an 18 year oul girl stabbed her mom to death with 79 stab wounds.
her mom cried out jehovah during the attack to no avail.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/judge-rules-18-year-old-isabella-guzman-of-aurora-will-be-held-without-bond-in-mothers-slaying.
No one should blame the WTB&TS for something that is so obviosly the fault of KNIFEMAKERS!
WHY do they have to make knives so sharp and pointy?
Why can't a knife be made safe, like a spoon?
People shuld be required to have 100,000 hours of training by a nabob before even being allowed to touch a knife!
i run into 70 yr old jw's working houses, i watch how long they stand at doors with no one answering.
so i come up and ask you know someone living here?
you been standing at the door a long time.
JY Dog, you spoke TRUTH to zombies and the zombies locked up like they always do. You did good, and don't let the criticism of newbies who don't know you deter you at all. None of them have one-quarter the cogliones you have!
we are growing older and have developed illnesses we never imagined would touch us.
if you (or a family member or acquaintance) have been diagnosed with heart disease .
1) what was your reaction to the diagnosis?
Colonoscopies are the subject of jokes because it is scatological.
The procedure itself is nothing to worry about because your mind will be in the clouds due to the anti-anxiety meds you'll be given. In fact, the hospital WILL NOT RELEASE YOU unless you have someone who will accompany you home, by car , bus, or even walking!
Now, the AWFUL part of the colonoscopy is the week before, IF your doctor wants you to go on a liquid (water) diet and follow it with the vile "colon flush" that is often required.
I did this both of the two times I had the procedure, but I've heard some folks who were not asked to do ANY prep at all.
does somone have a library handy that holds the book: "the bible from the beginning" (new york 1929) by p. marion simms?
i have searched here in melbourne without success, and its exorbitant price tag means it won't be sitting on my bookshelf.
if you can find a copy, i need scans of pages 74 to 76. it would be even better if i could obtain scans of the immediate context.
"Reasoning From The Scriptures" -- $9.95 US
after more than a month of not attending the meetings, my girls will be returning to the meeting tomorrow.
their father is taking them.
i was so happy because my girls were free from the boredom, drudgery and mind control inflicted upon those that attend.
..but if you don't believe in god, remember that replacing bullshit with horseshit still leaves you with shit.
an 18 year oul girl stabbed her mom to death with 79 stab wounds.
her mom cried out jehovah during the attack to no avail.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/judge-rules-18-year-old-isabella-guzman-of-aurora-will-be-held-without-bond-in-mothers-slaying.
IAmAllCool lost his cool and asked, " Have you stabbed someone 100 times as a teenager?"
I can't answer that.
Statue of Lamentations and all that, y'know?
a very dear friend's husband is going to aa and has been successfully clean for a year now.
he has attributed his success to aa.
we are all very excited about his sobriety.
That's a GREAT link!
http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-cult_q0.html
I've never been involved with AA, but I met a guy through work who was. We were attending a multiweek training for work and were located in a town far from both our homes. We had separate rooms in a motel and spent most of our time before and after class and over the weekend in each other's company. One of the first things my co-worker did was establish contact with the local AA group and he went to those meetings after work during the weeks were were in training. It seemed to me that AA encourages alcoholics to swich their alcohol addiction to caffeine and nicotine addiction. Is that progress? Maybe it is. At least thy're not driving drunk. Instead they stink and have the jitters.
I encourage everyone to take a look at the link. Good material there.
i guess i have issues.
or am i just soo awesome.
please don't tell me i am becoming danny hazzards twin.
I think maybe you have some really awesome issues.
I doubt that there is anyone here who doesn't have "issues" of some kind.
After you begin to get past your JW issues, you may find you'll have some XJW issues.
None of us can please EVERYBODY all of the time. Not even me, and I am pretty awesome! But I lie alot.
Keep a sense of humor and don't be too hard on yourself.
was just calculating how much $ i had given to the local cong & wt over the period of about 10 years.
28,000 us baby!
ouchie!
I have no clear recollection of putting anything in the collectios box during the nearlt 20 years I was associated.
In the beginning, of course, I was just a kid.
Later, when I started earning money on a newspaper route, shovelling snow, and ultimately getting a "real" part-time job, ALL of whatever I earned was handed over to mom to run the house.
She determined if I got a small allowance from the money I brought in, even after I started pioneeering.
Only after I moved out of her house was my money really mine, and even then she expected a piece of the action while she criticized me for not going to meetings and refusing to read her Watchtower and Awake! magazines.
Eventually I put an end to that, but I shoulda done it sooner.
after more than a month of not attending the meetings, my girls will be returning to the meeting tomorrow.
their father is taking them.
i was so happy because my girls were free from the boredom, drudgery and mind control inflicted upon those that attend.
LOSINGIT, you've got some good kids. I admire the determination your oldest is demonstrating to stick to what she was taught is right. Her integrity isn't a bad thing, it's just misdirected. Flipper offers good advice, as he usually does. I wonder if it might be possible for you to call Steven Hassan himself and get his suggestions on how to crack the nut of misdirected integrity.
You are correct, though, that FIRST you need to "save yourself" by overcoming the GUILT that bubbles up whenever you catch yourself THINKING. This will take time. NEVER indulge in negative self-talk. If you find yourself being critical of yourself, silently repeat the word "cancel" three times, then congratulate yourself for having the courage to challenge your former erroneous beliefs. Form a picture in your mind of yourself walking out af a dark woods into a beautiful mountain meadow filled with sunshine and flowers. Don't think this sounds silly: try it.
