Posts by Nicolas

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Soon, you'll be able to live eternally...

by Nicolas in

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sorry 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.

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

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4003063.stm

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Armagheddon....

by Country Girl in

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i 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.

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 in

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no 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.

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 in

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i 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.

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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JEHOVAH'S ON YOUTUBE

by badboy in

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1350 mentions come up if you put jehovah's in the search box.

Nicolas

so what?

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Sad story I saw on a site

by Nicolas in

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=510457&in_page_id=1879

Nicolas

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=510457&in_page_id=1879

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Death is a Terrible thing...

by KW13 in

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has it sunk in for you people that your going to die yet?

i'm still avoiding the thought but it lurks in the back of my mind, i'm aware someday i've got to address it - like many here i didnt expect to live this far in this system, so i haven't any plan for life as of yet.. death frightens me.

i cannot sometimes watch a film with death of a character in a tragic way - there one moment with family/friends and a life and then not...i read the story about challenger the rocket that exploded and how the crew onboard that shuttle may well of been aware they were going to die.

Nicolas

I feel sorry for you. I had the some sort of trouble when I began recovering from the JW. When I was a child, I never thought I could die someday. In fact, the years 2000 and beyond seemed so far away for me that, I thought Armageddon would come long before that time but, in the meantime I was always feeling that Jehovah would not accept me. Always this feeling that I wasn't good enough. When you realize that everyone must die, you have to accept the absurdity of life. In fact, I think life by itself, is meaningless, you and only you can decide to give it a meaning.

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Suicide

by Nicolas in

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i know it's a touchy subject, but anyone here has ever thought of suicide while they were still in the organization?

it seem to me that jehovah's witnesses have a much higher rate of suicide than the rest of the population.

i contemplated suicide myself when i was struggling to get piece of my life back together after being raised as a "perfect little jw" when i was young.

Nicolas

In my congregation (Canada, Quebec), there was at least three cases of "accidental death" with suspicious circomstances leading few people to believe it might be a suicide. The first was a lady who went missing for a few days. Finally, the police found her body floating in a river. The official story was that she fell in the water while she was going out for a walk but, it's kind of a mystery how can someone can simply fall in the water and get drowned like that especially when you are just out for a walk. The two other cases are from two brothers in the same family. The oldest brother died in an horrible "accident" when his car got traped under the trailer of a big truck. My father knew the driver of the truck and this driver said that he couldn't believe it was just an accident especially considering how he saw it happen. Few years after this person died, his young brother died too in a car "accident". It's really sad how an organization can messed up your life like that. I'm glad I'm out of this even if I still have hard days sometime.

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Suicide

by Nicolas in

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i know it's a touchy subject, but anyone here has ever thought of suicide while they were still in the organization?

it seem to me that jehovah's witnesses have a much higher rate of suicide than the rest of the population.

i contemplated suicide myself when i was struggling to get piece of my life back together after being raised as a "perfect little jw" when i was young.

Nicolas

I know it's a touchy subject, but anyone here has ever thought of suicide while they were still in the organization? It seem to me that Jehovah's Witnesses have a much higher rate of suicide than the rest of the population. I contemplated suicide myself when I was struggling to get piece of my life back together after being raised as a "perfect little JW" when I was young. Personnally, I suffered more from loneliness than from culpability and that's what brought to the point where I was contemplating suicide. Maybe this loneliness problem was aggravted by the fact that I'm an introverted and shy person and it was really hard for me to socialize, also I had a tendency to try to look like a victim instead of accepting the fact that I'm the only one person who can change my situation. Fortunately, I seeked help by a therapist when I was in the worst part of my "crisis" but, I don't think you can ever get to point where you're completly healed. Maybe, it's just my opinion but, I've been struggling for years and I'm still struggling to restore my self confidence. Anyway, I have to discipline myself to keep being positive

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Can anybody prove this statement concerning the WT?

by needproof in

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indeed it was the rothschilds who funded the jehovah's witness operation into being, along with other bankers, through "contributions" by organisations like the rothschild-controlled b'nai b'rith.

this was proved in a court of law in 1922.

Nicolas

I found a lot of info concerning this here: http://www.politicalfriendster.com/showPerson.php?id=3740&name=llluminati but nothing that can be used as a real proof.