Enjoy the calm, the storm is coming......
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Update on my parents
by Mulan inprincess and i have been posting (a couple weeks ago) about the ongoing 'soap opera' involving my mother, her fall, and where she will live.
three weeks ago, we put her in a group home.
she is nearly 90, and falls a lot, but has an extremely sharp mind, and is a real "going concern".
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Should you be shunned? Not anymore!
by Beans innew light right from the official web site of the jw`s.
http://www.jw-media.org/beliefs/beliefsfaq.htm yes if you scroll down you will find this:.
do you shun former members?.
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Flock Book, page 103, paragraph 2;
"Disfellowshipped and disassociated ones are to be SHUNNED by those who wish to have a good relationship with Jehovah."
Paragraph 4;
"John counsels against speaking to or associating with a disfellowshipped or disassociated person so as not to be 'a sharer in his wicked works.' (2 John 11)"
Gee, could someone be LYING?
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Bryant family murder/suicide news 3/18
by Nathan Natas ini've bolded a couple of points.
questions unanswered in deaths of family.
jim tankersley.
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The "open door" does not apply to funerals for disfellowshipped people and their children. No DF person would ever be allowed to have a service in a Kingdom Hall, or would an elder agree to preside over the funeral discourse. The only way something could be done if if the individual was working toward reinstatement and this was not the case in this matter. Do you feel the love from the "brotherhood" yet?
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Wealthy JWs = Higher Position in the Org.?
by AjaxMan ini've read over the past months that jws are not wealthy.
however, i wonder if those that are wealthy, are they in a high position like elders, ms, co, do, bethelites?.
since i know of one here at work who does have yearly travel vacations to locales like las vegas, europe and the caribean.
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Money buys a lot of perks within the organization. A Co costs about $200 per visit, the DO will set you back about $500, and if you want to buy a member of the GB you better get out your check book. Dependig on status of the GB member that can range from $5,000 to as much as $50,000 a pop. What does all of that buy? The higher the status the more untouchable you become. A GB bought and paid for will get you assembly overseer, city overseer, hospital liasion, and always heavy parts at the District Level, special committees, chairman of building committees, of course these perks are passed on to your children as well. You are given a license to lie, steal, commit adultry, be an acholoic, molest children, and beat the crap out of your wife, yet never miss a beat in you theocratic stature. Just remember you better keep up your payments or it can all go to shit overnight.
Ever wonder why the jerks are always in charge and never seem to lose their positions? Payments baby payments......
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Pet Peeves
by patio34 inanyone have any pet peeves they'd like to air?
here's one that just happened at work that is an annoyance for me: when you are speaking and the person interrupts the conversation with a corny play on words or the like.
for example, "i had to sit on the phone on hold for about 5 minutes, waiting .
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What is it about buffe lines that make people brain dead? They go up and stare like they never have seen food before, then they get the tongs and pick up one little piece at a time and do it thirty times. When everybody is moving one direction it seems there is always someone who thinks they are from England and have to go the opposite direction as it is their culture and back up everyone else. Then comes the bread, a basket with 400 rolls all exactly alike but the person thinks it is some kind of trick and has to study them for 30 minutes before they can find the one with their invisible name on it. Finally when they get their drink at the fill machine they never can seem to figure out how much ice they want and keep pouring some out then refilling with more ice. When filling the glass they never just hold in the lever, they have to souirt 1/2 ounce in at at time and then check the glass to make sure it went in. Whenever I go out to eat these people always manage to be in front of me. Murder, death, kill.....
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You will ALL burn in hell
by Uboat_Ninja inall you apostates will burn in hell when jehovah returns.
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According to JW doctrine aren't we all going to hell?
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That's "Sister Evil" To You
by messenger inhttp://www.thestar.com/nasapp/cs/contentserver?pagename=thestar/layout/article_printfriendly&c=article&cid=1016060531955.
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Mar. 16, 01:00 EDT
Just don't call her feminine
Resident Evil co-star Michelle Rodriguez pulls no punches
Sean Daly
SPECIAL TO THE STAR
LOS ANGELES — Michelle Rodriguez is dressed in blue jeans and a black sleeveless tank top. Her hair is pulled tight in a ponytail, and she is wearing hardly any makeup.Not surprisingly, this is how the co-star of Resident Evil, which opened yesterday, feels most relaxed.
"I don't want people thinking of me sexually," says the Texas-born actress who began to develop something of a "tough chick" reputation two summers ago, after beating out 350 hopefuls for the lead role of Diana Guzman in Girlfight.
"I don't want people to be like, `God, she's hot-looking. Look at her in that shirt with her tits showing!' I want them to listen to me for what I'm saying. And I think the best way to do that is to sniff my armpits, and sit up and burp every now and then. It just completely throws people off."
Rodriguez, 23, doesn't mince words. She is outspoken about sex, relationships, even politics, admitting: "I don't vote. I'm gonna live my life the way everyone else does — in ignorance."
And don't even get her started about gender roles.
"Masculine, at least in my eyes, means acting on impulse," she blurts in between sips of Perrier. "When you're feminine, most of the time it means you are using your sexuality to get what you want."
That's something Rodriguez maintains she would never do.
Proudly, she admits that growing up, "I was always considered a bit butch. In fact, I cultivated the image. It was my defiance against having to be a sex object like the other girls in my class. The boys considered me to be one of the guys until I finally developed breasts."
Today, Rodriguez maintains a no-nonsense policy when it comes to men and dating. "I feel that if anybody wants to like me or wants to have a relationship with me, I shouldn't have to woo them with my tits or my ass or cross my legs Basic Instinct-style in order to get what I want," she says.
Rodriguez, rumoured last year to be romancing Vin Diesel, her co-star from The Fast And The Furious, has also developed a firm stance against appearing in men's magazines such as Maxim and Gear — even though she knows it could help to broaden her audience and further propel her career.
"I don't use my sexuality to attract anybody," she insists. "I can take my shirt off right now (in a magazine) and it'll come out and some newspaper will be like, `Michelle liberated herself.' I had a couple of offers to do some hot scenes in the shower with some guy and make it real hot and sexy, you know? The next thing you know, I'd be the next J Lo or something.... I'd rather be stereotyped as a tough dyke than as a complete slut."
That's one reason Rodriguez chose to appear in the new action-thriller Resident Evil. She stars with Milla Jovovich as part of an elite, futuristic team that sets out to battle a computer and its minions.
Resident Evil is the latest in a series of films based on popular video games and has already caught the eye of some concerned parents.
"When you take away the nudity and the curses, it's no different from any other action film that kids have seen," says Rodriguez, defending the film. "I don't think it's that much racier than The Fast And The Furious ... except for the guts and the gore."
Rodriguez, who likens the video game to "a Hitchcock movie" because of its intense, old-time feel, lobbied hard to land the role of Rain. She recalls telling director Paul Anderson, "I don't care if I'm selling a hot dog as a zombie in your movie, please put me in."
What Anderson may not have known at the time was that Rodriguez had her heart set on the role of Lara Croft in another video game adaptation, Tomb Raider.
"(The producers of that movie) said I could kick butt, but my boobs were too small," she recalls. "Then they turned around and padded Angelina Jolie anyway! But I consider getting Resident Evil as karmic consolation. I think Tomb Raider was meant to be Angelina's movie."
Rodriguez made the best of her time on location in London and Berlin, often joking with Jovovich, a former fashion model. "Milla tried to get me to wear makeup and dress more feminine," she remembers, laughing. "She discovered very quickly that's a lost cause. I am who I am, and glamour and image play no part in it."
As a child, Rodriguez spent time in Texas, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic before relocating a final time to Jersey City, N.J., at age 11.
By 14, she was riding shotgun with her boyfriend on the streets of nearby Hunt's Point, where he would illegally race his Mazda RX-7.
"I was a rebel growing up," she admits. "I got kicked out of six schools, but I don't think that makes me less of an intellect. You know, if you ever crave knowledge, there is always a library. The Dewey Decimal System really works. So that's all I needed to know."
Rodriguez, who has been an extra in such films as Summer Of Sam and Cradle Will Rock, did take a quick stab at business school but dropped out after just four months because, she says, "I just didn't want to be a puppet of society, stuck in an office, craving sunlight."
Sharing a home with her mother and grandmother, Rodriguez was raised a Jehovah's Witness until age 14. "That was a very morally intense religion," she remembers. "Although they keep you from experiencing a lot of the bad things that can really hurt you out there in the world, they are also depriving you from experiencing life."
Rodriguez eventually stop-ped practising the faith, noting that taboos against profanity and sex would have made it all but impossible for her to accept the role in Girlfight.
Meanwhile, friends and family were more concerned that the physical contact in that film would land Rodriguez in the hospital. "You are gonna get whacked and your teeth are gonna fall off," she remembers one friend warning.
But Rodriguez, who has since developed a passion for skydiving, was unafraid.
Of course, she does admit there a few situations that do make her tingle nervously. "Every time I go on a roller coaster ride I still feel the same," she says. "When it's clanking and clanking and I reach the peak and I'm like, aw s--t, not again!"
There are a few other secrets Rodriguez tries not to advertise — for one, she is completely lost in the kitchen. "Don't ever come over to my house and expect me to cook," says the actress, who still shares a New Jersey home with her mother. "I spend most of my time in Japanese restaurants eating vegetables. I love falafels and stuff like that with no meat in them."
And yes, despite her sometime hard-as-nails shell, there are even things that can bring a tear to this tough girl's eyes.
"I cried during Bambi," she reveals. "I cried at The Lion King. And I cry every time I watch TV and see the kids in Africa. Anyone who knows how to love cries."
Surprised?
That's the mystique of Rodriguez. No one seems to have her quite figured out.
"I'm just a big misunderstood love ball," she laughs. "People take me the wrong way constantly."
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Searching for a Child Abuser
by YoYoMama ini heard this weekend that a convicted child abuser was murdered in jail.
i knew him but i don't remember his first name.
we were in the same congregation together for a few weeks.
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Julio Vasquez was convicted of sexual misconduct and sentenced to twenty years in prison in the spring of 1997. He was due for parole in 2009. On 3-6-02 he was admitted to a local hospital and died the next day. There is no mention in any news source that he ever was a JW and the reason he was admitted to the hospital shows no evidence of any foul play other than sickness. If it had been a murder the local papers would have carried the story, not one word was mentioned in that regard.
Half truths and misinformation does not a JW pedophile make. I think the only way you will get this guy to be a witness is when YoYo studies with him in the new order if he is resurrected.
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Exposure!!--PO
by patio34 inhere is a new level of airport security being introduced in orlando, florida: .
the article can be found on .
www//drudgereport.com
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X-Ray glasses have finally become a reality! I am definitely getting into airport security.....
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WT U-Turn on "Great Crowd" (May 1,200...
by stevieb1 inthe following is taken from questions from readers p.31 of the my 1, 2002 watchtower.
it is the wt response to the question: "when john saw the "great crowd" rendering sacred service in jehovah's temple, in which part of the temple were they doing this?".
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I think you now a the first salvo in the move to make a great crowd GB.