DB, Okay this is simply publishing empire with over $900 million in revenue competing for its employee's time. No different than my boss(or any other employer) who at times needs me to help him out on a Saturday. The only difference is that my boss is straight forward with what he wants from me and why and I get paid x-tra for my time. The WT Corp on the other hand uses guilt and God(as a CEO) to get its work done. And the amazing thing is that people actually beleive that an omnipotent creator of the universe needs their help! -OM
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Don't work overtime
by DB inat this past week's service meeting, our congregation reviewed the part "keep seeking the kingdom first" in the january km.. the elder handling the part decided to include the admonition not to work overtime and risk missing a meeting, even if you need the money.
one drone in the audience even stated that working ot when we need it could lead us into becoming more and more materialistic.
well, when it comes time to take friday off to attend the district convention, i wonder if these same jws who refuse to work ot will get a favorable response from their employer when they request that friday off.
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What Its All About - Lurkers
by Amazing inits all about lurkers: there are at least three main types of lurkers, 1. a jw with doubts, concerns, feeling that something is wrong with the religion, 2. an ex-jw who is caught between two worlds, and does not feel free yet to live a normal life, 3. a non-jw who is either involved with a jw, or a relative of a jw, or is in the middle of being studied with by the jws.. defining moments: everything we write, say, and do is observed by the lurkers.
in a single moment, or a series of collected comments, we will eventually cause a lurker to have a defining moment ... a point in time where they decide that being a jw is not for them anymore, or that they can stop living between two worlds, or cease studying, and not join the religion.
we may never know who we help, or how many.. flame wars and character attacks: when we get embroiled in these, whether we are the instigator or the brunt of the attacks ... what are we really doing?
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I seriously think my mom lurks on this site. The same person who wouldnt let me play basketball in highschool(all that bad association ya know) now lurks on an apostate web-site. Hypocrasy in its purest form - how nice.
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Looking for info on B-Day new light....
by Tatiana indoes anyone have any information on the birthday "new light?".
i think i remember seeing a thread about it, but i can't find it.
i need it to send to my niece,(yes, i'm still trying) and i wonder if anyone can point me to the thread or site where this info might be.. thanks...... april.
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Wow that would be cool. The JW ban on birthdays is a serious crock of shit. It would be really cool if my six year old could have a party with his mother in attendence.
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Apostate Hall of Fame
by RunningMan ini would like to take a moment to pay tribute to those giants of apostasy, those pioneers who have paved the way for the rest of us to apostatize in relative comfort and security.
so, with no further introduction, i present my rendition of: .
the apostates (kingdom) hall of fame.
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What-about You Know? Oh this is the Apostate hall of Fame. Im sorry I thought it was the Hall of Shame. My bad.
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I'v got to tell something this!
by voltaire ini've posted several times about how i'm fed up with the witnesses but my wife won't budge.
she's become a bit more tolerant lately, but mostly we get along better when we don't talk about anything substantive.
i've been working up the nerve to tell the elders why i don't go out anymore.
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Take the same scenerio and add a 6yr old to the equation. Do you guys think that changes things?
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Who Says JW's Can't Particpate In Sports?
by Mister Biggs inrob vanstone .
regina leader post .
peoples planting roots in regina.
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I would bet money that Peoples was not raised in the trooth. I was. I used to have coaches ask me all the time why I wasnt playing sports as I was one of if not the best athlete in my class and I love football-basketbal-and baseball. The opportunities I was denied as a JW child still haunt me. Two friends I knew as a kid are now pro ball players. The competition/violence line of reasoning is a crock of shit. If you dont like sports, FINE but dont force your OPINION on me cause I will HATE you for it! HATE
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EURO
by gilwarrior inwell at the beginning of the year the euro is the national currency of the member of the european union (execpt for great britain, denmark and norway, i think).
anyway i just want to know what you all think about this.
especially those of you who live in europe.
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I was in Europe when they switched. It was sort of funny, cause they were having trouble making change. For instance a beer tranfered to like 2.63 Euro from whatever in Francs so instead of rounding it to 2.6 or 2.65 they were running around for a lot of change that they didnt have. But all in all it seems better(at least from an American perspective) at one point I think I was a Lira millionare in Italy! Why they would ever care to work with that many zeros is beyond me.
Anyway for me unless it a dollar it all seems like monopoly money to me.
OM
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Ebonics anyone?
by openminded ini find myself interested in linguistics and especially ebonics and have discovered that despite the fact that i am a "whiteboy" i can "ebonicize" about anything(poem,song,letter,whatever).
so if you want/need anything translated into ebonics please give me the opportunity to do it for you.
i find myself interested in linguistics an' especially ebonics an' gots discovered dat despite da fact dat i be uh "whiteboy" i can "ebonicize" about anything(poem,song,letter,whatever).
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Come, come.. perhaps we's should remember ta speak da Queens English, as we's say in dis here part o' da world!
Sloppy speech iz just dat, an' can occur in all cultures . It seems ta gots been "dignified" by association wiff negroid Americans.Similar things gots been tried here, Bibles in Cockney , or da Yorkshire dialect .
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End of Times/Anointed/WTBTS
by MacHislopp insometime ago, the wtbts published.
a watchtower study article,that.
pointed to :.
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It seems as if those last 8000 are some really tough old codgers who live a long time. If you are trying to make some logical sense out of these goofy statistics, forget it. The simple fact of the matter is that the "annointed" have very little if anything to do with the WTS. Due to the fact that I am under 30 years old, I should still be around when this number actually reaches zero(barring any freak accidents or diseases). The new spin that they will be forced to come up with should be quite interesting. OM
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Ebonics anyone?
by openminded ini find myself interested in linguistics and especially ebonics and have discovered that despite the fact that i am a "whiteboy" i can "ebonicize" about anything(poem,song,letter,whatever).
so if you want/need anything translated into ebonics please give me the opportunity to do it for you.
i find myself interested in linguistics an' especially ebonics an' gots discovered dat despite da fact dat i be uh "whiteboy" i can "ebonicize" about anything(poem,song,letter,whatever).
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Some examples of Black English follow:
1. Indicating habitual action through verb structure, notably using the form "be" as a verb. This use of be derives from an aspectual verb system that is also found in many African languages. Its use conveys the speaker's meaning with reference to the qualitative character and distribution of an action over time.
"He be hollering at us", "I like the way he be psyching people out"
2. Indicating remote past through verb structure, notably using "been" with stress.
"She been gone"
3. Predication with optional copula The sense of complete predication conveyed by a noun followed by an adjective, adverb, verb, noun, or prepositional phrase. This is common in many West African languages, (e.g., in Kimbundu, Ene macamba, literally "They friends")
"He real little", "They in the house", "My momma name Joyce"
4. Semantic Inversion, turning a word into its opposite. This feature is familiar in Mandingo, a ka nyi ko-jugu, literally, "It is good badly", or it is so good that it's bad.
5. Appropriating and secularizing church terms. Some terms are derived from the Traditional Black Church.
"On T", "Testify"
6. Pronominal apposition, repeating the subject for emphasis. This feature is common in Yoruba, Eya me, ot cu, literally, "My mother, she has died"
7. Use of speech acts, that are either not in White English at all or are not used according to the same set of social rules of speaking.
Signifyin'- the verbal art of insult
Dozens- a form of signification where one signifies on anothers kinfolk.
Use of Proverbs- "What goes around, comes around", "A hard head makes a soft behind"8. Signaling of possession by context and/or juxtaposition. No use of inflectional -z (written as apostrophe s)
"My daddy name John"
9. Tonal Semantics The use of voice and rhythm and vocal inflection to convey meaning. This gives Black speech its songified or musical quality. Both Black rappers and preachers use word sound to communicate at deeper levels to which words alone cannot convey. Examples include shouting, intonational contouring, use of rhyme, repetition and alliterative word-play.
From a strictly linguistic view, Smitherman(1995) indicates that West African languages are tone languages. The speakers of these languages rely on the tone with which they pronounce syllables, sounds, and words to convey their meaning.
The space does not allow for a full exploration of examples of Black English. For a more thorough coverage of this topic the reader is referred to Smitherman (1977); Dandy (1991); Major (1970); Labov (1972); Dillard (1972); Rickford (1975); Kochman (1972,1981); Baugh (1983); and Spears (1984).