ladies and gentlemen..................... pass on this big peice of crap.
i went to see it today....... omg........ has will smith in it............ and it sucked.
made you so damn depressed........ .
I had to remind myself that they weren't 'zombies (walking dead)' but humans living with some crazy stuff! Also kept in mind that they had something that was like rabies taken to the 1000th extreme.
Seeing an abandoned NYC was pretty weird for this jersey devil!
*I didn't read the books or see the movies this film was adapted from. I was a blank slate.
dear family:.
i want to apologize for my long-term absences.
i miss communicating with all of you.
((((Mario))))
I miss you and wish I could see you now. That embrace will be waiting.
LOVE & BESOS
~L
do you feel more inner peace now or when you were serving as a jw?.
no matter if the teachings were wrong, or not exact, i had more inner peace when i was "in".. i remember when i got operated for a hernia, and had to be put asleep, while i was a jw in good standings.
i knew that god would resurrect me if ever something went wrong, and i didn't wake up from the operation.. today if i had to undergo an other similar operation, i'm not sure i'd have the same inner peace.. i think that no matter what religion you practise, no matter if it's false or not as false, you develop this inner peace, that may only be an illusion..
More inner peace now and I continue to seek it through my own pursuit of happiness. Every day gives me more hours to do so.
ladies and gentlemen..................... pass on this big peice of crap.
i went to see it today....... omg........ has will smith in it............ and it sucked.
made you so damn depressed........ .
I thought it was an intense movie to watch and not a waste of my money.
I ROBOT sucked!
I found the not-so-happy ending to be a refreshing change to the way nearly every action movie ends.
One part that did annoy me was the way one character was "told by gawd" some very important information and when she got to her destination she was met by some large gates that opened to a church and steeple with the church bell ringing. Gawd saved her but I guess gawd forgot about the other 99.999% of the population. One of gawd's worst miracles to date.
Me, too, Els!
This week--Sweeney Todd & National Treasure 2
i've got one post for the next 14 hours so i figure i'll make it count.. when i was 21 i began to really question the state of the world.
you know- "is this life all there is, yadda yadda.
" that sort of thing.
ATHEISTS - How can you believe that we have no designer or creator as amazing as humans are?
Acceptance of the possibility that we didn't come from a universal being. Then, acceptance of the non-existence of it. I had to let go of what I wanted to be there and accept what IS here NOW. Some people call that outlook "bleak", yet I see it as the most life-loving and appreciating view there is because it is free of borders.
my daughter is still not decided on a baby name.
she wants the name to start with a j...... .
do you all have any suggestions, please?
My baby girl is Jordyn.
I like Julianna, Jocelyn, Jenna and Janelle.
i've been attempting to infiltrate my friend's christmas traditions in an attempt to understand and appreciate the holiday.
i only had christmas until i was 5 when my mom converted to jw.
before that, christmas was really big in our house.
And people really can't appreciate what it's like to not have had these holidays growing up and to now be trying to assimilate them.
You're right. People cannot appreciate that because an overwhelming majority of the human population has never had squat to do with the JW way of thinking.
I grew up with xmas and I enjoy it even more now that I have kids.
What makes the holiday great is the fun that is had with friends/family when there's no school or work to worry about in the middle of winter! MEMORIES! It takes time to make memories around one particular day out of the year.
20 years from now, how will you feel? :)
~L
greetings, friends:.
i recently put up a thread entitled "when can i comment?
" new to the thought process of critical thinking, i have felt overwhelmed by the wealth of information now available to a mind opened up to society-banned material.
Great posts, here!
I always kind of suspected that god was a made up figment of humans' imaginations. By the time I began studying with the jw's at 21 (by golly-just like that JWD Character Fullofdoubtnow/Linda!), I had spent enough time in various churches to be done w/religion. Prior to age 21, I hated god. Still, I wanted to believe in the bible god, or the universal-non religious god or the divine being/higher power/answer to what happens when we die other then we are just dead....etc.
After pulling back from their bible studies and meetings, I began to question them, then other religions--like whether I should be with them or not, and then I questioned the existence of a divine being. I meditated deeply on the possibility of a divine being and realized that although it was possible given humans' requirements for such, it sure as heck wasn't likely.
"How on earth can I ever live without God?!" I cried. I had never actually lived WITH god in the first place. I was born with a LACK of belief until my parents/grandparents (shoot-everyone around me!!!) drilled the belief in my head. Since there is nothing telling me "I am god" except those who try to escape from greystone park, I simply let it go and accepted that I had to embrace a new way of living, of thinking--that is completely absent of a higher being's involvement. There was no risk of anyone getting hurt in all of this.
That was the only change. I was still me, I learned.
i'd like to share a sample from the book entitled:.
the courage to heal: a guide for women survivors of child sexual abuse by ellen bass and laura davis.
i see this as beneficial to both genders, though.
bumping this old thing....
i've finished writing my novel (50 thousand words) about my years spent in federal correctional prison when i was an obedient little jw.. the editing and rewriting stage now commences.. i need your help!.
here is how you can help me.. i can't know what an outside mind wants to find out concerning this experience.
i can only conjure up what seems interesting to me.. tell me what you want to know about such a personal experience.. that will give me a checklist to compare to what i've written already.. i may have missed many little details which are very important to a reader.. i may have neglected essential questions which must be answered in order to satisfy the mind.. please offer me your curiousity.. thanking you in advance; i appreciate your taking the time to advance my novel to the finish line.. (i wrote it as a fictional work because i could not honestly write about myself without the distance of this device.. so, i made myself into a character with a different name.. the identity of everyone else is non-fiction.
Hi Terry,
Apologies if these have been addressed already:
When you were incarcerated, did any thought ever enter your mind that maybe there is no such thing as god?
What gave you the wisdom to only think on the inside rather than live in an illusion of outside thinking while in a correctional facility?
What kind of person do you speculate you would be today if your thinking at that time allowed you to see the realization that the jw's in your cong. were only living on the outside without compassion for those that were in?
