i don't know about you but as i get older (and older than older) my weight does not remain the same.when i was in my teens i wanted to be a (don't laugh) bodybuilder!i was too naive and over-eager to do it right.
i ate almost nothing.
i was six-four and weighed 160 lbs.yeah: scary.i lifted weights three times a day.yeah, knucklehead.. my firstborn daughter, on the other hand, will turn 52 in august and she has just started a youtube channel on fitnesshttps://www.youtube.com/channel/ucwusgjsr925o4u5sfbkczmg.
I bought a Fitbit, which came with a year of premium. I basically fast for 12-16 hours a day, depending on if it’s a work day or weekend with family.
I walk more and stay in a calorie deficit.
Lost 16 pounds and feel a lot better.
I also start my day with a liter of water or more and cut out most of my coffee intake.
It’s true that it gets harder when you get older. I turned 45 this year and this change in habits has made a huge difference in how I feel.
i know there was a leak a few weeks back, but this really does seem to have come out of the blue.. the anomaly was the original decision.
it clearly had no basis in law or the constitution, and was a flimsy, ridiculous ruling.
plus the whole thing was based on a fraudulent case in the first place.. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61928898.
Beyond pissed. What a bunch of shit, honestly.
Obviously the court system isn’t looking at the full picture here.
I’ve been to enough groups to know that it isn’t just about responsibility.
Sometimes it’s a choice of life and death.
Sometimes it’s to keep the mom of 3 alive so Dad doesn’t have to raise his children alone.
Sometimes it’s about rape and a child of rape.
This country is backwater.
a pimo elder at bethel has come forward with a special message posted on reddit.. https://www.reddit.com/gallery/v9mgao.
the dated pictures attached are "proof conclusive" that this is for real.
no outside guests are allowed inside bethel at this time.
“Proof Conclusive”????
I”m with Simon, sorry.
This kind of “proof” often is made to make the ex-jw community look gullible.
so my in-laws actually went out to dinner with us today.
normally, since leaving in 2016, they wouldn’t eat with us or talk much to me.
(since i did convince their daughter to leave the cult).
They never said anything with regards to contact information.
Sounds like the consensus is that nobody really knows why they need that information. Perhaps a special campaign?
I don’t keep up with Jw stuff but let’s hope it’s for good intentions.
We made it very clear to them a few years ago that we wanted nothing to do with the JW’s anymore. (They wanted to take our daughter to meetings while our son was in NICU) We made it very clear that, while we appreciate all that they were doing, we didn’t want our daughter exposed to that environment.
so my in-laws actually went out to dinner with us today.
normally, since leaving in 2016, they wouldn’t eat with us or talk much to me.
(since i did convince their daughter to leave the cult).
So my In-Laws actually went out to dinner with us today.
Normally, since leaving in 2016, they wouldn’t eat with us or talk much to me. (Since I did convince their daughter to leave the cult)
Fast forward to about a year ago, some JW family were in town and they were actually nice!
Today we went out with the in-laws and they were very nice and talkative. Stark difference than previous.
Are the JW’s softening a bit or is it just me?
I’m sure my father-in-law knows I do YouTubes making fun of the J-dubs. He told me long ago if I ever talk against the witnesses he would shut us out.
Seems like he did for a while. But not now.
Very strange.
i was a twenty y/old when i converted to the jw religion and was a problem drinker and i was a chain smoker .when i was baptized at a circuit assembly a year later , my conversion and change in lifestyle was given as an example of the effectiveness of incidental witnessing to the audience.. so i can point to the 2 positives becoming a jw .. 1.i gave up smoking.
2.i gave up drinking for a while ,but because i still had association with my wife`s and my family who were not jw`s ,i learnt to control my social drinking when i started again.. and i have been a responsible drinker ever since ,even though i left the religion 29 years ago.. the negative points of being a jw in my 32 years of being one ?
are far too great to list here .. love to hear your thoughts..
I’ve learned how to deal with all kinds of weirdos.
what is your opinion of the wt's impact on children?.
here, children get to connect the dots and see what will happen to you if you are disobedient.
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During a video recently there was a YouTube’er that mentioned being raised as a witness caused an Armageddon-like feeling within themselves when things go wrong in life. As if God himself is punishing her.
Took her till adulthood to put this pieces together.
Being raised as a witness is tantamount to child abuse.
The born-in child can’t opt-out. They are forced into the cult and forced to rise in the ranks, depending on their parents.
Some even into adulthood are verbally abused by parents if the child decides to leave.
is it difficult to believe in a loving god?.
if yes, i understand you.
it has been difficult to me too.
“ Is it difficult to believe in a loving God?”
Yes. The whole Adam and Eve narrative makes no sense.
If my daughter makes a mistake, I’m not going to punish her future generations of children for it for all eternity.
yes, i am posting again.
i could not for awhile technologically and it is now fixed thanks to simon.
thanks, simon!
Always enjoyed your Watchtower rebuttal posts.
Hope you are well!
a lot of pimos are reporting that returning to the meetings is backfiring in that covid is spreading among the members returning.. post;.
so last saturday was my first meeting back in person and well it completely backfired.
last night i got a text from my group overseer saying that someone in the hall tested positive for covid and that we need to get tested(great 🎉).. honestly i kinda expected this.
My sister has been waiting for this for a long time. She keeps bringing it up and sending memes about going back.
She doesn’t know we stopped going to meetings 6 years ago. 😂😂
