Stephanus
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JWs and Chastity Belts
by Stephanus inin this day and age, chastity devices tend to only be used by the bdsm community and it also seems to be a male kink, where a man's wife/mistress "locks him up" and only "lets him out" for her pleasure, blah, blah, blah.
however, the use of chastity belts for women still exists in many muslim countries and some strict parents in the west will lock up their daughters until they marry, in exchange for college tuition or other incentive (have you thought of this one, tr?
does it happen in the jw community?
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My Trip to New Zealand
by Stephanus innow that i've got a pic up, i'm moved to recount an experience which occurred at the time it was taken.
on my last night in auckland before flying back home, i stayed at a friend's place; she was going to drive me to the airport in the morning.
in the morning (saturday), just before we were about to drive to the airport, there was a knock at the door, and guess who it was!
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Special Needs Talks - Did You Ever Confront?
by Stephanus in.
has anyone here ever had the balls to confront someone over a special needs talk that was obviously aimed at you?
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Life in the Sphere
by Stephanus ini don't do poetry, just prose.. my world is a bubble; a glass sphere.
the people around me, walking, talking, laughing, weeping i can clearly see.
but i can't connect; they are not in my world, and i am outside theirs.
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Dubs Upstaged By New Door-to-Door Apocalyptic Religion
by Stephanus ininteresting experience in a local blog (i thought of the dubs with those "well dressed" and "apocalypse" comments):.
discussion i had with 2 australian conservation foundation pan handlers this week.
acfph 1: as you know theres a lot of concern with global warming, water, erosion blah, blah, blah (at this point i rolled my eyes and lent against a wall).
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Field Service Hours Offsets Trading
by Stephanus incarbon offset trading is popular in this day and age.. less "atmospheric", and closer to home, many local communities use similar schemes to keep money from flowing out of the community by creating systems that allow locals to trade their services with each other either directly or indirectly.
kind of barter, but not exactly.
"lets" (local energy trading schemes) is one of the terms that describes these kinds of systems.
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Least Favourite Thing Your Pet Does
by Stephanus inwe've learned to frisk our cats before they come in, esp.
at night.
they have a thing for bringing home their live catches to play with.. also, when they get all smoochy.
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Bleeding Hearts Question JW Main Source of Income!
by Stephanus infrom the melbourne newspaper, the age :.
danielle robertson, ceo of dial-an-angel, says clients hiring the $25-an-hour cleaners from her agency are typically time-poor.
"people don't want to spend four hours on a saturday cleaning - they would rather be sunning themselves or taking a walk or spending time with their family", she says.. but maybe those cleaners would rather be sunning themselves or taking a walk or spending time with their family, too?
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The Watchtower and Conditional Morality
by Stephanus ini was thinking about the conditional nature of "love" in the 'tower, when i realised that "conditionality" is pretty well the nature of the beast.
hence "conditional morality".
for example, the rules on lying: that witholding the truth from undeserving ones is not wrong.. what other examples are there?.