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MARTINLEYSHON
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Shameless
by Been there ini just wanted to break "100"!
yippee.
sorry, at the rate i'm going we will all be using mental telepathy by the time i make jedi.
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Are you passionate about life?
by MARTINLEYSHON inpassion.
in your relationship.
passion: a word that expresses a habit of the mind.
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MARTINLEYSHON
Creative Ways to Ignite
Passion
In your Relationship
Passion: A word that expresses a habit of the mind. In other words a passionate Man is habitually prone to be passionate
A Quote from Crabbs English Synonyms
Has the passion been drained out of your relationship over the years? Did you know that in the United States we have a divorce rate of over sixty percent? According to a recent mori poll Throughout my experience as a relationship coach I have seen many people who are having problems with lack of passion in their relationships. Over the next few paragraphs I will share with you some successful, creative ways to ignite passion in your relationship and your life by utilizing Tantric principles.
The stress of daily living drains us all. There seem to be responsibilities left to fulfil when our energy has been depleted. Then eventually dreams get left, children and career issues dominate our existence. One day we look on the other side of the bed and all we see is a stranger who shares certain aspects of our lives. We inevitably ask our selves whether it is too late to salvage the relationship. The answer is no, absolutely not.
The first step in salvaging any relationship is to recognize that passion starts from within, and that we need to manage and reduce the stress in our life. Stop delaying happiness. For example, couples will say once the children have grown up we will go on a holiday or Ill take up my favourite hobby. It is important not to delay living because that day may never come. My partners father worked hard all his life, providing for his family, never spent much time with his kids or his wife; he always said that he would do the things that he always wanted to do when he retired He retired at the age of 65 fell ill at 67 and died at 69. His wife and children felt robbed how often have we heard stories like that? It happens too often Im afraid. Simply, couples that play together stay together.
It is important to evaluate your life and ensure that you are doing something that you love,if you currently are not working in your dream job then start volunteering for an important cause you believe in or learn a new hobby. When you start to have things in your life that you are passionate about, this will assist in Putting passion back into your relationship.
This next step is critical to start living passionately everyday. You must be able to surrender. Essentially this means what will be will be. Do not procrastinate; procrastination is what happened to my partners father, always putting off until tomorrow what you could do today. This attitude will eliminate worry from life.Worry and guilt are an absolute waste of energy. To create passion in your relationship you must empty your emotional baggage. The less you are carrying around the easier it is to have a spring in your step. In my opinion, there is nothing more attractive than a person who has a free spirit and an open heart.
Now that you have done a personal inventory it is time to move on to the next step. I have found it invaluable to take a couples inventory. This will only work if both people are honest with their answers. Basically, it is an evaluation created by the couple of where people are at, and how they perceive their relationship. This is always a real eye opener for couples when they discover unresolved issues. Taking this step is critical to creating passion within your marriage. Both people need to feel that their concerns are heard and lines of communication are open before they can begin to feel real passion. The reason I say this is good to do, one partner may feel that the relationship is at its most optimum level of passion, whereas the other may feel that the relationship is in the pits so to speak.
One of the most successful ways that my partner and I have discovered to ignite explosive passion within our relationship is to create nurture evenings. A nurture evening is something that you can make as elaborate or simple as you wish. A nurture evening or afternoon is a time that the two of you allocate to have quality time together alone. This may entail a long walk then giving each other a foot massage. Some ideas may be to prepare your partners favourite meal, teach a new skill that you know or write a love letter to each other. We write down all the things that we would like to do together as a couple and then you can cross them off as they have been done. Basically make sure that the time includes lots of talking, touching and kissing!
To learn tantric living and loving takes dedication and an open mind. My tantric journey has been full of lots of healing, releasing and loving. I am aware of different types of energy and how to utilize it to enhance my life. My partner and I have a deep loving relationship that is constantly growing and the passion we share together is explosive. People say we act like new lovers and it is our goal to never let that disappear. We know the importance of communication and how to create and grow in love.
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Confession Time!
by kat7302 inforgive me father for i have sinned......
i think its time we all got off our chest all the naughty things we did whilst rebelling against the jw's!.
ive got too many to list but i think somewhere near the top would have to be....... (drumroll........this is actually quite bad and i may get reprimanded by some of you).
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MARTINLEYSHON
Hey Kathrine
Is your father JV and is the Abuser you refer to in Llantwit Congregation MS?
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A Timely warning regarding Disfellowshipping. A Mu
by MARTINLEYSHON ini have been disfellowshipped for 2 weeks.
my story the shortened version.. i left the organisation 2years 2 months ago.
i live 25 miles from the kingdom hall that i attended for 29 years, man and boy.
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Hey Simon
You to! Unbelievable, it gets worse, at a recent Elders school, the Es were informed that once a witness always a witness, and that the brothers could not just simply slip into oblivion... Cultish hey..
riff
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A Timely warning regarding Disfellowshipping. A Mu
by MARTINLEYSHON ini have been disfellowshipped for 2 weeks.
my story the shortened version.. i left the organisation 2years 2 months ago.
i live 25 miles from the kingdom hall that i attended for 29 years, man and boy.
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MARTINLEYSHON
Many thanks for those encouraging words, after so many years in the borg it has been a rough road trying to disenfect my mind.
RIFF
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I was on jury duty with M. Lewinsky
by Soledad inlast thursday.
i happened to see some tabloid reports stating that she went home in tears blah blah.
just to share my experience with her she did basically state that she distrusted the judicial system and there was a lawyer that seemed to question her rather harshly imo but she's not all the tabloids really make her out to be (this was not the first time we had met btw).
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MARTINLEYSHON
I just think that you have BLOWN THINGS OUT OF PROPORTION......
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A Timely warning regarding Disfellowshipping. A Mu
by MARTINLEYSHON ini have been disfellowshipped for 2 weeks.
my story the shortened version.. i left the organisation 2years 2 months ago.
i live 25 miles from the kingdom hall that i attended for 29 years, man and boy.
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I have been Disfellowshipped for 2 weeks. Why? My story the shortened version.
I left the Organisation 2years 2 months ago. I live 25 miles from the Kingdom Hall that I ATTENDED for 29 years, man and boy. There are 5 Congregations in the middle of where I now live and where I used to attend. 2 Memorials passed by and not one invite from my previous fellow Elders and so called friends, brothers with whom I invested so much time into…. What I am about to reveal is the absolute truth and nothing but the truth, I swear this on my fathers grave, and upon my honour, and Jehovah’s good and sanctified name.
Around 13 weeks ago I received a telephone call out of the blue from Brother Elder, who wanted to discuss certain accusations that had been made against me at the mouth of 2 separate witnesses, one was my estranged wife soon to be ex, the other was a brother that I had met in the bar having some drinks. I duly informed the Elder that I was not prepared to meet with the elders under any circumstances whatsoever to answer allegations whereby theocratic procedure had not been followed. He enquired what I meant by that? The Following:
1. You have not invited me to any memorials for 2 years therefore not recognising that I am a member of your congregation.
2. Have you encouraged the 2 witnesses to apply Matthew Chapter 5 and chapter 18? No you haven’t.
3. Have you checked your “ Pay Attention to the Flock” text book whereby it clearly states the following:
I then summarized the page when a publisher has not attended for some time and you learn of wrongdoing….All this was to be conveyed back to the Body. I, after 1 hour of calming down rang the brother and informed him that should any attempt to contact me again regarding these frivolous and vexatious allegations was made I would consider taking Legal Advise for harassment.
5 weeks later the unthinkable happened I received a telephone call from my mother who was very upset, she stated that 2 Elders had been around to inform her that I was to be Disfellowshipped the following day, Thursday.
I was absolutely horrified, I was not even aware that a Judicial Committee had been informed, or indeed made a decision to disfellowship. I was beside myself. A P/O for 9 years, where was this new procedure coming from?
I duly rang the P/O who just happened to be the chairman of the committee. After a long discussion he physically broke down and cried over the phone, before you go off on that remember this Elder was one of my closest friends we vacationed together.. It was a very emotional time for him and me. He stated that because I was such a High Profile Brother in the district, he would not dare to make a decision without speaking to the legal desk.
They had informed him that any Bro/Sis who refuses to meet with a JC automatically disassociates themselves from Jehovah’s Org AND THE APPROPRIATE ANNOUNCEMENT OUGHT TO BE MADE.
He further stated that to disassociate you publicly would be worse than disfellowshipping you, so because of who you were and the positions you held, we are going to be kind and disfellowship you rather than disassociate you.
I informed him of Jesus’ words to Judas Do what you have to do.
My warning is quite clear, Elders have now been informed that no can leave the org and just be left alone to pick up the pieces of their lives…….. You have been warned!!!!!!!!Riff
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State Benefits how does it affect the brothers
by MARTINLEYSHON infirstly may i thank all those who took the time and effort to respond to my post on the subject of circuit overseers and corruption?.
the majority of your replies were very well balanced, and i do take the point that not all c/os were or are indeed corrupt, and that there are sincere and genuine brothers out there.
with regard to my new topic, i encountered some very strange thinking from bethel, than what was actually contained within the printed pages of the awake magazine.
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Firstly may I thank all those who took the time and effort to respond to my post on the subject of Circuit Overseers and Corruption?
The majority of your replies were very well balanced, and I do take the point that not all C/Os were or are indeed corrupt, and that there are sincere and genuine brothers out there.
With regard to my new topic, I encountered some very strange thinking from bethel, than what was actually contained within the printed pages of the awake magazine. A number of years ago I read a very balanced article on the subject USE AND ABUSE OF THE WELFARE SYSTEM. Perhaps many of you recall that article, where it advised the friends not to claim state benefits if they were not entitled to so. Many of our friends took this advice to heart and signed of welfare to go window cleaning a common profession amongst the witnesses, in the main it is a cash only job that gives them the flexibility to put more effort into the ministry. ( please it is not to dodge the TAXMAN )
During my time as a P/O and chairman of the service committee, we would from time to time receive Auxiliary and regular pioneer applications, from the friends who were claiming state benefits, we took the view in line with Awake’s direction that if they were telling the Govt that they could not walk more than 40 yards without help in order to get the extra benefits, then how on earth could they justify being on the ministry for 90 hours per month. Surely the society would not want to share complicity with such a fraud?
To our utter amazement when we wrote to the Service desk for direction, we were informed that the ministry of pioneering was far more important, to approval ought to be given.
Does this wreck of double standards? I would be interested to know if this problem is country specific or widespread.
Just as a rider if you are wondering why I refer to the witnesses as friends, that is how the C/Os refer to them when reporting to bethel.
Riff
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Circuit Overseers and Corruption
by MARTINLEYSHON inas an ex presiding overseer and public affairs spokesperson who is now disfellowshipped!!!
i am new to this site and have read with keen interest the many and varied topics that have been posted.
during my 9 years of presiding i encountered certain corrupt c/os for example the friends would treat them like little demy gods, hanging onto their every word, they would, on their visit influence the brothers to part with cash for privledges.
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Well bonovox
Thanks for the reply, however your reply suggests 2 things.
1. You are still a JW and should not be on this site...
2. You left a long time ago and are completly out of touch...
Which is it.
Riff
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Circuit Overseers and Corruption
by MARTINLEYSHON inas an ex presiding overseer and public affairs spokesperson who is now disfellowshipped!!!
i am new to this site and have read with keen interest the many and varied topics that have been posted.
during my 9 years of presiding i encountered certain corrupt c/os for example the friends would treat them like little demy gods, hanging onto their every word, they would, on their visit influence the brothers to part with cash for privledges.
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As an ex Presiding Overseer and public affairs spokesperson who is now disfellowshipped!!! I am new to this site and have read with keen interest the many and varied topics that have been posted. During my 9 years of presiding I encountered certain corrupt C/Os for example the friends would treat them like little demy gods, hanging onto their every word, they would, on their visit influence the brothers to part with cash for privledges.
Being an ex district convention speaker, I saw how this worked first hand. When a C/O visited the congregation you could almost have an evens bet on the next few speakers at circuit or district level, yes you've guessed it... the elder used would be the one who took the week of work to entertain socially the c/o, and the one who gave him money.
I was always used at that level, in the main because I was a wealthy and generous brother. Compound my genorosity by the number in the congregations, and the C/Os would end up with a fantastic income, TAX FREE!!!!!!!!
Company Car accomodation paid for by the circuit, when did you ever see a poor dressed C/O last? Never.
Let me ask you this? How C/Os declare the generous gifts of the brothers to the Taxman? I will give a dollor to charity for everyone of them that does so. That's a promise. Thats how confident I am that I will not be parting with cash.
Anyway thats all for now. Look forward to your replies.
RIFF