Start by researching the references from the literature. Going to the library and reading the books referenced in the creation book is what woke me up. I felt that if it was ok for the FDS to read those books it must be ok for me to as well.
mynameislame
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Update of course
by Jon Preston inso my wife is slowly waking up!
but cognitive dissonance is thick indeed!
my wife knows the gb are false in many ways but she still holds to the "theyre more right than others!
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Joining a Church and advice from co-workers!!!!!!!!!!
by Jon Preston inso im obviously out mentally....i havent da-ed but i cant care less!
but.....my co workers are encouraging me to find and join a church.
this person is particularly "wisdomonian" meaning she seems to solve and assist many an ailing indicidual in my field.
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mynameislame
I'm pretty sure church of christ is a cult that uses many of the same tactics as the JWs
Love bombing, we are the ony true religion etc...
Why do you need to jump right back into another church anyway?
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Photography and HDR
by ILoveTTATT inas i have mentioned before, i love photography, and specially a technique called hdr.
hdr stands for high dynamic range, and it means the ratio of the "lightness" of the lightest spot in the picture to the darkest.. .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/high-dynamic-range_imaging.
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mynameislame
I stole the last one for my desktop background, hope you don't mind
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Whiskey and bourbon preferences?
by bluesbreaker59 inlooks like a few of you on here might enjoy brown liquor as much as i, so i thought i'd ask.
neat, on the rocks, with water, with soda?.
my top 5 faves:.
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mynameislame
Labrot & Graham Woodford Reserve Distiller's Select Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey
I did a search for it becuase I couln't remember the full name and saw a bottle for sale for $20.
Turns out it was just a $20 painting of the bottle.
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Is there anything you could do forever that wouln't get boring?
by mynameislame innot sure when i came to this conclusion but i can't imagine living forever.
after a while i think i would be completly bored with everything.. not saying i wouln't like to live for a few hundred years or maybe even a few thousand if i could travel through space and discover other universes star trek style.
but the thought of living forever sounds like it would eventually become a complete drag.. maybe i'm wrong, maybe after a thousand years or so you would foregt all the stuff that happend at the beginning and just start over in an infinite loop..
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mynameislame
Xanthippe , I hadn't considered evolving. That might be a game changer for my opinion.
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How many elders does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
by mynameislame injust one but he has to be constantly ready to replace it at a moments notice..
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mynameislame
I posted my lame joke hoping for some funnier improvements and JWN didn't disappoint!!
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Buying a body of elders
by hoser inyes, everyone has a price.
a number of years ago in a congregation i once was in there was a wealthy businessman in the congregation.
he made sure that all of the elders had annual vacations overseas or to the tropics paid for by himself.
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mynameislame
I feel like if you had money to buy people off you might want to find someone more useful to use it on.
What's a telly hoser?
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Had someone read Tarot cards for me.
by Comatose ini don't subscribe to anything supernatural anymore.
but i wanted to experience it just for the simple pleasure of it.
since i don't believe anymore it has zero guilt and can just be fun.
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mynameislame
I had a GF that used to use tarot cards. When I asked her about it she said she just used them to get a different point of view.
I always thought that was an interesting use for them.
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UNITY vs CONFORMITY - discuss.
by disposable hero of hypocrisy ini've read the walsh trial that indicates the societies stance of ' unity at all costs, even if we're wrong ' but that sounds more like conformity to me.
so how do other religions or movements justify the range of beliefs within their respective movements?
for example, the born again movement, a massive range of beliefs, but they don't insist on conformity.
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mynameislame
Unity is when you are there by choice. Conformity is when you are forced to change or risk some sort of loss.
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Is honesty the best policy?
by LouBelle ini ask because many a time being honest and telling the truth, even with tact is not met well - in my experience.. in the last couple of days i went for an interview with a company and when asked what my current package was i was honest and told the truth.
they came back with the exact same offer - i then asked if we could negotiate considering my experience blah blah blah - they didn't both to respond and after three emails and asking for some sort of curtesy reply, i got a very offish response.
a collegue i work with went for the same interview, lied about what she earns and they offered her a higher salary and were happy to negotiate even higher.
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mynameislame
Somtimes I wonder if the JWs weren't on to something with their "it isn't lying if the person is not owed the truth". I'm sure I paraprhased that statement a bit.
I personally tend to be too honest.
Pointy haired boss: Hey so how do you like our shiny new product that we are banking on for making our numbers in the next quarter?
Me: It sucks!
I don't see a problem with creative truth telling. In my opinion a company has no right asking you how much you got paid at your last job so I wouln't have any problems adding in my 401k match, vacation time and rounding to make it look a little better.
Also, although i'm not very good at this, it is possible to answer without actualy answering. Lots of ideas for that on the internet.
In the end you need to live with yourself so I say test the waters to see where your boundries are.
