Chris, I think its worth it to get your Ph.D. After all, especially if the atheists are right, all we have at the end of the line is the sum of our memories and accomplishments, build as many as you can in my opionion.
Big Dog
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You Can't Get It Back
by Big Dog inthe higher education thread got me thinking about the thing i loathe, despise, hate with the intensity of a thousand suns about the wbts, namely, the loss of my childhood.
i remember when engaging in blistering arguements with my parents about being able to play sports or take up an instrument or dream of being an astronaut, or whatever thing the society frowned on that i wasn't allowed to do at the end i would always get the same final reply, "when you are 18 and out of the house you can do whatever you want.
i can go back and play pop warner football, or little league baseball, or play in the school band, etc?
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Interview on JWs on National Radio Program Sept. 14th
by jschwehm inhi gang:.
i got a call from the producer for al kresta's radio program on the ave maria radio network.
they are going to interview me about my journey from the jws to the catholic church.
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Big Dog
Give 'em hell Jeff.
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You Can't Get It Back
by Big Dog inthe higher education thread got me thinking about the thing i loathe, despise, hate with the intensity of a thousand suns about the wbts, namely, the loss of my childhood.
i remember when engaging in blistering arguements with my parents about being able to play sports or take up an instrument or dream of being an astronaut, or whatever thing the society frowned on that i wasn't allowed to do at the end i would always get the same final reply, "when you are 18 and out of the house you can do whatever you want.
i can go back and play pop warner football, or little league baseball, or play in the school band, etc?
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Big Dog
I hear you guys, its like you want to climb mountains? Fine let me check for the closest moutain climbing school. College is a given if they want to go. Whatever they want to try I am behind 100%. Then it hits me how different that is from the way I was raised, and the way that I see my siblings (all dubs) raising theirs. Two of my nephews are at Bethel, neither have ever been on a date, been to a dance, taken a college class, played a down of football or an inning of baseball. Just makes me sick.
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Losing My Mind
by joelbear ini feel like i have been slowly losing my mind since the age of 10 or so, maybe before that.
the process seems to be speeding up.
it may just be an inevitable fact of my existence.
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Big Dog
Do whatever you have to do to take care of yourself.
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You Can't Get It Back
by Big Dog inthe higher education thread got me thinking about the thing i loathe, despise, hate with the intensity of a thousand suns about the wbts, namely, the loss of my childhood.
i remember when engaging in blistering arguements with my parents about being able to play sports or take up an instrument or dream of being an astronaut, or whatever thing the society frowned on that i wasn't allowed to do at the end i would always get the same final reply, "when you are 18 and out of the house you can do whatever you want.
i can go back and play pop warner football, or little league baseball, or play in the school band, etc?
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The higher education thread got me thinking about the thing I loathe, despise, hate with the intensity of a thousand suns about the WBTS, namely, the loss of my childhood. I remember when engaging in blistering arguements with my parents about being able to play sports or take up an instrument or dream of being an astronaut, or whatever thing the society frowned on that I wasn't allowed to do at the end I would always get the same final reply, "When you are 18 and out of the house you can do whatever you want."
Oh really. I can go back and play Pop Warner football, or little league baseball, or play in the school band, etc? And the worse thing is, even some of the things I could do aren't the same as they are when you are a child. Sure I can go play slo pitch softball now with the guys from the office, but that isn't the same as it is for a kid playing little league baseball when he can devot his whole being to it and dream of being the next Mickey Mantle or Willie Mays, its a bunch of old guys with creaky knees and beer guts goofing off. The magic that accompanies the activities for a child is gone as an adult, the dreaming of what could be when life is still largely unlived and all possibilities are all still wide open.
You can't get it back. That's why we punish crimes against children so harshly, once you strip a child of their childhood you can't give it back, they are forever changed and scared and the innocence is gone. The WBTS stripped me and so many others of the dreams and joy that should have been my right as a child and I hate them for it, because I can't get it back.
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OCT 1st WT SLAMS HIGHER EDUCATION.....AGAIN
by Mary innot sure if this was posted yet, but the boys in bethel are at it again.
the october 15th botchtower study article is, not so surprisingly, very negative and down on any parents that are encouraging their children to go to university.
i don't have a scanner here, so i'll have to highlight some of the more vomitous (is that a word?
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Big Dog
For me higher education is the coup de grace, what makes me truly despise the WBTS begins much younger, namely the eliminations of choice for a child and the stunting of their development. So many choices are removed from a dub childs life, to play sports, to date, to become a musician, to pursue the performing arts, and on and on it goes. So many possible paths are closed to dub children, so many avenues of growth and fullfillment of potential are never considered of which a higher education is one of the last the parents can shut down for a child before they become an adult through the mind control and guilt manipulation that begins when they bring the child home from the hospital.
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T.Rex T.Rocks!!!
by Nosferatu inearlier this week, i picked up the re-release of the t.rex movie "born to boogie".
i absolutely love it and have been watching it non-stop!.
tonight i'm going out to karaoke and i'll be singing nothing but t.rex tunes.. any other t.rex fans out there?
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Big Dog
Bang a Gong, get it on. I'll have to check it out.
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What song reminds you of your first crush/lover?
by JH in.
probably you'll have to go way back in time... .
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Big Dog
Oh man, Loverboy, Working for the Weekend was the biggest hit they ever had, it was an anthem on Friday nights.
Hmm, junior high dance (I was already doing what the hell I wanted by Junior High), girl named Stephanie, first dance, first kiss, the song was Sometimes When We Touch by Dan Hill.
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Why do the leave without telling us ..............?
by vitty indo you worry when posters go missing?.
on minute there posting everyday the next nothing.
i was thinking of jez, but there are many more.
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Big Dog
I think people refrain sometimes from posting either "taking a break" or "leaving" threads so as not to appear to be attention seekers.
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Dogs and Communion
by Justin ini have been attending an independent church lately where they allow people to bring their pets (dogs) and give them communion.
for those who don't know the procedure, people file down to the front of the church and receive a piece of bread and a sip of wine - of course, they don't have two classes.
well, if you have your doggie with you, the pet can also receive (i assume only the bread - what a mess it would make for them to slurp from the chalice!).
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Big Dog
Makes me think of Mel Gibson in one of the Lethal Weapon movies, where he says that he couldn't shoot a dog, a person no problem, but never a dog. I have heard it said that dogs are better people than people.