i wanted to draw attention as to how a new poster worded the opening to their thread.. .
with renia now gone i feel more confident to tell my story without being belittled.. .
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/179341/1/my-story-my-sins-and-their-consequences.
Have any of you considered that maybe HE is a watchtower hire?
Don't you think WT would like to see this board in division and chaos?
Have you never heard of a "plant"?
Cameo, the same thoughts have occurred to me.
Imagine if we each had a nickel for every time he/she/it deliberately derailed a topic into oblivion?
~Sue
in a recent thread i started on music i couldn't help noticing how many had to throw their alleged " worldly music " out because parents, or elders told them their music brought them " under the influence of demons ", or listening to music was how " the demons got inside us ".
this superstitious belief that " satan " is to blame for each witnesses demise is really a passing of the buck of responsibility so it sidesteps real issues involved.. for example : check these familiar expressions out we all heard while we were jehovah's witnesses .. .
1. if a person was stumbled and said, " i don't want to go to meetings anymore.
i mean what does a demon get out of morphing with a bowling ball in the closet?
will we be able to smoke in the "new system"?.
i think that we would because our lungs will be perfect and can cleanse themselfs.. .
elder-schmelder.
Doe, I stand corrected on the huffing and puffing.
As per usual, you blow smoke out your ass.
~Sue
will we be able to smoke in the "new system"?.
i think that we would because our lungs will be perfect and can cleanse themselfs.. .
elder-schmelder.
Now you are trying (and failing) to put words in my mouth that clearly do not exist.
Do you even realize, JD, that this huffing and puffing on a public message board is an embarrassment to your person?
"You, you, you."
Please work out a counterpoint, or something or other, that is not re-directed to insulting my personal habits, which you so foolishly assume to know.
Otherwise, I urge you kindly once again: You and your ill-will and your horse can get out. You are trolling for trouble-making on a topic that obviously does not concern you.
~Sue
will we be able to smoke in the "new system"?.
i think that we would because our lungs will be perfect and can cleanse themselfs.. .
elder-schmelder.
Thank you very much for the recommendation, brinjen!
~Sue
will we be able to smoke in the "new system"?.
i think that we would because our lungs will be perfect and can cleanse themselfs.. .
elder-schmelder.
JD, Where you are wrong: You make claims that show a due lack of understanding regarding the facts about nicotine addiction.
For one thing, it's not a responsibility issue so much as it's physical addiction issue.
Your "little sympathy" follows by natural course: Your opinion as a non-addict and you're entitled to it.
However, even giving wiggle-room to your personal attitude on the matter — and I must admit I hate smoking, too — it does not excuse your non-sense statements coated in arrogance.
~Sue
P.S.: I'm no mind-reader, but... Have you lost someone close to you, that makes this subject such a personal battle? I totally "get" that.
will we be able to smoke in the "new system"?.
i think that we would because our lungs will be perfect and can cleanse themselfs.. .
elder-schmelder.
John Doe,
I've been here long enough to appreciate that you're a keen young man, a hard worker with solid goals in life.
But you're not half as clever as you think yourself. So, I urge you:
You and the @#$%^ horse you rode in on — get off this topic!
Lacking even a shade of a clue, you embarrass yourself and make enemies.
"Put that in your pipe and smoke it."
~Sue
ive been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard,.
.....and its a hard rains a-gonna fall.. .
----hard rain by bob dylan.
Oh goody! I was enjoying your story during the week and looking forward to more.
~Sue
let me try to post this again.. god bless.
you will not have a dry eye.
killed in action the week before, the body of staff sergeant first class john c. beale was returned to falcon field in peachtree city , georgia , just south of atlanta , on june 11, 2009. the henry county police department escorted the procession to the funeral home in mcdonough , georgia .
That link (and the other one you put up) doesn't work for me... is this it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9306gUTzUOc
~Sue
i don't really know where to start on my first post; i feel i have so much to say and yet i am so emotionally tired that it is hard to go through it all again in my head.
but, i do need support and advice and so i will make the effort.. i started having doubts about certain beliefs of the witnesses about 2 years ago and did research since that i now come to the belief there is no god, and witnesses definitely are a cult.. at first it bothered me more on the god issue, but now i am more bothered by the cult issue, mainly because it dictates my life even though i am aware of it.. when i was a child, my mother and father divorced and my mother told me i will live with my father because she was going to die at armageddon being a non witness.
i think, as well as many other pressures i cant list for fear of a very long post, this was the main pressure that made me get baptized even though i wasn't that happy being a witness.
Welcome, GapingMouth.
I tested the waters with my wife and although she says she'd respect my new beliefs,
I know for a fact she would think less of me and our relationship would be very damaged.
I can't bare to lose them to the point I decided I must continue my fake-age.
I understand it is a complex keeping-the-family together issue, and not a spiritual one. Fake-age is okay until you can develop some coping strategies. Hang in there,
~Sue
