the down side of having a name like raveen is that names don't mean anything to me.
all people become nothing... any odd name people undesrsand?
i was called she... you... not my name for most of my life... that made me not care what your name was.... so i don't know people i want to know!!!
People mispronounce my first name all the time. It's Tamra - rhymes with camera. Not Ta- MAR-a. Americans say it right, Canadians say it wrong.
It means "palm tree" in Hebrew, which is where I got my username.
I hate my middle name. But together with my first name, it means "palm tree in the beautiful garden" in Hebrew.
One of my earliest memories from childhood was a sister in the cong who told me she thought I had the ugliest name she had ever heard.
i wake up thinking: what if my boyfriend and i die a terrifying death during armageddon?
with no hope of any life afterwards?.
do any of you ever feel that way?.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/193495/1/SOME-ENCOURAGEMENT-FOR-THE-NEWBIES-AND-LURKERS
Please, please read these threads.
Palm
can be mushy ... .
or can be craaazyyy ... .
okay, i'll start :).
Love Enter Sandman!
Good pick, Tal!
can be mushy ... .
or can be craaazyyy ... .
okay, i'll start :).
This one still makes me cry. The words are exactly what I felt when I was being stalked and harrassed for so many years.
The Dixie Chicks - Not Ready to Make Nice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pojL_35QlSI
I'm not ready to make nice
I'm not ready to back down
I'm still mad as hell and
I don't have time to go round and round and round
It's too late to make it right
I probably wouldn't if I could
'Cause I'm mad as hell
Can't bring myself to do what it is you think I should
I know you said
Can't you just get over it
It turned my whole world around
And I kind of like itI made my bed and I sleep like a baby
With no regrets and I don't mind sayin'
It's a sad sad story when a mother will teach her
Daughter that she ought to hate a perfect stranger
And how in the world can the words that I said
Send somebody so over the edge
That they'd write me a letter
Sayin' that I better shut up and sing
Or my life will be over
can be mushy ... .
or can be craaazyyy ... .
okay, i'll start :).
If I'm ever feeling down, this song always picks me up:
according to this video, jesus was just a man, but were can i find these books that speak of this.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m23vv6moyf0&feature=related.
hi- i just wanted to say that i have been checking the website out for a few weeks and have read some horror stories and some sad ones.
but i have been studying with witnessess for about six months and can't help but feel that they're completely sincere and maybe even, the true religion.
i love the watchtower and awake and to me, none of that seems crazy.
Hi, Penelope!
I was a born-in JW and I was soooooo sure that I had gotten the BEST bible education in the world, just by being a Witness!
I've since found out that I actually knew very little.......
One of the things I love about this forum is it's a great source of information. You can ask any question and gets lots of answers to help you. Many people provide links to other sites or articles, in answer to your questions.
I think you'll really like it here!
the august 2011 awake!
contains the most secular article i've ever read in this magazine.
it's entitled "ibn battuta reveals his world".
It makes me wonder what they're up to......
The last time they wrote a "favourable" article, it was in praise of the UN. We didn't find out what that was all about until years later.
watchtower and pets a picture.
watchtower and pets, an illustration that caused lots of heartache: http://marvinshilmer.blogspot.com/2011/07/watchtower-pets.html.
marvin shilmer.
I remember around the mid-'90s (?), a circuit overseer at an assembly railing against loving our pets excessively.
I distinctly remember him belittling people who called their pets - their "baby".
He said doing that was like a human couple saying to Jehovah "Look at the baby we produced, Jehovah!" and commenting that it would be disgusting to Jehovah, an indication of beastiality.
I remember thinking at the time, "Why would it offend Jehovah if humans got attached to a creature that he created in part, for our pleasure?" And I thought they hadn't done any research on the many emotional benefits of owning a pet, or had never watched small children play with puppies......
hi, i'm scared to death writing this that i will be discovered and have major problems.
i had a good life being raised as a jw child.
many good memories of people, places and times.
Yet, I ask, what else is there to believe in? Can complex life forms evolve from non-life, on a planet so priviledgedly placed-I am invoking the "Priviledged Planet" moniker here. I've told my husband that I have some relief not dreading Jehovah anymore, I accept that I am going to die and I feel relief.
**smiles**
