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  Do You Believe DREAMS Have Any Significance???

  by minimus in

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  do dreams mean anything special to you?

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  darkuncle29

  I believe that some dreams may be significant; they might be your subconscious working through an issue that you can't face or resolve in the awake state.

  Then I've noticed too that many dreams are just your mind sifting through memories and events, sort of like defragmenting your hard drive. I have also noticed that when I do alot of an activity, that it tends to set a theme for my dreams. For example, when Nintendo first came out, and I started playing Super Mario Bros., I used to dream that I was the character punching blocks and stopming goombas. When I worked in a grocery store as a checker, I used to dream that I was cashiering--these dreams were dreadful, borderline nightmares as they never ended. I really hated that job, so maybe that was my way of trying to get myself to see that and get on with my life. I didn't though, I stuck with it for ten years.

  If I whatch a movie that interests me, I can have dreams in that "format".

  I think that in general, dreams are only meaningful if the individual can find meaning in them; that sounds like circular religious "crap reasoning", but it doesn't have to be. If someone flips you off in traffic, and you frankly don't care, then his gesture has no meaning to you.
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  What "born-again Christian" doctrines do you have a hard time swallowing?

  by booker-t in

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  i am curious about this question because i always had the impression that born-again christians believe everything the church teaches no matter what.

  then i remember talking to a born-again friend of mine that was having a hard time with her pastor because he told her wearing "pants" and "jewelry" was a "sin" and she would go to hell for that.

  my friend said she loved the church that she started going to but she was not going to give up wearing pants or jewelry.

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  I don't really have the emotional oomph to write the Baptist story right now, but if you have experience with them we could compare notes. I was NOT studying with them or anything, just happened to encounter them in my life--friends, work. They tend to be nice people, but there are some individuals I met who are very mentally/emotionally ill.
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  My First Time...

  by darkuncle29 in

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  ...in a gay bar during business hours.. i went out with some friends last night celebrating this guy's birthday.

  (not my first time celebrating a birthday.

  we also went to like 8 or so different bars and clubs; so that was also my first time bar hopping.. unfortunetly, this was also my first time driving home a drunk and having him puke in my vehicle.

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  Being the DD is a role I am very suited for. I asked him how he was feeling, and he did warn me, but I thought I'd have more time. I was on I-5 going 60+ and just couldn't stop on a dime. It was raining heavy, so that washed the barf off my jeep. I thought to myself when he first busted, that I am always prepaired for stuff, how could I have missed this one?
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  What "born-again Christian" doctrines do you have a hard time swallowing?

  by booker-t in

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  i am curious about this question because i always had the impression that born-again christians believe everything the church teaches no matter what.

  then i remember talking to a born-again friend of mine that was having a hard time with her pastor because he told her wearing "pants" and "jewelry" was a "sin" and she would go to hell for that.

  my friend said she loved the church that she started going to but she was not going to give up wearing pants or jewelry.

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  These people are pretty wack-a-do. I have mostly dealt with Baptists, and that was as I was leaving our own cult. I credit them with helping me leave christianity entirely behind.
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  My First Time...

  by darkuncle29 in

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  ...in a gay bar during business hours.. i went out with some friends last night celebrating this guy's birthday.

  (not my first time celebrating a birthday.

  we also went to like 8 or so different bars and clubs; so that was also my first time bar hopping.. unfortunetly, this was also my first time driving home a drunk and having him puke in my vehicle.

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  Frankly, although is was fun in some ways, I'd much rather spend time in surroundings like yours. 15 hours eh? That's not so bad. Maybe next time I'll come get you first. Please please please do not puke in my truck.
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  Do you believe that ancient humans once had advanced technology?

  by Elsewhere in

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  this is something that has been tossed around for some time, but something occurred to me: if ancient humans did have advanced technology, such as space travel, we would know about it.

  the reason i say we would know about it is because they would most certainly have left objects in orbit around earth.

  yes, the low-orbit objects would have eventually fallen back due to the drag of the upper atmosphere.

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  This is something that has been tossed around for some time, but something occurred to me: If ancient humans did have advanced technology, such as space travel, we would know about it.

  I don't think so-that we would know; the people who used to preach that the world is flat, are the scientific ancestors of the people today who tell us what is now.

  To assume that our current technology is the pinnacle of human achievement, is arrogant and also human.

  I do believe that humans may have had comparable or better technology. I do wonder--not really--why modern scientists scoff at this idea, and don't even openly entertain the possibility.
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  My First Time...

  by darkuncle29 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ...in a gay bar during business hours.. i went out with some friends last night celebrating this guy's birthday.

  (not my first time celebrating a birthday.

  we also went to like 8 or so different bars and clubs; so that was also my first time bar hopping.. unfortunetly, this was also my first time driving home a drunk and having him puke in my vehicle.

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  darkuncle29

  ...in a gay bar during business hours.

  I went out with some friends last night celebrating this guy's birthday. (Not my first time celebrating a birthday)

  We also went to like 8 or so different bars and clubs; so that was also my first time bar hopping.

  Unfortunetly, this was also my first time driving home a drunk and having him puke in my vehicle. And this was my first time cleaning up a pukey Jeep.

  Aren't first times the greatest!
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  Consciousness and mental health

  by Markfromcali in

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  i thought it would be good to point out the difference between consciousness work, such as meditation and certain types of spirituality, and mental health.

  although there are some overlaps as it does deal with your mind, it's occurred to me that mental health is primarily concerned with the psyche, and in that sense it might be considered a type of specialization in terms of a particular work dealing with human consciousness.

  while things like meditation can help give you a degree of peace - and sometimes lasting shifts in consciousness - it would be good to understand the difference.. these days meditation is becoming more popular, and people are attracted to paths like buddhism for the same reason, but it really isn't a substitute for mental health care.

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  My personal experience the past three-four years is that meditation has helped me prune out the lesser problems, or to manage them, but the deeper issues are still there, and getting like you said; intense.

  I've helped myself alot, but am to the point where I need a guide to help me to make some headway, and then I think I can take off on my own again.
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  BEWARE! This is an Apostate site!!

  by laraby in

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  i'm sure 99% of you know this already, but i'm warning whoever visits here and doesn't know.. .

  if any of you still read god's word, i ask you to read eze.

  33:11 & prov.

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  This reminds me of the time I walked into a "Straight Bar"...OMG!!! I was Soooo embarrased!
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  When you returned to your "WORLDLY" family how were you treated?

  by wizedup in

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  when we leave the witness "family" we know how inhumanly we're treated.

  when some return, there is no rejoicing, clapping or undue expressions of "joy" allowed openly.

  the gb wants a period of proving yourself worthy to be back in the "fold".

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  darkuncle29

  My immediate family is the only ones that were JW. My extended family, mom's side in Wisconsin, dad's side in the south west, are all just getting used to the idea that we are not JWs anymore. I spoke with my mom's sister a few days ago, and we talked about how isolated and cut off we were from all of them. That was when we still lived there. Now we are in Washington state, and out of the cult. I gather that they are still feeling the hurt and the regret of the way it was. We were never hurtful or cultish and shunning to anybody, we just missed out on the very large family gatherings for holidays and birthdays.

  I try to tread lightly perhaps, because they are still christian-Lutheran-, and I am more diversified. I would like to see them, my grandparents are in their early to mid eighties.

  I can look at my life and JW "experience" in a somewhat philosophic way, whereas they can't do that.