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  Are you Living or Existing?

  by Golf in

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  does your life have a purpose or are you just existing?

  over the years i've learned to extract the good out of bad situations and it has given me a different perspective on life.

  life is all about learning.

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  Greetings Christopherrobin, another great post. Hey, I was just getting into your story and you cut me off, please continue.
  
  
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  Are you Living or Existing?

  by Golf in

  1. jw
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  does your life have a purpose or are you just existing?

  over the years i've learned to extract the good out of bad situations and it has given me a different perspective on life.

  life is all about learning.

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  Sparkplug, great post! You made my day. It is experiences such as yours that I want others to read about.
  
  I've been waiting a long time to cover this topic but I waited. I believe in time, I have made time my friend.
  
  I was hoping to get stories, ideas, suggestions from others on how they have made life fulfilling not just existing.
  
  Gumby, with your imagination, you need to ask questions? Thanks for the kind words.
  
  
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  Are you Living or Existing?

  by Golf in

  1. jw
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  does your life have a purpose or are you just existing?

  over the years i've learned to extract the good out of bad situations and it has given me a different perspective on life.

  life is all about learning.

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  Are you Living or Existing?

  by Golf in

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  does your life have a purpose or are you just existing?

  over the years i've learned to extract the good out of bad situations and it has given me a different perspective on life.

  life is all about learning.

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  Kittie, you brought some interesting points out such as, "...I can't feel emotion towards them..." I agree with you, their lives are so robotic. The one I like is, ""-I will never feel whole." So, what's missing especially from an org. that preaches about love?
  
  Ballistic, let me get this straight, if one leads a purposeful life that's controlled? What's your version of "...least control...?' I could take that to mean your life has meaning when your out of control. Correct my thinking.
  
  
  
  
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  Are you Living or Existing?

  by Golf in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  does your life have a purpose or are you just existing?

  over the years i've learned to extract the good out of bad situations and it has given me a different perspective on life.

  life is all about learning.

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  Squinks, your comment, "I think I am afraid to make deep friendships" is so true among the witnesses. How many have experienced so-called friendship/s and then when you slip and fall short of the glory of God, they cast you away? My wife is my true friend. I have many acquaintances.
  
  The org. has deprived children to be children. Your only a child once and you should have that 'right' to be a child! This is an area I find the Org. very guilty.
  
  You say rejection? Hmmmmmm, that's a given in just about anything. One of the ways to overcome this is, don't expect miracles from others, respect, yes. I believe that their is more happiness in giving than there is in receiving. The practice of giving helps in coping with rejection.
  
  
  'Been there,' what do you think you can do to live a purposeful life? Do you have dreams? Do you have goals? One of my repeatitive lines to my children was, JUST DO IT! Either we push ourselves or others will. As I said, life like roses has thorns. Learning to avoid being 'pricked' keeps us on our toes.
  
  
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  Are you Living or Existing?

  by Golf in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  does your life have a purpose or are you just existing?

  over the years i've learned to extract the good out of bad situations and it has given me a different perspective on life.

  life is all about learning.

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  Does your life have a purpose or are you just existing? For me, I was existing until I made everything I do have a purpose, be it good or bad. Over the years I've learned to extract the good out of bad situations and it has given me a different perspective on life. Life is all about learning. You don't have to be rich or influential to learn.
  
  One of the things I've come to learn is not to expect anything from anybody and this way you don't get disappointed. I've come to be independent at an early age. My top priority is minding my own business. This gives me great satisfaction and contentment, plus, I'm FREE of all kinds of needless headaches. This doesn't mean I don't care about people, I do. I believe people are responsible for their own lives. I have six grown children and I stay out of their personal lives and we get along just fine! What a great feeling! I make sure I hug my grandchildren and I tell them, 'I love you.' That in itself is worth living for. I go to bed at night with a warm feeling.
  
  Yes, life has challenges, remember, life like roses, has thorns. What about you? Care to share any interesting and helpful experiences?
  
  
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  Your First Kiss

  by Stefanie in

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  do you remember it?

  mine was in the 7th grade by a boy named joe.

  it took me by surprise and i was dissapionted, because he tried to swallow my face!

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  Oh yes! My present wife who was 12 at the time and I was 13. It was raining and it was book study night, late fall. She along with her girlfriend came by to see me and it took me (not her) a long time to have the courage to kiss her and it was under an umbrella. I was on cloud during the book study.
  
  During the summer months we would go for boat rides (rent a boat)and make sure we were in the tall weeds and kiss. Oh the fifties and memories.
  
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  Help and advice needed soon , please

  by jules99 in

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  i am looking for some advice to hopefully prevent me going mad.

  my husband (an elder) was disf?d by the jws 8 years ago for having an affair with me and consequently leaving his wife.

  he has 4 grown-up children and 9 grandchildren.

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  This is BRUTAL and inexcusable behavior. Take comfort in knowing that many on this forum understand your circumstance. Weird sensations ran through my body as I read your story, I can imagine what you went through.
  
  Stay in touch, you have my understanding and sympathy.
  
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  Members of JW family arrested in wide-ranging identity theft probe

  by Wild_Thing in

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  the plight of the gullible!

  "guess what, honey!

  some of the "friends" offered to do our taxes for free!

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  Stories of this nature remind me of my natural brother, never was a witness but a great CON-MAN, small time, but still a con-man. He started when he was very young. The community knew him as such and there's not much they did about it because he was a professional boxer. Oh the stories I could tell.
  
  
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  I feel very safe....

  by Tatiana in

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  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6969799/database giant gives access to fake firmschoicepoint warns more than 30,000 they may be at riskexclusiveby bob sullivantechnology correspondentmsnbcupdated: 6:38 p.m. et feb. 14, 2005 .

  criminals posing as legitimate businesses have accessed critical personal data stored by choicepoint inc., a firm that maintains databases of background information on virtually every u.s. citizen, msnbc.com has learned.

  the incident involves a wide swath of consumer data, including names, addresses, social security numbers, credit reports and other information.

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  There's a saying in golf, "You can cheat, just don't get caught." We're sorry? yeah right! Sorry they got caught.
  
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