Diogenesister

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  See you in a couple weeks

  by Biahi in

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  leaving today for rome, and then a mediterranean cruise.

  will not be online, i will miss you all.

  hopefully, when i get back, the wt will have declared bankruptcy.

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  Ooooo very jealous!! Can we have some wonderful scenic photos when you get back please?

  My son is going to Iceland with the school next year for Geography GCSE. Very exited for him.
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  Sex before marriage.

  by nicolaou in

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  mrs nic' and i were 16 and 18 years old respectively when we first met at a circuit assembly in corby.

  three years later we were married.

  we've had a great time, we're very lucky but looking back i can see how crazy it is to put that pressure to marry on teenagers.

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  I agree with road to nowhere it’s not even the sex per sa, it’s the inability to get to know a prospective mate intimately AT ALL, even in the sense of spending time being physically close - whatever that means to any particular couple. Never mind having shared interests or things to talk about, even. Since you’re only allowed to be interested in Watchtower.

  its also incredibly damaging having to be a “narc” on your partner ie grassing them up for any perceived watchtower faux pas.
  
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  Killers of The Flower Moon by David Grann

  by smiddy3 in

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  i am presently reading this book and so far have read only 100 pages and it boggles my mind !!.

  has anybody on the board read it ?

  if so i would like to hear your views on it,if not now after i have finished reading it myself lol.

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  Thank you smiddy for the recommendation.

  you know how sometimes you are bereft when you finish a good book and want another in a similar vein? I recommend “ Empire of the Summer Moon”by S.C.Gwynne. About Quanner and Cynthia Parker. The film the searcher loosely based on
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  5 kingdom halls in New Addington for sale

  by usualusername1 in

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  i had it confirmed today that 5 kingdom halls on one site in new addington are for sale.

  price being asked £3.5 million.. every witness in london worked on that site.

  am in shock.

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  Hi you Caterham lot. Anyone know the Lazenby’s from Bedford? Or Wilson?
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  Self Limiting Beliefs

  by abishephard in

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  left the jw’s as a teenager; as with most exjws i have struggled throughout the years with being a successful adult.

  i have recently starting addressing some of the psychological trauma of my childhood, and i wonder if anyone else here can identify with any of these self limiting beliefs:.

  - pursuit of wealth is bad (i.e.

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  That’s a very apt expression for so many of the behaviours I’ve exhibited over the years.

  I am naturally a very curious and ambitious person, there was so much I wanted to achieve but I refused to become a “taker” as I saw it. Wealth was a dirty word to me, so I I chose nursing as a career, which I won’t say I didn’t enjoy, but I felt creatively and intellectually stifled. I don’t know how I would have gotten through seeing so much suffering if I hadn’t believed there was something better awaiting people.

  Now I almost have a kind of ptsd about illness, suffering and death it’s almost a phobia. I’ve also gone from taking wild chances to being super risk averse.

  Ironically I did always believe the world ( or Satan) was out to stumble me and I was suspicious of anything good that came my way....thinking there was a price attached! I now realise I self sabotage and that it wasnt the world but me creating stumbling blocks all along!

  I do think that the wealth thing is partly generational, in my youth flashy displays of wealth were considered tasteless by everyone, not just witnesses!
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  Demonic Possession

  by Nihilistic Journey in

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  i am looking for articles that i recall reading from the magazines.

  i recall getting the magazines through subscription so it must have been in the 1980's.

  they were "biographies" from sisters that dealt with demonic possession and attacks.

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  I love the look on their faces when I'd ask them about the used cars they were driving

  Yes and unless they were living in a brand new house what's the point of avoiding pre-loved items!
  
  
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  Absolutely worth seeing - Kevin from Dubtown tells about himself

  by fastJehu in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhd-xbj9yoq.

  @ kevini love your dubtown videos.

  but this video - where you tell something about yourself - is the most valuable of all previous videos.

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  @Kevin Macfree's struggles with coming to term with knowing he will always be disabled, having looked forward to good health in paradise, is so very sad.

  I too am coming to terms with a beloved relative dying young and leaving their baby without a daddy. I always believed death was temporary - as did we all.

  It's absolute agony.

  Shunning is bad enough, but I always say 'while there's life there's hope'.
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  Did Russell come up with the no hell fire and no Trinity doctrine or did steal that belief from another religion as well?

  by nowwhat? in

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  just wondering hate to give the devil his due.

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  NB I see Pastor Russell's selling of his "Miracle wheat" most definitely placing him in the 'charlatan' category.
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  Did Russell come up with the no hell fire and no Trinity doctrine or did steal that belief from another religion as well?

  by nowwhat? in

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  just wondering hate to give the devil his due.

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  Vienne's daughter read on these boards claims about his morals. They derive from newspaper articles. But the transcript of the Russell divorce is in the public record in Allegheny County. A copy is expensive, but it is available. No-one making assertions about his morals here or on other discussion boards seems to have read it. You really should before you believe what newspaper articles say. And I can hear someone muttering, 'but have you read it?' Yes, my Mom, her writing partner, B. W. Schulz, and my uncle Karl all have copies

  Russell's wife was a decent sort and she intentionally kept the more salacious details of their marriage - or rather the reason she divorced Russell - OUT of the court transcripts. This is Unfortunate since it may have opened the eyes of a few witnesses.

  I don't claim he was a pedophile, as some do. Merely that he was a typical repressed Victorian religious man and one who probably found it difficult to see his wife in a sexual light. However making lewd advances to your (adult) adoptive daughter is pretty immoral in my mind and certainly rules him out as gods chosen vessel.

  Court transcripts : http://www.pastor-russell.com/misc/bde.html
  
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  As Seen On TV....Have You Ever Tried Any Of Their Products?

  by minimus in

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  if you have , was it worth what you paid?

  ?.

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  8Blondie min, based on often I have listened to them, I think they have been a bargain

  Blondie it always blows me away what a bargain ANY music CD/album/record/tape I've had is. Hours and hours of glorious music that I listen to again and again for a few pounds.

  When you think about it it's the best value item you'll ever buy. Imho :))

  (And Timelife stuff are always classics in whatever medium)
  Simon that's hysterical lmao they're not quite so bad in the UK, are they ? Lol