several times we have voiced our feelings as to who is the smartest poster.
but how about the most caring and understanding poster.
who shows true empathy for others and their problems.
I care about careing but I dont care if anyone doesnt care about me careing, because careing is what I care about, so if you care to ask me do I care then yes, i care, but if you dont care whether I care or not then I dont care...........got it ?
Whooooooooo these meds are goooooooooood !!
searcher.
2300 days from december 20 2002 brings you to april 8 2009. april.
8, 2009 is nisan 14 - memorial /passover.
daniel 8:13 "and i got to hear a certain holy one speaking and.
All this from a book that was cobbled together from many religions over many years ?
Kewl !
searcher.
now, i titled this thread the "nicest" vests because we all know i have the most vests.
do we have any other vest enthusiasts in the crowd?
show off yoru snazziest vests.
The terrible story of the vest and consequences thereof!
I used to have a beautiful vest, it went with me everywhere, more like a friend than a piece of clothing, then, one stormy night my vest was stolen and destroyed by Religious Fundamentalists who objected to the bright colours.
I was inconsolable, for months I roamed the dark stormy countryside wailing and gnashing my teeth in mourning for my lost vest.
Unknown to me, while I was in this state of depression, I was becoming two people, one, a happy go lucky likeable chap, and the other, a dark foreboding unhappy spirit that lived in the furthest reaches of my normally happy mind.!!!
I first realised that I was not all I seemed to be when a spate of vest baiting occurred in my local area. Assigned by the overburdened police to track down the vest monster, I soon tracked the beast to..me!!!
What was I to do? Here I was an extremely likeable chap, with a dark secret! Inside me was a vest demon who sneaked out when I was not strong and
DID HORRIBLE THINGS TO VESTS.
How could I live with the shame of what was happening?
How could I protect vests from the demon?
How could I get the most money from the papers for my story?
I decided to see TWO psychiatrists, but after a while (1 year) I began to suspect that all was not well with the psychiatric duo!
Why did they both have the same name?
Why did they both share the same office?
I began to suspect that the psychiatrists were not all they seemed. So I approached the navy that is the place that tells the time with bells, they shake their wrists, making a merry tinkling noise, and cry its 6 oclock bells
Working my way through all the armed forces produced no help, so I am left to carry my terrible burden alone.
People please, I beg of you! Protect your vests! Do not let this monster make your life an empty misery by depriving you of your cherished possession!
Friends, I urge you today, join Protect Random Onesided Vest Events In Time.
OrPROVE IT
Searcher.
firstly, do you think father christmas (santa claus) exists?
is it lying to children to tell them he exists?
(jws say it is) .
I always told my kids that Santa Clause was a way that presents get to them at christmas and that sometimes people dress up to help.
searcher.
how does one recover from being shunned?
my family is shunning me.
so is everyone i grew up with since i was raised in the borg.
I am not, nor ever have been JW, neither are any of my family, however I do understand being 'shunned', I will explain.
When I was 11 years old, I accepted some stolen chocolate from 1 of my cousins, he subseqently landed in juvenile court for 14 charges, including Burglary, shoplifting and stealing from cars. ( he is 2 years older than me).
I was in court right next to him charged with accepting the stolen chocolate.This was the only crime I ever commited.
After the court case, his mother ( my mothers sister), convinced the whole of that side of the family that I had 'led my cousin astray' and that I was the evil one. All of them (5 uncles and 4 aunts) then stopped having anything to do with me, I was not welcome in thier house, nor to play with thier children.
When I did have contact with them, because they did not avoid my mother, I was treated as if I was not there, except that sometimes comments would be made about me as if I was not there.
My solution to this was to study the situation, and what I observed was, although it was the 1 aunt who hated me, the rest just fell in line, so they MUST have disliked me in the first place.
I then went on the attack, because IMHO people who would treat a person that way, have no respect for that person, and therefore deserve no respect back.
Some have since 'come around' others have not, but it does not bother me either way. I do not want people who are capable of such actions as my friends or family, so I live without them.
You may choose your friends, you are stuck with your family. I live my life by this.
This is the way I dealt with the situation, but I had to learn quick, I was only 11 years old and thats a little hard.
searcher.
is anyone really hurt badly by the flame wars?
but seems to me that almost everyone on this board is drawn to them, why?
...cus you like them dont ya...c'mon admit it.
It's my experience that most people are much more aggressive and rude while talking to you on the phone than they would ever be in person.
Godd point there Tex, makes the whole thing safer at a distance, maybe thats the attraction, to hurt without having to face the consequences ?
searcher.
is anyone really hurt badly by the flame wars?
but seems to me that almost everyone on this board is drawn to them, why?
...cus you like them dont ya...c'mon admit it.
Some good points here, Human nature.........how sad it can be at times.
searcher.
is anyone really hurt badly by the flame wars?
but seems to me that almost everyone on this board is drawn to them, why?
...cus you like them dont ya...c'mon admit it.
Brummie,
It is so obvious why there are flame wars on this (or any ex JW) board.
Look back on the wars, see who posts to them, and what they say/the way they say it.
I have read a lot here about the JW ' mindset', but it seems that some people had that type of mind BEFORE becoming JW's, others who were born in, also had that type of mind.
By this I mean that these types just HAVE to have someone to feel superior to, in the JW's it was 'christendom and the world'.
Here it is anyone who see's things diferently from the way that they do, proved by the fact that in any previous wars you will RARELY find an answer to an argument put forward by a poster, just personal attacks and insults..........Typical JW tactics, and yet the posters are not (?) Jw's, so the only reason can be that they have that type of mind anyway.
Argument is an intelectual process, what happens many time here is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says.
There are many fine people on this board, thats why I like it here, but the close minded sniping of some does get a touch wearying at times.
searcher.
i just finished reading and replying to yizuman's post requesting financial help!
join a forum like this and within days start asking for money?!
does this happen often here?
Edited by - searcher on 8 December 2002 7:39:7
as i stood at my kitchen window, i could see them walking by the front of my house.
are they going to make that turn and start the small climb up the driveway?
"groan"!
Edited by - searcher on 4 December 2002 9:45:26
