its been a while but i wanted to tell you that ive just got engaged to a great girl.. while i love her, her family are pressuring me to set a date and book a hotel!
im only engaged 4 days so i think its out of order.. please give me suggestions on how to deal with mother in laws without ending relationships.. her mother is insisting on church, cake, food and tells me her son has to be in the bridal party.
they want me to go to thier church sio i can get married thier , but as you kinow im not keen to join another church so quickly.. i only wanted to show her i loved her and was serious, but not this serious so soon.. am i wrong ?.
congratulations!
I got married in september and had exactly the same problem. We set the rules from the outset and at one point I got so cheesed off with interference I was quite rude to my MIL and embaressed her into silence in front of the whole family.
Set the ground rules early and make sure they all know it's your and your fiancees decision
howard dean...lol!
now perhaps the party will take a long and serious look at it's only electable candidate-john kerry!!
as dean slips, the democrats' drama rises .
It IS a question of perspective and we are never going to agree on Bush or Iraq. I would however be interested to see dollar figures per capita on how much it is costing you to have so many troops in Iraq and how much it is costing me to have UK troops there too.
The one thing I have to take issue with is that the rich don't pay alot in taxes. They have enough money to pay smart accountants to hide most of it and avoid the proportional burden that you and I shoulder. I am damn certain that Cheney and his cohorts don't lose anywhere near the same percentage of their income as you or I do in income tax etc.
i'm one of those people who constantly gets reminded of random things by other random things, especially word associations & music... .
things that remind me of the my life as a jw (and i use the word 'life' very loosly) .
1. all along the watchtower (song by jimi hendrix) .
Yup, guns and roses at my funeral. I haven't decided the full playlist but Knockin on heaven's door will be played as I am wheeled in
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very disturbing indeed!
what does jwd think of this new trend?
the way it works is with radio signals. When you warm up your gps unit it squawks a signal that is picked up by several sattelites which then triangulate the signal's position in the same way as you would triangulate a position using land based tracking systems. That's why you get a delay - it takes a minute to lock onto the right frequencies for the sattelites in your current hemisphere. Once you are logged with those sattelites you can then have your unit send regular signals (say one per minute) to recalculate your position. This works whether it's in your pocket or not. Ever had a cellphone start ringing in your pocket?
what's so good about it?
99.9% of earth's population will be wiped off the planet.
humm...(rubs chin with fingers) last time i checked, having over six billion men, women and children destroyed isn't so good.
I always had a real problem with this, it means that god allowed people to be born for destruction, not a course of justice or love at all
i've already exited the jws in mind and heart, and have read many comments from everyone about the book, so didn't really see the need to buy it for myself.
however, after reading something here on the forum, i decided to order it (and the tao of pooh and siddhartha.
) a super-dub sits two desks away from (she and her husband knew ray and his wife, had tea with them in their room when he was on the gb, etc.
anyone got an answer on my question regarding publisher numbers?
I'm into chapter 3 and the way these guys make decisions sickens me
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very disturbing indeed!
what does jwd think of this new trend?
I'm a telecoms engineer and it's a bit more complex than simple GPS. As an aside GPS doen't need line of sight. You can secrete one of these trackers in an out of the way place on a car under the bonnet or in a tyre well etc and it still gets picked up.
Currently you can tell the general area that a phone is located in by the nearest cell - that will give you a location down to perhaps a 500m radius in a city but could be several km radius outside of a city. Potentially each cell has a range of 30km but practically you only have a limited number of time slots on the signal so have to heavily overlap. It's a pretty inexact science at the moment but you can sort of triangulate the location of a phone by taking the registered power levels from the 3 adjacent cells. Pretty soon we will be producing phones with gps like trackers but it's all a bit of a smokescreen. With the advent of 3g you will be able to accurately pinpoint the location of a cell phone anyway due to the signal process and the fact that these phones maintain a constant IP connection.
i'm one of those people who constantly gets reminded of random things by other random things, especially word associations & music... .
things that remind me of the my life as a jw (and i use the word 'life' very loosly) .
1. all along the watchtower (song by jimi hendrix) .
I shit you not, she genuinely said that, it was about '88 or '89 when microwaves hadn't been around long.
It was stuff like this that really turned me off the dubs, the stupidity to defer their decisions to a 'higher authority' made up of cheese and cracker men
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very disturbing indeed!
what does jwd think of this new trend?
see this is the thing, on the one hand I could say that I was a real pain in the butt so when i have kids I will be super vigilent but thinking about it Clare and I have decided to be honest and give them some leeway so long as they let us know what they are up to.
Point in case would be smoking. I started when I was 14 and up til then I had always said I would never smoke. I stopped smoking 3 months ago, so 17 1/2 years later. Now can I turn round to my kids and forbid them to smoke or would it be more productive to say 'ok, you can smoke but this is what happens if you do'. To be honest I'm not sure if this would work but if the kid is going to smoke then there's no way you can physically stop them, so what do you do?
i wonder if a person could get away with suing the watchtower for stressful thinking and loss of life.
because if you think about it, it's illegal to tell people what to do (slavery), but they claim that everyone has the right mind and that they aren't telling anyone what to do.
i wonder if you could get it suggested by the courts that wts tries to control through written language in the watchtower magazine or somethin, iono.
that's a good point, one to ponder may be suing them under the EU laws which are quite stringent
