the sea once held this youngster's heart within its mighty bosom.i loved and cherished the sea, stretching outward beyond infinity.
i took to the e'er dreary landscape, the dank surroundings soothing me, enveloping me in crawling mists that were more welcomed to me than the evaporating rays of a cavorting summer sun.i, however, am no longer that pensive lad who found comfort in the dark and cold and deep blue sea.
today, a man in the physical sense, i no longer possess that childlike fascination with my former abode.
"Yesterday's child has vanished from all remembrance . ."
No never, never I say. Begone vile thought, begone. Your youthful experience, your wide eyed wonder at adventures imagined, your fascination with the small and the great were an important part of who you are now. They designed the boy into the man.
very strange behavior by the attendants and elders after the duluth, ga, rc.
on the first link the attendants start to exit the arena, then line up and turn their backs on the street preachers.
(around the 6:00 mark).. elders and attendants after duluth rc.
"...they say I'm bumping into them. They're bumping into me. Guess what you liars. Liars have no place in the kingdom of God..."
Preaching, standing with backs to preacher, singing to drown out the preacher and now bumping the preacher.
Outrageous conduct. Preacher boldly preaches on !
dear friends, "my story"?
i lost touch with jw 1991 (i was declared "not to be associated with") and shortly after became a "born again christian".
i was recovering a difficult divorce (my love for 10 years / we were both jw) and was recovering myself.
So there is a woman on stage screaming 'Jesus, Jesus' and crowd of people screaming along with her. Is this what you mean by you found Jesus? I really doubt that Jesus would want to be in that room.
"Come unto me, … and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls… “ Matthew 11:28-30
for you, dear friend:.
it seemed but yesterday though, heaven knows, .
time has flown since i embarked upon that .
Henry David Thoreau, 1817 - 1862
My life has been the poem I would
have writ
But I could not both live and utter it.
does anybody have a digital copy of the revised bethel visitors 'dress code' pamphlet from this year?.
thanks.
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Denim skirts are unacceptable.
Denim skirts?
DENIM SKIRTS??????????????????????????
so, on tues august 2/16 i happen to be driving down westminster highway in richmond, b.c.
[a suburb of vancouver] and notice activity at the kingdom hall at shell ave. hmm, i say to myself, they must be having a 'work bee' or some such thing.
i continue on to work.
Do you think it was sold?
That would be my guess.
so, on tues august 2/16 i happen to be driving down westminster highway in richmond, b.c.
[a suburb of vancouver] and notice activity at the kingdom hall at shell ave. hmm, i say to myself, they must be having a 'work bee' or some such thing.
i continue on to work.
Now, my question is the following. Being as the sellers of property in Vancouver feel like they have won the lottery has the Watchtower succumbed to the same fever, OR, are they just preparing to build a new, more comfortable Kingdom Hall for the brothers and sisters?
so, on tues august 2/16 i happen to be driving down westminster highway in richmond, b.c.
[a suburb of vancouver] and notice activity at the kingdom hall at shell ave. hmm, i say to myself, they must be having a 'work bee' or some such thing.
i continue on to work.
Okay, so on Tues afternoon I happen to notice this amazing transformation of the Kingdom Hall. I didn't take a before picture because it didn't really look any different than it always has. However, later the same day it was difficult not to notice the change.
so, on tues august 2/16 i happen to be driving down westminster highway in richmond, b.c.
[a suburb of vancouver] and notice activity at the kingdom hall at shell ave. hmm, i say to myself, they must be having a 'work bee' or some such thing.
i continue on to work.
Okay, so on Westminster Highway a few new houses are being built. What is typically done is an older house is bought and then demolished and then a new one goes up. A big new one. I guess the old one didn't have enough rooms. So here is a sample of the new ones. Yeah, they are as big as they look. Bigger.
so, on tues august 2/16 i happen to be driving down westminster highway in richmond, b.c.
[a suburb of vancouver] and notice activity at the kingdom hall at shell ave. hmm, i say to myself, they must be having a 'work bee' or some such thing.
i continue on to work.
So, on Tues August 2/16 I happen to be driving down Westminster Highway in Richmond, B.C. [a suburb of Vancouver] and notice activity at the Kingdom Hall at Shell Ave. Hmm, I say to myself, they must be having a 'work bee' or some such thing. I continue on to work. Oh, for anyone who isn't aware of it, Vancouver is something of a hot spot for real estate investing lately. It seems that a lot of Asian money, I mean a very, very, very lot of Asian money is coming to town and buying property up. Especially in Richmond, it's close to the airport and many spend half their time back in China after they fine a nice cozy place to live here. What was $500,000.00 five years ago is now going for 2,3 and even 4 or 5 million dollars. The locals who call Vancouver their home are getting a little bit peeved and even a whole lot peeved, well okay, totally pissed at the foreign money pushing land values through the roof. They can't buy, their kids can't buy and they know full well their grand kids will never buy either. Who can compete with buyers that bring wheelbarrows of money into the country and pay whatever the buyer asks. Oh, did I say pay whatever the buyer asks. Ooops, I got that wrong. What I meant to say is they bid against each other [ the Asians that is] and pay $200,000.00, $300,000.00, or 400,000.00 more than the asking price.
