first of all, i have severe arachnophobia.
rationally, i know most spiders are harmless, but something takes over my brain and my body when i see one........i totally freak out, i can't help it.
they are little pieces of death, wrapped in scarey...... .
I can't describe the heart-stopping fear I get. I literally feel like I'm going to self-destruct.
What you are feeling is called a panic attack, but you probably already know that. It goes with the territory of phobias and anxiety disorders. Might I suggest you spend an hour or so researching? The more you understand what is happening to you, the more you will be able to control it. You could start here. http://www.npadnews.com/
i'd like to hear from anyone who was disfellowshipped but fully intended to go back as soon as possible and how that worked out or didn't.
i'd like to hear how soon you went back to meetings, how many letters requesting reinstatement you wrote, how you were treated, and how long it took you to get bitter and jaded.... or in the off chance you had a positive experience, what exactly happened.. really struggling here... thanks!.
I guess many of you know that.
Yup.
Free yourself.
first of all, i have severe arachnophobia.
rationally, i know most spiders are harmless, but something takes over my brain and my body when i see one........i totally freak out, i can't help it.
they are little pieces of death, wrapped in scarey...... .
On the other hand when I come across a Praying Mantis, to me there is nothing cooler than them. Love that bug. I love how they have no fear of humans either. You can pick him up, or sit down beside him, and he looks at you as if he's saying, "wsup."
And they have no qualms about eating anything that moves, including their own. When he's looking up at you he's sizing you up and wondering how you'd taste.
Are you talking about the Big A in Brooklyn? Gerrit Lösch? Is he planning a visit? I wonder if the other six A's will be with him?
Oh, you're talking about Armageddon! Gee, hope not. I really want to see Season 4 of Breaking Bad and it doesn't start until July.
Pathetic, childish, doomsday cult nonsense.
i'd like to hear from anyone who was disfellowshipped but fully intended to go back as soon as possible and how that worked out or didn't.
i'd like to hear how soon you went back to meetings, how many letters requesting reinstatement you wrote, how you were treated, and how long it took you to get bitter and jaded.... or in the off chance you had a positive experience, what exactly happened.. really struggling here... thanks!.
You're afraid because you have always believed that Jehovah's Witnesses have the truth or are the 'real deal'. They don't and they're not, and the evidence is overwhelming if you will only consider it. You believe it because you are afraid, and you are afraid because you have been told that believing otherwise means your death, that even questioning what you are told to believe means your death. I feel for you. My wife is the same, except that she has not made progress as you have. Be brave. Free yourselves.
first of all, i have severe arachnophobia.
rationally, i know most spiders are harmless, but something takes over my brain and my body when i see one........i totally freak out, i can't help it.
they are little pieces of death, wrapped in scarey...... .
I am not afraid of spiders but if one as big as what you describe was scurrying around in the space beneath my car seat, I'd be a little rattled, too. I wouldn't want to jump out of the car until it was stationary, and then I'd get a stick to push it outside. Thing is, the odds of this ever, ever happening again to you are very, very small. Be consoled that you are safe where you are now.
Fear of spiders is not uncommon. Same category as fear of snakes. It goes to how our brains are hard wired as part of our survival mechanism, and that is why rationalisation doesn't work. Therapy would be a good idea, if only to give you the courage to confront your phobia and defeat it forever. Then you can throw a party. I'll bring the dip.
for those that are still going to the meetings.what are they saying about eygpt, libya and tunisa and the labor protests in the united states and the increasing gas prices.are they all fired up with end times fodder.tell me your thoughts.
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I just love how they all say on their Facebook status how their thoughts are "with our brothers" "our spiritual brothers" etc etc. What happened to the rest of humanity?
Bird food.
it's not under mine - i just looked.
all i found were dust bunnies and some old pizza, which, miracle or miracles, was still quite tasty!.
mmmmm, pizza. I found some dry roasted peanuts in my armchair last night. A little fuzzy, but still delicious.
i'd like to hear from anyone who was disfellowshipped but fully intended to go back as soon as possible and how that worked out or didn't.
i'd like to hear how soon you went back to meetings, how many letters requesting reinstatement you wrote, how you were treated, and how long it took you to get bitter and jaded.... or in the off chance you had a positive experience, what exactly happened.. really struggling here... thanks!.
It's analogous to attaining escape velocity, headisspinning. If a rocket blasts off from the pad with a huge release of power but fails to attain about 25,000 mph, its speed will begin to slow, it will stall, and it will fall back to earth. The same is happening to you.
the recent earthquake in japan will be a tragedy for many hundreds of individuals and families and for the nation of japan as a whole,.
but, as the saying goes, "the end is not yet.
many people who were raised as jws, as i was, often find that unexpected claps of thunder or the distant roar of jet engines as planes come in for a landing cause them almost reflexively to think "armageddon?"..
yeah, my heart sinks whenever there's an earthquake because my wife invariably takes it as a sign, although she seems to deny it. She and her brother, also a Jehovah's witness, had an active conversation about recent Pacific rim earthquakes only yesterday and when news of the quake in Japan hit this morning she had this tiny inflection of excitement in her voice when she told me about it. It seems the greater the magnitude of the quakes, the greater the excitement. My fondest desire is to free her but she's been thoroughly enslaved by the WTBTS.
