so, i'm being shanghied into going to this "special talk" dubs got going on tommorow.
and while riding in the car i ask, simply:.
"i'm not saying that's the only stance, i'm saying that this is something that they tell people over and over.".
Special Talks, baptism day, tract campaigns, decreased pioneer hours, one-day assemblies, Bethelite & CO visits are the high points to the never-ending treadmill of the JW life.
Expectation postphoned makes the heart sick. The expectation of the new world postponed decade after decade has made many sick. Without these holidays, JWs would struggle even more to survive...
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the saddest of all the sad things my eyes have beheld was this one sunny day on a grassy green knoll that led up to an outstretched oak tree beneath which was a tiny coffin with a little red balloon tied on, dizzily dancing in the gusts of summer wind.
the poignancy of that red balloon wrenched my heart with the ugly beauty of it all.
such a small coffin!
this is why the internet is so awesome:.
http://youtu.be/c4dlx0au9we.
http://youtu.be/mxbwifqsq_q.
this is a real puzzler.. for christendom at large there is no problem in thinking of humans as a body (tent) which houses the soul.. for jehovah's witnesses the human is the tent.
no soul is contained.
(they make "soul" the same as body.).
its not easy being an introvert in an extrovert worldespecially when youre a kid.
it is even more difficult if none of the adults in the kids life recognize that the child is an introvert.
this doesnt happen only when the childs parents are extroverts, but also with introverted parents who have never understood their own introverted nature.. .
i have $10 sears gift card for tools, but i am not sure which tool that i would be interested to purchase.
any suggestions?
thanks!.
my last update on my daughter was so good...but it didn't turn out that way.
she was cleared to go back to work, but with limitations... she couldn't lift more than 10 pounds.
her employer wanted her back but wouldn't agree to the lifting restriction.
i hope you're all doing well.
i'm just fine.
i recently purchased the new adele album, 21. it's even better than her first album, imho.
i've been trying for some time to find the motiviation i needed to completely leave the cult behind.
i'm mean, do it emotionally as well as mentally (whole-souled, right?
), despite still having a lot of family and friends that are cult members.
the instinct which creates the arts is not the same as that which produces art.
the creative instinct is, in its final analysis and in its simplest terms, an enormous extra vitality, a super-energy, born inexplicably in an individual, a vitality great beyond all the needs of his own living an energy which no single life can consume.
this energy consumes itself then in creating more life, in the form of music, painting, writing, or whatever is its most natural medium of expression.