ok i'll start.. 13 y/o or so.. once it rained for a month straight.
we had an old dry tank dump in the back that filled up with water.
there were tons of frogs that showed up and started breeding.. i was looking at them on the edge of the water through my .22 scope.
I loved eating snow. Especially right after it first snowed - good times. Now, I couldn't even imagine doing it.
Whenever we went down south, I would eat a certain type of dirt, it had an interesting taste. Again, couldn't even imagine doing that now...
hands down my all-time favorite was the flintstones.
it's just so hard for me to compare anything else to its humor,cleanliness,appeal to young as well as older ones at the time.. .
no matter how bad a mood i would be in after school i could always count on fred and barney to screw something up to make me feel better lol.
Bugs Bunny, hands down.
after your own personal experiences within the jws, do you conclude that the normal rank and file jw is worse than a person in the "world", better, or no different.
what do you base your conclusions on???.
chukyy.
I hate the terminology "worldly" full stop. And I can't see any point in comparing JDubs with those on the outside. If I were to start doing so, trying to determine who was 'better' or 'worse' then I would be as judgemental as the silly organisation (read as *cult*) I have just fled. People are just people. Live and let live.
I so agree with that statement. Do you know how may types of people there are in the world? I mean there are good and bad in everyone, people are people. Get out of the JW idea of us versus them and good versus bad and you will realize that it is individuals who determine their worth.
i'm sitting in the living room reading jwd on my laptop.
my elderly parents are in the adjacent dining room having lunch.
my mother pulls out the "daily text" and asks: "what day is it?
Your poor thing, go out and have a blast on yourself. Get a big birthday cake, make a wish and blow out the candles. They have been too conditioned by the "religion". Enjoy your day!
i look back and think of how mindless, boring and dumb it all was.
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i think of having to sit at mind numbing meetings, bored to tears, making believe i was enjoying the fine spiritual banquet.. i think of how we used to drive around in "service" looking for nothing to do----just so that we could put our time in---hoping that no one was home.. everyone had to conform to direction and whims of elders or the society.. i am soooooooooo glad i'm out!.
I can only speak for myself, but there was absolutely nothing more montonous and boring then those recycled talks they gave every week. Every to this day, I can sit in a meeting and detach because of those many years of being preached at day in and day out.
i keep on hearing you repeat that people here are "hate driven"... i don't agree... when a person realizes that they've been duped by men, and that's all the gb and the fads are, just men.... it hurts.
but i don't see very many people here as hate driven.
then you started a post that accused us of being hate filled, you gave no examples that i could see, but you later stated that you were going to research the truth on your own... have you done that in the last two days, because i'm pretty sure your post was two days ago?
but on the internet, people tend to be abrasive, and letting yourself get upset about it, or lashing out because someone on the internet was less then nice to you....well it's a never ending battle.
I just want to underscore this point. Try to detach from your emotions a bit, people debate, sometimes they let out a little steam online, but don't let it get to you. Figure out what you are trying to accomplish and then don't try to get it all from the internet. Realize the realm and see it for what it is...
everytime i talk to someone about praying they say that they pray all the time.
talk to god whenever they can.
well i'm just the opposite.
I think positive affirmations when spoken aloud can be quite beneficial.
I pray, I meditate as a Buddhist, I hum as a human - whatever your spiritual or non-spiritual belief, I don't think there is anything wrong with praying - you can define it to make it meaningful for you.
i'm just wondering because i was raised to believe that a woman should get married and have children.
i think that this is an out-dated philosophy and that girls shouldn't be taught that they have to be in a marriage to be complete.
please, discuss.
No, I don't think a woman needs to be married. It is annoying to me to see so many statistics in this country that always talk about marriage versus non-marriage for different populations, as if this actually means anything. I read a study where there are more unmarried couples than there is married couples for the first time in this country. Even relationships are becoming unconventional, so I think the entire idea of marriage and companionship is evolving.
who is the last person you would ever want to be trapped in an elevator with?
for me - tom cruise.
This is a funny topic, as I was doing some training one summer and another professor who was teaching some class used to give me the creeps. He would follow me around, ask me very personal questions and just a general pain in the you know what. I remember remarking to a friend one day, "if I was ever trapped in the elevator with this man, I don't know what I would do..." Of course it was said in jest, and in fun.
Well, the very next day, I didn't feel like taking the steps, so I caught the elevator to go down three floors and HE COMES ON. And, of course we are the only two people on there. And then the elevator stops. I get on the phone and in the most calm but pleading voice ask for assistance. They tell us that something has gone wrong with the elevator and it may take a while to get it fixed.
For exactly one hour, I am trapped in the elevator with just about the last man on earth I would want to be trapped with. He gets this stupid look on his face and I just raise my hand and I proceed to sit on the elevator floor and completely meditate for the entire hour that we were in there. It was probably the most peaceful meditation experience I had before that time, but it was hilarious, nonetheless.
i was talking about this the other day to a friend that is an attorney for abused children and we started discussing strange family practices and how they affect children.
it was during that conversation that i remembered something i hadn't thought about in years - when i was 12 years old my step-father and mother tried to practice a form of shunning (disfellowshipping) in the family.
of course it wasn't my mother's idea, it was my neurotic mentally deranged stepfather that decided because my mother and i had disagreed about something in a silly judicial meeting, that i was to be shunned from the family.
First of all your mother shouldn't of asked you to lie for her, you parents should have known better it says in the bible that liers will not inherit gods kingdom so you were just doing what was right. For your step father to do that to you was not on.......For your family not to talk to you that must of been really hard for you, sometimrs people do things that don't make any sense but at the end of the day that is there problem and not yours.
Actually, the only people that actually followed that was my step-father and mother. And even then it wasn't 100%. I think the only part that was strictly enforced is when I was home I was made to eat alone and I couldn't watch television or play with my brothers with their knowledge. Of course, this created a huge deception on the part of my brothers who would "sneak" into my room and we would talk for hours - honestly, with them nothing changed.
However, it doesn't negate the wrongness of what they did or tried to do, it was unspeakably cruel.
Looking back on it now, I feel nothing but pity for my step father and mother. If there was ever a time that I learned of KARMA it was through these acts because I have watched them suffer in more ways than I could ever write here and I witnessed their suffering up close and personal. The mistreatment of others always comes back. Always.
