Posts by Odrade

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So what'd you get? Loot reports here...

by frozen one in

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friends

i got a couple of lumps of coal and a 2 for 1 mcdonald's dollar menu coupon.

warm and fed...a christmas miracle!!

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So what'd you get? Loot reports here...

by frozen one in

jw
friends

i got a couple of lumps of coal and a 2 for 1 mcdonald's dollar menu coupon.

warm and fed...a christmas miracle!!

!

Odrade

Toaster (yay!) I had to tell him that if I didn't get a new toaster I'd be really cranky.

Portable DVD player so I can FINALLY use all of those continuing education dvds I paid big bux for.

And...

NEIL GAIMAN'S ABSOLUTE SANDMAN VOL 1 OMG!!! whoohooo! YAY MEEEEE!!!! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

28

Should I get an iPod? What do you use yours for?

by Elsewhere in

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let me start by saying that i am not a music fan.

i hardly ever listen to music and almost never buy cd's and my car's stereo is almost always set to npr or some other news station.

i don't even have a stereo system at home... simply because i would never use it.. however, i've been hearing more and more about the ipod devices.

podcasts, audio books, music of course. I have a bunch of ambient music on there for work. (outcalls.) so I can set up at the client site (massage therapy) and have "massage music." I also have a flat set of folding Altec-lansing speakers.

It's not an IPod though. It's Creative's Zen MicroPhoto. 8gig flash drive. I love it. The only drawback to the Creative is that all (and I do mean ALL) of the accessories are made to fit the IPod.

Like you, I don't listen to music that much... mostly talk radio, NPR, lectures, etc. MP3 players are great for that, but I don't know that I'd spring for a 60 gig HD unit just for that.

P.S. what Terry said? Ditto for the Zen. Recorder, easy drag and drop file transfer, supports many formats, Radio tuner, easy menus...

36

I got the phone call. WARNING, DEPRESSING!

by Schism in

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well,my dad called last night, crying.

he says armageddon's about to start and he doesn't want to lose me.

he said i either need to become a good jw and go to the meetings, or he will have to distance himself from me so that he won't be so attached to me when the big a hits.

Odrade

Wow, I feel for you Schism, but I have to tell you, I read your post to my husband and we both got a good hearty laugh at the utter lack of logic. Poor daddy. My parents went through a phase like this, ironically, it was before we left the organization. They were doing this crying/guilt trip thing while I was still a "good," faithful meeting attender.

After we left, we got quite a bit of the "so and so asked about you..." I took to saying "that's nice, I'm sorry that their phone got disconnected" or " so and so who? I'm sorry, I don't remember them. I'm not sure they ever talked to me..." or "are they the ones that used to have all the parties? yeah, we were never invited to any of those..." hehe.

Of course I don't have younger siblings that are being kept from me. My younger brother is in his 30s, so he makes up his own mind. Some days he shuns me, some days he doesn't.

It gets better, really it does. Maybe the JW family doesn't behave any more rationally, but you learn to deal with it easier. Days like today it can be kind of sad. I'd love to have a houseful of relatives, presents all around and a 7' christmas tree, but it's just the two of us. No family that's not married to that damn organization.

Most of the time though, it's just life. I gave up trying to convince them that I'm happy. Now I just live my life successfully. I'm cheerful when they call, even if they use their "woe is me" voices. I hear that tone far less often now, since they have discovered that voice doesn't affect me much. Interestingly, they call me much more now. I'm lucky, I suppose.

I guess some parents decide that they'd like to cherish whatever time they have left before Armaggedon. (!) Others really do think shunning is "tough love."

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Dec KM indicates extreme paranoia over booking hotels NOT on the list

by truthseeker in

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over the years, the society has included half a page in their annual guidelines when planning for and attending the district convention.. in particular, they have been very insistent that only hotels on the recommended lodging list be used.. .

the language in this month's km is even more insistent than last years.. .

here is the text in full, with the original emphasis.. .

Odrade

The society receives block pricing. One of the benefits of contracting with a hotel is they get a number of rooms for free. All the Bethel heavies and their guests have use of these rooms. If the hotel doesn't fill the offered rooms at the agreed-upon rate, they begin reducing the number of free rooms. Since the JWs are told not to even call another hotel that's not on the list, they have no idea that they're getting a bum deal so "Bethel Elder Entitled" can stay at the Double Tree Suites for 4 days free.

The last two conventions we attended before we left, we "neglected" to make our reservations until after the list had expired... approximately 2 weeks before the D.C. We were able to pay significantly less for our rooms at a nice hotel, than the JW rates. All the JW sees is the rate they pay (from the list), then when they arrive at the hotel and see that the published room rate is double or triple what they are paying, they believe that the WT has negotiated a far better deal than they ever could. They don't realize that huge discounts are common hotel practice.

Has anyone ever noticed that the poor JWs who don't/can't travel due to finances, always, stay in recommended lodging, while many of those going off-list are the more well-to-do who know their way around a travel plan?

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Child dies because he did not want to go to the meeting

by VanillaMocha73 in

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/16252892.htm

Odrade

Thank you Daniel-p. I was going to reply something similar. yadda, it really is unfair to blame the mother. Autism can be a very unpredictable condition. Some episodes can be "set off" by something as simple as a momentary change in routine. There's no way to know if he was being badgered, or if he just got wound up on his own.

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How old will you be....

by Scully in

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when you will have been an exjw for as long as you were a jw?.

i was raised in the jws from before the age of 10, and stopped going to the kh at the age of 31. i was involved with the jws for a total of 23 years.

i will be 54 years old by the time i have spent more of my life as an exjw than i did as a jw..

Odrade

Retired.

151

Hambeaks Extremely Heartbreaking News

by Sparkplug in

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friends

our friend hambeak just got the most dreaded phone call from his jw child.

the news was passed on as he was asked for by name and not as"dad" and let known that "they" just called to let him know that his other son, brian, age 26, is dead.

he was in a car accident.

Odrade

I'm so sorry Hambeak.

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Stick to the Borg...Your Judas kids made their choice

by Midget-Sasquatch in

yet another article in such a short period of time...someone already mentioned it would be in the jan15 2007 wt.

here are the scans:.

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Odrade

Nice plug for not questioning the elders in the last paragraph. I wonder if too many parents were getting upset at the JC demanding to hear every last detail of their minor daughter's "porneia" before throwing her out? *gag*

141

Gays Leave JWD!

by hambeak in

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friends

i got a phone call from a person that i gave my phone # to.

and this person said that gays are not welcome here and this is not what this board was really about.

i told them that this is only one part of the crap that the wts did to people and that we are people too.

Odrade

Can you imagine if someone from the forum called up a "straight" person and berated them for having sex with their opposite sex partner? "Ahem! YOU need to LEAVE the forum because we don't tolerate people who have straight sex around here..." (I'm using firefox, so please imagine a bunch of little smileys all rolling their eyes in unison.)