when i went to the meetings, i couldn't concentrate, so i would daydream all the time.
i noticed that most of the time i would think about sex!
i would look at some of the young ladies and imagine having sex with them.
What else is there to hold your attention for so long at those places? Assemblies were even better because there were more girls there. It was easy to imagine having numerous ones at the same time then because not only did you have more women to fantasize about but you also had way more time.
The question is, how many of you snuck off to the restroom to do anything about your frustrations?
I don't feel like Satan but I am to them.
not that anyone would want to help the wts shore up its prophetic speculations, and continue to perpetrate their fanciful but idiotic schemes ... nevertheless ... in an effort to salvage their biblical dreams, and escape their current embarassments and false prophecies, one might see them in the near future pull off something like the following.. you eyes might glaze over ... but this is short:.
the 2nd temple was started by zerubabel in 517 bc and completed and dedicated in 515 bc.
the wts could easily make this 2nd temple a symbolic 'anti-type' representing the renewed, rebuilt condition of 'spiritual israel' the anointed 144,000 ... and then take the 2,520 years spoken of by daniel, from the date of the dedication of the 2nd temple, and voom ... boom ... flash ... zap ... we arrive at 2005 ad for the establishment of the 'completed and dedicated' spiritual anti-type temple in heaven ... to eventually be occupied by the temple class.. add to this, the walls of jerusalem, built to protect the city outside the 2nd temple and its people, were not completed until 445 bc ... this commenced the 70 weeks until the messiah would arrive, according to daniel.
Personally, I wish the WTS would continue to make as many date predictions as humanly possible. The more they do that eventually more and more people will see how stupid they truly are and leave it all behind.
I don't feel like Satan but I am to them.
sometimes i think about all the time i waisted as a witness and it makes me shudder.. i don't want to dwell on negative things but , what the hell i'm happy today.
i'd thought i'd try and work out how much time i've lost.. i was brought on on the org and left at 27.. if i spent an average (even as a child in a pushchair) of 5 hours in meetings 1 hour either side getting ready travelling etc(so thats 3).1 hour studying for meetings and talks etc.2 hours on the minsistry.. that gives me a rought average of 11 hours a week.
( really it takes up more time than this).
I think the view of "I don't regret being a JW and all the stupid things I did because of it" is a load of crap. Not really because of all the things that I missed out on and everything but because of all the people that I either just didn't spend enough time with or because I rejected them for nothing more than their religous beliefs. To me, saying you don't regret the things you did as a JW means you also don't regret the way you treated some wonderful people who TRULY cared about you. I know I certainly wish that I was never a JW for that reason alone. Yeah yeah yeah, I know I'm less likely to be duped like that again but using that logic someone who has one of their arms ripped off by a lion at the zoo should be happy that they now know not to do that and that their other arm is still there. Sure, they learned a valuable lesson but look at the cost it took to learn it.
I don't feel like Satan but I am to them.
i was wondering, how did you pass the time at the circuit assemblies and district conventions?
i hated those things, they are to damn long.
i would walk the hall, and look for brothers to talk to.
Sleeping, staring at girls, walking around and flirting with girls. If at all possible I'd leave the convention and do whatever I felt like in the various, often boring, cities the conventions were held in.
I don't feel like Satan but I am to them.
i am the poster formerly known as yoyomama...i had to use my name since simon keeps deleting any registration with "yoyo" in it.. i mentioned earlier that i've had a horrible day, this is why:.
my wife had a miscarriage over night.
we've been trying to conceive for over a year and we finally made it, but it has ended in a very disappointing way.... i did not think it would affect me as it did, but it did.. thanks billygoat for your interest.. peace to all, i promise no more outbursts (not even if i'm provoked).
No matter what, yoyo, you're a jerk. You're either a jerk because you post here under numerous names trying to get people to feel sorry for your multiple personalities and have cried wolf many many many times or you're a jerk because you come here and try to register multiple times and eventually get through and are posting on this discussion board when you should be off taking care of your wife whom you claim just had a miscarriage. Either way, you're a jerk.
I don't feel like Satan but I am to them.
huh, i just helped two jws get enough time in before break.
you know what's weird?
i was shaking like a leaf the whole time!
Don't be cautious. Go and have as much fun as possible with them. What's the worst that will happen? You might die when their puny little version of god decides he's had enough and wipes everyone out.
I don't feel like Satan but I am to them.
dear friends of reproductive freedom,.
george w bush and his right-wings friends are quietly pursuing their domestic agenda while the nations attention is focused on international terrorism.. bush's attacks on women's reproductive freedom continue.. examples;.
1. on his first day in the oval office,bush re-instated the global gag rule,which takes family planning funds from organizations that even mention the option of abortion to their patients,risking womens lives overseas.. 2. bush has promised to re-visit the food and drug administration's approval of ru-486.and anti-abortion forces in congress have already introduced a bill to limit it's availability.. 3. with the expected retirement of 3 supreme court justices ,including sandra day o'connor,who is often the critical swing vote on abortion rights issue,bush has made it clear that he will nominate the most adamant opponents of abortion and civil rights.. the bush administration is committed to strategies that limit life saving stem cell research,criminalize abortion providers,reduce the availability of birth control and deny funding of health reproduction education in the schools.. what better way to take on the christian coalition and ultra-right leaders and movements,than to use your voice to speak up now!!.
Though I totally disagree with the whole christian part of it this is one FUNNY website. I don't really mean Haha funny but more "they got what they deserved" funny.
http://www.christiangallery.com/atrocity/aborts.html
I don't need to fight
To prove I'm right
I don't need to be forgiven.
dear friends of reproductive freedom,.
george w bush and his right-wings friends are quietly pursuing their domestic agenda while the nations attention is focused on international terrorism.. bush's attacks on women's reproductive freedom continue.. examples;.
1. on his first day in the oval office,bush re-instated the global gag rule,which takes family planning funds from organizations that even mention the option of abortion to their patients,risking womens lives overseas.. 2. bush has promised to re-visit the food and drug administration's approval of ru-486.and anti-abortion forces in congress have already introduced a bill to limit it's availability.. 3. with the expected retirement of 3 supreme court justices ,including sandra day o'connor,who is often the critical swing vote on abortion rights issue,bush has made it clear that he will nominate the most adamant opponents of abortion and civil rights.. the bush administration is committed to strategies that limit life saving stem cell research,criminalize abortion providers,reduce the availability of birth control and deny funding of health reproduction education in the schools.. what better way to take on the christian coalition and ultra-right leaders and movements,than to use your voice to speak up now!!.
Right, I'm the one saying murdering over a million children a year is cruel and I'm the evil one. Yeah, that makes sense...... Personally I find it rather obnoxious that you trivialize all the abortion deaths.
Come on 144, go do your part to end population explosion that you're so concerned about. For all that, following your viewpoints on that what's so bad about taking out some baby killers? The people that kill them (hehehehe) are just making it easier for all the rest of us, right? Just for the record though, I've never sat outside a baby slaughter house waiting for doctors to come out. Don't really understand what the big fuss is about how that's wrong but still, I've not done it myself.
I don't need to fight
To prove I'm right
I don't need to be forgiven.
we were shopping yesterday when i noticed a jw woman from our old congregation in one of the aisles.
normally i would go up and say hello, because i'm neither dfd or dad, but we were in a bit of a hurry, and i didn't want to spend much time in frivolous small talk.
a little background on her: when we knew her she was a pioneer, and could very well still be one; her mother is a pioneer; her twin sister is a pioneer, etc.... you get the idea.
You should invite them over for a seance. Tell them you're going to get in touch with Russell for some "new light."
I don't need to fight
To prove I'm right
I don't need to be forgiven.
dont blame the witnesses, its the bible's fault.. well you can blame them for trying to stick to the thing, but belief in the bible is the main problem.. i've heard the gb and witnesses be called evil by some, as though they have gone out to hurt people on purpose.. but i doubt that this is true, at least in recent times.. no the problem comes from believing the bible is god's word and trying to interpret it and follow it.. what happens when you do so?.
you get the catholic inquisition,people burnt at the stake,you get jews fighting for a promised land, religious groups who let their children die and a host of other problems.. i ask a question.if you were god and were going to have a book written on how man should live, would you do it in such a way that if misinterpeted or taken too literaly or mistranslated slightly , could result in the death and suffering of thousands of people,and would enslave people to false religious beliefs?.
yes there are good points and principles in the bible, mainly the words of jesus, who didn't write any of it himself.. but a few good principles don,t outweight the bad done in the name of the bible through the past 2000 years.. the society has tried to follow the bible, and take it for real .in doing so they have had to take on beliefs and ideas that can ultimatly cause harm.. it is like me reading a instruction manuel for my car, that is a fake written by a non-expert.if i follow that manuel , although it may not be all wrong, some instuctions could be in error and cause damage to my car and risk injury to other people.. if people then come along after and say "well its not the manuel thats wrong , you've just misunderstood it , look if you do it this way,that way..".
It is like me reading a instruction manuel for my car, that is a fake written by a non-expert.If I follow that manuel , although it may not be all wrong, some instuctions could be in error and cause damage to my car and risk injury to other people.
Not only that but you don't see all the symbolism crap in car manuals either. If the bible is such a big important book then why didn't the men who wrote it (notice I didn't say god) just come straight out and say what they meant instead of giving these big obscure prophesies that can be interpretated as many different ways as there are people? Quoting myself from another thread, when I left the WT I didn't throw the baby out with the bathwater, I threw the shit out with the toilet water.
I don't need to fight
To prove I'm right
I don't need to be forgiven.
