All I know is that when I was hospitalized for my first suicide attempt the only visitors I got were my parents.
The most acknowledgment I ever got was when I went to my first meeting after getting out and one of the elders came up and said "Hey *******, nice to see you! You know, I just found out about what you were in the hospital for. Yeaaaaaaah. (awkward silence as he stares off to the left) Well it's great to see you!"
Honestly, I think they're just scared to confront it. I mean, how could you be unhappy, we're Jehovah's happy people right!?
marmot
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What is with the JW hate towards the depressed?
by 5go inwhy do they treat the like the have sinned a great sin ( oh wait i might of answered it doh!
) when they are just down a bit..
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So...I got duped today!
by lovelylil ini am one of those people who always gives money to those who ask me on the street.
the reason is because there was a time when i was a kid that my siblings and i needed to beg on the street for food money because mom and dad were both addicts.. anyway, i was on my way into walmart and a lady stopped me and asked if i could give her a few dollars ($5 to be exact) so that she could pick up a prescription for some medicine.
she explained that she and her kids have been sick with bronchitis and although the kids were better she was not and had run out of money until her check came on the first of the month.. i can also sympethize with having to wait for government checks to buy what you need having grown up on state welfare programs and i reasoned that $5 is nothing for me and my husband because combined we bring in over six figures a year income.
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I've been scammed many times because I'm too trusting and I have a big heart. To cut down on outright fabrications, though, I'll usually offer to help them do whatever it is they need to do. The phonies usually back down after this.
For example, if they're asking for change to call a cab because their car broke down I'll offer to give them a lift (I've yet to get taken up on this one). If they're begging for change to get something to eat then I'll bring them into a burger king or whatever and get them whatever they want.
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Why Did You Get Baptized?
by Open mind injws are officially told the "right" reason for baptism is a heart motivated out of love and appreciation for all jehovah has done combined with the desire to please him.
now let's get real.
be honest.
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Because I was a horny 12-year old wracked with guilt over masturbation and I thought this would give me a "clean slate" before god.
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Photos of Big Foot on Associated Press Just Days Ago!!!!!
by Lady Liberty indear friends, "happy tuesday",.
just found this article and photo that was taken from a hunter just days ago.
certainly doesn't look like any bear i have ever seen!!.
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marmot
Occam's razor, my friend. Occam's razor.
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Photos of Big Foot on Associated Press Just Days Ago!!!!!
by Lady Liberty indear friends, "happy tuesday",.
just found this article and photo that was taken from a hunter just days ago.
certainly doesn't look like any bear i have ever seen!!.
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Those of you who think it's a chimp need to click on the link I posted before. It's a juvenile bear with mange.
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Photos of Big Foot on Associated Press Just Days Ago!!!!!
by Lady Liberty indear friends, "happy tuesday",.
just found this article and photo that was taken from a hunter just days ago.
certainly doesn't look like any bear i have ever seen!!.
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marmot
You've never seen a juvenile bear with mange, then. :)
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The Young Witness Generation
by choosing life ini have seen in the last few months five young marriages break up where i live.
they were all married less than two years.
is this just a local thing or are others seeing it in their neck of the woods?
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My best friend got married really young and divorced not even two years later. Frikkin' bonehead was already chasing skirts looking for a new one just 4 months later.
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Was the WTS correct?
by chappy inbased on current events, do you think the wts could be at least partially correct on their prediction about organized religion being banned by many governments or even some future un mandate?
what about the western governments (us, britain, france, germany etc)?
think it could or even may happen?
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It seems like this is the last remaining hard-core "prediction" interpretation of bible prophecy that the Watchtower society has left. All their other prophecies have vague fulfillments that could take many different forms but there's no mincing words when you say that the United Nations is going to turn on organized religion and kick off the end of the world.
It would appear that such a detailed prediction would make it easy for apostates to change their tune once they saw it being fulfilled, not to mention the witnesses would finally have concrete evidence to use in the field ministry to convince people that they were right.
An examination of the WTBTS history will show, however, that their biggest predictions did NOT come to pass as foretold, and that it was only years after the fact that "new light" showed them that the prophecies had already had a "spiritual fulfillment."
I see it as a certainty that this prediction will eventually be changed with "new light", but how would such a monumental change affect the rank and file? The Revelation book is being studied for what, the fourth time? Add to that the fact that the original interpretation of the UN being the image of the "wild beast" and false religion being "Babylon the Great" dates back to the early 60s and you've got one of the longest-held convictions of the WT society. The 1925 and 1975 dates were accepted doctrine for less time than that and they had a massive negative impact on the organization when they failed.
When (not if) they get rid of this prophetical interpretation there will no longer be a concrete and easily discerned "sign" for the average witness to recognize that the end of the world is here. After all, Jesus' "composite sign" of the end has supposedly been going on since the 1800s and the only other tangible sign they had (the 1914 generation) has just been extended indefinitely. -
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Two kinds of Witnesses--and explanation of the Governing Body
by B_Deserter ini've come to realize there are two kinds of witnesses: the idealists and the legalists.
the idealists are the typical rank and file.
they believe firmly in the ideal that the watchtower society is directed by god, and the motives of the jw clergy are nothing but spiritual.
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All the male members of my JW family are hard-core legalists and they really get people pissed off. I remember being so embarrassed as a 12-year old when we kept having to change tires on the side of the road after meetings and bookstudies because people kept propping nails up against the wheels.
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Sex dream dilemma
by 5thGeneration inbeen married 16 years.
never have or would cheat on my wife.. problem is... .
even when i have a 'dream' about cheating i wake up before i can pull the trigger.. i'm even loyal in my dreams dammit!!!
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It's weird, I never had a dream where I "pulled the trigger" until I was 19. It also happened in the most embarrassing way possible.
I was in hospital for severe appendicitis and had just come out of surgery the night before. I was on hefty pain meds and I settled down to sleep for a bit and was treated to a very...erm..."special" dream involving every single female classmate of my graduating class at high school. It came to a conclusion that would put the Yellowstone park geyser to shame and then I woke up. JUST as the nurse was walking into the room.
I was all drugged-out and groggy and totally incomprehensible and she walked right out again but it was only then that I noticed the damp tentpole. I felt an odd mixture of mortification concerning what the nurse might have seen combined with a feeling of accomplishment and wonder at finally having had one of those newfangled dreams that they talked about in grade 8 sex ed.
