My dub pal (the one who wrote me about my 'cute stories') got in trouble for using work email for private conversations. Wonder if he/she will contact me from home?
OOPS!
snickersnack,
MD
(vorpal sword class)
Mommie Dark
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Dub in trouble
by Mommie Dark inmy dub pal (the one who wrote me about my 'cute stories') got in trouble for using work email for private conversations.
wonder if he/she will contact me from home?.
oops!.
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Mommie Dark
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Women admit to regular lies
by JanH inwomen admit to regular lies .
nearly one in four british women would try to conceive without their partner's consent if they wanted a baby, research suggests.
a survey by women's magazine that's life!, found that many women are prepared to lie about almost any aspect of their life.
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Mommie Dark
Most common female lie:
Oh honey it's just the right size really"HARharharHARharharHAR!!!!!!!!! You guys don't have a clue!
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testing my patience
by Mommie Dark ini got an unsolicited email from a dub recently.
she read my stories at free minds and recognized one of the characters.
my brief reply was taken as an excuse to question me about the possibility of my returning to the jws.
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Mommie Dark
OK here is the last exchange between us:
Her/his last letter:
"Actually I get a kick out of your humor. And since you want to get technical, that's fine with me. Cult: "Obsessive, especially faddish, devotion to or veneration for a person. Usually secretive and little is known about it, or of the followers."Well. Let's see. Jehovah's Witnesses are not devoted to any one person, or group of people they are devoted to God. And think about it, what religion is known for their OUTWARD display of dedication - JW for Knockin on doors! To me that doesn't sound very secretive. And another point, we have published any time we have been wrong, and made it known WORLDWIDE - nope, no secret there. Oh and if you "want out" of the organization it's easy, say it and it's done - Like what you did. So again - going against what a cult is, brain washing and no getting out - we're not!
So, could you really call the Witnesses a Cult?! By definition of the word - I'm gonna say no.
Oh you made an interesting comment "...I fear Jehovah" No, I don't. I love him, and WANT to worship him. I would never want to displease him, just like we would never want to displease our parents. SAtan, yes I am terrified of him and he makes me want to vomit!! I cannot wait until Jehovah destroys him along with Babylon. I know he is powerful, and I know he's out to get all those doing the will of god.
I do have a question for you? If Luke 8:1 doesn't mean that Jesus went from house to house (like us "crackpot publishers"), than enlighten me?
ME
P.S. Since we are so predictable you probably knew all this anyway."
and Mommie's last word:
"It's not my JOB to 'enlighten' you! That's YOUR job!
Look...obviously you've been questioning your involvement with JWs, otherwise you would NOT have been reading at Free Minds Inc. It seems to me that you are desperately trying to convince YOURSELF that you are not involved in a cult. You seem to be trying to shore up your belief system by repeating the best arguments in its favor that you can dredge. I understand that process very well.
I went through several years of hellish moral quandary before I realized how IMMORAL the JW belief system truly is, how fear-based and guilt-driven its entire theology. I spent ten long years researching and factfinding. It was emotionally and intellectually gruelling, and when I was done, I had to begin from ground zero in order to build a satisfying and honest life in the real world. It was really hard work, finding the real 'truth' about JWdom, and when it was done I had to learn how to think for myself. Critical thinking is a GOOD thing, not dangerous as Brooklyn avers...but it isn't easy, or glib. You're used to glib packaging from Brooklyn, but real life doesn't come in neat plastic packages!
Honestly? I'm not willing to do that work for YOU. If you are so morally lazy that you need an organization to show you how to behave, then please STAY among Jehovah's allegedly happy people! Those of us who have some basic ethical sensibility prefer that you folks without an internal moral compass remain safely under the thumb of some strongly controlling force; those of you without any personal moral standards probably DO sink into selfish debauchery when you are tossed out of the cult, so in that way your high-control religion is a protection for the rest of the world, isn't it?
If you want actual information about your cult and its history, its coverups, its outright lies, the information is available online. I would gladly share urls of websites with the best research and WT quotes proving their past chicanery and lies and their occult origins. However, I am not willing to engage in masturbatory debates with delusional cultists who are probably counting the time spent mailing with me as field service time! I am not willing to debunk your fondest cult myths or to offer you some substitute salvation package to drop into the slot in your moral fiber that jettisoning the WT Way might leave. Frankly, I am heartily sick of JWs whinging at me, 'where can we go away to if the Watchtower Way isn't the right way?' Use your brain, do the research, and figure it out already! It isn't 'THE truth', it isn't even in the 'true' ballpark!
But in your heart you already KNOW this, don't you? That's why you contacted me in the first place...
Hoping you get a clue at some point,
Mommie Dark"This is a revelation for me folks! SOME OF THESE JWS ARE A DANGER TO OTHERS IF LEFT UNRESTRAINED BY THEIR CULT FEAR OF JEHOVAH'S WRATH! They have NO moral fiber in their hearts and without the guilt/fear governor they would just run roughshod over everything in their path. It's ok to tell them to stay in their safe little box...it's a protection for decent people everywhere if they do...
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get a life -- 10 facts
by joelbear ini thought it would be interesting for people to just post a few things about themselves so we can get to know each other just a bit.. try posting 10 facts about your life.. joel.
1. i was born and raised in south georgia.. 2. my favorite subject in school was math.. 3. i was in the fulltime service (bethel and pioneer) for 4 years.. 4. my favorite color is blue.. 5. mitch and i have been together over 12 years.. 6. we live in a suburb of atlanta georgia.. 7. we love to eat out and have friends over for dinner and board games.. 8. the only sport i was ever any good at is tennis.. 9. my favorite tv show of all time is the simpsons.. 10. we are both naturists and wish we could lay on the beach naked every day.
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Mommie Dark
ten random facts about MD, none of any importance whatever:
1.If music moves me, I weep. Whether I want to or not.
2.I'm the seventh child and youngest daughter of ten children.
3. My husband is my best friend.
4. I'm a trained weather spotter with field experience.
5. I can pop twelve quarts of popcorn in one batch using a
3-quart pan.6. My current favorite tv shows are 'Red Dwarf' and 'The Pretender'.
7. I have a singing canary that my husband gave me for a Valentine four
years ago. This was the best present I ever received.8. I have three sons aged 24, 23, and 10.
9. I sang in my high school's first-ever musical production; I played
Lucy in 'You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.'10. I make a terrific sweet potato pie.
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testing my patience
by Mommie Dark ini got an unsolicited email from a dub recently.
she read my stories at free minds and recognized one of the characters.
my brief reply was taken as an excuse to question me about the possibility of my returning to the jws.
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Mommie Dark
I got an unsolicited email from a dub recently. She read my stories at Free Minds and recognized one of the characters. My brief reply was taken as an excuse to question me about the possibility of my returning to the JWs.
I replied honestly but far less bluntly than is my wont. In short I was pretty damn restrained, for me. Today I received yet another letter, this one referring to me in third person as if two Jdubs were talking about me. They prayed Jehovah would forgive me.
I have replied yet again with uncharacteristic restraint, for me. I exhorted them to save their prayers for themselves and their own slavery, as I am now free and not in need of their assistance in order to procure a better life for myself and my loved ones.
I will let you know if I receive a reply stupid enough to goad me into my usual curmudgeonly crust. The anticipation is dreadful... I hope it lasts...
I should be the poster child for Prozac, this stuff works smegging miracles! I don't know whether to hope this clueless cultist gives up or continues to press buttons...(Mommie stumps off muttering 'clinical trials, clinical trials...)
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watching the skies
by Mommie Dark inhttp://www.spaceweather.com/.
i get email updates from this site, it helps me know what's happening in the universe around me.. canadian friends take note, there is a strong chance of aurora display tonight.
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Mommie Dark
I get email updates from this site, it helps me know what's happening in the universe around me.
Canadian friends take note, there is a strong chance of aurora display tonight.
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JW Jokes, If easily offended DO NOT OPEN THREAD!!
by Brutus inwhat do you get if you cross a jehovah's witness with an agnostic?
someone who calls at your door, but doesn't really know why.
feel free to add others!
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Mommie Dark
Difference between publisher, aux pio, and reg pio as described for me by a pio:
All three order iced tea at break. All three glasses have flies floating in them.
Pub politely sets glass aside, says nothing.
Aux pio removes fly quietly, drinks.
Pio snatches up fly , shakes it, says 'spit that out!'
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Street paved with gold
by Mommie Dark inwe have had thundershowers for the last hour, and the sun is setting through the last of the rain.
the wet street is reflecting the sun and the whole neighborhood is glowing; the streets are running golden rivers of runoff, and the sky looks like a molten metallic bowl.
it's changing even as i type this while gawking out the window.
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We have had thundershowers for the last hour, and the sun is setting through the last of the rain. The wet street is reflecting the sun and the whole neighborhood is glowing; the streets are running golden rivers of runoff, and the sky looks like a molten metallic bowl.
It's changing even as I type this while gawking out the window. This ephemeral glory will be gone in minutes...but oh mother! It was gorgeous while it lasted!
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Ritzville News /Deepthroat
by silentlambs intri-city herald.
by shirley wentworth.
ritzville - erica rodriguez and her mother, alejandra garza, broke down and cried when the verdict came in.. it took slightly less than four hours for a seven-man, five-woman adams county superior court jury to declare manuel beliz, 48, of othello guilty of two counts of first-degree child rape and two counts of first-degree child molestation.
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Mommie Dark
You can go to Dateline's website and sign up for program updates, that way you will be notified in your email of what program is scheduled to air.
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Some Witnesses Enjoy Witchcraft!
by metatron ini guess i've just been naive.. i was surprized to find that some 'super loyal'.
witnesses i know have been practising witchcraft.. of course, they'd never call it that - it seems that.
when various illnesses arise you get out an assortment.
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Mommie Dark
I once worked for a freshly-minted young chiropractor who graduated from Life-West Chiropractic College in CA; she was young and smart and way too hip for a pissant West TX town, and she hired me more for personal comfort than for secretarial work: I nursemaided her (and her firstborn) through two pregnancies while assisting in her office in her first two years of solo practice.
She always averred that a great deal of chiropractic theory was goofy, and would not hesitate to refer her patients across the road to their family doctor when they needed muscle relaxers and pain medication.
I saw, and experienced, some amazing health benefits in that office, and received careful and scientific explanations for them. We discussed the peculiar combination of theoretical mumbo-jumbo mixed into the rigorous clinical studies in her education; I was surprised by her frank admission that a great deal of it was useless in actual daily practice. She said that she could train me to effectively read X-rays and diagnose quite as well as she in less than five years' apprenticeship, and pay me for it, if competence were the only criterion.
It's important to know what service you're buying when you deal with a chiropractor, and to ask questions until you understand why they are doing what they do. If you think it smells like snake oil, it probably is. The usefulness and efficacy of manual adjustment, properly applied to misaligned vertebra and joints, is self-evident; as for the rest, in this as in so many, many areas: CAVEAT EMPTOR.