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Woo whooo!
by lurk3r inkinda crazy, but finally being able to get on here almost makes me feel like i have just been released from prison.
i have had the privledge of doing nothing but read so many of your posts(for a solid 7 months i bet)...and i really wanted to say thank you, to the ones here who wear your hearts on your sleeves.. first off, i would like to thank the warden for making all of this possible (kidding simon...thanks for keeping this board going).
secondly, every single one of you regular posters here have been a great source of encouragment...looking at the many posts you have have contributed to the site really shows what dedication actually means.
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so i made the meeting today....and lived!!!!!!!
by oompa inall in all not really as bad as it could have been..........i am sooo grateful for that 30 min talk now....and though dreadful overall (if you were listening!
).....and that is the key to my success.
i am really good at totally tuning out what is being preached....i mean i could not tell you one single thing about the talk or wt study....i only even looked up one scripture and that was after the fact because i happened hear that stupid term "system of things" and i had only brought my tiny kj bible and of course it said "world"....and i kinda just smiled at how nice and simple that was.. my wt came in very handy as i was able to use it to totally hide my cell phone and was texting olin moles ghost who was doin his darndest to make me laugh (nice...thanks man) and also got to edit at least a hundred photos i had been meaning to e-mail or discard.....the only awful part was the songs, cause there is no not hearin that, and no way in hell was i gonna sing, so of course people were prob raggin on me for that.
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Why did they end the orchestras?
by Lady Lee init used to be so nice to listen to the orchestras at the circuit and district conventions.
then they ended it and i know i missed it.
we had a couple of youn men in our cong who were in the orchestra.
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Any Starbucks fans?
by cameo-d inwhat is your favorite type of coffee drink?.
i don't know too much about all these different kinds.. how does steamed milk affect the flavor as opposed to cold cream?
or is it a 'temperature thing' that makes the difference?.
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Life as a Jehovah's Witness viewed as a performance
by slimboyfat ini am reading the presentation of the self in everyday life by erving goffman at the moment.
it sheds much light on the experience of 'performing' the role of being a jehovah's witnesses: how a witness will strictly adhere to watchtower standards when we are 'frontstage' with an audience either of peers or outsiders, and how they may relax those standards when they are 'backstage', not in a setting where their fidelity to the identity of 'jehovah's witness' is being scrutinized.. an interesting point it makes is that we can present our roles either with 'sincerity' if we believe in the performance as much as we would have the audience, or with 'cynicism' if we perform our role without believing in it, but expecting that the audience will.
but rather than being a neat spectrum from sincerity, through ambiguous sincerity, all the way to cynicism, goffman argues that a performer will tend to one extreme or the other: either believing utterly in the role he is presenting, or presenting it totally without conviction for the benefit of the audience only.
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Its All About Them Until We Remember Our First Name
by AllTimeJeff ini have been told by more then one person of my propensity to use the phrase "...it's all about them.
" when it comes to the governing body.
them and their authority that is.
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Dr. Hausdoerffer meets Dr. Einstein
by VM44 indr. hausdoerffer, now ninety-four, meets dr. einstein back in 1954. .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c7ls5zvgy4.
einstein part two.
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How Old are You ?
by flipper ini know- you aren't used to seeing me ask a simple question like this.
so- i'll start .
i am 49 years old, will be 50 in october .
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I am a Return Visit
by besty intwo nice middle aged ladies knocked the door this morning, panda tract in hand.. order of events was panda tract, scripture about each one residing under a fig tree, and then because i didn't object the feb 2009 awake!
'earth designed for life' <side point - note the magazine title is not in the form of a rhetorical question, but rather a statement of fact>.
a few questions about my belief in god and i'm in the book for an rv - cool.. so this is a great awake:.
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What does your baptisam mean ?
by cluless ini resent the implications that are attached to it by the organisation.on a spiritual sence it means nothing to me.. .