Posts by miseryloveselders

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So I asked my female coworker what she was doing this weekend............

by miseryloveselders in

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but her reply made me so very envious.

you know my mother always would tell me, "wordly people aren't really happy.

" as a kid that always bugged me because i figured if people are laughing, smiling, and generally having a good time, they must be happy.

miseryloveselders

Thanks for all the comments, I love reading about the freedom ex-JWs have. It gives me something to look forward to. I have another hour to go before clocking out, and I really want to cut loose. I want to have some fun this weekend. I don't mean bowling or a gathering either. I really want to cut loose. You know at times I feel for Tiger Woods, not that I agree with what he did, but I can relate. Living so conservatively is like pressing down upon a beast on a metal spring. If you loose control, the spring will bounce that beast upwards hard and fast. Tiger admitted before he got in trouble that his life was pretty boring. I guess the porn stars and strippers would have been the natural recourse to a boring traditional family life. I feel the same way at times. I've been taming my beast so long, but I feel it creeping out of me occasionally. Every now and then I try to drown that animal with alcohol, but all that does is waste time and its as if I'm running away from the problem by doing that. I don't want to go party with strippers or be like Charlie Sheen, but I do want some action right about now.

Its insulting how the WT implies that the solution for folks like me is to involve myself in more theocratic pursuits. I don't know where they're coming from, well I guess I do. They encourage that because they want to keep us busy, maybe a misguided approach to the idle hands/devil workshop theory. I don't know if you've heard of Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All? If you haven't, you have to see their performance on Jimmy Fallon. I had never heard of these guys until reading about their performance in the news section of Google. I decided to check out their blog, and they've posted tons and tons of pictures of their everyday life. I envy the free spirit they have and I wish I could turn off my stiff suited demeanor for a significant portion of time. I've often joked that if I ran into a genie, I'd request for one of my three wishes to be no conscience, and another one of my wishes be no repurcussions for my actions. You know in the gospels, Jesus miracle with wine at a feast is one of the most popular stories. The thing that stands out to me is it mentions the host casually talking about getting drunk. The context of it led me to conclude that getting sauced occasionally isn't such a bad thing. Trouble with me is, I really don't want to get tanked, but there's a ton of other things I'd like to do. Ehh, so it goes.

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A serious Bible contradiction for me

by sabastious in

mark 9:.

38 teacher, said john, we saw someone driving out demons in your name and we told him to stop, because he was not one of us.. 39 do not stop him, jesus said.

for no one who does a miracle in my name can in the next moment say anything bad about me,40for whoever is not against us is for us.41 truly i tell you, anyone who gives you a cup of water in my name because you belong to the messiah will certainly not lose their reward.. .

miseryloveselders

There's really no contradiction with this, especially if you read the entire chapter 12 of Matthew. This is when the Pharisees accused or one might say slandered Jesus as being an agent of Beelzebul the prince of the demons. Jesus knew their intentions, and he refuted them thoroughly. After that he gave them a fair warning that they need to be careful with their words and actions as they will be held accountable. Verse 42 of Mark 9 is in harmony with chapter 12 of Matthew as it talks about one who stumbles a believer would be better off with a millstone tied around their neck and dumped in the sea.

Mark 9:38, 39 is something I've noticed the WT purposely avoids, and with good reason. Verses 33-36 talks about Jesus' disciples arguing amongst themselves as to who was the greatest. Jesus reasoned with them to correct that way of thinking, admonishing them to be humble and to be servile. Verses 38-41, contain the text in question, and again Jesus is correcting the way the disciples viewed themselves. True, they were the disciples of the Messiah, which was truly something, however they should still have a modest view of themselves and others. Verse 41 states, "if anyone gives you a cup of water in my name because you belong to the Messiah will certainly not lose their reward." The WT lacks a modest view of themselves and its evident in how they slander any other Christian church or group not associated with JWs. If they were truly to apply this text, they wouldn't encourage elders to spy on former JWs to see whether or not they've joined a church, or label every other religion as Babylon the Great. They've set themselves up as judges and slave drivers, as opposed to humble servants of Christ.

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A serious Bible contradiction for me

by sabastious in

mark 9:.

38 teacher, said john, we saw someone driving out demons in your name and we told him to stop, because he was not one of us.. 39 do not stop him, jesus said.

for no one who does a miracle in my name can in the next moment say anything bad about me,40for whoever is not against us is for us.41 truly i tell you, anyone who gives you a cup of water in my name because you belong to the messiah will certainly not lose their reward.. .

miseryloveselders

The context of both would have to be considered. Matthew 12 was when he talking with the Pharisees and their foolishness.

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What Would You Like To Ask Any Poster Here?

by minimus in

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i'd like to ask undercover why he has so many responses that are similar to what i think?.

finally free, are you really as cranky as you seem?.

miseryloveselders

I'd like to ask PalmTree out.

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So I asked my female coworker what she was doing this weekend............

by miseryloveselders in

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but her reply made me so very envious.

you know my mother always would tell me, "wordly people aren't really happy.

" as a kid that always bugged me because i figured if people are laughing, smiling, and generally having a good time, they must be happy.

miseryloveselders

No I wasn't asking her out! But her reply made me so very envious. You know my mother always would tell me, "wordly people aren't really happy." As a kid that always bugged me because I figured if people are laughing, smiling, and generally having a good time, they must be happy. As an adult, I realize you can have your fair share of problems, but still be happy. So what my mother was telling me about worldly people not being happy, was bull crap. Granted she's just repeating what her delusional mother force fed her as my grandmother is an old school pioneer. If a JW could be likened to having the durability of a cockroach, those older JWs including my grandmother would have their mascot. Going back to my coworker, after I asked her what her plans were for the weekend, she replied, "Nothing really. Looking forward to sleeping in tommorrow. Screw that alarm clock."

Ohhh do I envy her because at 8am, my alarm clock will ring, and I'll have to get ready for field service. I can't wait to knock on the doors of a bunch of apathetic strangers to offer them the real life. I just don't understand why they don't appreciate the refreshing spiritual gems found only in the Watchtower and Awake magazines. Why don't they get it? I tell ya, some people just don't recognize quality, even if you have to ring on their doorbell at 9:30 in the morning and deliver it to them. To top it off, the literature is free, and they still don't want it!! What is it with people?

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Yoo-hoo, UnderCover ...

by snowbird in

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you do not have a pm from me!.

nenner, nenner, nenner .... syl.

miseryloveselders

Vamp, I had to get rid of that purple spaghetti monster thingy, and go for something a little more artsy and daring. If anybody starts a thread about my avatar being inappropriate, I respond that DJ Adolf is symbolic for us to never forget Hitler's musical accomplishments.

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Yoo-hoo, UnderCover ...

by snowbird in

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you do not have a pm from me!.

nenner, nenner, nenner .... syl.

miseryloveselders

Undercover's getting a lot of action lately......white women, black women......whats his secret? What does he have that I don't have Syl?

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Is the Internet killing our sense of EMPATHY?

by brotherdan in

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this is a pretty interesting article on cnn.

i can see how we are being desensitized to others feelings.

there are things that i've said to others online that i never would say to someone face to face.

miseryloveselders

I don't think our sense of empathy is diminishing because of the internet. I think the internet just provides another mirror that exposes the flaws and dirty things we'd all like to think we're better than. Consider racism, and prejudice. We'd love to think we're beyond that in this country, and to be sure we have made some strides. However, go to Google, and then type "Why do black people", or "Why do white people", and watch how it automatically populates various inappropriate things we'd never venture say out loud unless around like minded people. I think society in general various pockets of people lacking empathy and genuine feeling. Where's the love, I guess.

As far as that reporter who had the migraine that everyone thought was a stroke, people have been entertained by videos like that for years. The internet just provides easier access to that kind of entertainment. Back in the day there was the Christine Chubbuck video, and the Faces Of Death series which you could find in any local video store. Nowadays with the advances in media, we have access to those kinds of videos all the time, in real time.

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Jehovah's Witnesses - Are they loving?

by brotherdan in

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jehovah's witnesses love to claim that they are a true religion because they are the most loving people on earth.

they rant and rave about how they apply john 13:35 to themselves.. in a recent conversation with djeggnog, i was shocked at some of the hateful things that he was saying to me.

now i know that i have been in some pretty heated debates with others, but i try to never make it personal.

miseryloveselders

Hold it everybody.

"Meet your God."

Huh? And he says it twice.

Only the faithful annointed get to do that.

Isn't it supposed to be, "Go to Gehenna" or something like that?

Eternal destruction...second death...but not a hint at heaven.

That's too weird for a JW to say.

Exactly, he's not a JW.

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Of serious concern

by sabastious in

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sometimes i am proud that i was able to break the bonds that held me in the watchtower bubble for so long.

lately though, i've been wondering if i have merely traded the borders the watchtower circled around me with some other nonsensical set of rules.. my home, redding ca, is a center piece of a four way intersection of highways and freeways.

many of them go through the mountains and forests and can be extremely dangerous.

miseryloveselders

I seriously thought about walking in front of their car, waving them down, then pulling them out of their car and beating the living shit out of them. Then take their licence out of their wallet and give it to the nearest police officer.

-Sab

Sab Sab, whoa!! Bruh LOL. I know what I'm about to type is completely hypocritical, but I have to type it.....you've got some anger issues man. Your opening post you wanted to find out where they were holding the 21 year old driver, and you wanted to beat the living shit out of some random cat in a parking lot.