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  STOP THE MADNESS....where is this board going?

  by SnakesInTheTower in

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  i've only posted since feb 07..but i have lurked for several years prior and there was usually something interesting on the board.

  as i was reading the active topics list this morning, only a couple things jumped out at me as interesting...its been this way since the dgate and tgate incidents.... i was discussing this with a long time poster via im yesterday....does it seem to anyone else that so many of the topics are ...i dont know....odd...or different than they used to be...and i dont mean that in a good way.. i miss the newbies coming on and telling us their stories.... i miss the long time posters updating us on their lives post-borg... i guess with the recent uproar, the lurkers are hesitant to become newbies (cant say as i blame them now...we probably scared them off , and maybe the vets are just as hesitant...after all, someone went 2 years with their fraud/hoax...who will believe anyone else now?

  i hope this is just a temporary cycle on this board..i have read many many posts from the archives...i hope one day soon we can get back to a happy medium here.. by the way, i like the fluff threads, but these seem to be more and more sex related (maybe that word will wake someone)... yet they get all the attention....and then someone goes too far and it gets locked down by a mod and the poster restricted......(i am not a prude...just sometimes enough is enough).

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  I can't believe I missed the sex threads... :/ LOL
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  Catfish eats two JWs, almost gets two more

  by TJ - iAmCleared2Land in

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  from http://www.maconareaonline.com/news.asp?id=18798.

  don't try to convert me, please by: lewis grizzardtues oct 23, 2007 9:05 am edt.

  macon,ga.- religious freedom is a wonderful thing.

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  Grizzard is a funny guy

  Make that was. I remember when he died. "A Great American."
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  water to wine---trick revealed

  by tula in

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  an ethnobotanist in santa cruz, california, thinks jesus was munching magic mushrooms at the last supper.

  clark heinrich says man has enjoyed the psychedelic effects of mushrooms since thousands of years before christ -- and figured the king of kings probably turned on as well.

  in fact, he thinks jesus was high on a psychedelic 'shroom known as "fly agaric" which was hailed for its taste as well as its trips.

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  Why I dont go along with the "happiness" crowd

  by Junction-Guy in

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  the old saying "happiness is the best revenge", to me that is the most rubbing statement i can ever hear right now.. .

  someone mentioned that jw's dont think anyone can have true happiness outside of their religion, i dont necessarily buy this.. .

  when someone is happy inside the borg, they say its jehovah's blessing, when someone is happy outside the borg they say that satan is blessing them.

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  Apoligies that I got off topic.

  JD- changling had said

  "Our feelings come from our thoughts. Happy thoughts=happy feelings. It really is that simple."

  My point was that there are also outside contributers that affect our emotions. I guess I have reached a conundrum. Yes, I did over-simplify things, also. Happy thoughts just don't take away one's problems.
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  Why I dont go along with the "happiness" crowd

  by Junction-Guy in

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  the old saying "happiness is the best revenge", to me that is the most rubbing statement i can ever hear right now.. .

  someone mentioned that jw's dont think anyone can have true happiness outside of their religion, i dont necessarily buy this.. .

  when someone is happy inside the borg, they say its jehovah's blessing, when someone is happy outside the borg they say that satan is blessing them.

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  OK, so let me get this straight... If I had a shitty childhood as a witness (and trust me, I did), I should then spend the rest of my free life going around feeling sad in order to rub my sadness in my parent's face.. This will somehow "prove" to them that they hurt me.

  I'm sorry, I choose not to that. I choose to be happy and welcome each and every day with open arms.

  You and you alone have the power to make yourself happy or miserable. This is a fact. You can allow external factors to color your mood or not. Our feelings come from our thoughts. Happy thoughts=happy feelings. It really is that simple.

  You have no control over what other people do, you do have control over how you feel.

  You might want to check out this book: Feeling Good by Dr. David Burns.

  You CAN be happy. Make the choice.

  I am not picking at you, seriously, but that is pretty simplified.

  I wish it were all that simple.

  And I do for the most part think positively most of the time.

  BUT (you had to know that was coming )

  Thinking happy thoughts is not going to take the cancer away from my Mother. It's not going to take away my Father's ahlzeimer's disease.

  It doesn't take away the financial strain on me that they didn't save anything for their retirement because "this old world" was going to end soon.

  And a lot of other problems that I am not going to bother to list.

  Wallowing in the misery isn't the answer, but just "putting on a happy face," isn't feasable in some situations.

  I have been pretty pissed off the last year. But it's mostly because I've let myself be that way. I won't be this way forever, but right now I am.

  When I was a dub everything was about suppressing your emotions and putting on that fake witnoid smile.

  Sorry for the semi-rant.
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  tired of being an apostate

  by Hortensia in

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  i'm tired of being an apostate, atheist, agnostic, take your pick.

  i was going to start calling myself a heretic, but then i decided to look up apostate in the thesaurus.

  look at all the lovely words we have to choose from:.

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  I, also, like heretic.
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  I'm in a position to make a very difficult decision...

  by FreedomFrog in

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  ok, here's the thing.... i have a 2004 ford taurus.

  it's really nice with sun roof /power seats/heated side mirrors/the works and it's mine but with a payment of $310.

  i was just offered to take a 1995 saturn (still runs decent) for the taurus but with the '95 i will not have a payment though there will be more maintenance on it.. i love my taurus, it makes me feel like i'm still human but i'm very much strapped with finances.

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  Parts on a GM, which is basically what a Saturn is shouldn't be very expensive. It all depends on what parts break. And where you get them. ( I work for an auto parts manufacturer, I don't get parts wholesale, but I do know what fair retail values should be. )
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  I'm in a position to make a very difficult decision...

  by FreedomFrog in

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  ok, here's the thing.... i have a 2004 ford taurus.

  it's really nice with sun roof /power seats/heated side mirrors/the works and it's mine but with a payment of $310.

  i was just offered to take a 1995 saturn (still runs decent) for the taurus but with the '95 i will not have a payment though there will be more maintenance on it.. i love my taurus, it makes me feel like i'm still human but i'm very much strapped with finances.

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  I have 96 Camry. In 2006 I spent, 600 dollars, maybe, on repairs, and upkeep. This year I have spent about the same. I can't afford a newer car. If I paid 300 a month on a new car, I would be spending 3600 a year. It would more than likely double, if not triple, my insurance. My car gets great mileage. My insurance is pretty freaking low. I don't know about Saturns. If you do decide to do it, I would first get the older one thoroughly inspected. Might cost abit but I do think it would be worth it.
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  All call for "the happiness crowd"!

  by changeling in

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  all are welcome to join.

  all you have to do is be happy and positive.

  you must honestly want to spread your happiness infectiously throughout the world.. you must try to wear a smile most of the time.. you must listen compassionately and give good hugs.. i does not matter if you are not currently feeling happy, but you must promise to summon the feeling from within yourself.

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  LOL , JD... So maybe I should stop living by the "Never say things can't get any worse, because they can," philosophy?
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  All call for "the happiness crowd"!

  by changeling in

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  all are welcome to join.

  all you have to do is be happy and positive.

  you must honestly want to spread your happiness infectiously throughout the world.. you must try to wear a smile most of the time.. you must listen compassionately and give good hugs.. i does not matter if you are not currently feeling happy, but you must promise to summon the feeling from within yourself.

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  I've been doing that for almost 34 years now. :D