Posts by Sad emo

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Ok, here's the deal...

by Mastodon in

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i'm totally stressing out.

it's been over a year since i faded out and my mom and me are not getting along too well.

she is the only dub in the family now that i'm out of the borg.

Sad emo

I love my mother, but I know we will have it out.

It might not happen. I can only talk from the way I've sometimes gone about handling my own issues, I've found that if you go in expecting bad to happen then it has more chance of happening because you're already on the defensive and they've more chance of picking up the 'vibes'

Whether it does or doesn't happen, just stay cool and take lots of deep breaths!

If you do end up having it out with her, I hope she goes for option B!

Hope all goes well. Let us know.

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when that gut feeling turns out to be right.............

by happehanna in

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i was concerned about my friend and worried as they hadn't returned my calls or emails, so i thought i would travel to see him, and find out if my bad feeling was nothing to worry about.. he had died and i will miss him, i knew, my insides knew and it hurts.. he was my secret and it seems to hurt more as i have no-one to share the grief with.

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Sorry about your loss. Hang on to the good memories.

Praying for you. se

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Perhaps All Roads do Lead to Rome

by LouBelle in

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i enjoy discussing god with people from all walks of life & all beliefs.

this is just something that has been skipping about in my brain...is it possible that god appeared to different cultures as different gods????

to the jews of the ancient days he appeared as yahweh, to the buddhist as budda, to the christians as jesus, to the moselim as allah etc etc.. i know the witnesses taught that everyone doesn't worship the true god & not all religions lead to god.

Sad emo

I would think if there is a God and he isn't evil that could be a possiblity.

GBL - I think there is a loving God - it's just mans interpretations that messes things up. In a way some have 'created' an evil God (hope it makes sense, it kinda did when I wrote it!)

LouBelle, it's a good point. I often wondered that myself in the past. Maybe the closest to this idea is Hinduism (I haven't learnt much about it so forgive me if I'm wrong) where they believe all the great people who lived eg Jesus, Buddha were manifestations of God or Avatars.

When I studied Islam a few years back, I was also taught there that all these people were messengers for their own time and their own people (so they believe that Jesus was the Messiah to the Jews) so that they would understand God's message. The last prophet, Muhammad was the final messenger to the whole world because he was given God's perfect message in the Qur'an.

It makes you think if they are all pointing the same direction but just haven't realised it yet.

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HAHA TAKE THAT U OZZIES

by tijkmo in

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england 179-8. australia 79 all out in 14 overs.

bring it on

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I found a few changes here - looks like they might be the main ones.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/4623031.stm

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The Mosaic Law and JW's

by jimakazi in

jesus did away with the mosaic law.. .

on this basis jw's eat pork if they wish, do not have to maintain a beard, and do not observe the sabbath.. .

however the jw's seem to apply aspects of the mosaic law when it suits them - for instance they often quote it to support their postion on blood.

Sad emo

I think my questions connected but sorry if I go slightly off thread here. Something that I've wondered a lot about is the stance on eating blood. I don't understand why JW's are ok to eat non-kosher meat - which still has blood in it. Even if the Mosaic law doesn't apply any more, there is still the letter in Acts commanding Christians to abstain from blood. I can't make it add up.

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If you don't go to mass, you're out on your ass!

by Soledad in

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Sad emo

This doesn't surprise me. Assuming that it is ok not to put anything in the offering envelopes, the parents whos kids have been kicked out can't claim 'financial manipulation' The priest should have gone and checked out why the folks weren't attending though - as is shown, sometimes there are genuine reasons. (But speaking from personal experience they rarely go searching for those who have disappeared)

I think the good side of this in some ways is that it sorts out the 'genuine' Catholics from the 'superstitious' ones who think that the sacraments are the only ticket required to get into heaven (I don't mean that with any ill intent, sorry if I haven't worded it very well)

Another thing that sometimes happens here (don't know how it is in other countries) is that parents get their children baptised/christened purely to ensure that they can get them into the church schools when they get older (church school education seen as better than other state schools - open to question!). I remember the priest where I used to go being on the front page of the local paper for 'refusing' to baptise a child - all he had done was request that the parents who didn't attend church, go on a 6 week course to learn the 'implications' of bringing up a child in the Catholic church. The parents had refused so he said sorry but...

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Intro/Is it ok for me to be here?

by Sad emo in

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is it ok for me to be part of your 'gang'?

you see i'm not a jw and never have been and a bit of of me feels like i'm gatecrashing.. i was raised in a strong roman catholic family - i was expected to believe everything the church taught without question and i did.

when i left school, i found myself working with an evangelical christian who, because she questioned my beliefs slowly made me look into them for myself - i truly hated her at the time for doing that and admit that i made her life a misery in revenge - but eventually i began to see that some of the stuff she was saying was right, we became very good friends and my real journey out of the rc church began.. i was too scared to leave straight away because of the doctrines i'd grown up with - no salvation outside the church and you can only really communicate with god through the priest (big issue here was how do i get my sins forgiven cos if i don't i'm gonna go to hell) - it was another 10 years before i finally plucked up the courage to leave and this was because of two things that happened:.

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Thanks for the encouragement again you guys. I had a particularly rough last few days (which is partly why I posted) I spent most of my life being controlled by church and home so I'm not great on the art of conversation and debate. Guess this is a good place to learn! Please be patient if I sound a bit stupid at times!

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e-foot in mouth, does anyone else have this problem??

by Frog in

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hey guys don't know about you but i got through these periods where i seriously put my foot in it via email, forums, txt messages etc.

in real life i'm quite diplomatic and have a knack for saying the right thing.

the sort of thing i'm talking about is replying to all in an email, rather than just replying to sender, and disseminating a whole bunch of information to people you never intended it for.

Sad emo

I didn't used to have, but I do now - or perhaps I was a carrier all the time but only just showed the symptoms. It's never intentional though, I'm just not good at expressing myself and come across as a bit blunt or downright stupid and unthinking at times

Text messages I have a big problem with too, but thats because I haven't got used to the predictive texting principle yet so I put wrong words in.

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What words and phrases do Brits and others see as 'American'?

by sonnyboy in

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as an american, i see words such as cheerio, blimey, bloody (when referring to something negative), loo, bugger, fag (cigarette), etc.

as chiefly british (i suppose they are).. what words and/or phrases do you consider to be chiefly american?

i'm honestly unaware of which words i use that may not be used in other english-speaking countries.

Sad emo

English - non rhotic (except certan parts of England, like in the North)

We pronounce car non-rhotic in Yorkshire but in parts of Lancashire (Lancasheer!) which are close to us theres a sudden switch to rhotic within a short distance (about 5-6 miles/10km) you get some interesting mixtures of the two accents around here.

My friend who now lives in NJ says the Americans pronounce our place names which end 'borough' as 'burg' . Any ideas how it got to that? my hunch is its possibly a German/Dutch influence?

On spelling differences, Americans drop the 'u' from words such as colour - color

jgnat - do you pronounce kewl as its written? k(y)ewel has become quite popular around here - although I think it developed more from a certain Australian footballer (er - soccer player!) who used to play for Leeds United!

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Sponsoring Kids

by hamsterbait in

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i sponsor a couple of kids in the third world.. how many do that?

i reckoned that i could easily give some of the money i spent on booze and do some good.. what bugs me is that i want to go and find the little ones and rescue them from their hell.

then when i see how many children are suffering i get all upset and want to drink again, because i can't see that me doing anything is any good.. maybe i should just get rid of the tv.... hb

Sad emo

I sponsor a child through Compassion. I write to her and she writes to me and sends photos and school reports. I also sponsor two elderly people through Help the Aged as in some poorer countries, the ones who can't 'contribute' anything to society tend to be the ones who suffer.

Like everyone else who's posted says, we can't fix all the world's problems, it's a case of doing what little bit you can to aleviate a situation. It proves you care and that counts for a lot.