I think loneliness can be terrifying .We are social creatures god recognised this at the time of adam .remember he said it is not good for man to be alone and then he gave eve we are at our best when around others ,well i am .you know i fear nothing accept being alone .solitary confinement is the worst punishment that can be given to prisoners what does that tell you? by the way hi everyone
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14I would like your opinion
by Soledad inwhat does it mean when an adult is terrified of being alone?
when i say being alone i mean living alone, not want to eat alone, sleep alone, or even go to the bathroom alone.
why would that person be so fearful of loneliness?
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The CO is coming and BOY is he loving!
by MinisterAmos ini guess next week will mark the co visit at my congo.
should be loads of fun for all since last time he publicly humiliated and literally tongue lashed the yoots for dressing worldly and the moms for letting their children cry.. the 20 something guys had the audacity to wear flashy ties and dark shirts, the baby room was being used by a korean book study and it was raining outside.
wtf were the moms supposed to do with their kids when there was literally no place to put them.. something that i found very interesting was that i was exempt from the flashy tie and dark shirt thing even though i made it a point to stand in front of him and take off my coat while discussing the down pour after the meeting.
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The only c.o i like was ex royal marines commando so we got on straight away as im ex army .The rest were scum
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I got off easy because my father is an Elder
by Pwned ini was reading the story of james caputo on his site disfellowshipped.org when i came to the realization that i received favorable treatment because of who my father is.
i was 17 when i told my father that i didnt want to be a jw anymore because i just didnt really believe in it, i think i said something along the lines of i just don't "feel it" anyways he told me that since i was a minor i would have to keep going to the meetings and that i would have to tell the elders how i felt.
so a few days later 2 elders who had known me since i was 6 years old came over and talked to me, although they made it clear from the outset that it wasn't a jc.
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good luck to you mate .the secret is dont confess better still dont get caught ha ha
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OMG i drive a motorcycle in london omg with bells on. Well you know what they say THINGS CAN ONLY GET BETTER ha ha ha
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hi aLL
by cyrus inhi everyone ,thought it was about time i intro,d myself !!!.
ive been reading posts here for about 2 half years.
thanks everyone.... let me tell you my story ..............here goes.
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hi what was too fas tmy life or the jackanory of it (sorry in uk when iwas a kid there was a tv prog were they used to read a story from a kids book prog called jackanory .Yes i have seen and done a lot in my years most people think i look 10 y younger than i am go figure ha ha
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hi aLL
by cyrus inhi everyone ,thought it was about time i intro,d myself !!!.
ive been reading posts here for about 2 half years.
thanks everyone.... let me tell you my story ..............here goes.
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Hi everyone ,thought it was about time i intro,d myself !!!
Ive been reading posts here for about 2 half years. Thanks everyone...
Let me tell you my story ..............here goes. My parents started studying when i was about 5 or 6 yo so about 1972 the end was nigh my dad is a highly intelligent man but fell for the 1975 thing or like many was just hedging his bets. we went to meetings my mum never fell for it all but was easily led (by dad) dont remember much about the early years of my life but even before witnesses dont remember celeb bdays or crimbo just think my dad was tight as knats arse ha ha .I do remember not being allowed to go to school assemblies harvest festivals or anything normal in school life and the daily beatings from kids at school because my sis and bro were different.We were told to turn other cheek and jah would be proud of it.never forgot the only other witness girl inschool going to crimbo patries when me and mine werent allowed she just so happened to be daughter of an elder po suprise suprise.the beatings continued until at eleven id had enough and smack the kid who had beaten me the most since 7 or 8 by the way way he cried like a little girl to teacher and i was punished ass holes
My sister and younger brother continued to observe the elders kids going to dicos and clubs while we could do nothing like that .At this time my dad was going out getting bladdered and driving his car (nearly killed himself three times)and that didnt stop him .He was now an MS woo hoo what a wonderful speaker and out in the ministry wow my mum didnt really care for all this she new the real man she was married to.
My sister and i used to sit in our rooms discussing how soon they would split and they did but not before being evicted from our house\ and being put in a halfway house for a while.My mum started smoking cigs again and of course was dfed although my dad was a drunken womaniser who had even cheated on my mum while she was in hosp giving birth to my youngest sis what a cxxt .
Now just to digress i was doing well giving talks and such always doing my best but one night i lost any lingering respect i had for my father .At 13 i think my mum woke me up in middle of the night telling me dad had been arrested in possesion of a stolen car tax disc my mum told me when the police arrived i should tell them i had found it and i had put in in car front screen. this i did tearfully i never looked at them in the same way again as we had always been told lying was wrong .my parents split not long after and dad left .mum became friendly with a single dad who we had met at halfway house and we had helped get apt downstairs .Now this man was a heroin addict my mum thought she could help him kick habit in reality she started smoking it too. Now at sixteen i left school and got a job in construction one night coming home my mums friend called to me from accross st telling me she had some bad news .The house and been raided by police and they had been arrested and i was was on my own .My older sis was living with her bf and my two bros and younger sister were with my dad.
Now funnily enough you would thing i would go totally off the rails !!! no i went to housing dept and told them that when my mother got out of prison we would need somewere new to live away from bad mems ( she got six months for dealing and posses of class a narcotics .we got given a lovely house and when she got out of prison we moved in 3 months later her man got out and she let the wanker move in .i promptly left home .My mum and her fella were on methodone now
Just so u know although i had nothing wrong not one witness i had known had offered any help whatsoever and even at a young age i had serious doubts about them anyway the hypocrisy was limitless.still ib did have some gd memories probably cos home life was shit .
At 17 i met a lifelong friend who it the most loyal friend i have had before or since and yes he is worldly i love him dearly closer than my own bros .Wed\had so much fun going to parties picking up girls dancing and so on .we also got involved in the rave scene taking extcasy and other drugs .It was fun and something i noticed was how friendly people were like when we were witnesses.OH NO yes i got a job working in a liquer store an a little while later met some witnesses and started studying it was like i had gone home .progressed well giving talks and doorknocking 2 months later baptized six months later met a sister and got close.. we got too close and she was feeling guilty and said we should marry .Now i didnt love her really but figured it was right thing to do and would fall in love with her eventually.we got married ( she had two kids already and had been married and divorced twice before)now i did my best with the two boys tried to be friend studied with them but got no support when it came to discipline basicly they were a pair of wooses but the eldest one had a little fling with next door neighbor(also a witness )i spotted what was happening and told my wife she said i was making it up .
The sisterv was reproved and we kicked the boy out We then moved house and cong and things went down hill from there.the youngest boy played up when we had family study and my wife did nothing to support me i lost any motivation to study with them.
I was also starting to question certain things i was observing with the ((((truth))))) like the attention to hours but being told as long as we do our best is all that matters to jah but seeing the bros with jobs allowing them to do more ours were\getting made ms also the money begging announcements at assemblies to encourage cheerful giving .(every assemblies).also the scriptures in wt articles that did nothing to support what the sentence said or were utterly irrelevnt the utter lack of love in cong.my worldly freind was still my best friend and yet he had moved to spain with his wife .i shouldnt be having anything to do with him and making friends in the truth .Then the peodophile situation made me really start to question the gb as the faithful slave . i then at the suggestion of my wife went abroad to work and while there we split .while there i started looking on internet and stes like this were just supporting my doubts.i am now happier than ive been for years free of the jws out of a loveless marriage and making new friends.
That is just a condensed verstion of my life ive done loads including joining army 3 years great time visited some lovely countries inc turkey (visited ephesus smryna sardis loadacia pergamum miletos )spain and usa (inc arizona meteor crater ,grand canyon.monument valley,tombstone and las vegas nevada.When with military went to calif rock climbing in yosemite drinking with clint eastwood in carmel qand visited san fran cisco .
I hope i havent bored you to much thanks for reading ttfn
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In your own opinion, what makes someone smart?
by doodle-v inin your own opinion, what makes someone smart?
is it the decisions one makes?
iq?
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First of all may i digress for a moment Stinkypants AND jwbot are photos on your posts your true likenesses if so may i just say for the record WOW what a pair of babes .Sorry now to the case in point i have met many people over the years who are supposedly smart or intelligent and yes they have been excellent students and have recieved decrees and so on in thier chosen fields but as for me my mother taught me to read and write from the age of three (not that you would know it to look at my spelling and punctuation )when i started primary school aged five i was reading books like robinson crusoe sorry that is the only one i could remember off hand .However the teachers just wanted us to play and after about 2 years of mind numbing boredness i lost interest in school and this continued untill i left school ok ok i did pass my exams mostly grade As all without doing any revistion or study.I still learned mored from my fascination with ancient and biblical history than i ever did at school i have also got a varied working life (everything from washing up dishes to managing a five star hotel and property management .I am also very street wise and can think on my feet i have a good record of problem solving even when surrounded with supposed intellectuals .In my humble opinion being smart is usaully about attitude rather than aptitude how you deal with setbacks and whether you face problems rather than run away from them, also how you interact with fellow humans only a fool antagonises those around them only a complete idiot abuses and defrauds his fellow humans for monetary profit or material gain because sooner or later they get caught and pay the cost through lost friends business partners or once cherished relationships I try to show respect to everyone i meet to be honest as best i can in everthing this i think is being smart .
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GREAT Britain ....
by El blanko inhttp://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-13229876,00.html
if anything makes me wonder about 'last days' attitudes, it is articles of this nature.
what a shameful wasteland i live in.
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There is nothing great about britain I hate the place so much i moved to spain.As for the good samaritan people are just cowards today ,anyone can put their hand in thier pocket and pull some money out attested to by all the celebrities and other rich people who like to tell us about their charitable works .About20 years ago i witnessed something like this article .I was walking home from my girlfriends about 2am and saw a man at the side of the road lying face down next to his bycycle car after car drove past when i got next to him i saw that blood was coming out of his ears (not a good sign )this usually means skull or brain trauma (what ive been told ) anyway all i did was put my jacket under his head and call an ambulance simple really took about 20 minutes out of my night and meant he got to hospital .From what i found out later he was drunk and decided to cycle home (idiot) and fallen off he cracked his head on the pavement but was ok in the end .The point is these things have nothing to do with the good samariten but to do with treating our fellow humans with the compassion that we would expect from others.Can you imagine that woman if her son or husband found out that someone they new had left her there to die I dont know about you but i would want to kill that person .
Someone i had great respect and love for (now dead )once said anyone can talk the talk (charitable works included)it takes a courageous man to walk the walk.I NEVER FORGOT THOSE WORDS
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An Apology Regarding "The Voice"...
by AGuest into the household of god that is israel... and all those who go with them... may you have peace!.
i have been coming here for some time (although not in recent months, my sincere apologies) to share with you various truths that i have received from the truth.
for some of you, there has been little or no doubt as to the "authority" by which i share such things, the true source of such understandings: i have not refrained from confessing to you time and again that they are not mine, but are what has been given me by my lord, jaheshua mischajah, son and christ of the most holy one of israel, the god of abraham, isaac and jacob, whose name is jah or armies.
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Socrates was not a greek philosopher at all as he was born in asia minor in the very famous biblical city of ephesus.
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C of C book
by zion sleeping inafter reading the c of c book twice!
i left it on the kitchen table for my wife(died hard dub).
and i said if you want to learn the inner working of the w.t read it sure hope she does
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Hi guys,i,ve read a lot of posts on various sites about this book ,but surely this is a book written by a man who was pushed out of the gb of course he is going to be anti or can the things hes written be substantiated ?or is it just a simple case of an ex member having a one sided rant ?something ex husbands and wives do and ex employees.Just wondered as i havent read it myself YET.