Out in service with the girls, gotta meet for service, so I take the lead, and have to wear a hanky on my head because there is no one with a wang available.
Numinous
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Name Things Witnesses Make Big Deals Over
by minimus inhave you ever seen a witness get absolutely giddy over placing a measly tract with a neighbor and get up on the platform and tell the "experience" of how the neighbor actually said that he'd read it!
big deal!!!.
in our hall, they loved to applaud over the dumbest things!
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How "little" does it take to make you happy?
by JH insome people seem to need a lot to be happy, while others are happy just with the minimum.. what small thing made you happy lately?
your husband perhaps.... .
ok, for me, a sunny warm day, and i'll be outside and walking around and happy.
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Numinous
Life is a joy when it takes little to make you happy. I have a greater appreciation for life and the people in my life now. It is amazing how a change of colors in a room can make a difference. Feeling blue? A hot bath, scented candles, cuddling cats, a glass of wine, hot soup, and a funny movie. A BA in psychology, and that's my recipe for happiness.
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Tired of cliques, are you?
by DazedAndConfused inare you tired of feeling out of sinc (sp) ?
i am.. explain how you feel out of the loop..
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Numinous
Five and a half years later and I still want to be a fly on the wall in people's lives that I used to be involved with. Anything else at the hall I don't miss...I was pretty good at working a room and involving everybody. Cliques are a problem in every congregation. I can't imaging how boring it would be to not visit at meetings. What else was there?
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No more fiendish punishment could be devised
by slimboyfat inno more fiendish punishment could be devised, if such a thing were physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely unnoticed by all the members thereof.
if no one turned around when we entered, answered when we spoke, or minded what we did, but if every person we met cut us dead and acted as if we were nonexistent things, a kind of rage and impotent despair would before long well up in us, from which the cruelest bodily torture would be a relief.
- william james, the principles of psychology.
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Numinous
I do like to use the word "quit" in reference to my leaving. When you understand the consequences of a choice and do it anyway, it is your decision, and yes, I didn't want those people in my life anymore. They were angry at me because they felt I chose my life over helping them with theirs. I no longer participated in the "pity party"....the religion where the more you suffer, the better chance you have of making it.
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Recently kicked out...
by bluesbreaker59 injust wanted to share my story.... i was raised a jw all my life, my mother and father married and divorced twice, my mother was disfellowshipped when i was 6 and never came back, choosing a career, and went through various men.
i was raised by my very loving and wonderful father, easily father of the century in my opinion.
all my life i was a great kid, example in the hall, great grades, got a full college scholarship, etc.
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Numinous
Welcome Blues! You didn't get kicked out. You quit. I am so happy you have found love as love on the outside is quite different I have found. Wishing you the best on your family situation. Keep us all posted.
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what song do you want played at your funeral?
by ninja inwhat funny song do you want played at your funeral?......what about ..."burn baby burn....disco inferno"...or...."living in a box"...more please
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Numinous
Convoy!!!
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convention etiquette
by karvel infirst post, not sure if this is in the right section....anyway, last night's service meeting included a part about the upcoming district convention.
the usual take notes, make sure your teenagers sit with you, blah,blah, blah, was there but then they mentioned something new.
apparently now you have to wear your suit and lapel all weekend if you stay at a hotel.
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Numinous
Where else in the world would you see a woman in a $300. dress craning her neck a foot and a half away from her body to eat her yogurt in an arena where a week before hosted Slayer and Marilyn Manson? Only in BIZARROWORLD. The idea of not changing and wearing the badge is to keep good behaviour up by wearing the "good behaviour" clothes. I used to change in the car while we were stuck in the traffic jam of getting out of there. Those were the days...
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What do you think really happened with this Elder?
by reneeisorym inhere's what i know that happened a few years ago with my elder uncle.
i have my suspicions that i know what happened.
i'll tell you the facts and tell me what you think happened.
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Numinous
This is all too strange for me to hear. My ex was an elder and was deleted for having an emotional affair over the phone with a married sister that he couldn't get a grip on. After he was deleted he told me he could never be an elder again. Maybe I am missing something.
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my sisters are petty and sad
by itsallgoodnow insure, they are jws, but it's not about that.
they have never really cared about me.
they have always kept me out of their stupid little "club".
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Numinous
People who are truly happy don't act like that. You have something that they either want or know they can never have. You are right in thinking they are not your sisters. I think some people are here to test a personality trait out. Remember the opposite of love isn't hate, but apathy. But I do think that wanting the best for the other person, even if they never do understand what they have done, is the best for both you and for them. I hope things go well for you. Also, being a part of the JW community has possibly taught them firsthand how to act towards those who don't tow the line. There are those who are in for the guilt they have over how they have treated others in their lives, like it gives them continued permission to act superior.
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They're just apostates trying to make us look bad
by NotaNess ini love the whole attitude and mind control that apostates telling experiences, facts and truths about being in the organisation, is just ex-witnesses trying to spread lies and make the society look bad.
(of course led by satan, right?).
i was told to not believe all that stuff on the internet about them, and i replied "i'm not, take the watchtower society website for example".
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Numinous
Some secular reference works, especially ones that don't referrence JWs, could really do a job on a JW. They would simply have no answer to a religion that walks like a duck, sounds like a duck...It's a beautiful thing when someone outside of the cult can make the cult look like a cult! My personal favorite: Steven Hassan's Combatting Cult Mind Control.