ok, so, like, what is the deal with married guys?.
one of the, uh, strange new things i've encountered since de-borg-ing.
is being like a magnet for one married guy afta anutha..... .
Also about what kind of vibe or unintentional signals i may be sending
that is putting me into this situation time and again. (or is this just life on the outside?)
Do you happen to contract your diaphragm, inhaling and exhaling air from your lungs, sometimes 30 times per minute? Breathing tends to have that effect on men.
Hmmm
note: i will attempt to make my attitude as well as my language in regard to this subject in compliance with simon's wishes to keep the profanity at a minimum.
for those who have read my posts before you know how hard that will be for me.. i am really mad.
those gosh darn jw's have gone too far.
What a revolting set of cir[bodily-fluid]stances!
Maybe dear old dad could have a heart-to-heart talk with the lovely niece. Maybe if he presents the stark facts to her without all the WT scripture-twisting mumbo-jumbo she'll snap out of it and make her own decision.
I will never cease to be amazed at how easily people will subjugate their own intelligence and decency to group think.
Hmmm
i received this in email this morning from my daughter, who is married to an attorney.
this thing is for real.
> > aol .
This is a sure thing.... your email inbox is sure to be flooded with tons of junk mail (even more than you already get) if you add your email address to that monstrosity.
People send these things out, and when they come back to them, they have a bunch of 'verified good' email addresses to sell to spammers. The same goes for the dying kid who needs a kidney transplant, which the hospital is willing to do free of charge if he can only get his story forwarded to 100,000 people.
http://www.cnn.com/transcripts/0208/14/cct.00.html
chung: still ahead, stirring a new ingredient into the martha stewart stew.
stay with us for a taste.
Teejay, that statement was what stuck out the most to me, too.
I was livid when I heard Connie read that.
I can see how the average JW could interpret a general disfellowshipping policy as a 'very strong policy' against molestation, ignoring all the built-in loopholes. But how can one single dub read that sentence and not have alarms go off in their head?
"Special care" is taken? As in going above and beyond normal care? Do they arrange for the victim to see a professional counselor? Do they encourage the victim to go to authorities to seek justice and help protect other potential victims? It seems to me that these are the absolute minimum a supposedly loving, Christian organization would do for victims. What in the hell is the society doing that would be special by any other organization's standards?
Let's give the society the benefit of the doubt and assume they don't threaten victims with disfellowshipping for exposing their abusers. Let's give them a HUGE break and assume they don't discourage them from going to the authorities (even the society doesnt have the temerity--yet--to actually claim that they actively encourage victims to go to police). This still puts them at the bare minimum of care for the victims, the bottom rung of human decency. Where is the "ongoing assistance and counsel"? (Note: Not counseling, but counsel.) Can any honest Witness claim that victims are given ongoing assistance beyond a one-time "study, pray, and preach more, and by the way dont tell anyone" damage control pep talk?
JWs parrot this crap without even thinking about it. Ask them to give an example of special ongoing care and they're completely lost, because Mother hasn't deigned to provide any examples for them to regurgitate.
Hmmm
Edited by - hmmm on 15 August 2002 9:11:47
i knocked on the locked door of the appeal hearing last night after they had dismissed bill and told the six elders that i had something to say to them and told them it was summed up it a letter i had written.i then asked them if i could read it to them and they could have their own copy when i was finished.they said that would be fine.. here it is.
governing body,.
25 columbia heights.
Wow. I have nothing else to say except bravo.
Hmmm
i see that this board/forum has many serious, and what i consider to be meritous posters, that can usually be found dispelling the wtbts shyte.
since my foul arrival here in may, i have read and taken in volumes of great information from this site and it's links, which would have proved (and are) extremely helpful, and valuable to me had i felt the need for justification in my decision to leave the borg in the first place.
i saw the holes, the self preservative techniques, the speculations, the stupid protocols, the 'prophecies' that had outlived their shelf lives, and simply walked away, never really having looked back, always having felt justified because it just didn't feel right to me.
Bad Seed,
You can't go... you're the source of some of my best material!!!
Hmmm
hello chums!!!
i recently subscribed for broadband internet 512kbsec which "b.t" provides at 29.99 ( roughly about 50 dollars a month) is that expensive for the uk i think it is,what i want to know is which of you have broadband internet and how much does it cost monthly for your country mmmm im wondering if yours is cheaper.
" later"
Stinky, is that for cable? If I want 3 megs down, it'll cost me $95/mo through Comcast!
hello chums!!!
i recently subscribed for broadband internet 512kbsec which "b.t" provides at 29.99 ( roughly about 50 dollars a month) is that expensive for the uk i think it is,what i want to know is which of you have broadband internet and how much does it cost monthly for your country mmmm im wondering if yours is cheaper.
" later"
I pay $40/mo for 1.5 down - only 128 up.
Bigboi, I'd reconsider switching to cable modem. If you're getting 1.5 with DSL, then you must be at their front doorstep. Most DSL providers offer the same upload speed as download, and many will give you a static IP address (which gets tech nerds excited). Plus, you're far less likely to suffer cable modem's slowdowns (which I haven't seen so far) because you're sharing the segment with far fewer people.
Hmmm
i received this e-mail this morning and have been thinking about it all day.
maybe i shouldn't be posting this since it is an e-mail addressed to me, but i want your opinions.
what i did is i left out the name.
So let me get this straight... talking bad about the established religious hierarchy means you're under the influence of Satan? That means that most of the Bible prophets and even (gasp!) Jesus Christ were under Satan's influence. I guess that means you're in good company, Avengers.
Hmmm
(Besides... the person would first have to prove that the GB represents Jehovah here on earth--and no circular "we're God's chosen people because we correctly interpret the Bible; we know we correctly interpret the Bible because we're God's chosen people" nonsense.)
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i'm intrigued to see that prisca has decided to "come out" and posted her real pic, (even her car has turned up in a post by stephanaus).
termite has said "sod 'em all" with the result that her titian locks are visible in umpteen posts, and li'l toe put up his pic right from day one.. my question (to everyone) is this: do you feel that revealing your real identity on this site is an essential part of your departure from the religion of jehovah's witnesses, or do you feel that it doesn't make any difference to your personal growth whether or not you ever reveal who you really are?.
Since I posted to this thread, I guess I should answer the question. I don't think revealing one's identity is an essential part of one's departure. As has been mentioned already, some people are just very private people.
But as a newly "out" person, I'd say it can be a part of our personal growth. I've also noticed that people who have a profile picture up, even if it's not a picture of them, tend to be (or at least are perceived to be) more ensconced in the community.
Hmmm
