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Online Forums/Newsletters/Support...
by one_ugly_time inafter replying earlier today, i realized that i read a few on-line forums for various reasons... besides this one, i also read --.
http://www.seducersworld.com/ :: a very different outlook on social seduction.
reading through this, it shows how individuals are easily persuaded once someone has emotionally engaged you; regardless of their emotional engagement - only the insinuation or inference of such.
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Say Something Jehovah's Witnessy........
by minimus ini know there's no such word as "witnessy" but this can be a fun thread.
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Gambling
by onacruse intalked with a friend this afternoon, and an interesting hypocrisy was pointed out to me:.
the wts strongly discourages gambling with money (i think it's still a dfing offense), but they're more than willing to tell people things that make you gamble with your life.. and when you lose that gamble: if it's just money that you lost, they say "what did you expect?
" if it's 'just' a big piece of your life that you lost, on their advice, they diss it off as it's "new light" or "we never actually said that.
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Paradoxal nature of change...
by one_ugly_time ini was just noticing.... i want to spend more time with my children.... so i end up spending less time while i look for a job that will allow me more time.. i want a more consistent daily life so that i can go back to school.... so life because chaos while the schedules/events/activities are rearranged to support this.. i want better, deeper, more fulfilling friendships in my life.... so i end up with no one to turn to momentarily as i cultivate this change.. we want violence to stop in the world.... so we create more violence destroying the perpetrators before that is possible.. that is why i find goal setting and reflection so important for myself.
many times, i get 1/2 through a change and feel like i've taken 10 steps backward and can't figure out what i'm doing wrong... just as often, i'm not doing anything wrong, just forgetting momentarily the burden i placed upon myself or others in order to make the change possible... .
can you think of other changes you have tried to make that seem to take you in the wrong direction?.
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Best live CD's?
by DanTheMan in.
i was listening to dire straits on the night in the car today, what a great cd.
your latest trick and on every street are standout tracks, whoever it was playing the sax that night was incredible.. so what are your favorite live cd's?
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Fuzzy Definitions or Spot the Difference
by TD infrom "family values" to "suv" american politics is full of buzz-words.
the apparent willingness of both the left and the right in america to embrace and use terms that are difficult or impossible to define has always amused me.
(of course, perhaps i'm just easily amused.
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Where did they get their brainwashing tecniques?
by cyber-sista inwhat is really the most disturbing thing to me is that i really do feel that i was brainwashed in those 20 + years in the org--i mean seriously brainwashed.
i am not an idiot, but there were times that i look back on now where i was a radical jw, though this is not really my personality to be such.
i remember after assemblies (while greatly relieved it was over with aching back and all) i would feel different--sometimes i would start donating more money to the wt and at one point i seriously thought of puttingthe wt in my will.