my wife asked for a seperation last week.
she rattles off a huge list of wrong things, like dress better when going out {wear a jacket?
} and be more ambitious like her since she would have been a millioniare if i wasn't holding her back?
Longshanks,
I'd like to hear her side of the story.
This is JWD. You only need hear the posters side of an issue, believe it immediately without question, then lick your lips and {{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{cuddle}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}} the poster until they vibrate with self-esteem. You remember how it was as JW's? Even when the smartest 'wordly' person outmatched the most stupid Jehovah's Witness, one sided with the JW. It is a bit like that, but in reverse. HS
just to review, i had my meeting today with the two elders who say a sister has accused me of "grinding" with her and thus porneia.
so i printed out several of your comments on how to defend myself.
i felt good about standing my ground, and repeating that i had not "grinded" with this ex-friend and that she wants to ruin the relationship i have now with the sister i am dating.. however, the two elders today really tried to pressure me.
This person is playing with you, but by all means waste your time, he obviously needs 'support'.
HS
just to review, i had my meeting today with the two elders who say a sister has accused me of "grinding" with her and thus porneia.
so i printed out several of your comments on how to defend myself.
i felt good about standing my ground, and repeating that i had not "grinded" with this ex-friend and that she wants to ruin the relationship i have now with the sister i am dating.. however, the two elders today really tried to pressure me.
You might be free of the WTS grip in many ways, but the girls, and I note the plural, who are lining up to take swings at you are not. For their sakes, tell the truth and take your stripes, as your story seems to have more blame than responsiblity attached to it, and well as a few holes where facts should sit.
By denying that anything happened, which obviously in WTS terms it did, you are prolonging their agony too.
Be a man and do the decent thing.
HS
when i turn on the tv, i see so many fem men that i'm realizing that a 'manly" man seems to be a relic of the past.. metrosexuals rule the world now.supersensitive males who are in touch with their feminine side are the norm.. the john waynes & burt reynolds have been replaced with ryan seacrest lookalikes.. ladies, do you find these metrosexuals all that attractive?
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Stop trying to fit people into little boxes.
Given that this is the only historically viable way of establishing a functioning civilization - good luck!
Those who break down the sides of one box always form another, this is the way that it is. As social evolution progresses, we will just have many more boxes to deal with than you once had, not a bad thing, but boxes all the same.
HS
when i turn on the tv, i see so many fem men that i'm realizing that a 'manly" man seems to be a relic of the past.. metrosexuals rule the world now.supersensitive males who are in touch with their feminine side are the norm.. the john waynes & burt reynolds have been replaced with ryan seacrest lookalikes.. ladies, do you find these metrosexuals all that attractive?
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Its the men who roam around in supermarkets with shopping lists looking very purposeful and treating their children like adults that baffle me.
HS
ok heres the thing.
my english neighbor (arrived here from essex, is there really such a place?
) always makes those comments about our kids, our car, and so on even made fun out of me when i told him we used to be witnesses.
Majestic,
Maybe he’s not an idiot…Maybe he just came over there to lord it over everyone how good Essex is……fu*k knows how mind……
What you do get in Canada are Brits who once lived in shoebox sized houses, in the greyest and glummest of towns, selling their scrawny homes for 350,000 pounds, moving to Canada where their cash becomes $700,000. In Canada you can buy a major property for that and still have money left in the Bank.
What this does to many is to make them think that somehow they are successful, self-made entrepreneurs rather than accidental investors, and they strut around in supermarkets speaking in slightly higher tones than everybody else about their latest trip to Peru. The attitude is embarrassing.
HS
i finally got around to watching the documentary named 'who killed the electric car?'.
i am upset to see the unbelievable and contemptible coalition of oil, government, and industry to have accomplished the feat of overturning a direction that could have, if allowed, already reduced our addition to off-shore oil.
the activist organization that came out of this is found here:.
Jeff,
The major flaw in the Capitalist ideology is that it assumes that a 'free' market is actually free. It never is and never was.
In the early 70's the UK formed a Monopolies and Mergers Commission specifically to ensure that power in the hands of large Corporations was regulated to ensure that the citizens interests were protected. Of course Thatcher largely undermined its power as her committment to a 'free economy' verged on the Messianic. It never recovered its status and was replaced in the early 90's by the relatively impotent Competition Commission.
What can happen when controls on corporations are deregulated is what is happening in the UK at present with its Gas prices. British Gas, which was 'privatized' under Thatcher, has announced a 35% increase in national Gas Prices. The day after announcing this increase it also announced that its six month operating profits were one billion pounds. The problem is that these profits were down 19% on last years, resulting in shareholder pressure. Even at this rate it has to be acknowledged that UK gas prices are certainly not the highest in Europe, but the 'fixing' that goes on within these corporations is for one reason alone. The problem is that those who suffer the greatest from these increases are not the shareholders, but the vunerable citizens.
The problem with oil for example is not about oil. As the head of Exon stated last year, "We are not in the oil business, we are in the money business and until people recognize this they will never understand the market". The CEO's brief is to make as much money as he can for his company. No person can blame him for this, as it is he is merely working within the Capitalist system and doing a bloody good job at making money at the moment.
Supply and demand is not a universal truth, but a manufactured one. Survival of the fittest however, is a universal and ugly truth. It eats the unfortunate, the poor and dispossesed for breakfast. It is the embarassing dimension of the American Dream.
HS
ok heres the thing.
my english neighbor (arrived here from essex, is there really such a place?
) always makes those comments about our kids, our car, and so on even made fun out of me when i told him we used to be witnesses.
Tool Man,
The Brits are much less sensitive than your average North American, and sometimes, often, the humor can be misinterpreted.
Just remember, he is from Essex which is the territorial equivalent of a mispelled tattoo. You have nothing to fear.
HS
i want to share with you all a most wonderful experience i have just had.
i have been going to a christian church called the vineyard.
they have a live band and lots of singing goes on there.
Nathan,
received a bucket of KFC.
Best of all, it is not imaginary!
FDS-lickin' good!
Another way at looking at your feast is that Sanders the God of Cholesterol has visited his spirit on you. Quake and fall for his spirit bubbles in your veins.
HS
how do you deal with "no faith"?
what do you put faith in?
how was you transition from belief to non belief?
Wings,
A dancer does not live a moment, they live in the moment. A poet does not write lines, they live in the lines. An artist does not paint pictures, they capture moments.
Life is a collection of moments, some golden, some not. Recognizing that this life is all we have helps us not just to live moments, but to explore them, respect them and live them fully. In many ways it is the same realization that we have as we get older. Realising that we might only live another ten years for example focuses the priorities and helps us to live each moment as fully as we can.
Enjoy what you have, it will be gone very quickly. Make it count.
HS
