I've usually disliked being around other people my age, especially when I was a child. I've generally preferred to associate with people older than me, if I have to associate with anyone at all. Older people tend to be less noisy and irritating.
Vanant
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Do you have friends in different age groups?
by JH inwhatever your age, do you make friends and hang out only with people your age or will you hang around with people much older or much younger than you?.
mentally i must be quite young, because i love to hang around with people 10 to 15 years younger than me.. .
i never hang around with older than me, and rarely with people my age.
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Ever get the feeling your just not "normal"?
by logansrun ineven when i was a dub i felt this way.
i mean, i would just stand there at gatherings and feel that i was in my own world -- that, somehow, everyone else was "in" and i was "out.
" i never felt this way at formal gatherings -- meetings, assemblies, etc -- only in most social settings.
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Vanant
I also feel this way. I've wondered if it's some kind of disorder, like social phobia or Asperger's syndrome . . . I don't know if it's from having spent much of my childhood alone being homeschooled, or from having been raised a dub, or from something innate in my personality, but I also feel like I inhabit my own little isolated universe. Even keeping one or two close friends is very difficult for me. This inability to maintain friendships or hold normal non-anxiety-inducing conversations has bothered me for a long time, and I wonder if I'll have to live the rest of my life like this . . . at least solitude has gotten familiar to me by now, but what's most worrying to me now is whether or not I'll be able to hold down a job and support myself.
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Vanant
I've always been partial to #111, "The light gets brighter." o/~ La luz de Dios en su Palabra brilla-- o/~ It sounds nicer with the orchestra. I can't think of any other one I've liked; they all sound so much like elevator music. And the lyrics . . . I remember as a kid getting in trouble with my dad because I would only mouth the words instead of singing the embarassing lyrics. At least it was funny hearing all those terrible singers at the meetings tunelessly belting out the songs at the top of their lungs, as if the louder they got, the better the chance of Jahoho being able to hear them in heaven. :D
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Last Meeting
by Nosferatu infor those who have been out for a while, was there anything special about the very last meeting you attended (excluding memorials)?
was there anything incredibly memorable about it?
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Vanant
My last meeting was almost a year ago . . . last October, I think. I'm technically still in the org, but I'm hoping that was my last meeting for sure . . . anyway, I remember nothing about that meeting. I'm sure that's because the things they said and did were the same as at any meeting, boring no matter what. Thank dog for my imagination, because the only way I could last through them was by spacing out fantasizing.
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Voting Bush out
by Jayson inwhat is the best campaign stratagy to win against him?
be serious this is to win the minds of american voters not to polerize them against you.
otherwise it's a plug for him.. i think that the one real weakness is unemployment in america.
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Vanant
Has anyone ever heard of Dennis Kucinich? I'm a newbie to politics (just started an introductory Poli Sci class 3 weeks ago), but his platform seems the most attractive to me (though the part about banning weapons in outer space seems like tilting at windmills at this point, imo) . . . I know he's a longshot for election, though, since most people disagree with progressives . . .
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Retractions in the Watchtower
by Elsewhere in.
every magazine, newspaper or other periodical i have ever read would from time to time print a retraction to correct mistakes in past articles.
any reputable publishing house does this.. has anyone ever seen a retraction printed in the watchtower, awake, or any other wts publication?.
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Vanant
heathen, most of the countries in East Asia traditionally use lunar (actually, lunisolar) calendars taken from the Chinese. Their new year starts between Jan 21 and Feb 21. This kind of calendar has 12 months like the Gregorian solar calendar does, but is a few days shorter, and uses leap months every few years to make up the missing days. In order to interact with the West, those countries now primarily use the Gregorian calendar, but still use the lunar calendar to keep track of traditional festivals and such. I think almost all countries in the world now are forced to use the Gregorian calendar if they want to do business outside of their own region.
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I AM MAD AS HELL ... I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE !!!
by Amazing inthis has to stop !
... it took 15 minutes just to log on ... yes, the pop-up ads are getting so numberous i can't function, or make posts easily ...there are several pop-ups for a bigger penis - add 3" or more ... yeah, right, size matters.get bigger breasts ... like i need that at age 52 ... male ... mmmm use viagra ... right ... and with a 17" penis, it will go places that no man has gone before.buy insurance ... sure ... for what?
i am uninsurable.
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Vanant
As far as spyware killers go, in addition to AdAware, there's also Spybot. And if you hate popups but don't want to use a program additional to your web browser, there is a browser called Mozilla that has an option to block popups. (If some websites require popups for navigation, you can specify them to be excluded from the no-popups rule.) I've been using it for almost a year and haven't seen a single popup the whole time. :) The only downside to Mozilla is that there are certain features on some websites that don't show up correctly, like the emoticons on this site (you would have to link to the images directly, I suppose, instead of letting the site do it for you...).
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Shunning your Children
by missylissy ini dont know if im putting this in the rite place.... .
when a young jw teen ( 13-16) disassociates themselves, or is disfellowshipped, will the parents kick them out of the house?
or are they required to let them stay?
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Vanant
missylissy, from what I've seen in the congregations I've attended, it really depends on the family . . . in the Organization book, I think it says that families can still have contact with their DA'd/DF'd children, so they don't have to kick them out, but spiritual things can't be discussed (the same goes for children who are unbaptized publishers, if I'm remembering correctly). Common thought in JW culture, though, seems to be that DA/DF'd people are more or less dead to their families. But while some families cut off ties completely, others have gone on business as usual. I noticed that the Spanish-language congs seemed to be less strict on this than the English-language ones . . . Since it was just my own experience, I don't know how accurate this perception is. I've always thought of it as being due to cultural differences; I think the concept of the extended family is given higher reverence in Hispanic culture than in Anglophone culture, with its emphasis on the individual.
Anyway, it really just depends on the person. Like with my mother's family, where most of my aunts and uncles DA'd themselves young, after being raised JW . . . the family members who are still JW, such as my mother, have normal relations with the ones who left. But people like my father think DA/DF'd people aren't to be associated with at all, so he tries to restrict our contact with my mom's family. People like him wouldn't hesitate to throw their own children out of the house for leaving the organization. So I have to make thorough preparations before I DA myself.
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Coming Out ?
by johnathanseagull indon't you sometimes feel like "coming out" on this board..... as in my name is blah blah and i was in this cong etc etc.
i know some who have done so here.............it's not that i'm embarrassed about giving my details or letting people know here........the only thing that stops me is ...............ahhh f**k it.
jgull.
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Vanant
SisterLiz . . . what corny names your congregations had. :O The Spanish-language congs here tend to be named after preexisting places . . . I guess it helps that most places in California already have Spanish names. But since I think the congs here are named by non-Spanish-speakers, there are some weird ones, like "La Puente" . . . anyway, I'm surprised there are so many Spanish speakers in Montreal. Are they mainly from any one country/region, like Mexico, the Caribbean, South America, etc?
I would like to come out myself, but since my living situation is still a little precarious now, I can't yet...
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Release regarding Father's Touch short film....
by morrisamb infathers touch the film.
this 3 minute and 30 second short film will explore the haunting images found within donald dhaenes writing.
telling a complete story in flashbacks, real time images, and real time action.. .
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Vanant
morrisamb, this is in Spanish. Here is my translation.
The Watchtower is the Beast of Rev. 13:11-18!
The WT, founded in the USA, started as a small group of Bible students, and is now a powerful international organization. Through their publications, they declare themselves to be the Prophet of God. If we support the WT, we are supporting the Great Power. (Rev. 13:11-15)
It binds people of all the nations through the oath that all wishing to become Jehovah's Witnesses respond with two "yes"s in the ceremony preceeding baptism. (Rev. 13:16a)
It controls the thoughts (mark on the forehead) and the actions (mark on the hand) of millions of people. (Rev. 13:16b)
It makes its members buy and sell its publications, which mostly carry the name of the organization (the number of his name). (Rev. 13:17)
Watchtower is an esoteric symbol used by the Rosicrucians, Masons, and other occult groups, and is a filthy thing. (Rev. 13:18)
The false prophecies related to the dates 1874, 1914, 1918, 1925, 1975 denounce it as a False Prophet. (Deu. 18:22, Rev. 16:13, 19:20)
Don't support it! Leave her!