I'm obsessed with beating my sales targets every year, every month, every week, every day. I get in a bad mood if I don't but a good mood if I do. I usually am in a good mood - thank God!
I'm also obsessed with what new car the company is going to buy for me every three years - it's always nearly the one I wanted, but the next model down.
I'm obsessed with working out where to go on holiday next and trying to ensure there is a nice 5 star hotel there.
I think I'm a bit self obsessed aren't I?
Wish i said that I'm obsessed with the well being of others now!
Mind you I really am obsessed with trying to make my wife and my kids happy - so I'm not all bad!!!
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Do you have any kind of obsession?
by JH ini'm obsessed with new cars.
i'd trade a $50,000 car for a brand new $40,000 one the year after, and trade it again for a $30,000 brand new one the year later, and trade it again for a $20,000 one year after that.
as long as i get a new one every year or so, i love the feeling, even if it's less equipped.
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anyone here from Hemelhampsted
by smifffy in.
hi all,.
are there any brothers or sisters from hemelhampsted ??
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Hi Smiffy.
This forum did apparently start off as a JW site but gradually the ex JW's took over as they obviously had more interesting things to say!
Seriously, you know that as a JW you are told in no uncertain terms that you should not look at anything to do with JW's on the internet except the official Watchtower site.
What are they scared of, that's what you have to ask yourself?
When I was a JW I found it very strange that we would like everyone to read the Watchtower and Awake maagazines but we would not accept anyone else's literature in return.
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English Soccer. Will England win the world cup?
by MARTINLEYSHON inthe simple answer is no.
but i had a funny text from an irish friend that said the following:.
"the govt has done a survey on the size of an english penis.
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Obvious jealousy from your Irish friend me thinks - they are not even participating are they?
Despite my alias I am English through and through and I would be delighted if we win - after the first match we still have a lot to improve on but you never know, I think we will get close. Brazil on the tv in 15 minutes so must watch them. -
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Panic attacks and Jehovahs Witness!
by Gill inhow many of you had panic attacks when you were a jw and when leaving?
i know of many jw women and a few men who suffered badly with panic attacks.
since recently having another spate of panic attacks i suddenly realised that i had been having them all my life.
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While I was a Witto I went through a bad period of having panic attacks.
I was one of those that if I heard someone else had a panic attack or similar that they should 'pull themselves together' and stop making it up! When I got them myself my perspective changed.
I must admit that my panic attacks started when I was 'getting romantically involved with someone I shouldn't have'. I was mostly worried about my parents reaction to me leaving the beloved 'troof', and I was 40 at the time!
I still sometimes get the attacks though at a greatly reduced rate - they happened mostly while I was driving, this was a problem as I do loads of driving for my job.
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Invite
by BritBoy inwe had popped through our letterbox today the following: "you are cordially invited to attend the deliverance at hand district convention of jw's" at the national ice arena nottingham, uk.. now let me tell you, it is the tackiest flimsiest invite i ever did see.
the paper is so thin it's almost tissue paper.
the cover has three black & white pictures along the top which includes a picture of a rather healthy looking woman holding a child with the heading under it reading "poverty".
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A bit of slap and tickle eh KatieKitten?
I'd better not because it was enjoying a bit of that with someone I shouldn't have that got the attention of the elders in the first place!
I'm married to her now and have never ever been happier.
What a sad life we led as Witto's even though as you said it was all for genuine reasons. -
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Invite
by BritBoy inwe had popped through our letterbox today the following: "you are cordially invited to attend the deliverance at hand district convention of jw's" at the national ice arena nottingham, uk.. now let me tell you, it is the tackiest flimsiest invite i ever did see.
the paper is so thin it's almost tissue paper.
the cover has three black & white pictures along the top which includes a picture of a rather healthy looking woman holding a child with the heading under it reading "poverty".
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I agree with you Brit Boy and Katie - how gullible were we?
I too was born into it and I firmly believed it all for too many years.
What about when we had to deliver 100 or so tracts each to every house in our territory?
I remember doing that back in the '70s and my mum saying that this could be the final chance people have to choose to be on gods side!
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Are you embarrassed?
by desib77 indoes anyone else find themselves embarrassed about their jw past?
i find that when people that know what i used to be ask me about it i am completely embarrassed by how foolish their beliefs sound especially things like the blood issue.
i can't stand when someone will say "why did you believe such and such....?
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I got embarrassed recently when a client of mine saw me cross the road and nearly get run over.
She asked whether if I was knocked out cold and she went to the hospital with me she would be allowed to say that I could have blood.
I said that of course I would accept anything to enable me to stay alive. I then found it very hard to explain why for nearly 40 years I was so against blood transfusions.
I think that when you are a Witto you really are brainwashed, because they seem to imply that all hospitals are turning to non blood management and that they all realise how dangerous blood is. That is just not true.
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During what years did you consider it to be the time of the end?
by JH in.
my time of the end was from 1987 when i joined the jw's up to 1995 when the november watchtower changed the rules of the game, and redefined a generation.. so, when i refer to the time of the end, i think of the (1987-1995) period..
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It started when I was very young as my parents continually told me the end was very close.
One day an elderly sister was cycling home when an amazingly dark cloud appeared on the horizon, this sister thought it was Armageddon starting - in fact it was just a thunderstorm!
My parents told me in 1973 when driving me to my new school that this would be my school until Armageddon! I believed them.
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Depends what day it is!
Most days I think that the bible is just a collection of stories with some moral pointers.
Other days I believe that it maybe is Gods word because of the prophecies that have come true, but wait, I don't even believe in God any more!
Virtually all of the 'miracles' can be dispoven and things like the flood are so obviously exagerated.
As for the creation account - does anyone serioiusly believe it in the light of all the evidence around us in the form of the fossil record etc?
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South ESSEX
by Dr Jekyll ini'm back !
go on admit it, you've missed me.
anyway back to the subject.
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Sorry Luna2 I must be a bit thick - I was actually trying to be serious.
Sorry to spoil the fun!