Welcome to the club! Doesn't it feel tastier with guilt attached to it (or maybe with a rebellious feeling)?
scratchme1010
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Bless Me, For I Have Sinned
by snowbird ini've just finished eating a slice of delicious birthday cake!.
depart from me, for i am a sinful person.. tee hee hee.. sylvia.
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Why are Republican's so consistantly dishonest?
by Coded Logic init hasn't gone unnoticed that the republicans who are saying, "we need to get to the bottom of the obama wiretapping" and "let's investigate this" - are the same people, when it comes to trump's russian ties, who are saying, "we shouldn't look at this at all - it's just a bunch of lies and hype.".
no evidence whatsoever for claims about obama need a congressional investigation.
but mountains of evidence about trump with more coming out everyday can be swept under the rug.
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scratchme1010
Just want to add this. I'm watching this Ted Talk and thought of this thread:
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GETTING FIRED VS QUITTING
by TerryWalstrom ingetting fired vs quitting_________________________my specialties in life are great and many, but none more fabulous than the talent i've possessed for getting fired and/or quitting a job.how many jobs and careers i blazed through would spin your head!
suffice it to say, more than you've time or patience to hear.. there is something in my psychology and verbal arsenal too prone toward candid criticism!
i find myself blurting out what i really think before even i can stop myself.i worked for an art gallery owner once who had everything going for him except good sense.
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scratchme1010
What a great story! Loved it. You should be a writer too (if only more people actual read anymore).
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First Visit in Years
by truth_b_known ini bought a house literally in walking distance from the local kingdom hall.
we used to get saturday morning doorknockers on a regular basis.
then it stopped.
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scratchme1010
And to think that in the backward thinking community I grew up in as a JW, using any technology would get me a meeting with the JC. Times have changed.
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Why are Republican's so consistantly dishonest?
by Coded Logic init hasn't gone unnoticed that the republicans who are saying, "we need to get to the bottom of the obama wiretapping" and "let's investigate this" - are the same people, when it comes to trump's russian ties, who are saying, "we shouldn't look at this at all - it's just a bunch of lies and hype.".
no evidence whatsoever for claims about obama need a congressional investigation.
but mountains of evidence about trump with more coming out everyday can be swept under the rug.
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scratchme1010
Why are Republican's so consistantly dishonest?
That's what makes them republicans.
Let's not start this again.........
No, please, let's do.
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Reasons to break free from religion
by googleTTATT ini am compiling my list.
you can add yours if you like to.. 1. the hypocrisy in religion.. 2. religion make good people bad and bad people worse and worse people worst.. 3. the false dates given in religion.. 4. religions use their fundamental books to suit their beliefs.. 5. wrong and distorted views about sexual life.
the list goes on.
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scratchme1010
My reason is that i see no need for it in my life.
Not all religion is bad.
I wish I could completely agree with that. When I look at the entire big picture, religion has cause more harm than good to people. Not everything is bad, but in its entirety, nope, religion is guilty of a whole lot of bad things.
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Reasons why I and we can succeed in life without religion.
by googleTTATT ini am compiling my list of reasons.
you can add yours if you like to.. 1. religions like telling their members to pay a lot of tithes thereby making their members to be in need and poor..
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scratchme1010
I think that at this point in my life I have quite a lot to show for. I feel quite successful, particularly when I consider how since my own birth seems like I was set to fail. Hence, I don't think that I have to have or give any reason for me to succeed without religion. My life so far is my reason.
That said, in now way am I trying to make what others share invalid.
The attitude of some churches toward tithing really is a problem.
Some churches are all about money. I've even known of some churches where people have to apply for membership and they have to be approved, and part of the application involves showing proof of income. I know that running a church and some of the community services that some churches run cost money, but time and time again the amount o money that they receive many times surpasses what they need for those programs, not to mention that many times they obtain funding from grants and foundations.
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Pautas para los superintendentes de circuito (actualizado diciembre 2016)
by accesible inhola compañeros y compañeras.
soy la persona que publicó el manual de los superintendentes de circuito a nuestro gran amigo cedars.
les traigo el manual revisado en inglés cómo verán, yo no sé inglés, puesto que soy latino, pero ya me voy defendiendo.
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scratchme1010
Hello, friends. I am the person who published the Circuit Overseer Guidelines for our good friend, Cedars. Below is the revised manual in English. As you can see, I don't speak English, since I am a latino, but I can understand some.
(Machine translations are not very accurate).
Gracias, accesible.
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Something in the air this season...
by babygirl30 ini have had some ultra weird exchanges with some existing jws these past 2 months that have me caught off guard (which is rare for me) - but overall just odd.. 1. i was out at a happy hour with some coworkers, and a woman whom i used to be friends with in another congregation came in with her husband.
background: her kids, myself, and her best friends son - were all close friends!
so we all were around this woman and her bff on a regular basis.
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I guess what I am saying is that it never ceases to amaze me how easily these JWs FORGET their past actions.
Thank you for sharing this. It was a nice read. The part that I quoted caught my attention. I don't think that they just forget. Please understand that the the WT, as a controlling cult, does create a negative influence in people. There is something for those people still in it. One is obvious, a girlfriend. I have the feeling that the guy may not feel too adequate about himself getting lucky mating out in "the world". The structure and the apparent "shortcuts" that a congregation provides may make him compelled to get what he thinks he needs.
Another way of looking at it is as a type of battered woman syndrome. Just like people under abusive relationships for extended periods of time, they may become convinced that there's absolutely nothing for them outside of their little congregation. That's not happy way of living, but that syndrome is real and does happen in all kinds of abusive relationships, and that includes religious relationships.
The there's also just plain laziness. Some people prefer to have all the answers given to them, told how to live and have others make decisions for them. Pathetic, but true, it happens.
At the end of the day, we all live with the decisions we make. Pretending that "it's only about Jehovah", or that the scriptural marriage thing suddenly isn't valid to accommodate for somebody's purpose is not going to make their lives better, it's not going to make them righteous, and it's certainly not going to make their issues go away, not to mention that there's no talking snake, no paradise, no Jehovah. Some people get it, some don't.
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Going, going, GONE! Another KH is sold....
by darkspilver indown in south wales, over by newport / cardiff way.
commercial street, griffithstown, pontypool, np4 5jf.
sales details: http://www.dezrez.com/estate-agent-software/propertysystem/externalbrochureget.do?brochure=internet%c2%bfparticulars&pid=3740636.
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scratchme1010
That's what people in the real estate business do, sell properties for profit.