Posts by twolips

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I'm not a Buddhist, but...............PART 2

by Dansk in

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as i can't post to the original thread started by nicolaou, i'm doing so here:.

hi fleur,but the part that really, well, frankly creeped me out for lack of a better term, is that he left his wife and child, then starved himself nearly to death before he realized that this wasn't the way to go, and he lived as a homeless person, begging food as he went on his path to enlightenment.

that's a rather simplified version of events.

twolips

You know the only person I ever asked "what has happened , you seem so different , so calmly happy ?" was my hair dresser. She had left for six months and returned. She told me she was studing Buddism and had gone off to some faraway country.

At this time I was still a believer in the JW religion. But my thoughts were about going out in service compared to someone just coming up to you and asking you what has changed you in such a positive way? Reverse witnessing. Or how it should be. People drawn to what is for them instead of going to their door and selling , pushing something.

Ian, Thank you for reminding me of this old freind. I collect books , I even read some ;-)) Your recomended ones I will read.

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Thank You, Everyone!

by Physio in

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as you know, i don't come here very often as ian (dansk) is the more chatty one .

i'd just like to say thank you for all your encouraging messages, prayers and distant healing since ian became unwell.

i have shared his tears, fears and joys during this roller-coaster ride.

twolips

The night skies remind me to send healing thoughts to Ian.

Take care Claire , Ian and children.

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I'm Off To Vote! Let's see how long it takes them to DF me.....

by SixofNine in

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i'm going to guess 2 hours and 35 minutes from right now, unless the anouncements run long.

twolips

My thoughts are with you Sixofnine.

With your Mother too. Crazy that she needs support from your sister when going to be with her spiritual family.

Take care

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WHAT DO YOU SEE IN THE MIRROR?

by Terry in

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i see everything falling apart.

i have to suck it in; strike the right pose and choose the best angle to keep from grossing myself out.. what do you see?.

i'm 58 years old; what do i expect to see?.

twolips

what I see is a story of my life.

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What Are You All Reading?!

by Doubtfully Yours in

so, what's everybody reading these days?.

i used to read so passionately, but i've lost the hobby due to everyday life stress and distractions.

i want to get back into reading again.

twolips

Hey Gwenth..I'm in the middle of "I'm just not that into you" too. It does make you laugh. So what do you think , do women do the same thing? I kind of think so.

I'm almost finished with Angels and Demons , it was recomended here. Also just started The book of Secrets by Deepak Chopra ,but I fall asleep when I read it , kind of like I did when I used to pray at night ;-)

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Questions on Adam & Eve?

by kls in

it has been a long time since i opened a bible but these questions keep coming up in my head so i thought i would ask our all knowing here.

according to the bible adam & eve ate the forbidden fruit and became embarrassed of their bodies so they covered up.

this makes no sense since they had been naked and where having sex so why were they embarrassed?

twolips

Damn it Dave...quit making sence

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Tell me about your "Dedication"

by ezekiel3 in

for jws, there is a two-step process for committing yourself to god.

before you get baptized in public, you are supposed to privately "dedicate" yourself to god in prayer.. i was a child who knelt in the corner of my room after completing my final "interview" of questions from an elder.

i tried to be sincere, but i was aware i had no emotional currency (i was only 13, give me a break!).

twolips

Oh this is to funny. I thought I was the only one.

Listening to my baptism talk is when I realized I should have already made a dedication . So I did a quick prayer in my seat.

I was 13 and it was 1975. The sisters I was putting pioneer hours with (instead of attending school) sacred me to death when they said I would not survive armagedon unless I was baptized.

I didn't raelly feel anything either. Like I was knocking on a door that would never open. This made me feel so quilty and not apart of the group. It's so liberating to give up knocking on that door.

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Do you feel you will always be "different" from the "world" ?

by LyinEyes in

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all of my life,, except for the last two years i was a jw, and i wonder if i will always feel like i am still so very different from the rest of most everyone i know.

i guess i still feel like i am on the "outside" looking in, in on the world of the people i was so alienated from for so long.. i celebrate birthdays, all the holidays, i stand for the national anthemn, but still it does not quiet feel second nature to me .

as i stand watching my son play high school football, my mind is always wandering on the marvel of what i am seeing.

twolips

I still feel different from the rest of the world. As if I have some strange outward scar.

If you were taught from a very young age that you are different and can be no part of the world, you tend to believe it. I think of it like this = I will always dream in english, even if I learn another language fluently. Add to this being a shy child/person or some depression.

I have met other people that were raised different religions. One friend that comes to mind was raised very strict catholic. He has the same feelings I do. It is not exslusive to the J.W. experiance I feel. We still feel it but come from different sets of circumstances.

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Reading : " The Vampire LeStat",,,,anyone eles like the Vampire Chronicles?

by LyinEyes in

i am reading the anne rice novel " the vampire lestat", and it is quiet an interesting read.

i have always loved the old dracula movies, but being a good jw, felt such guilt if i watched "blood suckers".

i was just wondering if anyone eles has read the books about vampires writen by anne rice.

twolips

Hi Lyin

I thought Lestat was very seductive . I do remember hoping for some romance, but like you said the "extacy" is in the blood.

I also had a hard time with Tom Cruis , I just dont like him at all. When Tom was cast as Lestat we were so disapointed ,so was Anne Rice. She had mentioned someone like David Bowie, more of an androgynous sensuality. Witch I think T.C. has neither. But I did enjoy the movie.

Yes I dont remember Lestat having a choice in his making. In future books he questions everything, even having a conversation with Saten. Anne's daughter died of lukiema at a young age, then she wrote Interview. I think in this book she is questioning life and death , plus she/louis "resurrects" the little girl who was the same age as her daughter.

AS far as the Sleeping Beauty trilogy, It's very pornagraphic with some light s and m. I thought I knew almost everything about sex,,, well I learned much more lol.

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Reading : " The Vampire LeStat",,,,anyone eles like the Vampire Chronicles?

by LyinEyes in

i am reading the anne rice novel " the vampire lestat", and it is quiet an interesting read.

i have always loved the old dracula movies, but being a good jw, felt such guilt if i watched "blood suckers".

i was just wondering if anyone eles has read the books about vampires writen by anne rice.

twolips

Hi Lyin

This is one of my most favorite works of fiction. I've read it 3 times .

I love how Anne took a somewhat unlikable character from her first book and changed my opinion of him. It was as if what was up was down. I swear I missed him when I was finished the book. So I read it when I take long vacations.

Oh urban legand from my area... MY friends and I believed he was based on a very real man that lived in Carmel Ca. We used to visit "His" antiquie shop ,"He" drove a metalic gold VW Bus and was to die for ;-)

.....WE really believed it