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varian
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my b&q party
by varian inas a jw, i invited about 15 brothers to my garden party for a b&q.. we had a long table outside on the lawn for everyone to sit to.. just about as the meals were to be served, the guy in charge for the grill, whipered in my ear, that brother elder will do the thanks prayer before we start to eat.. at that time i didn t know how to respond, i just let him do it.
but thinking back as being the host of the do, i could of reacted in a different manner.
something like: "oh, so your prayers have more inpact than mine then, because you re the elder here, and i m just the stupid dickhead host?".
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my b&q party
by varian inas a jw, i invited about 15 brothers to my garden party for a b&q.. we had a long table outside on the lawn for everyone to sit to.. just about as the meals were to be served, the guy in charge for the grill, whipered in my ear, that brother elder will do the thanks prayer before we start to eat.. at that time i didn t know how to respond, i just let him do it.
but thinking back as being the host of the do, i could of reacted in a different manner.
something like: "oh, so your prayers have more inpact than mine then, because you re the elder here, and i m just the stupid dickhead host?".
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varian
as a jw, i invited about 15 brothers to my garden party for a b&q.
we had a long table outside on the lawn for everyone to sit to.
just about as the meals were to be served, the guy in charge for the grill, whipered in my ear, that brother elder will do the thanks prayer before we start to eat.
at that time i didn´t know how to respond, i just let him do it. but thinking back as being the host of the do, i could of reacted in a different manner. something like: "oh, so your prayers have more inpact than mine then, because you´re the elder here, and i´m just the stupid dickhead host?"
i thought that was quite chickie not asking me personally.
have you experienced something similar?
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Rio School Shooter was raised as JW
by skeeter1 ingunman opens fire at school in brazil, killing 12 childrenvictor r. caivano/associated presspolice guarded the perimeter of a school in rio de janeiro on thursday after a gunman opened fire, killing at least 12 people.. by alexei barrionuevopublished: april 7, 2011recommendtwitter</form>e-mailprint</form>reprintssharerio de janeiro as family members mourned their loved ones and kept vigil at hospitals for the injured, this city searched for understanding thursday after a shooting at a public school left 12 students dead and 12 others wounded.. enlarge this imagericardo moraes/reutersa woman with a photo of her niece, a student at a rio de janeiro school attacked by a gunman, waited for news on thursday.. enlarge this imagemarcelo sayao/european pressphoto agencya wounded boy was taken to a hospital after a mass shooting at a school in rio de janeiro on thursday.. brazil is no stranger to urban violence, especially the kind of violence in gang-controlled slums that have given this city one of the highest murder rates in the world.
but the specter of the schoolhouse massacre was thought to be a mostly american affliction.. on thursday, the tasso da silveira elementary and middle school, a three-story aqua-and-yellow schoolhouse in the working-class neighborhood of realengo, on the west side of rio, joined the ranks of columbine high school in 1999 and virginia tech university in 2007, sites of other school shootings.
for the victims families, the massacre brought those tragedies home.. we hear about terrorists abroad and we think it will never happen here, said clemilson perreira chagas, 30, whose cousin jessica perreira, 15, was killed thursday.
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varian
he obviously suffered from a sudden djihad syndrom!
he converted to islam, so he wasn´t a jw then, was he?
btw:
islamic terrorists have carried out more than
17041
deadly terror attacks since 9/11!
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did you know....
by varian in...that we re, on average, only 6 degrees away from every person on this earth?.
so, a friend of a friends friend and so forth, is a friend of the last person in the row (maximum of 6).. i m just reading a book called "connected".
its about social networks and how the influence us..
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...that we´re, on average, only 6 degrees away from every person on this earth?
so, a friend of a friends friend and so forth, is a friend of the last person in the row (maximum of 6).
i´m just reading a book called "connected". its about social networks and how the influence us.
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the other side of my story and why im going back
by deservingone26 inthere are two parts to this topic you can read one or the other or both if you want, i just figured i post this for differents ones who might being going thru what i am going thru i tried to write this as quick as possible so everything i am posting here is not to offend anyone i know everyone has the own opinions on different things so you can disagree or agree, but this is where i stand.
sorry for any spelling errors or grammar issues up front.
my story .
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deservingone: i often feel totally isolated with my thoughts and knowledge. i don´t fit into anything. i can´t even get too close to worldly people without some strange inner feeling.
there are so many times where i just feel totally uncomfortable. i sometimes think that only the right partner could give me the appropriate strength to even consider the possibillity of coming back. but where on earth should she come from? i´m like a modern day adam :-)
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the other side of my story and why im going back
by deservingone26 inthere are two parts to this topic you can read one or the other or both if you want, i just figured i post this for differents ones who might being going thru what i am going thru i tried to write this as quick as possible so everything i am posting here is not to offend anyone i know everyone has the own opinions on different things so you can disagree or agree, but this is where i stand.
sorry for any spelling errors or grammar issues up front.
my story .
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varian
hi,
i really enjoyed reading your story. it reminds me a bit of mine, but with the difference that i was not a born in.
like you said, when i wake up in the morning and feel my body, how unbelivably wondeful its been constructed, or the earth rotating with an exact precision in the universe....there are no words to describe all of it. i´m so thankful that jehovah gave us these gifts. i really do love him.
but on the other hand i have an addiction problem, and i like the occasional party with lots of booze. i´m trying to reduce all of it a lot, and i have managed this year to cut it down a lot. but i know its just a matter of time when i´ll be sitting in a bar or disco, and be canning myself. of course, i know in advance, that the upcomong regration will follow, and i´ll be praying for forgiveness, but i just can´t find the strength to live like a monk from tibet or whatever.
so there´s me, thinking constantly what´s the best thing to do. believe it or not, i even considered the thought of doing jw type of stuff without the wts! even going preaching and stuff!i know it sounds weird, but i have to face the fact, that my addiction and the love of an occasional party, has a huge power over myself.
apart from that. i´m a male in my midforties. going back would also mean staying a single for the rest of this life or system. i´ve been df´d twice before. so which young sister in her right mind would want to spend her life with me with such a record? so going back, would be very tough for me, although i still believe in jehovah and the bible.
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meditation
by varian ini m sort of thinking about meditation.
i never really payed much attention before about this subject, but does anyone know how to start meditiation?.
what experiences have you made?
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varian
thank you very much.
you really helped me alot!
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meditation
by varian ini m sort of thinking about meditation.
i never really payed much attention before about this subject, but does anyone know how to start meditiation?.
what experiences have you made?
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varian
hello all,
i´m sort of thinking about meditation. i never really payed much attention before about this subject, but does anyone know how to start meditiation?
what experiences have you made? any links or youtube clips you could recomend?
whats all this about gaining cosmic energy and stuff?
thank you. varian
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varian
onemore,
as a witness i never felt arrogant. never felt that i was something better than the rest. actually, it was the opposite. but of course. there are high nosed witnesses, but i had a few friends which definatley wern´t.
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Wanted to get reinstated... Almost ready to give up
by headisspinning ini'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!.
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varian
it depends on the cong, and/or the b.o.e., and also what the course of disfollowmentship was. from my expirience, it can take only 3 months. but there again, a different cong might treat the same insidence in a different way. and it´take a year or so.
writing letters is a waste of time though. even if you had all the evidences in the world, so what? elders are no pychologists or professional judges, are they?