Posts by astridkittie

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The Six Planes of Higher Consciousness???????

by frankiespeakin in

c&p i find this interesting not saying it is correct just interesting: .

http://www.mysticism.net/print/planes.htm.

the mystic's life lesson #4 .

astridkittie

For some reason this eeringly reminds me of the book "Celestine Prophecy", which is a fictional story that has somehow spawned it's own set of followers.

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Worst piece of Software you've used

by Nosferatu in

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okay, share the experiences you've had with horrible computer software.

i'll start:.

at work, we are forced to use a piece of software called winbiller.

A piece of software that most tech support... and even customer support... representatives use to log calls. It's called CSS/Pheonix, and it was a buggy piece of crap. Ever called tech support/customer support and get asked for your name and phone number, then get a "ticket" or "reference" number at the end of the call? I'm betting they were using CSS. Thing is, the server was always, ALWAYS going down, which resulted in getting a white screen whenever you tried to log in, or something would go buggy in the software so you couldn't pull up a customer's records, or it wouldn't assign a customers phone call log a ticket number so the next technician couldn't look the number up when the customer gave it to them. And it was SLOW... godawfully slow. You would click the "save ticket" button, saying "and your ticket number is...".... "uh..." .... "hold on one moment please"... the entire time waiting for it to process the ticket and give you the freaking ticket number. This may not sound all that bad but try dealing with this crap while you're also trying to stay under a 6 minute average call handling time. And this didn't happen every once in a while, or once a week even. Something was going wrong with the software every single day... And we were stuck with it because we worked for MSN, and Microsoft was the company that designed the software. Of course, I won't go into how the times the software worked properly it was still difficult to know what the customer had called about before since alot of the technicians never recorded decent tickets telling you what their issue was... if they even recorded a ticket for them at all...

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JW at my work Part 2

by Beans in

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http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/64911/1.ashx

so we had our quartley safety meeting last week at work and as soon as i walk in this jw is right up to me all excited telling me about what is going on in his life.

i really approached this lightly to inform this person as he seemed to have an open mind.

astridkittie

Anyone other than me remember how in the book 1984 everyone was expected to have a particular facial expression on their face at all times, otherwise they could be suspected of thought crime? Somehow this seems eeringly similar... :P

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Most hated WT publication

by Nosferatu in

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what is the wt publication you hated the most?

why did you hate it?

for me, it was probably that damn pink great teacher book.

astridkittie

I would definately say Young People Ask... I got that stupid book thrown at me SO many times during my early teenage years! :P And all it ever did was cause me misery...

Next would have to be the Revelation book... did anyone really understand that crap? LOL, I remember I used to think the reason why I couldn't understand it was because I wasn't deep or smart enough.

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JWs and Evolution - Reasoning with the "facts" ?

by somebodylovesme in

i am in the process of hunting down every "source" the jws use in their books to "discredit" evolution.

i think it could be fun.

for instance - robert jastrow, the first scientist cited in the reasoning book, wrote in the same book: "the fact of evolution is not in doubt" (the enchanted loom, pg.

astridkittie

LOL... you know, even as a jw I always noticed the disturbing frequency of the "..." in the literature's quotations. Of course, as a good little jw, I always assumed they were just shortening a really long statement down to its real point. Still, in the back of my head, I wondered why all the long quotations that needed to be shortened?

Unfortunately, at that time, I didn't have the resources at hand to be able to actually look those quotations up.

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Google starts G-mail (1-GB) FREE...

by Special K in

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in the paper yesterday,.

google starting new service, g-mail.. g-mail will provide users with a huge one gigabyte (1gb) of free storage, making the need to clean out the e-mail box inbox irrelevent for most people.. the companies believe the new service will rewire the way information is retrieved in e-mail messages.

g-mail will automatically organise e-mail according to topic and allow users to search their messages --including who it is from, the text and subject lines---in the sam way they search the internet.

astridkittie

Hee, hee, I'm an email pack rat myself. I usually store all my email in Outlook but of course that limits where I can access my emails. I hope they start the service soon...<br><br>Just as a side note, they're also going to use computers to scan your email for certain subjects so they can personalize the advertisment links on the side of your email page... no one's reading your email or anything, but some people who are big on their email privacy might still have an issue with that.

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recipe for the unleavened bread or crackers

by astridkittie in

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i was just wondering if anyone has the recipe for the unleavened bread/crackers, or if this has been asked before, if someone could point me in the direction of the thread that gives the answer.

thanks :)

astridkittie

Thank you everyone. :)

I knew I could go to the store and buy it, but somehow that didn't feel right, since I'm pretty sure they didn't go to the store and buy it, lol.

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recipe for the unleavened bread or crackers

by astridkittie in

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i was just wondering if anyone has the recipe for the unleavened bread/crackers, or if this has been asked before, if someone could point me in the direction of the thread that gives the answer.

thanks :)

astridkittie

I was just wondering if anyone has the recipe for the unleavened bread/crackers, or if this has been asked before, if someone could point me in the direction of the thread that gives the answer. Thanks :)

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anyone now have an aversion to dress clothes?

by spike2 in

anyone else have an aversion to dress clothes, now that you aren't forced to wear a suit and tie (women insert their version here) to sit a stadium for 8 hours on a summer day?

being forced to do this as a young child traumatized me pretty good!

astridkittie

I tried for a long time to avoid dresses AS MUCH as possible... as a kid, I was a tomboy that found dresses too restrictive since I always had to sit in them with my legs together and couldn't do things such as climbing trees, etc. and I had to keep them nice. So of course I always hated having to dress up for meetings, lol.

Then when I got older I wanted to wear short skirts and dresses and couldn't. When I got out of the Org for a while I avoided dresses still mainly because somehow it didn't occurr to me yet that I could now wear short skirts and dresses... when it did finally hit me I aquired a motherload of them overnight. Now I just wear whatever I feel like wearing, most the time jeans, sometimes if I feel like dressing up, a short skirt. I don't think I've worn a skirt that's knee length since I left, lol. *grin* So yah, the only issue I have with dressing up any more is wearing the "appropiate" length skirts.

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newbie

by suga-free sweety in

astridkittie

To answer your question...

Women usually dress conservative, i.e. nothing revealing, no sleeveless tops or anything that reveals the back or midriff, no low cut tops, no skirts above the knee. It's like dressing for a school or work dress code, basically, except your applying that code to a dress and not casual wear. If I was you though, I wouldn't worry too much, since you're new, everyone should understand if you make a mistake. :)

Sorry if you got rather overwhelmed here, just this is mostly a forum for people who have lost faith in the Society, and with good reason. They're simply trying to prevent you from making the same mistake they have, before you become so enchanted with the Society that you stop listening to anything but "the faithful and discreet slave." If this is really for you, go for it, but just please remember that a blind decision is a poor decision... and that you can't just look at one side of a story, turn a deaf ear on the other side, and say you know the truth about it, as the Society will soon enough expect of you to do. They may tell you to only listen to them because something else will "stumble" your faith, but ask yourself how strong is your faith if it is easily stumbled by you so much as listening or reading something contradictory to it?