I lead a happy full life free of any formal religion. I come here because I have family still in and, like many of the others have said, to stay up on current beliefs. We never talk about religion but if it ever comes up I have gotten a lot of good ideas from this site, also a lot of laughs! And it never ceases to amaze me how many former elders are in this group.
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Are we participants in this forum because of bouts of "loneliness"?
by Wonderment ini wonder how many of us here hold on to this meeting place out of "loneliness.
could it be that we harbor feelings of "abandonment" and "loneliness" from being left cold and dry by the wt people and our families?
perhaps we do have a need to reach out to people with similar experiences.
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Do you need Art and Music in your life?
by The Rebel inmusic and art have been a big part of my life since i was a little boy, and although i was never able to play a decent guitar, i can paint.
my art teacher from college said " i was the most imaginative and constructive pupil she had ever had.
" i loved that comment, because in translation i realised it meant i had to work harder than other more naturally talented students, but the effort was always worth it.
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Absolutely music, yes! Gotta have some on in the back ground all the time. When I am driving I have my Gordon Lightfoot on my mp3. The music, the lyrics, the stories he tells, all very soothing. Some songs I can hear over and over and they always bring tears, like George Jones "He Stopped Loving Her Today" or Andy Griggs "If Heaven". In that song he says "if heaven were a pie it would be cherry". My dad's favorite pie was cherry and I cannot listen to that part of the song without getting tears in my eyes.
http://www.metrolyrics.com/if-heaven-lyrics-andy-griggs.html
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WOW, I just found a great reason for a man to have long hair, from the Watchtower Org!
by Greybeard in"the bobbed hair craze is sure to lead to baldness, sooner or later.
the reason for this is that human hair is like a tube sealed at the free end.
when the hair is cut, the oils which are the life of the hair become dissipated.
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Oh man! No tight hats and no tight pants! The fixation on tight goes way back. Has anyone compiled a list of all the great health tips the brainiacs at the Borg have put out over the years? It would be some funny reading!
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Achilles heel of Watchtower publications
by Gorbatchov inthe wts has published over it's existence during the years a flood of books and magazines.
many of the content of this publications includes topics about the medical, social, history field and also counsel about life style.. the achilles heel of all these publications is, that they are written mainly by amateurs, without verification and validation.
most of it is worthless.
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Hey, wait...you mean I didn't get the equivalent of a college education reading their literature for 25 years? Well darn anyway!
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Raining before the Flood?
by GrownMidget ini remember at my teen years when i was studying with a brother that he said to me that there was no rain before the flood.
instead there was this mist that you have.
never before or after this have i heard something like this.
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Yep, thanks guys. I knew there was one and I have that one line about Noah and the tune in my brain! 😕 Hey, that's what I was thinking, now we know who the oldies are! -
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Raining before the Flood?
by GrownMidget ini remember at my teen years when i was studying with a brother that he said to me that there was no rain before the flood.
instead there was this mist that you have.
never before or after this have i heard something like this.
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Okay, going back because I have been out 30 years now, but wasn't that part of the lyrics in a Kingdom song, something about Noah having faith cause it had never rained before? If I remember, it was a rather rousing tune? Anyone else remember this? -
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Are You Easily Offended? 😠
by minimus ini'm sick and tired of everyone claiming to be "offended".
if you are not politically correct, you will need to apologize for some perceived slight.. when i was an elder, i purposely avoided as much as i could, anybody that got easily offended.
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You mean like the idiot "pastor" who says Starbucks hates Jesus because they chose a plain red cup for their Christmas cup? Actually with their green and white logo I think it looks rather festive. I am offended that he is offended, that he wants to bring religion into a coffe cup design! 😁 -
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Tight pants, colored socks, blue shirts, beards, wire -rimmed glasses...
by Muddy Waters intight pants, colored socks, blue shirts, beards, wire -rimmed glasses... .
does anybody remember any thing else that was once or still is proscribed against faithful j-dubs?
when brothers in our kh started wearing different colored shirts rather than white, it caused a great stir and ruckus.
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DrivingForce No way, the people in your photos are way too thin and fashionable to be Dubs! -
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Can anyone say "cognitive dissonance"?
by SafeAtHome inwhere jws get their news.. http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/videos/a39520/fox-anchors-jobs-report/.
sorry, maybe someone can make it clickable, still haven't got the knack of doing that..
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Oh, I think it came up as clickable. Good news just in time for all those special pioneers out there who are going to be looking to support themselves
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Can anyone say "cognitive dissonance"?
by SafeAtHome inwhere jws get their news.. http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/videos/a39520/fox-anchors-jobs-report/.
sorry, maybe someone can make it clickable, still haven't got the knack of doing that..
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Where JWs get their news.
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/videos/a39520/fox-anchors-jobs-report/
Sorry, maybe someone can make it clickable, still haven't got the knack of doing that.