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  My Story - Part 1 - by 88JM

  by 88JM in

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  introduction.

  so here is the first part of my story as promised.

  i apologise in advance because i know this is going to be much longer than it needs to be.

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  looking forward to part 2
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  What activity or dream did you put off till the New System?

  by nochoice in

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  after reading the thread about jw kids getting gifts all year and not needing christmas, i thought about how i was told there would be plenty of toys in the new system.

  i was told that on my birthday too.

  and now i started thinking about all the things i justified suffering growing up as a kid, and then a teenager, and then an adult, because it would be better in the new system.

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  I never even had a dream being raised as a witness. I was always waiting for Armegedon and the new order.

  I got to be 60 years old and life passed me by.

  I wish I would have gone to college and gotten a good job.

  But that wasnt an activity or a dream back in the 70's. I just know now that is what I should have

  done.
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  Looking Back, Did You Notice Many JWs Had Drinking, Drug or Mental Issues?

  by minimus in

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  as an elder, i saw many people that were affected by booze, drugs and mental health issues.

  a lot of witnesses fought depression and turned to other things when they realized they couldn't keep up the pace and find inner happiness with what they did do..

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  When I was drinking age as a witness, I remember many but not all drank. I remember some that where

  weird. Also my worldly friends from school drank. I thought most everyone drank.
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  Mental health crisis in America-

  by moshe in

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  i found this mother's letter to be an eye opener--.

  written by liza long, republished from the blue review.

  friday's horrific national tragedy -- the murder of 20 children and six adults at sandy hook elementary school in newtown, connecticut -- has ignited a new discussion on violence in america.

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  13 year old brat.

  I agree where are the fathers?

  When I was 13 I would never consider pulling a knife for 2 reasons.

  The tv and movies I watched did not depict such behaivor and I didnt watch much tv.

  And If I called my mother a stupid bitch, I would have gotten strapped and put in my room for a long

  time by my father.

  This kid who did the shooting in Ct. Had a father who tried to buy his way out of parent ship by paying 2000$ a month

  child support. If your gonna breed them, you are responsible to raise them. This letting the village raise your

  child is bull. You have to raise your child, raising your child involves programing and monitoring daly in their formative

  years until they are adults.

  All these kids having mental illness is a sham. A way to drum up business for the doctors and big pharmacy.

  I spent a career working in juvenile justice and most of the youth in detention were from single parent families.

  When the parents wont, cant or dont raise their offspring then the kids need medication to soften the harsh reality

  of their life. And if they cant get legal big pharmacy drugs they get street drugs.

  That is why I am in favor of abortion. If parents dont want a child, if they are not prepared to nurture and guide

  a child, they should not bear children. Because society does not do a very good job at raising other peoples

  mistakes and problems.
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  Is The Book of Revelation All About Me & My Generation?

  by ClubSandwich in

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  jws believe the book of revelation offers an account of what is to come in their lifetime.

  but the problem is that every generation for the last 1900 years has thought the same thing.

  and, every generation has been wrong, even though each new one thinks it will be about me and my generation this time.. most reputable bible scholars believe that revelation, also called the apocalypse of john, was not written to describe the future for people living today.

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  So what do you think, Is the Book of Revelation all about Me and My Generation?

  If you want it to be, it is.
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  A thought experiment about what it means "to be" GOD

  by Terry in

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  all believers in god begin with the premise that he is the creator.. but-stop!.

  go back one step.

  what about before god was a creator.. creation is the "beginning" for the created--but--not for god.. .

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  God could always have been creating and always all knowing.

  Before he created our universe, who can say he wasnt creating other things?
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  Friends of Bill W. W Must Stand for WTF?

  by Malsonilla in

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  i keep crossing paths with people who are in recovery, that is, recovering from drug and alcohol addiction.

  these folks regularly attend alcoholics anonymous and narcotics anonymous meetings and are all somewhere in the process of working the 12 steps of recovery.

  the organization denies affiliation with any legal entity; a blatant deception, a lie they tell new ones and each other at each and every meeting.

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  I know AA works. It worked for me.

  And I know lots of other folks it worked for.

  I have seen the Higher power work for atheist and theist.

  I have seen Higher powers that were Rocks and higher powers that were Jesus.

  ha ha I AM sober. I am not in recovery for anything other than having been born and raised into a religious cult, so let me be perfectly clear: I do not suffer from drug or alcohol addiction.

  You dont behave like you are sober. If you are sober why do you even care how others pursue sobriety?

  AA works for those who work it. It is like going to the gym. If you have a gym membership, that doesnt make you fit.

  You have to eat right and think right and do the routines and then you get fit. AA is the same way. You have to work the program.
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  How many of you have lost your faith on JWN

  by Most Noble in

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  just curious, if anyone had lost faith whilst on jwn and do u think it is an honorable experience?..

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  I came to find out while here that the only way you can be saved is by faith.

  Being saved by faith has nothing to do with facts and reality.

  Faith is a belief not based on proof.

  So I have had proven to me here on JWN that the bible is not true and that

  there is no God. That there was no flood and that the earth and man is more than 6000

  years old.

  But that reality, that proof has nothing to do with faith.

  Faith is not based on proof, so how can you loose it, if someone prooves to you

  that a belief is wrong?

  The only way you can loose your faith is just to decide you dont want to have faith anymore.

  You cant loose your faith because someone proves to you what you believe is wrong.

  Because if your belief is faith it is not based on proof. So how can you loose it?

  The only way you can loose it is to just decide you don't want it anymore.

  So you cant really loose it, you have to disgard it.
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  Have You Ever Seen Or Met Anyone Famous?

  by minimus in

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  i'm not talking about any gb members, either!.

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  I've met James Taylor, Elton John, Blue Oyster Cult.

  Back in the 90's I used to work out at World Gym in Largo, and

  everyday Hulk Hogan and MachoMan Randy Savage would be in there

  working out and I would talk to Hulk Hogan about Music and Harley Davidsons.

  My wife and I used to run into Hulk Hogan all the time and he would remember us and talk to us

  at Restaurants, nightclubs, gnc vitamin stores riding my Harley and driving my boat in Clearwater.

  One time I was singing karaokee and he waved to me from the back of the bar.

  There were other famous wrestlers I would talk to at the gym also. Brutus the barber beefcake,

  Greg Valentine and the Bushwakers.

  I have worked with

  a professional baseball player at the jail I worked at He played for the Cleveland Indians, Atlanta Braves,

  Chicago White Soxs and Philadelphai Philies. They had pictures all over the jail of him taging out Reggie Jackson

  at home plate.

  I also met Brother Knorr when I played Ham in the drama of Noahs Ark in Cleveland about 1975.

  I have also met and talked with a football player who was in

  Several super bowls, I met him at the gym. I also worked with several professional football players at the county

  jail. I wont say the name of the baseball player or the football players do to confidentiality matters.

  As a deputy Sheriff I met several notorious people at the county Jail a cop killer and other killers and people

  who got shot up by the police and were in the news. I have met and talked to notorious bank robbers, and

  notorious murderers one who got a lot of news coverage for decapitating his girl friend. I also met a local

  youth who was notorious for trying to carry out a columbine killing spree in Florida.

  I saw Ron Jeremy when I was going into Epcot center 3 years ago. He was with a group of female

  porn stars.

  When I used to manage my sons little league baseball team the Tigers, one of the Opposing team, the Orioles

  was managed by Allen Mortham. His wife who would come to the games was Secretary of State of Florida,

  Sandra Mortham.

  My son used to work as a nurse practioner at Largo medical center with the Govenor of Floridas father

  Charlie Christ Sr.

  I've met Joe Walsh of the James Gang and the Eagles, when I was young I used to go see him

  when he would play in the teen clubs, no alcohol in Cleveland. I have also met all of the Raspberrys including

  Eric Carmen. I also met Benjamin Orr from the Cars when he used to play in a Cleveland band Called the Grasshoppers.

  Also back in the 90's when I was making and had money I would go skiing to colorado every year

  and we would go with local popular radio dejays Mason Dixon, Bobby Rich, Bill Conley and Mike Reeves, these people are

  famous in Tampa.
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  What do you put in your hot tea if you do not like the taste?

  by Iamallcool in

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  Coffe black

  or with cream and sugar.