Nothing impressive. I'm walking with a group at work during lunch for a half-hour and limiting sugar to once or twice a week - and no refined carbs (like white flour) if I can help it.
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What are you doing to stay healthy ??
by Genesis inim just wondering about what people of different are doing to stay healthy.
personally, im into bodybuilding since a couple of months and i love it !
im eating cleaner than ever (but not as i would like) and exercise 4 days a week.
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Why do so many show such anger towards JW who post here? What might help?
by Lady Lee inwhy do so many of us show such antagonism towards jw who post here?
we know they won't listen.
we know how it feels to have religion forced upon us.
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I usually stay out of any discussions with posters who appear to be JWs if it becomes clear they aren't reasonable. That is, unless a statement is made which is factually incorrect and I can post a brief correction. I haven't matured to the point where I can deal with people like that in a Christian manner.
I know that when I was "in", there wasn't a thing in the world that could have forced me out. Nothing could make me think for myself. Being raised a JW, I hadn't had any practice and couldn't have recognized healthy psychological functioning if it jumped up and bit me.
I do have beliefs about the situation, though - ideals that I'd like to learn to enact. I think every encounter has to be approached with kindness and tolerance, especially if outright love for one's fellow man isn't within reach for me emotionally at that particular moment. Such is especially necessary since I don't think reason is always the first or best approach. I say that because when I met someone "worldly" who was a good person, with a good heart and a sharp mind, someone who displayed the tolerance and respect that was missing among the JWs I knew, that hit me the hardest and started getting the rusty gears of my mind going - little by little, encounter by encounter. It was seeing the goodness in the humans around me that has touched me most since I left and has made the biggest impact on my healing and my life. It's the people around me - people who used to be "worldly" strangers, "them" as opposed to "us" - who have shown me the true meaning of kindness and - yes - love, and made it possible for me to survive leaving the Witnesses. That includes many on this forum.
I think there's a reason Paul told the Romans to "conquer the evil with the good" and to leave vengeance to God. I think it's because we don't handle anger very well as a species, because we don't always know where the limits of judgement should be, because we cross the line between righteous indignation and self-righteousness far too easily. Love is the only thing we can do reliably well - if we mean it and it's real.
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Another poll: raised in or came in?
by under_believer insomeone asked a question in the "what generation are you" thread:.
were you "raised in the truth," or did you "come into the truth?".
i was raised..
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Comments You Will Not Hear at the 5-7-06 WT Study
by blondie incomments you will not hear at the 5-7-06 wt study (april 1, 2006 issue, pages 21-25) (baptism).
review comments will be in red.
wt material from today's wt will be in black.
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My mother and I used to have a study with a little girl. When she didn't decide she wanted to be a JW after 6 months, we dropped her. We didn't give her or her mom any warning. Her mother was angry - since her daughter enjoyed the study so much - and the little girl cried when we told her we couldn't study with her anymore. It still breaks my heart to think about how we hurt this child's feelings over Society policy. It never occurred to us to simply sit down with her once a week and talk about the Bible just because she enjoyed it - instead, it was about numbers and being obedient to the "Slave."
On the topic of baptisms: When I was baptized in the early 90's, there was a whole section of the convention center set aside for baptismal candidates to sit in during the talk. It took the entire lunch period to get everyone dunked. Nowadays, you watch the 4 people who stood up get baptized and have over an hour to spare to socialize. -
I like this "cult" much better...
by Ingenuous inat work, i've been transferred to a team that administers unix, a foreign platform for me.
i'm already getting sucked into the "this is so much better than windows" mindset.
does anyone exclusively use a unix-related os on their home machine?
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"Urgent Information to all current and ex-Jehovah Witnesses!" email???
by pr_capone ini just recieved this in my email.
http://sighost.org/sigs/jwboom.jpg (copy and paste please as firefox wont let me) .
wtf... a virus targeted specifically at us?
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These people are crazier than pet raccoons.
Robdar, that is an insult to pet raccoons everywhere!
I am a little concerned that these people are planning to bomb the headquarters. I am against the WT but would hate to see any people hurt. Do you guys think we should warn the police in the area or do you think it is a hoax?
I doubt it's either, lovelylil. These people want to be seen as prophets, not activists. They expect to see some sort of divine judgment executed against the Org.
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I'm feeling low - losing a friend
by Spectrum ini met a girl about a year and a half ago and we became really good platonic friends.
she was bright, cute and always put a smile on my face with her lovely sense of humour, just a great girl.
then one day with tears in her eyes she told me she had to leave but wouldn't tell me why.
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I've lost a number of platonic male friends I've met online, but they usually disappear without saying a word. I suspect they develop a romantic interest and somehow feel they can't continue our friendship, but they've never explained or said 'goodbye', so I don't know for sure.
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What "Rules" Did You Have In Your Congregation?
by minimus inin our congregation, we had a theocratic ministry school overseer make the sisters stand while giving their talks because he would counsel them on a point of counsel having to do with speaking to the "householder".
(i forget that exact point of counsel) so the sisters knew they had to follow this imbecile's quirks or get a "w".
another rule that was eventually abandoned too, was that only elders and ministerial servants could offer prayer at the kingdom hall......any rules that you had to deal with??
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