Talking about the super-rich masters, where are they hiding? I assume the sect is used as a way to gather more money for them but it's hard to see where all this money is going?
Nicolas
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How big is Bethel in New York?
by Nicolas injust asking out of curiosity... i always heard about it through the wbts publications so i assume what they were saying wasn't exactly like the real thing.
i remember how it was supposed to be a perfect place to work and everything was supposed to be in harmony with each others.
i even dreamed of going to that place, when i was young.
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How big is Bethel in New York?
by Nicolas injust asking out of curiosity... i always heard about it through the wbts publications so i assume what they were saying wasn't exactly like the real thing.
i remember how it was supposed to be a perfect place to work and everything was supposed to be in harmony with each others.
i even dreamed of going to that place, when i was young.
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Nicolas
Just asking out of curiosity... I always heard about it through the WBTS publications so I assume what they were saying wasn't exactly like the real thing. I remember how it was supposed to be a perfect place to work and everything was supposed to be in harmony with each others. I even dreamed of going to that place, when I was young. It is so big that almost everyone in NYC know its existence or it's just another building among thousand of other building?
Also, why do they need to put a little (R) for trademark on their logo, when you visit their website, I thought the whole organization was non-profit. I don't really care about it, again I'm just curious.
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Growing up as a JW?
by Nicolas inhi, just wanted to share a bit of my experience, especially in my childhood.
i've been a lurker for a while here.
dunno if my experience is unique (probably not), i've been in the jw for almost all of my childhood, then i became inactive around the age of 12 because i followed my parents when they decided to become inactive.
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Nicolas
LucyA, your letter almost made me cry. It has been a long road since I began questioning what I learned and I had my share of depressing thought but I just hope I will finally be able to make more progress even if I fail sometime. I was getting ready to start a bachelor degree in social working, but then I changed my mind at the last minute because it would have been impossible to do it without moving at more than 700 miles from home. Now, I'm out of work because the company for which I was working as a graphic designer is going bankrupt but I'm trying to use this moment as a time for reflexion and change in my life. That's why I'm also looking for college degree, because I think I could get something where I would be helping other people, without having to go to university.
I don't know if I have more anger than regrets, anger that I believed all the bullshit they had taugt me. I refused to have fun with people, in high school only because I thought what they were doing was a sin. I refused to even consider having a girlfriend because I thought it was a sin to do it without getting married. Now I know, it was silly but that won't bring back all those moments I lost.
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Growing up as a JW?
by Nicolas inhi, just wanted to share a bit of my experience, especially in my childhood.
i've been a lurker for a while here.
dunno if my experience is unique (probably not), i've been in the jw for almost all of my childhood, then i became inactive around the age of 12 because i followed my parents when they decided to become inactive.
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Nicolas
Hi, just wanted to share a bit of my experience, especially in my childhood. I've been a lurker for a while here. Dunno if my experience is unique (probably not), I've been in the JW for almost all of my childhood, then I became inactive around the age of 12 because I followed my parents when they decided to become inactive. Anyway, I was still trapped in the same mindset, it wasn't until around the age of 18 that I began questioning what I learned as a child.
Now I live as an adult atheist (I prefer rational thinking rather than religion) and I think I'm finally beginning to find peace, but I still get this feeling that I don't belong anywhere, as if I was an outsider. It's hard for me to maintain relationship with friends because I always feel that I'm not interesting enough for them. On top of that, I'm still trying to find out what I want to do with my life, I'm still young at 26 but I just hope I will finally be able to find an area so that I can get something like a college degree and finally find a job I can enjoy. I've worked as a graphic designer for 5 years but I was tired of white collar job.
Also, I realized that life may seem to be easier when you are inside the WBTS org, you have a fellowship and you don't have to worry about the future as Armageddon will supposedly come very soon but, that is not the life I want. I want to do something worthwhile, I want to get to know people and I want to make a difference (ie help people), I already worked as a volonteer, at a suicide hotline, for one year but then I moved to a new area to try to find new jobs and new opportunities. The hardest part for me, is when I get this feeling that I'm worthless, it become hard to get to know new people and find new friends.
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Soon, you'll be able to live eternally...
by Nicolas insorry for the misleading title.
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2007/09/end-of-aging.html.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4003063.stm.
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Nicolas
Instead of changing our age of retirement we could just ditch completely retirement. Why not spend 30-40 years in a job we love, then if we want a break we take our economy and we live 10-15 on it, enjoying live and doing whatever we want and when we are ready, we can start to study in a new field to start a new career or we can go back in the field we were before.
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Soon, you'll be able to live eternally...
by Nicolas insorry for the misleading title.
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2007/09/end-of-aging.html.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4003063.stm.
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Nicolas
Sorry for the misleading title. It's just that the Jehovah's Witnesses may soon have a competitor in their search for eternal life. Biologist like Aubrey de Grey and a few others, are working to find way to extend life expectancy to 1000 years and beyond. He's still far from his goal but he's claiming that nothing of what we know from biology today, can prevent him from achieving it. I still don't know how he's going to reset the cellular clock (telomerase) which limit cells division to a fixed number. If I ever get really old because of this breakthrough then the 12 years I wasted in the Watchtower during my childhood, won't matter so much.
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2007/09/end-of-aging.html
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Armagheddon....
by Country Girl ini know it's old for us, but for me i never stop being scared.. remember the old paradise book, how a little kid and a bicycle were going down a big crack in the earth?
remember the picture of satan on fire?
i never forgot that stuff.
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Nicolas
I grew up as a jehovah's witness too and I can totally recall those scary images. I'm not affected by them anymore but, until a few years ago, I was afraid when I heard bad news on TV.
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songs that help you cry....
by wings inno matter how much you want to avoid it...crying is necessary sometimes.
for me, i need help with it....too many distractions in my life.
i almost have to plan crying....so for me music aides in releasing emotion, helps me just be me for an interval of time.
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Nicolas
Everybody Hurts from R.E.M can help a lot when you're feeling down: When the day is long and the night, the night is yours alone, When you're sure you've had enough of this life, well hang on Don't let yourself go, 'cause everybody cries and everybody hurts sometimes Sometimes everything is wrong. Now it's time to sing along When your day is night alone, (hold on, hold on) If you feel like letting go, (hold on) When you think you've had too much of this life, well hang on 'Cause everybody hurts. Take comfort in your friends Everybody hurts. Don't throw your hand. Oh, no. Don't throw your hand If you feel like you're alone, no, no, no, you are not alone If you're on your own in this life, the days and nights are long, When you think you've had too much of this life to hang on Well, everybody hurts sometimes, Everybody cries. And everybody hurts sometimes And everybody hurts sometimes. So, hold on, hold on Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on Everybody hurts. You are not alone
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The End is Near
by joelbear69 ini swear i heard a crow meow at me outside a publix supermarket this morning.
the end is near.
post your own reasons for believing the end is near.
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Nicolas
Well maybe we are near peak oil and maybe we will soon start to suffer but, there's also another theory for the production of petrol. The Russian believed that petrol has an abiotic origin...
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Nicolas
so what?