"its a great place to visit.......just not to live"
True, any sensible person would agree. It's fun to check in and see what everyone has to say, but it's not a substitute for life.
Just the same, why do I find all these farewells a little tiresome?
does art imitate life or does life imitate art?.
700 post in 5 years.
my goal is to do another 700 post in the next five years.
"its a great place to visit.......just not to live"
True, any sensible person would agree. It's fun to check in and see what everyone has to say, but it's not a substitute for life.
Just the same, why do I find all these farewells a little tiresome?
after a long day, what helps you relax and unwind?.
for me it's having a strawberry margarita.. it's re-freshing and it puts me in a good mood.
yc.
come home, put on my nightgown, make a cup of decaf or a glass of iced tea and go sit on the patio and look at the view. Knit, read, write, roam the internet, talk with friends.
maybe this thread has already been started before.
please forgive me if it has, but i would like to know how many on board are active witnesses, inactive, da/df''d, or never been witnesses.. i am inactive since 2005, black female, separated, head of household, etc.. rsvp.
snowbird.
roll your cursor over the name (on the left hand side of the post). One of the things that will pop up is "profile" and you can click on that.
well i dont even know where to begin here, but i will give it a shot.
sometimes i feel really out of the loop in the xjw world.
i have tried every way in the world to help people.
I am an activist sort - what I have found is that people take action about things that really matter to them. If you can't get others to join you, you need to recognize that it doesn't have the same priority for others as it does for you. If YOU care about it, YOU do something about it. I led a political action committee for 8 years - when I decided to pursue other goals, the PAC died, because it wasn't a priority for anyone else. Even though you feel your cause is righteous, it isn't helpful to judge others because they don't feel the same way. It makes you feel superior on the one hand and lonely/rejected on the other hand. Just get on with your life - do the stuff that matters to you and quit expecting that other people should have the same priorities or that anyone owes it to you to help you achieve your goals.
I agree with this: "trying to get rocks to think"
but if I talked to someone and really wanted to try to get them to think, I would ask them if they love their children, even the problem children. Why would a "loving" god be willing to kill off 99.95 of his children, even if they are rebellious. To me that is one of the most serious problems with this cult - but of course the zombies would have some glib answer. My favorite is that rattlesnake babies are as dangerous as adult rattlesnakes. I heard that at the KH once and I've never forgotten it - what supreme contempt they have for most of the world.
maybe this thread has already been started before.
please forgive me if it has, but i would like to know how many on board are active witnesses, inactive, da/df''d, or never been witnesses.. i am inactive since 2005, black female, separated, head of household, etc.. rsvp.
snowbird.
faded in early 80s, was raised in the org., third generation (three generations of zombies, eh?, never DF'd or DA'd, wasn't important enough for them to even try to find out what happened to me. Soon to be divorced, temporarily depressed out of my mind, otherwise OK. White female, no kids.
watching the history channel on all the effort, expense and equipment that goes into mining them, cutting and polishing them, the above question occured to me.
so, except for industrial uses, what is it about them?
i mean, as far as looking at them, glass worth less than a nickel can look the same.
yes, it's an artificially created shortage so the price remains high. Just the same all those pretty sparkly things are very attractive. However, I think the fake sparklies are just as pretty, depending on the setting, which can give away the kind of stone it is. I like rubies and garnets myself, and sapphires, the colorful ones.
i put the following comment on answers.yahoo.com about changes to watchtower revelation doctrine.
there have been three different versions of god given light in the watchtower publications so far;.
1. calvin studies in the scriptures series vii- the finished mystery p.151 "calvin is entitled to the honor of having at one time been a papal star .... is called wormwood.
I liked this bit: also dont try and talk to me because i will be blocking all of your communications.
Isn't it interesting - a hit and run JW. He thinks it's fair to dump on you but won't allow you to respond to his illiterate rant. I also like the logic that says a person speaking his mind freely on the internet is the equivalent of a terrorist or murderer. Great thinker, this guy.
watching the history channel on all the effort, expense and equipment that goes into mining them, cutting and polishing them, the above question occured to me.
so, except for industrial uses, what is it about them?
i mean, as far as looking at them, glass worth less than a nickel can look the same.
I had a funny experience once with a fake diamond. I have some real diamonds, and a big fake diamond from QVC. I wore that ring and a couple of others to a meeting once with some elected officials - big audience. After one speaker, a woman, left the stage, I followed her to ask a question about something she said. She started to answer me when two men came up and just walked right in front of me as if I didn't exist and started talking with her and she immediately turned to talk to them. Ruuuuuuude!!! Anyway, I decided to play my diamond is bigger than your diamond, so I stood there and played with my diamonds, admiring my big fat (fake) diamond on my big fat hand. Within two minutes they were all silent, watching my diamond instead of talking. so I started up my conversation with her again and they waited their turn. I didn't really do it on purpose, so it was really funny!
does anyone here have connections with her, or can anyone here successfully petition her to run a story on the jw molestation settlements?
She combines two of the lowest forms of life - lawyer and reporter
As far as I'm concerned this just proves that if you make throwing shit up in the air your life's work once in a while it will land on some one that deserves it.
She does make a living throwing shit up in the air. Have you ever watched her? She had Howard Stern accused of deliberately murdering Anna Nicole Smith AND her son, within minutes of ANS's death. She does that with everything - latches on to a likely victim and decides they are guilty with absolutely no evidence. I also really loathe with a deep and abiding loathing people who use righteous indignation like a drug.