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  7 Things Remarkably Happy People Do Often

  by Oubliette in

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  i came across this article today and really appreciated it's positive message; and so i wanted to share a few choice excerpts that i thought were particularly relevant for this group:.

  7 things remarkably happy people do often1.

  make good friends - make real friends.

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  AnneB

  Live the life you want to live - "I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me." What other people think--especially people you don't even know--doesn't matter. What other people want you to do doesn't mater. Your hopes, your dreams, your goals... live your life your way. Surround yourself with people who support and care not for the "you" they want you to be but for the real you.

  What other people want you to do DOES matter. Living life without considering how your life meshes with the lives of your family, for instance, can destroy the lives of others. What if they need you for support? Are you going to go after your dreams, hopes, goals and live life your way? How selfish can a person get???
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  Anyone Here Used to Fear Persecution?

  by kneehighmiah in

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  i was thinking today about how i no longer have to fear the attack of satan against the jws.

  i used to fear being rounded up and beaten by mobs.

  seeing my family tortured.

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  In one of the WT mags in the early '70's there was a picture that had people falling to the ground around one lone person who stayed standing. There were labels around the fallen people, "drug addiction", "fornication", etc. then a dome around the standing person, protecting him from what looked like a meteor shower. The caption made reference to the verse which states that though all those around you would be falling, Jehovah would be protecting the righteous. That's a very imperfect description of the half page drawing but if you were around WT back then you might remember the picture I'm describing.

  I heard all the descriptions of the concentration camps, the tortures in Malawi, etc., and it made me quake in my shoes. I thought that if I was very, very "good" that Jehovah would protect me like he was protecting the standing person in the picture. When I would see people I knew fall prey to street drugs and then suffer their effects I thought I was seeing that picture in action. I spent almost every waking hour (and a lot of my sleep time) focused on doing everything "right" so that my family and I would be protected when the GT and the Big A began..."it could start tommorrow, brothers, and if not then, the day after that!"

  I made myself sick, physically, and I spent far too much time trying to please others and to live a perfect life.

  When the persecution came, it was from inside the congregation and all my preparation did no good at all.

  PTSD, anyone?

  AB
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  Is this true??

  by quellycatface in

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  2. friends

  is it correct that the words "governing body" now appear in the nwt??.

  woah!!

  !.

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  AnneB

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/bible/265073/1/Ah-They-DID-slip-in-the-words-Governing-Body#.U0gB5lfZc3U
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  Shunning now applies to non-jw relatives of apostates...

  by Julia Orwell in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  apparently.

  my never-a-jw mother was at the shops with my never-a-jw 5 year old niece today and saw some jws she's known loosely for years as they were friends of mine.

  she'd even taught the teenaged girl among them.

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  AnneB

  You're right, what would be the point?

  It's a life lesson. People aren't always what we think they are.

  Hug your mom for me...I'm sad that she was "shunned".

  AB
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  Do You Reply To Your PM's?

  by snowbird in

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  all of them?.

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  AnneB

  Yeppers!
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  Does Christianity Need The Bible

  by Mat in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  christianity began it's formation without the bible.

  the bible, as we know it, is a collection of what were very old texts when they were assembled by christian leaders in the late second and third centuries because they were deemed to be inspired by god.. whether they really were inspired by god or not is now open to debate, but should they prove to not be, it should not undermine christianity as an establishment.. discuss......

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  Read up on how the Bible came into being; it was something like turning in a group assignment on time to obey an Emperor's command, not a particularly Godlike origin, eh?

  If Christ had wanted a "Bible" written out he would have said so, or started one, don'tcha think?
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  Dressed for Failure--drab colors in dress code

  by WTWizard in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i noticed that, especially for men, that they are required to dress in drab colors for boasting sessions and in field circus.

  men are supposed to wear dirty colored suits--dark gray, muddy brown, black, and off-shades of maroon, forest green, and navy/midnight blue seem to be most common.

  they get hounded if they wear something in a "loud" color--meaning anything that is near one of the major points in the rainbow and near saturation (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, or violet is most likely to result in a major hounding).

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  So, Mr Wizard, what would you say is a better way for the males to dress for field service, giving talks, attending meetings? Be specific.
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  Last Friday I brought home 6 Peepers

  by Still Totally ADD in

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  they are so cute in their cage with the red heat lamp warming them.

  there are eggs in our future.

  coop is built all i need to do now is put the fence in.

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  Pics! Pics! They're not really there until they're visible!

  In the meantime, what kind did you get, and from where? I'm looking at Murray McMurray Hatchery for mine, but won't be ordering until about mid-summer.
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  Why do I bother to wake up in the morning?

  by punkofnice in

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  2. friends

  i'm not suicidal just fed up.. i did think of suicide (briefly), but as there is no painless way and it's not something i would willingly do just in case things would have been better the day after.

  i do have a slight grain of hope.. money problems.....problems at home (that's another matter with a son up court for something he is adamant he didn't do.

  first offence but the pigs police and the cps have got charges made.

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  AnneB

  I'm not a fan of anti-depressant medications. Too often they are given to people whose only real problem is Distress.

  There's a difference between Depressed and Distressed. One may need medication, the other needs a way out of some situation.

  When I was going through a rough time with my family, the elders wanted me to take anti-depressants. I asked why. The answer was "it's hard on us to see you this way". They wanted me to take meds so they would feel better!!! A whole lot easier than actually giving me a helping hand, eh?

  Do what you need to do, not what others want you to do.

  AB
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  Had a reply for job...

  by snare&racket in

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  got a cool job, surgery and emergency medicine in a nice holiday town, super happy :d. .

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  I'm very happy for you!

  Best wishes,

  AB