Posts by Aussie Oz

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Your day(s) off: rest and relaxation or catching up?

by compound complex in

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friends

some of my friends are weekend warriors, so to speak.

days off are not always the weekend.. do you get to chill out?

coco is semi-retired but always tired .

Aussie Oz

Thats a tough one. being self employed i am never really 'off'. if orders demand production, i must work. I do the lot from the website to orders to set up, production, packing, despatch, the books, the taxes, everything, a one man show.

And i thought my new occupation was going to allow me to be semi retired (work 24 to 30 hr per week) too.

I pretend that i take time off to do other things but it happens less often then i desire. I try to get a day a week to build my hotrod but alas, work comes before play. So here it is a saturday, and after a crappy week of poor production due to an injury that i had to soldier through with, i find the day off to play went bye bye and so has my weekend. Today was spent getting work ready for monday, sunday will be spent finishing off last weeks orders and then it'll be back into a full week again. Say hello 14 day working week.

I'm pretty hard on myself about not wasting time. sure i can shut the door anytime i want and go watch a movie, but i dont. I can have long coffee breaks but i just bring it to the workshop and fill it with sawdust...

When I do get to relax its back in the shed anyway to fabricate, weld, grind and bang away on the project vehicle. It was harder when my whole week was spent doing vehicle restoration to then go 'oh goody a day off...think i will go work on a car for fun now'... At least now that is different!

I dont do 'relax' anymore i am afraid. I have become incapable of rest other than when i sleep. And that ok if you have bucket loads of energy to burn, but i dont. most of the time i am pooped before 10am.

Went camping with my family and dad for 10 days and just was miserable for the first 4 because i just couldnt get into this whole 'relax' and 'do nothing' mode! Seems like a big waste of time...you know, there are things i have to do, not want, but have to do. And there i am supposed to sit for hours and try and catch a fish?

I cant stop, its a curse. here it is after 6pm, i'm the office inbetween tasks and well, i just keep looking for things to do next because sitting inside infront of a TV set is dumb...

sorry for my rant CoCo! I sound like I am miserable! I'm not...i just dont do this relax thingy very well anymore.

I wish i could chill, maybe if my competion buys me out for a million bucks. Nah, i'll just go do something else! LOL

sometimes working for someone else and punching the clock has a lot of advantages...

Oz

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Double Standard re: Baptism

by lostinnj83 in

i was speaking to my mother earlier this week, and she was mentioning about someone in her hall that was in the hospital.

this person was never mentally "present" even prior to getting baptized.

my mom said out of the blue "why would they allow someone who is mentally incoherent to make such a serious commitment as baptism?".

Aussie Oz

yes it is rediculous

if you presented a 'bible study' to the elders for baptism, and that person although an adult was mentally 12 they would put a stop to it (I HOPE)

oz

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Is the grass greener on the other side?

by What Now? in

hi all.... so my mom phoned me up this morning and said she needed to talk to me about something.

she asked me whether or not our (worldly) family thought that my husband and i were witnesses anymore.

one, someone in my family said to her, "i didn't know you guys wear short dresses like that" - commenting on a slightly above the knee dress i had worn to a family event.

Aussie Oz

according to my horse, yes.

but really its not what you ask

it is a real normal life versus a cult life. not even close to comparable. those who leave and do poorly may be like that beacause of poor life choices.

oz

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Why Worry About Stopping Comets?

by AGuest in

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friends

given their relative size (usually), maybe we should learn to stop meteors first:.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/16/world/europe/meteorite-fragments-are-said-to-rain-down-on-siberia.html?_r=0.

interesting.. a doulos of christ,.

Aussie Oz

what meteor that exploded today?

oz who lives under a rock

38

Why are Ex-JW's not more effective in slaying the Watchtower monster?

by Terry in

what the watchtower society has is focus.

what ex-jw's lack is that very thing...in spades.. .

divide and conquer, eh?

Aussie Oz

Only a few former Jehovah's Witnesses have what it takes to make a difference.

Actually, only a few have the right to try and make a difference. let me use myself as an example...

I was never abused by a nazi JW father, never beaten by a pshyco JW mother. Never had an elder treat me badly, nor hurt my family. I didn't wake up and look behind the curtain, I didnt leave for 'noble' reasons either.

All I had was a mid life crises. I had no idea what was happening and the poor wife had even less idea. I and the Elders were poorly equipped to deal with it save for the advice to study more and pray harder. I had my demons to conquer and i didnt. it was not the easy way out, it was bloody hard and blew my life apart as surely as thse who looked behind the curtain and saw the truth about the truth. I was never shunned by family, all i lost besides material things and a family was all my so called friends.

I was disfellowshipped for deliberate cold calculated adultery to end my by now unsalvagable marriage and to free the wife to find love again.

I have long thought about waging some battle against the WT over child abuse or shunning, or taking the message to the steets and even a campaign to wake up current JWs, but you know what?

I HAVE NO CREDIBILITY

Who am I to be interveiwed on sixty minutes as some person of substance? Who am I to organize a massive rally out the front of Bethel? Who am I to print and distribute the real facts about the WT?

I am nobody, and sorry to say, many of us are nobody when it comes to slaying the Watchtower monster. All a lot of us are is shmucks who screwed someone we shouldn't have or smoked a ciggy.

I can see it now, ''Mr Oz, just how have you come to lead this army of ex JWs against the Watchtower organization"? "Well, mr reporter, see i just rooted some bird to end my marriage and then 12 years later realized my religion that i got kicked of or 10 years ago was a crock of shit, so..."

(well, talk about just putting it all in perspective for myself!)

See what I mean? Not many of us can fight the monster, all we can do is be indignant that it stole some time. And sometimes that just makes us angry and want to throw things at them.

Oz

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Why are Ex-JW's not more effective in slaying the Watchtower monster?

by Terry in

what the watchtower society has is focus.

what ex-jw's lack is that very thing...in spades.. .

divide and conquer, eh?

Aussie Oz

Hey man, lay of those sideburns...

mine, by the way, are magnificent.

Oz

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May 15 2013 WT: "REAL elders skip meals and lose sleep!"

by cedars in

finally we have the society's expectations of elders in print.. this is from page 9 of the may 15th study edition.... "as indicated by the experiences of the apostle paul, our ministry may result in sleepless nights and times without food.

(2 cor.

6:5) these expressions paint a vivid picture of self-sacrifice and may well remind us of pioneers who give their ministry first place in life while supporting themselves financially.

Aussie Oz

Miss meals?

Shite, i knew one who managed 5 square meals a day plus snacks.

he was a rolling heart attack waiting to happen.

Oz

18

Cost of living going up.

by punkofnice in

here in the uk the cost of living is going up far beyond wage rises.

the cost of travelling is shooting up each time i look at a petrol pump!

water rates are rising.

Aussie Oz

I really believe it is in part, to keep as many people on the treadmill feeding the giant economy monster as possible.

If we all could hope off and grow our own food, be less dependant on power, fuels and technology, the world as we know it would collapse.

Oz

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Chapter a day: MEMOIRS of a MANGY ex-CULTIST

by Terry in

we'll see how long this lasts.... i'll write a chapter each day.

every day.. when there is nothing left to say.....it is over.. it could end up being a book nobody will every read.

or, it might be read by a few and it might mean something to somebody.

Aussie Oz

I am stunned Terry

i have never read a clearer picture of the Watchtowers criminality in getting young men to Martyr themselves in the name of self agrandizement.

What they did to you and thousands of other boys back then (and probably still do) was disgusting. And to think that if you were in mexico all you would have had to do to stay in good standing was bribe some officials...

Oz

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Watch Tower Online Library "How The Governing Body Differs From A Legal Corporation" WT 2001 01/15

by frankiespeakin in

http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2001051?q=governing+body&p=par.

another unforgettable annual meeting.

these questions were answered at the annual meeting held on october 1, 1971. on that occasion, one of the speakers pointed out that the governingbody of the faithful and discreet slave preceded the watch tower bible and tract society of pennsylvania by hundreds of years.

Aussie Oz

perhaps they all wake up one morning with the same name on their lips...

maybe a few months ago, they all stumbled out of bed, rolled off their trophy wives and went, "mmmmm mark Sanderson''

I can imagine them all bumping into each other at breakfast chanting ''mark Sanderson Mark Sanderson mark sanderson"...

oz