i've been watching my alcohol intake for dietary reasons.
i've been limiting my consumption to a small half glass of vodka, or a shot or two of bourbon.
alcohol just doesn't do well with the gains i want to make working out.
Before the smoking ban here in the UK.. I would frequent pubs with colleagues and have a beer or two.
Only now, that we are smoke free in public places, do I realise how I must have smelt like a soused kipper when I was treating patients.
I can't tolerate the smell of tobacco now and find the piquant whiff of alcohol on the breath most off-putting.
However, I love a dram or two in the evening!!
just wondering.
i'm gonna need that soon.
i'm talking about advice.
God made you the way you are, Bottle. God, can't be wrong.
Sexuality is only a problem when it is forced on another human being - whether gay or straight. Why should anyone feel forced into relating what he/she does in private? Gay people are perfectly normal individuals, just a different genetic makeup - like left handed people.
I agree, the JW's in the main hide behind the old addage "We hade the sin, not the sinner" - not my experience in the congregation at all.
the story of the miners seems to be causing a media frenzy.
i actually wouldn't pay too much attention to the stories.
but i came across something that caught my attention because it may relate to our experience after becoming free from a cult.
The rescue of the miners in Chile has breathed a spirit of hope and euphoria into a desperately sick world. All power to them all and their families!
For a change can we please put aside our own self-pity???
For those of us that remain with some kind of faith in tact.. offer a little prayer of thanks, maybe.
!vaya con dios, hombres!
can you please mention some examples of whole congregations leaving the wt?
i just saw a post of a congregation leaving in sicily in 1988, the 4 elders and 70 members.
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I seem to recollect during the late '70's there was a rift developing in FRANCE over some question of loyalty to the GB, on a matter of either leadership or doctrine. I would love someone to throw light on this.
A vote was taken in all congregations throughout France. Individuals abdicated, but all but a handful in a small CONGREGATION in the French Alps defected.
Can anyone verify this story? What was the issue and did many, in fact, leave as a result of the vote?
Podo
can we trust this website?.
watchtower as a united nations ngo - critical look at the conspiracy theory.
http://www.jehovahsjudgment.co.uk/watchtower-un-ngo/.
Could it be that acknowledgment as an NGO via a library ticket bought the WT a pass card to far more than a collection of books?
By writing periodic articles in praise of U.N actions, this entitled them U.N. endorsement to expand in such countries as Angola. There, and I stand corrected by those with greater knowledge than I, literacy programs and co-operative farming has attracted many to the WT movement.
On the one hand I acknowledge everyone's shouts of Hypocrisy, on the other (as an outsider now) I warm to any efforts to provide the proper tools for living to those who need it most. The JW's are in a lose lose situation from critics here. Why not ask the beneficiaries of their efforts, in places like Angola... directly?
WT should be up front about its duplicity. Perhaps it would gain them respect in stead of endorsing their arrogance in the matter.
can we trust this website?.
watchtower as a united nations ngo - critical look at the conspiracy theory.
http://www.jehovahsjudgment.co.uk/watchtower-un-ngo/.
In order to participate as N(on) G(overnment) O(rganisation) within the United Nations you must sign up to a charter agreeing to promote U.N operated agencies, Lduh.
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Many of the posters here argue that such affiliation is a breech of WT's own teaching (read the thread through).
When I was in my teens, a very intelligent/educated friend/brother in my congregation took part in a chess match at the local YMCA. He was severely reprimanded by the Elders of our Congregation.
With an Awake! article blatantly praising the activities of certain U.N agencies, it would tend to suggest that WT officials knew of this affiliation and back peddled PDQ when it was brought to the attention of the public.
can we trust this website?.
watchtower as a united nations ngo - critical look at the conspiracy theory.
http://www.jehovahsjudgment.co.uk/watchtower-un-ngo/.
I vaguely remember a very supportive article in Awake! of the U.N. which cut across every accepted JW protocol. I read this somewhere, did not see the magazine myself. However, the article praised the work of the U.N... U.N.I.C.E.F maybe.
If they were not aware of their tie, would this article not have indicated their approval of U.N relief efforts?
I worked along side Paul Gillies, WT spokesman. I think the library card ticket explanation may have gravitas... but I am unsure.
this is my biggest dilema.
although mentally i really feel i could walk away from the org right now, i still have genuine love for the people i have come to know over the years.
i love people!.
It was all a dream.. a one sided elusion. Being told constantly how happy I was, when I was not. I was told I would be snuffed out like a candle if I left... and I was.
True love knows no boundaries.. eh?
I have found that perfect love throws fear outside. I fear them no longer.. but somehow feel strangely attached by the Universe.. like a son burying his head in the bosom of his Father.
Peace at last.
Podo
HaHaHa... wonderful start to a grey and drizzly day. Thanks TheLoveDoctor.
BTW I think in the UK.. we have to work from Jan.1 to June 2nd (or longer now) to pay our taxes, before one penny hits our buying pocket!
Great. Thanks again.
Podo
and that's why they are in the religion?.
i recall many jws over the years who were what i'll call "weird"---and looking back at it, many witnesses are "odd" and "different"..
Odd thread really... Of course SOME Witnesses are Mentally Ill or Mentally Impaired... Is that not true in every sub-set of humanity?
I am not convinced of this "Cult" label either. Again, SOME in JW congregations want everything spelt out for them, they want a book or rules and regulations. In many respects this is a stereo typing of a Catholic spin-off.
Maybe the Odd-Bods are the true geniuses! It is said that Sanity and Insanity are very closely aligned.
I associated with VERY intelligent and highly qualified JW's.. A City Banker of Note, An Anaesthetist, 3 General Practitioners and members of one of the richest families in France. Equally I knew some wonderful, very humble and very poor people who were Diamond characters. I also grew up with (now an Elder) who is listed in the Guiness Book of Records with a very eccentric accomplishment.... at almost 50, still living with his Mum.. he is totally off the wall eccentric. Do I classify that as Mentally Impaired.. ? Don't know.
Podo
