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Posts by d
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15Is it normal to spend so much time here?
by burnedout ini am fairly new to taking a stand on what i have long felt about the org.
no longer an elder now (big weight off my shoulders), and really find i am researching on this board all kinds of things i suspected and are now confirmed.
looking back over the years i had many intuitions about some situations and never took action on those feelings.
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JW teenagers party's
by bigmac ini fondly remember my teenage days as a jw--back in the 1960's.. circuit assemblies-in birmingham, england uk.
after the sunday afternoon god-fest there was usually a party--somewhere--in the evening.. one of the lads--his parents were care-takers (janitors?
) of an office block in the city centre.
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The Jw parties were often vert dry, The music was dull because it had to be appropiate.Some parties I went to were okay. But most were dull.
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Do you still rush about??
by watersprout inwhen i was in the wt i was always rushing.... never had time to do anything.... always had the meetings to prep for... dinner to get ready before the meeting... clothes to get ready.... ministry to go on.... there was always something i had to do for jehovah....etc etc etc..... i never sat down and enjoyed being in the moment... i always felt guilty... i would always be thinking ''i shouldn't be sat down i should be doing something for jehovah, he despises a lazy person.
it got soo bad i ended up in a hole to which i couldn't get out.
i needed help to function.. after coming out it took a long time to get used to enjoying some ''quiet'' time.
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I remeber being rushed. Coming home from school, you had to get ready for the meetings, make something quick and then get ready every Tuesday and Saturday and Sunday. The rushing was stressful the weekends were the worst because after getting home we had to clean and that took the whole day because most of the day is chewed with Field Service. Sorry had to vent.
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Wachtower says 97% of teens masturbate....is it realistic that 100% Witness teens don't?
by Witness 007 in"young people ask" book admits 97% of youths masturbate...to put it into perspective, it's like saying 97% of the worlds population own a phone or a t.v!!
so is it realistic to believe these witnesses going thru puberty and teenage years won't on penalty of death?.
i always thought, if nearly 100% of teens do it isn't it normal?.
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I know what you mean. I remeber talks about it and feeling uncomfortable.
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WT scars that run deep
by man in black inmy son who is 26 yrs.
old recently confided in my wife and myself that he is having a rough time moving on past the jw mindset.. he was associated with the witnesses for the first 24 years of his life, and he really tried to do the whole witness thing correctly, yet he was and still is a shy person.
now that he has been out for two years, he is having a lot of anger toward people who believe in god.
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I have also struggled with feelings of anger but I remeber that anger is only counterproductive.
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. Buddha
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How many of us have substance abuse after we've left the borg
by Star tiger in.
is it just me, i have hit the booze quite heavily after leaving the borg, have now got it pretty much within my control now, but for a long time it did keep me from thinking about the crap that i have gone through!!.
star tiger.
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No not really
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The Generation(s) That Wasted Their Lives
by undercover ingrowing up as a jw, you see the world differently than most everyone else.
you see the world as something that is going to end very soon.
all that we know will be gone by the time we're adults.. when we were young, we were living in the last days and were expecting armageddon before we grew old.
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I got out in 2008 and that was the Recession was starting so the fears of Armageddon were the talk in the KH but by then I started to distance myself from those people.
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Heat waves
by d inthe hot, humid air, which the national weather service warned could create triple-digit heat index readings in many places, also began to spread into the northeast, where temperatures across southern new england were expected to climb into the 90s on wednesday and inch higher toward potentially historic numbers on thursday, meteorologists said.. .
in wisconsin, a 69-year-old resident of a milwaukee nursing home was found dead tuesday evening after being left unattended outside for three hours in the afternoon heat, which reached a record 97 degrees on wednesday and hit 90 by early wednesday afternoon.. .
the milwaukee medical examiner is conducting an autopsy to determine if the extreme heat was a factor in the man's death, karen domagalski, the agency's operations manager, told reuters.. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/08/us-weather-heat-idustre75765220110608.
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The hot, humid air, which the National Weather Service warned could create triple-digit heat index readings in many places, also began to spread into the northeast, where temperatures across Southern New England were expected to climb into the 90s on Wednesday and inch higher toward potentially historic numbers on Thursday, meteorologists said.
In Wisconsin, a 69-year-old resident of a Milwaukee nursing home was found dead Tuesday evening after being left unattended outside for three hours in the afternoon heat, which reached a record 97 degrees on Wednesday and hit 90 by early Wednesday afternoon.
The Milwaukee medical examiner is conducting an autopsy to determine if the extreme heat was a factor in the man's death, Karen Domagalski, the agency's operations manager, told Reuters.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/08/us-weather-heat-idUSTRE75765220110608
In Tennessee, officials said a 75-year-old Memphis woman and a 60-year-old man in Brighton both died of the heat, which reached 98 on Tuesday and was 93 by early Wednesday afternoon.
The heat -- in the mid to upper-90s throughout Tennessee -- coincides with the kickoff of two massive music festivals that has officials in the state bracing for heat-related calls.
The CMA Music Festival kicks off on Wednesday with a parade in Nashville, but the big events begin Thursday, most of them outdoors at LP Field, the open-air home of the Tennessee Titans football team.
Meanwhile, about 85 miles southeast of Nashville, 80,000 fans are expected for Bonnaroo, the huge, four-day rock festival that takes place annually in former farm pastures in Manchester.
Fans are expected to jam up Interstate 24 as they begin arriving on Wednesday for the event, which begins Thursday. Heat has been a problem in the past, with one person collapsing and dying last year.
In Chicago, where temperatures this week hit a 34-year high and afternoon temperatures were expected to reach 95 on Wednesday, forecasters said relief was on the way with a cold front sweeping in tonight.
But while the front will push the hot weather eastward, and drop temperatures by as much as 30 degrees, it will also set the stage for severe and possibly damaging thunderstorms in Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin.
In Maryland, where two people have died over the last two weeks as a result of heat exposure, temperatures in Baltimore broke existing record highs on Wednesday, according to AccuWeather.
The mercury in Newark, New Jersey also hit a new record high and temperatures in Washington, D.C., according to AccuWeather, and Allentown and Reading, Pennsylvania tied record highs, AccuWeather said.
Heat gauges in Philadelphia could near 100 degrees mid-week, challenging a record temperature for Thursday of 98 set in 1933.
Sticky heat prompted early dismissals and canceled after-school activities at some public schools in Philadelphia and throughout Connecticut.
Hot and humid weather was expected to stifle much of the Mid-Atlantic, said Greg Heavener, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Mount Holly, New Jersey.
"It's going to be a really nasty couple of days," Heavener said.
In Boston, sweltering heat could break record temperatures set in 1984 but a cooling sea breeze off the water was likely to spare Cape Cod and the islands, said Charlie Foley, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Taunton, Massachusetts.
Thunderstorms forecast for Thursday were expected to usher in significantly cooler temperatures on Friday.
Boston anticipated a dramatic cool down over the weekend with temperatures in the upper 60s.
(Additional reporting by Lauren Keiper in Boston and Tim Ghianni in Nashville)
How are you holding up with the heat?
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The Generation(s) That Wasted Their Lives
by undercover ingrowing up as a jw, you see the world differently than most everyone else.
you see the world as something that is going to end very soon.
all that we know will be gone by the time we're adults.. when we were young, we were living in the last days and were expecting armageddon before we grew old.
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I was told as a child that the end was near in 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998 and guess what it is 2011 and we are still here. Like it was said before the end comes when you die. Their is no afterlife.
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Why do Americans still dislike atheists?
by behemot inby gregory paul and phil zuckerman (washington post).
long after blacks and jews have made great strides, and even as homosexuals gain respect, acceptance and new rights, there is still a group that lots of americans just dont like much: atheists.
those who dont believe in god are widely considered to be immoral, wicked and angry.
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Because they it was during the cold war with Godless communism I think we need to move on from that and see religion and God for what it is a oppressive force used to indocrinate people.