Posts by Schism

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New Light

by choosing life in

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i watched a documentory on cults on the history channel last night.

what jumped out at me was that they said that cults could not exist if they didn't get people to believe in "new light" and "present truth".

the fact that they used those exact words sent a chill down my spine.. they also stated that cults are apocalyptic and believed heavily that god had chosen them to rule the new world after armegeddon.

Schism

Well they can go crazy and kill their families in order to "catapult" them into the "new system".

Hasn't that happened before?

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Could this "old book" be worth $omething?

by JH in

my mom was making a cleanup, since she will move in a few months from now, and she asked me if i wanted this old book.. it's about the titanic.

it was written in 1912, the year the titanic sunk.

what do you think, could i get a few bucks for this book?

Schism

It really is a very neat old book. Why are you so anxious to get rid of it? Demons??? LMAO

Don't sell it or give it away!! Just hold on to it! What could it hurt to just keep that cool old thing?

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Could this "old book" be worth $omething?

by JH in

my mom was making a cleanup, since she will move in a few months from now, and she asked me if i wanted this old book.. it's about the titanic.

it was written in 1912, the year the titanic sunk.

what do you think, could i get a few bucks for this book?

Schism

I would keep it if I were you.

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Why is it everytime I turn around I am supposed to be paranoid?

by Schism in

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friends

i know i know, i have too many worries...this is another one of them.. first, i was raised a jw and was told that we were about to go through the great tribulation, a time when men with guns would come to the house and force us out and cut off my 5 year old fingers for not saying the pledge of alleigance to the flag?

and then to be beaten to death with hammers for being a jw?

i grow up, and off and on for every little thing that happens, my jw family reminds me that any day now i could be tortured and killed.

Schism

Oh and what's worse? Being a JW who doesn't go to college because they believe the end will come? Or being a non-JW who doesn't go to college because they believe a holocaust is coming? Either way it seems too unhealthy and it discourages one from pursuing the good things in life because you are just positive that it is hopeless. I want to be hopeful about my future Geez can I get a break?

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Why is it everytime I turn around I am supposed to be paranoid?

by Schism in

jw
friends

i know i know, i have too many worries...this is another one of them.. first, i was raised a jw and was told that we were about to go through the great tribulation, a time when men with guns would come to the house and force us out and cut off my 5 year old fingers for not saying the pledge of alleigance to the flag?

and then to be beaten to death with hammers for being a jw?

i grow up, and off and on for every little thing that happens, my jw family reminds me that any day now i could be tortured and killed.

Schism

I know I know, I have too many worries...this is another one of them.

First, I was raised a JW and was told that we were about to go through the Great Tribulation, a time when men with guns would come to the house and force us out and cut off my 5 year old fingers for not saying the Pledge of Alleigance to the flag? And then to be beaten to death with hammers for being a JW?

I grow up, and off and on for every little thing that happens, my JW family reminds me that any day now I could be tortured and killed. Every time I start to relax, the weather gets cloudy and everyone wonders if it is Armageddon time or something.

Now I don't believe in what the JWs preach, and I was feeling really REALLY good about life. I have been becoming more and more optimistic about my future. Wanting to get a job, go to college, take a vacation, move to a beautiful place, etc...

Finally, after becoming comfortable in the country I live in, I am faced with people telling me that there will be a mass extermination of innocent people and I could be one of them??? Why do I have to even hear this kind of stuff? Is it too much to ask to just not have to worry about some for of tribulation or another? First it's JWs, now it conspiracies? I just want to not have to have these imaginations of being held at gunpoint and tortured to death just for having been born.

I mean, if what they are saying is true, then obviously the JW prediction that religious people will go to these camps. I don't want to believe this stuff. It makes JWs seem more credible, and that's never a good thing...because they are nuts.

I just want to grow old with my husband and enjoy life. I wish I didn't ever have to have these worries. Being raised a JW, I have this constant paranoia of being put in concentration camps. I can't even get through the movie "Schindler's List" because it feeds that fear! I watched half of it, and I had to get drunk just to tolerate it.

I know there's nothing anyone can say to reassure me, but I just had to vent a little. Does anyone else have this sort of paranoia? I try not to read those kind of things when I am on the internet, but I stumble upon them anyway. I'd rather be blissfully ignorant. I shouldn't be so young to constantly worry about imminent death. It's insane.

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2 day assembly

by thebiggestlie in

uggggh.... this is assembly weekend for me.... it's a funny feeling being in a hall with 800 brainwashed people feeling like your the only one who doesn't buy into the "truth"...,

Schism

lol Blondie! My mother would have killed me if she caught me doing any of your suggestions, even as a married adult! I did manage to take frequent bathroom breaks for this last assembly, although she figured out that my spouse and I were just trying to get away from hearing the talks and she made both of us go sit back down No fair...

I had to spend my time staring at people instead. Hey, add that to the list!

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2 day assembly

by thebiggestlie in

uggggh.... this is assembly weekend for me.... it's a funny feeling being in a hall with 800 brainwashed people feeling like your the only one who doesn't buy into the "truth"...,

Schism

LOL, I see you have been posting

Who knows? Maybe there's one other person there who is doing the same thing as you and watching in horror at the zombie party? It's always possible!

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Does anyone know about real estate (mom? dad?)

by Schism in

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friends

yeah, i won't ask my real life parents this, so i am turning to my jwd parents for help, lol.. i have just caught wind that a 2 week long class will be opening up on a nearby campus.

once the class is over, the students will then be able to take a state test and get a realtor's license.

the course costs $700.. ok, so i need to get a job, otherwise we are going to starve to death.

Schism

Thank you so much kate (((((hugs)))))

Very helpful post!

I will try not to let anything get to me like it used to. I used to be such a work-a-holic, independent girl. Then one thing happened after another and I became a socially anxious clam, to say the least, lol. I quit working and was so scared to get out there again, that I didn't care what the finances looked like. One day I tried to go to work for a very nice guy I've been knowing all my life. It was only part-time. I started crying on the way there and never did go in for my first day! I was so embarrassed for being such a drama queen, but I didn't have any control over myself that day, lol.

So here I am now, in desperate need of money to pay bills, and I don't know where to start. I don't wanna be a grown-up anymore!!!

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Does anyone know about real estate (mom? dad?)

by Schism in

jw
friends

yeah, i won't ask my real life parents this, so i am turning to my jwd parents for help, lol.. i have just caught wind that a 2 week long class will be opening up on a nearby campus.

once the class is over, the students will then be able to take a state test and get a realtor's license.

the course costs $700.. ok, so i need to get a job, otherwise we are going to starve to death.

Schism

Yeah, I won't ask my real life parents this, so I am turning to my JWD parents for help, lol.

I have just caught wind that a 2 week long class will be opening up on a nearby campus. Once the class is over, the students will then be able to take a state test and get a realtor's license. The course costs $700.

OK, so I need to get a job, otherwise we are going to starve to death. I have finally decided to overcome my fear of social situations and get back out there (had a job before, long story). Working is a necessary thing, and I need to step up to the plate Scared to death, BTW

I do believe that this job would be something I am interested in. But how does it work? What exactly do realtors do besides show houses? I thought they had to go to school for way longer than that. I am being told that there is a possibility for a decent income. I suppose that depends on certain things though.

Know an agent? Been one? Any advice?

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The Scent of a Woman!!!!

by AK - Jeff in

your intentions are good - entirely manly.

you step into the shower intent on grabbing a skin-drying manly soap - dial or zest or similar.. then it catches your eye - that little 'womanly scented' bath-bar.

you try and reach past it - to get the large man-size bar on the soap tray - but inexplicably you pick up the lady's perfumey soap.

Schism

S4T, we were just at a post tie, and now you are a hundred ahead of me