Oh that reminds me! A reason for not using drugs was once you drop your mental guard you allow the demons in!
Posts by Crux
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51JW Tall Tales
by lancelink inrecently i was cleaning my bookcase and found an old book that i enjoyed as a child.
it had stories in it such as paul bunyan, pecos bill, and john henry.
while these stories are fictional, i enjoyed them because they were entertaining, and easy to understand.. fast forward to the late 70's when i was a teenager sitting at the ca hall in janesville wisconsin.. the speaker was explaining the great sacrifice god made in sending his son down to earth to die for all mankind.
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JW Tall Tales
by lancelink inrecently i was cleaning my bookcase and found an old book that i enjoyed as a child.
it had stories in it such as paul bunyan, pecos bill, and john henry.
while these stories are fictional, i enjoyed them because they were entertaining, and easy to understand.. fast forward to the late 70's when i was a teenager sitting at the ca hall in janesville wisconsin.. the speaker was explaining the great sacrifice god made in sending his son down to earth to die for all mankind.
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Crux
This actually did happen.
A friend of mine who was a pioneer at the time and was having a rough time finacially had a blowout and was running on a spare not able to afford new tires. After about a week of stressing he came home to find four brand new tires with a note that said "From Jehovah".
Despite what some people think, sometimes there is actual loving kindness amongst the jw's.
On the flip side, I had two close friends (twin brothers) who had a hard time distingushing imagination from reality. That's another way to say they lied constantly, about everything. A lot of moving tables, floating cats/animals acting wierd, unexplainable and mysterious noises. All of it was of course demons. I let them borrow a video game one time and had it promptly returned to me due to the fact that apparently once the laser hit the disc it released a demon into the house (my words not theirs). Not that they were particularly religious, just impressionable... oh and liars. :P And by the way, they didn't have an answer for why I never had "demon problems" despite the fact that apparently several of my possessions were possessed.
How sad is this though, I actually used to reason with myself that the reason I never had demon problems was because the demons knew I had doubts, so if anything ever did happen it would solidify my beliefs, so they chose to not interfere.
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Is regularly texting/phoning someone (not your partner) cheating?
by sacdfan inhello - can i ask you all for your opinions?.
if your partner (husband/wife, gf/bf etc) was phoning and texting someone approx 20 times per day,would you find it unacceptable?
for example, if your wife was texting/phoning another brother (also married) 20 to 30 times a day, would you get suspicious?
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Crux
Steal the cell when they are in the shower and read the texts!
And it's not cheating until you know all the facts. Supposing it all is innocent, it's inappropriate at worst.
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Movie Review: Moon
by Crux inspecial note: from time to time i enjoy reviewing movies for fun.
my reviews are always 100% spoiler free.
i don't do extensive reviews to often, only when i think a movie is worth sharing.
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Crux
Special Note: From time to time I enjoy reviewing movies for fun. My reviews are always 100% spoiler free. I don't do extensive reviews to often, only when I think a movie is worth sharing. There's to much mediocrity out there to get stuck doing 3-4 star reviews.
Movie Review: Moon
Moon is a sci-fi/psychodrama starring Sam Rockwell (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind) and is the directorial debut of Duncan Jones. The film features music by Clint Mansell, who is in my opinion one of the greatest soundtrack composers of the past decade.
Rockwell plays Sam Bell, an employee for Lunar Industries who is contracted to maintain a mining station on the surface of the Moon which extracts Helium-3 from the soil and sends it back to Earth as a source of clean energy. He shares the station with only his robot friend GERTY, who is voiced by Kevin Spacey. Due to equipment failure, the live link to Earth is broken and Sam is stuck with only being able to send and recieve recorded messages from Lunar and his wife Tess and 3 year old daughter, Eve. Sam is contracted to be on the Moon for 3 years, but 2 weeks before his contract is up he starts having hallucinations, and he discovers thing are not what they seem. (insert dramatic hamster)
Rockwell provides an amazing performance, which is good, since he's the only actor you see for 97 minutes. I loved the way GERTY was protrayed as well, emotion being shown by a 6 inch square screen that displays an emoticon. The film is an exceptional entry into a not too often explored genre, Roger Ebert called it hard science fiction. Interestingly the film was screened at NASA at the request of a professor due to the movies focus on Helium-3 mining.
As for me, I thought old school. From the retro sets to the few moments you might be reminiscent of 2001: A Space Oddessey. Though keep in mind the originality of this film keeps it well away from feeling anything like a knockoff, and carries itself well in this impressive look into what it means to be human.
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CONGRATULATE ME.....
by troubled mind ini sent my son a link to the thread about facebook sex because i thought it was so funny ..... today he sent me an email and told me he has joined the forum !!
i haven't told him my name on here yet, i want him to see if he can figure it out first .. .
someone else should start a thread for me and ask : " crux have you found your mommy yet ?
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Crux
So I feel like sharing. There is no point here soooo yeah!
I was raised a JW, catching fireflies after the bookstudy at our house when I was little. Our hall was always full of younglings, like, 40+ under 21. So I always had a few friends my age. Most of them did the whole get baptized young and get married by 18. I didn't get baptized until I was 18 or 19. I never agreed with making what was supposedly the most important decision in your life at age 13. Actually now that I think about it, every single one of the friends I had growing up are married. Except me. *clears throat* I'm single, 26 in 2 weeks, I have a stable well paying job, I love movies, pets, and laughing. I don't smoke and enjoy snuggling.
lol...moving on!
Same time I started college I joined a deaf congregation and taught myself sign language. I started out of neccesity (only hall with meetings on wednesday nights) due to conflicts with my classes, but stayed because I loved it. When I moved away for work I made sure there was a deaf congregation I could join.
Mom informs me that this is because I'm of a yonger generation. But I have never had any problems with JW's as a religion. When I started missing meetings, the days I would make it, I would always leave in a better mood. I enjoyed socializing before and after. I was never critical of how the WT/BS was all read paragraph answer question monatany. Maybe it was the language since signing is so descriptive, watching the WT DVD's always seemed different than reading them. Stuff made more sense, always felt like I was learning something. To this day one of the most emotionally stimulating moments in my life was being at the ASL (American Sign Language) Convention in NYC when they announced the Bible was translated and being released in DVD format. I feel privledged to have been there for that. I digress.
I stopped going to meetings because I started being a skeptical thinker, mix that with my ability to just not care about a lot of stuff, and I just simply stopped going. It was weird because at the time I had no explanation, even now it doesn't make much sense. Rather than making a decision not to go, I decided to not make any decision at all and would let meeting and study go without even thinking about it. I'm fond of saying these days that growing up as a JW I was always taught what to think not how to think. While this is true, part of me also thinks that religion isn't about thinking it's about feeling. And I always felt right as a witness.
Today I find myself in the position of being a little bit agnostic a little bit athiest. Questions about whether god exsists and what my purpose in life is, while intriguing and fun to ponder, are just not important questions to me. Unasnwerable=not important imo. If God exsists, I'll find out after I die ...or earlier, via angel with a hammer knocking at my door. :P But for now, I'm more interested in learning about life and the world and the universe by more tangible means. Which now that I think about is very ironic because I'm a huge fan of escapism, hahhaha.
Anyway. ramble ramble ramble.
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CONGRATULATE ME.....
by troubled mind ini sent my son a link to the thread about facebook sex because i thought it was so funny ..... today he sent me an email and told me he has joined the forum !!
i haven't told him my name on here yet, i want him to see if he can figure it out first .. .
someone else should start a thread for me and ask : " crux have you found your mommy yet ?
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Crux
@auntbee
mom was like my first FB friend... i think i cried myself to sleep that night.
j/k! <3
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CONGRATULATE ME.....
by troubled mind ini sent my son a link to the thread about facebook sex because i thought it was so funny ..... today he sent me an email and told me he has joined the forum !!
i haven't told him my name on here yet, i want him to see if he can figure it out first .. .
someone else should start a thread for me and ask : " crux have you found your mommy yet ?
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Crux
wait... mom you're not a witness anymore?!?
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CONGRATULATE ME.....
by troubled mind ini sent my son a link to the thread about facebook sex because i thought it was so funny ..... today he sent me an email and told me he has joined the forum !!
i haven't told him my name on here yet, i want him to see if he can figure it out first .. .
someone else should start a thread for me and ask : " crux have you found your mommy yet ?
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Crux
oh hoho I REMEMBER NOW!!! I was snooping on my mom's laptop one time i was visiting home found a bookmark to this site and she has her self auto login. I remember seeing that screen name now!
almost 2000 posts!!! Holy crap mom, you addict. :P
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Death ... friend or enemy?
by The Berean inwithout a life expectancy, would mankind stagnate?
what incentive would there be to stay busy, set goals, desire a mate and children, or care for others who would never be in harms way?
why would we do anything today if we always had a tomorrow?could it be that death is natures prod and a necessary motivator of life and should be thus celebrated?.
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Crux
Life is in constant movement. New thoughts, ideas, concepts are constantly presenting themselves that were previously never concieved. There's a strong case for saying that this will never change no matter the amount of time given. Impending doom isn't the only motivator in life. In fact, I'd make the argument that it's one of the least. If you feel the need to find a mate and have children because one day you'll be dead, I might think you have serious mental issues. Love and companionship seem like much larger moving forces.
Curiosity is another. Imagine all the things there are to learn and see on Earth alone. Then think about the size of the universe. Really think about it. For example, in the entirety of human history until now our Sun has made 0.0008% of its orbit around the center of our galaxy. There's estimated to be 200-400 billion stars in our galaxy. Any number of which have there own solar systems. Now consider the number of galaxies, latest estimates say 500 billion, a number that has conitnually gotten larger the better our technology gets and we realize how large the universe is. Stars are constantly being born and destoryed, and considering only the universe as we know it now, the time it would take you to explore to one end of the universe, by the time you got back nothing would be the same, entire new galaxies would have formed, old ones entirely destroyed.If humans were immortal/eternal, I would be more concerned about the limitations of a physical body more so than what my motivation to do things was.
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What is the best thing you did to recover after leaving the JWs?
by Lady Lee ini often get inspiration for threads from pms from other posters.
here is one that i thought i would put out there to get your recommendations?.
what is the best thing you did?.
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Crux
This is probably just me, but I didn't do anything, and it was glorious. No service, no studying, no 5 meetings a week with 45 min drives one way. I got to slow down and relax for the first time in 22 years.
