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  Anyone in AA?

  by love2Bworldly in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i just joined overeaters anonymous to deal with my eating issues.

  has anyone joined aa & did it help you?

  i just don't like how they tend to talk about god all the time.

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  irondork

  Hey Love2Bwordly, I bounced in and out of AA for 10 years before I finally got 1 year sober. Now I have 10 of them (as of February 15th).

  When I finally did figure out how not to drink, I discovered food. Mostly donuts. It didn't take long for me to start packing it on. Having always been a skinny little stick, going from 140 to 215 lbs was one helluva box of donuts. You mentioned taping a picture of your younger self on your mirror. Try posting a current picture of yourself in your underwear on the opposite side of the mirror.

  Also, I started going to the gym in an effort to channel my addictive personality in to something less destructive. I know it sounds cliche' but it really is true - once you get started you get addicted. You start feeling good. You get an endorphine rush that just makes you feel good. Makes it harder to be depressed and provides you with a general sense of personal, healthy pride and motivation. It will also speed up the results of any diet you undertake. The benefits of both cardio and resistance training are physical AND mental.

  I went from 215 to a well toned 185. I look healthy and feel great.

  Wishing you the very best of success!
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  New here.

  by joe134cd in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  hi everyone.i have been reading the blogs here for some time and have just decided to have an in put.

  i am still a current member of the wts and am sort of planning to fade.

  i realise 2 things (1)i have to build bridges in order to replace the ones that will crumble behind.

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  irondork

  You are not a fool.

  Organizations like the WTS prey on people who have a strong desire to do right by God. Their air of purity and righteousness is exactly the sort of thing a person would look for in his pursuit of God. Unfortunately, in our haste, we fall victim to the birdcatcher's ingenious use of whitewashed graves as bait. When a person wakes up after a lifetime of what he thought was proper worship to God, the effect is often a complete collapse of that person's energy, desire and devotion and in many cases the person ends up throwing God out with the bathwater. The Watchtower Society and other cults/religions/etc... it is a brilliant method of destroying a person's faith and his relationship with God.

  Victim ≠ Fool

  Welcome to the forum Joe. Hope you stick around.
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  The music that moves you....

  by FlyingHighNow in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  once when i was profoundly sad for too many days, my brother in law sent us a mix tape.

  he named each song after a person in our family.

  this is the one he named heather.

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  irondork

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i25oEvWAsmo
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  The Bible Demands You To Question Men Claiming Special Knowledge Or Claims Of Anointing!

  by ÁrbolesdeArabia in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jehovah god never wanted us to be knuckleheads and blind followers of men, with all the apostates (apostate according to bible dictionaries is not someone who disagrees with the watchtower!

  )of ancient isreal he sent the prophets with warnings to his people.

  four hundred years ago bible scholar matthew henry comments on following the path of god or men, what is the differece?

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  irondork

  Nicely done, AA.

  I was just thinking about this yesterday and how the entire presentation offered in the July Watchtower is based on the presumption that the governing body's credentials are firmly established, that their ability to dispense accurate bible knowledge is a foregone conclusion.

  There is no need to offer any evidence whatsoever because they are RIGHT - despite the fact that what they are saying runs contrary to what they have been saying for the last 100 years (during which time they were also RIGHT).

  Anyone with the audacity to demand evidence is WRONG.
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  Mormon ambush at Walmart

  by jws in

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  2. friends

  while one might expect to have girl scouts trying to sell you things outside walmart.

  today i brought my son to the walmart grocery store and as we were getting out of our car, mormons approached us.. they asked if i knew who they were.

  and if i'd talked to them before.

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  irondork

  jws: I asked them to seriously look into their beliefs.

  I wonder if they have the same warning against digging too deep, asking too many questions, internet exploration. When you suggest to a Mormon to independently examine his or her own religious history, do apostate alarms go off?
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  I am not sure what to do......

  by Iamallcool in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  let me tell you a very weird story, .

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  recently, i met a nice good looking lady that share the same first and last name as that ugly lady.

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  irondork

  Just go for it man!
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  I FOUND RELIGION! Post your favorite spiritual/hymnal.

  by watson in

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  irondork

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLLMzr3PFgk

  I love a good rendition of that song.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EVjCjCGHgM
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  Disfellowshipped for PARTAKING

  by irondork in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i wonder if anyone has ever been disfellowshipped just for partaking.

  of course they would eventually tag it as apostacy, but the real reason would stand - and could get the attention of local media.. .

  the newsies tend to shy away from doctrinal entanglements, but the idea of a "christian" church disfellowshipping one of their own for taking the sacrament - surely that would raise someones eyebrow.

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  irondork

  Thanks for the links Bobcat. Very familiar thought processes.
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  How long did Jesus shun Peter for denying him 3 times?

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the answer is, of course, that jesus did not shun peter.. jesus expected human weakness to reveal itself.

  (matt 26:34 jesus said unto him...before the rooster crows, thou shalt deny me three times.).

  jesus did not judge people for their weakness.

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  Circuit Assembly Thoughts

  by doneandout in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i listened (as much as one does listen to this ****), this is the only point that i call recall from the assembly.. .

  opening announcement: brothers, your attention please.... .

  song: show honor to our brothers.... .

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  irondork

  An example of how absurd this headship thing is...

  My folks started homeschooling us kids when I entered into what would have been 8th grade in public school. This allowed me to auxiliary pioneer - service in the morning, school in the afternoon. Oh, how blessed I was.

  Fresh out of the baptismal pool from the latest district convention, I showed up for a mid-week meeting for field service at the ripe old age of 14 and was surrounded by a room full of older pioneer sisters who I was now obligated to lead into the field.

  INSANE!

  I was no cocky kid. I was scared as hell. But I did my duty, having seen how it was done hundreds of times. When it came time to make the car groups, the sisters very lovingly walked me through it and made it so easy for me. I will never forget how kind and gentle they were with me.

  The whole situation just reeked of stupidity. Putting a child in charge of that much adult experience over the technicality of... what? Water on the head and now I'm THE MAN?!?