Is it just me, or are the witnesses the ONLY group that use "demonized" to mean that something has taken on an association with demons? Like, "Those CDs are demonized." Just a random question I've been thinking about.
What do y'all think?
Liberty93
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Demonized
by Liberty93 inis it just me, or are the witnesses the only group that use "demonized" to mean that something has taken on an association with demons?
like, "those cds are demonized.
" just a random question i've been thinking about.. what do y'all think?.
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Crap my District Overseer says
by easyreader1970 inhere are some things that came from the mouth of the district overseer over the course of the two days.
1. the recession isn't going to end.
things are screwed because the demons are controlling the world.
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Liberty93
The whole thing about the recession ending in 2009 is mostly meaningless. All it indicates is that the government has pumped enough money into the economy to nudge GDP back up at a Soviet-esque rate. If you're in Wall Street and got that money, yes, it's over. If you're not, then the NBER's statistical stuff is mostly meaningless.
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Help me...
by rafreuter ini wish this weren't the way i greeted the board.
i've been lurking here for about 2 years now, but was unable to really interact because of limitations of my ipod browser (you can't post from there) and the parental controls on my computer.. .
well 2 years later, i'm a big boy, turned 18 and moved out.
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Liberty93
Here's a quote that's been very important to me:
"Then the Buddha addressed all the monks once more, and these were the very last words he spoke:
'Behold, O monks, this is my last advice to you. All component things in the world are changeable. They are not lasting. Work hard to gain your own salvation.'"What I take from it is this - if you want freedom, you have to work for it. You don't get it for free. Remember what Jesus said "He who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is not fit for the kingdom of God."
Same meaning for me - figure out what you need to do, and DON'T TURN BACK FOR ANYTHING, because if you do, you'll realize one day what you really lost when you lost sight of your goal, and that realization HURTS.
Bon courage!
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Help me...
by rafreuter ini wish this weren't the way i greeted the board.
i've been lurking here for about 2 years now, but was unable to really interact because of limitations of my ipod browser (you can't post from there) and the parental controls on my computer.. .
well 2 years later, i'm a big boy, turned 18 and moved out.
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Liberty93
Raf,
It's gonna be like groundhog day. Every day, you're gonna wake up and face the same little stings, the same self-alienations, tell the same lies if you want civility, and relive the same hurts. What's happening now will only happen once. If you go back, it will happen over and over again.
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Has Anyone Had The Experience? "The Secret"
by titch ini'd like to get some input and insight from anyone here who has had the experience of having their life transformed, in some way, by reading and applying the principles found in the book, "the secret", authored by rhonda byrne.
a few months ago, a thread was started by someone, concerning this book, and i don't remember who started the thread.
my apologies for that!
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Liberty93
You can affect the universe. But it takes quite a bit more than thinking about bunnies.
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"You can live a lie until you die"
by Liberty93 inreminds me of growing up in the borg.
thank god i was never assimilated!.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7v0o8m5vkc&feature=related.
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Liberty93
I'm not sure if there's much of a story in my case. I grew up as a JW. My parent's marriage started breaking down when I was around 8 or 9, and I started going kooky-wa-wa around the same time. I got into this really nasty cycle where the more neurotic I got, the more obsessed I became with the doctrines. It all came to a head when I entered puberty. Basically, I was walking on a field at my middle school one day, looked up, and said, "You don't exist anymore," and that was pretty much that. The next 10 years consisted in on-again, off-again battles with my dad about being browbeaten into going to meetings, which I began to win more and more as time went on. He tried to cut me off, or shun me or whatever, at one point, but he only lasted for a week before he had to call me again (heh).
So that's my really short story, and I'm stickin' to it. I could elaborate more about things like discovering Nietzsche (saved my sanity and put me into perpetual curmudgeon mode,) my mother leaving (thank god! I lived with her a lot after the divorce and don't think I could handle being in Witness-land 24/7), or the people at my old congregation (never got the memo that they couldn't act like my mother didn't exist, but also never went out of their way to talk to her.)
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"You can live a lie until you die"
by Liberty93 inreminds me of growing up in the borg.
thank god i was never assimilated!.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7v0o8m5vkc&feature=related.
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Liberty93
Workin' on it
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"You can live a lie until you die"
by Liberty93 inreminds me of growing up in the borg.
thank god i was never assimilated!.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7v0o8m5vkc&feature=related.
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Liberty93
Reminds me of growing up in the Borg. Thank god I was never assimilated!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7v0O8M5vKc&feature=related
(Man, figuring this out is a real you-know-what! :-p )
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How Were You Affected By The Judgmental Views Imposed By Jehovah's Witnesses?
by minimus inwere you too a very judgmental person?.
did others judge you harshly?.
i know no longer being a 'believer' means that i do a lot less judging of my brothers and sisters..
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Liberty93
When I was 11 and my sister was 7, I spent an hour banging on my sister's bedroom door, bible in hand and yelling at her about going to a birthday party that my mother had set up for her. This was right after my parents got divorced and my mother left the loonies because no-one offered to help her with us, except for one "sister" who wanted to be paid to clean her house.
It wasn't but 3 or so years after that that I looked up at the sky, and said, "You don't exist." Best thing I ever did for my sanity.
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Loyalty Keeps Us Morally Clean
by sd-7 ina rebellion had begun.
in moses' absence, the israelites built a golden calf and engaged in idolatrous reveling.
the clamor of their immoral festivities was clearly identifiable as improper.
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Liberty93
Haha. I actually thought this was a real article.