a large asteroid is heading for earth... it will destroy the earth.. i would tell my wife, thinks for making my life great.
call my.
daughter that i have not spoke with in 11yrs.
I'd fry as much chicken as the grease will allow me. I'll broil as many steaks as I can fit in. I'd hurry up and run down the street and get a case of non-light Heineken, and a whole plain cheesecake. I'd find the nearest weed connect and get a couple dime bags.
edit post: I just realized how selfish this just came off after rereading your question and subsequent post Jam. As far as what act I'd perform......hmmmm.......I don't know man.
before the issue of sovreignty came up between god and satan, humans were in a perfect state.
then adam and eve sinned, and satan challenged god's right to rule.
god took satan up, and allowed humans a chance to prove that they could govern themselves, independent from him.. but first he inflicted them with sickness, death and imperfection.
Lore, good illustration.
LOL Mr. Falcon
cope with discouragement.
when holy spirit.
(b) what can power from jehovah help.
I said to Sister Blues "It is a good thing we missed this one".......Had we gone she would have come home as strung out as Miseryloveselders....
This article was just so messed up on so many levels. It's comical in the sense that the article was supposed to provide relief from, and give practical suggestions in combatting discouragement. The article did the exact opposite of its intention. I walked away from the WT study more discouraged than anything. I wanted to share something with all of you, and I have to change some of the specifics out of respect for that individual and out of concern for my own anonymity.
A younger brother reached out to me some months ago for a couple reasons. One, his mother probably put him up to it as she's concerned with his attitude and demeanor towards Da Troof. As far as elders go, I'm younger than most, and some parents feel that I can be an inspiration or an example for their teenagers. I'm the one that kids and teenagers ask to work with in field service. If only they knew the kind of pressure that puts on me. I don't want to be anybody's example, I just want to be me for all the good and bad that comes with it. This kid, who's a good dude by most reasonable people's standards, has been exibiting the classic signs of a young JW adult trapped within this religion. He begrudginly goes out in field service, he's bored out of his mind at the meetings, doesn't fit in with the other young people in the congregation, and the thermostat on his hormones is set at hell.
So he asked if he could speak to me privately and off the record, and not within an earshot of his mother. I agreed, and asked that he meet me at a Wendy's and the tab would be on me. So we're talking about regular things that a young fella has goin on in his life. We rapped about sports, video games, girls, and just life in general. Here's where it got complicated. He intimated to me that he feels trapped because he's incapable of supporting himself at this time. Not only that, but he expressed some dismay at his low field service time, and lack of commenting at the meeting. At that point I offered to help him in that regard, but what he said next left me pretty much floored. He said, "Misery you don't understand. I don't believe in any of this stuff anymore. At all, but I'm not able to move out just yet." What do you say to that? Especially if you no longer believe in some of it either.
Some of the specifics in this account have been edited and altered out of respect for him. I don't see anything wrong with what I did post because I'm sure there's tons and tons of other young ones, and plenty of adults too, that feel trapped in this religion. That's what makes this article so discouraging. They, as in those taking the lead in the higher levels of this organization just can't seem to grasp that its them. Life has its problems, so be it, but we man up and deal with it. I have to eat, I need transportation, and I'm about to toss a grand into my car and am debating whether or not to put a down payment on a new car. My folks are up in years and need assistance from myself and my brother and sister. My job stresses me some days, but through it all I can see that all of these are absolutely necessary. What I no longer see as necessary is the demands of the WT organization. They just don't get it, its not the job, its not the pursuit of sports or hobbies, its not the vacations, its not that some of haven't found a suitable marriage mate, or any of life's demands. What it is, is the WT's demands, and the neverending feeling of not measuring up to these unscriptural measuring sticks. If that's not enough, the WT has a trump card which is the threat of losing family, friends, and in some people's cases, their very livelyhood. Its a very discouraging setting, similar to coming to grips with doing 25 to life in prison.
LOL Outlaw.
I thought you had more pictures of Palmtree when she in Jamaica......... I like nature....
before the issue of sovreignty came up between god and satan, humans were in a perfect state.
then adam and eve sinned, and satan challenged god's right to rule.
god took satan up, and allowed humans a chance to prove that they could govern themselves, independent from him.. but first he inflicted them with sickness, death and imperfection.
Amazing how non-sensible it all is after you take a step back and really examine it.......minus What Does the Bible Really Teach book, and any other WT propaganda.
http://www.langleyadvance.com/health/young+talk+boys+phone+young+make+life+death+decisions/2891119/story.html?id=2891119.
Powerful article. Thanks for posting that. I wish there were comments available underneath the article. I love reading JW apologists trying to defend the indefensible.
cope with discouragement.
when holy spirit.
(b) what can power from jehovah help.
Thanks for doing this review Blondie!
Before the meeting started today I was enjoying the jovial mood within the congregation. For one thing, I was well rested and focused, although starving as I didn't eat any breakfast. Being around my brothers and sisters all smiling and laughing, cute little kids doing what they do, its hard to be a pissed off disgruntled undercover apostate in that atmosphere. The visiting speaker delivered a good discourse, and the outline he used was neutral in regards to patting the WT on the back, and bashing other Christian faiths. I was actually enjoying the meeting, shocking as they may be. At one point I even said to myself, maybe I've been putting too much stock into the thoughts and views of apostates. Nothing like the WT Study to piss me off all over again.
This WT article is a classic case of adding insult to injury. Paragraph 14 was downright offensive and was enough at one point that if I didn't have to drop some folks off, I would have left early.
14. When we are tired or under pressure, we must never reason that the way to deal with stress is to cut back on spiritual activities. That is the worst thing we could possibly do. Why? Because such activities as personal and family Bible study, field service, and meeting attendance are the means by which we recieve rvitalizing holy spirit. Christian activities are always refreshing. (Read Matthew 11.28, 29.) How often brothers and sisters arrive at meetings feeling weary, but when the time to go home, it is as if their energy has been renewed, their spiritual batteries recharged!
You Bethel monitors, do me a favor please. Tell whomever prepared paragraph 14 to lay off the crack or meth. Its not that our spiritual batteries are recharged after the meeting, especially after the midweek meeting. No you idiots!!! We're happy the friggin meeting is over!!! We get to go home, which is where we would HAVE been if not for the emotional guilt trip nudging us to attend the stupid thing in the first place. Then you guys have the nerve to mention Matthew 11:28, 29 where Jesus said his yoke was light. That much is true, Jesus yoke is light, you bastards up in Walkhill though.......you're the spiritual equivalent of Jim Crow bruh.
Paragraph 16 was a trip too, insinuating that its not the theocratic activities wearing us out, never that!!!! No its the time we spend in secular work, the time spent traveling for pleasure, or the intensity which we pursue sports. LOL, you fellas at the Writing Department, are you serious? LOL!! Hey fellas I'll keep that in mind while I try to assist all the wannabe auxilliary pioneers next month get their 30 hours!!! That won't make me tired, that will recharge me!! Go go Gadget Pioneer!!!
One thing that should be mentioned, and OnTheWayOut has said it several times before, but it took this WT Study to fully agree with him. This is a dangerous organization. Paragraph 17 illustrates one reason why.
17. It may also be that some among us feel a measure of discouragement because the end of this system of things has not come as soon as expected. (Prov 13:12) Any who feel this way, however, can draw encouragement from the words found at Habakkuk 2:3: "The vision is yet for the appointed time, and it keeps panting on to the end, and it will not tell a lie. Even if it should delay, keep in expectation of it: for it will without fail come true. It will not be laste." We have Jehovah's assurance that the end of this system of things will come right on schedule!
Ok, so the end of this system of things isn't as around the corner as we'd like it to be, and yeah you just wasted multiple decades of your life in expection that it was right around the corner. No worries though!!! Stop being so anxious you ungrateful peons!!!! Even though it may not be around the corner, rest assured that it will come right on schedule!! Whenever that schedule may be!! Or whenever the faithful and discreet slave changes the entire meaning of the schedule by overlapping a generation thereby nullifying whatever the hell they thought "this generation" meant the previous 5 times!!!!
Ohhhh, and in case you decide to express openly your disappointment in the multiple backtracking and changing of various doctrines labeled as truth, even when it was wrong and had to be changed, well guess what? There's veiled consequences according to paragraph 9 where it states, "Think about the pain that unfaithful act would bring to Jehovah, to the congregation, and to your family." Thats right friends, if you can't do it for yourself because you can no longer wrap your head around the inconsitancies, then do it for your family, or for the congregation. It hurts them when they have to shun you because of your actions. This is one messed up religion.
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/18/woman-who-says-she-was-forced-to-wear-santa-hat-gets-55000/?iref=allsearch.
ridiculous.
>.>.
(BTW: awesome redneck accent! ) "
Ole Wuz ain't impressed, not one bit, I been in North Carolina
a great part of my life, and I have yet to meet a red neck named JEB
North Carolina is not the only place, where employers have violated
workers rights
Hey Wuz, if that bothers you, than I need to apologize to you. I'm sorry, I shouldn't have posted that. I mean that too. Have a good night.
