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razorMind
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Designing your ideal home, Describe your dream
by Celtic inwe all dream often of how we might like to be living in a certain kind of environment, if you were the artist / designer of your ideal home, what construction materials would you work with, what shape would be your structure, what features would it have and what tone would you set for the place?
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describe your dream home..... celty
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Designing your ideal home, Describe your dream
by Celtic inwe all dream often of how we might like to be living in a certain kind of environment, if you were the artist / designer of your ideal home, what construction materials would you work with, what shape would be your structure, what features would it have and what tone would you set for the place?
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describe your dream home..... celty
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razorMind
My dream home would be like this:
http://www.dinotopia.com/tree.htm
Minus the dinosaurs, though.....
If the tree house wasn't an option, I'd definitely live in the forest. I'd have a smaller 2-story house with those tall, big windows that you could sit in. Nice, big rooms. The windows would be able to open like doors. And the exterior would have that "natural-wood" look with no paint. Lots of soft deep carpeting, with quilts and big pillows on the floor. The overall inside decor would be rusts, deep reds, burnt oranges, and natural wood colors.
Located beside a small stream, preferably with rocks and a small waterfall where I could bathe occasionally. A small furnished place beside the stream in case I do bathe there. And nice big decks all around. Trees would be visible in every window in the house. AND THE HOUSE WOULD BE TEMPERATE YEAR-ROUND.
Not sure about the shape of the house...in my dreams I'd be able to afford creative architects. I'd just tell 'em, "Look, think up a weird funky shape for a house and just build it!"
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Just got a visit from elders
by TweetieBird inwell, it's sunday morning and i'm sitting here posting on this board when i hear 2 car doors slam.
i peek out the window and see 2 elders walking up to the door.
since i'm still in my jammies, i told my husband to go get the door while i snuck into the bedroom.
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razorMind
Yep, KenUK, you are right...
It was called a "Kingdom Service" at one time. I remember!
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adolescent JW shenanigans--nicknaming fellow JW's
by razorMind injust a funny memory...... my sister and i, once we reached pre-teen, were highly critical of almost all the congregation members.
we'd get home and mercilessly mock and make fun of elders, kids, you name it.
some of our fonder nicknames (warning: some may be weird, but we didn't get out much!
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razorMind
The Grape Ape!!! Too damn funny!!!
Hey, what about that young single ministerial servant who was ALWAYS engaged to some young sister, whether in his home cong. or in surrounding congs? Usually thought of as "drop-dead fine" by all the JW females. One fiance' one day, a different fiance' the next.
YOU know, that slick charmer who had AAAAAALLLLLLLL the single sisters and young chicks in a tizzy. And knew just the right slick charming words for older folks, to dissuade any suspicion of his personal activities...and keep his "holy" reputation intact.
My sister and I used the term "congregational whore" but perhaps someone can come up with a better nickname.
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I could'nt believe my eyes!!
by BQE ini was hanging around my mom's house yesterday, and i just happened to leaf through the january 8th afake!
magazine, about the wtc disaster.. no doubt that perhaps many of the sept. 11 experiences are real, but what i mostly read were these shameless advertisements for the watchtower complex in downtown brooklyn!!
i was appalled!!
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razorMind
Okay, I got into an argument with a JW poster on another website a few months ago.
She insisted that JW's were the first on the site when the attacks happened, helping rescue people. She made it sound like they were the first to arrive as a group, NOT individuals who were already there. I found it hard to believe, but wasn't sure and didn't pursue the matter further.
I wonder where she got that info...?
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Always the same cong's doing the drama?
by Simon inour congregation never once did a drama at an assembly.. my wife's congregation didn't either.. but some seemed to do them every year!.
was this favouritism or 'simony' do you reckon?
(a terrible word .
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razorMind
I could never figure out why they stopped turning off the lights. My dad was in one. I never recognized anybody in the dramas since. I heard people kept making out during the "lights out", but not sure if that's true or not.
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adolescent JW shenanigans--nicknaming fellow JW's
by razorMind injust a funny memory...... my sister and i, once we reached pre-teen, were highly critical of almost all the congregation members.
we'd get home and mercilessly mock and make fun of elders, kids, you name it.
some of our fonder nicknames (warning: some may be weird, but we didn't get out much!
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razorMind
Too too TOO TOO funny!!! ROFLMAO!!!!!
We had that sister who kept falling asleep, Tera. (I won't talk TOO badly about her; she's mentally challenged--I could expound on that but I won't--she was clearly NOT competent enough mentally to be baptized and DF'd) She'd drift in and just make herself at home and SNORE.
Pavarotti, The Screamer Kids, The Rambler, and The Enforcer...unfortunately all too familiar characters.
However, I was an "Evacuator"!!! Let's hear some more!!!
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adolescent JW shenanigans--nicknaming fellow JW's
by razorMind injust a funny memory...... my sister and i, once we reached pre-teen, were highly critical of almost all the congregation members.
we'd get home and mercilessly mock and make fun of elders, kids, you name it.
some of our fonder nicknames (warning: some may be weird, but we didn't get out much!
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razorMind
Just a funny memory.....
My sister and I, once we reached pre-teen, were HIGHLY critical of almost all the congregation members.
We'd get home and mercilessly mock and make fun of elders, kids, you name it. Some of our fonder nicknames (WARNING: some may be weird, but we didn't get out much! ha ha ha)....
"Daffy"--a particularly frantic, maniacal elder who became even more manic after his near-fatal car accident. Frantic gesticulations similiar to that cartoon duck's. Physical resemblance, as well. My DF'd sis can do a pretty good impression.
"Ms. Tippety-Toe"--an EXTREMELY "zealous", holier-than-thou, 40ish spinster (and UGLY) pioneer sister who'd walk on her tiptoes to the bathroom, presumably to avoid disturbing other members. When she FINALLY got married, we'd speculate on whether she was a virgin.
"Fish-a-Butt"--An old fat-assed NOTORIOUSLY NOSY sister who can drive the most mild-mannered to cursing. The type who has to instruct ppl how to do EVERYTHING. I had the misfortune to be trapped with her in field service, in a small car, on a rainy day. I rewrote the cat-food commercial airing that year, "Fish-A-Hoy", using her smell as inspiration.
"Drummy T's"--a dull elder who pronounced his "T" consonants in a weirdly rolling way, sounding like a drum roll.
"Trucky Hats"--Another busybody fat-assed pioneer sister whose furry derby-ish hats resembled tractor-trailer trucks.
"Chatterbox"--a frog-like brother who never got to be an elder because of his tyrannical treatment of his wife and kids. They were ALWAYS getting into fistfights, the girls sometimes cold kicking his ass. Nickname lovingly thought up by his own daughters, who freely join us in deriding him to this day, after he acquired a set of chattery dentures.
"Halitosis Hag"--needs NO explanation!
Just a few of the memories I have of growing up as a JW kid. It sounded like we were speaking a different language, what with all the names we had for our fellow JW's. Of course, feel free to share any nicknames you had (have)!!!
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"What If The WT Told You to...
by Francois in... get your gun out and go to any church of christendom on a certain sunday a few weeks after the publication date of the watchtower that was making the demand, and open up on the congregation?".
that question was asked of active jws in good standing by richard hickman, whom many of you know, when he was doing research for a book he was writing.
strangely enough, the most common answer went something like this:.
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razorMind
I couldn't help but highlight her unchristian closed-minded thinking:
"Don't you mean you hope everyone is ok? Oh I forgot, Jehovah is going to kill all them anyway so what do they matter ... right?"
I got into an argument on a hair forum right after Sept. 11, on this very point quoted above. This extremely religious member posts page-long commentaries on Scriptures. Anyway she was on a roll right after 9/11; telling everyone that the victims were hellbound if they hadn't accepted Jesus at the time of death.
Many members (very diverse; diff religions) had loved ones missing/dead and weren't at all happy with her jumping on every thread with her comments. The administrators had to step in, trying to explain to her to tone down the comments out of respect for the circumstances. I mentioned my religious background to the offending poster; asking how would other members feel if I trivialized the horror of the attacks with a comment similiar to the quote above. I and the other members' view was, NOT the time NOR the place for such proclamations of eternal damnation.
ANYWAY...the whole thing dissolved into a huge mess; a JW poster jumped in immediately with "NO we don't believe 'worldly' people will all die at Arma!!! JW's were the very first on the scene!!" Immediate defense and ready to argue, I noted. I just left the shit alone.
I fully expected smugness on my father's part after 9/ll happened; but I didn't. He usually gets smug when things like that happen.
Sorry I rambled.....
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"What If The WT Told You to...
by Francois in... get your gun out and go to any church of christendom on a certain sunday a few weeks after the publication date of the watchtower that was making the demand, and open up on the congregation?".
that question was asked of active jws in good standing by richard hickman, whom many of you know, when he was doing research for a book he was writing.
strangely enough, the most common answer went something like this:.
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razorMind
My DF'd sister swears that if the Society commanded (ahem, I MEANT, in theocratic-speak..."exhorted") the congregations to line up and shoot their DF'd family members execution-style, my dad would do it. Said dad is also a diehard, dyed-in-the-wool longtime elder.
It's a funny coincidence...we discussed this shortly before this topic was posted!