new boy.
it is what they call new guys at bethel.
its a way the guys, who have been there awile (like over a year) to put you down.................if you are a new boy you don't know how the organization really works.. one of my favorite new boy stories is about lyman swingle gb.. lunch in the 124 lower dining room 1973. lyman swingle table head said to a new black bethelite........"boy would you pass me the potatos?
Exwitless - self explanatory.
My avatar is a nurse because I'm a nurse.
You know what really confused me when I first started posting here? It was when male posters would have a picture of a woman as their avatars or vice versa. It took me awhile to figure out that "Stillajwexelder" and "Legolas" are actually male and female, respectively.
i would be interested to hear from the ladies about women that go after married men.
why do some seek them out over single guys?
i remember years ago reading an article about them but i do not remember much.
Exwitless, I should have clarified that was my tongue-in-cheek answer I give my wife anytime the subject of affairs comes up. It's always good for a scowl and a vinegarish reply from my wife. She is the only women on this planet that could put up with me and we get along great.
Sorry for assuming otherwise, BrentR. My bad.
i would be interested to hear from the ladies about women that go after married men.
why do some seek them out over single guys?
i remember years ago reading an article about them but i do not remember much.
I do not have enough time or money for an affair.
Wow, now there there's a good reason NOT to have an affair. How about "I'm married, so I wouldn't be interested in an affair"? Anyway, I don't speak from experience because I'm married and I would never do something like that to my husband. However, my guess is that some women really want what they can't have. Once they've gotten it, they lose interest and move on. The grass always looks greener on the other side of the fence, so to speak.
i just posted a little of my singing lesson experience on black pearl's topic about piano lessons.
i was just wondering if anyone else is a vocalist.
have you taken lessons?
I just posted a little of my singing lesson experience on Black Pearl's topic about piano lessons. I was just wondering if anyone else is a vocalist. Have you taken lessons? What type of music do you like to sing?
I never was in choir even in high school because I was totally committed to band; I played the clarinet. I always envied people who could sing well. So at age 30, I signed myself up for voice lessons. I took them for about a year, then quit for financial reasons (amongst others). I still sing almost every day, always in my car if I'm alone. My husband set up a really nice music studio in a spare bedroom. I have a CD player, sound system, professional microphone, a full sized digital keyboard, and so on. I love singing and I intend to keep at it and keep improving. Anyone else out there who loves to sing?
By the way, my absolute favorite type of music to sing is classical Italian.
for most of my life i've wanted to learn to play the piano and learn to write music.
my wife got me a yamaha keyboard for christmas.
i am finally happy to report that i have my first lesson tomorrow morning.
Ditto to what everyone else has posted. If you are really committed and excited about it, you'll do great. Practicing is absolutely the key. You won't improve by wishful thinking; you have to practice and enjoy practicing, if not every day, then several times a week.
Ditto to taping or recording yourself periodically. I began voice lessons 2 years ago at age 30. Never before in my life had I ever so much as been in a choir. But singing was something I had always wanted to do, so I signed myself up for lessons and practiced (ad nauseum). Before I started lessons, I tape-recorded myself singing a favorite song of mine. This song happened to be the one I performed at a vocal recital about 6 months into taking lessons. (A classic Italian song, no less.) When I go back and listen to my first recording of it, I can't help but laugh and cringe at the same time. It was pretty bad! But, I've definitely improved.
I don't take lessons anymore (financial and other reasons), but I still practice all the time. One word of caution: don't get discouraged too easily. You won't become Mozart overnight. Remember, we are our own harshest critics. Just learn from your mistakes and keep at it!
i am a rather old fogey on the matter - just black and hot.
but i like the occasional mocha.. what use of this universal bean is your favorite?
how many do you drink a week?
Is that really necessary?
hey, this is under jokes and humor, so don't get too offended.
i just wanted to vent about how people say things incorrectly, such as pronouncing things wrong or saying phrases wrong.
i'll start, and if you have any to add, please feel free.
I just want to say that I love this thread!
Thanks. (I say thanks only since I started the thread; everyone else made it awesome.) I'm kinda proud of this thread-it's the first topic I've ever started that has made 5 pages of posts! It's been quite entertaining.
i have been doing alot of soul searching lately.
having been raised as a dub and my entire world focused on that existence i seem to be a bit lost as to who i am.
everything my life was based on was a lie, so that being the case i find myself having to toss all my former philosophies aside and start from scratch.
Searching... I could have written your post myself word for word. That's exactly how I feel. I only DA'd 4 months ago. At first, I found it comforting to read Crisis of Conscience and In Search of Christian Freedom. Those books helped me to let go of a lot of guilt for even leaving the Almighty Borg.
In the past several weeks, however, I'm finding that I am way too impressionable about religious or philosophical issues sometimes. Someone who feels strongly that there is a god, etc. can get me thinking 'Well, maybe they are right...'; then I talk to someone who is atheist or agnostic and again I start to think 'Well, maybe they're right...'. It can really make my brain hurt. After coming off of a 14 year "relationship" with the the borg, which doesn't allow you to think for yourself, it's hard for me to allow myself to think freely with no strings attached.
So - I have recently decided for myself that I'm not going to try to come up with answers of a deeply religious or philosophical nature for the time being. I'm putting myself on a religious "Leave of Absence" for an unspecified time. I intend to live life day to day, make decisions based on my own experience, education, morality, and instinct, and cross each bridge when I come to it. I respect what others believe, but I don't feel obligated to answer to anyone about what I believe or why. For the first time in my life, it's none of anyone else's business to know or make judgements about what I believe.
I would compare my "divorcing" the Watchtower similar to divorcing an abusive spouse. The last thing anyone "on the rebound" needs to do is to jump right into another bad relationship (religiously speaking). Allowing myself to not commit to specific beliefs at this point in my life is a huge weight off my shoulders. I figure that in the future when I'm ready to search deeper, the anwers will present themselves a little more clearly.
i am not talking about questions or inquirying about what to do with a problem.. when you post what are some of the reasons you give your thoughts on matters?.
for me, i enjoy talking to others who can understand my experience but more importantly for me, i know there are lurkers or people right on the fringes who are sick of all of it.
i try to give a biblical explanation on matters that shows the error of going beyond the things written.
I post because I get bored swinging the cat around the room by it`s tail...OUTLAW
NO, OUTLAW! BAD, BAD OUTLAW!!! Poor kitty!
Anyway, I like to post because this is the only place I can go to 'converse' with people who have all been in the same boat. Unless you are an ex-dub (or very closely related to one), you really can't relate to the emotional, psychological, and physical after effects that we ex-dubs experience. You guys rock! (Does that make me sound too '1980's'?)
hey, this is under jokes and humor, so don't get too offended.
i just wanted to vent about how people say things incorrectly, such as pronouncing things wrong or saying phrases wrong.
i'll start, and if you have any to add, please feel free.
To me, it says that the teacher is not doing his or her job, because (a) they do not have control of the classroom environment, (b) they want to be "friends" with the students, rather than an authority figure that expects a certain level of performance, (c) they do not want to put the effort into actually teaching children to write and speak correctly.
I wholeheartedly agree! I dispise this type of teaching, which is so prevalent these days. In my son's school, everyone gets an award at the end of the year; I mean everyone. They are hollow, meaningless awards, like "Problem Solver" or "Friendship Award"; no child is allowed to be singled out for an actual well-deserved award because they wouldn't want any child to be "better" than any other child.
The whole idea of injuring a child's self-esteem by correcting spelling errors is rediculous. Gee, in the real world, who has a boss who won't point out errors in your work because your feelings might get hurt? In my opinion, not helping a child to spell and write correctly will only with certainty hurt him or her as an adult. In the real world, employers won't feel sorry for you if you misspelled words all over your application. They won't think, "well, his teachers probably didn't want to hurt his feelings by telling him that his spelling is bad, so we won't hold that against him now." In the long run, our kids will only suffer negatively from this style of supposed self-esteem-sparing teaching.
