The way I look at guilt is if I have done something wrong I do my best to put it right, if I can't fix it I move on as there is nothing I can do about it and feeling guilty over it won't change a thing. I will learn from my mistake and try not to repeat it, but I won't engage in punishing myself with guilt.
Big Dog
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Self Pity and other worthless emotions.
by Big Dog ini never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.
a small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
d.h. lawrence.
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Self Pity and other worthless emotions.
by Big Dog ini never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.
a small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
d.h. lawrence.
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Big Dog
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
D.H. Lawrence
I remember reading the above in one of my college literature classes and it really striking a chord with me about how useless and self destructive self pity is.
Of all the things we can feel I believe that self-pity and guilt are the worst. What do you think are the most worthless emotions/feeling we can have?
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Indoctrination 101: The Sep KM insert - From Student to Publisher
by truthseeker inmost of us who have/are associated with jehovah's witnesses are familiar with the indoctrination process and how it works.. well, for those of us who want to see the process from start to finish, the watchtower has very kindly included an insert in the.
september kingdom ministry, entitled conducting progressive bible studies.. .
my comments are in red, interesting comments are highlighted.
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Big Dog
I went through the RCIA classes at the Catholic Church as I married a Catholic and wanted to know more about what she believed. I was really surprised at the difference in methods they used, but I guess that's the difference between a mainstream religion and a cult.
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Arnolds Body Building Tips!
by ASchwarzenegger inhello all you noodle kegs,.
this shall be my thread of revealing my secret training tips, because as i'm getting old and senile i may not recall everyting precisely.. .
here is some tips on how to work out when your not around a gym.
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Big Dog
Vhat is dis about?
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Giant galaxies in early universe
by zagor inspitzer and hubble team up to find "big baby" galaxies in the newborn universe .
two of nasa's great observatories, the spitzer and hubble space telescopes, have teamed up to "weigh" the stars in several very distant galaxies.
one of these galaxies, among the most distant ever seen, appears to be unusually massive and mature for its place in the young universe.
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Big Dog
I am watching "Contact" as I read this, the whole scale of the thing is just beyond comprehension. I just keep thinking about that line about if we are the only life what a huge waste of space.
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My Surgery is coming up soon........
by whyamihere inwell my doctor doesn't want to wait any longer.
on friday sept 30th i have my angiogram.
my step mother is so wonderful.
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Big Dog
Brooke, hope all goes well, I'll be thinking of you.
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Marriage and Age
by pratt1 in.
would you marry someone more than 15 years older or younger than yourself?.
it seems to be somewhat common for men to marry women significantly younger than them selves, but when a woman marries a man much younger, it seems to generate a lot of attention.. what are your thoughts?
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Big Dog
FHN, I agree, its a decision each person has to make for themselves weighing the possible benefits against the possible problems. I guess I just come from the school of thought of there are enough problems that crop up in life even with the best planning that I am not going to add anything to that mix, but then when possible "true love" comes into play, that can change everything. So many unknowns when trying to make decisions in life.
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Marriage and Age
by pratt1 in.
would you marry someone more than 15 years older or younger than yourself?.
it seems to be somewhat common for men to marry women significantly younger than them selves, but when a woman marries a man much younger, it seems to generate a lot of attention.. what are your thoughts?
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Big Dog
FHN, she still loves him, there is no question about that, but the realities of the situation are not pleasant either. She has become a nuresmaid to him and he despises that much more than she does. They can no longer enjoy each other as they used to or do things together like they used to, true that can happen to any couple due to an accident etc. but statistically its not as likely as old age to come into play.
I think there is a lot to be said for growing old together rather than one after the other.
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Marriage and Age
by pratt1 in.
would you marry someone more than 15 years older or younger than yourself?.
it seems to be somewhat common for men to marry women significantly younger than them selves, but when a woman marries a man much younger, it seems to generate a lot of attention.. what are your thoughts?
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Big Dog
Speaking just from what I have seen, I agree that when both are relatively young and healthy its not such a big deal, but at the far end it becomes a huge issue I think. My mother in law is 60, her husband is 80, and not a healthy 80 where as she is a vigourous 60. It is very difficult for them now, she is raring to go and he is nearly wheelchair bound and not very healthy or energetic at all.
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What would you have done?
by defd inwhat would you have done back in the 1st century when jesus came on the earthly stage and started christianity.
would you have became his follower?
how about after he left the earth and christianity began to spread by means of the apostles, would you have been involved in the many congregations that were started throughout the area?
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Big Dog
Derrick,
Don't want to ignore your questions, asked the wife about the kissing of statues, she doesn't do it, and most don't do it (I personally have never seen it done in over 10 years of attending) but explained at length that for those that do is it not idolitry as they are not worshiping the statue, it is merely an act of respect and reverence for what the statue reperesents, a fine distinction, but to my JW roots plausible as the JW's were excellent in legalistic distinctions (ie. blood fractions vs. whole blood).
As for the scriptures, most protestant faiths subscribe to sola scriptura, my understaning is that means that everything is contained in the bible, therefore church from the bible. The wife says the Catholic church believes the Bible was a product of the church and that there were traditions and teachings passed down by Jesus and the apostles that are not contained in the bible. Since the bible was not put together until around the 3rd century it makes sense to me that what the christian congregations were doing prior to the bible being assembled had to come from somewhere, so I understand the tradition arguement.
Where the heck is Jeff Schwelm, he can explain this stuff so much better than I can second hand.
I'm not advocating any position (Catholic, JW, etc.), just that once I got passed my JW bred thinking that the Catholic church was completely insane and actually looked at some of their teachings with an open mind, I have to admit they are not as silly as I was raised to believe, certainly no more so than the JW's.
BD