Posts by compound complex

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Verbal bullying

by Lady Lee in

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can someone please expalin this to me.. we live in a culture where bullying at school has become a major problem.

some kids have commited suicide because of it.

some have taken guns to school to "deal with" the ones who bullied them.. the problem is so bad that some schools are bringing in special programs into the schools to help break down the barriers that sometimes encourage these bullying behaviors.

compound complex

Dear Lady Lee,

Ironic that a high school friend and I were discussing this very subject two days ago. Forty-five to fifty years ago, when we were subjected to bullying, it may have been less harrowing, i.e., life-threatening, than it is today. I recall the embarrassment of my mother coming to school when I was in 7th grade to get one matter straightened out. The bullies were nice to me after that intervention. I don't recall the details. But my appearance was the factor. And I was very sensitive. Was thinking before even seeing your thread - why in the world didn't I just hit them back? Wasn't a JW at that time.
Well, I may have been a 97 pound weakling, but I took a Charles Atlas course and no bully ever kicked sand in my face again!
I realize you specified verbal bullying, but I got it all in combination. And there was an occasion in first grade when a kid named Pepper beat me up in the bathroom, the janitor saw us and collared both of us. We both were punished. No justice!
I wish I had up-to-date information for you. Back in the '50s, the "violence" such I experienced, didn't seem to create the anguish that the VIOLENCE today does. Verbal and physical. Both are painful.

CoCo

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How Often Do You Come To JWD During A Day, Week or Month??? Hours or Mins?

by minimus in

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friends

i used to be here a real lot.

now i make about 15 posts , if that,.

per day and read a few other threads that interest me.

compound complex

Dear Diary,

I know you lead a somewhat sheltered life, but information is power. Your cousins, whose pages are NOT blank, give me lots of food for thought. I've been telling you lately how it isn't so much what is "truth," but what is correct information. Well, then, I guess if we can somehow get our facts straight, that would lead us to some version of the truth of a matter. U_B wrote this and got me to thinking how honesty and integrity are an individual's identifying characteristics - or they are not. DD, what do you think of Thomas Jefferson's immortal words?:

"Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself. She is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human interposition, disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate; errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is free to contradict them." - Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom

Chew on this for a bit; back atcha later on...........

C...

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My advice for JW youth

by Junction-Guy in

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if you are reading this board and are having doubts, then please do not rush into baptism.

wait until you are grown, and only then do it if you honestly feel you need to.

once you are baptized, they own you, and you will most likely be shunned if you are ever baptized.

compound complex

Greetings J-G,

I wish the Society would do the right thing per your request. But, of course, they have their insufferable agenda. I am acquainted with SEVERAL JW kids who are now official members, and I can only smile outwardly [cry inwardly] when they excitedly tell me they are/were getting dunked: "Can you be there for the happy ocassion?" Then, at the KH, the elders "request" $XX per baptized publisher for this or that new project. Last I was at the meetings, it was $20 for one financial need. For some families, lotsa buck$!

CoCo

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"Cat-faced women"

by onacruse in

vindication book 2 p. 141.

"the young men of aven and of pibeseth shall fall by the sword; and these cities shall go into captivity.

" (30:17){ezekiel 30:17} "aven" means "vanity, wickedness," and "the young men of aven" seems to refer to the strong ones of big business giving worship to the selfish and wicked things which are vain.

compound complex

Dear Leonine Lynx to the Sphinges,

Rutherford was scrutable, whereas the enigmatic Sphinx - lioness and woman - is inscrutable. I can live very nicely with the latter; the former? You be the Judge.

Jo Jo, the dog-faced boy [another thread, perhaps?]

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How Often Do You Come To JWD During A Day, Week or Month??? Hours or Mins?

by minimus in

jw
friends

i used to be here a real lot.

now i make about 15 posts , if that,.

per day and read a few other threads that interest me.

compound complex

Dear Diary,

The leaded from 7:00 a.m. put me to sleep; I am so hung over........I'll be back. Need more of the same. Give me time, DD. A nice, brisk walk should do it... NO WAY!

C...

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What were your reasons for becoming a JW?

by Narkissos in

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reasons, not excuses -- even valid ones (like, "i was ignorant, depressed, fooled").. yours in the sense that you can still own (to) them -- even though you now know the "answer" was wrong.. this obviously applies to those who became jws -- hence mostly not born-in, although some of the latter might admit to having chosen the jw way for themselves at a certain stage of their childhood or teenage years.. this question is triggered by a previous conversation with purplesofa on another thread:.

i think most of us that came in and not born in were searching.

our hearts were pure in our search.

compound complex

Dear Narkissos,

So basic and relevant a question! I'm tardy with my response as I've been absorbed with my recent inter-planetary sojourns. I remember Sarek's comment about its seeming right at the time, but where were we? Oh, no matter.
Talked Saturday with my best friend from high school. Very brainy sort, who went off to conquer the world and half-suceeded, IMHO. We are in constant touch, in particular discussing my deconversion processes. I was rather shocked when she said that my letters to her overseas sounded like religious tracts! I was in college but on the verge of quitting and going on to baptism and pioneering [8 years counting to '75]. Prior thereto, we were engaged in all sorts of scholastic pursuits, creative endeavors, and plans to better the likes of humanity. Well, she did just that through governmental, scholastic and other worldly-soon-to-be-destroyed-by-God agencies. She succeeded big-time, traveling the world and broadening her proverbial horizons. I wound up with a stack of un-placed WT and AWAKE! ragmags and a mortgage. Most of my family followed me to the TOWER.
Lady friend's observation was that we were both idealistic and earnest youths. We both STILL are [not young, but earnest and idealistic]. She is an atheist and I am a Christian. I wanted to change people - the world of mankind - through the offices of the HS and 'the whole body of truth that is unique to Jehovah's Witnesses.'
I need lots more time to sort through the last 40 years. Hopefully, I will catch up with dear, kind and patient Friend.

CoCo

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How Often Do You Come To JWD During A Day, Week or Month??? Hours or Mins?

by minimus in

jw
friends

i used to be here a real lot.

now i make about 15 posts , if that,.

per day and read a few other threads that interest me.

compound complex

Dear Diary,

Am waking to "The Ride of the Valkyries," by Richard Wagner. Oscar Levant tried once to talk a police officer out of giving him a speeding ticket. He reasoned with the police officer, 'How can you NOT speed when listening to the conclusion of Beethoven's 7th?' Well, NPR commentator, MJ, said the same of the Maidens of Odin. Guess they couldn't get the slain warriors to Valhalla soon enough.
Saddam Hussein's brother executed [today?]. Head severed during hanging...HOW in the world? Observer said it was an act of God!
What's in the works for us today, DD? I have to look into ST/FC hologram doc's comment about borg implants causing minor skin irritation. He mentioned an analgesic cream that's available for it... It might help. Be back.

C...

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Things you MUST know before hiring an attorney or lawyer

by sf in

http://www.beforeyouhireattorneylawyer.com/.

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compound complex

Dear Skally,

I have this lawyer friend who........ Just wandering about the ruins of the night, chatting up Dear Diary, and thought I'd say a quick hello! If ever I get in a legal bind - and simply say the name SKALLY - will the court automatically render me a favorable verdict?

CoCo

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How Often Do You Come To JWD During A Day, Week or Month??? Hours or Mins?

by minimus in

jw
friends

i used to be here a real lot.

now i make about 15 posts , if that,.

per day and read a few other threads that interest me.

compound complex

Dear Diary,

Were you calling me? Thought I heard something go bump...in the night. Oh, well. Always can use a glassah20. No cafe yet. Leaded, for tomorrow's coma. Oh...it is tomorrow. Just glanced over at Carlos Ruiz Zafon's THE SHADOW OF THE WIND. A great read, DD, about the cemetery of forgotten books. Young Daniel is treated by his book-vendor dad to a prize page-turner, nestled away in the stacks of a labyrinthine book cemetery. Word gets around of what would seem a mere, random selection of a dusty, musty old tome; arise from sleep literary daemons, who scurry about to hook or crook the book. It is a compelling tale, DD. Do you ever get the urge to get out and, maybe, join a book club or go to the library and rub spines with fellow signatures? We'll make a day of it soon, and look up some errata data.
Back to the sheets, DD. Never meant to emerge....

C...

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How Often Do You Come To JWD During A Day, Week or Month??? Hours or Mins?

by minimus in

jw
friends

i used to be here a real lot.

now i make about 15 posts , if that,.

per day and read a few other threads that interest me.

compound complex

Dear Diary,

Good night. Some parting words from "El Amor Brujo" -

I am the fire in which you burn,
I am the wind in which you sigh,
I am the sea in which you are shipwrecked.

The new day is breaking,
Sing out, you bells, sing out!
For my glory has returned.

CoCo