thanks to the supportive words and encouragement of many here, i am now officially a student at arizona state university.. i just went to campus, and got a hard copy of the general catalog at the book store, and i went to the computer lab to setup my access.
just seeing the young and old, people of all sorts of ethnic backgrounds, milling around campus, all engaged in the wonder of learning, made me take pause and think about how silly the jw prohibition on college is, and how completely a learning environment can shatter the witness world view.
part of me wanted to cry, and another part of me was intrigued by the hot young college chicks...heh.. it is wonderful to be able to make choices for oneself.. any recommendations for my first course?
one of my favorite GE classes was Biopsychology...
try also:
Music (always fun and pretty easy)
Linguistics
Environmental studies (I had a course in the Geography dept)
Women's Studies (nice to have a class with a healthy female:male ratio)
cellomould
"In other words, your God is the warden of a prison where the only prisoner is your God." Jose Saramago, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
lately ive been feeling really paranoid about the post with worst congs i tried deleting mine but cant.
im probably stressing over nothing.
maybe my meds need adjusting, i dont know.
Marilyn,
I especially appreciated your comments. Exercise is wonderful!
Sometimes it feels like hitting a wall trying to exercise after being inactive for a while.
But the benefits....!
cellomould
"In other words, your God is the warden of a prison where the only prisoner is your God." Jose Saramago, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
if you had to describe your life through a fantasy character in a film, who would it be?
if you cant figure out any movie role that fits, what would be a role you would love to live?.
i kind of see my life a bit like the character neo in the matrix but at times would like to live a life like tom hanks in castaway.. what about you?
Edward Norton in
FIGHT CLUB!
(I've often wondered whether I have a somnabulatory night life; I often wake up exhausted after many hours of sleep.)
"In other words, your God is the warden of a prison where the only prisoner is your God." Jose Saramago, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
getting someone out (part 2).
in the previous thread of this series:.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=20047&site=3.
The dependence part is the worst, Mind...
This is what unloving parents do to their children; they comfort their children for the hurts they inflicted.
I recall one or two such instances with my parents.
Not nice.
"In other words, your God is the warden of a prison where the only prisoner is your God." Jose Saramago, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
for me, the word was "loving".. great "loving" kindness.. great undeserved "loving" kindness!.
disfellowshipping is a "loving" provision.. when the wtbts want their accolytes to swallow another bitter pill, another restriction, another rebuke, another demand on time, the buzz word is "loving".. the "loving" word, is, to the average jw, the same as the mccabe nod is to the salesman.
the mccabe nod is used by salesman all the time to get the prospective customer to agree to something that he doesn't care for too much.
used often in WT study comments:
'also too...'
in prayers:
'the whole worldwide association of brothers'
'thank you for this day of life'
'your lofty throne'
'sin and fall ashort' ha ha ha :)
gosh, there are so many more that I can't remember at the moment
cellomould
"In other words, your God is the warden of a prison where the only prisoner is your God." Jose Saramago, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
i must say i thoroughly enjoyed doing streetwork for the first time in my life!!.
it was really cold here in chicago yesterday,snow clouds looming in the sky.
about 10 am i decided to run home for my cofee break.. as i rushed down the main street,walking quickly,i saw 2 groups of jw's w/ their mags on the main street near home.. i haven't seen any around my territory since last spring.. humph i thought.. i double-timed it home,bundled up,grabbed my stacks of silentlambs posters and ran back to the main street.. i stood on the corner,several feet ahead of them and started saying hi to passers by.
Those few hours pleased Jehovah Sister Valentine,
but have you given serious prayerful thought to pioneering as a way of life?
lol!
well done! (dontcha still feel a little guilty? I kinda do just hearing about it)
playing apostate kingdom songs on my cello
"In other words, your God is the warden of a prison where the only prisoner is your God." Jose Saramago, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
part 1. i thought it might be advantageous to discuss effective ways of getting someone out of the borg and to dispel some myths we might be entertaining about beliefs and changing them.
in this thread i was hoping to start a discussion about the sociology of the witness belief system and how this can be used to help people escape from the mental trap they have found themselves in.
the first outside book i ever read about jws was in the late 1970s by james beckford.
Hi Mindchild,
You have received some major traffic here! I really enjoyed reading this. Hopefully I can use these suggestions.
Long ago, I became frustrated and told my fiancee (or my recently ex-fiancee)"What you think is the truth, isn't."
That was pretty blunt, but she was really asking for it.
She told me in one of our last conversations that she still hopes I will come back. I hope I can remain somewhat in touch with her and share what's going on in my life. (which I usually have refrained from doing)
I see where I can be a better friend.
Thanks,
cellomould
"In other words, your God is the warden of a prison where the only prisoner is your God." Jose Saramago, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
i suppose that if i were an avid reader of the various astronomy magazines available i'd have more of an understanding about this.
for quite some time i've wondered how astronomers must calculate that there are so many galaxies (although obviously they don't know the precise number).
i figure that it apparently has to do with first determining that certain points of light, visible through telescopes, are farther out than our own "milky way" galaxy.
Here's an interesting thought:
Compare stars with the sparks you may see, for example, from a fire.
Imagine that the lifetime of a spark (~ 1 sec) was as long as the lifetime of a star. (~ billions of years)
Or, put another way, how interesting would it be to watch the sparks created and destroyed in slow motion?
If someone watched the 'big bang', at it lasted only 3 seconds in their frame of reference, what clue could they possibly have about the intricate details of our 'universe' much less our little planet?
cellomould
"In other words, your God is the warden of a prison where the only prisoner is your God." Jose Saramago, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
last night my husband and i went to dinner at a new restaurant to us.
it was a thai place.
as we walked up, we could see that most of the tables were occupied by asians, a good sign.
Mulan, you aren't invisible,
But Princess is
I miss your pretty face, Princess Rachel.
(and no, you aren't nearly old enough to be my mother )
cellomould
"In other words, your God is the warden of a prison where the only prisoner is your God." Jose Saramago, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
my exit introduction .
over the next few weeks or months, i will post an accounting of my exit process in a series of 15 short stories.
it will be part of my permanent notes that may someday be incorporated in a book likely a private book for my children and grandchildren.
The simplest way to end thread hijacking is to ignore the hijackers...
Amazing, I would love to hear your stories
all 15
If anyone spends more time criticizing you than reading your posts, well, that's on them.
cellomould
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." Edmund Burke
