Posts by yxl1

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Lousy 80s music....Good 80s music........I know you know some, come on now!

by Soledad in

ugg i have been listening to netscape radio awesome 80s i and ii.

i heard some great songs, but some really lousy ones too!.

here are the ones on my good list:every breath you take by the policecome on eileen by dexy's midnight runnerstrue by spandau ballettime after time by cinder lauperlittle lies by fleetwood macpurple rain by princewhen doves cry also by princeland down under by men without hats (?

yxl1

Good - Prince, The Cure, Queen, Kate Bush

Bad - Anything by Phil colins...gag

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WT Organ Transplant Ban 1967-80: The Human Cost?

by Room 215 in

this is to ask whether any of you out there have first-hand knowledge of lives possibly lost ( i say possibly because any such procedure isasmittedly fraught with risks) because of the 13-year jw transplant ban..

yxl1

A friends dad died in 71/72. He needed and refused a kidney transplant. He left behind a wife and 3 children, the youngest being 3 years of age. Years later, my friend inherited the same problem as his father but was allowed the tranplant. He lived for another 5 years before cancer took him.

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Comments You Will Not Hear at the 8-17-03 WT Study

by blondie in

comments you will not hear at the 8-17-03 wt study

reviewer comments are in black and parentheses ().

wt quotes are in red and quotes ""

yxl1

Enjoying your commentries Blondie. This would have been one of the WT studies where at its conclusion, they would all get up and be nice to each other....for about 15 minutes. An hour later, all the "love" will have evaporated and its back to the usual gossipy backstabing crap.

Also, this would have been the type of WT study where they would have encouraged people to bring their studies along to, so they could witness Gods love in the congregation

I can remember a brother who spent all night shampooing the carpet at the KH for the Memorial only to be counseled by an elder that his T-shirt had a logo on it and he should have turned it inside out.

Now thats the kind of "love" I remember....

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My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets

by Englishman in

my..........very..... easy.. method ..just.... speeds... up.........naming... planets.

mercury ..venus... earth.. mars ....jupiter .saturn.... uranus... neptune.. pluto .

..and in the correct order from the sun!.

yxl1

Does anyone know of a way of remembering the ISO/OSI model? I'm studying for my Solaris exams and I cant make them stick!

The components are:

Physical

Datalink

Network

Transport

Session

Presentation

Application

P D N T S P A

Any suggestions..?

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How would you explain jws to a non-jw?

by Gadget in

jw
friends

in the past, when i've been talking about being a witness they haven't really understood just how much of an impact it has on your life unless they've been one too.

whats the best way to explain it to someone who has never been a witness and had little contact with them?

i'm more thinking of how much control there is over your life, and the reason why a lot of witnesses feel down and suffer from depression, ect.. gadget

yxl1

I’ve never thought this was an issue. I always make a point of explaining what life was like as a Dub. Start from the beginning. Explain what it was like as a child not to have birthdays. Explain what it was like having to watch the other kids through your bedroom window playing with their new toys on Xmas morning. Explain how you were excluded from school assemblies and had to be marched out in front of the entire school. Explain how it felt to be excluded from ANY extra-curricular activities regardless of how good or bad you were. Explain how it felt to be told you’re not allowed to represent your county in Athletics. Explain how you were forbidden to have any friends that were not JW. Explain how most of the kids that were JW would spy on you and report things back to the elders. Try and explain the mind numbing meetings. Explain how it felt to watch your friend die slowly because of his mothers refusla to allow him a blood transfusion. Explain the humiliation of door to door work. Explain how elders would interfere with intimate issues…even between married people. Explain how you were not allowed to read ANYTHING other than schoolbooks and JW literature. Explain how it felt to have all your albums,records, comics and books destroyed on the single word of an elder. Explain what it was like with no TV. Explain what it was like to live with a mother who enjoyed “using the rod” daily. Explain what it was like to be disciplined in front of 130 people for nothing more than wearing a black shirt to a meeting. Explain what it was like to be disfellowshiped. Explain how it felt to watch your older sister being dragged out of bed and kicked out of the house in the middle of the night because it was “discovered” that she had a boyfriend that wasn’t a JW. Explain how she it felt when she was diss’ed. Explain how the Elders forbade us to attend her wedding. Explain how it felt to watch your other sister run away from home, to another country because she would rather live rough in a strange land than live at home as a dub. Explain how it felt to have one of the few JWs I liked, walk into an Elders house, cover herself in petrol and set herself alight.

Explain how it felt to grow up and not have a single friend.

Whenever I get the chance I tell people what it was like growing up as a JW. In another thread I explained how a lady that I work with was being contacted by some JW neighbours. I took her out to lunch and explained what life would be like for her two children IF she decided to become a JW. She was shocked. She said that they seemed so nice. I explained the “honeymoon” period and that once she was hooked or baptised, she would start experiencing real JW love. After showing her a few personal stories from this site, she has since told the visiting dubs that not only is she not interested in studying with them, that they must never talk to her or her children.

It’s worth the effort.

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Check out the web page I made for my sis.

by jelly in

jw
friends

this is just a rough draft, i know i have some spelling errors in there.

but what do you guys think?

any constructive criticism would be gladly accepted.. http://froggy95917.tripod.com/option1.html.

yxl1

She's a clever bean isnt she?. Nice site though, but too many popups IMO

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family guy - which character are you

by tinkerbell82 in

jw
friends

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http://so-rawk.net/quizzes/famguy/

i know, i know, i'm the quiz queen...but here it is, by popular demand...:p

yxl1

I think its obvious, but I'd rather be Quagmire.....gigidy gigidy

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Are you posting while you are supposed to be working?

by Elsewhere in

jw
friends

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yeah... i do it all the time... sitting at work... but instead of working i'm reading and posting here.. anyone else guilty of this?

yxl1

yeah, inbetween ebay surfing and buying DVD's from play

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WT Publication Index '96-'99 and WT LIBRARY 1999 Disc .. Will Mail free

by badolputtytat in

i have the four publication index books dated 96-99. and the entire watchtower library disc 1999 original not a copy) with the complete instruction book.

the cd includes the entire new world translation, and a dozen or so books dated back to 1963. also the awakes and dozens of tracts and booklets.

pretty hefty stuff.

yxl1

badolputtytat

I've sent an email to your address. I'll have whatever you've got. I cant get this stuff from my mum, she knows I mock the WT stuff and has now refused to give me any.

A big thank you !!!

yxl1

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skirts

by Nic in

what a load of rubbish.

what's with the rule that says that ladies have to wear a skirt/dress to all meetings/service etc.?

jesus wore a dress, does that mean that the men have to as well?

yxl1

She would not want to be the cause for stumbling others or bring reproach on the Christian congregation

Thats the argument they use whenever they want control, but cannot find proper biblical council