I try to live life in the present--and mostly have. This year more than ever has this been true. But as I have gotten older, I realize more and more that LIFE happens to you. Sometimes LIFE hits you with a curve ball, and when you stop to examine how this curve ball could have happened, and realize it's not from either God or the "devil", (I'd like to believe it's the universe at work) but just plain LIFE, it makes you take pause into the workings of the universe. You see that EVERYTHING has an ebb and flow. The weather, the oceans and seas, people, etc. EVERYTHING is alive and moves on this earth. You also learn that life has no guarantees and what you might put off now or not do, even though every fiber of your being says to go ahead and take that leap, when you are very old, you may regret that you didn't listen to your first instinct.
Flowerpetal
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Do You Live For Today or Do You Focus On The Future???
by minimus inme-----i live to enjoy my life today.
tomorrow, i could be dead....and you??
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Another Poztate here
by Poztate ini am a long time lurker who is finally ready to talk.i am not dfd or da but just walked out on a meeting back in 1981?
?what caused it???.
it was the flip flop in the disfellowshipping rules regarding family.
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Flowerpetal
Welcome all you newbies!
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Hello everyone, im new :)
by Atomar76 inhey everyone, im new haha.
my name is tom and i live in adelaide, south australia.. and i was bored and i searched for jehovahs witnesses hoping to find something to amuse me and i came across this forum and i thought it would be for like actual jehovahs witnesses (are there still practicing jw's on here?
) but your all like df or just like ones that have left... and well so am i!
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Flowerpetal
Welcome!
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I don't feel good either
by jwbot inthe flu is going around.. i missed a couple classes last week.
and right now, i am just in bed with the laptop enjoying your company.
i can't breath and i get hot flashes...wtf?.
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Flowerpetal
The thing I hate the worst when I have a cold, flu or allergies is not being able to breathe. Hope you can get relief at least from that and that you will recover soon!
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Did your Elders Have Any Weird Private Ideas or Teachings?
by Perry inok, we all know how all private ideas are quashed in the borg.
but, all that lobotimizing does have its effects that come out sometimes.
we were studying the paradise book i think and the elder said he couldn't understand how people thought they'd get bored living forever.
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Flowerpetal
I remember a pioneer sister back in the '70's who learned Hebrew for the same reason Smack stated.
Taming fish?????? ROFLOL!!!!
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Love or Hate... which is more powerful ????
by Hamas ini recieved an e mail from some nutcase banging on about islam and religion in general.
he quoted from some nut who once said :
we are only a handful of writers and.
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Shamus:
Under certain circumstances, hate is stronger than love. If someone were to murder your son, you would hate that person, no matter what. There is no such thing as loving your enemies... give me a break. How the hell can you love someone like that?
Except that I've seen people who claim to be Christian, who are sometimes on news magazine interviews on TV, forgive a person who is serving a prison sentence for killing, raping, or whatever crime to a loved one/family member they have/had. I suppose it's love that is causing them to forgive. So in that case, love would be stronger.
Not that I could ever forgive someone for harming one of my family
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I'm going to be published!!!
by Lady Lee ina couple of years ago i was part of an on-line writers group.
a few of us got together and wrote an anthology of xmas stories called tales of christmas.. i wrote a story about my first xmas after leaving the dubs.
the book is being published.
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Flowerpetal
That's wonderful, LadyLee!! Congrats!
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Anti-Americanism
by Englishman inhow do you define someone as anti-american?
if you strongly disapprove of, say, america's foreign policies, yet basically have an affection for american people, does this still make you an anti-american?
is it possible that people are being accused of being anti-american inaccurately?
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Flowerpetal
One reason why Americans think their country is better than anybody else's is because they have been indoctrinated to believe "God shed his Grace on thee" as in the song,
"America"
Oh beautiful for spacious skies
For amber waves of grain
For purple mountains majesty,
Above the fruited plain.
America, America,
God shed his grace on thee,
And crowned thy good
With brotherhood
From sea to shining sea.
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1st Anniversary
by oldcrowwoman in.
i joined jwd october 2, 2002. i started posting in jan 31, 2003. i was scared off from october til jan. dealing with abuse and overwhelm with hearing from so many who have been abused and continues.. there has been definite healing over the year.
so thank you all.. old crow
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Flowerpetal
Congratulations, oldcrowwoman!
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Society
by tyydyy inwhat a strange word to use when talking about your religion.
doesn't that sound like cult language?.
it turns out that it was appropriate.
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Flowerpetal
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It does sound cultish. The Society says this; The Society says that. For a short period I atteneded meetings again in 1999 after not attending for 10 years, I noticed this phrase was never used from the platform and by current members. It has been replaced by the Slave, shortened from the faithful and discret slave. Any one else notice this word phased out in this way?
Yep, sure do.....and I hate that they say the Slave. What if someone walked off the street and came into the KH and heard the brother on the platform say something about the "Slave", I wonder what that person would be thinking...