comstock sign systems .
http://www.comstocksigns.com/files/kingdom-hall-signs.pdf .
.. petra.
Thanks for the insight on the sign biz and prices, INDIAN LARRY.
I know when my local KH needed a new PA amplifier, the RBC directed the congregation to a "brother".
He wanted to sell them a TOA mixer/amplifier for literally twice as much as you could get it for at Sam Ash - yet the brothers followed the "direction" of the RBC.
Have also heard brothers experinced in commercial construction remark on how expensive RBC building materials are - all sourced by our fine "brothers".
What a scam!
xjw protests & videos.
.. i am disturbed by some of the more aggressive apostates posting videos on youtube,like "a jw memorial to remember" where a drunk man goes to a memorial and downs the whole glass of wine as a sort of protest.
this video and others like it received positive comments from aawa members.
I second what FOUND SHEEP said.
"Six Screens" ( whatever in the hell that means ) was my first internet run-in with apostates, and it lived up to all of the watchtower's propaganda.
shower room.
office.
games room.
It's good to be the king!
i have been in the fading process for over a year now.
nobody has really bothered my wife and me since we've stopped, which i am thankful for.
recently, i've had an old jw friend send me a few text messages relating to business.
Wow. Thanks for sharing your conversation!
I imagine having the same one with friends/family myself. Unreal.
PS: I hope you have unlimited texting!
first off - for those lurkers who feel guilty just for being on this site and reading this (even if you don't read any further, as it is your right to choose that course) i want you to know that you're not alone in what you're going through or in what you are feeling.
if you read on, i hope my experience may be of some small help to you.. this may be long, but i'll try to organize it in a way that doesn't make it painful to read.
to start, i feel it is most beneficial if i'm upfront and honest with my goals from posting this, which are (in order of the degree to which they motivated me):.
Wow. Great post!
I can really relate to your story, down to the "final straw". . . .
As far as your wife, take your time, this isn't a race. At least you know TTATT when you're 29 instead of 49.
Plenty of good suggestions/advice/info here.
Welcome!
http://mormonmatters.org/2009/09/02/is-wrongful-excommunication-legally-redressable/.
guess who gets sued for excommunication issues more than anybody else?.
i am thinking about a legal aspect of excommunication that i have never seen challenged before - that is, in regard to published bylaws and the autonomy of individual churches (that are not part of a hierarchy).. i need to research it a bit more.. metatron.
Interesting.
just wondering.. my wife will be very impressed by "apostate power" if you can come through with this.
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WANNABEFREE - awesome! Thanks!
can some one tell me why the last month of the service year (aug 07) has an almost 10% increase over the other months of this year?
july 07 had 12868 pubs, whereas aug 07 had 13852 pubs.
the same increase happened in the previous service year in the last month.
And remember, 0% "increase" really amounts to a ~1.5% decrease when you figure in born-ins.
just wondering.. my wife will be very impressed by "apostate power" if you can come through with this.
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Just wondering.
My wife will be very impressed by "apostate power" if you can come through with this.
i've read a little bit of work from the field of evolutionary psychology, but nearly all of this stuff comes across as pseudo-scientific bs to me.
much of this stuff just seems to me to be a case of preferring a particular human behaviour over another one, and then saying that this is what nature intended with a story about how it 'evolved'.
a lot of evolutionary psychologists also seem to use evolutionary psychology as cover for their misogyny or racism.. i think most of our behaviours are socialised rather than genetic.. i am hardly an expert here however so could, of course, be completely wrong.
COFTY - No. I can't - but I'm working on it! The more I know, the more I'll share. Anyway, I've chosen cog sci as my field of study, thus my bias.
I don't think evo/psy is trying to or can explain the "how" of the mind. It may have some answers for the "whys" but I think the "hows" are far more interesting (since no one really knows!).
OUBLIETTE - thanks! See my answer to COFTY. I'm still a "newb" to cog sci, but I'm at a great school with some great minds in the field with whom I can talk to face to face whenever I want. Pretty damn cool. Not an expert on Phil of sci, but we did discuss it to some degree in one of my cog sci classes.
Off to bed myself.
