i haven't payed mine for almost 3 years because i don't like what the government is doing with its war machine and taking away our civil liberties with the patriot act:.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5981720328972328609&q=irs+tax+is+illegal+-+no+tax+law+exists%21%21&total=1&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1623838328974046647&q=law+federal+income+tax&total=77&start=30&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=6.
I hate the way our government wastes our money but I live here so I pay my taxes. It doesn't bother me so much that I feel a need to find another country to live in. Our government has been broken for a long time. Non-payment of taxes is not going to fix it.
PAY UP!
BFD
no firestorms please.
but be honest.
do you think that we are of a lower level of intelligence than those who accept evolutionist' theories?.
It was pretty easy for my mind to give up the concept and belief in God. It's not so easy for my heart. I believe one day with my heart and the next day my mind tells me not to believe. Then I feel an empty space in my heart. I am like a f*cking yo-yo and most days I try not to think about it at all but I can never get away from it.
When I first learned the truth about the truth and started my own journey for "truth" a very wise poster told me not to get lost in the mire. When I find myself in the mire I just let it all go because nothing, I mean nothing really matters to me. Whatever it is, it is. I just want to be a good person and help others when I can. I appreciate the beauty all around me and if I feel like howling at the moon, I'll howl at the moon.
I am still trying to wrap my pea brain around Journey-Ons thread. Great read that one is. Very thought provoking.
To answer your question, Jeff, my feelings are to each his/her own.
Peace.
BFD
Poor purps. I think you should take R.F. up on his offer.
BFD
For me, it's a tie for the top two things that pisses me off but the list is endless.
1. People sacrificing thier lives and the lives of thier children over the blood policy.
2. They stole my mother due to the shunning policy.
BFD
mother learns late in life to accept gay son as he is .
dear abby: my husband and i raised our two sons and two daughters.
one son and both daughters married well.
I have 2 brothers and two sisters, all married with kids, none active JWs. Back before my mom started shunning me she had fallen on hard times when she and my dad split up and sold thier house. Guess who mommy dearest had to rely on. Yup, her DF'd gay boy! She lived with my partner and me for almost one year. We even bought her a "field service" car. I wonder why her loving brothers and sisters did not come to her rescue.
These are the things I tend to forget about but when I read posts such as these the memories come flooding back and I start to get angry.
BFD
if you are a christian, how to you feel about crosses now?.
if you are an athiest, would you wear one?.
The only cross I have was given to me by a friend that has since died. It is on a set of rosary beads and I do have it on display in a cabinet in my living room. I wouldn't wear one and I wouldn't even have one if it wasn't for the gift my friend gave me a few years ago. I do wear a gold pendant with praying hands on the front of it and the serenity prayer embossed on the back of it.
It doesn't bother me that other people wear crosses, it's just not my style.
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hello folks.
mr. flipper here.
my two daughters, both jw's are 20 and 19 and the oldest got married last april, the youngest in may.
My niece who is being raised a good catholic just sent me a Thank you card that she made herself. She turned 12 on June 13. Her mom my SIL never sent a Thank you for a georgeous gold necklace with all her 6 children's birthstones I gave her for Mother's Day.. Who knows where kids get it from. Maybe a nudge wouldn't hurt.
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amateur video producer and first post here.
i just posted my new video on youtube: watchtower - time to blow the cover.. enjoy!.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn5xly4msk4.
I enjoyed every minute of the message. Great music. Welcome to the board.
BFD
well, i'm sitting here on what should be a meeting night (how wonderful is freedom?
) with a stiff drink.
it's been a hell of a crappy couple of weeks and many tears have been shed but i'm feeling at peace tonight (even though brother in law yesterday informed us they only want emergency contact with us from now on - can you believe they want nothing to do with our two beautiful little ones, their nephews?!
Yes sweet pea this is a great place and lots of great people here too. This board has been a life-line for people like me who've been out for a long time but still believed and for people who are just leaving (or getting the boot) like you guys.
Here's to freedom from mind control!
BFD
this came up in discussion between me and a fellow ex-dub buddy of mine.. as jw's, we had a brotherly unity.....at least many of us did.
if we were going somewhere and needed a witness to watch our place....even stay at our place, we had no reserves about being ripped off by them.
they were closer than some families members oftentimes and we even preferred being around them as opposed to "wordly" family members.
Very well put, Undercover, I could'nt agree more.
Thanks.
BFD
