i never saw the docudrama so i cannot comment on the content but wouldnt joel p. engardio be biased towards jw being raised as one?
probably a lame atetmpt to gain favor with his mother.. i read this article in the washington post http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2007/06/true_witnesses_to_separation_o.html.
which was a total snorefest.
I never saw the docudrama so I cannot comment on the content but wouldnt Joel P. Engardio be biased towards JW being raised as one? Probably a lame atetmpt to gain favor with his mother.
I read this article in the Washington post http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2007/06/true_witnesses_to_separation_o.html
which was a total snorefest
in discussing with witnesses the need to belong to an organization, they will often point to acts 8:26-31, emphasizing the need to be taught by someone what the bible means.. short summary: philip heard a man reading aloud scripture in his chariot, asked him if he understood it, the man said how can i unless someone teaches me, so philip taught him.. sounds like a good point, huh?
not when you give it a little thought.. what was the man reading from?
the book of isaiah, a prophecy about the lamb.
I remember thinking the same thing. He was Ethiopian and there was probably a language handicap as well as the lack of jewish family influence, tradition and speculations. Once he was baptized he got left alone.
Come to think of it...I got left alone after my baptism too.
i hope everyone is happy now.
the evil paris hilton is behind bars and society is safe.
for those of you who believe as i do that this is an unspeakable injustice, i ask that you join me in a hunger strike until paris is freed.
Time to pay the piper.
But you are right....the entire sentence will end up on one of her reality shows and she will make millions off it.
Ball, a full-time greeter for Wal-Mart in Butte, acknowledged being scared by the depth of the commitment he made Saturday.
"It means I have to cut back my time at Wal-Mart and go out and preach the good news of God's kingdom," he said. "And I have to keep growing."
Why does he think he now has to cut his hours at work? If he works full time then it probably means he was too poor to retire. Working at Walmart as the highlighter dude is not the pathway to financial bliss.
Why is it that Witnesses equate working full time to take care of family as sinful. Whats sad is I remember that very same thinking process in my own head years ago.
how many of us suffered in the jws from a lack of justice, love, or abuse of power by elders?
how did it make you question what you believed or had been duped into believing?
would be good to hear experiences so we can bounce ideas off each other on how it freed you from fear of authority or otherwise.
I remember my younger sister was wearing a t-shirt and she was delivering a box of baby clothes to the elder's wife. She rang the doorbell and Mr. Elder answers the door and says, 'leave the package on the stoop.' As she bends down he looks down her shirt. The next day he pulls her in the back room and counsels her about her cleavage when she bent over and how she needed to be more diligent on her dress and how greatly it ofended him.
What bothered me most about this incident was that we had a sister in the congregation who weighed in at about 400 pounds and a cleavage the size of my butt crack. But my sister who is young, thin, pretty and only a 32 B gets counseled.
I told her that I would have told Mr. Elder he shouldnt have been looking down her shirt in the first place. And why the double standard with fat ugly people vs. young pretty people?
personally, i would like to have the choice to end my life if i chose to do so and see nothing wrong with having a professional help me with it.
i have watched several people die and to me it's just plain cruel to put someone through that.
we would never think of letting an animal suffer like that but yet some people in this country think they need to jail a person willing to help speed up the process.
I remember arguing with a co-worker once who was Catholic and against suicide in any form and believed that all would go to hell...blah blah blah!
Then I posed a question. Those who were in the World Trade Center faced with burning to death but chose to jump...was it wrong for them to choose the less painful of demise?
The Catholic said 'of course not'...They were completely justified.
What a hypocrite!
i hope my link works.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/11/135032/1.ashx.
Wow...He looks like Charles Taze Russell.
Did he ever inherit the money? I remember that since he was not charged for murder of his mother he stood to inherit her estate.
this may not be the case in the usa, australia etc but whenever i buy strawberries they are disappointing in that they are not sweet at all and only the addition of sugar makes them reasonably good.
only once i had strawberries that were sweet as they should be, i believe they were from scotland, otherwise they are just colour they look good to the eye but they are not tasty (aren't they like the watchtower society?
does anyone know of specific sweet varieties that can be grown at home?
Store purchased strawberries have little sweetness because they are picked before they are fully ripened, sprayed with chemicals to slow down spoilage and sit in warehouses before delivery.
My son and I just went strawberry picking yesterday here in West Virginia.
Fresh strawberries are sweet from the vine. We brushed off a few out in the field and popped them into our mouths. My five year old made yummy noises while he was eating because it was so delicious.
When we got home he had 2 bowls of fresh picked sliced strawberries. No sugar needed!
i hope my link works.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/11/135032/1.ashx.
Oh...whats a BTT?
i hope my link works.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/11/135032/1.ashx.
I placed the original post in the 'Scandals and Coverups' thinking that was the best category to place my post. Then thought that category might not receive as much action as this category. Rather than repost it, I placed a link.
Then after that I thought of the 'Friends' category, but then decided against posting it a third time.
I have a dizzying sense of logic...I know. Just ask my husband. :)
