, down to the second.
07. There are attendants (oops, I mean proctors) directing everyone to take their seats, refrain from talking, holding signs, and watching your every move (don't get caught chewing gum, you might get a Rule 12 Violation. I'm not sure what happens if you get one, but I'm told that you have to meet before a committee (of bar examiners)).
06. The auditorium is the size of two football fields, and you still aren't allowed to save seats (which, by the way are hard, plastic, and designed with the specific purpose of being uncomfortable for everyone).
05. You have to wear your name badge - All three days.
04. As you enter the animal exhibit hall come-exam room, you hear the speaker (er, I mean chieftess proctor, her highness) over the echoing P.A. system (yes, that can be heard in the ladies' room), commanding everyone's absolute obedience, even on their trips to the restroom!
03. The line to the ladies' room is 35 deep, and the line the men's room is, well, there is no line to the men's room.
02. Everywhere you look you see fear, pain, and stress, and it smells like it too.
And the number one reason why the California Bar Exam is NOT like the Deliverance at Hand Convention (drum roll please,...)
01. While everyone there has already sacrificed years of their lives to be there, at that moment, fewer than half of those there, who appear to be "qualified" will actually "pass the test..."
(I kid you not...there's something to be said for developing a tolerance for that sort of nonsense...)
Shoshana (who is a little shell-shocked, realizing she feels as though she has just been released from a four-year prison term...)
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FRESH OFF THE PRESS.... 9/1/06 WT "When a Loved One Leaves Jeh."
by schne_belly in.
this just in for your reading displeasure......enjoy
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My first observation is that this carefully crafted piece of propaganda is devoid of any indication that the reason all these characters in the article are devastated is that they are required to shun their family members or risk being shunned by everyone else, themselves.
I don't do Watchtower CD-rom, but didn't that article referred to say JWs weren't supposed to pray for the DFed? That it isn't quoted but only referenced prevents the nonJW reader from realizing the WTBTS's directive in this area.
And finally, it warms my heart that the WTBTS decided that there was enough of a need to publish this aricle, for the faithful. Too many families must be getting torn apart. I can't think of any families I knew growing up that don't have someone within two generations that has bailed....
I'm thinking that lots are leaving, and there are cracks in the faith of the diehards....
I can hope.
Shoshana
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My Meeting with the Elders...
by rassillon init is most likely still very far away but i wanted to share with you guys one of the things i am thinking about doing when/if i do meet.
i plan on getting my chl (concealed carry permit)
then i am going to get a shoulder holster.
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This reminds me of all the local kids that are going aroun doing stupid petty criminal stuff, and getting videoed on their camera phones to send to their friends, recording and publishing what they did to the world.
Then having the video used against them in court....
Nothing like committing a crime and recording it for posterity, I say....(you can only use deadly force in certain circumstances, and if you have permitted someone to enter your home, that ain't it...).
Fortunately, we are all smarter than that around here, don't you know?
Shoshana
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What if they're right?
by LovesDubs indid that mentality keep you in fear and prevent you from leaving?
how many times were we told that the kingdom halls would be our ark and that we needed to keep going to the meetings so that we wouldnt miss the announcement that the great tribulation was beginning and the doors of the ark were closing...even though the bible says nobody knows the day or the hour?
did any of you ever pray for your relatives to die so they would have a ressurection and not be destroyed at armageddon?
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Once the penny dropped and I realised that "Its just not true", I kept repeating that and sat like a zombie for a while . But from that moment I have never doubted my rejection of the J W faith . Which is something that I could not say about the beliefs when I was in it
Well, I won't admit that I sat around like a zombie for awhile (I really didn't), but as soon as one card fell for me, the whole house fell-mainly because their entire premise is based on one true religion, and how they were convinced all other religions were false, on the basis of being able to show one thing was false (like when Jesus birthday is....) But, Blues Brother said it perfectly, "But from that moment I have never doubted ny rejection of the JW faith." Indeed my conviction that it is 100% wrong is stronger than any faith I ever had that a portion of it was correct. By the way, other people who have exited high control groups say the exact same thing, what if they are right. I posted a story about that here. http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/94137/1596250/post.ashx#1596250 Shoshana