I never felt I belonged as a JW, and I was born in, and I never felt like I've belonged once I left, or in the years since, maybe not everyone gets to feel like they belong somewhere, or maybe just not everyone gets to find the place where they do?
Posts by dh
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52Do You Miss Your Sense of Belonging?
by The wanderer in<!-- .style1 { font-size: 20px; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; color: #000000; } .style2 { font-size: 18px; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; color: #000000; } .style5 { font-size: 12px; color: #003366; } .style6 {font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: #003366; } .style7 { color: #000000; font-weight: bold; } --> do you miss your sense of belonging?what i miss is the sense of belonging and camaraderie that came with .
being one of jehovahs witnesses.
does this mean that i would return?
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What Are Your Favorite Love Songs? XOXO
by lonelysheep insince valentine's day is right around the corner, please share what your favorites are.. i like a variety of music, so i'll list by genre:.
80's: tie--"the beautiful ones" by prince, "a groovy kind of love" by phil collins and "almost paradise" by mike reno & ann wilson (heart).
r&b: "so fine" by mint condition.
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i love annie's song by john denver, for me it's one of the most beautiful songs ever written.
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If you could kill someone........would you?
by new boy inif by just saying the words "you are dead........you are dead.......you are dead".
that person would be dead and gone.
and there would be no one who knew what you did.......could you do it?.
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i wouldn't want to be able to do it with words, it should be hard for a person to do, like strangling someone would be hard, that way it wouldn't be such a carefree thing that you would actually kill everyone you might think about killing.
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Don't you just LOVE Jehovah :)))))))))))
(tongue in cheek)
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Post your favorite saying
by Scully ini was just pondering how the wts has, for over a century, been able to convince people to do what is contrary to their best interests with fear tactics that armageddon is coming soon, and i came up with what is going to be my pet phrase for a while:.
"only religion has the power to compel people to embrace sheer stupidity in the name of faith.
" ~ scully, december 28, 2006. i googled it, and didn't see that anyone else has claimed it, so until someone else finds an attribution for it, i'm claiming it as my own.
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"for the dead are not powerless. Dead, did I say? There is no death, only a change of worlds." (Chief Seattle)
from a great historic speech which can be read here http://www.halcyon.com/arborhts/chiefsea.html
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Post your favorite saying
by Scully ini was just pondering how the wts has, for over a century, been able to convince people to do what is contrary to their best interests with fear tactics that armageddon is coming soon, and i came up with what is going to be my pet phrase for a while:.
"only religion has the power to compel people to embrace sheer stupidity in the name of faith.
" ~ scully, december 28, 2006. i googled it, and didn't see that anyone else has claimed it, so until someone else finds an attribution for it, i'm claiming it as my own.
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The anagnorisis Macbeth where he says "I am in blood stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go oer"
Also from Macbeth the speech about life that ends with. "Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more: it is a tale, Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing."
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be." (Kurt Vonnegut)
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Otherwise Engaged...
by LittleToe injust a little breaking news:.
after several years of a great friendship with diane (previously posted as xena) things have started to really come together recently and i've succumbed to making an honest woman of her (or at least as honest as it's possible to make her.
last night (xmas day) i popped the question and she agreed to marry me (i wonder if she knows what she's let herself in for!!!)..
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I'm sure I'm very late in reading this thread, but congratulations LT and I wish you guys a really happy life together :)
Edited ooops, LT AND XENA hahah
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The question is too broad since the whole deal of what 'God' is, is undefined. I do not believe in any God I've read about or heard about or that religions workship, because they are so varied and unprovable. The way I see it is that if you have to define what something is and then seek to prove or disprove whether it exists, and if you can't do that, then it's blind faith, which works for some people but not me. So no, I don't believe there is a being that is seperate to us that runs all of this stuff, and if there was I would say such a being was abhorrant (good JW word haha).
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JWD outage -- what if it were longer or worse, permanent?
by Fatfreek injwd to me, and for some like me, is my morning coffee.
if its not up, like earlier today, it gets me to thinking, what if this were a permanent thing?
what if jwd were actually shut down like our friend quotes site in 2006?
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in the words of dr. ian malcolm 'life, finds a way'
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I feel uncomforatable when my children ask about God....
by flip4diz ini don't know what to say.. for some background: .
i have been out for 10 years.
it was the birth of my son, who just turned 11 ... that brought me out.
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i think it's point blank wrong to teach belief in a god to children, and especially wrong to teach them that any one belief is actually true... across the board i think it is just so wrong to pass on a faith based decision we make as adults on to kids and teach it to them as if it's a fact (like jw's and most religions teach what they teach as fact, when it is not) - i guess i find the whole notion of gods and religions to be destructive for mankind on a whole, and if a kid wants to know about god, i think teach them all the things that different people believe and tell them how none of them know it for sure anymore than anyone knows anything they believe but can't provie, and that it's a personal thing that some people chose to believe in for whatever reason.
i think giving information to make one ask questions is far more importantant than trying to give answers.