..because they have a head to toe beautifiying support system and you don't.. .
a few examples from ebaum's world that show the before and after of celebrity makeup application:.
christina applegate:.
That 2nd picture of Michael is just scary. Geesh, he was a good-looking guy to begin with, why the hell did he feel the need to do all that crazy plastic surgery? He looks like a forkin' freak!
The queen of smoke and mirrors attractiveness is Madonna. I've seen some pics of her without makeup, not a pretty sight.
i missed his show on child discipline...but i looked up his website and read some on there.
i am strongly against spanking children!
this is something that everyone has their own viewpoint on and i understand that.
The worst thing is parents who constantly threaten to spank, but they always back off. If you tell your kid that if they do a certain something one more time you're gonna spank them, and then they do it, FOR CRYING OUT LOUD SPANK THEM! Parents who are always giving empty threats (i.e. never following through) to their kids in an attempt to gain compliance need to have a giant bucket of ice water dumped on them, IMO. My sister used to drive me up the wall with that nonsense. Now she has a son who is teetering on the edge of adolescence, and is he gonna be a handful as a teen. I'm not looking forward to it.
well, can you believe it, it has been a year since i timidly joined this forum!
(yes me, i was very timid at first!
i came looking to see if anyone else had the same experience as me in finding out that the wtbts is just another manmade organization with dangling carrots and big sticks.
Joy,
I really enjoyed meeting you and your husband at BRCI. Just one of many experiences that helped me in my recovery from my 10 year JW psychosis.
I'll probably stick around this place 'til my year is up (do we get to go to any special "apostate pioneer" school after 1 year on this forum? )
Take care!
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when i fisrt left the organization,i was always full of duobt that it was the truth.i can remember ,becoming an apostate,was the unforgivable sin.for about 10 years i wouldnot "say"the "religion"was untrue and full of lies.even tho i was never going to go back.ater i have heard a lot of the "b.s" about this so called religion,was i peaceful saying this was lies.. i am now a proud apostate.
Before I left, I sorta had it in my mind that all of the "apostates" were born-again Christians, which was part of what made me stay. In general I am not attracted to conservative, evangelical protestantism, and I thought that would be my only choice if I left, so I stayed JW because I thought it was the lesser of two evils. So yes, I was scared to become an apostate. The whole "where else are you gonna go?" JW mindset kept me in long after I started experiencing some heavy cognitive dissonance.
3 times a year, at the end of every college term, her ladyship likes to have a joke to tell at the end of term party.
normally softly spoken and amiable, she likes to have a well rehearsed, totally original joke to tell at the party, the more raucous the better as far as she is concerned.
in fact, she has become something of a legend now, so that she is already being asked if she has her joke sorted out for xmas, so good at the telling of them is she.. the problem is, that this terms joke, whilst being exceedingly funny, does require the use of a welsh accent.
A drunken man is stumbling down the sidewalk when a nun approaches from the other direction.
He pushes her to the ground, stands over her and taunts:
"Well, you're not so tough, are ya Batman?"
this is the story of the men, jews, who worked in the concentration camps cleaning out the gas chambers full of dead bodies and putting them one by one into the creamatoriums.
they plot an uprising.
not to escape, which is impossible.
Here's a link to the movie's promo site:
http://www.thegreyzonethefilm.com/
Sounds pretty intense. I might wait for DVD, sometimes seeing such an intense movie on the big screen is just a little too much for me.
I've just started Frankl's book.
hulloo all,.
to cut a very long and oft told story (on boards like this at any rate) very short, i was partially raised a jw (tho' never baptised), and now i've reached the stage where my very modest collection of dub literature must be disposed of.
it's lived in a box in attics and high shelves in various houses for the last 12 years during which time i've been sh*t scared to go near it, but equally scared to get rid of it for fear of seriously pissing off his almightyness up in the heavens.. well, over the past year i've been through a few of the usual "eye openers", coc & the gentile times thingumygig whatsit doodah, and evolution books too.
Iggy:
That was a funny post!
I didn't have a fireplace when I learned the truth about the truth 8 months ago. So the trash dumpster at my apartment complex got a full course Watchtower meal, compliments of me.
i thought about writing "i quit" but it got a little wordier than i expected.
but i'm sending this off monday morning.
i've used a little info gathered here on this site but mostly it's my thoughts.
Give 'em hell LB!!
One of these days I'm going to post a list of things I either didn't know at all or didn't have complete understanding of before I took the plunge. You have no idea what you're getting into, do you? I came across some pictures of my baptism today, I felt sick to my stomach looking at them.
as most of you know, i served in vietnam and belong to a group of veterans comprised of men that served either in my unit or sister units of the 7/17th air cavalry.
tonight, as has happened many times, one of my "brothers" posted a special memory and i am going to share that memory of his with you.
the reason i am posting it here is to show that although many of us may argue about world events and can at times be bitterly divided, we who have been there do not support military action lightly.
Lew,
I enjoyed this, even though the military terminology was over my head.
Nobody who has been through a war romanticizes military conflict. Nothing like seeing your best buddy blown to bits right in front of your eyes by an invisible enemy who, like you, thinks that they have a moral obligation and duty to kill others. *sigh*
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hmm,i dont how too start off,but ill try,so im 16 yrs old,im being raised as a jw,and it is hard as hell,sometimes i think,if this is the right religion arent you suppose to be happy??
?well i really cant do anything about that because my parents say no way they will let me go in "the world" nonsense!so im stuck here ,lonely,depressed,and confused,sometimes i wish id die,but i know that wont help nothing.i want out of this org so bad,but i cant do nothing about it.there always telling me dont let satan and the bad asscioates influence you!im sick of that.all my friends well i shold say my ex friends they never helped me,my as they say:worldy friends did.. also i really really like this guy,i know he like me but he is worldy and i wish so badly i could date him,(i hate the term worldy,so stupid)my parents seriously will not give me space and they are stuck up my @ss.please if u have any commets i would sincerly appriciate it:) laura
if this is the right religion arent you suppose to be happy?Thousands have asked themselves this question. It is these sort of internal struggles that cause many such as yourself to go outside the camp of Jehovah's Witnesses to investigate whether or not their religion is really "the truth". Do not be afraid to investigate and question what you have been taught.
