i don't and am very unlikely to after seeing my father dying of a smoking related lung disease (even though i would like to try a high quality cigar).. but i am curious to see how many people take up smoking after leaving the org.. .
I once wanted to be a smoker and tried a few cigarettes but didn’t like the taste. I had to accept that I would never be a smoker and would have to die of something else. Many years later I tried a cigar which I loved. I now have 3 or 4 a year in the hot weather on special occasions.
Such a small amount is not life threatening. I am more likely to die in the Roman arena.
hello - i am new here .. just joined a couple of days ago, and have enjoyed the bit of lurking that i have done.
a breif history, i was raised as a jw, was active until i was 36, and was a regular pioneer for 7 years and a ministerial servant for 5 years, and was one when i left.
my reasons for leaving are not important at this point, but i have spent the last year or so researching the flood and more extensively the theory of evolution.. i have finally decided to broach the topic with my mother since after all this time, the last of my jw friends and my brother and sister have all decided that they should shun me now, and i want to make a last ditch effort to convey to my mother that i didn't leave the organization so i could do lines of coke off a cheap hooker, but because i actually believe that this is not the truth.. i'd love some feedback on the email and what you think the possibility of it actually breaking through the "permafrost" created by the society.
darthweef Welcome to the forum. Sorry to hear you are being shunned by your family. This is a painful punishment as it is intended to be. Shunning is not to be underestimated. It can cause the victim to lose his or her self esteem and sense of worth.
Hope things work out for you. There are many people here, including myself who have, and continue to cope with shunning. You will get good advice and empathy.
i wonder when these penguins partook of the fruit, or did adam and eve force feed it to them?.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/09/sex-depravity-penguins-scott-antarctic?fb=native&cmp=fbcnettxt9038.
landmark polar research about the adelie penguin's sex life by captain scott's expedition, deemed too shocking for the public 100 years ago, is unearthed at the natural history museum.
mrsjones5 They have Lady boys in Amsterdam but it's safer pass the time with magic mushrooms.
it's perhaps sad, but perhaps a bit of wisdom to come to realize how insignificant jws really are.. .
you finally get to the point where you don't even care what happens to the borg one way or another.. .
this said after almost four years..
What are JWs?
i've only very recently discovered this site and have been reading many compelling personal accounts and testimonials.
i'd like to share my own as well.. i was born into 'the truth' in the early 1970s.
along with my several (fleshly) brothers and sisters, i went through the usual travails of a witness boy - not celebrating birthdays, not pledging allegiance to the flag, not singing christmas carols in the class chorus.
Suraj Khan It's a shame that you are estranged from your family. Sometimes it’s a price we have to pay, unless we want to follow like sheep.
By the way Pams girl is that sheep following you. I popped over the border to visit South Wales last week, stayed in Ludlow. Good to see you are still on this forum.
i wonder when these penguins partook of the fruit, or did adam and eve force feed it to them?.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/09/sex-depravity-penguins-scott-antarctic?fb=native&cmp=fbcnettxt9038.
landmark polar research about the adelie penguin's sex life by captain scott's expedition, deemed too shocking for the public 100 years ago, is unearthed at the natural history museum.
“For example, a dead penguin, lying with its eyes half-open, is very similar in appearance to a compliant female."
This can be a problem with females. I keep a mirror handy, so I can carry out a breath test.
Penguins don't have mirrors so it's understandable that they make mistakes.
Perhaps looking for breath vaporising could help, or waiting for an oral response.
i've posted this on the wrong section so i'm posting it on here cos its sort of to topic as i know many of you have vids on youtube.
legal department are beginning legal action against google and its uploaders regards to apostate vids that slander the watchtower and/or contain copyrighted material!!!
my hubby knows people who know so heres my warning lol.
Ten years ago I wrote a book called Opening the Door to Jehovah's Witnesses, by Trevor Willis. It sold well. I even sent copies to the London Bethel.
Not a squeak or acknowledgement from the Tower. Mind you, my spies reported that many congregations made announcements warning the sheep not to read the book.
Well everyone knows that sheep can't read but the announcement helped my sales. Bah!
so, one of the main things that jw's teach is that when god first created everything, it was all perfect.
no flaws in his creation.
that is until you realize that the wt reasons that adam and even knew what death was because the animals died.
Perfect simply means ideal. There is no perfect standard. All life finds a way to survive by any means it can. Of all the species that have ever lived it is estimated that 96% are extinct.
Surviving is a brutal and selfish business. That’s why it is a dog eat dog world. The species that have perished found it to be a very imperfect world. It is doubtful that the world is ideal, let alone perfect.
i hear americans called yanks---and it never even made me blink an eye.
so i'm not sure---and almost used the term brits a minute ago and edited to say british people.
so tell me----is it offensive?
In the UK where I live we have no problem with abbreviations. British being called Brits is cool. Australians are Aussies. Americans are Yanks. Chinese are Chinks. But don’t ever call a Pakistani a Paki. You will be sent to the tower and never seen again.
Why these rules have been invented is beyond me.
You may call me Glad.
on the watchtower.org site at the moment, they are featuring a link to an article that first appeared in the august 2009 awake!
that purportedly talks about how world war i began.. in jw make-believe land, world war i began suddenly, and was essentially a big surprise.
so it's interesting to note that the one of the most significant things that led to world war ithe first and second balkan warsare completely omitted from the article.
Being shot in the Balkans always provokes a reaction.
