Posts by Guest 77

i'm prompted to make a post on this subject following a previous post from stace..... i really think i need to go back to the meetings just one more time, i think it'd be a make or break scenario for me.

i reckon i'll either go back and become full time like i was before, or just slink away thinking "i can't live up to this anymore" i envy both witnesses who are full time, for their faithfulness, and those that have made a clean break, for their honesty to themselves, its sort of not right to be living in some sort of limbo state.. dithering dithering dithering, thats all i've done since i first got here i think, like some fart in a storm, posting fluffy stuff and avoiding the hard stuff.... i hear what some of you say, and it does irritate me as well to be just a hanger-on.

i don't think i'll ever be a hardcore anti-jw no more than i'll make circuit overseer, but well, i guess i need to go some way or the other.. and, well thats it really.

Guest 77

This is for Big Tex. "No failure is ever final...nor is success!

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Online judgementalism

by logansrun in

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in my year and a half as a member of a couple ex-jw forums i have seen what i perceive to be a massive error on both my part and the part of others.

the mistake is this: judgeing someone simply from their on-line personality and statements.

i see it time and time again.

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Brad, I will once again quote Eccl. 7:21,22, "Also, do not give your heart to all the words that people may speak, that you may not hear your servant calling down evil upon you. For your own heart well knows even many times that you, EVEN YOU, have called down evil upon others."

Good post, we need to be reminded every so often not to be judgemental.

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How Long Will You Stay Here?

by Stacy Smith in

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when will you be done with this forum?

a year?

will leaving be a sign of moving on?.

Guest 77

Stacey, did you recognize the jest? What with this, 'a bum lay?'

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Dubya's new speech writer

by Swickley in

sunday 2 november 2003. years ago, i was asked to write a speech for president nixon.

i didn't do that, but i wish president bush would ask me to write a speech for him now.

here's what i'd write if he asked me to - which is unlikely: .

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Chapter 7

Is Golf Really Fun?

Let me imitate Andy Rooney of 60 minutes to answer this question.

Is golf really fun? I'm trying for the life of me to understand how you can associate golf with fun. Fun to me is playing with my grandchildren, going to a circus, amusement park, skiing. swimming or going on a picnic. Fun to me is laughter, cheerfulness, enjoyment and pleasure. Did the meaning of fun change somewhere during my lifetime without my knowing about it? How can one have fun and be frustrated at the same time?

How can this game be called fun when golfers swear, break and throw their clubs, argue have temper tantrums, talk and mutter to themselves? Yet, they swear they are having fun. They have fun beating their friends but do their friends have fun in losing? Is having fits of anger, frustration and throwing clubs fun? Is losing fun? Do wives answer the phone and say to the caller asking for you, "Oh Dan is out having fun today?" How is it wives do not associate golf with fun? The only fun part of this game that I see is that people must have a good time being frustrated. Maybe I should try playing golf. Now, wouldn't that be funny.

This is only part of a chapter from a book titled, 'The ABC's Of Golf.'

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Giving the JWs one more chance.....

by ScoobySnax in

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i'm prompted to make a post on this subject following a previous post from stace..... i really think i need to go back to the meetings just one more time, i think it'd be a make or break scenario for me.

i reckon i'll either go back and become full time like i was before, or just slink away thinking "i can't live up to this anymore" i envy both witnesses who are full time, for their faithfulness, and those that have made a clean break, for their honesty to themselves, its sort of not right to be living in some sort of limbo state.. dithering dithering dithering, thats all i've done since i first got here i think, like some fart in a storm, posting fluffy stuff and avoiding the hard stuff.... i hear what some of you say, and it does irritate me as well to be just a hanger-on.

i don't think i'll ever be a hardcore anti-jw no more than i'll make circuit overseer, but well, i guess i need to go some way or the other.. and, well thats it really.

Guest 77

Scooby, you gotta do whatcha gotta do. It's your choice and I respect your choice.

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An Elder Visited Me Today At Work

by minimus in

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a very nice elder came by to invite me to the circuit overseer's visit, which will be next week.

i was told that i was very missed by him and many others and he got teary eyed.

i told him that i truly appreciated his concern and always liked him as a fine person.

Guest 77

You handled correctly. Interesting how you didn't open up to him, yet, he opend up to about the elders.

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How Long Will You Stay Here?

by Stacy Smith in

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friends

when will you be done with this forum?

a year?

will leaving be a sign of moving on?.

Guest 77

Stacey, are you counting your chickens before they hatch? How about, 'till death do us part?"

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