Posts by confusedjw

hl and i like to socialise sometimes, and this often results in us hosting small parties for a few friends.. often our friends reciprocate, and then we enjoy being guests instead of being hosts.. but we keep encountering a dilemma.

one set of friends like us to visit them for afternoon bbq's or sometimes for evening dinner parties.. now, no problem with dinner parties, but if say we go to a bbq at around 4.30, they expect us to remain with them for the entire evening right through until around 11 pm or midnight, the same time as we'd stay to if we went to a late dinner party.. personally, i've had enough at about 9 pm, that's 5 hours, so we like to leave and have a pint or two in the pub on the way home.. now this makes them quite angry and they say that we're being anti-social because we are off to the pub instead of spending the whole evening with them.. i maintain that if you go to tea or a bbq in the late afternoon, then it's quite acceptable to depart earlier than if you went to a late dinner party.. what do you think?.

confusedjw

I'm going to guess that they are thinking you are coming over, getting your fill and then blowing them off. Which of course would be rude, if that were the case, but that isn't the case.

But undoubtedly they feel a bit hurt that you like the pub from 9:15 to 10:45 more than them.

So you aren't being rude, but of course you could make the exception with them (knowing they want you til 11:00 ) to stay until then, next time.

How often are these BBQ's - stay until 11:00 every other time?

If you really don't want to stay then don't feel badly though - Tell them: "I like to say hi and bye to my other friends at the pub as well, you know that."

( By the way coming at 4:30 and leaving at 9:00 would be perfect for us. But we make different exceptions for different friends - as I'm sure you do as well. )

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Things Learned Along the Way

by blondie in

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i have collected sayings, homilies, whatever along the way that crystallize something bigger i learned.

i will post a few every day.

if you have one, please share it.. if you lie down with dogs, you'll get up with fleas.. to belittle is to be little.. somewhere, i got the idea if i just took care of others, i would be taken care of.. blondie

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The little Blue Demon said:

I, however, am no longer concerned with such triviality..having mastered the art of teaching my sperm to swim backwards!

LOL LOL LOL

Thanks that cracked me up

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Apostates are very disappointing. I just found the WTS is true about them.

by reason in

your conduct, attitude, manner of speech, avatar, all of these shows what sort of hearts you people have.

i can't feel the holy spirit operating in you people.

the first time i exposed myself to apostates, i was imagining matured people, more matured than the jw's.

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The Mad Mag guy said:

Either admit you are a newbie who screwed up or you will be dogged for ever and ever and ever.

If you won't do that, I personally will dog you until you get a big headache.

I don't play, and neither do many others in here.

Because the OxHam said:

Am I the only person who suspects this thread is a joke? He mentions avatars of twisted body parts, yet look at his.

*sigh* Good idea F - stalk and dog him until you run him off this board. He deserves to be harassed until he can't take it anymore. Thank gawd F didn't over....never mind.

Reason said:

Very immature people.

Thank goodness we proved him wrong!

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Why didn't Sadam........?

by confusedjw in

going back to the pre-war rhetoric it seemed to me that even the german and russian intelligence along with the english and american intelligence and previous inspectors all agreed that sadam had left over (and possibly made more) chemical wmd.

proof seemed to be provided about what they *knew* he had at *some point* and it couldn't be accounted for.. it seems obvious now that sadam did, in fact, destroy it long ago.. my question - why didn't he just prove it to the inspectors?

why not avoid all of this if he could?

confusedjw

Going back to the pre-war rhetoric it seemed to me that even the German and Russian intelligence along with the English and American intelligence AND previous inspectors all agreed that Sadam had left over (and possibly made more) chemical WMD. Proof seemed to be provided about what they *knew* he had at *some point* and it couldn't be accounted for.

It seems obvious now that Sadam did, in fact, destroy it long ago.

My question - Why didn't he just prove it to the inspectors? Why not avoid all of this if he could?

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Is The WTBS Really Crumbling?

by exjdub in

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there have been posts and topics about the wtbs imploding and feuding factions in bethel etc.

some have said that the end is near for the wtbs.

is this just wishful thinking...or do you really think that this is a reality?

confusedjw

The WT is not crumbling. Really. Almost no witnesses even know about 587/607/1914 --- UN / NGO --- or even care about "new light" covering over false teachings.

IF the numbers stagnate the only thing that will be concluded from that is that the end is nearer and those 6 million still in will harden themselves even more.

IMHO

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The strange case of my JW mom

by logansrun in

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my mother has been a jw for the last forty years.

she attends all the meetings and goes out in service every other saturday.

yet, recently she admitted that:.

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The man in black with the white beard said:

The only thing the same was the water bucket. I?m loyal to a water bucket!!! ... Where's the water bucket?

That was a very thoughtful post! I'm going to reread it.

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Maybe I hoard things too much?

by Simon in

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i've just been sorting out various paperwork and going through the filing cabinet.

as well as every pay advice i've ever had (20+ years worth back to '83) i also have every bank statement, every cheque stub and, erm ... a big wad of atm receipts going back at least 10 years !

i just can't stand to throw things away for fear that i may need them one day!!.

confusedjw

May I suggest.....

.....go ahead you'll feel great afterward. Cleansed - Free

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Bad Stuff you did in High School

by Nosferatu in

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for those of you who weren't good jws, or weren't raised in the troof, what kind of bad things did you do in high school?.

one thing that i did sticks out in my mind above all the crap i did.

there was this one kid who was marked as the loser.

confusedjw

Okay this wasn't as bad as messing with the dewey decimal system but,

We used to take the month of Oct and go stealing pumpkins / jack o lanterns to smash on the road halloween night. The goal was to smash so many pumpkins they would have to bring out the snow plow truck, as we always did it on the big hill in town, and they are quite slippery.

So night after night we would ride the road in a pick up with a cap dressed in dark clothes and go onto peoples lawns, porches, patios etc and take their pumpkins. We'd park down the road sneak up and swipe them running like idiots to the pick up truck and zoom away. We had two places we would stash them in the woods. Gas prices were lower then.

One time we had scouted one so big - and I'm not kidding - three of us had to steal it. "One two three - Go. Pant pant. Okay set it down. [fall over as you trip in the field on an ant hill]". It was like a small jacuzzi almost. We did it while the family was eating dinner as we could see them through the picture window and they had a frikkin light shinning on the thing outside like some sort of monument.

Another time we had gone onto someones porch (we'd open the storm doors and sneak in) and took 4 pumkins. Down the road we go stealing more pumpkins laughing and pumped up. Red light at the end of the road. Suddenly a guy comes up behind us in a car and opens the truck cap. We're staring at him dumbfounded. He says "You just stole my pumpkins." , I say "how many?" He says "four" - I give him the 4 best and biggest of the load and thank him. I'll bet he laughs and tells that story to this day.

It was so much fun as it felt risky, daring and not harmful.