i'm planning a small vacation in about 2 month's time.
i'll be going back to the city where i spent my teens through twenties.
as you can imagine, this place holds a lot of memories for me-both good and bad.
INSOMNIAC:
I go by the "Regret Theory of Decisions"
Which would give you the least regrets when you get back?
a.) Not having tried to contact your old buds?
b.) Contacting your old buds and having it go badly in some way?
c.) Contacting your old buds and have them find out you are faded and them contacting you when you get back?
what is really the most disturbing thing to me is that i really do feel that i was brainwashed in those 20 + years in the org--i mean seriously brainwashed.
i am not an idiot, but there were times that i look back on now where i was a radical jw, though this is not really my personality to be such.
i remember after assemblies (while greatly relieved it was over with aching back and all) i would feel different--sometimes i would start donating more money to the wt and at one point i seriously thought of puttingthe wt in my will.
CY - The first and foremost thing is that we are convinced that they have "special knowledge" you know it well.
Last days true knowledge revealed
1914 / 607 / 2520 days.
Cut us off from those not "in"
5 meetings a week that we CAN'T MISS
Loaded language
You question "Where did they get these techniques?" They developed them as they would observe why people would get weak and leave. Observe why some stay and demand that same behavior.
Like training a dog - in this layman's mind
do you have a favorite scripture?
mine is ecc 7:3 "better is vexation than laughter, for by the crossness of the face the heart becomes better.
ever realize you are a certain way and it just makes your face cringe?
Do you have a favorite scripture?
Mine is Ecc 7:3 "Better is vexation than laughter, for by the crossness of the face the heart becomes better."
Ever realize you are a certain way and it just makes your face cringe? I think that this scripture helps put those moments in perspective, because you now know what you can do to be a better person. Rather than resenting those moments in life they can become events of self betterment.
What's yours?
(well, the kids pinch my badges .
anyway, i passed my windows xp exam yesterday so can now add mcsa (win 2003) to mcsd (.net), mcad (.net), mcdba (sql 2000) and mcp.
next stop mcse (win 2003) .
Simon - that wasn't a comment on your abilities or efforts on this board in behalf of many JW's and former JW's who need an outlet.
In fact it wasn't even an original thought! It was a Letterman rip off of a 10 Ten List of Surprises in the Jesus Mini Series. It just cracked me up and I thought I would use it.
God is portrayed as a deity who "plays by the book," and Jesus as a
rebellious renegade who "cuts corners and gets the job done with street
smarts."
does anyone else remember how awful school was because of the dreaded school assembly.. my whole school life was blighted because i couldn't go in.
my young son can goes in and it is the best part of his day, he loves the hymns.
how glad am i that i came to my senses before my son suffered like i did as a child.
A lot of kids were actually jealous of the JW's. Got out of very boring stuff, sorry that wasn't your experience.
(well, the kids pinch my badges .
anyway, i passed my windows xp exam yesterday so can now add mcsa (win 2003) to mcsd (.net), mcad (.net), mcdba (sql 2000) and mcp.
next stop mcse (win 2003) .
Well the question is "Is Simon a tech who "plays by the book," or is Simon a
rebellious renegade who "cuts corners and gets the job done with street
smarts."
i was under the impression that an apostate was anyone who left the witnesses, was df'ed/da'ed, or was just actively opposed to them.
but i was reading in my hubby's old "reasoning book" that an apostate is one who professes to believe in christ (but not the jws), claims to serve god (but is not a jw), tries to pull away current jws or attack them.
so, by that definition, would someone who fades away and professes no religion still be considered an apostate if he or she didn't try to take anyone with them and did not attack the religion?.
somebodylovesme said:
Confused -- Yeah, that is the line, isn't it? Fortunately, my hubby's family follows that... but most of the people he grew up with shun him for being inactive and for marrying me, a worldly girl.
Here is the link to jw-media FAQ which says former members aren't shunned
http://www.jw-media.org/beliefs/beliefsfaq.htm
So if asked the members of the cong that shun you husband would say that they are simply "watching their association" because *all together now* "bad association spoils useful habits"
i never actually lied about the number of hours i put in, but i was extremely creative in how i counted them!
this, of course, was born of an intense hatred and loathing for the "work", coupled with the realisation that if my average did not hit double figures, i might be taken to task over it!
don't get me wrong, i wasn't scared of knocking on peoples doors and being told to regularly to "f*ck off"- i just could see no sense in it.
There was a old pioneer sister in our area that would ONLY count her time while actually at the door - and not kidding - kept a stopwatch in her pocket to time herself.
Other than that she was the sweetest gal.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/world/europe/04/22/amorous.rhino.reut/index.html rhino gets amorous with car
london, england (reuters) -- a rampant rhinoceros gave a group of visitors a glimpse of nature in the raw at a british safari park when he tried to have sex with their car.
sharka, a two-ton white rhino, got amorous with dave alsop's car when he stopped with three friends to take pictures of the animal mating with his partner trixie at the west midland safari park.
It was the car's fault - lead him on.
it's kind of ironic that in the same week that photo's of princess dianna lying dying in a mangled car wreckage are broadcast to little outcry that there seems to be a lot of ballyhoo about photo's of carefully arranged coffins carrying us troops back home.
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/world/europe/04/22/diana.photos/index.html.
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/us/south/04/22/mortuary.photos.ap/index.html.
Over in the States I've heard quite a bit of outcry over the photos of Lady Di. And they are awful. The poor woman was mishandled by everyone, even now.
And of course the American coffins = outcry = unpopular war = election year = liberal media = you name it
