What would I do if I won $550 000 000. Id probably be like "HOLY S@&T! I JUST WON $550 000 000!!!" or do you mean what would I do with the money?
BreathoftheIndianNose
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So What Would You Do If You Won $550,000,000?
by Mary inok, so the mega millions jackpot is at half a billion dollars.
if you won and decided to take it in a lump sum, you automatically lose 40%, then there's state and federal taxes, so you'd actually get a 'meazly' $240,000,000.. what would you do if you won that kind of money?
other than donate a chunk to the world-wide-wit-lessing-work..........
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Have you ever been to Israel?
by Iamallcool ini have never been there, but i am thinking about visiting israel, but we all know that israel might bomb iran this year and israel will get attacked in return.
i might go there when the time is right.
if you have been to israel, tell me what did you like to see and do in israel?
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BreathoftheIndianNose
Nope, but my dream trip is to backpack starting in Athens Greece, making my way into Turkey, then Syria, Lebanon, Isreal, and finishing in Egypt. Then finding a boat, maybe a fishing or goods transporting boat, that I can work on to pay my way back across the mediterranean to Athens again. I know, I aim small. So if you want to go iamallcool, just let me know, how bout next weekend? I don't have anything going on.
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I sure miss Bob
by sooner7nc ini had a friend named bob.
he was a damned wonderful person and i loved him very much, still do as a matter of fact.
thyroid cancer took him about 6 years ago and i count myself as lucky for the short time we got to spend and work together.
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Ya Bob sounds like he was a cool dude. None of us knew he even existed untill you shared your memories of him on this post. Now we know and we now have an idea of how much he ment to you. Thats why i think posts like this one are important. Thanks for sharing.
R.I.P. Bob
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The peace in the worldwide brotherhood. Proof that it's gods organization?
by BreathoftheIndianNose inand things are within a week or two of being d.a.ed/d.f.ed, and my jw best friend sent me an email to check how i was doing.
i was fairly sure that he was very much on the edge of leaving to, or at least that he didn't believe it for a long time.
so i sent him an email in reply and told him basically everything i believed and the reasons i knew jws are not the true religion, and i also told him i was leaving.
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So I'm on my way out, way out. And things are within a week or two of being D.A.ed/D.F.ed, and my jw best friend sent me an email to check how I was doing. I was fairly sure that he was very much on the edge of leaving to, or at least that he didn't believe it for a long time. So I sent him an email in reply and told him basically everything I believed and the reasons I knew JWs are not the true religion, and I also told him I was leaving. I had hopes he would react a certain way but ofcouse was afraid he would act another way. He emailed me back in two days saying he doesnt believe it and hasn't for a long time. I read this today and honestly haven't felt this happy in years. The only thing he said that made him believe it could be the truth, is that there is so much peace within the international brotherhood, unlike anywhere else in the world. Although I'm not overly worried about about this question, if I could give him a good answer, I think it would give him the boost he needs to make leaving or fading, a priorary.
What would you say when someone, who is a very rational person by the way, says that they think the peace within the worldwide brotherhood is a sign that JWs have the truth?
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Tim Horton's
by Sic Semper Tyrannis ini have a question for my canadian friends here.
i go there often, and i see a tim hortons on pretty much every street, like mcdonalds is down here.
i've gone in to see what the fuss was all about, and all i saw were donuts and pastries i can find in every grocery store or gas station back home.
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BreathoftheIndianNose
Its good, but not great. Whoever was and is incharge of advertising, promoting and creating the image of it being a truly Canadian thing, is a compleat genius. They took a mediocer restraunt with mediocer food and mediocer service, and turned it into a canadian staple. It's become just about as Canadian as hockey, beavers and canoes. I don't get it. At least I've won a couple dounghts and small coffees during Roll Up, although I had to buy a hundred coffees first. But as long as we could go for coffee and get a break from service I was happy, didn't care where. Even if it was when someone 'had an RV with Mr. Horton.'
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My Lord This Girl Is Hot, Somebody Please Tell Me Her Name!!!
by Philadelphia Ponos ini hate to start a "no room for george" type thread but i really need to no the name of this girl.. .
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these sences are from the past episode of spartacus that aired on friday on starz..
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Well she's not ugly... But....
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School is for fools!
by BreathoftheIndianNose inso i'm looking to go to university, as is the norm.
what are the most important things to consider choosing a school and location to study?
and what would you say are the most important things to do in order to benefit from that education and succeed in that field?
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So I'm looking to go to university, as is the norm. What are the most important things to consider choosing a school and location to study? And what would you say are the most important things to do in order to benefit from that education and succeed in that field? I'm really focused on pursing a carrier in the culinary arts.
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My momma even sayed eets a cault!
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Funny story! I guess that settles it.
by BreathoftheIndianNose inso about 2 years ago i decided to put an end once and for all to the myth about jw's being a cult.
if i could prove it to myself that we weren't, i could prove it to those annoying people at the doors who say jws are a cult as well.
it was really hard to find a deffenition that proved that we weren't a cult.
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So about 2 years ago I decided to put an end once and for all to the myth about JW's being a cult. If I could prove it to myself that we weren't, I could prove it to those annoying people at the doors who say JWs are a cult as well. It was really hard to find a deffenition that proved that we weren't a cult. After lots of studying and after sifting through about five dictionaries with cult deffenitions that sounded way to close to JWs, I found a dictionary with a deffenition that kind of showed we weren't a cult. So I devised a great quiz/game that I thought would help me and others better understand what a cult acctually is and why JWs don't fit into that category. It was your basic: match the definitions with term/word game. So I decided to try it on my pioneer mom first. "Mom," I said, "k, I'm gonna read off the definitions and you have to choose what what term/word fits with the definition. You can choose between 3 terms/words: Cult, Sect and Religion. Ok? ONLY those 3 words. Got it?" "Ok, I got it." "Here's your fist definition mom." Then I read off the deffenition for CULT, that's right, Cult. What was her answer almost before I could even finish reading the deffenition? Without even flinching, she exclaimed, "Oh, Jehovah's Witnesses!" It wasn't even one of the options. The game totally backfired, not what I was aiming for. That experience always stuck with me and haunted me all my remaining Jdub years. So I guess that settles it. My mom says JWs are a cult, without even skipping a beat. So, they are.
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Happiest sadness I've ever felt
by BreathoftheIndianNose inwow, so far 4 out of 4 "worldly" people i've talked to about my situation, actually care.
i mean ive been telling myself that most people would care.
but i can just tell, by the way i feel shocked and surprised at their genuine interest to listen and help, that subconsciously, i still feel like no worldly person cares.
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BreathoftheIndianNose
Wow, so far 4 out of 4 "worldly" people I've talked to about my situation, actually care. I mean Ive been telling myself that most people would care. But I can just tell, by the way I feel shocked and surprised at their genuine interest to listen and help, that subconsciously, I still feel like no worldly person cares. And now here I am, writing out my thoughts, putting myself at the whim of "worldly" people, no, putting myself at the whim of "apostates", even confiding in them. That is, confiding in you. Hmm, but i guess thats what i am now too, strange to think about. So here I am, introducing myself, with a joy and freeness of speech I have dreamed of for years. I have left after 23 years, and look forward to the rest of my life. But first, let me just give a brief introduction of who I am and where I'm at.
I, am a born-in. Although I would obviously wish for a bit of a different upbringing, I really can't complain, it was pretty great. I have great parents and great friends, well, had, or... well I still consider them my friends although they will not talk to me ever. I guess it's kind of subjective, but anyways. The first thing I can remember questioning with actual doubts, would have to be the Flood story. At around 9 years old, the logic seemed a bit flawed but I still went with it, obviously, everyone was telling me it was true. I can honestly say, though, that I stopped believing in the flood story at about 12 and haven't believed it since. But it's amazing what ignorance can do, so those thoughts got squashed, repressed and glazed over so that I came to the decision to get baptized at 15. Wow, what praise I got, you know what I'm talking about, everyone is so happy for you, "Good for you! You just made Jehovah, Jesus and the angels so happy. And Satan very angry. Remember this date, it's the most important date of your life!" Oops, I forgot it. I have an idea but can't remember exactly, o well. So anyways, I started pioneering, did it for 2 years, and had one call after about 2 years, that crushed my already feeble faith, and with that, I stepped down as a pioneer after a month or two of hard research. The research was to strengthen my faith, not weaken it. But it deffinatly weakened it. At 18, I faced a dilemma, leave or believe. I chickened out, and stayed, reading and studying with fear, ONLY things that would strengthen my faith, and it worked, well, kind of. Damn I worked hard, studying, reading, praying, striving for privileges within the cong. I aux pioneered for 7 months just to get back up to frame of mind and spiritual strength to pioneer. So finally, thankya Jesus, I was re-appointed as a reg pioneer. "You must be so happy!" people exclaimed. Surprisingly, I wasn't, not even the slightest. You see, all these doubts, and guilt derived from questioning things, managed to cultivate a nice little dose of depression and social anxiety. I had been feeling like s#@t for a couple of years and wanted help. Everyone i confided in told me not to go to a psychiatrist or therapist. Instead, if it was really bad, they said I should go to a doctor and ask for meds. Well, it was bad, and I went to a doctor, who told me to go to a therapist before I start taking meds. Well, what the hell? Who's advise do I take? Well being the rebellious guy I am, I went to a therapist. I know, quite the bad ass if I do say so myself. I didn't tell my therapist a thing about my real problems. That inner Watchtower firewall of mine was working hard, I didn't dare tell her about my all of my doubts and the tough situation I had been put in. O, did I mention that by this time I stepped down from being a reg pioneer again because of more strongly rooted doubts I was having? Well this time I knew the truth about "the Truth". To make a really long story short, because I'm lagging and ranting, I decided to move away to think freely without being forced to think a certain way. I worked like crazy, saved up money and moved to Guatemala, for now. If this sounds familiar, it's because I already made one post and decided to change my user name. Now I'm here, learning Spanish, living with a Mayan family who only speak Spanish and a Mayan language, meeting and hanging out with "worldly" people (little by little) and feeling the happiest sadness I've ever felt. I've sent in my letter to leave the WTS weeks ago and now I'm looking forward to the future with optimism. This site has helped me wonders and will continue to help me in the future, because it has been an aid to me, thanks to the members. I hope to return the favor as soon as possible with my own advise and support to others. Thanks for reading, despite the length.