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jaguarbass
I see your point.
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Should we be DF'd for eating trans fats
by Bonnie_Clyde inwow....are you part of the gb and found that you have recieved "new light"?
(jk)the donut shops will suffer for sure!
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jaguarbass
No one, and I mean no one, could have possibly had a worse diet than my grandmother, junk food full of those nasty transfats, and she lived to be 76. She would have lived a lot longer, except for a mis-diagnosis. She went to the doctor with what she thought was the flu and the doctor sent her home. Turns out she had pnemonia and by the time she got back to the doctors, it was too late.
Not everybodys body responds the same way. I have friends who can eat cheese and fried chicken often and it doesnt effect their cholesterol. It does effect mine. Since this might be the only life I get, I am going to try my best to do my best to take care of it. With everybody working an angle in this world sometimes it is hard to chart the best coarse. I read in the obituarys of people in their 40's and 50's dying of heart attacks all the time. Each person has to work out his own salvation in this world.
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Should we be DF'd for eating trans fats
by Bonnie_Clyde inwow....are you part of the gb and found that you have recieved "new light"?
(jk)the donut shops will suffer for sure!
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jaguarbass
Anyway, back to my original question: if smoking is a DFing offense, how about trans fats?
Smoking is easier to monitor and police. Many religions requires some kind of sacrafice to be in good standing.
I like you abhor government intervention in our lives.
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Sometimes I miss the friendships and good times......
by Alana inthere was a jw funeral i attended this past saturday at the congregation where i grew up and where my mom still attends.
most all of my childhood friends were there.
they had a movie/slide presentation playing at the back of the funeral home of different events, family members, congregation members, etc.
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jaguarbass
Belonging is a basic human need which many con men and 2 bit pulp publishing houses exploit.
When juvenilles join gangs and commit crime, belonging is a need they are fulfiling. We have to be careful how we fill our needs.
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New here!
by gypsytart ini've been 'lurking' on this discussion board for ages, but not posted until now - finally thought i'd go for it and post something myself!
i've chosen gypsy tart as my alias not because i'm a gypsy (i'm not), or a tart (not all the time lol) but because i love gypsy tart it's my v favourite pud ever!
i did think of calling myself 'hovisbiscuit' because that's what the other kids at school would call me (along with 'oh look it's a hova') whilst they all filed into assembly.
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jaguarbass
However, I do sometimes get depressed over one particular issue and wondered if anyone could relate to this or give me some advice on how to handle it? When a JW I believed (most) of their teachings and was absolutely certain about where my life was heading, Armageddon, hopefully I'd scrape through! Then the 1000yr reign of Christ while earth was restored to paradise blah blah blah..can't quite believe I fell for it now but there you go! Leaving the Org has taken away all the certainty about my future and I find it very difficult and depressing thinking I'll get old, wrinkly, ect etc and die eventually. This really gets me down, there don't seem to be any 'hopes for the future' now that the JW rug has been pulled out from under me. Can anyone relate to this - or am I just slightly crazy??
Hello Gypsytart, I can relate to the above. I've been out for 23 years now. In the begining it was worse now I've pushed it to the back of my brain and dont think of it much. I would say you have woken from your zombie like trance and are now concious. Welcome to the human condition. Live each day to the fullest it may be your last. Be like the epicureans that the dubs warned us against eat drink and be merry for tommorow we may die. I would say you are slightly crazy but so am I and anyone I have ever met in this dimension so enjoy it.
If you miss egypt and the Nile river (denial) you can always join another cult or belief system and delude your reality and see if you wake from the dream or not. Me Im staying here both feet planted in reality. Good luck
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Going to Church Today
by Undecided ini am going to church today with my wife.
i was putting on a tie and found my old tie-pin with the hebrew yhwh on it that i had from my jw days.
i thought about wearing it with my tie but just couldn't do it.
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jaguarbass
Nothing in the bible makes much sense to me anymore and there are too many contridictions and most of it has to be interpreted to make it apply to life in todays world.
I'm still looking.
Hello Undecided. Your statement above reflects my sentiments. Let us know if you ever find the answers to the big questions.
Good luck
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They say "What does it really matter"
by rockhound in"can't you just forget all that old stuff and put it all behind you?
" "what does that really matter, new light has cleared all that up.
" "all that was before brother russell was enlightened" "if your researching all that stuff about russell, then don't waste you time" .
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jaguarbass
Theres a lot of sheeple out there. A lot of people are in a trance they never wake from.
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Has anyone ever successfully opened someone else's eyes?
by gordon d inhas anyone ever successfully opened someone else's eyes?
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jaguarbass
I think more often than not, it is a team effort.
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Nasty week-end weather wise
by JH ingee, this autumn isn't the best i've seen.
it's windy, rainy, cloudy, cool and a great time to stay inside today.
we didn't have any indian summer this year, and not much heat even in september.. i just hope that the snow won't get here too early this year !.
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jaguarbass
It's time for all you Canadians to come down to Florida isn't it? Or do you have to stay behind and man the fort?