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  Is higher education about worldly riches?

  by under_believer in

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  haven't posted on here in years, but this topic really gets my goat and i just had the "priviledge" of going to a special assembly day where the bethel speaker, john williams, strongly held forth against higher education.

  in particular, he stressed how higher education is all about greed and getting rich, and how knowledge puffs up, and that people who go to college are arrogant and selfish.. this is kind of a bad thing because this guy is a really strong, accomplished speaker.

  several times i found myself captivated by his delivery in spite of myself.. in response to the idea that somehow education is about getting rich, i would like everyone to take a look at these numbers from the us department of labor: http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_chart_001.htm.

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  It's more about "being employable" and "making a living wage."

  amen.
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  Overlapping generation segment on the new Circuit Assembly program

  by traveb in

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  so there i was at the circuit assembly sunday morning with my eyes glazed over as usual when all of a sudden, bam!

  a demo with two brothers talking about the new overlapping generation teaching.

  the reason it took me by surprise was because it occured during the second talk of the sunday morning symposium, "sanctify god's name by your speech".

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  Maybe we'll get lucky and they will overlap both days of the CA and we only have to go one day. Ya think?

  lol
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  A Course in Miracles

  by semelcred in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've just started reading a course in miracles and wondered if any one here has any thoughts or any contact with this book?

  as an ex-jw i find it hard to accept reading any other religious publication but i find the idea of the ego's attempt at separation as the real issue against the idea of original sin a fascinating concept.

  also the book was channeled!

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  You can hear the lessons online througn the ACIM Web site:

  http://acim.org/Lessons/index.html
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  A Course in Miracles

  by semelcred in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've just started reading a course in miracles and wondered if any one here has any thoughts or any contact with this book?

  as an ex-jw i find it hard to accept reading any other religious publication but i find the idea of the ego's attempt at separation as the real issue against the idea of original sin a fascinating concept.

  also the book was channeled!

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  ACIM is one book I've read along somewhere in my recovering JW journey (as well as Tolle's Power, hi JT!).

  As with anything, take what's useful to you and leave the rest.

  We have permission to do that now outside the JW box, and isn't it wonderful? :)

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  Remembering September 11, 2001

  by UnDisfellowshipped in

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  remembering 9-11-01:.

  i encourage everyone who wants to, just to post their own personal memories and experiences of 9-11-01 here.. also, here are a few things you may want to look at:.

  http://september11th.com/silence.htm.

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  I was 10 years less of a faded JW and was driving on my way to work when I heard about the second plane hitting, the Pentagon and PA planes, and US flights would be grounded.

  For a split second of panic I wondered if the End was here. I had never felt that way in my life before or since.

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  Combatting Depression

  by sabastious in

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  a few mornings back i was in the bathroom of the office building i work at.

  i was washing my hands and i felt a rush of thoughts flood my mind.

  the job i am doing for my client is an immense social network site.

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  but too many defeating sighs are just giving the Depression Dog juicy steaks.

  After that little internal exchange I started to feel better and was able to get to work.

  See Sab, never underestimate the healing power of humor and dogs (and bad dog-depression puns: Depression got you by the collar?)

  Breathe my pasty friend. :)
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  Is It Love? Or is it Selfishness?

  by JamesThomas in

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  as jehovah's witnesses, we are programmed to believe that what we do is out of love.

  love for god, our family and neighbors.

  this sounds good and it feels good.

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  First, it's likely impossible to genuinely love that which threatens to kill you if you don't.

  Second, we were filled with a selfish materialistic greed for the perfect body, living in a perfect house, on a perfect hill with a perfect view, etc, etc.
  
  It takes courage to see through it all. Perhaps it even takes the desire to be truly caring and loving.

  Good points, JT. and yes, it does. (Bonus: Our truly caring and loving doesn't have anything to do with a time slip).

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  What's The Worst Thing About Ever Having Been A Jehovah's Witness?

  by minimus in

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  for me, it's the waste of precious time and being lied to.. stupid time consuming things to do that are utterly worthless!

  and on top of that being told that you were going to live forever on paradise if you followed their decrees..

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  The worse thing...

  Being a raised-in from age 3, not knowing who I was before the JW indoctrination.

  The system of belief started so early that it's like a twisted helix around my DNA. As an adult I have to figure/sort... still not knowing. That's the worse thing for me. What/who would I have been without this system of belief entering into my life. How much of it has warped my worldview/emotional being/spiritual self.

  One of my earliest memories of being at a meeting in the Kingdom Hall with funky orange and brown carpeting was sitting in the seat looking at my tiny legs pointing straight off the chair. They didn't even bend yet.

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  I wish I was dead ...

  by talesin in

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  not much to follow that .... day-umn, life is hard sometimes .... .

  feel free to encourage me ... i need it.. .

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  (((Hugs)))

  Now what are your other two wishes? (and no wishing for more wishes)

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  Beautiful Poetry by Frenchy

  by waiting in

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  please go to the section under literature & reading for a pleasure.. normally, i don't like poetry - yet printed these out because of their beauty and softness.. thank you, frenchy, for sharing your art with us.

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  Wow, a blast from the past. I wonder if Waiting is still