so my wife and my parents are at their convention today.
this will be the first time in my life that i will not have seen a drama or baptism.
i will miss the public address, i will not see many of my lifelong friends that i have moved away from.
its a nice day outside, i think im gonna go enjoy it.
GoUnion, well done. There are great things to enjoy in this world. It's not going to be easy for you but even though my family shun me would I go back to that asylum? No, a thousand times no. Perhaps it won't come to that at all for you, you might get them all out.
transhuman mentioned that someone on the board suffers from thread envy.. are you jealous of other posters who just seem to be able to generate responses to their threads?.
lol..
Some posters are deliberately controversial to ensure they get lots of attention. Perhaps they are just lonely Sylvia?
i was listening to a circuit overseer's talk and he mentioned about how a sister wanted to simplify.
she had a couple of dogs.
then he related that she said that all she had to do was get rid of the dogs.
I then thought that, if it weren't illegal, COs would encourage JWs to get rid of their children.
So many people don't have children because of this cult. Either because they pioneered, went on the circuit or stayed in Bethel until they were too old to have children because the big A was just around the corner.
Don't forget those who couldn't have IVF because it involved 'murder' according to JWs 25 years ago, discarding some of the embryos during the IVF process to give the more viable ones a chance. So they did encourage people to get rid of their prospects to have children. Absolutely wicked and something that has affected my family personally, my brother and sister are both childless.
this thread is for you to vent about anything (within guidelines) that you want.. i'll start.. i'm sick of people who complain about how cold the weather is and then you have two 85 degree days and now they can't wait till autumn!.
I get tired of the human need to compete. At work there is constant competition, not always huge things but constant niggling little things. It's boring and sometimes it's offensive. A colleague asked me how my husband died and I said it was fast and she said oh well my cousin's husband died of a heart attack before he hit the ground. Is nothing sacred, do people compete over everything? I can't tell you how sick I am of competitive people.
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are they for you?.
thanks.. coco.
My teenage daughter hand- feeding a pair of swans and their six signets on an icy cold day a few winter's ago.
The first Morning Glory plant I ever grew, such bright blue flowers.
Camping in Luxembourg, no money because of pioneering and hearing my first owl.
Oh ok we had to pay for the cross-channel ferry but then we all have to pay the ferryman in the end!
on the basis that most of us realise the w.t wasnt really the best " job" or way to spend our days, it would be fun to find out what people would really have liked to have done with there lifes and if this is still possible.
or maybe its not even a very realistic ambition just a dream.
in my dreams i stay at home all day and make a living from being a professional artist.maybe i need a phycholgist?.
In my dreams i stay at home all day and make a living from being a professional artist.Maybe i need a phycholgist?
That's a fantastic idea New hope, I would love to do that too. Or write for a living. Perhaps spend my life visiting fantastic places all over the globe and writing travel books, all expenses paid. Well I can dream can't I?
... you felt what you did was great.
ahh yes.
preaching in foreign lands....in english.
There may be some engish retirement enclaves in latin countries (Mexico, Ecuador) that need to be preached to. - a watcher
I can't believe you're serious sweetie. This is what the bethelites used to call moving to where the need is nicer.
i am not much of a reader as i have two many distractions, but i fancy a challenging read, so please list any book that has changed your entire world view on everything.
i remember as a teenager buying at a yard sale, norman vincent peales " the power of positive thinking" and at the time that had a big impact on me.
but i am a little bit more in to " realistic positive thinking" now..
The Last Days of Socrates, Plato
The Highly Sensitive Person, Elaine N Aron
More Astral Projections, Robert Crookall
The Naked Ape, Desmond Morris
The Odyssey, Homer
Totem and Taboo, Sigmund Freud
Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Carl G Jung
Games People Play, Eric Berne
The Complete Essays, Michel de Montaigne
The Story of Art, E H Gombrich
Families and How to Survive Them, Robin Skynner, John Cleese
The Annals, Tacitus
has the botchtower discouraged or spoken against members using the internet?.
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satan / devils environment & all that j.w bs!.
Found the link to the post by Fraz. I think this is really important if you remember the scene in the Sparlock vid with the snake. WT manipulation is very clever. They really have some experts working on this. Anyone have that picture of the snake in the Sparlock vid?
has the botchtower discouraged or spoken against members using the internet?.
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satan / devils environment & all that j.w bs!.
At some stage they depicted the plug from the modem (that goes into the computer) as a snake. - Vidqun
OMG I laughed and thought you were joking until I read on down the page. Speechless at the psychological manipulation. Fraz mentioned on another thread that this organization instills phobias in kids that they use in later life to manipulate people. Wow, unbelievable!
