I like Golden Delicious to go with my breakfast and Cortland for baking because it doesn't turn brown too quickly.
I guess it was more of a coffeebreak than a weekend getaway.
Posts by Scully
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PB&J not cutting it anymore?
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Another Facepalm - "Higher Education Wastes Valuable Youth Years"
by God_Delusion inhi guys,.
if you've been following my posts on here, you'll know that i've recently been fascinated by the april 15th 2008 study edition of the watchtower magazine - namely the 'repudiate valueless things' article.. here are my previous posts on this masterpiece of watchtower propaganda:.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/230616/1/going-beyond-what-is-written-in-the-biblehttp://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/bible/230643/1/how-could-i-have-not-realise-i-was-in-a-cult-for-all-that-timeif there were awards for the most in-your-face brainwashing, this article must surely be up there.. anyway, in the 'repudiate valueless things' article, the watchtower society decided to add their bit on higher education.
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What, though, of higher education, received in a college or a university? This is widely viewed as vital to success. Yet, many who pursue such education end up with their minds filled with harmful propaganda.
Translation:
We don't want anything interfering with our filling your minds with our own harmful propaganda.
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Fear of the watchtower
by should have known better init has been close on three years since i faded, the good advice on here helped me not to make some huge blunders by blurting out what i was learning.
however during that time i have approached five or six who no longer associate with the congregation, one who was disfellowshipped over 30 years ago.
to a man the fear was palpable, to engage in any criticism of the watchtower, even sticking to factual evidence still these guys were very uncomfortable.
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They are still JWs, the programming has not been undone. They are living a life that goes contrary to what they believe, perhaps feeling that they cannot live up to the "high standards" of Jehovah the WTS.
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thank you.
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Letter from my mother
by Las Malvinas son Argentinas ini've been officially disowned.
translated from the original:.
"my daughter,.
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Scully
I hope you never let her near your children. She's toxic. Every sentence in her letter is dripping with emotional blackmail and trying to put you on a guilt trip.
I might be inclined to reply to her, reminding her that it was a non-JW party and that you were an invited guest too. Neither she, nor any other JW attending, had more right to be there than you did. If she is unable to get along with everyone at the party, then SHE should have stayed home. Her tears were probably because she was pissed that you didn't disclose the pregnancy to her, the way a daughter would do with a NORMAL mother. She is the one with the problem, not you, she's the one with a flawed sense of morality that gives her permission to judge people for things that are none of her business. Why would you confide this happy event with her, when you knew she would disapprove, judge and reject you the way she has? I wonder what other people at the party were thinking, to see a mother IGNORING her pregnant daughter??
Enjoy your pregnancy. Enjoy your baby. Your mother doesn't deserve to be part of your life or your baby's, not with that attitude.
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Women-Only City Planned
by Bangalore inwomen-only city planned.. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/373151/20120813/women-city-saudi-arabia-jobs-hafuf.htm.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/saudi-arabia-plans-to-open-a-new-city-for-women-workers-only/story-e6frf7jo-1226449383578.
http://www.travelerstoday.com/articles/2693/20120814/women-only-city-coming-to-saudi-arabia-to-increase-female-workforce-sharia-law-muslim-islamic-law-women-city-saudi-industrial-property-authority-modon-middle-east-restrictions-segregation.htm.
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Imagine a city where all the women get their periods at the same time!
A week's vacation every month!
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"8 Ways To Give Us Your Cash" - the desperation in the latest Watchtower is tangible!
by cedars ini know gayle has already started a thread on the latest november 15th watchtower article that mentions the article on donations, but i thought a thread with a more specific title might be in order just to drive the point home for any lurkers.
i hope gayle doesn't mind!.
i've been banging the drum for a while now about what i view as the obvious signs that the watchtower is in a state of decline.. i have written the following blog articles on the subject.... http://jwsurvey.org/cedars-blog/branch-closures-and-fire-sales-a-growing-trend-for-the-society.
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The Conditional Donation Arrangement™ is a complete farce. If anyone dares to ask for their money to be returned, they will be answered with guilt-laden replies to the effect that "you haven't needed the money in all this time, why would you need it now?" In essence, trying to bully a poor cash-strapped JW into just letting the WTS keep their money.
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Women-Only City Planned
by Bangalore inwomen-only city planned.. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/373151/20120813/women-city-saudi-arabia-jobs-hafuf.htm.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/saudi-arabia-plans-to-open-a-new-city-for-women-workers-only/story-e6frf7jo-1226449383578.
http://www.travelerstoday.com/articles/2693/20120814/women-only-city-coming-to-saudi-arabia-to-increase-female-workforce-sharia-law-muslim-islamic-law-women-city-saudi-industrial-property-authority-modon-middle-east-restrictions-segregation.htm.
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Just watch, it will end up being the centre of a female revolution in Saudi Arabia.
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Is Fading Emotionally Taxing?
by Aware! ini don't think i could handle a fade.
sooner or later the truth would be found out.
i have yet to come out, but when i do, i'll probably da myself without telling anyone why.
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Like Blondie says, fading is not intended to be a permanent situation. It's to help you transition from a JW existence to a non-JW existence.
You've already partially accomplished a fade by starting to further your education. You're meeting new people with similar interests who have no connection to the JWs. You're planning the next step of moving out of your parents' home and being on your own, away from your JW family's influence and control. If you're also working, you're expanding your network of non-JW acquaintances. You've got a couple more years of school ahead of you and have more opportunities to continue to cultivate new friendships and interests.
For the most part, a move away to attend school - one that takes you outside the Territory™ - will help you fly under the radar. Keep your Publisher Record Card™ there, and when you visit your family it won't hurt to sit through a Meeting™ on Sunday to keep the peace. You don't have to visit every week or every month, just sporadically. You could also plan your visit such that you have to get back to your place to finish up assignments and sadly have to cut your visit short / miss the Meeting™. If you aren't doing anything to make your family or other JWs suspicious (smoking, drinking, letting your hair / beard grow) just making that small amount of effort will keep the family happy and the Elders™ off your case. If the Elders™ ask for your Field Service Report™, give them one... you're pretty sure you talked to someone about JWs, right?? (Even if it's us... LMAO!!!) The point is to keep your relationship with your family as "normal" (i.e., what they are accustomed to) as possible until you are in a position to be completely independent of them.
My family started our fade with a move across town to facilitate my going to college. It worked out great - different Congregation™, different Circuit™. Nobody from our old KH expected to see us at the Circuit Assembly™ because of our move. If we met someone we knew, we always said that things were great and everything was going well. We never attended a Meeting™ again after that move, and it took years before any JWs we knew realized that we'd left, because they never gave us a second thought after we moved away. Our Publisher Cards™ were sent to the new KH, but nobody from there bothered to try to find us, and when JWs called at the door, I pretended to be just another random "Not Interested". In the meantime we were all making new friends, growing a new social circle and developing new interests, without the stress of the JWs pestering us to go back to the KH, or spying on us to catch us doing something they thought we shouldn't be doing.