i called my mom sunday for a little talk.
our weekly phone calls were curtailed severely by them after the recent crackdown by the empire.
but i still get one in every once in a while.. she brought up the war in iraq and in what came across to me as an unorganized halfhearted attempt, tried to use it to go into "the end".
Sandy, it is cool to see you studying and learning and forming opinions on your own. I notice a new energy level. Are you having fun?
Jourles, I feel for ya man. Any hope of tempting your wife with activities outside the hall? ...just to revive her soul a bit.
please.....learn from my mistakes: .
don't highlight your hair at home with one of those new "kits" that offers hair color and highlighting.
my mistake: not knowing how to highlight.
Oh, you guys are making me laugh so hard. My big tip? If you use those velcro rollers, be sure to count them before you leave the house. My boss was in stitches when she plucked the big, pink roller off the back of my black, fuzzy sweater. So professional, so cool.
please give a number of examples to prove that jw's are a controlling group.
One of my pet peeves about the WT articles is that they all include instructions on how to feel. i.e.
Keep in mind that the answers to these questions are not open-ended, as Minimus's are. The correct answers are already provided.
since this forum is for cleansing and healing through sharing, i want to share some confessions of an ex-elder.
how could i have allowed myself to be conned into becoming an elder?
and, after becoming an elder, why did it take me 3 years to finally figure out the hypocrisy of the organization?
I think you have just contributed to the healing here. Thank you.
Blanderized! I get it! hahahahahahaha Bland - er - ized! The first bit of Australian humor that I understand.
he who has sight is blessed; he who has insight is a thousand times blessed.
what motivates jws to engage in a debate with former jws?
this question is something i have written about in years past and my hope is that it will provide some insight to the newbies.
If the search for meaning were simply a matter of adding knowledge, one could program a computer to do it. Simply instruct it to go and collect all written knowledge that exists on this planet. The trick for the kind of searcher that I think Victor_E is outlining is that such a person assimilates new information within an existing framework. In other words, does the new information add or modify his existing world view? Such a framework is necessary to evaluate the flotsam and jetsam of information that comes our way. i.e. "Northern Lights are caused by reflections of sunlight off the Pacific Ocean." If the searcher has a good framework to evaluate such a sentence, he/she does not have to spend much time evaluating it's validity.
The trick is, does the framework itself stand to scrutiny? i.e. "Everything written in the Watchtower is completely true." That second statement results in distressing cognitive feedback loops in the victims when apparent contradictions have to be reconciled.
as the profile update is not yet working i've decided to post my biography so that you all know where i'm coming from.
i've tried to keep it as simple as possible.. i have known many previous incarnations.
i walked the earth as nostradamus, uther pendragon, count cagliostro and rodrigo borgia, although not in that order.
Hmmmm. Digger, you just HAVE to be from Australia. Is that another example of the wacky humor from down under?
answer: christ's body.
answer: christ's blood.
answer: the new covenant.
Excellent point, Huxley. We should no wise scorn a gift freely given. Let's help inflate those anointed numbers!
answer: christ's body.
answer: christ's blood.
answer: the new covenant.
Artful, those are wonderful parallels, and so true. Your study is so much more meaningful than the pablum I am reading right now on page 13, WT February 15, 2003.
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is it easy for you to tell when a person is lying to you or do you get fooled every time?
I thought this thread was about Dede, too. I can't lie or play poker. Everybody knows right away.
