La Capra

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  How am I doing?

  by tsunami_rid3r in

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  i'm doing great just to let you know.

  first, i haven't attended a meeting for 5 mmonths now!

  i have an amazing network of friends here, and i'm going to be rooming with 2 hot girls next semester.

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  La Capra

  I for one would like to congratulate you for everything. And also, a congratulations on your use of capital letters. Well done, Lad. Shoshana
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  When do use might and when may?

  by Spectrum in

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  i might go to the cinema.

  i may go to the cinema.

  what's the difference.

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  La Capra

  Me? Neither. I go to the movies....
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  Official GB spin on decreases. (serious)

  by yesidid in

  1. jw
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  i just received an email from a faithful witness, re their co's visit.

  "our co just came back from two months co training.

  he said there were two important things headquarters want the brothers to know:.

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  Why can't they see that something is seriously wrong when they have to have a talk titled, "Don't Give Up"? If it were the spiritual paradise they say it, there would be no temptation or need to give up... Shoshana
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  Would you believe...

  by La Capra in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i just became a doctor?

  juris doctor to be exact.

  done, caput.

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  La Capra

  I just became a doctor? Juris Doctor to be exact. Done, caput. I just finished law school tonight. And my dog just sleeps on the couch, like any other evening. You would think at least he would be impressed.

  Whatever.

  Shoshana
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  divorce

  by deda in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  if a spouse has been unfaithful and a legal divorce has been finalized is the marriage over in the church's eyes?

  i've been told by the elders that i must witness the adultry or provide two witnesses that can speak to the adultry.

  my ex-spouse will never confess to his past or current sexual acts.

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  La Capra

  If two elders can park all night in front of a woman's house in their 1982 VW Vanagon to observe a "brother" go into the house at night, and not leave until the morning, and call that "fornication," it would seem as though you and another reasonable person could do the same. (Except I'd skip the part where you sit out there all night. Just bring someone who will say she sat there with you...Bearing false witness, all in a good days' divorce...)

  Shoshana

  (just don't testify to it in an actual court. That's perjure, and a crime...)
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  Math Problem

  by Scully in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  a riddle for you to figure out

  three kids go into a store to buy a picture frame for their mom for mothers day.

  they find a frame that costs $30.

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  Slacker, your logic is flawed. Each kid spent ten and got 1 dollar back, not $.666666. (High School math teacher here, not trying to be a smart ass for no reason, but I do have some ego to protect....) Your logic is the same as the problem.. You are combining what the shopkeeper kept with what the shopkeeper gave back. They are mutually exclusive funds.

  Shoshana
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  Math Problem

  by Scully in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  a riddle for you to figure out

  three kids go into a store to buy a picture frame for their mom for mothers day.

  they find a frame that costs $30.

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  La Capra

  Ah, man, Scully, I am supposed to be studying for my last law school final ever....

  The kids were supposed to pay 25 dollars for the frame, but in the end they paid 27 (30 - 3 that was returned). The shop keeper kept 2 dollars. 25 + 3 + 2 = 30.

  The set up of this combines the negative (what goes to the shopkeeper) with the positive (what came back).

  Shoshana (of the will be done with law school in about 12 hours class)
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  Where were you when the realization hit, that the WTS was not in the truth?

  by whyizit in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was listening to a testimonial by valerie acuff and she said that she was sitting in an assembly, looking around at the crowd and thinking to herself, "this is your family, these are your people.".

  she said at that moment she heard a voice inside say, "these are not your people, this is not your family, get up and leave now, and don't ever go back.

  " so she took her two children at that very moment and left, and she never went back.

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  Summer 1987, sitting in a redwood grove at my college with one of those "worldly" people who were more loving than the "friends at the hall." He was trying to get me all mystical, about the origins of god and the universe. And it hit me. It was all nothing. He turned my brain on, and I haven't turned it off since. No evidence I have seen, read, experienced, or heard has changed my mind. Of this, I know it's true. (thanks B.T. -those 30 minutes gave me a life.) Now, I'm an agnostic, practicing Jew who believes in some sort of singular force that connects everything in the universe (and that force would be nothing. Or perhaps I should capitalize that, Nothing...), but I doubt that Nothing is an intelligent creator.

  Shoshana
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  Is there anything that's disconinued that you'll love to have around today?

  by JH in

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  sometimes we get attached to certain products and they get discontinued for some reason.

  i miss my marcelle shampoo.

  it was the perfect hypoallergenic shampoo for me.. so, what do you miss?

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  La Capra

  Campbell's Chili Beef.

  They stopped selling it around here (California) about 25 years ago. There's a Campbell's Soup available in some parts of the US called Fiesta Chili Beef. I have no idea if it's the same thing. Haven't seen it in my travels (albeit limited travels since I started law school) since I learned of its existence.

  Oh I miss Campbell's Chili Beef.

  Shoshana
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  A little story of JW-childhood-horror, and am I evil?

  by Hellrider in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  this all happened when i was a kid, and i think i must have been around 8 years old.

  we were at a meeting, and my dad (ms) had held a speech.

  this didn`t happen very often, actually, this one time is the only one i can remember.

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  La Capra

  If it helps any, I do the same thing to myself. I re-live incidents and episodes in my childhood (and, unfortunately, my adulthood too), in which I didn't conduct myself in the way, in retrospect, I wish I had. I never called it being evil. I call it being "horrid." Whatever descriptor you put to it, it is the same thing. As children, we were raised with the ever-present conditioning that we were damaged, sinful, evil, horrid (insert your favorite self-loathing term here, it works) human beings,...on the one hand. Then, on the other hand, we were conditioned to believe that we belonged to the only true religion. We were right, everyone else is wrong. Such a bizarre juxtoposition of contradictory positions...

  Embarrassment, or shame, is not an unusual reaction in response to an outsider (walking into a kingdom hall, in a completely unorthodox context-as a rescue worker....) encroaching on our own private universe. The reaction of shame is to be expected when confronted with anyone who does not live in the same, conflicted, closed universe that we did. JWs are the masters of compartmentalization. When their JW lives interface with their "outside the kingdom hall" lives, watch out. Weird things happen.

  To combat my feelings of truly being horrid, I have learned to review all the evidence in my life to the contrary. What takes practice is starting the review of unhorridness before I get too far into dwelling on the horridness. (That really is the trick.)

  Take care with your heart, dude. Shoshana