little drummer boy and i have struggled our entire married lives in just about every way: financially, emotionally, religiously, you name it.
it's like nothing ever comes easy for us.
just when one sorta good thing happens, something a whole lot worse happens and ruins our optimism.
Yes, you've eliminated one problem the org and it's demanding schedule. Commenting from experience, the world in general is no better, believe me. They are sucking us dry to the bone. Your plight is a common plight and it's discouraging. This system will eventually have two classes of people, the ultra rich and poor. The middle class is on it's way out.
One of the things I've learned in life is," to extract the positive out of negative experiences". The best.
Golf
*raises hand.
a few interesting quotes:.
"religions are all alike - founded upon fables and mythologies.
As I have said a number of times, I don't care if people believe in Donald Duck or Bugs Bunny, I beleive in my Creator. My personal experience with humans has not been encouraging. People talk and when the chips are down they are no where to be found to help others.
Golf
tiger woods finished the day with a +3, and when he walked off the 18th, there were a dozen or so in front of him, or had potential to be in front of him.
there was virtually no chance at first glance that he would end up in the final pairing for sunday.
the entire field came back to meet or fall behind him, except the aussie, stuart appleby at +2.
I understand what these fellows are going through. I remember one tournament when a well know local professional golfer walk of the course because the greens were treacherous. It's easy for us to make suggestions, and say, even a child can make that missed shot or putt. Ah, the real world of tough golf tournaments are miles apart from your ordinary week-end golf courses. Listen carefully to the ones who have finshed their round and give their impressions of the course. They tell the true story.
I'm still picking Tiger, experience comes into play.
Golf
when you were a good active jw, would you have considered marrying a non jw or was this completely out of the question..
I did and I knew all the scriptures that said, I shouldn't. We lasted almost 44 years until death stepped in. I never had any problems marrying a non-witness.
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so i laid 1500 sf of sod thursday (approx 2,000 #), and unloaded 1500 # of sand yesterday, and did a whole lot of roto-tilling and raking and dog-turd scooping, not to mention the idiot "helpers" at home depot.. anyway, my poor old body (54 years old) foolishly listened to my 18-year old brain and said (like that little devil on the shoulder): "sure, you can do it, you can do it!!!".
lol.
pain is life, and life is pain.
Experience doesn't come without a price.
Golf
i can recall a number of jw articles talking about the meaning of life - of course that meant doing something the watchtower said would make you happy, like selling magazines door to door .
i love what my oldest son once said: "i don't look for the meaning of life ... rather ... i create my own meaning.
" that is my son.
Your son hit the nail on the head!!!! We must also learn to extract the positive out of our negative experiences.
Golf
some of you are quite old with most of your life behind you.
make the best use of what's left.
forget the years that were stolen from you and wasted by the tower.
All people, whether ex-witnesses or not should make it a practice to extract the positive out of negative experiences. Our car batteries have a negative and a positive posts and it gets us to our destination.
Golf
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note the 7 days -- i think those are each 7,00 years long....
My typical day is 24 hours!
Golf
vet claims docs removed wrong testicle .
los angeles - an air force veteran filed a federal claim after undergoing an operation at a veterans administration hospital in which a healthy testicle was removed instead of a potentially cancerous one.
benjamin houghton, 47, was to have had his left testicle removed on june 14 at the west los angeles va medical center because there was a chance it could harbor cancer cells.
Over a year ago, this man in New York was to have his left leg amputated, before surgery, he reminded the doctor to make sure to take the right leg off . Low and behold the surgeon took off his RIGHT leg !!!!!!
In yesterday's news, this women had gone through chemotherapy for cancer and come to find out she didn't have cancer. She is suing the doctor. This doctor had retired two years ago.
Golf
i have always wondered what happened to "the truth" or jehovah's true followers from the time at the end of the bible until ct russsell and jf rutherford came on the scene?
were there "jw's" in columbus' time?
george washington's time?
The name came into being in 1931 ! Others will comment.
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