am a newbie here so please excuse any lack of decorum, just need to vent to people that understand.. a quick rundown: dad was an elder since i was about 3, and from the time i was 5 i wondered why he was so nice to everyone else and an arsehole to his family.
dad remained an elder until 'deposed' when i was 13, after which my 17 yr old sister 'lost faith' (although, knowing her, it happened a lot sooner).
sis left home, i got seriously depressed and tried to kill myself, after which nothing was ever the same with either my family or the 'truth' (the 'lie' is more like it).
I'm so sorry about your friend, and that you're having a bad time. Welcome to our little safe zone, I hope you can find some healing.
how does an ex-witness ever have a 'normal' relationship, where you're not constantly fighting subconscious guilt for being with the person you love?
I hope that you and your partner can talk about what you need to do to put it behind you, and that your partner can understand that it will take longer than they think it should.
as witnesses we were constantly bombarded with idea how movies are dangerous waste of time and that our time could be better spent.
i know that is exterme view but i still feel guilty when just sitting there and watching a movie like that.
i've spoken with few of my old friends and they feel the same.
I like to get about a 1:1 ratio of movies that I watch for pure entertainment value and relaxation : good productions I learn something from. I think that if you get out of the cineplex and basically out of Hollywood you find a lot of movies that are upbuilding and inspiring. I love film festivals and short films.
a good man i used to know from the jw days died today of cancer.
he was in his mid thirties and i feel really bad for his wife.
he was a great guy.
That's only one creepy thing about death in wbts. They console themselves with the thought that the one who has passed got an automatic ticket to paradise.
china is rapidly emerging as second only to the us.
it's growth rates may allow it to pass the us.
yet, interpretations of daniel and revelation say nothing about this, at least.
Guys, guys, stop panicking. I know the king of the north, it's this guy Mick who owns the servo down the road. Don't worry about it. He's got everything under control.
ok folks - here is the deal, i gained my weight back (and some more) after i got my taste buds back from last summer's cancer o' fun.. i'm calling this operation key chain because weight watcher's gives away a key chain if you lose 10% in 11 weeks.. i'm now 172 lbs - 26.9 body index.
i want to lose 12 lbs by july 1st.. who wants to join me?
post your goal here and we'll do progress updates.. my "program" is this.. 1 cup of cereal in the morning.
Well, mine is a winter weight loss program, and I'm taking mine very slowly. I want to lose 1kg per month for a year or two; perfectly doable with a few minor lifestyle changes. I don't get the massive weightloss thing, it seems unsustainable. You want to introduce changes that you're going to keep for life.
But hey, whatever floats your boat. I'm in.
have you ever noticed that at the end of the a$$emblies, you always seem to have a headache?
and this is above and beyond the one that you might get during a stressful day at work.
people seem to get them during the assemblies.
One recent Sydney DC: every infant who attended went home with gastro. I guess one kid got it, germs spread through the changeroom (and all new parents have to sit in the same hellhole together). The following year I was assigned changeroom cleaner; two people in each changeroom with disinfectant bottle to wipe down every surface, every time they were touched.
let the congregation praise jehovah.
(psalm 26:5; 89:5-7) however, most often the hebrew scriptures apply it to the israelites.
*** w06 7/1 p. 30 par.
Aw now that's just cruel.
see http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20070518/cpsoleil/70518233/5019/cpsoleil.
bye.
charles.
Speaking on behalf of the defendants was Dr David Burrows, himself a Jehovah's Witness. According to Dr Burrows, there are alternatives to blood transfusions, such as erythropoeitin (EPO), a hormone which stimulates the production and increases the number of red blood cells in the blood.
How many blood donations does it take to get a dose of EPO? Isn't it in the hundreds?
All that blood, not poured out on the ground...
i read somewhere on the pbs site that someone (can't remember who) said there could be millions of ex-jws.
is there any possible way to confirm just how many of us there are?
even a ballpark guess?
I suspect, several hundred more each day, at least in their own minds.
I wonder why chubby women wear tight pants that cause their muffin-top fatrolls to spill over like squeezed water balloons.
I have also wondered this.
