as it's a new year, and most of us made resolutions, i'd like to know what about yourself you would truly change if you could?
if you had one wish and it meant you could magically alter something of yourself, what would it be?.
what quality about yourself do you wish would go away?
i have to say i find life pretty difficult, not because of self esteem or depression, just i never ever felt comfortable being alive, i never really liked myself particularly, nor did i dislike myself, in my eyes i was always just a means to an end, 'for the sake of it'.
if i could change anything about me, it would be the fact that i was born, i would change it so that i wasn't.
dh'
note: yes i have seen 'it's a wonderful life' starring jimmy stewart, it's a great movie!
i was raised a witness, so from an early age i got into the habit of bowing my head to pray.
the idea was that to look up would be disrespectful.
of course, it soon struck me that when praying in bed, you're brazenly staring straight up at god, so i started rolling onto my side to pray.
i can't sleep on my back because i hear things. yeah, i won't go into any more detail than that. i can sleep on my back if i am not sleeping alone, i.e. someone is laying with their head on me and my head rolled to one side a bit, but if i face straight up, i have extremely violent nightmares. not sure why but always have since i was little kid.
sooo, yeh, i sleep in a mix of sideways positions, sometimes on my front, sometimes i switch which end of the bed my head is at a few times in one night.
dh'
i figured that this topic must come up from time to time; especially moreso over here in north america.. as some of you are well aware, i posted a lovely thread about the upcoming birth about my nephew.. i'm thrilled about him, i simply just can't wait.. anyways, having been born here in north america, specifically: canada.
circumcision was common, if not all the rage in the 1950s, and 1960s and probably up until the 1970s.
with national health care, you can bet that the medical profession saw many dollars with regards to foreskins (sorry for graphic remarks).
not only is it better for health reasons but i've found that girls prefer it 'snipped'... something i discovered when i stopped being an infant!
dh'
you're out somewhere, shopping maybe or in a restaurant or bus queue, whatever.. you've not been to the meetings for a couple of years, you are now an inactive person.
you might even have da'd yourself or got df'd.. you suddenly realise you are facing or stood next to someone that you know is a jw.
you also know that they know that you were once a jw too.. the person greets you and starts up a conversation with you.
Yeah, not bad, but wouldn't that answer put them on the defensive? It is a retort after all, a good one yes, but still a retort that will cause the old shut down in seconds.
it's not what you say, it's how you say it, i wouldn't say it in a retortfull tone, i would say it in my gentle injured tone which begs them to be concerned and ask 'why'. hehe
along came a spider
dh'
you're out somewhere, shopping maybe or in a restaurant or bus queue, whatever.. you've not been to the meetings for a couple of years, you are now an inactive person.
you might even have da'd yourself or got df'd.. you suddenly realise you are facing or stood next to someone that you know is a jw.
you also know that they know that you were once a jw too.. the person greets you and starts up a conversation with you.
'have you ever considered why i left and why i'll never come back'
or
'did you ever stop to think that i left for scriptural reasons'
dh'
here's another one of my pet questions.... if you're the almighty, ruler of the universe, omnipotent, all seeing, all knowing, blah blah, from beginning to inning to alfa to omega to whatever.
why when something you created challenges your authority do you accept the challenge?
(and not turn the other cheek or kill it).
here's another one of my pet questions...
if you're the almighty, ruler of the universe, omnipotent, all seeing, all knowing, blah blah, from beginning to inning to alfa to omega to whatever
why when something you created challenges your authority do you accept the challenge? (and not turn the other cheek or kill it)
jw's say it's the issue of 'Universal Sovereignty', which basically means that Hovah.net felt he had to prove himself to his inferior creations, he couldn't kill the one who questioned because then the other creations would question some more, so to prove he was boss, he rose to the challenge.
is it just me or does this picture look wrong?
why would something almighty get so riled up over something so inferior, because let's face it, next to almighty, even the most beautiful of all is inferior.
this is one of the reasons i left jw's by the way, it didn't make sense that an almighty being prove itself to an inferior one in a game that involves so much death and suffering, it just seemed like a clash of egos.
in another thread, the subject came up concerning dubs and their maturity level.
the question was posed as to what members on this board would consider the word maturity to mean.
so....what does maturity mean to you?.
i don't think maturity can be any one thing, but i do think that maturity in a person is when you're able to look at possible consequences and accept them, good or bad, before making a decision to act.
dh'
well i have redone the maps.
it was helpful to have them separated before while i was trying to make them all.
but now i think it is easier to have them separated.. ballistic has done an amazing job with the map of the uk you can find it at.
but but, you missed china altogether!
i have lurked for quite awhile (about 9 months) and just wanted to finally log on and get my first post.
i was raised in the truth.
i don't know how often i will get to post....i have a worldly mate and currently i am unable to post from home.
hi fusion, welcome to the board.
I was raised in the truth
ahem, you mean 'the false'!!!
hope to see more of your posts!
dh'
i think if you have read the book and have had it etched into your mind, when it finally does come to screen it's exciting to see, but if you haven't read the book i can understand how it might seem over hyped and boring, however i read the book first time when i was about 8, so i have to totally disagree!
gotta say though, when i watch the movies on DVD, they only take about an hour and a half each to watch as i always skip to the parts i like, the same as when i read the book i skip to the parts i like.
also as i said in another thread, i think that people who never read the book have missed the true magic of the story, which is a shame.
dh'
