i was just wondering.
so, what do you look for in a woman?.
lilacs.
Yeah it's funny as I had forgotten so much. Now I thought about it, we had a jw connection. Her mother (when they came to Australia) became a jw! She studied and was close to baptism. Imagine our shock when we finally spoke of this! It's a small world sometimes.
Geez now I want to look her up.
i was just wondering.
so, what do you look for in a woman?.
lilacs.
I went out with a woman who looked like JayLo's lost twin and yes she was rich as well. The funny thing was the reaction of other people. People would stare and whisper, women would throw daggers eyes as their men ogled. Then they would look at me and their faces showed WTF? LOL Well the women did, the men faces were you lucky lucky bastard. When we went out she would wear these massive, flashing diamond earrings she inherited from her grandmother who lived in South America. This just added to the mystic. To answer Diana Netherton, yes I felt intimidated by the attention we got sometimes but never by her sharp intelligence. I'm sure that's why she was attracted to me (not intimidated by her).
have you ever come across words that resonate with you?
it doesn't have to be a great gem of wisdom, just something that is meaningful to you.. please share, and if you want to, tell us why it's meaningful to you.. here is something that made me nod when i first read it.... .
"fortunate are those who have learned to see, in the wild things of nature, something to be loved, something to be wondered at, something to be reverenced, for they have found the key to a never-failing source of recreation and refreshment".
“When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?” This title offends all three major religions, and even vegetarians!"
The great George Carlin.
anyone recall (tried to locate/failed) a very interesting topic within past 6 mos about latest research determining hereditary patterns in individuals but more than the usual that had been determined thru mental/brain studies previously - or something?
sorry, i tried to locate but didn't find.. appreciate.
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Ta LV101!
A quick google search brought this up but it's not the (direct) study that referred to twins and differing life outcomes e.e. one twin having depression and the other no illness but never the less a great read which leads to even more research...
anyone recall (tried to locate/failed) a very interesting topic within past 6 mos about latest research determining hereditary patterns in individuals but more than the usual that had been determined thru mental/brain studies previously - or something?
sorry, i tried to locate but didn't find.. appreciate.
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There was a thread a few weeks ago about the latest research on twins and how they are (obviously) born with the same DNA but as they grew older and their life attitudes became different their genes changed!! The power of the mind. Well that's the assumption, further research required...
said the elder who came to our door this morning.
last time he came we weren't in a position to give him one because we were doing a big cleanup.
today- well, i was in my pyjamas!.
Ha @ Snare. I went surfing at Byron Bay as a teen and never left. Currently old, so will prob die here....
my husband has started playing violent samurai video games again!
he's grown a beard!
he watched lord of the rings!.
"I think we're rediscovering our true selves."
Now there deserves an Amen!
let's pause a moment and consider the actual history of the watchtower society.. until his death, pastor c.t.russell was the driving force behind the publication of the watchtower.
russell controlled it and made provisions in his will for what would happen to the watchtower in the event of his death.
russell's writings, theology, teachings, predictions and intentions were attractive to those who joined his bible students movement.. fred franz signed on as a baptised adherent of russellism in 1913 because he was strongly attracted and persuaded by russell's message.. franz knew russell for three years until the pastor's death in 1916.. franz was ambitious to become a presbyterian minister.
quote:
"Franz had been nominated as an outstanding student for a Rhodes Scholarship. Had Franz remained in college, this prestigious scholarship might well have been awarded to him. Yet, ambitious as he was, Franz's True Believer psychology drove him to warn as many people as he could in the colporteur (Pioneer) work that Armageddon was about to occur. (According to Russell's theology.)"
Could I offer another scenario? That Franz became terrified with the (emerging from higher studies) possiblity of there being no such thing as ultimate truth so fell back on what was safe and what fitted his egoic imaginations?
On another note, full respect Terry for getting behind the watchtowewr mask of Franz.
it's a well known phenomenon i've observed from jwn, my own cos. a new co we had once who was fresh from being a normal elder and after a couple of visits he said, "well i've finally become a true co...i now have food intolerances.".
i mean, only once did my husband and i ever have a co around for dinner and they couldn't eat this, he couldn't eat that, she couldn't eat this...it was so hard to cook something with none of the zillions of things they were 'allergic' to.. and then after all that the wife couldn't come anyway because she had a naturopath appointment or something.. why do all co's seem to have weird dietary problems?.
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LOL! Good catch. I had the same experience wth them. Maybe deep(or not too) deep down, these people seriously don't want to have this unnatural life so psychosomatic illness kicks in. So many jws cannot attend meetings or preach due to "intolerances".
Actually intolerance is possibly the root cause.
no, i'm not misquoting peter talking to jesus again, or relating a conversation i had with a jw.. i'm asking something a little different.. i began my fade in jan this year and completed it at the memorial on 26th march.
since learning ttatt and becoming mentally free, my depression has improved, i see colours better, and my anxiety issues have dissolved.
i returned to teaching high school after years away from it, and am a substitute teacher at some local schools.
LOL! Let's see....Maybe a little wiser and more sure of yourself and your abilities and possibly in a completely different field of employment, something that inspires your passion.. How's that?
