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  Are You Influenced By Looks?

  by jack2 in

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  on friday night i watched a report by abc tv's john stossel (in the normal 20/20 time slot) that dealt with how humans are influenced by looks.

  it was a re-broadcast, and even though this was the second time i've seen it it was still fascinating.

  to demonstrate whether we are influenced by appearance, several scenarios were set up, involving people considered attractive and those considered more 'plain'.

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  gwyneth

  Phew! Took a few tries, but found it.

  I had a very pretty but flamboyant female boss who worked in her family company...her husband (the BIG boss) liked her to dress up as slutty as possible, but then got mad if men noticed. Anyway, these two had been married 20 years and they still were highly possessive/jealous over each other. When I was ready to start my own business, she started looking for another secretary. (The secretary was the only other female there besides herself). If she weren't there, I was to interview the person, and the only instructions I got were: "Make sure she is ugly enough for Danny not to ogle over." This is where plain looks were the advantage for someone. She ended up hiring someone who weighed over 250 pounds. (But very sweet, competent and perfect for the job.) Of course, what does that say for me??? I don't consider myself plain, but I was if I stood next to her. I would wear my dub dresses to work, and she would wear a mini-skirt with a low cut blouse to show off her breast implants, colored 'ho red with 3" heels--which one would you look at first?
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  Are You Influenced By Looks?

  by jack2 in

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  on friday night i watched a report by abc tv's john stossel (in the normal 20/20 time slot) that dealt with how humans are influenced by looks.

  it was a re-broadcast, and even though this was the second time i've seen it it was still fascinating.

  to demonstrate whether we are influenced by appearance, several scenarios were set up, involving people considered attractive and those considered more 'plain'.

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  gwyneth

  forgot password--testing!
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  Friday night mayhem with the "brothers"

  by refiners fire in

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  i dont know whether ive posted on this before, but when i was a young guy we used to get up to some fearfull mayhem on friday and saturday nights.

  we burnt down buildings, blew cars up, shotgunned houses and blasted windows out while people slept inside, stole cars and piled them into telegraph poles, and ran cars off the road just for laughs.

  now the thing is, while we were doing this...we were all active dubs!.

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  gwyneth

  My male elder's son cousin in MA used to "spin donuts"--??? correct term for tearing up grass in circles? in the local cemetaries. Ancient cemetaries. I had also heard that he used to put firecrackers in frogs mouths and watch them blow up. My cousin went on to Bethel, and met a sweet girl whom he married (my aunt doesn't like her because the girl told her to butt out of their newlywed lives, so now she's been labeled "independent" (I hear this from my worldly relatives)), and they invited my sister and me over for dinner after my grandfather's funeral two years ago. I was very surprised, as I personally had left the borg more than 6 years earlier, and all of that clan had avoided us like the plague since then (which is easy to do when they all live in MA and you live in FL.) I asked him about the firecracker incident, and he vehemently denied he had done such a thing--it was all Jesse S! However, he did witness the incident in question (and probably encouraged it, without getting his own hands dirty!)

  Incidentally, while we were there, I told my cousin if he EVER treated his wife like his father treats his mother, I would come up there and personally WHOOP HIS ASS. (Used those words, too, and to my delight, he didn't recoil in disgust at my language.) My Elder Uncle is the most unkind, lording-it-over, sarcastic and biting person I have ever met, and although my aunt can be trying (she is one of those women who still has "vapours" and bursts into tears several times a day, while being a regular pioneer for 25 years), NO ONE deserves to be talked to that way. And if you grow up seeing that, well, chances are you think that's how women are treated! I am hoping that behavior was not passed on from father to son. (Doesn't seem to be, thank God!)
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  ELDER'S WIVES AND CHILDREN

  by minimus in

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  have you ever noticed how some elder's families are the worst example in the congregation?

  some wives lord it over the rest and think they are special , while some kids get away with all sorts of things because of big daddy.

  have you ever had a problem because an elder's family got away with something and you got blamed for it?

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  I agree about the scrutiny...I was an elder's daughter. When I was 16, a very close friend of mine who had left the org three years earlier called me out of the blue to tell me he was joining the Navy. As we were catching up, I told him with stars in my eyes (if he could have seen them) that I had my first kiss. He got angry with me and told me "But you're an elder's daughter!" At which point I was angry, because he'd left the org three years before and was still holding me up to JW standards, and because he thought that meant I shouldn't have a life.

  Was I a wild child? I was a model Dub until that first kiss, by a worldly boy no less, which led to sneaking out of my window at night to meet him on the golf course for more of that marvelous kissing...and then my mother read my diary. She found every detail of my nocturnal rendezvous (plural) and my father "stepped aside" because obviously he wasn't spending enough time raising us properly! All the other elders in our cong were grandfathers, so there weren't too many other elder's children. I guess we were just a disappointment.
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  Where are you ?

  by sunshineToo in

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  in which part of the planet are you?

  i'm in the sf bay area, ca, u.s.a. i have been there for 17 years.. how about you?

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  gwyneth

  Orlando, Florida
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  Anyone in Florida, esp. Orlando?

  by StinkyPantz in

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  anyone in florida?

  especially the orlando area?

  i'm moving in about a year because things around here just ain't cool.

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  gwyneth

  Duh, maybe you were talking about college! I was thinking something else. In that case, all universities in Florida are great! Go Gators! Or in your case, Go Knights!
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  Anyone in Florida, esp. Orlando?

  by StinkyPantz in

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  anyone in florida?

  especially the orlando area?

  i'm moving in about a year because things around here just ain't cool.

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  Hi--I'm in Orlando! Let me know what area you are moving to and I'll tell you what I know about the schools...some are good, but some are not so good. Look forward to seeing you sometime!
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  ok, now that we have history of names...

  by Incense_and_Peppermints in

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  ... i've always wondered about some of the picies people have in their profiles.

  what does your picture mean, and why did you pick it?

  is it something serious, or funny, or totally meaningless?

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  gwyneth

  Sorry to sound like an ignorant newbie, but I am not getting any of this "You Know" thing (reminds me of Harry Potter's "The One Who Must Not Be Named" or whatever) and what undna is. If it is too exasperating to waste space explaining it on the board, please feel free to email privately. Thanks!
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  Romance status

  by Crystal in

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  just curious as to who is single and who is not on this board.i have been with my boyfriend going on 3 years now.

  we just moved in together in feb.for the most part we get along great but he has some weird habits.he also thinks i spend too much time on this site(which i do...but heck i finally belong!!

  )so its hard to relate to him on the subject.he thinks i should just forget about it.sometimes i think i might be better off with someone who has more or less been where i have.

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  Married at 18, divorced and left bORG at 24 (not related to each other), have been single ever since...8 years.
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  KM- Disfellowshipped Relative 8/02

  by WildTurkey in

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  edited by - wildturkey on 20 july 2002 13:59:47.

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  gwyneth

  "After hearing a talk at a circuit assembly, a brother and his fleshly sister realized that they needed to make adjustments in the way they treated their mother, who lived elsewhere and who had been disfellowshipped for six years. Immediately after the assembly, the man called his mother. and after assuring her of their love, he explained that they could no longer talk to her unless there were important family matters requiring contact. Shortly thereafter. his mother began attending meetings and was eventually reinstated. Also. her unbelieving husband began studying and in time was baptized.

  This is emotional blackmail, plain and simple.