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What's everybody's theme song?

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so....i'm sure everybody has some songs where they listen and feel like they're the ones speaking in the lyrics... what kind of music does everybody like and what are the songs that they relate to the most?

missy04

Winston,
I almost listed "Numb" as one of my most faves too..it is.. and I can just listen to Chester scream all day long. Never get tired of listening to them. They're awesome. I must have anger issues wanting to listen to him scream all the time lol

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no meetings this week

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i feel kind of silly posting next to you guys who were in the organization for much longer, like i know what i'm talking about or something, lol, i don't.. but i think it's really sad..all of these people, mostly really good people, who spend their whole lives or at least alot of it trying to do things..field service, studying, giving talks, giving up good jobs, ect.

for this religion.

i am really sad that i can't just save 'em from it.. i haven't been to any meetings this week and i think i finally might have the guts to tell them i'm done.. wow, it must have been realllllyyyy hard for all those who have family in the org.

missy04

Nopers, not an unbaptized publisher.

I really doubt that she will leave with me,..unless she hits rock bottom with her depression and leaves still beleiving it is the truth..I don't want her to be depressed or down, I hate it when she is in pain, but it may be the only way she gets out and if she does maybe she will realize what is going on.

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no meetings this week

by missy04 in

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friends

i feel kind of silly posting next to you guys who were in the organization for much longer, like i know what i'm talking about or something, lol, i don't.. but i think it's really sad..all of these people, mostly really good people, who spend their whole lives or at least alot of it trying to do things..field service, studying, giving talks, giving up good jobs, ect.

for this religion.

i am really sad that i can't just save 'em from it.. i haven't been to any meetings this week and i think i finally might have the guts to tell them i'm done.. wow, it must have been realllllyyyy hard for all those who have family in the org.

missy04

I feel kind of silly posting next to you guys who were in the organization for much longer, like I know what I'm talking about or something, lol, I don't.

But I think it's really sad..all of these people, mostly really good people, who spend their whole lives or at least alot of it trying to do things..field service, studying, giving talks, giving up good jobs, ect. for this religion. I am really sad that I can't just save 'em from it.

I haven't been to any meetings this week and I think I finally might have the guts to tell them I'm done.

Wow, it must have been REALLLLLYYYY hard for all those who have family in the org. or grew up in it or spent many years in it..just many months for me and I'm not even baptized..I must seem really pathetic.

I've only missed Sunday and Tuesday and not goin to the one tonight either, but I am really done with it.

I'm waiting for a phone call from my best friend (who hasn't called in almost three days..she normally calls me every night and we talk for hours.) I'm almost sure she'll tell me she is done with me..if not now, soon anyway. I imagine she must have talked to the sister who picks me up for meetings since she hasn't called me.

I am not worried nearly as much anymore about how it will hurt me,..I don't want her to feel abandoned by me (although it will be the other way around.) I don't blame her, though. She completely beleives everything shes been taught there.

It's really hard. We're both kind of loners. We both have almost all the same problems which make it hard for us every day, I think I can handle anything that happens, but I just worry about her since I'm the only person she ever really talks to. We've spent SOO many nights talking on the phone till EARLY in the morning just being there for eachother, trying to cheer eachother up, reading to eachother to get the other person's mind off stuff. We're so close, she wanted me to move from Illinois to Tennessee to live with them. She's told me that if it weren't for me and her husband, she might kill herself. So now it will be down to her hubby and I hope that she can talk to him like she normally talks to me instead, and that will be plenty for her to keep going on.

I know I'm really pathetic but all this is really sad

I'm tired of people saying 'Goodbye' to me...ugh.

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What's everybody's theme song?

by missy04 in

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friends

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so....i'm sure everybody has some songs where they listen and feel like they're the ones speaking in the lyrics... what kind of music does everybody like and what are the songs that they relate to the most?

missy04

There, I fixed it. lol.

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What's everybody's theme song?

by missy04 in

jw
friends

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so....i'm sure everybody has some songs where they listen and feel like they're the ones speaking in the lyrics... what kind of music does everybody like and what are the songs that they relate to the most?

missy04

Yikes, I didn't mean for that whole post to be in one big paragraph. Kinda hard to read..sorry guys

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What's everybody's theme song?

by missy04 in

jw
friends

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so....i'm sure everybody has some songs where they listen and feel like they're the ones speaking in the lyrics... what kind of music does everybody like and what are the songs that they relate to the most?

missy04

I would have to say that my favorite song (at least this week)would be "I don't want to be" by Gavin Degraw.
I don't think I've ever related to a song as much as this one though, ever.

"I's surrounded by liars everywhere I turn.
I'm surrounded by imposters everywhere I turn.
I'm surrounded by identity crisis everywhere I turn.
Am I the only one who's noticed?
I can't be the only one who's learned!"

"I came from the mountain, the crust of creation.
MY whole situation--made from clay to stone and now I'm telling everybody..
I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately.
All I have to do is think of me and I'll have peace of mind.
I'm tired of looking 'round rooms wondering what I've gotta do
or who I'm supposed to be.
I don't want to be anything other than me."

And Gavin just BELTS IT OUT!!!!!!!
(my mom even sings to this one)

My fave groups/singers are Linkin Park, Celine Dion, Enya, Sara Mclachlan, ect.

There is also this one song sang by Wynonna Judd off the TV show Touched By An Angel that gives me goosebumps..called "Testify To Love."

I like the superman song, too.

Makes me kinda sad sometimes, though. An ex-friend of mine, that was her fave song. Everyone thinks she's an awful person, and she's done some pretty bad things, but when I hear that song it makes me think about how she really feels instead of the things she does. I worry that she's sad.

Anybody hear the song "World on Fire" by Sara Mclachlan?? luv it luv it

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What's everybody's theme song?

by missy04 in

jw
friends

.

so....i'm sure everybody has some songs where they listen and feel like they're the ones speaking in the lyrics... what kind of music does everybody like and what are the songs that they relate to the most?

missy04

So....I'm sure everybody has some songs where they listen and feel like they're the ones speaking in the lyrics..

What kind of music does everybody like and what are the songs that they relate to the most?

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Does the Bible scare anyone else here sometimes?

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maybe i'm just messed up, but i get really freaked out sometimes.

i can't understand the bible,.....in some places it seems like it's saying all you have to do is one or two things, then it seems like it's saying you have to do different things to be saved.... so many different people and religions have so many different takes on the bible.

i don't know which to beleive, and it scares me that if i beleived the wrong thing that i could go to hell, or just go to sleep forever as the witnesses say.

missy04

I would have to say one of the things that disturbs me most about the witnesses would be the man-made rules....in my opinion, they follow alot of them.

The Holiday thing.....OK here is my biggest problem with that: I have heard witnesses say that all the accounts in the Bible of holidays being celebrated turned out badly...the evil people were the ones celebrating..ect. blah blah blah. So therefore we shouldn't celebrate holidays. No, I don't buy that.

Jehovah's witnesses have get-togethers with food and have drinks...what's the difference between celebrating a holiday and finding a reason to get together and have some fun?? I can go to a Christmas get-together or Thanksgiving with my grandparents, aunts, uncles, little cousins and my parents and not lay a hand on a drink..obviously..im not 21...and none of my family that is of age gets drunk either, or even drinks usually. Not that it would matter to me all that much unless they had a brawl...yah right..that would really happen.

And I can see my friends who are not Jehovah's Witnesses and hang around with them every once in a while. If they drink, I don't have to. None of my friends have "spoiled good habits" of mine. Actually, in some cases, I've helped them to start good habits, and vice versa.

The blood issue,..a blood transfusion saved my mom's life. Considering the fact that in the Bible I haven't read anywhere about not taking blood transfusions, I think everybody should be able to make their own decision and it should be fine.

If I want to have peircings, I can have my peircings. You can say our bodies are temples of God or whatever it says in the Bible, (And I beleive what I read in the Bible), but if Witnesses can have their ear peircings, then I can have my eyebrow ring. (which i feel absolutely naked without, now)

And we LIVE in the world. Where does a group of men draw the line as to what we should and should not do so that we aren't 'loving the world'? I think that basically means that we should follow our conscience..and if we do that we'd be doing fine for the most part.

I won't follow any man made rule or a religion that revolves around them.

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Does the Bible scare anyone else here sometimes?

by missy04 in

maybe i'm just messed up, but i get really freaked out sometimes.

i can't understand the bible,.....in some places it seems like it's saying all you have to do is one or two things, then it seems like it's saying you have to do different things to be saved.... so many different people and religions have so many different takes on the bible.

i don't know which to beleive, and it scares me that if i beleived the wrong thing that i could go to hell, or just go to sleep forever as the witnesses say.

missy04

A friend in need,

Nah, I don't mean the elders. I mean my best friend, a witness. I have to do some sort of explaining to her since I talk to her every night on the phone and she is very 'worried that she is losing me to the world.'

I'm not moving,..my sis lives like an hour and a half away or something like that, and I want to work with her. I would be staying there alot if this happened but I would still be living here.

I don't have any family to worry about losing since there are none that are witnesses, although I consider my best friend, the witness,to be like family, like my second mom.

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Slip of the tongue and other embarrassments

by target in

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love it when someone is trying to say something and the tongue chooses to rearrange the wording.

i think my favorite was one sunday a particular ms who had a thing for perfectionism was announcing the song to be sung "jehovah's happy people".

it came out "jehovah's happy peepee".

missy04

Well, my big sis had something happen to her a few days ago that was pretty emberassing....

Decided to tell a guy she'd been dating that she didn't want to see him anymore, and he just lived up her street a ways. So she drove her car to his house, gave him a lecture about why she was breaking up with him, then left and walked home. I think this was around early afternoon.

Well at about 11pm, she realized she had walked home and her car was still parked in his driveway.

She had to walk back to his house and retrieve her car.

well,..me?

There are tons and tons of things that have emberassed me, but one thing comes to mind. Ever see a really cute guy and walk into something? Well I managed to walk into the side of a car hood and actually roll over it on my side and fall to the ground.