i am too tired to find mine right now, but it involves men laying in wait to attack and rape sisters going to dance at a circuit assembly.
i think the purpose was to find even more wives for the tribe of benjamin.
great plan god.. ot stuff always weirded me out more than nt stuff, until i found out we have a totally fraudulant nt version, compete with the name jehovah spuriously inserted 237 times, along with many other spurious verses.
Okay scholars, help me out. I addressed this scripture to my step-mother once and she had no answer for me.
The two angels come the man's home and the men of the city said to send them out so that they may have sex with them. The man either sends his concubine or daughter out and she is raped until dead. Praise Jah!
bryan
Holy Cow, Matt...
I knew you were working like three shifts for those people, but damn. Glad you made it out decent and hope this wakes you, and your employer up a bit. Life is more important than a job, Dude!
Glad you're typing, NOT, from the great beyond!
Best and save some Jack for me. I may be back in the humid state in Jan.
Bryan
i am on the borderline of becoming atheist/agnostic.
but i still can't figure out the human conscience.
since the conscience is innate to only the human animal, how did that evolve?.
It comes from the Universe... enjoy it.
Can you hear me now...
bryan
i have the budded starts of maybe 4 of them in my hard drive.
i have been encouraged to finish them, but don't know if i ever will.
some of my writing was cathartic in purpose, and that cathartic crutch seems less needed these days.
Do stage plays count?
I've written 2 full-length (both produced) and 4 one acts (one produced). I really miss the theatre, but there's no money in it... unless your name is Mamet.
Bryan
i have the budded starts of maybe 4 of them in my hard drive.
i have been encouraged to finish them, but don't know if i ever will.
some of my writing was cathartic in purpose, and that cathartic crutch seems less needed these days.
I'll be signing my book Have You Seen My Mother(parental abduction in the "Truth") next month at Barnes & Noble in the Tri-Cities. Currently, I'm a stay at home dad and find it impossible to write so I'm only promoting at the moment (which is more work than writing). Next June he's 3 and off to Montesory School and I'll be back on track.
I've got two non-fiction and fiction I need to get busy on...
Bryan
overunity
i found this original letter in my families archives.
don't know why the second page is discolored but it's original.. it's interesting the mention of the toga on the second page, and that they called the magazine "the tower".
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"in the bethel and Tabernacle."
So what was the "Tabernacle"?
Thanks,
Bryan
can't explain this one.. right in the middle of my shift i became disassociative.. my brain locked and i threw my hands up and kept repeating, "i can't do this!
i can't take this!
right out the front door of the bookstore.. i wasn't angry.
Terry,
I had a closed head injury in '92. I know what it's like having your brain take your body for a ride. The feeling of being out of control is painful, embarrassing and does things to your self esteem.
I'm glad you're headed to the doctor.
Take care of yourself.
Bryan
maybe we are the crazy ones!
but, after a chat with the po of our congo, we felt a little better with the knowledge that we are not alone on the inside.
let us explain .... today we went to the ministry as every saturday :(.
Okay, I haven't read them all, but I would like to say...
We went out to celebrate after the ministry!
When I was a dub, The cultic words were.. "After service". "After the ministry" just sounds fake to, me.
Bryan
in my over 30 years as a jw, i honestly can't recall ever hearing about anyone who was being officially "marked" pursuant to the society's "marking" policy based on 2 thess 3:14. .
in fact, i havn't read anything about their strange "marking" policy in years.
this makes me wonder if the society still has confidence in it and still officially endorses it?
I believe, myself and anyone in my position, not DF'd or DA'd but still shunned, would be considered "marked".
My daughter said in her letter to me "You know I should treat you as a disfellowshipped person". What does this mean? If you ask me... MARKED
I sure miss her......
Bryan
