Donnie Darko
Revenge
The Man Without A Face
The one where Brad Pitt is the angel of death and he falls in love with Anthony Hopkins' daughter.
City of Angels
What Dreams May Come(?)
The Sixth Sense
In Revenge and the Brad Pitt one, its the music that gets me.
What was that movie with Paul Walker about the sled dogs that got left behind...OMG balled my ass off for those puppies, getting verklempt just writing about it.
the old saying "happiness is the best revenge", to me that is the most rubbing statement i can ever hear right now.. .
someone mentioned that jw's dont think anyone can have true happiness outside of their religion, i dont necessarily buy this.. .
when someone is happy inside the borg, they say its jehovah's blessing, when someone is happy outside the borg they say that satan is blessing them.
Hi JG
But why should we allow them to paint us as "Evil" just for simply standing up to a destructive organization?
Ok, so how would you go about "not allowing" someone to say blah blah blah? We have no control over their actions.
Was Martin Luther King "Evil" for picketing against racism?
Not in most people's perspective, but what would a KKK member say to that? New Nazi? Perspective again.
Were womans suffrage activists "Evil" for marching for the right to vote?
Same comments as above.
I dont consider myself "evil" for wanting to expose the damage this cult does, they can spin their doctrines anyway they like, but their organization is "Evil", not me for wanting to expose it.
You and I don't consider ourselves evil, that is our perspective, just as "The org is evil" is also our view.
Think of it like math:
JW view = -(me), -(JG), -(apostates), and +(JW), +(org), +(JG dad)
My view = +(me), +(JG), +/- (apostates) {individual basis}, and +/- (JW) {again, individual basis}, -(org), ?(JG dad) {don't know him, so can't judge}
XJW's turn to drugs, alcohol, or depression meds to ease their pain, or 2, they were fortunate to find a group of friends to socialize with, or just maybe one special friend.
some do, but not all, I think that is more a JW view than a non-JW view. Those that do use drugs and alcohol, are IMO just self medicating, albeit in a destructive manner. And for those that do use Rx anti depressants, some get relief and others don't. I posted about this subject often when I first came on this board. I believe that no one thing is ever "the answer" or "cure". None of us are that simple. I also believe that it is up to us to become aware of our thinking and change our thought patterns when we can see what they may be. Professional help is good with that too, but exspensive. All the prozac in the world won't "fix" you if you still think to yourself, "I hate you. I hate you. I hate you."
I'm just giving that as an example, not saying that that is conected to you.
I agree with you--I think--in what you mean by "the happiness crowd", I think alot of people spout stuff that they mean well by, but for someone with depression or emotional wounds, those ideas are more damaging, guilt inducing, shame inducing; its as if some people can not relate. I'm not refering to people on the board, I'm thinking of friends and people I know, who try to say "blah blah be happy, simple simple simple, blah." and I'm inwardly thinking "Oh for the love of GOD, STFU" because you have no idea how I'm feeling or what I'm thinking.
I don't know, what do you think?
you know what i'm talkin' about girl!!
i owe you big time!!
lol.
Sounds like ya'll had a good time.
I know I wasn't there with you, but I also have a porn name: Rusty Van Buren.
you know what i'm talkin' about girl!!
i owe you big time!!
lol.
Napkin? I thought he was wearing a burka.
Toy. Energizer...Did someone buy a hammerdrill? Be carefull, they can chip teeth.
the city of philadelphia has decided to punish the boy scouts of america because it will not allow homosexuals to serve as scout leaders.
city officials said they will charge the cradle of liberty scouts council $200,000 a year to use the city-owned headquarters.
the council was paying $1 per year (since 1928).
This thread took an interesting turn.
You think your son would be confused, then ask him about it ahead of time. Does he know why uncle Bill? & uncle Tom? live together. My nephews new that I live with my partner, and we jokingly called him "Aunt ???"--sometimes, but not alot. Just the past year, my older nephew put two and two together and asked my mom--his Grammy--about uncle Nate & "aunt ???" He has no problem with it. But he also knows me very well, and I've lived in the same house as him when he was born, then again from 2-3, and now he's living at my mom's (I'm not, but I visit monthly). I guess what I'm trying to get at is how well does your son know his uncle, what is their relationship. Side note, is uncle Bill your brother or your brother in law? If he's your brother, thwn how well do you know him as a person?
If I had a child, I know I'd be very selective in who I'd allow them to be around, especially if I were not there. There are probably only a handful of people on this earth who I would let my child stay with overnight or a short road trip.
reborn or whoever had the gay uncles, I think that behaviour is immature, and I've seen it done by gays and straights, its not pretty from either angle.
Go easy on her people, I don't feel she's being deliberatly narrow, this is just a new experience and decision for her.
edited:: I just put my real name on for the first time, I was going to take it down, but its all good.
didn't see this one coming...
http://www.cnn.com/2007/showbiz/books/10/20/harry.potter.ap/index.html
Ghandalf - Ian Mc.???spelling??
And on gay actors playing gay characters, what about Stephen Fry as Oscar Wilde in Wilde?
Oh yeah, good one.
I read on the net that someone writing or otherwise working on the movie was trying to write in a past female love interest for him and she stepped in and say 'No, he's gay.' I don't think she was trying to make a deal of it, I think she was pushed into a corner where she had to clarify.
guys and gals, here we go !
i started a serious thred tonight, now it's time to relax and have some fun!
i think we have all been a bit stressed what with trevor gate and all, so it's friday night, let's loosen up a bit ?
Give Matt Damon 60-80 pounds extra, and he could play me.
you know it's relatively easy to break the stated rules of jws: smoking, drinking, riding in cars with the opposite sex, saying god bless you, signing up to vote, singing the national anthem, etc.
it is freaky in the beginning but you get over it.
however, i have found some extra baggage that i carry from being a jw that i never recognized.
Nice way to bring it out in the open. I still do that alot too, I think that being just aware of it can help.
I read a book a few monthes ago, called "No More Mr. Nice Guy". It talkes about men being raised and educated by predominantly women who learn to manipulate and control by being "nice". Its an interesting read, not too long.
The same concepts in the book can help a person to understand the behavior of pleasing people, manipulating others to get them to like us or to get what we want/need.
http://www.physorg.com/news112154986.html.
egypt's fight against female circumcision clashes with tradition .
twice circumcised, wafaa helmy swore her own daughters would never suffer the same fate.
I was online one day and afterfollowing links from a fetish site, wound up on google and wikipedia reading about "female circumcision", I didn't realize how damaging the procedure is. Sick. sick. sick. This isn't just one "procedure" either, there are different levels of mutilation. Some women are sewn shut basically--I don't know how their husbands can make love to them--and to give birth, they need to be cut open, and ofcourse afterwards they are sewn shut again. I don't get why anybody would do this to their child, ok sure the "social conditioning", but come on.
Scientists have uncovered Egyptain mummies that have had this done, yes?
this is my cat thomas on day 13 of his training (the video).
right now he is still using a training device called the litter kwitter and is starting to master the act of hopping up on the toilet to use it!
watch the video here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xiqwmrwnlm.
You and your pussies are too funy!
