Avengers:
I am neither giving Pysch nor relationship advice. It is simply a caution.
I posted as Kismet before (June 2000 I believe was the sign up date) and was mod and participant on H20 for several years prior to Simon creating JWD.
for the past few months i have found myself biting my tongue at what i have been observing with some participants on jwd.
please keep in mind i have been around since noah on these boards (circa 1997) and have watched several trends and people come and go over the years.. i am not seeking approval, support or anything other than expressing a personal observation.. every once in a while an egoist appears on the ex-jw boards.
more often than not a former elder who feels they continue to hold some sort of special wisdom that they must proclaim to the masses.
Avengers:
I am neither giving Pysch nor relationship advice. It is simply a caution.
I posted as Kismet before (June 2000 I believe was the sign up date) and was mod and participant on H20 for several years prior to Simon creating JWD.
i think that the terrorists would have done better to fly those planes into wt branch offices.
there would be no need for the usa to go to war in iraq or afghanistan and they would have been hailed as heroes fo helping knock down an evil tower that casts a giant shadow of oppression, shame and fear.
maybe if any of the "goobering buddy" (ha i love that term) had survived the attacks they might have gone and molested osama and his little fruity indonesian pantyboys!
Let see if we can pick out which innocents deserved to die more than the ones that did.
There are many serving at Brooklyn who were just as gullible as you yet you wish them dead. I find this kind of discussion so unpallatable. 9-11 was a huge tragedy. To try and turn it into some sort of potential religious vendetta against the Borg is disgusting in my opinion.
Human life is human life. I understand the anger against the GB but wishing what is posted here upon other humans simply due to a misguided belief is just wrong.
this may not be my dumbest moment, but i'm sure it ranks pretty high.
when i was a young kid, we had a swimming pool.
i used to swim just about every day after school.
dumbest thing?? hmmm
Top 10 would include wasting the 30 seconds it took to read this post
for the past few months i have found myself biting my tongue at what i have been observing with some participants on jwd.
please keep in mind i have been around since noah on these boards (circa 1997) and have watched several trends and people come and go over the years.. i am not seeking approval, support or anything other than expressing a personal observation.. every once in a while an egoist appears on the ex-jw boards.
more often than not a former elder who feels they continue to hold some sort of special wisdom that they must proclaim to the masses.
Thanks A&W
To the others ... ummm ... whatever.
for the past few months i have found myself biting my tongue at what i have been observing with some participants on jwd.
please keep in mind i have been around since noah on these boards (circa 1997) and have watched several trends and people come and go over the years.. i am not seeking approval, support or anything other than expressing a personal observation.. every once in a while an egoist appears on the ex-jw boards.
more often than not a former elder who feels they continue to hold some sort of special wisdom that they must proclaim to the masses.
For the past few months I have found myself biting my tongue at what I have been observing with some participants on JWD. Please keep in mind I have been around since Noah on these boards (circa 1997) and have watched several trends and people come and go over the years.
I am not seeking approval, support or anything other than expressing a personal observation.
Every once in a while an egoist appears on the ex-jw boards. More often than not a former elder who feels they continue to hold some sort of special wisdom that they must proclaim to the masses. Some even going so far as to start threads encouraging people to come to them for advice. More often than not, these individuals are untrained and at best have read a few self help books or are watching Oprah and Dr Phil religiously. Some are motivated sincerely to help, others are just out to feed their own ego.
Regardless it is extremely dangerous to start dishing out advice, especially on emotional/psychological matters without formal training. Most professionals would refuse to give out some of the advice some have offered and for good reason.
I guess I just want to remind everyone that this is the Internet. This is not the best place for psychological or even relationship advice. Most here are just doing what we can to survive and eek out some happiness in this life. These boards can be great places to vent with people who have similar backgrounds.
Be careful of thsoe who portend or pretend to be all knowing sages. I hate to quote scripture but "Do not put trust in every inspried expression" does apply well.
If someone is giving advice regularly on the Internet, they are doing so knowing full well they cannot be held accountable for it. You have to live with the consequences. So despite the smooth words and good intentions, please be judicious in who, what and how you proceed on receiving advice from anyone on the net including the well intentioned here.
Uzzah
well ive done it.
i visited the kennels today for a look at some retired greyhounds and reserved this one.
hit the link if you can't see the pic.. .
Wow great minds think alike... my first thought was Sherlock or holmes
he didn't even argue with me, ok.... it's just, i didn't even realize things myself until i actually said it outloud to him... i didn't realize the depth of how painful certain things they do are.... it's like, my heart just turned warm and dropped to the pit of my stomach... i feel awful, all over again... .
Please see my response to your last thread of this same title
well, i've told him "i don't believe this is the truth" like, 5 times now, just "i don't believe this is the true religion" tonight... don't know if there is any difference.... i get the feeling he thinks this "will just go away" although the other day he said he understood why i was depressed because "i'm deserving of death" and he would be too.
he didn't mean it, he's not happy on my new take on the jws.... anyways, i figure i'm gonna say everything i feel in front of the therapist, i need to tell him everything in front of a mediator... not just in a situation where he just thinks this thing will go away and can hurt me to guilt me into believing in the jws....
So how was his reaction today different from this time you told him?
many economists are in agreement that the us economy is in a recession.
msn had this article highlighting the loss of 80k jobs during the past month: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23953769.
so, are you feeling the economy putting extra pressure on your finances?
Reminds me of an old joke... A preist, a deacon and a rabbi were talking about donations.
Priest - "We draw a circle on the floor, and throw the donations down. Whatever lands inside the circle goes to the Church, the rest is for me.
Deacon - "We do something similar, but whatever lands inside the circle is for me, the rest is for the Lord's work.
Rabbi - We don't do any circles. Once a week I throw the money up in the air towards heaven. Whatever god wants, he keeps."
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Fortunately we aren't in the same level of recession (yet) here in Canada. But it is really a matter of keeping balance during good and bad times. Not getting yourself into a debt load you can't handle. Living according to your means not wants, etc.
that's right ...he's off the market and he likes older women!!!.
please forgive my darlin' ippy for his earlier ohio thread.
he was going to announce this himself but i gave him hell because i wasn't ready.
Well I didn't get steak either <shrug>