That's a nice picture, John. It looks like it was taken in the country. Pretty area too. J Yes, I've lived in a rural area most of my life. This was before I transferred to a University--now I'm in the middle of 50,000. What's the deal with so few others posting a picture? Are you all shy?
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My pic
by Krystal inok guys... i think i figured it out... i have to upload the file into "my files" in order to post it?
i think i got it... lemme know if ya'll can see this... :-) .
(didn't wanna change my avatar... but personally i like putting faces to names...).
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by Krystal inok guys... i think i figured it out... i have to upload the file into "my files" in order to post it?
i think i got it... lemme know if ya'll can see this... :-) .
(didn't wanna change my avatar... but personally i like putting faces to names...).
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This was me in summer of '04.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/file/1BA56D47-E71D-471C-985E-1A92846B73F8.ashx
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My pic
by Krystal inok guys... i think i figured it out... i have to upload the file into "my files" in order to post it?
i think i got it... lemme know if ya'll can see this... :-) .
(didn't wanna change my avatar... but personally i like putting faces to names...).
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My pic
by Krystal inok guys... i think i figured it out... i have to upload the file into "my files" in order to post it?
i think i got it... lemme know if ya'll can see this... :-) .
(didn't wanna change my avatar... but personally i like putting faces to names...).
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Well, we'll try this again. This forum software leaves much to be desired.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/file/5E88C2C6-CE15-48DA-8598-AB43AC95B48B.ashx
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My pic
by Krystal inok guys... i think i figured it out... i have to upload the file into "my files" in order to post it?
i think i got it... lemme know if ya'll can see this... :-) .
(didn't wanna change my avatar... but personally i like putting faces to names...).
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http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/file/5E88C2C6-CE15-48DA-8598-AB43AC95B48B.ashxHere's me as of December of last year.
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Would you change your past if you could?
by John Doe ini used to live with many regrets, thinking that i'd screwed up.
recently, i've been thinking that regretting past actions is not constructive.
sure, we should base our current actions by assessing the results of our former actions, but regretting decisions we've made is, in effect, yearning to change the person we are now or rejecting ourselves.
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I used to live with many regrets, thinking that I'd screwed up. Recently, I've been thinking that regretting past actions is not constructive. Sure, we should base our current actions by assessing the results of our former actions, but regretting decisions we've made is, in effect, yearning to change the person we are now or rejecting ourselves. Afterall, everything that's happened to us in our lives collectively composes an environmental force that has shaped and molded us into who we are. Do those of us who regret our past have an innate self-condemnation that renders us unhappy with the means by which we've become ourselves? Are we dissastisfied with who we are today?
I've concluded that self-reflection is beneficial, but regret is bad.
How can we ever be happy with our present if we constantly go around regretting mistakes we've made, even if we learn from those mistakes?
How can we learn to be thankful for the lives we have, instead of longing for lives that will never exist?
Well, these are just some late night mind ramblings of a guy who's putting off his homework. :-)
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If God doesn't want brothers to have beards, why does it grow?
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men have facial hair and women don't, and that's god who decided that.. so why can't brothers have beards or goatees.
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" Comments like these left me stunned most of the time. That because they sacrificing so much to Jehovah they better be rewarded in the future. Like the Puritans of early American history music was bad, playing cards was bad, booze was bad. The amount of control given up equals the amount of spirituality you had. I think it's like an S&M fetish...the pain of serving God brings some mental reward somehow. Am I making any sense?"
Makes perfect sense. Not new, it's called the "Doctrine of Affliction." To early Puritans, it meant that if you're not suffering, God doesn't love you, that suffering is God's way of purifying your soul and identifying you as one marked for salvation. Of course, partially due to this doctrine, Native Americans were only seen as tools God used to afflict Christians and test their devotion, that killing Natives was perfectly acceptable because they were eternally damned from birth, no matter how good they acted.
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Would you have quit the JW's for a Worldly Person you loved?
by JH inwhen you were a devout jw, and if you would have met a man/women that really pleased you, would you have quit the jw organization for that person, if he/she asked you to?
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If you say yes to the question, does this mean that you weren't devout in the first place?
Exactly. That's kind of like saying "If your parents didn't have any children then you probably won't either." lol
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I think I might try to date a JW girl
by tsunami_rid3r intheres a new girl and her brothers down here from kansas until may.
she sounds fun, from what i've met at the gathering last night.
shes looking for a guy.
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Sounds like you need to try to think of her as a person--not an obedient object.
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Name some silly things you couldn't do as a witness
by sweet tee input your hand on your hips.
switch when you walk.
do popular dances where you shake yo money maker.
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Wow guys. I've been away from the organization for a while, and I had forgotten most of these things. You're bringing back a lot of memories. I keep thinking of the Puritan Anne Bradstreet's autobiographical tale with some of these things. You all should read it, I think you'll find it interesting. It's like the American 17th and 18th century all over again.
Interestingly, I remember always finding dissonance with the new covenant being written in the hearts of beleivers, since every appearance was so closely scrutinized. If the law was in our hearts, why did we need someone else telling us what's appropriate.
Funny, I've never realized how puritanical I'd become.