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  waiting for life to begin

  by Ms. Whip in

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  i feel like i'm waiting for something to happen.

  i don't know...for the clouds to open up and a thundering voice to say "just kidding!

  am i the only one that feels this?

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  Ms. Whip

  Sunnygal - you cannot get away with trying to boost your post count like that!

  lol, but what a great post said with such emphasis. plus, i'm grateful for so many hugs!
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  waiting for life to begin

  by Ms. Whip in

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  i feel like i'm waiting for something to happen.

  i don't know...for the clouds to open up and a thundering voice to say "just kidding!

  am i the only one that feels this?

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  I feel like I'm waiting for something to happen. I don't know...for the clouds to open up and a thundering voice to say "just kidding!"

  Am I the only one that feels this?

  As a "good little witness girl" I stood on the sidelines and watched people from school or neighborhood kids do stuff. Like go on dates, go to concerts, wear cool clothes, go off to college. But, nothing happened in my life.

  Then years past and people I was "aquainted" with had careers, houses, cool vacations, lots of holidays with friends and family. My life? still nothing.

  Now here I am. All the reasons I didn't "live life" gone. I'm sitting at my computer, typing a note to people I've never met, no friends, no fulfilling career, no family.

  I feel like screaming!

  It's like life happened while I was busy sitting in a Kingdom Hall.

  I'm just waiting for someone to tap me on the shoulder and say "hey ms. whip, you were daydreaming again" and I'd wake up and realize I hadn't wasted the last 20 years of my life.
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  Ugly People Need Not Apply

  by prophecor in

  1. social
  2. current

  ever watch an ugly person reporting the news?

  there outta' be a law.

  i can't pay attention because all i can do is focus on how ugly you are.

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  Ms. Whip

  For obvious reasons there are a lot of beautiful people on TV. Personally, I find quirky people more interesting. Ugly people become loveable if they are smart, funny, intelligent & articulate...or have something unique to offer.

  Beautiful people who have been handed jobs because of their looks come and go. It's the ugly people who have had to claw, scratch and bite their way to the top that persevere. In today's fast pace world, there is no room for mediocrity. If you are ugly and on TV there is a reason you're there. It's obvious that you excel in some area that others do not.

  Look at Oprah. Even though she was never "ugly" she wasn't the stereotypical look for news. She stuck to it and now she's not only smart, funny, intelligent & articulate she's gorgeous and super rich.
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  Letting go of the side of the pool

  by joelbear in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  confidence in yourself.

  ability to face the obstacles.

  not looking for total security.

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  just remember...it's easier to let go when you've got friends.
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  Hot Cross Bun "Worship" Forbidden at English School!

  by jschwehm in

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  2. friends

  hot cross buns banned in english school

  by hilary white

  ipswich

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  Ms. Whip

  Hot cross buns,
  One a penny buns;
  One a penny,
  Two a penny,
  Hot cross buns.
  
  Fresh, sweet buns,
  Come and buy my buns;
  One a penny,
  Two a penny,
  Fresh, sweet buns.
  
  Nice, light buns,
  Buy my currant buns;
  Come and try them,
  Then you'll buy them,
  Nice, light buns.

  No information was available about what sort of services the school had been planning to allow students to worship the buns or whether they had been cancelled. Moreover, the school did not say whether the buns would be inspected by the local Muslim or Catholic authorities for possible accidental appearances of religious figures in the patterns formed by the currants in the buns.

  did you add that paragraph jeffry? lol

  you know, if "hot cross buns" went 75% off after easter, they'd surely end up as a tasty witness coffee break treat.

  when i was young, i had a run in with hot buns (oh wait that was later in life)

  i was an adorable little jw girl who really wanted to sing in the second grade choir. however, the first song i brought home to learn was "hot cross buns"

  my overly-faithful jw mom took one look at the sheet music and that was the end of my singing career.

  it's such a silly song and an even sillier jw fanaticism.

  it's BREAD for god's sakes! and probably a lot tastier than the stale stuff served at memorials!

  Here's some more Satanic food:

  WARNING: Current JWs may be offended by the following images. If you are a practicing JW please shield your eyes for a moment. Unless of course it's an after holiday sale and the stuff is on clearance.

  
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  Do you still read the bible?

  by JH in

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  i don't read it anymore.. i figure that i know enough of it, without having to go back and read it again.

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  last night I found my old bible, I needed a piece of paper so I ripped out some pages from the bible and put them to good use haha -lucifer

  those thin nwt bible pages are good for rolling huh luci? lol not only do i not read the bible, but my eyes glaze over (like an animal right before he attacks his prey) whenever a biblical text is quoted in something i'm reading. the WTBTS trained me well. i was so brainwashed into not reading anything that wasn't jw... that (now that i don't read jw stuff)...i just don't read anything bible related at all. if someone could reach into my brain and seperate jw crap from bible crap maybe i would. -ms. whip (who threw the baby out with the bath water)
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  Why I'll never see 'Brokeback Mountain'

  by yaddayadda in

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  yep, i'm 'homophobic' and damn proud of it!

  http://www.rense.com/general69/prop.htm

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  ok, i'll comment without ever having seen the movie too.

  "brokeback mountain" isn't a guy movie.

  "brokeback mountain" isn't a chickflick.

  "brokeback mountain" isn't mainstream america.

  "brokeback mountain" isn't "cool" to watch.

  why didn't they make the characters two dirty sweaty guys fighting off the "gooks" in vietnam? why didn't they sprinkle the "human love" story with machine guns and napalm? throw some seedy scenes of the "boys" watching trampy hookers take it all off. generate some interest from the male hetero popuplation? maybe if they did more straight guys would wanna watch.

  why didn't they make one of the characters a beautiful girl disguised as a guy who falls in love with another guy who happens to be gay who falls in love with a person he thinks is a guy but turns out to be a beautiful girl? that would have made a better story for us girls. throw in some shopping scenes. a great scene where the girl reveals her true identity and the real gay guy abandons his "gayness" and falls head over heels in love with the girl and they live happily ever after.

  or for the bible belt americans...these two gay guys can "come to the lord" (no pun intended) and leave behind (again no pun) their satanic homosexual sickness and ride bicycles donning name badges and crisp white shirts into the sunset?

  what were the movie people thinking? making a movie that regular guys don't want to watch. women aren't really interested and 95% of god fearing americans shouldn't watch?

  hmmm

  maybe there's been a societal shift in the last 10 years. and women love gay shows...and guys are starting to tolerate it...and bible thumpers are softening their views.

  i'm not sure.

  what i do know. it's only a movie people.

  but, then woodstock was only another concert.

  somewhere in the future we may look back at brokeback as a mainstream eye opener.

  or not.

  oh and btw stillajwexelder i'm flattered lol

  inserts gratuitous boob flash for the heteros:
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  Is it always ethical to try to help someone get out?

  by wanderlustguy in

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  is it ever better or ethical to let someone go on believing in the truth even though it is a lie?

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  good topic.

  it is ethical to try to help someone in need, someone who is being harmed, someone who wants help.

  it has to be the right time, the right circumstance and the person has to be ready.

  for the majority of witnesses, this isn't the case.

  the witnesses are a functional society of disfunctional people. a person hardly noticed in the "world" can have a pseudo life as a jw. that life comes with purpose, respect, self-esteem, a social network. to pull back the curtain and reveal the fraud would destroy that person's world.

  i can say with certain experience, that having your entire world ripped away is emotionally and psychologically devastating.

  would i return to the jws knowing what i know now just to have a piece of the life i had before? no.

  do i wish i was still an ignorant and happy jw? no.

  would i risk the few fragile relationships that i currently have with active jw relatives to try and "get them out"? no.

  do i think jws are misguided and if they are willing deserve to know the truth? yes.

  Strange as it may seem, some people are better off as JW's. I can't defend that logically and I cannot understand why, but some have quit and gone back and are happier. It may be for the wrong reasons, but sometimes being at peace is more important than being "right", if there can be a "right" or "wrong" in this issue. - mcsemike Re: im hurt, desperate, confused and considering this religion - advice?
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  FREEDOM of SPEECH vs.The WATCHTOWER GESTAPO

  by Ms. Whip in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  gestapo

  the german internal security police as organized under the nazi regime, known for its terrorist methods directed against those suspected of treason or questionable loyalty.

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  Ge·sta·po (g?-stä'po, -shtä'-)
  n.

  1. The German internal security police as organized under the Nazi regime, known for its terrorist methods directed against those suspected of treason or questionable loyalty.
  2. gestapo pl. -pos . A police organization that employs terroristic methods to control a populace.

  After barreling down into a dark puddle of indifference upon leaving the watchtower group, I had a rare uninvited lightbulb moment this morning.

  Like so many abused children who grow up only to abuse others, the watchtower has reversed it's roll from persecuted to persecutor.

  per·se·cute (pûrs-kyt) tr.v. per·se·cut·ed, per·se·cut·ing, per·se·cutes 1. To oppress or harass with ill-treatment, especially because of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or beliefs . 2. To annoy persistently; bother.

  Not that I want to spend too much of my precious time before my demise at Armageddon on things as inconsequencial as the watchtower group.

  But, it dawned on me this morning (right after dawn) that the watchtower publishing house has spent it's entire life turning into something it itself despised. They have gone from freedom fighters and victims of religious persecution to *gasp* a filthy group of double talking GAG MEN.

  Now that their propagandic public pamphlets have done a good enough job in sequestering millions of malleable minds, they have downsized the printing facilty and shifted focus to the new work at hand. Stamping out the thousands, if not millions of fires they have started along the way.

  A fire is created when a watchtower created atomoton actually begins to think for himself.

  These fires are dangerous and left unchecked could threaten the entire watchtower empire with obliteration.

  Thus, the watchtower freedom fighters have now become fire fighting lawyers.

  Ah yes, the victim certainly has become the abuser. Once the brave David, fighting for religious freedom against the giant Goliath US government. Now, the watchtower has turned into it's most hated and vile enemy...the nazi gestapo.

  Shining it's ridgid fascist flashlight into every crevice of the internet searching to supress the opposition through terror and censorship.

  fas·cism (fash'iz ' ?m)
  n.

  1. often Fascism
  2. A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship , and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.
  3. A political philosophy or movement based on or advocating such a system of government.

  Oppressive , dictatorial control.

  If the watchtower's fight for freedom of speech means not having to play "mother may I" with the government, then certainly we have the right to free speech not to have to play "mother may I" with the watchtower.

  -whip

  (clicking the lightbulb off, jumping back into the puddle)
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  Rapture...Help needed to explain.

  by Little Bo Peep in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  recently my daughter-in-law asked me about the "rapture".

  her employer has scared her with thoughts of driving along the highway and taken to heaven, leaving an empty car...accidents...etc, etc.. i looked up the scriptures referenced in the niv, but don't quite know how to answer her.

  i'm pretty sure that explanation is not logical, at least to me.

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  Happy Birthday and new year miss whip! -ballistic

  why mr. ballistic, i do feel a good birthday spankin is in order. in honor of this thread... try to aim for my "left behind" oh gawd, i'm soooo corney.