Posts by Magick

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Secret Santa Ideas thread

by Angharad in

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if everyone who is signed up for the sectret santa can post a few ideas of the sort of thing you like in here, when people receive their names they can come in here and look you up so get some ideas .

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Magick

i just got back from chrismas shopping.

i hope no one let the cat out of the bag as to who i am shopping for.

it took me so long..cuz everything christmas is so new to me...and there's so many pretty things to look at.

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A womans tears

by Maverick in

this is really for the guys, but i know the woman here will have some great insights for us stupid men so i hope y-all will offer up your best.. when the woman i am with starts to tear up or cry i feel totally helpless and useless.

this is one of the most dreaded situations i as a man can ever find myself in.

my older brother, the retired police chief, would get angry if a woman started to cry when he was writing her a ticket, he felt it was an act.

Magick

I can't cry at all. I am in therapy over it actually. I cannot cry!

i've felt like that...i was taking prozac at the time.

And I cried when my now-ex told me he cheated on me - in front of him - god I hated that.

i'm sorry u were hurt. crying is anger too.

In all other situations when someone really hurts my soul, I just turn on my Prozac smile and freeze.

i feel like that too, sometimes.

but, sometimes, when others show you true love, empathy & compassion...then crying is really, really good.

i'm a big laugher too. i can't contain myself. sometimes i embarrass others....

i need to be with people who aren't embarrassed to laugh in public with me or cry when they need to.

~magicK alt

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If you are a Jehovah's Witness,

by rmcgill_leader in

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if you are a jehovah's witness please understand that i am not against you as an individual.

i am not an apostate from the watchtower organization and, of course, i was never baptized as a jehovah's witness.

however, when i was 17, i studied with the jehovah's witnesses for a couple of months, but quit.

Magick

If you are a Jehovah's Witness, ....

then you've come to the right place.

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A womans tears

by Maverick in

this is really for the guys, but i know the woman here will have some great insights for us stupid men so i hope y-all will offer up your best.. when the woman i am with starts to tear up or cry i feel totally helpless and useless.

this is one of the most dreaded situations i as a man can ever find myself in.

my older brother, the retired police chief, would get angry if a woman started to cry when he was writing her a ticket, he felt it was an act.

Magick

I'm resurrecting this thread that's over three years old because...

it's a great thread

and

Maverick made it

and

i'm a woman

and

i cry a lot

and

Little Toe is all through it

and

i miss seeing him. alt

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May be getting a biopsy tomorrow

by MsMcDucket in

i may be getting a/some biopsy/biopsies done tomorrow.

ugh!

i'm worried about how i'm going to behave during the procedure/s.

Magick

my thoughts & love are with you

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I have a serious and I need your help.....

by Faithful-n-Discreet Wife in

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this time last year i met the man of my dreams...he was incredibly smart and charming...he was in tune with me...he made me feel like i was the best thing that ever happened to him.

at first he was a little shy...he didn't think anyone of my caliber would even give him a chance...conveniantly though i had my run of bad guys...and wanted someone different.

he was a devout christian...and i had been yearning for years for some direction.

Magick

thats one of the most intelligent points I've heard from a woman! R. Crusoe

alt magicK

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RAISED IN ONLY MOSTLY...WHAT AGE DID U LEAVE HOME?

by oompa in

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thats pretty much it....my at home son seems so much younger than he should be...he is now 20 but hangs with much youger dubs...and has no girlfriend to date.

i had like ten by then and had done everything but impregnate a girl................................what the hey is going on here?....................................oompa..

plus he is a ministerial servant and reg.

Magick

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What would you have "secretly" brought with you into the New System?

by JH in

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surely my 600+ mp3 music

Magick

a jehovah's witness?

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STONING SCENE from Monty Python's Life of Brian 5

by Magick in

http://www.youtube.com/v/zneq2utm0nu&rel=1.

i know, i'm probably repeating plenty of threads...but, it bears repeating.

best scene ever!

Magick

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Disorganized religion

by nomoreguilt in

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for so many years now the borg has spoken condesendingly of organized religion.

this raises many questions then on their part.

what do jw's call the people that have oversight on all jw's?

Magick

some confusing watchtower quotes about organized religion:

*** w80 3/1 p. 13 After Destruction of Organized Religion, Which Way? ***“ORGANIZED Religion of the world has fallen!” Such words we may expect haters of all popular religion to shout out jubilantly, when organized religion of today goes down in violent destruction.

*** w80 3/1 p. 24 The Right Route Needs to Be Selected Now ***Even now before the outbreak of the “great tribulation” they are under divine orders to “proclaim . . . the day of vengeance on the part of our God” against Organized Religion

*** w80 3/1 p. 24 The Right Route Needs to Be Selected Now ***When, in the fast approaching “great tribulation,” the “sword” of divine vengeance strikes down all Organized Religion

*** w54 11/15 p. 679 Is World Unity a Dream? ***For a time the League of Nations ‘was,’ then ‘was not’ during World War II, but ascended out of the abyss of inactivity under a new name, the United Nations. Before it goes into destruction it is shown devastating organized religion

*** pe chap. 25 p. 209 For Satan’s World, or God’s New System? ***Satan’s world—his organized human society—is made up of various closely connected parts

*** km 1/77 p. 4 Presenting the Good News—To Those Who Have Lost Faith in Religion ***You may be able to explain that the failure of organized religion to give him a satisfying hope should not be a cause for him to abandon worship of God

*** w00 1/1 p. 30 We Need Jehovah’s Organization ***Does God want Christians to be associated with an organization?the united worldwide congregation, or organization, was needed was to promote unity...to “speak in agreement"
Yes, Jehovah used an organization in the first century We Need an Organization Today

*** rs p. 326 par. 2 Religion ***
Nevertheless, to fulfill the Bible’s requirements, it must be organized.

*** kl chap. 17 p. 161 Find Security Among God’s People ***Using the ‘faithful slave’ and its present-day Governing Body, God directs his organized people to make spiritual food, clothing, and shelter available to all who wish to have these provisions.

*** tp chap. 3 p. 30 Are the World’s Religions Giving the Right Lead? ***Religious commentator M. J. McManus wrote this about church attenders: “Few trends in religion so threaten to undermine organized religion in the 1980s as does the sorry state of Biblical knowledge.

*** kc chap. 15 p. 143 Loyal Advocates of the Kingdom ***In the 1870’s Charles T. Russell organized a small group of dedicated Christians in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

*** sl chap. 18 p. 335 On Whose Side Are We When World Distress Climaxes? ***Jehovah’s Christian witnesses have identified Babylon the Great as being, not the Roman Catholic Church, no, not organized Christendom, but the world empire of false religion

*** g99 11/8 p. 28 Watching the World ***“No doubt organized religion’s image has also been scarred badly by front-page stories of Christian clergy sex abuse

*** g99 12/8 p. 9 In Search of the Good Life ***“In much of the world organized religion has lost power during the 20th century,”

*** g97 9/8 p. 6 A World Taught to Hate ***, it is obvious that organized religion has failed to instill in people a love strong enough to overcome political and ethnic biases.