this is the second time i've voted this year and i feel great!
what a wonderful thing it is to be able to freely express yourself, take some responsibility, and at least feel like you have some choice in who leads, who calls the shots in this world in which we all live.
and what a contrast with the local kingdom hall, where you don't get to choose the po, you don't get to pick the co, you have no say in who, what, when or where.
5 of us living here voted over the weekend (mail ballots in Oregon), for Kerry (or specifcally against Bush, Cheney and their gang). It was the second time for me in the US, I voted against Bush/Cheney in 2000, the year I became a US citizen. I always had dodged becoming a citizen when I was BOrg as I didn't want to dance around the pledges and oaths. Now I don't give a rats arse.
Glen
i have been busy, and then on vacation, and stuff and stuff.
so today was the first logon for me in a while.
i was reading the lawrence hughes' post via free minds and i noticed he had 2005 on his placard as a failed prophecy along with 1914 1925 etc.
I have been busy, and then on vacation, and stuff and stuff. So today was the first logon for me in a while. How are you all?
I was reading the Lawrence Hughes' post via Free Minds and I noticed he had 2005 on his placard as a failed prophecy along with 1914 1925 etc. What was that all about?
(btw, the column in the Calgary press was not about that specifcally, it related to the sad loss of his teenage daughter from WTS misrule)
Glen
my mother called me in a tizzy saying that her friend heard that letters were read and a talk was given in 2 different congregations saying that the society's new policy is that if a elder, m.s.
or pioneer attends an "unequaled" wedding----they will be removed from their exemplary positions because they are "disloyal to jehovah god"........what do you think about this one?
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I'm not surprised. I remember being invited to such a wedding, with a comment that it was okay not to go if it bothered my conscience, and no dubs except the bride's family went to the wedding. In our congo that kind of thinking was so imbedded that you wouldn't even consider going.
i suppose i shouldn't admit this, but darn it, i will.
for the past 6 years i have been a daily user of a certain illegal herb, the one that blocks your dreams.
in my defence i have chronic pain and it helps.
I suppose I shouldn't admit this, but darn it, I will. For the past 6 years I have been a daily user of a certain illegal herb, the one that blocks your dreams. In my defence I have chronic pain and it helps. well that's my excuse. Anyway, on my trip to the UK I didn't have any. So at night I had dreams that I could remember. And you know what they were about, yep, JDubyas! About ones who didn't or wouldn't talk to me; about ones I wanted to talk to about the truth about the troof and so on.
My overall recollection - I had this happen several nights - was one of letting go and not being upset at all that I wasn't being listened to. More than anything I was amused by it all. I felt fine in the dreams and when I woke, I was just accepting it. I think that's good, but I will go back to my herb garden.
this week at the book study, at all congregations in the u.s., a letter was read saying if you go to a house or property with a "no trespassing" sign, you must not enter, or knock on the door.
you have to leave immediately.
a sign saying "no solicitors" is too ambiguous, and they are to use their own judgment, and don't have to knock.
Hmm. Bet you are right about the lawsuits. The WTS cares more about its $'s than its people. I haven't been called on for years, it's a shame as I have a lot to say.
o.k, so i have major issues people.
issues with my low-self esteem, issues with my previous abusive relationship that i once blamed on the fact that i deserved for sinning,while dating a non wiittness.
issues with the control the society has had on me and the control they instilled onto my parents to have on me way before i even knew better and i was wondering if anyone knew of any sites or possible online therapists that specialize in helping former jw's or people like me who are still young and live at home and so therefore have no choice but to live that "double life.
I found that going to a Cognitive Behavioral Therapist helped me, I'm sure you can find one in the yellow pages. If you read Dr Burns' definitive work Feeling Good and it seems to be what you need then that could be the way to go. Good luck, it's worth the work!
I remember two occassions, both with the elders trying to fix problems that weren't there. Both related to kids "acting up" - drinking and smoking bascially. And I believe that out of the 10 kids that went through the kangaroo court ordeal only 1 is still a dub. So evidently keeping the congo clean by making it unbearble for teenagers must be what Jahve the Volcano God likes to see.
i'm sure that if these old friends of mine knew how apostate i was they wouldn't have come round to see me, but they did.
my mum was a long-time rv and a place to go pee when the brethren were door too door in her area (benfleet, essex).
they are actually very nice people, like so many are, and they were genuinely glad to see me.
I'm sure that if these old friends of mine knew how apostate I was they wouldn't have come round to see me, but they did. My Mum was a long-time RV and a place to go pee when the brethren were door too door in her area (Benfleet, Essex). They are actually very nice people, like so many are, and they were genuinely glad to see me.
One of this pioneer group, Brenda, was in the last stages of cancer (at home in bed on oxygen), she died the next day actually. On more than one occassion the sister with the most to say made a point of saying that Brenda would die faithful, with 26 hours of service in the month of August and still qualified to be a regular pioneer! She also threw in a bit of the usual circular reasoning by saying Jehovah knew ahead about the problems with blood transfusions, it was the week that there was a scare in the papers over tainted blood (mad cow disease).
It was the same old stuff, just like it had always been. It got on my nerves, but I was duly attentive and they left after their usual coffee and a chocolate biscuit. I felt quite sad - hearing the poor dying's sister's spirituality being measured by the number of hours she spent as an unpaid sales person for a religious publishing company. Wouldn't the time have been better spent with her children and grandchildren?
how's this weekend going for you?
here downunder spring has well and truly sprung today with temperatures in the high thirties (that's around 100 for you north americans!!
in the sydney region.
3 hours including a break at a restaurant, otherwise my kids would get pissed off. Can I say pissed off, oh well I said it anyway.
i just returned from sunny southend-on-sea (essex, england) to bring my mum back for the winter.
it's somewhat like the swallows returning to wherever they return, but more expensive.
i like the uk but i hate the trip.
Right now I could do with a bong-hit,so blow it my way. Actually I quit smoking all but those little cigars you can get at duty-free, they make my pee-pee look bigger. Oh, different story. Sorry. It's the jet-lag.
