Posts by Pioneer Spit...oh, i mean Spirit

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Personal Development Milestone

by Mincan in

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here's where i'm at presently, this has happened within the last two weeks and seems to get stronger.. - i see my life more objectively, and it doesn't bother me much.. - i don't care to read about religion, what's wrong with it, etc (i know it is and i don't feel that i need to keep preoccupying my mind with it).

- i don't feel any anger or hostility towards jws or the wts in particular.. - i don't feel like my life was stolen from me, cause, you know, i was there, i lived it.

(as i've mentioned before, lived it pretty damn well i have to admit compared with billions of other humans).

Pioneer Spit...oh, i mean Spirit

I like.

I have printed your post and will read it daily, I have to ease my negativity some. Thanks for this.

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How do you have a "personal" relationship with Christ???

by bluesbreaker59 in

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ok, so i haven't been posting a lot lately.

been doing alot of thinking, soul searching, etc.

also been busy with work, making money, hanging with my new girlfriend, and just enjoying my first christmas season.. .

Pioneer Spit...oh, i mean Spirit

We used to do lunch on Tuesdays, it was nice--we'd sometimes go bowling after lunch. It was funny at first-- Christ would order an Oriental chicken salad with ranch instead of the Oriental dressing and ask for croutons. After a while I'd say, 'Christ! Can't you just order a regular chicken salad!' Then he's get all perturbed if they put a lemon wedge in his iced tea, one time he actually scolded a server, 'For God's sake, it's just a beverage order and you screwed that up, I can't wait to order lunch. . .' It was these little things that started to wear on my personal relationship with Christ. It was like he was cracking up on the inside and I felt for him for a time, but it became embarrassing.

The last time something like this happened, they put the Oriental dressing on the salad and brought him a side of ranch and he lost it. Well, I couldn't have this anymore, you just don't mistreat people for making a mistake, especially in food service. So I laid into him - 'Jesus Christ', I said, 'you can't talk to people like that, especially since you've never done food service in a restaurant--AND NO, feeding multitudes with just a few fishes and some loaves does NOT qualify you--you do not understand people and you're certainly not practicing that forgiveness 77 times thing you talked about, so enough! You're either going to get a second job as a server or go to anger management classes, or we just can't have a personal relationship anymore.'

I had to break it off.

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Bullying is a crime!

by Gill in

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the last few months have been very difficult for us.. my husband has been experiencing bullying by his boss at work and his management team.

there is no reason for the bullying....it is just happening.

he is repeatedly being asked into investigations and disciplinary meetings for issues so small that his trade union representatives are at their wits end and have finally decided to call in the head of their trade union and a lawyer to begin going down the road of constructive dismissal.

Pioneer Spit...oh, i mean Spirit

Harrassment is against the law, and for them to admit that your husband is not at fault nor is his work, that it's a personality clash should be all the motivation they need to stop immediately, or risk being sued by apparently several! employees?

Remind him of how talented he is, and that it's not the only job on Earth. Nothing is worth the constant mental strain. . .I say this as I wait oh so impatiently for my new job to start. I've gone through some similar things at work, but have another job waiting for me-I'm delaying because of a customer order that is incoming-$$- I keep wondering if it's worth it.

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My response to an Elder!

by mavie in

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elder 1,. .

i will be in town on xxxxxx, december xxx.

i'm sure you would agree that my everlasting life is an important enough reason to revisit some of the outstanding questions i posed last year to be addressed.

Pioneer Spit...oh, i mean Spirit

Mavie,

There should be a lifesize bronze statue of you somewhere. Please post the outcome of this meeting.

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Things to NEVER say to or Do with a jw...........

by nomoreguilt in

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i'll start with "never do business with a jw".

they will take advantage of you, "but brother".

they will use your good credit, your good name, and then beg off on any deal you might have had, legal or on their word........................whose next?.

Pioneer Spit...oh, i mean Spirit

Never tell them that you were raised a jw and that you 'fell away', they will call on you. Tell the truth, 'I ran for my f**king life and you guys are retards'.

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