my mom isnt a big fan of guns, but after being mugged once, she appreciates the value of a well placed firearm.
she doesn't mind that i hunt and go to the shooting range regularly with my father.
about 6 months ago, i was out in field service with my mother and an elder's 2 daughters.
I personally think it's none of the elder's business. The judgmental JWs need to stop trying to do the work of their god.
As for myself, I would never carry a handgun in the car. Why not? Because I've been the victim of road rage too many times and would probably have shot someone by now. As far as home protection, I'm all for it. If someone is ignorant enough to break into my home, take things that I've worked hard for, and put my life in danger, they deserve to eat a lead sandwich.
if you could go back to when you were 18, just out of high school, what would you do?
how often would you keep in touch with your friends?
graduation was both a momentous and sad day, hugging all my friends.
It seems almost impossible to keep in touch with highschool friends. Many of them get married, move away, and start new lives. I enjoyed high school, but don't really miss many people. There are a few I'd like to contact, but they live out of state and I have no idea where to look. It's no big deal. In life people come and go, and holding on to the past just slows us down.
I'm in a place now where I'm satisfied with the small group who stops by now and then (met at work). I wouldn't want to go back and change anything. I see that you just graduated, and you'll soon discover that the friend count generally goes down after high school unless you join some sort of club. My parents have no friends at all.
i would really like to know the answer to this question--after me beeing in there for 32 years i still dont know what they have done to better the world---they leave as fast as they come in--if it was so great in the watchtower why did they leave?
there are only 6 million jws in the world--there is 6 billion in the world--all i have seen is a bunch of people like zombies---their answer to everything is field service----never call on a person that has doubts--maybe in a year they might call on that person--they rather knock on not at homes--looks better on the time sheet-it took 32 years to find out i wasted my time--too late now--sixty nine and counting--thanks for letting me share--the hag
They've created a bunch of mindless drones for one. They've also led people to abandon their true friends and family, the people who will be there no matter what, to follow their twisted cult.
I can't think of anything positive they've done for the world.
i was a jw for a number of years as a kid, but i don't remember them doing anything to help the community.
many churches in my area have soup kitchens, clothing/toy drives, and other services to help people in need.
do jehovah's witnesses ever use proceeds in this way, or are they all used to make more watchtowers, books, and kingdom halls?
I'm with you guys who like helping people. Every time I go to the Inner Harbor in Baltimore I give away at least $10 to the homeless (I would give more but things are expensive at the IH and I'm not rich).
When I was younger I went to DC with an elder and a few family members. We passed an older homeless man who apparently had mental problems, and he asked the elder for some change. He stopped, looked the man up and down, and said, "I think you'd better get a job," and then walked away. What did he think, that the man would rather live outside in filth and eat garbage than get a job? I highly doubt it.
The JWs need to get off their high horse.
while discussing the old law and circumcision today with a friend, it hit me that i had never heard the wts say anything about its modern day practice, but only discussed the historical part of it.
but considering how they love to spout out streams of knowledge concerning everything there is to know, i couldnt help but think somewhere in the last century or so, they either condoned it, or condemned it.
(of course based on the current light at the time) .
Non-religious circumcision was introduced into this country on a very small scale in the 1860s for a single purpose-TO STOP MASTERBATION!!! Circumcision was used as a deliberate surgical intervention to debilitate and desensitize the penis.
As much as American men talk about masturbating, I don't think their theory was thought through very well. I wouldn't want mine to be any more sensitive than it already is (I won't go into details, but there are reasons for that).
What's really disgusting is the practice of female circumcision in parts of Africa. When young girls reach puberty, they go to a dirt shack, are held down by their female relatives, and a "witch doctress" cuts off her clitoris while she screams in agony. I saw it on the Discovery Channel a few months ago and it was absolutely horrible. If a girl doesn't get circumcised, she's shunned by members of the village and called a whore. It's done so that women won't enjoy sex and get the urge sleep around.
Can a woman ever have an orgasm without a clitoris? At least circumcised men can have a healthy sex life.
after reading jt stumbler's topic on avatars, i recognised that certain avatars appeal to me, and i'm sure others feel the same.... .
elsewhere (no idea why, gimme a clue), ezekiel3 (says a lot), euphemism (loved the marx bros) and googlemagoogle (so classical) spring to mind, oh, ip_sec's last avatar (the red pyramid) - want to revert back ip_sec?
oh, and stillajwexelder - after reading your posting on jt stumbler's thread i realise i previously had the wrong impression - lol.
That's better, LT
Crumpet, did you transform into someone else? Don't make me go completely insane.
after reading jt stumbler's topic on avatars, i recognised that certain avatars appeal to me, and i'm sure others feel the same.... .
elsewhere (no idea why, gimme a clue), ezekiel3 (says a lot), euphemism (loved the marx bros) and googlemagoogle (so classical) spring to mind, oh, ip_sec's last avatar (the red pyramid) - want to revert back ip_sec?
oh, and stillajwexelder - after reading your posting on jt stumbler's thread i realise i previously had the wrong impression - lol.
Everyone's staring at me!!!
*head explodes*
after reading jt stumbler's topic on avatars, i recognised that certain avatars appeal to me, and i'm sure others feel the same.... .
elsewhere (no idea why, gimme a clue), ezekiel3 (says a lot), euphemism (loved the marx bros) and googlemagoogle (so classical) spring to mind, oh, ip_sec's last avatar (the red pyramid) - want to revert back ip_sec?
oh, and stillajwexelder - after reading your posting on jt stumbler's thread i realise i previously had the wrong impression - lol.
Personally, I get sort of uneasy when some people use their real pictures...I guess it depends on the facial expression used. It's like they're staring at you while you read their posts, waiting for a reaction.
Maybe I'll post mine when I work out my issues.
new to the forum & simply introducing myself.
i've enjoyed reading some of the posts here.
it is so nice to know these forums exist for poor ex-jw girls that suffer from post tramatic sheltered-from-the-rest-of-the-free-world syndrome.
Welcome. We can be new together.
listen to this: the other day my wife was talking in her sleep and she said "sister xyz died".
i just thought, well she's dreaming.
the next day one of my friends told me "sister xyz died yesterday".
Although it's dubious that the Christian god exists, premonitions make me believe that there's some spiritual force at work on our planet.
I used to have a recurring dreams about a town in the mountains. I remember standing atop a large hill, looking down on a cobblestone street lined with old brick buildings. In the center of the street were tourists, two of which were wearing orange life preservers for some reason. I'd see my stepfather standing on top of a large rock overlooking a cliff, which was supported on the right side by two metal posts. I'd then appear in a pet store with a large artificial pond in the middle of the floor. I'd walk to the reptile room and look up to see a camera with a sign underneath saying, "SMILE!"
A few years ago I took a trip to Harper's Ferry, WV. I saw everything exactly as I'd dreamed, from the cobblestone street, to the white-water-rafters wearing life preservers, to the large rock, to the pet store with the smile sign under the camera.
So yeah, I believe that dreams can very well come true. I have no idea how this works, but I've seen too much evidence, first and second hand, to not believe.
