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  Ready for 2005 to be OVER! 2006 resolutions...

  by wanderlustguy in

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  this year has sucked like a hoover for me.

  i'm so ready for it to be over...2006 has to be better.

  here's my resolutions so far.... get in better shape (something other than round).. spend more time with my kids.. grow the business i'm a partner in.. purchase some property in/near asheville, nc.. how about you?

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  Link to double-post:

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/104628/1.ashx
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  Ready for 2005 to be OVER! 2006 resolutions...

  by wanderlustguy in

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  this year has sucked like a hoover for me.

  i'm so ready for it to be over...2006 has to be better.

  here's my resolutions so far.... get in better shape (something other than round).. spend more time with my kids.. grow the business i'm a partner in.. purchase some property in/near asheville, nc.. how about you?

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  Double post. I think I'll find the link to post here in a few minutes...
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  Ready for 2005 to be OVER! 2006 resolutions...

  by wanderlustguy in

  1. jw
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  this year has sucked like a hoover for me.

  i'm so ready for it to be over...2006 has to be better.

  here's my resolutions so far.... get in better shape (something other than round).. spend more time with my kids.. grow the business i'm a partner in.. purchase some property in/near asheville, nc.. how about you?

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  from FairChild:

  *Do not fall asleep with face on keyboard, there's plenty of room on the mouse pad.

  LOL :)
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  Ready for 2005 to be OVER! 2006 resolutions...

  by wanderlustguy in

  1. jw
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  this year has sucked like a hoover for me.

  i'm so ready for it to be over...2006 has to be better.

  here's my resolutions so far.... get in better shape (something other than round).. spend more time with my kids.. grow the business i'm a partner in.. purchase some property in/near asheville, nc.. how about you?

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  PoliticallyNeutered2

  Disclaimer: I don't claim to be an expert. The stuff in this email could be false. If you use it, use it at your own risk. Also, since about 7/05, I've earnestly tried to keep my large-scale internet presence politically/religiously neutral. Stepping on big toes with such new and powerful technology seems highly incautious in my case.
  
  1. Use my little python scheduling script, a cold-shower-negative-punishment schedule, and a public confession routine in the form of a web page recording my daily estimate of my "successfulnesss" that day (by percentage, about 75% of which is planned to be dependent only on whether I have followed my own punishment/reinforcement schedule) to hopefully develop more organization and self-discipline than I have ever had before.

  2. Leave much of the time for unscheduled exploration, to avoid external time-manipulation techniques which might otherwise "guide" the course of my mind in ways to which I would not consciously consent.

  3. Unless my plans change: Spend much of the time working on starting a little game-programming business (Nothing too big or fancy, at first), and much of the time developing a simple, unpowered exoskeleton for myself to protect my back (I've mentioned the scoliosis which wikipedia says puts me in a less than 1 out of 2500 class) and possibly lead to other things.

  Speaking of 1, why in the heck didn't I think of cold showers as a negative punishment earlier? They work great! I thought about negative punishments, but this one didn't strike me until I was almost 30. What a waste. Oh well. Hopefully, I'll have a few years left to accomplish stuff. Every few years I've seemed to learn something which has left my world-view reeling to the point where I have had to readjust my course substantially and reconsider things for a few months, and plot a new course, as I have in the last 6 rather unproductive months.

  Oh well. Apparently on course now. Charge!
  "I feel so Alive! For the very fist time! And I think I could fly!"
  http://www.lyrics007.com/P.O.D.%20Lyrics/Alive%20Lyrics.html

  PoliticallyNeutered
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  Did you notice all of the Newbies this month?

  by DevonMcBride in

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  it seems like everytime i come to this forum, which is very often during the day, there is another new person.

  i don't recall seeing so many newbies in one month as i have this month.. if you're new to this forum, welcome.

  how did you find this forum?.

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  Disclaimer: I don't claim to be an expert. The stuff in this email could be false. If you use it, use it at your own risk. Also, since about 7/05, I've earnestly tried to keep my large-scale internet presence politically/religiously neutral. Stepping on big toes with such new and powerful technology seems highly incautious in my case. From AuldSoul: "One Georgian to another, a warm welcome! " Thank you! :)

  "From your profile:

  If it is OK with you people, I'd like to use this forum to practice communicating again, while trying to keep my internet presence politically neutral.

  Feel free, but understand we're a provocative lot...and there are some scamps who seem to thrive on argument. You're on you own in finding and avoiding them. But if you want practice communicating again, feel free to use us." Thank you! In reference to provocation: Although I would consider it a little impolite for someone to intentionally try to prevent me from maintaining my attempt at politically/religiously neutral communication, I've almost counted on such attempts in the past. This wouldn't be much practice otherwise, would it? I agree that it is easy to be overly critical of oneself when one receives responses from an internet forum. Thanks for the advice about that. Thank you very much again for the welcome, caution, and advice. :)
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  Did you notice all of the Newbies this month?

  by DevonMcBride in

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  it seems like everytime i come to this forum, which is very often during the day, there is another new person.

  i don't recall seeing so many newbies in one month as i have this month.. if you're new to this forum, welcome.

  how did you find this forum?.

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  Disclaimer: I don't claim to be an expert. The stuff in this email could be false. If you use it, use it at your own risk. Also, since about 7/05, I've earnestly tried to keep my large-scale internet presence politically/religiously neutral. Stepping on big toes with such new and powerful technology seems highly incautious in my case.

  Thanks for the welcome! :)

  In answer to your question: I was directed here from another Ex-JW site which I joined this month. Someone referred to the "JWD," and typing those three letters in google gave me this site. I found the first site by typing "ex-JW" on google, I think. Well, I wasn't exactly "directed" here. Someone said something about big gnus or something.

  I've enjoyed reading many things here. I hope to write much more after I consider things well enough to comply with my disclaimer while doing so.

  Thanks again! :)
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  25th at last -> marry christmas everyone

  by DannyBloem in

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  my first christmas more or less out of the borg,.

  marry christmas and thank you all for taking so much time and post those interesting and eye-opening article here.

  danny

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  Merry Christmas! :)
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  Sayings that keep you afloat?

  by Ingenuous in

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  do you have any sayings/anecdotes/mantras/cliches that help you cope?

  i've heard a few that i employ with my own modifications:.

  i like the "dear dad" letter, though i don't know if my folks would appreciate it if i applied to leaving the org.. "if my mother knew about this, she'd be spinning in her grave.

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  From DanTheMan: Welcome to the board PN2.

  Thanks! :)
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  Sayings that keep you afloat?

  by Ingenuous in

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  do you have any sayings/anecdotes/mantras/cliches that help you cope?

  i've heard a few that i employ with my own modifications:.

  i like the "dear dad" letter, though i don't know if my folks would appreciate it if i applied to leaving the org.. "if my mother knew about this, she'd be spinning in her grave.

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  PoliticallyNeutered2

  Disclaimer: I don't claim to be an expert. The stuff in this email could be false. If you use it, use it at your own risk. Also, since about 7/05, I've earnestly tried to keep my large-scale internet presence politically/religiously neutral. Stepping on big toes with such new and powerful technology seems highly incautious in my case.

  I forgot one:

  From "Old Yeller:"

  6. Don't "ruin the good parts of life fretting about the bad." Maybe that's a slight misquote, but that is how I remember it. It ties in well with the modified prayer of serenity.

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  Sayings that keep you afloat?

  by Ingenuous in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  do you have any sayings/anecdotes/mantras/cliches that help you cope?

  i've heard a few that i employ with my own modifications:.

  i like the "dear dad" letter, though i don't know if my folks would appreciate it if i applied to leaving the org.. "if my mother knew about this, she'd be spinning in her grave.

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  PoliticallyNeutered2

  Disclaimer: I don't claim to be an expert. The stuff in this email could be false. If you use it, use it at your own risk. Also, since about 7/05, I've earnestly tried to keep my large-scale internet presence politically/religiously neutral. Stepping on big toes with such new and powerful technology seems highly incautious in my case.

  Hi! This is my first post. Here are some thoughts which have helped to keep me going lately:

  0. Sometimes you're the windshield, and sometimes you're the bug. (See saying 1 for the bright side of this.)

  1. However, not even a hypothetically good-hearted and intelligent bug wouldn't deny you the enjoyment of your life.

  Imagine "the fly" in the place of Val Kilmer (Doc Holiday) when he tells Wyatt Earp on his deathbed, "Live Wyatt. Live for me." Weird thought, I know, but it helps my messed-up head a little.

  2. Modified Prayer of Serenity:

  May I have the serenity
  to accept the things I cannot change,
  courage to change the things I can,
  and the wisdom to know the difference.

  3. Some good things have happened to good people.

  I've seen some of that. Life isn't all bad.

  4. Have faith in the "goodness of time."

  What to I mean by that? Compare your freedoms to the slave states of long ago. Progress seems to come with time, yes? I told someone of this recently, and they told me of how they watched a documentary about ancient people living in high caves and pulling up ladders at night to avoid cannibals. I replied something like: "Exactly! The goodness of time! Now people only do that to try to avoid the tax-man!" Even those who live off of the labor of others have learned to only eat half of the person each year, to harvest the rest next year. :P Ah, yes. "The goodness of time."

  5. Suicide is a bad idea for a couple of reasons. First, there will be plenty of time to be dead later. I still want to take the small chance that I will make something of my life. Second, I like to try to contribute to the goodness of time out of gratitude for said goodness, and to those who have suffered so greatly to attempt to contribute to it.

  Well, there are a few thoughts and sayings that have kept me going for a few months. I've yet to describe why this particular Ex-JW seems so desparate for positive thoughts; but, I hope to do that later. Thanks for reading if you made it this far. :)

  PoliticallyNeutered