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Max Divergent
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What is a clear, concise definiton of SPIRITUALITY?????
by jazbug intoday's buzzwords are "i'm not religious, i'm spiritual.
anyone have an understandable meaning to spirituality that's not riddled with doublespeak.
thanks, jazbug
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Is it ok to be critical of the pope yet?????????
by tyydyy incensorship borg style.
somebody killed the pope's last poop thread just because someone else was offended when i mentioned that i think that he wasn't such a good guy.
if you think you might be offended by what's said in a thread then don't read it.
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Max Divergent
OOhhhh.... ahhhh.... mustn't be in bad taste now, must we.... that's not f'ing Rowan Atkinson of Black Adder to the left of screen is it? Now... he'd never be in bad taste would be? Probably got a night-hood by now?
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Creative House-to-House Time Wasting Manuevers
by Black Man inanyone here master the art of pressing in the doorbell without really pressing it?
how about knocking where it seems loud on the outside, but you know it can't be heard on the inside.
or standing at a door for up to 5 minutes when you know nobody was there.
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Max Divergent
I can't believe how stupid I was... fuck... I remember taking days off work and going from sun up to past sun down knocking on doors ON MY FUCKING OWN FOR GOD'S SAKE... I could have gone to the fucking pub, got pissed and counted the same fucking time and nonone would have known the fucking differece... what a fucking moron I was...
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Is it ok to be critical of the pope yet?????????
by tyydyy incensorship borg style.
somebody killed the pope's last poop thread just because someone else was offended when i mentioned that i think that he wasn't such a good guy.
if you think you might be offended by what's said in a thread then don't read it.
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Max Divergent
Perhaps [the Mod] thought that thread wasn't the appropriate one for proper criticism and well that IS the way it is sometimes. Not terribly restrictive or something to get freaked out by. There is more than one tack into the wind you know...
[edit] that. When have JW's held back from savaging His Holiness? I can understand ex-JW's being pissed at being held back from their former favorite sport...
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WHat are you going to wear to Prince Charles wedding?
by Brummie in.
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i'e been sweating about what i should wear, i was thinking maybe one of these suits...maybe could wear it to the popes funeral too, i'm not sure yet, .
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Max Divergent
I thought a nice suede (sp? ) number with wide lapels with a dark border... loafers... twill hat... plumb under the tounge to fit in acoustically ... shottie in the boot in case a fox appears... must be prepared at all time you know....
Pimm's of course, as well you know to be much needed... cucumber sandwiches (bugger those damn crusts too)... nice
wiccanvicarwiccerwhicker thingo basket for all those goodies... and James to help out with all the awful nessesities.... just terrible to get there and be forced to slum it if they haven't prepared properly for our guests... but James shall rescue us if worst comes to worst...Oh, by the way... where might you be seated??? We'd be two rows from the
mother, fatherfamily you know... I do hope you're seated appropriatly...See you there possums.... it shall be a spiffing day...
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How Do I Tell My Mom
by Moridin inrecently i got engaged.
the problem is we are going to have a pagan wedding according to our beliefs.
my mother, a devout jw, already knows that we are getting married so i can't not invite her to the wedding.
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Max Divergent
Maybe anything non-JW will be about the same to Mom? Catholic, civil, Mormon, Satanist, Star Trek, nude, Wiccan, drunken, pickles on a sesamie seed bun...???
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What Was Your Greatest "Privilege" In The Organization?
by minimus inwas it being able to join the theocratic ministry school?
being a regular pioneer?
"handling microphones"?
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Max Divergent
Carrying a radio and wearing a couloured vest as conventions, doing a student part at an assembly, having the CO stay, hiding out in 'big wigs room' at the conventions (pretending to be one of their attendants, really just slacking), doing likewise at assemblies as a student
earbigwig (like it was cool, the sarcastic remarks toward the speaker were real fun - highly competitive guys these bigwigs)Actually, I knew I was on my way out of the JW's in an attendants trailer at a DC where we were all slacking off drinking coffee and gossiping. I was listening to this guy talk and thinking he was just stringing together all the JW cliches he could think of in no particular order with no particular meaning or substance, just fine sounding words of waffle to sound like he was with the program, but with no heart in it at all... he was chair of the blood commiittee... then one of the wives (a smart, smart lady who shouldn't be a JW) turned to me and said, 'this sounds like one of your talks...'!
I was mortified (but put on a brave face) coz i thought I was getting away with it... that was my last DC and my last meeting was only weeks away. I was busted... I think I slinked away from the trailer (after a decent interval to not be too obvious) back to my seat (for about the first time in the DC on day 3) with my wife.
I looked around the audience for the final prayer - the first time I ever did that in my holy-of-holy mindset - and couldn't believe how many people were doing likewise. At the same DC I got my assistant attendant fired for slacking off. We were at a remote location and they sent a bus to take him away... fuck.... what a wanker I was...
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So many things I want to know . . .
by pennycandy in1. how do you pronounce jaracz?.
2. where can i get a copy of the latest wt cdrom without going to a kh?.
3. in 20 words or less, what are masons?
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Max Divergent
1. How do you pronounce Jaracz? The prefered pronunciation is obscene ;-)
4. Where did the phrase "spot on" come from all of a sudden? Is it new? In WWII the British fighter planes had a big round disk with concentric rings and a spot in the middle to aim at the enemy, to fire at a plane and hit it was thus 'spot on'. Likewise, 'the whole nine yards' related to the nine yards of ammunition belt the planes carried. To fire all the ammo at one target was to 'give them the whole nine yards'.
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Question-- Should I inform the Sheriff??
by Junction-Guy infor those of you who dont already know by now, the sheriff's deputy who told us to stop picketing last thursday works for the very same department that i do.
she works patrol, and i work corrections.
i remember when she used to work in the jail a few years ago, but im not sure if she recognized me.
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Max Divergent
Don't get in a pickle with the Sheriff?We didn't want to argue with Deputy Mannequin.
Sounds like a song... "I told the sheriff... but I did not tell the deputeeee..."
Most cops will just quell a 'situation' the quickest, easiest way possible.... and if that's telling you to rack-off, then that's what they'll do. You'd have to find out what your rights are (attorney, ACLU... the cops will tell you their version of the law) and assert them with the local police - preferably in advance of your protest action, ummm... 'do all things decently and by arrangement'
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DF'd and dirty looks
by loosie ini have a friend she is disfellowshipped.
she suffers from depression.
she wants to go back.
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Max Divergent
Our hall used to broadcast on FM for the security attendants not to miss any spiritual food while they patroled the car park... most of us tuned it to FM radio instead, of course. We'd catch each other out by talking down the microphone (message, ritual abuse... whatever). No respose = listening to the radio and some (mock) stern spiritual council was on its way... :-)
But, no, sittting in the car is still isolating oneself from the spirit of the congo so probably wouldn't be good enough.
Of course, isolating yourself from the spirit of the congo is a very good idea..... best done from home, a local resturaunt, a friends place, anywhere but the parking lot of a KH...
Cheers, Max