Posts by ninecharger

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All depression sufferers (past/present) please read

by WildHorses in

i went to my dr. today because my blood pressure was really high.

156/106 and my meds weren't helping to lower it.

can you get over depression without meds?

ninecharger

I got terribly depressed at one point in the 80s and took an overdose.

The regime I find has helped me is to get up an hour early and take St John's Wort (prescribed in Germany by doctors for depression) a B vitamin complex and L-Lysine on an empty stomach. I then go back to bed. With breakfast I take Rhodiola Rosea - I started this a few weeks ago and it has made a huge difference. Rhodiola is a shrub which acts as a serotonin reuptake inhibitor but does not have the horrible effects of the same man-made drugs. Adding this to my regime has made a truly life changing difference to me. I no longer get the 'miseries' half way through the day.

See a properly accredited naturopath for advice, and read the book "Naturally High" - I forget the author but you should be able to find it on Amazon.

Eating a starchy breakfast is also a must. Some people feel miserable simply because their poor old brain is starving. Don't worry about putting on weight if you do what is next:

gGive yourself twenty minutes of exercise that getsyou sweaty and breathless BUT NOT IN PAIN as many days of the week you can - it makes the brain manufacture happy chemicals. Another way to do this is to stand at a mirror and do grin and giggle exercises for 5 minutes - just grin and giggle at yourself for no reason and watch your face. It sounds silly, but I have found it really does affect your brain chemistry for the better, even if you are not happy when you start doing it.

Remember you ARE LOVED

I ain't never met you, maybe never will - but if I didn't care you wouldn't be reading this.

N

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Internet Sites, what is the watchtower saying ? about apostates ???

by run dont walk in

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friends

had a conversation with my mom, and after firing 20 questions she had no answers to, she ended the conversation with ........ .

"you have been using the internet haven't you, well you are going down the wrong road very fast.

yeah i love you to.

ninecharger

JGNat,

Doesn't the WT constantly doctor their quotes to say something different from the original? QV "Life How did it get here? etc." Can't the enemy use Theocrappic Strategy too?

N

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Internet Sites, what is the watchtower saying ? about apostates ???

by run dont walk in

jw
friends

had a conversation with my mom, and after firing 20 questions she had no answers to, she ended the conversation with ........ .

"you have been using the internet haven't you, well you are going down the wrong road very fast.

yeah i love you to.

ninecharger

The Internet is frightening every high control religion at present.

It was the same in Mediaeval Europe when Gutenburg invented the printing press.

The Church of Rome knew it would spell the death of their mind- and financial control in Western Europe. They could not stop it and had to adapt, sometimes in the face of changes in the law by more freedom loving nations.

Telling someone not to look or see will only make the majority do so. As for the others, let the undead bury their dead.

The world is no longer black and white (or rather Jerboa's Witlessness v nunbelievers) it is so many and varied they can no longer go on expecting everyone to dress up like new Yorkers to get salvation.

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How long will you live?

by Soledad in

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my husband will outlive me to 77!!.

http://channels.netscape.com/ns/atplay/lifeline.jsp.

ninecharger

Go to Brooklyn and ask to use the OSCILLOCLAST machine(qv).

Not only could it tell you what's wrong from the way you write a period, but gave the life expectancy of most of the annointed remnant as 32 (that was eighty plus years ago) it can give you an incredibly elongated life too!!!!!!!!!!!!!

N

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You LURKERS Out There......This Could Happen to YOU !!

by xjw_b12 in

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1000 posts, i thought it would never happen.

i originally joined and lurked for the longest time, before i started posting on a regular basis.. this board was a place of comfort through justification.

i still clung to some old feelings of dread, and the old "what if?

ninecharger

I thought it had some thing to do with XJW_BE_WAN_TOBY Star Wars, anyway CONGRATULATIONS

N

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How MEAN is God?

by ninecharger in

in our pre witless days we didn't go to church at all.

but my mom used her own homespun wisdom to comfort us.

one time my pet rabbit died.

ninecharger

In our pre Witless days we didn't go to church at all. But my Mom used her own homespun wisdom to comfort us.

One time my pet rabbit died. She told me that God had taken him to his big garden in heaven to be with all the other dead pets, where Jesus would play with them.

I figured that if God had so many other animals to play with he didn't need my rabbit too. God was just a mean rat fink.

Did you ever get told things either as a nunbeliever or in your Jerboa's Witlessness chilhood that made you wonder if God really was the all singing-dancing Daddy? What really made you suspect a dark side?

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Who composes the JW music?

by JH in

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who composed the songs in the song book "sing praises to jehovah", and who decides what song is suitable or not?

the song book is almost 20 years old, and i wonder if they will come out with a new song book?.

although a few songs are nice, i find that most of them are dull.

ninecharger

Many years ago a CO said they were doing a new song book and Bethel were interested in submissions from brothers in good standing who write songs.

I couldn't be bothered. Some of the tunes are so like sleazy nightclub ballads you almost want to light up and pour another Jack Daniels. I think in all sincerity the guys who wrote these did not realise or remember who they were quoting. One song begins exactly like the first few measures of a piano piece by Mendelssohn.

Harold King wrote 'From House to House' serving 7 years solitary in communist China.

What I think is rotten is how often words are written to fit the tune so you end up with the stress on a weak word like OF THE OR AND etc.

Whoever wrote the words ain't no poet and don't we know it!

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JWD Memorization of the Holy Scriptures

by Nosferatu in

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one thing i find absolutely amusing about this place: so many people quote scriptures, but they can't remember where the damn things are located in the bible (and don't care to look them up).

after years and years of flipping through those bibles at the meetings, you'd think we'd have the whole thing memorized!

funny how a couple of years can delete a whole bunch of scriptures from our brains.. this thread is meant to give a home to all those forgotten locations of your "favorite" scriptures.. mine is: "remember the wife of lot"

ninecharger

Weren't they trivial Babble parties??

Damn if only I hadn't thrown so many books out!! I'd know where to look and could make a fortune selling them.

How much do vols like Riches, Light (both vols), New Heavens and New Earth, Studies in the Scriptures (series 1 and 2) 1916 and 21 editions go for?

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JWD Memorization of the Holy Scriptures

by Nosferatu in

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friends

one thing i find absolutely amusing about this place: so many people quote scriptures, but they can't remember where the damn things are located in the bible (and don't care to look them up).

after years and years of flipping through those bibles at the meetings, you'd think we'd have the whole thing memorized!

funny how a couple of years can delete a whole bunch of scriptures from our brains.. this thread is meant to give a home to all those forgotten locations of your "favorite" scriptures.. mine is: "remember the wife of lot"

ninecharger

I read the Bible and studied it verse by verse.

And the literature - so much so that when I could quote a scripture or paragraph no one remembered I was sometimes pilloried as a budding apostate. But I never could remember the verse or page number, resulting in much scrabbling around a book. Usually ended in them having red faces though!

This is why Blondie is so useful. She remembers everything...

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Lying Experiences at Assemblies.

by ninecharger in

at assemblies shining examples are trundled out to reel off their "encouraging" stories.

over the years there were many examples where i knew the people concerned, and wanted to vomit because they were telling a load of lies or at best half truth.

(why are we not surprised?

ninecharger

At assemblies shining examples are trundled out to reel off their "encouraging" stories.

Over the years there were many examples where I knew the people concerned, and wanted to vomit because they were telling a load of lies or at best half truth. (Why are we not surprised?)

When you knew someone giving their spiel, how often was it that you knew they were either lying or exaggerating?