gitasatsangha is Tibettan for "Mr President, I got to pee". Ok. Its not. i got this name during a time I was tutledged under a vedantist guru. Its sanskrit, and means Song-True-spiritualcommuniy.. sanskrit doesnt translate into english all that well, really. Anyway, it's an annoying screenname, because its hard to type out, and looks wierd , and I would love to change it, but whats done is done. As a side note, its also a funny play of sorts on "Bible Study".
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What does your name mean?
by pennycandy ini gave my intro and then disappeared for a month.
just not enough time these days.. anyway .
.. some of your names are self-explanatory, but some definitely have to be explained to be understood.. i'll start.
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Contributions? Wait On Jehovah!
by metatron inclearly, there is every earmark of financial worries within the watchtower society.. even governing body members have expressed concern about falling contribution levels.
within congregations.
yet, for the faithful, the answer is simple: wait on jehovah.. .
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gitasatsangha
proplog, I don't think you are a troll. I think you like to take the roll of Devil's Advocate, however.
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Help - she's turning him into a 4yr old Borg!
by Ray Skyhorse inmy ex and i share joint custody of our 4 year old boy.
we share physical custody of him every other day.
lately, he has been regurgitating jw doctrine to me about about death, paradise and jehovah.
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gitasatsangha
Kids don't like turning down presents. Get him to gradually get into the idea of doing birthdays privately at your house, and frankly, he will find the grass is greener on the other side.
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Sex, Demons, and Jdub Kids
by gitasatsangha inthis may have already been posted before, but there is a very good article at salon.com which talks about jw kid publications (esp the most recent) and their attempts to link demonology into the sex urge to frighten children.
here is the link and i will also imbed it.
http://blogs.salon.com/0001561/stories/2003/06/08/sexdemonsandchildreninthejehovahswitnesses.html.
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gitasatsangha
the antitypical salome lass will be slapped on the day of the lord's ardor.
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Eeeeeeeeee By Gum
by Celtic ineeeeee by gum!!
gordon bennet!!.
my first two exclamations of surprise.. what are your two expressions with no repeats overlapping?.
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gitasatsangha
wow!
Goddamn!
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ever had an out-of-body experience?
by poppers inonce in a while, usually in the morning shortly after waking up, i find my "body" lifting up from my physical body, but i remain attached at the head.
it's a very pleasant experience but i wish i could totally separate from the physical body so i could go exploring.
this happened this morning again.. .
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gitasatsangha
chanting a mantra (or something else easily rememberd not flippant.. can't chant "Cheeseburger" overf and over) can help also, as it is something of a mental sledgehammer which continually breaks the mind's attempts to wander and greadually forces the mental arising into smaller waves. Calmness is important for any mental endeavour.
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If The Population Increases Does It Mean There Would Be Less Demon Control?
by minimus insince the demons can't multiply and produce baby demons, my theory is that if the earth's population increases, then there is less likelyhood that the demons and a singular devil will get to us.....whaddya think?
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gitasatsangha
Yes, but they can move really fast. I mean that one angelic commando that took out the Assyrians wiped out over 100,000 of them in a night. Just assuming a 12 hour sundown and 100,000 assyrians that's 138.9 Assyrians confirmed dead per minute not counting wounded (the bible didn't include wounded statistics in their Battle Damage Assessments). So these mofos are fast.
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If The Population Increases Does It Mean There Would Be Less Demon Control?
by minimus insince the demons can't multiply and produce baby demons, my theory is that if the earth's population increases, then there is less likelyhood that the demons and a singular devil will get to us.....whaddya think?
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gitasatsangha
You've just got me all used to high quality questions is all.
Where do demons come from? Well when a mandemon loves a womendemon, and they are married, sometimes they want to get close together, in a special way.. and then...
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A Boring Tale of a Little Congregation and their Kingdom Halls
by gitasatsangha inthis hall i speak of is in a small city in northeast tennessee called kingsport.
i don't live there anymore, but its interesting.
their first hall (that i am aware of), was a second floor shop in the old downtown area (which, like so many other downtown areas in little cities in america, is dying).
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This Hall I speak of is in a small city in Northeast Tennessee called Kingsport. I don't live there anymore, but its interesting.
Their first hall (that I am aware of), was a second floor shop in the old downtown area (which, like so many other downtown areas in little cities in America, is dying). They outgrew it, and after they left, it burned, leaving only the brick shell edifice. That was, I suppose back in the sixties. They got others, I am sure, in the interim.
The one I remember first being born in the 70s and all, was a Kingdom Hall shaped more or less like a house. I don't think it followed any particular plan, and it may have actually been a house to begin with. It had windows, but they were frosted over. It had very little parking, so on busy days, people had to park on the street, which annoyed the neighbors. It had a small business to one side of it that made, of all things, caskets. On the other side was a cornfield. This hall also had a seperate sound room, which was nice, as my brother got to do sound AND smoke the occasional joint without anyone bothering him. The sound system itself was a bit odd. It picked up Citizen's Band radio from time to time, and often a prayer or song was interrupted by truckers cussing about "Smokey". This hall was decoreted with carpet which looked like tang mixed with vomit, but the chairs (taken from an old movie theatre) were upholsterd in green vinyl.
Anyway it came time to get a new hall, even though attendance was actually down because.. well.. hmm. Parking was a problem. Fair enough. Everyone voted to get a new hall, except for one sister who no one argued with because she partook of emblems and had a belligerant bully of a son who also wasn't argue with because it was believed that he was mildly retarded. So the Hall was sold. But, in the meantime, no new hall had been found, and donations based on pledges, did not come in. At one point a local needs talk consisted of an Elder reminding folks that a pledge was legally binding. The congo had to meet at the hall of another congo 20 miles up the road whose BOE did not always get along well with their own. The Memorial was held at a Ramada Inn banquet room, however.
This went on for three years. Life was sad. To the rescue came the local city government. The city, you see, had a fine old Presbyterian church which was on the National History Registry. The city had been deeded it at one point, and had lent it out to the local playhouse. But the theatre group had found a better venue, so now it sat sad and dormant, sitting exactly at the dead-center of town. They had an idea: A Church For a Congregation For A Congregation Without a Church. Niceley offered it to the Jdubs for a dollar if they agree to keep it in its historic condition.
But.. well.. it had a steeple. A steeple would not do at all. Does it say anywhere in the Bible that Jehovah loves steeples? The BOE asked if they could remove the steeple off this lovely old building. "No" came the reply. So they did not buy the beautiful history chuch for $1.00. The $1.00 went back into the building fund.
But Jehovah came to their aid. A local land developer needing a
tax write-off todo good works for humanity gave the congregation some nice creekside land. Ok, it was a floodplain. Who new? And right beside a particularly not-nice government housing project? That's ok. We witness boys got to play some very muddy football on our personal Torrent Valley while the donations slowly trickled in. Eventually they built the hall, and all was well, apart from the mud, and the risk of flooding, and people from the Projects coming over across the creek to steal things from cars all the time.The old hall that was abandoned had been sold, of course. To the casket shop. It was used to store coffins for quite awhile, I think. They don't need parking. Recently I was back in town, and suprised not only to find that old building was not only still around, but was looking much as it once had, only now it had been sold once again, this time to some other church.
I wonder if they got it for $1.00.
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ever had an out-of-body experience?
by poppers inonce in a while, usually in the morning shortly after waking up, i find my "body" lifting up from my physical body, but i remain attached at the head.
it's a very pleasant experience but i wish i could totally separate from the physical body so i could go exploring.
this happened this morning again.. .
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gitasatsangha
Ive been elsewhere in a few trance-like states but never the "looking down at my body" type thing.