i was reading jjrizo's thread about elders who take advantage of the kh, and i had a memory i'd like to share.
all my life growing up i had heard about how "jehovah takes care of those who put kingdom interests first.
" and all of those experiences on the platform about getting an envelope "with the exact rent amount due the day before we were to be evicted" and so on.
If you'd like Lisa I'll give you another pair of panty hose and a $5 bill
But I know what ya mean. Doesn't it feel like you just wasted all that time. I know that sometimes I want to
on an elder. The worste tragedy of being a JW is the amount of time that's taken from you. You can never get that back.
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i'm wondering about god lately.
is he really in touch with the earth at all?
how much trouble would it be for him to bring a rain in colorado to stop the fires and save the houses of those people?
Are you talking about the God of the Bible? Because he just took a vacation. It never ceases to amaze me the lengths that organized religion will go through to keep their members as mute and ignorant as possible. I think we see that with the Knowledge brings Pain line of BS. What better way to control your followers than to teach them that tripe.
You must find peace within yourself. If God does have a plan then it is to leave us alone and make our own destiny. My faith doesn't allow me to blame poor descisions on a god or Devil. Our destiny is controlled by us and this life is just part of a growing process. I believe when we die we judge ourselves from a different perspective. To believe that some entity is waiting to judge us is nothing more than a fear tactic. Of course if you insist on being christian then Judgement is what you have to look forward to. Judgement by an imperfect God who has already wiped out all evil from the earth (the flood) but here it is again. As you stated, what does this say about God?
for those of you who wanted me to pull your personalized astrology chart thank you for being patient!
right now i have so many more to do my head is spinning.
those of you who have gotten them they are rather short as i don't have the time to pull the normal ones that are usually about 20 pages long.
I asked for a chart about 4 days ago Moe. If you can't get to it that is cool I understand. At least you know your popular
i was df'd a number of years ago.
my parents never shunned me - they didn't feel that df'ing broke the family ties.
but when my brothers or uncle were in town i was "allowed" to come visit at certain times when their other jw friends would not be around.
AWESOME!!! Your son sounds like a stand up guy. You are correct on the manipulation. The thing with JW is they think the world must revolve around them. Even if you've been gone for 150 years they'll try to force you into what they believe. I'm amazed you even conceded to letting your husband and son go but it seems to have paid off.
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i follow the threads on legal questions with interest because somewhere inside me is this voice yelling at me to get back at those bastards that lied to me and my family and all the other good people i have come to know here and abroad.
i too carry a lot of anger with me from my experience as a witness.
however, another poster raised the question "what is your ultimate goal?
I would really like to get my mother out of the borg but sometimes I get so discouraged. I have a friend who is in now thanks to my help (my greatest shame). My goal is to try and erase the memory of the WTS. Time will erase the WTS but it moves too damn slow sometimes.
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the u.s. has beat mexico 2-0. for those of you who don't know me i used to play soccer.. i even went to the world cup.. this is the only time i went to the world cup.
so you know, i'm the guy in the green stripes.. needless to say i've not played soccer since.. .
The U.S. has beat Mexico 2-0
For those of you who don't know me I used to play soccer.
I even went to the World Cup.
This is the only time I went to the World Cup.
So you know, I'm the guy in the green stripes.
Needless to say I've not played Soccer since.
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what brings a smile to your face?
i cant help but smile when my wife laughs, or when my kids play outside.
i also smile when my boy, who is 15 wants to talk to me.
No particular order....
My Daughter
My daughter when is she is just knocked out asleep. You know the kind with drool out of the corners of the mouth and you pick her up and she just lays on you like a limp rag doll.
The Ocean
I used to hate deep water but now I'm drawn to the ocean so much so that I refused a high paying game dev. job in Las Vegas. I have to be near the water.
My Wife
When she acts like just a big a dork as me. When she braids her hair with a couple small braids in some hot celtic fashion.
i know i asked this absolutely yonks back, then by the name of celtic, but with so many newcomers here i thought no harm but to ask once again.. how many artists do we have here or working in art related fields including film, music, theatre, environment, gardening, sculpture, graphic design, illustration, fine art, photograpy etc etc?.
what hobbies do you have?
how do you see your future artistic horizons opening up?
I used to draw allot and write. At one time I had a 250 page book written and ready to be published. In a fit of self destructiveness and being drunk I erased it all from my computer. I still think about writing again but my heart isn't in it the way it used to be. Now my hobby is spending time with my daughter.
were you ashamed of being a witness?.
how did you feel about identifing yourself as a jehovahs witness to others?.
i often used to hide it because of the stigma attacthed to it.. was anyone actually proud to be one?
I'm not too original. Mostly my teen years although 16-19 I was in it hardcore. And by hardcore I mean baptized and worked behind the counter, gave talks and all that. Once my epiphany hit me during the conversion talk it was all over from there. I still believed all the crap until I was 27, which contributed to my self destruction, and that was even more embarrassing to me. To think that I didn't believe the WTS but I still believed armageddon was coming and I was DF'd (dead). Once, my then girlfriend now wife tried to give me a copy of the CoC book and I practically ran in fear even after being out of it for almost 7 years.
ok before we get off on the wrong foot this is not a flame war.
i read a comment by belbab on hillary's post this morning...he remarked that he had asked a question after the 09/11 attack, that no one answered.
well, i didn't even remember reading it, so i did a simple search.
I try not to answer that glory hound LDH. In fact I generally skip right over her posts. Seriously though, there are some topics I just choose not to answer because they are not written for me. Someone here who is a christian posts a christians topic I don't feel it is my place to jump in as a Pagan and tell them what to believe. And sometimes I just can't help myself. I enjoy atheist postings because I don't know what their beliefs are exactly. There are some people who strike me as arrogant and I try not to come across as that way myself.
I read almost all of the posts but don't seem to post that many responses. There are a number of factors; I don't feel like it, the topic doesn't interest me, I feel like I'm talking to a brick wall, or someone is just looking for flame bait.
As for YouKnow
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