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  A few items of business

  by Heartbreaker in

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  2. friends

  i ordered both of franz books, and have received just by dumb luck the coc first, and will start reading it tonight.

  my husband hates to read, and i could spend every waking moment doing so, so i have committed to reading the book aloud to him, and we will do so in the evenings for as long as it takes to go through the whole thing, and then start on the 2nd.

  also, i've decided to start looking into getting my rn degree, i've always thought i'd be good at it, and it should follow me if i decide to move, nurses are needed everywhere.

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  VoidEater

  Do it! Now! You CAN! ;-)

  If she puts it down on paper, there will be plenty here to help refute!

  Glad to meet a genuine JW (Jezebel Whore).
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  Would you become a Veggie to save the planet

  by eyeslice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

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  quite a debate has been going on in the media this week regarding carbon emissions and it has been suggested that we should either become vegetarians or at the very least drastically reduce our meat consumption.. lets face it .

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  It might be convenient if we adopted Valentine Michael Smith's rather more inclusive diet.

  Can Soylent Green be too far in our future?

  And...no, I don't think I would choose to change my diet, though I would be willing to continue cutting down my meat consumption if that would result in less mega farms.
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  Dad is Nuts!

  by White Dove in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  he goes from hot to cold and back and forth again when he skips his meds.

  he loves us one week and hates us and the whole world the next.

  what makes this unbearable for us is that he acts it out, giving us the cold shoulder and blaming us for his miserable life.

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  VoidEater

  My dad is bipolar with narcisisstic personality disorder.

  So, mood swings up and down (mostly down - the manic cycle for him is very short).

  The narcisiss stuff makes everything that's wrong totally not his fault. He can't objectively see his own behavior, the context of outside events, or see he ever does anything wrong.

  When he takes his meds, he's ok for a while and then gets to thinking that he's no longer "himself" (and, I guess, he isn't - he's instead pretty reasonable and ok to be around). So he figures he doesn't need them anymore, stops, and then starts his descent into reacting to everything as if it's directed at him, and being totally oblivious to the impact he has on everyone around him.

  Deal with this kind of thing? For 50 years.

  The WTS dogma feeds right into his neuroses: the world is bad, Satan is influencing the world, he's one of the few "good" people because he's a JW.

  He has moments of great insight (over the decades), but always comes back to this worlview.

  All I can do is respond when he's more stable, encourage his awareness of himself, and let him see how much I love him. He's actually gotten better in the last 10 or 15 years, overall.
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  Can you believe this?

  by stillin9 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  you guys might have read the article below before but this was the first time i was reading this and i certainly got chills from reading it!

  i couldn't believe my eyes!

  11 well, now, what about this disfellowshiped person?

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  VoidEater

  I just threw up in my mouth a little
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  How Many Here Actually "Studied" The Publications?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when i was a teenager i extensively studied nearly every publication.

  i especially enjoyed looking up the root words meanings in the hebrew and greek of the bible language.

  it gave me the flavor of a word and its origins.

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  Only until I realized the inconsistencies made it a bunch of junk, which was at 13 or 14.

  After that, it seemed pretty pointless.

  The interlinear translation was a death knell.
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  What do most ex-JWs "believe" after leaving?

  by EverAStudent in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  has anyone done a survey to determine what faith system, religion, or set of religious beliefs ex-jws tend to settle into after leaving the organization?

  if not, would you care to post what you presently consider to be your own personal religion (e.g.

  protestant, catholic, baptist, jw but not in the organization, agnostic, atheist, ...) and especially what you presently believe about jesus (was he a real historical human, is he god, is he an angel, ...).. thank you!.

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  VoidEater

  No organized religion.

  I feel there is "something" of a "divine" nature out there, but have few beliefs about it - except that it is not the "God" that most religious types talk about, it has no ego or personality, and might be termed a kind of "aware force of nature".

  Jesus, like all of us, is a "son" of this "divine" nature, and we all have equal access to that "kingdom" he spoke of - Jesus the person probably did exist, though perhaps many sayings of a philosophical movement were combined and attributed to him (much like Lao Tzu or Confucious).

  Since none of this can be objectively validated, beliefs are not particularly important to me.
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  How Do Jehovah's Witnesses Feel About Handgun Ownership?

  by Cold Steel in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  is there anything that keeps a jw from buying a gun for personal protection?.

  has the watchtower issued any edicts on this?

  just curious.. .

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  VoidEater

  Despite the overt WTS pressure against, this is really highly dependent on congregation.

  Gun ownership is rather common, perhaps even the norm, where my parents are in Arkansas, for example.

  Indeed, my parents now own guns.
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  To the "Believers" - A Sincere Question...

  by AGuest in

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  2. bible

  to: "non-believers" (i am speaking to the "adult" among you as there are some who simply won't be able to resist... and you know who you are), i would like to ask that you please refrain from commenting, if you would be so kind.

  if possible, it would be greatly appreciated if you would hold your comments for another thread, please.

  thank you... and may you have peace!.

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  VoidEater

  Without placing faith in the Bible there are no words "Holy Spirit". You must first accept the Bible to some degree in order to have the Christian concept of the Holy Spirit - it does not exist without being described by the Bible.

  Without the Bible, there is no context for the question.

  If I don't believe in the Bible, where will I have known the "Holy Spirit" from?
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  V (ABC Mini-series)

  by sacolton in

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  2. friends

  http://abc.go.com/shows/v?partner=rm&cid=knc-rm+v_title_fall_launch+google+v_abc.

  anyone gonna watch this?

  looks awesome!.

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  Also, do the writers really think so little of the human race to assume the vast majority of us can be bought off with medical cures and hot alien chicks?

  Of course we can! We've been bought off with less before! Some of us even bought into a Paradise Earth with Lions for All!

  Considering the original took episodes and episodes to unfold a story, this new version is obviously going to be a "conspiracy of the week" type thing. Considering they had at least hald a season they needed to collapse into a single episode for this approach, they didn't do all that bad from a story/pacing standpoint.

  Characters: flat and lifeless. Production design: bland (no one's gonna make a mint on toys from this series).

  Disappointing, and really this has been better done as Earth: Final Conflict (including the predicted spiral down into formulaic resistance fighting).
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  Have you ever met

  by John Doe in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  or known anyone from arkansas?

  if so, to what did you attribute your good fortune?

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  There are also plenty of black folk -

  - and, from my little experience, more white folk than in other places willing to overtly "keep them in their place."

  My uncle's thoughts on slaves: Everyone should own a couple.

  Or was that his stance on guns?

  It really is hard to tell.

  ...but then I don't want to generalize the whole state from my uncle and a few interactions with others.

  Yet the political landscape is not encouraging, and is generally Republican and decidedly anti-gay.

  And, yes, though I've not met him, Little Rock Guy has always appeared to be a great guy.