Posts by new boy

Thank you all. I'll see you again in couple of years. I hit the board here every couple of years do what I can to help. It's a place I love to visit but don't want to live here.

It's great to see the many new people faces here!

Plus the old van guard. I could start listing those wonderful people who helped so many! They have been here from the beginning, Blondie, Terry, Compound Complex, Dog Patch, Simon and dozens of others!

Good job another brick in the wall.

God bless you ALL!

Or if you don't believe in god anymore (lol)

Bless you all!

Namaste

Keith

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Get On Board The Time Machine A Look At Your Future And Your Pass.

by new boy in

jw
friends

have you ever thought back at how your mind worked 10, 20, 30 years ago?

all of your different believe systems you had.. all the things you believed in back then.

the people you liked or disliked.

new boy

Have you ever thought back at how your mind worked 10, 20, 30 years ago? All of your different believe systems you had.

All the things you believed in back then. The people you liked or disliked. The people you chose as your friends. The love affairs/marriages that would never end.

How adamant we were about our believes. Our believes in our governments, our religions and even the people around us. For me, the younger I was the more I had things figured out. Yes, I was so quick to judge other people and their motives.

Yes, now that we are older things are less black and white. I realize how little I know about everything. That I really have no right to judge other people and never did.

How can I be so adamant about anything, when I have changed so much in the last 50 years. That being true, how much more will I change in the next few years. Which is even more reason not to get "dug in" on a thought system and feeling adamant about anything.

Coming to peace with who I've been and who I will be has allowed me to enjoy the present moment so much more.

I had some great teachers help me with this long the way Gary Zukav, Caroline Myss Depok, Wayne Dyer and my favorite Eckhart Tolle.

Spending to much time in the pass or the future will destroy your present moment. The power of the "now."

Maybe spending too much time on the time machine could be a real problem.

I wish you all peace here. Enjoy your journey.

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My boyfriend is thinking of becoming reinstated

by gypsyvine in

i'm not really sure where to post this.. i've been with my boyfriend for 4 months now and i've really never been happier.

i was brought up in the church of christ with an elder father and i really believe in my religion, although i will admit to being a lousy christian at times due to sheer laziness (not wanting to get out of bed on sunday).

my boyfriend essentially lives with me.

new boy

Well, if he gets reinstated and gets caught with you on one of your sleep overs he will get "popped" again, DF'd. Plus there will be a big push for him to find a "good" JW girl by his folks. So they can have "good" JW grand kids.

Good luck, there may not be a happy ending on this one.

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how do most of you now feel about the military?

by sowhatnow in

was not sure where to post this, but i was curious, how do some of you now feel about the military?

would any of you let your children enlist, or would you yourselves join any military field?

how do you feel about the idea of women in the military?

new boy

I don't know what I'm taking about.

"Having said that, I cannot think of many military initiatives post-WW2 that the US has been involved in that I would have supported, apart from those that had a primary focus of humanitarian effort. Korea,Vietnam, the first Gulf war, Afghanistan, and especially Iraq, all were tactical in nature, and in the end caused greater threats over the long-term. The evidence of this speaks for itself"

Guys I'm not talking about WW2, WW1 or even the French and Indian war!

I'm talking every conflict this country has been in the last 40 years and probably will be in the next 40 years.

It's a different world and this government the good old USA are not always the "Good guys."

Call me crazy but I think war and killing are bad Ideas. This should be a no brainer.

Everyone agrees then they say "Yes but...."

There is no "Yes but...."

Yes you are right, the governments are not going away. However you can make a personal decision not to take part in the insanity of war.

I was spit on in High School because I would not salute the US flag. I said I would have no part in their war. To which people would say "What if EVERYONE thought the way you do!"

To which I'd Say "Well, I guess there would be no more war!"

You think war is a good idea? Then invest your son. Let him join the "Kill or be Killed business." Then get the telegram that they died for "Freedom." Yes, they died for freedom. The freedom for us to have cheaper gas.

John Lennon, Gandhi, Jesus, the Buddha said it all.

But I guess, many of you folks here don't believe in any of those guys anymore.

Again, please watch the movie "Why we fight." Then make a personal decision on whether war is a good idea.

Or not.

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A JW experience

by Saintbertholdt in

this is a quick experience i have recently had and i have two questions at the end.. a couple of weeks ago, the dogs were barking at the gate on saturday morning and wouldn't you know it, it was some witnesses.

there was a father with his lovely wife and their young daughter.

the father did all the talking as mother and daughter just dutifully smiled and watched.

new boy

Back up here.

Remember what are JWs looking for?

Unhappy and not very intelligent people. You came off as neither. Thus the quick exit.

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how do most of you now feel about the military?

by sowhatnow in

was not sure where to post this, but i was curious, how do some of you now feel about the military?

would any of you let your children enlist, or would you yourselves join any military field?

how do you feel about the idea of women in the military?

new boy

"Every vet I have met that served in Nam, even though many of those suffer from PTSD, problems

from the Agent Orange not one regret their service."

Interesting.

Question?

They had no regrets and were proud for being over there, why?

What are they so proud about?

The people they killed or their friends that got killed or the people that came back and killed themselves?

For what? Why?

Ever think that the North Viet Nam people are just as proud about how they killed for their country too.

Everyone is "proud" to serve "proud" to kill "proud" die for their countries.

So is god only loves the usa and proud of their solders?

The two biggest things that are destroying this planet is religion and governments.

You guys got free of one, time to get rid of the other.

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how do most of you now feel about the military?

by sowhatnow in

was not sure where to post this, but i was curious, how do some of you now feel about the military?

would any of you let your children enlist, or would you yourselves join any military field?

how do you feel about the idea of women in the military?

new boy

because the U.S. govt IS severely corrupt, and sees its great soldiers as mere disposable pawns rather than precious lives.

yes sad but true.

Sadly the military of today are no more the security guards for America's corporations.

Watch the movie "Why we Fight"

War and killing are bad ideas. Why is it that the governments only want 18 and 19 year kids as soldiers because they are stupid and will do just about anything they bare told!

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how do most of you now feel about the military?

by sowhatnow in

was not sure where to post this, but i was curious, how do some of you now feel about the military?

would any of you let your children enlist, or would you yourselves join any military field?

how do you feel about the idea of women in the military?

new boy

Sorry guys

The Jws have got this one right.

I didn't go to Viet Nam and don't wish I did. Over a million South and North Viet Nam people, men women and children died in the war. Over 55,000 Americans died in that undeclared war also.

How many Americans really died in that war who knows. Because many came back and took a gun to the heads. Which happen to five guys who went to my high school alone, Not one of my class mates died in the war but 5 guys came back and killed themselves!

And why did they do that? Because on some level they didn't like watching or killing the men women and children themselves. Big surprise! Maybe this is why we have so much PTS now.

So just why did all this people have to die?

So Viet Nam would not become Communistic? NO! They did and way!

They died for our save our "freedom" NO!

Viet Nam being Communistic has NOT affected this country's freedom one bit!

So we don't like counties to become Communistic because that would effect "our freedom" bull shit. Well, if that is true why didn't this country invade Cuba? They are just 90 miles away.

So you tell me, what did they died for? This is a simple one.

That's right, NOTHING!

There is only one thing that is more stupid then people who sent their children to war! The stupid children that go!

Yes, my friends the Jehovah's Witnesses got this one right!

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How Did Your JW Wife or Husband Leave You?

by new boy in

inspiried by other post and threads....and the love to type.. after going from being a self rightious pioneer and bethelite, to someone who had major doubts.my years drifted by me.

i had been a watchtower slave for over 50 years.

one day at a time, i sold my soul.

new boy

From the bone yard.

Fifteen years later life couldn't be better. I'm engaged to a wonderful woman, a women who things for her self. She is nothing like the loveless "Stepford JW wife" I was married to.