lately is observed some small growth in wts troops.
any idea what is causing it?
i've heard that an age of baptized new members has dropped and 9/11 makes an impact.
What growth?
I think the majority of individuals getting baptised are young ones bought up in the troof and who are now of age. I also think people are leaving just as quickly, either by an official DF or DA announcement, or just a gradual fade out to inactivity. The WT's claims of growth should be tested...because I doubt that their claims are accurate. I wonder if inactive/fade away individuals are counted in their stats.
~Beck~
they look like ciggies, they even taste like ciggies, but they smell like horse poop.
hell i don't care...they'll do me.. i've been off smokes for 2 years...but had a terrible craving (stress related) and so i surrendered to the craving and had a few drags of a peter jackson number 8...then i had another...and another.
i had some crazy thoughts about buying a packet.
LOL@funch
If it makes you feel better, you can wrap me up in some paper and wrap your lips around me and..... Oops! Wrong forum.
I don't often laugh out loud at work...that was cute and sassy
You're an addiction of another kind Funch!
Now be still while I get some paper
~Beck~
they look like ciggies, they even taste like ciggies, but they smell like horse poop.
hell i don't care...they'll do me.. i've been off smokes for 2 years...but had a terrible craving (stress related) and so i surrendered to the craving and had a few drags of a peter jackson number 8...then i had another...and another.
i had some crazy thoughts about buying a packet.
Hi Dan
I like the fence
~Beck~
they look like ciggies, they even taste like ciggies, but they smell like horse poop.
hell i don't care...they'll do me.. i've been off smokes for 2 years...but had a terrible craving (stress related) and so i surrendered to the craving and had a few drags of a peter jackson number 8...then i had another...and another.
i had some crazy thoughts about buying a packet.
Thank you Sloan...I did succumb to regular smokes, three times in fact. I feel like slapping myself three times for it...but I don't want to buy regular smokes...that would be a giant step backwards...but buying herbal smokes only feels like a tiny step backwards
Its not the nicotine I crave, its the illusion of the effects of the cigarette that I crave. These herbal smokes give me that...but as you say, I may become bored with them...I hope not.
I just figure that since the herbal smokes don't have nicotine or tobacco, then they aren't really giving me a 'fix'...yet my craving is satisfied after I have one.
Oh I'm so confused!! I only know that I don't want to be back on the regulars again...but then again, the new system would fix my lungs up...wouldn't it? LOL....With that being said, makes one wonder why they DF people for smoking if the new system is gonna restore our lungs back to perfection again.
~Beck~
Edited by - beck_melbourne on 14 January 2003 22:46:54
some of you may recall him talking about losing 80 lbs in 8 months in this thread:.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.aspx?id=43882&site=3.
well here are the pics:.
Whoa!! Great work JLOB!!
There's hope for this little baby elephant perhaps
~Beck~
they look like ciggies, they even taste like ciggies, but they smell like horse poop.
hell i don't care...they'll do me.. i've been off smokes for 2 years...but had a terrible craving (stress related) and so i surrendered to the craving and had a few drags of a peter jackson number 8...then i had another...and another.
i had some crazy thoughts about buying a packet.
Hi there Robyn
Yeah I thought about the tar...its the addiction to the nicotine that worries me (for now at least)...I don't want to be addicted again like I used to be.
I'm just hoping that after a few of these herbies I will be over my 'moment' and hopefully no addiction problem to contend with. I'm also hoping my 'moment' won't last too long...but in these critical times, who knows LOL.
Do they taste good?
As good as the real thing baby!
~Beck~
they look like ciggies, they even taste like ciggies, but they smell like horse poop.
hell i don't care...they'll do me.. i've been off smokes for 2 years...but had a terrible craving (stress related) and so i surrendered to the craving and had a few drags of a peter jackson number 8...then i had another...and another.
i had some crazy thoughts about buying a packet.
They look like ciggies, they even taste like ciggies, but they smell like horse poop. Hell I don't care...they'll do me.
I've been off smokes for 2 years...but had a terrible craving (stress related) and so I surrendered to the craving and had a few drags of a Peter Jackson number 8...then I had another...and another. I had some crazy thoughts about buying a packet. Instead, today I bought a packet of Herbal cigarettes...no nicotine, no tobacco...4mg of tar.
Does anyone else smoke them?? The ones I am trying are Honey Rose...they sure do give you the illusion that you've just had a 'real' cigarette...which is probably all I need right now.
I feel a little bit guilty after 2 years of being off smokes...so can someone out there please tell me herbal smokes are okay
~Beck~
mu friend sent me these jokes via email...thought i would shae the crudity w/you all... what's the best form of birth control after 50?
> nudity .
> what's the difference between a girlfriend and a wife?
Wish PopeOfEruke were here to see this
~Beck~
i have just been watching the tv show about the rise of bin laden and the moslem holy warriors!.
what a threat these ones pose, and what a powerful force they now are.
scary!!!.
I watched either the same show or one similar last night on Channel 8...very interesting show.
The JW's have rallied against the Catholic Church all these DECADES and never ever foresaw the rise of the Muslim threat. What a pitiful Watchman!
No truer words were spoken. The Harlot, Babylon the Great and the two headed Wild Beasts...who in the hell is who now??
Didn't they change the identity of the two headed beast in revelation at one time?? Oh its all too confusing...was it Russia and America?? Was it China and Russia?? Or is it Britain and America? OR....maybe its New Zealand And Australia...sheesh!!
Does Babylon turn on the Harlot and does the Harlot eat her fleshy parts before being devoured by the beast?? Oh I am so CONFUSED!!!
I need to go back to the meetings to get this straight...we studied the Revelation book so many times you would think I should have it all sorted out by now
~Beck~
on january 1st, after a week of no sleep, working through xmas and its stress and months of marital super-stress i walked into my room and gave up.
i told god that if he wanted to step in, to do so now, as otherwise im going.
i sat down and swallowed a brand new prescription of valium 10mg as well as clonadine, also a new prescription.
Mimilly
You must forgive me for my words. I don't know your pain and despair...so to walk one day in your shoes is something I cannot comprehend.
My comment wasn't a criticism of you and your choice at that time...it was more a thought out loud. I have lost a loved one to suicide, I see the pain it causes others...but I cannot even begin to know what pain YOU are in.
I hope you forgive my words...and only know that I speak without thinking sometimes. My brother in law (who lost a son to suicide only a few months ago) is sinking fast...he suffers...he aches...he hurts...he cries himself to sleep embracing the photo of his son. I hurt inside as I watch him whither away...from a strong able bodied man to a small frail aged skeleton figure. Its not nice to watch...and we are all so completely helpless.
My first thought was for your girls...as a mother myself I have a tendancy to think and act this way.
This will be the last I will address you on this matter as I do not know what is the best thing to say, only what I think is the right thing to say, and again, please forgive me for that. May you find peace.
~Beck~
