just got this in, don't know if it was mentioned here yet, but this illustrates how the watchtower views/responds to emergencies.
note the dig on university and "higher education" (especially sad for a poor country like haiti with poorly educated masses).. randy.
it was a terrifying moment for all!
On tonights benefit for Haiti, one of the announcers commented that in Haiti all children attend school in the afternoon, therefore ALL children were at school when the quake hit, whether it was elementary, high school, or university. So I guess Jah brings destruction against any kind of education.
The university comment is really sickening. But it is SO typical of the kinds of comments I remember hearing from the platform.
my mom forwarded this to me via a niece (who is busy forwarding all kinds of haiti reports).
supposedly it's the president of haiti making a plea for his country while holding a jw book, but it's not the president (preval).
some are saying it's a community worker from france.
Oops! see someone already posted this.
my mom forwarded this to me via a niece (who is busy forwarding all kinds of haiti reports).
supposedly it's the president of haiti making a plea for his country while holding a jw book, but it's not the president (preval).
some are saying it's a community worker from france.
My mom forwarded this to me via a niece (who is busy forwarding all kinds of haiti reports). Supposedly it's the president of Haiti making a plea for his country while holding a JW book, but it's not the president (Preval). Some are saying it's a community worker from France. Anyway, thought you all might find it interesting. Typical of the JW email propaganda machine.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbwkqv_haiti-je-crie-au-secours-pour-mon-p_news
please remind me what the work load is like.
i went to college and took a few classes in my early 20s, and found it all very easy, but i had a lot less responsibility back then so i think my perception was skewed.
now i am 31, married, 2 kids, soon to be 3. i work very part time from home.
From my experience you are taking on a pretty ambitious load. Whether you can do it depends on a couple things. First, how much support you have for taking care of kids and other things. Your pending new arrival is likely going to consume a great deal of your time. Second, how well you want to do in class. I'm an overacheiver, and all my papers needed to be perfect. I don't think in reality that's necessary - employers only care that you have the degree, not whether you achieved honours status, so you can make your workload more manageable by being satisfied with a decent grade and not needing "A-plus."
I found masters work harder than undergrad, and online/distance classes to be much more work and harder than in-class ones. Initially I was going to try the accelerated program of 3 classes per semester, but I listened to everyone's advice and pulled back to 2. I'm glad I did.
Although I managed to complete the first part of my degree in 5 years (out of the six allowable), I hit a wall before I could finish my final project/thesis when my daughter left an abusive relationship and moved in with me. I ended up basically becoming a parent of four children under age 5 and simply could not continue my schoolwork. I also found the financial pressures impossible. I lost a year and almost lost my chance to graduate, but thankfully I've managed to pull it together and as of next week will be back on track to finish my final project so I can graduate in June.
So from my experience I'd suggest not taking on too much. But there is also something to be said for fast-tracking and getting it done quickly before unexpected life pressures interfere.
i just heard today that llasa de sela died on new year's day of breast cancer, and the news has made me profoundly sad.. i first heard this amazing woman sing when she released her debut album, la llorona in 1997. although she made montreal her home she was actually born in the u.s. she was well-known in certain circles, but her music is worthy of a much wider audience.
hopefully more people will discover her incredible talent, now unfortunately lost to us.. too many wonderful people have been cut off too soon by cancer, not just incredible musicians like llasa and eva cassidy.. one of my favourites, el desierto: http://www.trilulilu.ro/juliaagripina/7ca416d4bb2fcb.
.
They do put a ton of money into cancer research, but it does seem like so many "cures" that have popular support are ignored.
I think for me this story has touched me, not only because Lhasa was one of my favourite musicians, but because it's another example of a young woman dying of breast cancer. Seems to be happening way too often.
is it acceptable for christian women to wear hair extensions?.
in bible times, the apostle peter advised christian women against "hair braiding and the wearing of expensive garb.
" the wearing of braids in one's hair has its origins in babylonian and greek culture.
not far fetched at all. I remember the days when beards and moustaches were forbidden and Jesus was portrayed clean-shaven in the mags.
i just heard today that llasa de sela died on new year's day of breast cancer, and the news has made me profoundly sad.. i first heard this amazing woman sing when she released her debut album, la llorona in 1997. although she made montreal her home she was actually born in the u.s. she was well-known in certain circles, but her music is worthy of a much wider audience.
hopefully more people will discover her incredible talent, now unfortunately lost to us.. too many wonderful people have been cut off too soon by cancer, not just incredible musicians like llasa and eva cassidy.. one of my favourites, el desierto: http://www.trilulilu.ro/juliaagripina/7ca416d4bb2fcb.
.
I just heard today that Llasa de Sela died on New Year's Day of breast cancer, and the news has made me profoundly sad.
I first heard this amazing woman sing when she released her debut album, La Llorona in 1997. Although she made Montreal her home she was actually born in the U.S. She was well-known in certain circles, but her music is worthy of a much wider audience. Hopefully more people will discover her incredible talent, now unfortunately lost to us.
Too many wonderful people have been cut off too soon by cancer, not just incredible musicians like Llasa and Eva Cassidy.
One of my favourites, el Desierto: http://www.trilulilu.ro/JuliaAgripina/7ca416d4bb2fcb
so we've been here in calgary for 2 and a half years now, through 3 winters and right near to snow-covered slopes of nakiska, lake louise (sunshine village), banfff, golden (kicking horse), fernie, kimberley and probably others.. how much skiing have we done in that time?
people fly half way round the world to ski here and we haven't bothered driving down the road.
i feel bad ... like a rubbish canadian (we can't ice-skate either!).
Although I've lived four hours from the Rockies all my life, I never learned to ski. Main reason was that it was very expensive when I was young and we could never afford it. And of course as JWs it was not really that important (we did ice skate, which I never enjoyed cause my feet always hurt).
My first experience skiing was as an adult. We had played a new years eve gig at a nearby resort and they gave us all free skiing the next day. my younger siblings had all learned to ski and they enjoyed it. I put on the skis, screamed all the way down the bunny hill, terrified and unable to control myself or stop. Took the skis off at the bottom of the hill, and then went into the lodge and enjoyed the rest of the day with hot toddies in front of the fire! I put it down to one of those experiences that just was not going to work for me learning it as an adult.
I bought my youngest daughter a snowboard at one of our first xmas's, and she was so ecstatic - I remember her running around the house hugging the board all evening. Two of my daughters snowboard and love it, but it usually involves a weekend at the mountains and the accompanying expense, so they don't go that often. But they are passionate about the sport and recommend it highly.
I've heard that snowboarding is easier than skiing and a lot more enjoyable. I would definately recommend lessons, though, in any case. But since you are so close to all those wonderful hills...
as some may know, my family and i no longer associate with jws - we are neither df'd nor da'd.
we last attended about 4 years ago (seems longer...) anyway, my wife has lunch occasionally with her folks - i never get invited and rarely associate with the in laws - my fil says i have destroyed his family... so tensions are somewhat high and it's quite uncomforable whenever we are in the same room - always nice/pleasant, but very shallow relationship now.. my in-laws attended the international convention in trinidad a couple of weeks ago and while having lunch with my wife last week, my mil made the comment to her that "if we had only attended one of these international conventions, we would never had stopped attending meetings... we would have seen the unity and love among the brothers... etc...".
this really irritates me... we were 38 and 39 years old when we stopped attending - both of us had been pioneers, me an elder... we were deep in the org... and my mil thinks that going to an international convention was the missing element in our spiritual lives?
I find those kinds of comments irritating, too. As if the one particular Watchtower (SUCH a good article!) or one single event will send us running back to the organization. I remember countless talks in which the speaker insisted that all it might take was some small act to bring someone into the fold. As if we left because of one single, small event and did so without due thought and consideration.
They live by their "if onlies". Yeah, sure. You might have seen some love and unity on the surface at the international convention (assemblies were always great for stirring up this kind of emotion) but that doesn't cover up all the slimy worminess underneath. Thank goodness those of us who have truly awakened are not swayed by such false superficial things.
the book study is one of the most useless meetings.
the same books have been studied 3 or 4 times.the meeting takes only an hour but takes up most of your evening.
and, it is one of the least attended meetings.. why haven't they combined the watchtower study with just question and answer and then follow with the book study with just question and answer?
Did I miss something? last I heard my mom was attending a book study during the afternoon (senior citizen special). So now they only have two two-hour meetings a week?
