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not only does the word crossroad contain the word `cross', which is connected with paganism, but the ancient pagans revered crossroads in a supersitious way!.
should jws therefore use crossroads?
This means you cannot use the French supermarket Carrefour. How awful. No more trips to Calais for me.
It means I can't watch the British soap opera Crossroads. That's not so bad.
It means I can't watch the Brittany Spears Movie Crossroads either, I'm warming to this new light!
Always and Forever was sung by Heatwave and Luther Vandross, but I don't remember it being a AWB song.
what is with this *unconditional love* crap?.
when someone demands *unconditional love*, is that not a condition in and of itself?.
in my experience, the people who demand *unconditional* anything,.
SPAZ, I know what you mean. I have used this term quite often when I haven't really meant it at all.
Unconditional love should dictate that someone completely accepts you for who you are, no matter who you are and also for whatever you do no matter what you do, for better and for worse. I guess that ideal is kinda unreasonable for anyone to live up to. When you are finally away from the Witnesses, the love you receive you think is unconditional. Relatively speaking, I guess it is; we all know Witnesses place heavy conditions on their love. Frankly, their love is completely counterfeit.
Friends or partners will upset you, that will always happen, you can't avoid it. I'm not saying you should be a complete mug, but I think people are just generally not forgiving enough. Some people will quite happily cut their friends and family off forever if they have offended them in a particular way, and that is just an awful way for anyone to behave. Many Jehovah's Witnesses are like this to their family who have fallen away from the troof.
There are limits to real love of course, you can't be continually forgiving of a friend or partner who is abusive to you, accepting this behaviour is not loving to them. So, I like to have unconditional love for people, but with certain conditions, if you know what I mean! One thing we can do though is try not to be judgmental of people who have different ethics and a different morality to us. We can also learn how to put ourselves in other people shoes, and not base our approach continually on our own principles, as if they are the definitive set of values. That's tricky for anyone, but worth aspiring to.
Edited by - matty on 24 October 2002 9:16:26
hundreds pay tribute to jehovah teen who fought against blood.
transfusions.. by licia corbella, editor.
do not mourn me for i'm not dead.. i lay asleep upon this bed.
(((((terafera))))), welcome back. Coincidentally I was only asking after you yesterday to jack2, wondering where you were. I obviously now know why you have been missing, I'm so glad the surgery went well.
stupid rules list....
i will start.... number 1) two people have to witness a sin before it is reported to the superior authorities....making me the org the last word in all areas.. the most stupid rule gets to post it once the gb has judged it the most stupid?
maybe simon will be one of the judges..... breeze
Head coverings for women "taking the lead" in spiritual matters like praying or leading a group on the ministry. Usually involving a hanky or whatever's to hand.
That is the dumbest by far.
Cut the cake
give me a little piece
let me lick up the cream...
That song was released when I was a little boy and I thought it was a nice song about eating cake.
And so it is!
all right, obviously i'm a little new here so bear with me.
just out of curiosity, has anyone here that was raised as a jay-dub felt resentment or anger or animosity toward thier parents?
i wanted nothing to do with the cult even at a fairly early age, but would a person feel that way if they had believed as a teen?
I think it's perfectly right to feel angry when you have had your childhood stolen from you. The psychological damage inflicted on Jehovah's Witness children is immeasurable. Having to guard against "bad association" meant that I had few friends. I had to suffer all manner of beatings and abuse by other children because I was "different". Being a witness kid turned me into a neurotic nervous wreck, the emotional scars of which I still bear today.
Who can you really blame though? What is the point in blaming anyone in particular? Does it really get you anywhere? Directing this anger toward my parents is not helpful to anyone. They were just one loop in the chain, and they have been duped just as I was. How can I be angry at two people that love me and thought that they were doing the best for me in their own strange way? I am lucky enough to be able to break that chain, and if I have children I know that I will do my utmost to ensure that they lead normal and fulfilled lives, unburdened by the guilt and fear associated with being brought up in a cult.
if the uk firemen go on strike, the army is standing by with it's 827 green goddesses.
so why can't the army simply use the modern fire engines that we have already?
it seems nuts to me that they are pulling all these old bangers out of mothballs (most were built in 1956!
That's true. I always imagined that they were on much more money than that considering how dangerous a job they do.
You would think though that if someone wanted a career as a fireman, they would take the poor salaries into consideration, and perhaps go for another career that pays better? This would mean that the fire service would have trouble recruiting, and salaries would have to increase to attract staff. This has happened with teachers, so why hasn't it happened with fire fighters?
god decided that he was going to have to end the world straight away because everyone was being utterly beastly to each other, no one knew right from wrong anymore, and the people of the world weren't happy enough.
bill gates went back to microsoft and assembled a huge meeting.
"i have good news and better news" he said.
This woman gives birth to a baby, and afterwards, the doctor comes in, and he says, "I have to tell you something about your baby."
The woman sits up in bed and says, "What's wrong with my baby, Doctor? What's wrong???"
The doctor says, "Well, now, nothing's wrong exactly, but your baby is a little bit different. Your baby is a hermaphrodite."
The woman says, "A hermaphrodite, what do you mean.. what's that???"
The doctor says, "Well, it means your baby has the.. er.. features.. of both a male and a female."
The woman turns pale.
She says, "Oh my God! You mean it has a penis.. AND a brain?"
a very gentle southern belle was talking to her two friends and telling them about her recent trip to new york city.. she told her friends, "do you know in new york they have men that sleep with men?
" no, they answered, what are they called?
"they call them gay" answered the belle.. "and", she said, "do you know that in new york there are women who sleep with women?
Cheers for that!
Here's another gag:
A wife invited some people to dinner. At the table, she turned to her six-year-old daughter and said, "Would you like to say the blessing?"
"I wouldn't know what to say," the girl replied.
"Just say what you hear Mummy say," the wife answered.
The daughter bowed her head and said, "Lord, why on earth did mum invite all these people to dinner?"
