with the advent of cooler weather (at least in canada and the northern us), one might think of how the witnesses are going to cope.
for certain, dress codes are going to have different effects now than they did when it was broiling hot.. men are going to be more comfortable now.
cooler weather means that the coat is not going to create as much heat stroke risk as it did in the heat of mid summer.
i always wore leggings under knee high boots with the required skirt thrown over. I was always more comfortable in winter than in summer. sweating it out in the texas heat is really not fun. you can always wear more clothes, but you can only remove so much in the heat.
that goes for everything else, not just for witnesses in field service, IMO.
but, I have no experience with extreme cold.
not intended to offend anyone but i found this article very interesting, if true this may go a long way in explaining why religion flourishes in many places across us of a. .
ny times article.
scientific savvy?
The information is out there for anyone who cares to find it. I think the question we should be asking is why so many people don't wish to educate themselves about more than the minimum required to get their jobs.
i was raised as a witness and have been miserable for my entire existence.
i have hated every moment of it.
after about 10 years of struggling, i decided 2 years ago that i was done w/ the charade and wasn't going to return to the meetings.
welcome. ugh. I'm sorry she decided to act that way, and I don't think you can ever really be prepared for it. It's too bad people feel so threatened that they resort to such extreme methods of maintaining their delusions. It's hard to know how much of it comes from themselves or if they only feel safe if they follow all the rules this cult demands they follow. That sort of insulting attitude must make her feel very powerful, but it's just pathetic. I hope one day she realizes the mistake she has made deciding to treat you this way.
It's hard to feel betrayed that way by someone who is supposed to be there for you, but it happens all the time. You will be alright, hang in there.
my son is twenty years old, a good kid, is doing great in college so i usually keep the door closed to his bedroom so i don't have to look.
today he took out a huge batch of laundry for me to do and the odor from that bedroom had me reeling.. here is my humorous but deadly serious post on the matter:!!!!!.
after vacuuming, enough dust to fill the entire dust bin in the vacuum.. enough change on the floor to keep him in fast food for a week.....(don't ask me for money).
oh, just a mess? I thought you were going to say you found something else...
it seems over the years, the organization has done 360's on several topics.
do you think they will ever go mainstream with their beliefs.
for example, college is good, blood is a conscience decision (without punishment), ect....... .
I don't know. If the membership wants to do what it wants and they don't want to lose that membership, then maybe. But if they want to maintain that high control, they'll need to keep demanding a huge commitment from the membership, as they have always done. So who knows? There could be "old school" membership hanging onto the way it is, alongside
"say one thing, do another" more laid back membership, which could cause friction, but I don't know what that might result in. I'll be interested to see what changes over the course of my lifetime, if anything.
this is a cool video that's pretty funny, but it's pretty much for the atheist crowd.
all i will say is that it's about why people should become atheists (which is why i don't know if everyone will find it all that funny) yet it also mentions the wt magazines.. http://www.compfused.com/directlink/4972/.
sorry if someone else posted if first.
LOL. He kind of sounds like Reginald Finley, probably is.
this is from saturday afternoon program.
the speaker first starts with what he called the "alphabet soup" of degrees....a.a., b.a., m.a., ph.d., etc.
; he said they were nothing more than "sheepskins on the wall.
wow. sheepskins on the wall. that reminds me of the CO's wife who tried to encourage me not to be intimidated by the people at the expensive homes by saying they are all dog houses!
about the D.E.A.D. comment, that's exactly the way they will handle this topic. It's a grey area for them, since they are not disfellowshipping anyone for it. But that said, they also don't want to give everyone the green light. the green light is only for special people, from important families, with lots of money. the rest of us are D.E.A.D. and of course, that stuff is not going to be printed in the watchtower, so he technically never said it.
so i finally went back to the sunday meeting after missing it for over a month.
i've been to the tms/service meeting a couple of weeks ago by the way, but i've consistently missed the one for sunday.. i dreaded going, but i think i will go to the sunday meetings every couple of weeks for a while.
between my dad and another factor, i think it will be best to go that route for a while.
Hey, I feel your pain, sometimes when I go. I made this decision to fade and honestly didn't think I would still be in this situation, actually more entrenched than ever, 4 years later. My attendance has slacked off by a lot. Months go by without going to a meeting sometimes, and I'm not going in FS. When I do go, it's as miserable as I make it. There are ways to have perspective about it. yes, it's a load of crap, but from what I have learned about lots of other churches, some of them are saying the same things. Yes, it's a damaging cult, but people decide to join it, so everyone shares the blame of the damage they allow it to do to them and their families.
If I remember those things, I don't get that feeling like I can't stand it, I can't stand it, every time and I can get through it, get up and go home. Keeps the family happy enough for that day.
Doesn't make me any less of an adult to do that. Nobody really knows my situation and the decision I have made is the one I can live with right now. It's not forever. Nothing is forever.
i know of alot of brothers and sisters in my congregation deciding to get at least two years in.
some have certificates and regret it and are going back for mainly money reasons.. me i got a certificate in a area and i am going back to get a real degree.
preferably in a diffrent field.. what is it like where your at ?.
still working on my undergraduate degree, which I have stopped and started a couple of times over about 10 years. I'm not stopping until I'm done this time. It's gonna take awhile because I have a pretty demanding job and it's sometimes not easy to pay for a full time schedule.
I had to finally have the talk with my parents about this and they were trying to persuade me to quit again. I told them that I'm not married and if I stayed single and never married and never had kids, I would have no retirement savings and nobody to take care of me by the time I retired. I have to be realistic about what it will take to save for retirement, and if I don't start now it could be too late.
Of course, no JW needs to worry about retirement, right? However, my parents are in the thick of it and without us kids, they wouldn't be able to handle it. I know they learned the truth younger than I am now and never imagined they would go through retirement with money problems, yet here they are. So, they couldn't argue with me, and they didn't try any more.
What gets me peaved is when I hear a brother give a part about avoiding college when his own 2 kids are in college right now. So, why don't you practice what you preach?
that's really cute. should be a bumper sticker or tshirt or something.
