jws say, "the apostates are miserable!!
".....do you feel miserable?
(i don't).
I'm much happier now than I ever was for over 30 years as a JW and I have to agree with kls.
Really i have never met a happy jw, i mean really happy.
Misery loves company and the ones still in that I know don't seem to have any kind of life or real friends.
HappyDad
i've had a terrible time the last 2 weeks with headaches.
they usually come on in the early afternoon and by the end of the day i can hardly see straight.
i don't wear glasses but i noticed that after working on the computer or documents and i get up to walk around my distance vision is poor, i.e.
Actually...........my distant vision has gotten better than it was. I do not need glasses for distance anymore. But my close up reading vision is worse. Guess my next glasses will be even stronger bifocals. I'm 57 and all of what I heard years ago is coming true.
Those old timers I worked with always said......"the aches and pains don't start until you hit 50". How true! But I am still very active with walking and bike riding. But I still need to lose about 40 pounds. I dropped 12 pounds last month.
Hmmmmmmmm.......now what does weight loss have to do with vision? 
HappyDad
did i not read somewhere that in the mid-1930s a growing number of jws were resisting the flag salute?
when the matter came to a head, rutherford had the anti-saluters disfellowshiped.
by the end of the 1930s "new light" reached rutherford, and he started disfellowshiping those who did salute the flag.
This just hit me.....................
The WT always refers to CTR as the founder of the religion. As I can now see...........the Bible Students can claim that......... but the JW's should claim Rutherford as the founder. Ohhhhhhhh so much knowledge to learn and so little time!
HappyDad
driving home after a long bike ride last sunday, i turned onto my street, just a couple of blocks from my home.
clad only in lycra bike shorts and jersey, i had my window down, my shades on, and a nice endorphin buzz from a great outing.
without warning, a large, dense, golf ball sized pine cone from one of our towering neighborhood evergreens careened through my window like a meteor, and nailed me right on my left testicle.
Weird is as weird does. About 2 weeks ago I woke up in the middle of the night for a p call. The blanket on the bed was half on the floor from my sleep movements. My feet got tangled in the blanket and I fell straight into the dresser and got the worst black eye ever. I have a feeling that the cheekbone might have been fractured too! Should I have a cast put on my head? 
HappyDad
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is there a connection between the society and nation of islam?.
david.
The only connection I know of is the Michael Jackson family.
i knew a certain few elders that really got off by "talking down" to the "flock".
many elders were pretty nice guys but a few could turn----just like that!
what was your experience with "those taking the lead", the "loving shepherds"???
When I was an elder, I hated when the rest of the "body" asked me to talk to (counsel) someone. Guess my thinking wasn't in tune with the mother ship even back then. I always felt that what a person did and why they did it was their own business. When I had to talk to them, I always tried to leave them feeling good about themselves. Come to think of it...........I never did meet the one mindset criteria. But...................I was a good elder.............was respected by most because of my non-judgemental attitude. Some of the other elders did not like my easygoingness.
But at least I can live with myself today. If I can help anyone in any capacity (don't ask for money) 
just let me know.
I have some real horror story's to tell from some of the jc's I was on. The horror was not the person that "sinned", but the questions asked by the other members of the jc. I think some of them really got their rocks off asking the questions they did. Guess they really wished they were the other man in the "sin".
As far as treating one with respect.......I always did that. Can't say the same for the others! It seemed to be the only power they had in their lives......being judges! Because most that I served with were pussy whipped by their wives. They weren't allowed to be men in their own homes. The only machoness they had was when they could "lord it over others".
God.........I hate that religion and many of the idiots who are in power and what it has done to so many. One of these days I expect to hear that an announcement has been made about me. DA'd or DF'd and I don't care. I am luckier than most. I have noone in the borg........my daughter is out too!
That's why I'm HappyDad
yo.... i get sick sometimes.
not just in my body, but my mind gets a little funny as well.
sometimes i think i might be better off dead.
Hey Czar,
We should try to make arraingements and meet for lunch one of these days.
HappyDad
have you noticed those exotic locations some of our posters come from?.
some of you sure come from some exotic places!
you have the rest of us jealous.. but wait a minute.......is it possible our profiles don't tell where we really are at all?.
Born and raised in the Pittsburgh, PA area and still here. Can't figure out why! There are so many NICE places in the country. Given a choice, I'd like to live in Webster, New York.
HappyDad 
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and i got to view them first hand...not from my bedroom child like i did as a child-longing to join and see them up close.... enjoy!.
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Nice firework pictures JWbot
I watched fireworks from my backyard. I live close to an amusment park and they have fireworks about a dozen times during the season.
It sure is nice to see them up close and not just on TV
HappyDad
the cable service is showing each saturday old sid and marty kroft childern programs fromt the 1970s.
rember the "land of the lost"?
saw an episode with the green lizard men, the sleestaks!.
VM,
I loved that show. We would watch if faithfully every Saturday (missed a lot of FS to watch it) with my daughter when she was a couple of years old. She would get so mad at me for sneaking up on her and going..shhhhhhhhhhhssssssssssssssssssshhhhhh.(well you know what I mean! I was a bad sleestak.
HappyDad
