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  • minimus
    26

    What's Your View of "Friends"? Are They "Real"???

    by minimus in
    1. jw
    2. friends

    the older i get, the more i see that most "friends" are not "real friends".

    i can count on 1 hand who i consider friends.

    i have many enjoyable aquaintances that i socialize with but i doubt they'd really be "there" for you.

    1. minimus
    2. caliber
    3. jaguarbass
  • caliber
    caliber

    Even from the biblical Christan view we have two needs or directives Matt. 22...... love of God

    love of neighbor. Yet at the Kingdom Hall this supposed love of God is taken to such high extreme

    so as to invalidate any natural free flow of thought and actions. Mechanical actions can NEVER

    produce real friends ! True loyalty to God is seen as "what we must do " not what we feel

    is the right thing to do for the love and trust as a true friend to continue;to allow time and space

    for a Friend to arrive at conclusion in their own good time through their free will and desire.

    Guilt and fear unnaturally supersede the greatest emotion that of love !

    So intense becomes the focus on that one solitary tree (the kingdom ) that we fail to appreciate the shade, the comfort, the protection and sheer beauty provided amid a virtual forest of trees !........

    for this what my true friends mean to me !

    Caliber

  • minimus
    26

    What's Your View of "Friends"? Are They "Real"???

    by minimus in
    1. jw
    2. friends

    the older i get, the more i see that most "friends" are not "real friends".

    i can count on 1 hand who i consider friends.

    i have many enjoyable aquaintances that i socialize with but i doubt they'd really be "there" for you.

    1. minimus
    2. caliber
    3. jaguarbass
  • caliber
    caliber

    Do you know what I found amazing about this thread ? Mostly it's man talking about friends

    I expected that it would 90 % women.. but don't get me wrong I think it's great to see guys too

    realizing the need and importance of "true unconditional friendship "! We are all deep down

    social creatures .. a very human need... the very macho totally self made man is a undesirable

    myth !

    Caliber

  • levids
    11

    ran into a sister at 7-11 today

    by levids in
    1. jw
    2. friends

    well, the confrontation i've been trying to avoid happened this afternoon.

    on my way to my martial arts class with my df'ed brother, i stopped at 7/11.

    while i was at the counter an older sister who was one of my best friends while i was still active walked right behind me but didn't see me.

    1. StAnn
    2. Tired of the Hypocrisy
    3. Jim_TX
  • caliber
    caliber

    It's the same old story... same stuck record .. meetings, field service,.. faithful slave class

    that has all and only truth ! Any other source of strength or encouragement is condemned as

    either worthless or worse evil ! You did right expressing yourself in a calm, controlled manner.

    When on the outside looking in you do see the sneering... self-righteous attitude looking to

    belittle any would be sensible, reasonable answers you might give them or worse to trip you

    up putting your neck in a noose. Rejoin us or else.. no other options available !

    Caliber