the background to this thread is that i love wearing (?
) a beard, but my wife hates it.
i've changed my profile pic to reflect four states of facial hairiness (if it doesn't show, hit "refresh" on your browser).. i'm interested in your opinions.
LT,
To be honest, I for the most part do not like facial hair on men but I have to admit that you look very handsome with a beard, and I do like the half beard alot. Your gorgeous either way, you should wear the beard if it makes you happy, who cares what anybody else thinks.
wednesday morning, the doorbell rings right in the middle of my cooking breakfast.
i open the door to find two gray-haired men wearing white shirts and ties, trying to hand me the latest copies of the watchtower and awake magazines.. this is the actual conversation that followed:.
witness one: good morning, we have stopped by your house today to share some good news with you and.
Minchild!!!!! I have missed you around here. You probably don't even remember me but I remember how much I enjoyed reading your posts when I first started posting here. It's so good to see you man!
What a post! Gone for a while and come back with a bang! I couldn't agree more with what you've said...and this paragraph:
As the Witnesses engage in repeated and prolonged evangelism, it proves that they place NO value on my beliefs that they dont even acknowledge that there is a value in my beliefs for ME, even if they dont accept those beliefs themselves. In the most fundamental form this demonstrates the grossest disrespect they can show for my beliefs. They have a purposeful and intentional goal of destroying my beliefs and my worldview and replacing them with their own warped cultish version of reality. It really is a form of mental genocide, except that instead of killing people, they are trying to kill the mental world, lifestyle, religion, and personal history of anyone who isnt already infected with their mind virus. It is a truly despicable form of behavior.
Those are thoughts I, myself, have been trying to find the way to express and you've hit it right on the nail.
Skipper: Im sorry to end this conversation here but talking to you is not worth burning my breakfast over. I have no use for your abusive organization and I need to go.
LOL! I love it!
So good to hear from you Mindchild, hope you won't be a stranger!
hang in there, fire dragon.
if nothing else, enjoy what you have now.
who knows how long it will last.
Can't wait to have you around again Ephan!
i just wanted to introduce you all to a new member, he goes by the name of pretender.
he made his first post today, and i am hoping he will continue to come in.
he is a wonderful person and he has alot to offer.
Welcome Pretender! Looking forward to your posts!
i'm close to leaving this place, but before i go, i've been meaning to post this politically incorrect viewpoint.
it's an extension of a conversation i had with my mother in law not long ago, a conversation which was itself an extension of several extensions of thought that i've had over the years about a number of things.. simply put, there are two kinds of people in our world.
those that believe the bible and those that don't.
I'm no psychic but it's evident if this continues this thread will turn into a nasty flame war.
Don't get sucked in....
Edited by - TheStar on 26 July 2002 21:42:18
i know this is a subject that has been discussed at length on this board.
until now i went along with "not playing their game" and not daing.
now after bill bowen has been disfellowshipped i am feeling embarrassed and ashamed to ever have been associated with this unloving, hypocritical, corrupt organization.
LMAO @ Scully! Are you serious? This really worked for you???
well, i have to say that things went better yesterday than i expected.
my dad first commented that i had put on some weight and then gave me a hug.
my mom took one look at me and said i was getting fat and it was a shame.
I'm really surprised by your father's atttitude, concidering I know how badly he's treated you all these months since you were DF'd.
I do hope your Uncle's death has been your dads wake up call and that it's not just a passing phase, time will tell, guard your heart. Please listen to what Scully has said. Mr. Biggs also has a point, next month the KM has a terrible article on how to treat those DF'd, its a very harsh article.
Be polite, respectful and peaceable but above all, whatever happens, show them you can be happy with out the lot of them and that while you do and will always love them, you don't need them if they don't want you.
Let me know how the funeral goes. I wish you the best and I'm here for ya.
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i know this is a subject that has been discussed at length on this board.
until now i went along with "not playing their game" and not daing.
now after bill bowen has been disfellowshipped i am feeling embarrassed and ashamed to ever have been associated with this unloving, hypocritical, corrupt organization.
Probably no one talks much to some of you anyway, but if someone did have doubts, they might just muster the courage to talk to someone they know has disagreements but who isn't DFed.
How would they know? Since the person with disagreements can't talk to anyone for fear of being DFd, how would anyone with disagreements know of another in their congregation that has disagreements that they could talk to ?
I see it in the opposite way. If you are DA'd someone who is having a serious crisis of conscience knows he can come to you and while there is a risk of getting caught speaking to a DA 'd person, there are discreet ways of going about it. At least you know you will be speaking to someone that is NOT going to rat you out.
i know this is a subject that has been discussed at length on this board.
until now i went along with "not playing their game" and not daing.
now after bill bowen has been disfellowshipped i am feeling embarrassed and ashamed to ever have been associated with this unloving, hypocritical, corrupt organization.
You can add me to the list of those that want to DA themselves.
I've been wanting to DA myself since I first started posting on this board back in February. Infact, that was what my first thread was about. Many here advised me not to DA myself and I'm glad I took their advice, for now I see the value in that advice and I think at the time it probably wouldn't have been the wise thing to do for my particular situation. However, I've given it time and I still feel the need to DA myself. I don't want anything to do with the religion and I don't care if anyone considers it as "playing by their rules" in my opinion I'm playing by my rules in wanting to get them out of my life, not vice versa. I want to cut them off and go on with my life and the only way to do that is to DA yourself. Otherwise you will always be playing a game of hide, evade, avoid etc., always having to be careful of what you do or what you say to someone for it might get back to the elders and then you will be facing a JC. Forget that, I for one do not want to live the rest of my life like that, I want to totally cut myself off from everthing about that religion.
Only problem is my husband is still in and that is the ONLY reason I have not DA myself yet. I have tried to get him out but he's not coming around at all. I am waiting, trying to be patient but I know I will have to DA myself soon. I'm ready to face any consequences.
scientific american has been very conservative about reporting progress.
on the anti-aging front.. that may change, however, with the new august issue discussing.
the testing of new chemicals which mimic caloric deprivation.. as the article explains, the best bet for extending the life of.
Sabine,
I agree. Since cutting my carbs 4 months ago, I now eat less because I get full on less, not because I starve myself by any means and I'm not hungry all the time like I used to be. I don't have the terrible sugar cravings or cravings of anything at all like I constantly had before. I have more energy, have lost 30 pounds and have gone down 4 dress sizes. I have 40 more pounds to go and I feel I can live this way for the rest of my life.
