"god is just an imaginary friend for adults.
" - morgan freeman, the big bounce
"I know what you're thinking, punk. You're thinking, "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, I've forgotten myself in all this excitement. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself a question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya punk?"
Harry Callahan Dirty Harry 1971
i seem to remember back in my jw days, a scripture that said something to the effect that if you publicly denounce jehover, you would never be forgiven of it?
i really want to bring this up to my ever-persistant family as a good reason for me not to come back to meetings and try to be reinstated.
i have already told them that i will never, ever, ever come back, that i don't even believe in god per-se.
Personally, this has always mystified me. How can anything possibly ever be done that is so bad as to be unforgivable in the eyes of the God of the Bible, when he forgave King Ahab for his unbelievable atrocities. The man was a fiend, yet God chose to restore him to power.
Nothing about the 'sinning against the Holy Spirit as the unforgivable sin' makes any sense in light of the story of King Ahab.
Jean
the voter turnout for the 2004 us presidential election was 60.7% (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/a10492-2005jan14.html).
despite being threatened by terrorists, iraq's voter turnout was much greater than the last us voter turnout!
i'd say it was a far greater success than expected!
a crowd surrounded the ambulance and forced the men out who were turned over to the authorities.
I was hoping this would happen! As soon as the people themselves tell the terrorists "you are no longer welcome here" it will grow increasingly difficult for them to find hiding places and support.
And on the ink dipped fingers thing; YES!
It is ridiculous how happy the voter turnout in Iraq and the courage the Iraqi people are showing has made me this morning.
Jean
man peed way out of avalanche
a slovak man trapped in his car under an avalanche freed himself by drinking 60 bottles of beer and urinating on the snow to melt it.. rescue teams found richard kral drunk and staggering along a mountain path four days after his audi car was buried in the slovak tatra mountains.. he told them that after the avalanche, he had opened his car window and tried to dig his way out.. but as he dug with his hands, he realised the snow would fill his car before he managed to break through.. he had 60 half-litre bottles of beer in his car as he was going on holiday, and after cracking one open to think about the problem he realised he could urinate on the snow to melt it, local media reported.. he said: "i was scooping the snow from above me and packing it down below the window, and then i peed on it to melt it.
it was hard and now my kidneys and liver hurt.
the man must have the bladder of a general...
J
news
mum banished from her church
jan 28 2005.
maintain our high standards."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA......<snif>...<rub eyes>... ahem...
So sorry, I thought they said they had 'high standards', couldn't possibly have read that right. Be a dear and type in the real article, won't ya luv?
Jean
here is the link to it.
it is about "al qaeda's new front" and talks about the radical muslims in europe and terrorism in general in europe.
In stereo, One. Thanks!
Jean
i am depressed.
well not in a traditional sense.
i have aquired a necrophobia.
Really wish there was something I could say to help you past this funk.
It was only after I got the boot from the org that I ever really contemplated my own mortality. It was a shock. I found myself acting like a teenager and doing some really stupid things to prove that I didn't fear death. Learned to swordfight, dive, hunt, drive a racecar, fistfight (you should see my nose), really dumb stuff. As a jw, growing up you never hear anything that makes it possible for you to think of yourself *ceasing to exist*.
I started to force myself to face it. I read the obituarys. Visited cemeteries. Read books about 'the great nothingness'. It all helped to a certain extent. One thing that helped was to think about was, why am I wasting so much of the now understood limited time that I was conscious worrying about something I could not prevent in any case? If this was all there was to life, it in itself is glorious that out of the millions of possibilities that mom and dad could have produced, *I* exist! I know who I am. I am the only one in all of human history to be *me*. There has never been another me, and would never be another one. I am unique, special, and worthy of a full life. I am worthy of being loved and having friends.
Finally, giving myself permission to be happy in spite of my short lifespan, my many hangups (both physical and mental), and my shortcomings, I am able to enjoy what I have each day, without fearing what comes next.
In the end, if this life is all I ever have and there is nothing else, I am content to have lived.
Jean
do you remember before the war with iraq -- the idiots who went over there as "human shields?
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where are they now when they could do some good -- "human shields" at the "polling" places in iraq!
I remember reading about them, Devon. I thought they were sincere but really nutz for going over there. From what I remember, a lot of them came back with a very different picture of what was going on in Iraq, and not nearly so idealistic.
Know what I wish? I wish that we could get some less biased information in the American media. I end up watching the news on FoxNews, CNN, CBS, DW TV, Telemundo, and two Indian TV stations even though I cannot understand a word said on the last two, just to be able to get a rounded picture of what is going on.
Why won't people just give the facts and stop filtering the information. It is really frustrating when trying to understand the worlds political situation when you are fed pure bull sh** by the mainstream media.
Jean
what i mean by this is how can they believe a baby shouldn't have both parents?
i truly believe both mother and father should be united together for their baby.
i posted a question regarding marrying outside the jw earlier... please help me understand this atrocity.
I've seen these tactics again and again. These people are family wreckers big time on this issue.
Jean
about a week ago it was brought to administrations attention that there may be apostates lurking on our board, as a precautionary measure we deleted 107 members who had never posted since they joined.
this morning sadly enough our attention was again directed to a possible apostate within our midst.
i don't mean to scare the pants off you fellow jwd members but it's been brought to the administration's attention that there may be apostates lurking on jwd, too.
I'm sitting here reading all this and am getting quite perturbed. Apostates have no business on this site! I am apalled that any who are not faithful and loyal JW's should be among us like wolves amongst the sheep.
Please, administrator! Make sure that when it is time to light the torches and run these apostates off the site, that you reserve one of the torches for me.
Of all the nerve!
Jean
