I was just wondering abou tmy JW friend it seems like I only see her were she works. I live in a small town and it just seems like everyone knows each other and I never see her outside of where she works. My friend brought her up again and Ive just completely forgot about her until recently. I guess my life is not going to well also no job no girl friend etc. and I suffer from depression. It just seems like all the women I meet always have an issue. Be it a wacky religion, drug abuse, mental problems, and smokers I hate smokers ounce they pull out a cigarette I just lose interest and it seems like everyone smokes! I know everyone has problems but are my standards just too high?
Posts by Budda
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by Budda ini was just wondering abou tmy jw friend it seems like i only see her were she works.
i live in a small town and it just seems like everyone knows each other and i never see her outside of where she works.
my friend brought her up again and ive just completely forgot about her until recently.
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Weather Channel Founder: Sue Al Gore to Expose Global Warming Fraud
by Deputy Dog init was just on fox news.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/03/04/weather-channel-founder-sue-al-gore-expose-global-warming-fraud.
on monday, while speaking at the 2008 international conference on climate change being held in new york city, coleman took his criticisms further by advocating that all those involved in the sale and marketing of carbon credits, including al gore, should be sued "to finally put some light on the fraud of global warming..
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Budda
The Earth may be cooling down from the melting ice into the worlds oceans. This cooling affects the jet streams which help control our wheather patterns. I live in the North East and I can rember getting more snow when I was a kid too. THis year we have some snow but not like it use to be. I guess the only bright side is we use less oil.
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Forbidden Love?
by ZeroZen ini like a woman who is a jw and im not; i know she has the same feelings for me as i do for her.
i would say im spiritual but not religious i would not take the bible word as literal truth like jw do.
do we have any chance of a relationship together?
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Budda
I was in this same kind of situation and it scared me off!
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Forbidden Love?
by ZeroZen ini like a woman who is a jw and im not; i know she has the same feelings for me as i do for her.
i would say im spiritual but not religious i would not take the bible word as literal truth like jw do.
do we have any chance of a relationship together?
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I feel like I should be scared!
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How many of you knew this?
by startingover inthat the first real discovery of a dinosaur was in 1822?.
http://content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=4772.
for some time now i have been of the opinion that those who believe in the bible are extremely near sighted, and are not looking at the big picture.
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When the Ancient Greeks dicovered Dinasaour Bone that thought they were the bones of a Cyclopse. What do you think JW would think of the bone if they discovered them?
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two personalities
by Budda inmy friend who is a jw seems to have two personalities.
one completely ignores me and the other is able to talk to me she seems like two different people.
has anyone experienced this before?.
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My friend who is a JW seems to have two personalities. One completely ignores me and the other is able to talk to me she seems like two different people. Has anyone experienced this before?
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Is This a Universal Characteristic of Religion?
by hamilcarr inthanks to all who participated in the moral values discussion, i think it was a 'high'-quality (wink at zico --- from 'the highest year') debate.
some posters rightly claimed i was too rash in my generalisations of religion and atheism.
so, i kept on searching for the universal characteristics of religion, i mean those features common to all forms of worship.
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Budda
The Four Noble Truths
2. The origin of suffering is attachment.
3. The cessation of suffering is attainable.
4. The path to the cessation of suffering.
1. Life means suffering.
To live means to suffer, because the human nature is not perfect and neither is the world we live in. During our lifetime, we inevitably have to endure physical suffering such as pain, sickness, injury, tiredness, old age, and eventually death; and we have to endure psychological suffering like sadness, fear, frustration, disappointment, and depression. Although there are different degrees of suffering and there are also positive experiences in life that we perceive as the opposite of suffering, such as ease, comfort and happiness, life in its totality is imperfect and incomplete, because our world is subject to impermanence. This means we are never able to keep permanently what we strive for, and just as happy moments pass by, we ourselves and our loved ones will pass away one day, too.
2. The origin of suffering is attachment.
The origin of suffering is attachment to transient things and the ignorance thereof. Transient things do not only include the physical objects that surround us, but also ideas, and -in a greater sense- all objects of our perception. Ignorance is the lack of understanding of how our mind is attached to impermanent things. The reasons for suffering are desire, passion, ardour, pursuit of wealth and prestige, striving for fame and popularity, or in short: craving and clinging. Because the objects of our attachment are transient, their loss is inevitable, thus suffering will necessarily follow. Objects of attachment also include the idea of a "self" which is a delusion, because there is no abiding self. What we call "self" is just an imagined entity, and we are merely a part of the ceaseless becoming of the universe.
3. The cessation of suffering is attainable.
The cessation of suffering can be attained through nirodha. Nirodha means the unmaking of sensual craving and conceptual attachment. The third noble truth expresses the idea that suffering can be ended by attaining dispassion. Nirodha extinguishes all forms of clinging and attachment. This means that suffering can be overcome through human activity, simply by removing the cause of suffering. Attaining and perfecting dispassion is a process of many levels that ultimately results in the state of Nirvana. Nirvana means freedom from all worries, troubles, complexes, fabrications and ideas. Nirvana is not comprehensible for those who have not attained it.
4. The path to the cessation of suffering.
There is a path to the end of suffering - a gradual path of self-improvement, which is described more detailed in the Eightfold Path. It is the middle way between the two extremes of excessive self-indulgence (hedonism) and excessive self-mortification (asceticism); and it leads to the end of the cycle of rebirth. The latter quality discerns it from other paths which are merely "wandering on the wheel of becoming", because these do not have a final object. The path to the end of suffering can extend over many lifetimes, throughout which every individual rebirth is subject to karmic conditioning. Craving, ignorance, delusions, and its effects will disappear gradually, as progress is made on the path.
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Did you get tired of waiting for Armageddon
by karter ini was around in 1975 then it was the generation that saw 1914 .. armageddon was always just about there ............... i got tired of waiting.
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I was never a JW but I was wondering does the whole Armageddon thing give people comfort so that they do not have to do anything for a productive future because it is all in gods hands? Or is Armageddon the gun to your head making you work harder and worry more that you are not doing all you can do for THE WATCH TOWER and your future in paradise?
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embalming and baptism?
by Budda ini was never a jw, i was wondering if jw embalm people when they die.
muslims and i think orodox jews do not embalm.
if someone was injured or murdered they even put the bloody clothes with the body when they bury it.
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Budda
I was never a JW, I was wondering if JW embalm people when they die. Muslims and I think orodox Jews do not embalm. If someone was injured or murdered they even put the bloody clothes with the body when they bury it. If blood is the life giver and so important why remove it when you die other then legal issues. I was also wondering why they baptize people since baptism goes back to Babylonian times.
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2008
by jefferywhat ini have noticed, and posted a little bit about all the buzz surrounding this year.
there is a little bit of a whisper campaign going around that armageddon is coming this year.
from other posts i notice im not the only one who is seeing this, there is alot of "reminders" that we need to be obedient and trusting of the fds ( which i am of course), along with reminders to stock up and prepare for disasters etc they are really pointing to something.
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Budda
Why does the watch tower do this I was never a JW? Does this make people feel comfortable so they dont have to do anything? Is it like putting a gun to someone head and telling them to sell more magazines or else?