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  MEN - when did you finally understand/ forgive your Dad?

  by hamsterbait in

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  most men will agree that in the teens they all fall out with and disagree with their father.. when did you start to understand where he was coming from?.

  i remember a poem, where the writer describes how he always thought his dad was mean and intransigent.

  he is lighting the boiler in the morning, and starts remembering how all through his childhood, the house was heated when he got up, and like his own father he cleans everybodys shoes before they get up on sunday.. i think it is only when you go through a similar crisis to the father, or finally have rebelling sons that true understanding kicks in.. i was vile to my father whilst he was dying of cancer.

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  My father used to beat me till I bled for sins real and imagined. He never played baseball, or football or anything else with me. Never watched a game on TV with me until I was in my 30's. He took my sister fishing all the time, never me. And yet, I was always the loyal one. Of 4, I am the only one who still speaks with him.

  Today, at 70, he is a pitiful old man. His life has been wasted by anger. It has destroyed every relationship he had. We have a working relationship, but we will never be close. I still do not understand him, and am not sure that I want to. I can't understand a person so adamant on being right that they are willing to sacrifice every relationship to prove it.

  When I was a kid, he was offered a position in the factory he worked in as a supervisor. He turned it down because he didn't want to be an "asshole." Everybody in management was automatically an asshole. When I landed my job as an engineer, he asked me, "Are you in management?" I responded, "Yes Dad, I am an assshole now."
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  WANTED: A Hearing, Seeing, Walking Man Older Than 82 For Mouthy

  by minimus in

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  anybody know anyone that fits the bill or is at least close to it??

  i told her i'd keep on searching for her.

  please help..

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  Hmmm... seems if we care anything for the man, he should be DEAF!
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  Ugly cars!

  by crapola in

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  i have seen many ugly new cars.

  what is the ugliest new car you have seen?

  my pick would ne the nissan cube!

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  The 1961 Plymouth Valient had a face even a mother could hate.

  
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  weight loss

  by John Doe in

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  how fast is too fast?

  i decided i'm tired of being overweight last week, so i went on a diet and started exercising.

  i'm eating anywhere from 1,200 to 1,700 calories per day.

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  I have read that a person should lose no more than 3 pounds a week over the long haul. Good luck!
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  Wanted: JW apologist to explain how the GB gets its messeges from Jesus the King

  by Mad Dawg in

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  Mad Dawg

  Sir said:

  There was a WT, from January 2008 I believe, that strongly suggested that resurrected 20th century "anointed ones" were "involved in the transmission of divine revelations today" or some such.

  Really? I would love a scan of this (hint, hint). It would be fascinating if the WTS is teaching spiritism. I know that there is verse that condemns necromancy. Can't remember off hand where it is.
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  Wanted: JW apologist to explain how the GB gets its messeges from Jesus the King

  by Mad Dawg in

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  Clarifying the Trinity Doctrine

  by UnDisfellowshipped in

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  since there is so much confusion among ex-jw's, jw's, and christians in general about exactly what the trinity doctrine is, i decided to post this to clarify this teaching.. the historical trinity doctrine of the christian (protestant and catholic) churches has always been this:.

  * there is only one true god by nature.. * there are three distinct persons who share equally the nature of god.. * there are not three different gods (that is the false doctrine of tritheism or polytheism).. * there is not one person who is revealed three different ways (that is the false doctrine of modalism).. * however, each person of the trinity does have his own "role" or "function.

  " the son willingly obeys the father.

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  Ren said:

  so Jesus is fully God in man form? how then can he die when God cannot die?

  His flesh died, but his God nature lived on. Can you show me where angels die? If Jesus were an angel He would have to have died several times according to the WTS. Where did the bodies go that He temporarily put on post resurrection and in the OT? 1 Peter 3:18 NIV

  People have to be taught the trinity doctrine and not with the bible!

  People have to be taught WT doctrine and not with the bible! The WT itself said so.

  Your double standard is glaring in that it is OK for the WTS to do this but no one else is.

  Please show me where the Bible specifically says:

  Ø Paradise is on Earth

  Ø Only 144k will go to Heaven

  Ø People will be resurected during the Millenium

  Ø That the GB is God’s sole channel of communication

  Ø Jerusalem fell in 607 BCE

  Ø Jesus and Micheal are the same person

  Ø Blood fractions are ok

  Ø One must go from door to door to earn salvation

  Who are you to demand that God word something to suite you? Why do you require a direct statement to support the trinity when you give the WTS a pass on many of their teachings? Why do you have two standards? One for the WTS, and one for all others? I apply the same standards to everyone, why don’t you?

  Has it ever occurred to you that when you have to go on these long, convoluted explanations to explain WTS teachings, that you are fitting the Bible around a preconceived belief? Why do you assign this to everyone else and then assume that you are immune from doing it yourself?
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  Did you think adults were more mature when you were a kid?

  by Wordlygirl in

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  i am 25 years old now and work in a manufacturing and distribution facility.

  when i was a kid, i always thought adults acted "old" and were usually wakled the straight and narrrow line.

  but now that i have been in the workplace for a few years, i am shocked at how "high school" things still are.

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  When I was a kid, people generally didn't say certain words in public. Or if they did, it was not in front of women or children. It never ceases to amaze me to see people with four letter words emblazoned across their shirt or hat. Then there are those who hang those oversized rubber balls from the back bumper of their trucks. These people supposedly think it is funny, it strikes me as having no class.
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  Things that Annoy Me in Grocery Stores - How About You ?

  by flipper in

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  i do a lot of the grocery shopping for my wife and myself as we live out in the mountains and i stop on the way home from working early morning hours.

  there are some things that just drive me bat-$hit crazy sometimes .

  i'll name a few- you carry it from there !

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  • When a 19 year old uppity brat tells me that I "need to learn how to read" because their fricken shelf pricing is off by a factor of 2.
  • Every time I buy 3 items, the 3rd one rings up overpriced by 10¢
  • Having to go back to the uppity brat to demand my 10¢.
  • Having uppity brat tell me "I don't know why you are making such a fuss over a dime."
  • The self-righteous indignation from the uppity brat when I point out that they are thieves stealing from everyone including children and old ladies.

  I won't mention Grand Union's name, but I will never go there again.
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  Are you a Binitarian?

  by reniaa in

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  i have had loads of discussion on here with so-called trinitarians that constantly refer to john 1:1 as proof of trinity!

  but it only talks about the word (jesus) and the god so what happened to the holy ghost?.

  if you only use proof that jesus is divine in your texts doesn't that make you a binitarian?.

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  Mad Dawg

  Actually, the term would be ditarian.