so said one of my family members recently.
i'm pretty sure that if a lion eats grass, it will get sick.
and if lions were designed to eat grass, why do they have teeth perfect for eating meat?
This is one of those "issues" I had for years before I gave up and faded
What about the food chain? If animals don't eat other animals, the balance of nature would go haywire! It is the height of ignorance to believe such silliness.
Reason #1 for baning education and independant thinikng.
changeling
said mom was going to kill him.
mom found myspace and gave info to elders.... dude are you on here???
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Poor baby.
said mom was going to kill him.
mom found myspace and gave info to elders.... dude are you on here???
?.
Poor baby.
for 28 years i believed in paradise earth.
it was my life.
i da'ed myself 3 years ago and with that i my life as i knew it ended.
I'm curious as to the source of your hopelessness. Is it because there is no paradise earth to look forward too? Well, you know it's not real. You know those who cling to the notion will be dissapointed, so, you are better of then them already.
Try to make each day a good day. Enjoy what life has to offer you. Be gratefull for what life has already given you (family, good job, health, freedom from the lies you were taught...). Make short term goals: a vacation, a night on the town, visit with a friend...
Don't cry over the years lost (many of us lost a lot more than you), make the years you have left the best part of your life.
Just because there is no happily ever after, doesn't mean there is no future. We may not have eternity but we can and should be happy now, and for the rest of our lives!
changeling
P.S. They took 28 years from you, don't give them another second. Being happy is the best revenge.
hey all.
i got sidetracked in a comment i left earlier today....and it occurred to me to ask this question.
i used to believe in prayer.
Nope. I think prayer is a coping mechanism. Like talking yourself into "everything will be alright". If you believe you are being heard, you get that warm, fuzzy feeling and believe that, yes, my prayer will be answered.
There are other ways to give yourself a "pep talk", that don't require communication with a god.
changeling
i'm not talking about internet friends, but friends close by in your town.. so, do you have as many friends as you would like to have?.
when i was young and going to school, i had a few friends, but now i don't have any friends, but on the other hand, i'm a loner and i don't really care.
i'm not really searching for friends.
I'm with Renee, I'm missing that special girlfriend to share thoughts with. I'd also like some couple friends to go to dinner with and such. Frankly, it's not only because of the fade that I don't have these, I honestly haven't had them in m life for quite some time now. Maybe I unconsciously started drifting away from JW friends when I was still in because my heart had not been in it for awhile.
changeling
i have a jw friend that is letting an illegal immigrant live with him.
the brothers in his hall know his status (i wouldn't be surprised if half of them were illegal as well) but mention nothing about "obeying caesar's laws.
anybody else ever notice this?
They use the account of Philemon to justify this.
Without illegal immigrants the numbers in the USA would look pretty shabby.
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welcome celine to this board of mostly exjws.. it is good to have you here, i hope that you will find this place insightful.
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Welcome!!
changeling
i mean, religions.. while i am far from being anti-religious, organized religion, especially of the more 'fundamental' sort, is all beginning to blend into the same puddle for me.
i have not given up on god, or spirituality, and in fact still consider myself christian.
i just don't feel any desire at this point to participate in the formal nature of religious groups at all.
Yes, they all look like a waste of time!!!
changeling
i was taking a walk earlier and a jw couple was leaving to go to their sunday meeting.. they saw me walking and know that i'm inactive since over a decade, and know that i don't go to meetings since many years, but still waved at me and gave me a big smile.. ok, once they get by me, and their smile fades away, what must they be saying about me?.
I see you point passive suicide. And you are right, we should take people at face value. If they are nice to us, be glad and be nice in return.
But, I see the other views as well. Having been a JW all my life, I've seen many a "good " witness smile and be polite to someone (at the door, on the street) and then turn around and make some selfrighteous comment.
Most probably this couple was sincerly nice and feels sincerely sorry for poor little JH who will die at Armaggedon...
changeling
