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12 years of schooling (and never stayed back, either) for me.....and you?
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(Total Amount of official time registered in schools) - (Sum of distractions) = answer
(2 years) - (spotty WT stuff) = gonna be a friggin professor!
(11 years) - (TV , games , WT stuff forced on me) = potentially mediocre
(14 years) - (, , more, mind numbing affects of BORG) = LESS than Joe Dub
I'll stop here before I embarass myself further.
just stopping in to say hi and i?m ok. thanks to those who sent concerned emails.. update on nancy: she is going through counseling at a voluntary facility where she will remain for another 1.5 weeks.
we visit her often and she is very homesick by now.
she is looking forward to a fresh start, which we are all working hard to give her.
I'm also very glad to here Nancy's making some headway! Its because of the help she's getting I'm sure, but let there be no doubt, your genuine love and that of those who truly care is whats providing the incentive.
As for that from WT Hell, I hope the sliver of conscience she may have left inside her will haunt her BORG self for what she's done to bring her daughter to the breaking point.
I wish I could convey you strength and calm for the interviews/investigation to come but I'd say you're doing great as it is!
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you will be shipwrecked for five years of solitude on a deserted island in the middle of nowhere.
you can save five items to take with you for your solitudinous stay.
1) a mini distiller - for wholesome drinking water and fun drinks
2) first aid kit with ALOT of petroleum jelly - I forsee alot of chaffing ;)
3) a hunting knife with all that neat stuff in its handle - can you tell I'm a real outdoorsmen?
4) a windup shortwave radio
5) a pet hamster with specialty cage and exercise wheel hooked up to wind up the radio for me :)
i put this little video together to get my mind of recent events.
it sort of expresses my disenchantment and awakening since leaving the organization.
i hope you enjoy it.
It took me nearly 80 minutes to download it with my dialup account but I found it more than worth it!
Great job of showing the WT vision of THE END* (*TM) for the callousness and glorification of death that it is.
The only difference between the GB and the jihadis is that one does the dirty work themselves while the other just keeps panting and praying for it.
for those of you who know me and may have wondered if i fell off the planet, this is what?s been happening.
since july 4th mum has suffered two other strokes, so that makes four in total within in a year and a half.
life has been pretty much work - hospital - home.
Thank You Ascot for the welcome.
I also want to send a belated welcome as well to all the others who've welcomed me before like Sherry and Corvin etc.
for those of you who know me and may have wondered if i fell off the planet, this is what?s been happening.
since july 4th mum has suffered two other strokes, so that makes four in total within in a year and a half.
life has been pretty much work - hospital - home.
Ascot
I can only barely understand the clash of feelings that must be going on inside you. I've had two close family friends whose father and mother went through multiple strokes.
Your Mum understood your feelings, needs and moods before you could verbally express them way back when...that didn't diminish the bond between you...I think it would really boost your Mum to know she doesn't have to verbally speak know either...that bond is still just as strong.
i was served a restraining order by the local sheriff from my jw x -wife.
i know without a doubt this is a small maneuver to block me from picketing at the kingdom hall and exposing her lies and bullcrap.
while nancy is in the hospital recovering, the other two girls are now completely indignant and ready to help take this thing head on.
I'm never good for advice but you can count on my thoughts on you and your daughters.
Aren't the people on this board great?!!
i ask this question because i'm starting to have the scarey feeling that i was born "faithless".
other than feeling that babies and flowers are beautiful and miraculous, i have been having the darndest time feeling 100% sure that god exists and cares.
things that religious folks say are "blessings" i just see as the product of human effort and choice, or as stuff that probably would have happened anyway.
I've always felt very much like you littletoe. That's why it was so easy for me to see through the WT bunk and lies. I've been in the WT Org all this time only because of my family. There have always been people like us, there were Greek and Roman writers that doubted the existence of the gods.
Some interesting research has been done on areas of the temporal lobes and religious experiences/the propensity to believe in the supernatural. Its been dubbed by some researchers as the God Spot.
Maybe ours are atrophied?
from time to time we like to share some good reads with each other on jwd, and now might be a good time to share with you what i'm reading this week.
it's "the gate" by francois bizot which tells of his experiences as the only western prisoner to survive the khmer rouge in cambodia.
in 1971, on a routine outing through the cambodian countryside, the young french ethnologist francois bizot is captured by the khmer rouge.
I'm on the fifth volume of the House of Niccolo series by Dorothy Dunnett.
Interesting mix of historical figures,medieval times and events with appealing characters and long developing plots. I thought it started off rather dry but once the slow start is over its an appealing progression.
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to all christians, or others, is there any proof of the promised messiah being jesus of nazareth and if so, how can you be sure if he existed?
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I don' t think there is any definite evidence that the Jesus of the Gospels (Bible and others) existed.
The Christ figure (of Catholicism or Gnosticism) is definitely heavily based on previous pagan myths. Just look up the myth of Horus as one example.
But its more likely that in first century palestine there WAS a man Jesus (that had admirable principles, views and manner of dealings and he inspired the following that was later morphed by Paul and others) than there WASN'T. New cults are usually started off around some real key figure although there are always exceptions. I've only come up with likelihoods.
Two great books were mentioned in one the posts here one was The Jesus Legend... ...there's a new one out as well called the Pagan Christ.
