"he who carves up his own personality to suit other people soon whittles it away to nothing".
letting go of fear and becoming fearless .
by brian tracy .
Umm.... personally, my feelings on "Fear" can be summed up by the treatment of the subject in "Donnie Darko". Patrick Swayze plays Jim Cunningham, a self-help guru who associates all problems with "Fear and Love".
Anyone know what I am talking about?
Thank you so much for posting SJW... I miss the old crew like SwordOfJah, Fred Hall and You Know. You'll fit in nicely here... mind you, you'll be superceded by JCanon (Jesus Christ anon (again)). He's the Messiah, just ask him.
at least one act of kindness when you were active.
i mean i have been sitting here reading threads.
some are very depressing infact about the lack of love, acceptance, socialbility and such.
Minimus, the only ones who EVER offered me gas money were some 80 year old special pioneers who couldn't afford anything for themselves! I of course refused it.
"We're speaking to folks in your... aw hell, I really don't want to be here. Can we just talk about your lawn instead?"
i remember in 1993 at one of the circuit conventions that they did a drama in which a young adult woman living with her parents was going to go see "the firm" (1993) with some other young adult jws.
when she told her parents of her plans they expressed their concerns and she pleaded that sometimes a really good movie is ok to go see if it is rated r. she heard from reliable sources that there wasnt anything really bad with it like gratuitous sex, drugs or demonic themes.
in the end her parents convinced her that jehovah would still not approve because it was rated r. she was reminded that even worldly people recognize it is a bad movie because they are the ones that gave it the r rating.
I can remember Basic Instinct being mentioned in a public talk. As well, at a District Assembly they mentioned Nine Inch Nails/The Downward Spiral (beastiality), TLC (because of the album crazysexycool!!) and Snoop Doggy Dogg. The speaker referred to the latter as "Snoopy Dogg Dogg" which made every young person in the joint bust a gut. It was always ridiculous as the 60 year old speakers had no clue what they were talking about.
Many bands were blacklisted by JWs simply because of misunderstood names, or taking lyrics literally. I remember Beck's "Loser" being quoted as well as being an endorsement of murder... obviously hyperbole, metaphor and simple poetry were lost on these fools. My first wife's dad was an elder and I remember gettign my hands on a blacklist of bands that some of the local elders passed around to keep track of what music was acceptable and what wasn't. It was absolutely hilarious.
this was mentioned on another thread briefly.
this needs it's own thread.
i want someone to tell me what the hell these things are?
I like the taste of Quizno's subs, but I can't eat there. I kid you not, but every time I've gone (15 trips) I get a wicked case of the runs within an hour of my visit. That's enought to turn me off.
ok...time for some fun...it's friday for god sakes...lol.
i love merlot's and chardonnays...of course i love champagne!!!
codeblue
Rieslings, Gewurztraminers and Pinot Grigio for me...
this is the first installment of my bible study actually a long letter about apostates its about 6 pages long.
i guess this is a warning however its an interesting read.if you would like me to post the other pages let me know
pleasant memories invariably come to mind when we as christians reflect on the time when we first learned the'.
What a pile of horsesh*t.
I like how they raise the objection of some that "if we have the truth, we have nothing to fear. The truth will stand the test" but in the next breath saying that has lead to serious questioning and doubt. Hello?!? Red flags should go up in front of Witnesses when they read this. They never once counter this reasoning and say that "of course while the truth will stand up to scrutiny" or anything along those lines. They in fact have subtly told the truth about what happens when you "test the truth" - you will raise serious questioning and doubts.
I want to show my mom this statement and point out what they are saying in plain english. Test the truth = serious doubt. There is no refutation of the actual contents of "apostate literature".
Amazing.
maybe jw's are right after all.
my life has been in this room for years.
i had held onto every word i could read in here.
I have a few comments to make, and don't like to waste my breath often...
1 - The title of your thread says it all - I think you need to "get a life" in that you should probably take a step back. No one should take online boards that seriously.
2 - I've never said it before, but thank you Simon and the other mods for your time, effort and resoure$ in setting up this board. It is truly thankless work. I personally appreciate the forum.
3 - If anyone has skipped ahead of the terms of use for this board, I would suggest re-reading them.
4 - For those not so technically minded, you might be very surprised at the type of "forensic" work s/w developers such as myself and the mods of this forum are capable of as far as piecing together technical information to determine misuse. If you think you are likely to "get over" on the forum admins via duplicate accounts etc, think again. There's much more information attached to your posts than you think.
i got hold of a memo from a jew who watched this movie :
sent: sunday, january 18, 2004 8:56 pm
subject: fw: paul harvey's comments on mel gibson's movie, "the passion of thechrist" .
Check out Snopes.com - those are NOT Paul Harvey's comments.
