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even in our very best of times, we have all had to 'fake' one for the team.. what was your best zinger?.
Creating an excuse to miss a meeting was easy - physical pain, an ailment or injury was the most common and never questioned. It was the reasons for staying home that would vary. I must say I love not having to get ready for the meetings or setting up the house for the bookstudy - what a drag it was all those years. Now I play netball on meeting nights and love it.
Freedom is great!
~Beck~
does your life have a purpose or are you just existing?
over the years i've learned to extract the good out of bad situations and it has given me a different perspective on life.
life is all about learning.
For as long as my loved ones are alive and well, I am truly "Living".
~Beck~
it's sad but it's true, when an artists death occurs, they often become more famous post humously ( after they've died ), than the fame they experienced when they were alive.
two that immediately come to mind for me are,
a. stevie ray vaughn (legendary blues guitarist)
Bob Dylan's dead? ... let me check.... (seriously, I'm checking right now)... argh... IE is so slow, i should've opened firefox...
Ooop-sie Day-see!! My bad.
I believe Bob is alive and well, I was just having a lend of Pope.
~Beck~
it's sad but it's true, when an artists death occurs, they often become more famous post humously ( after they've died ), than the fame they experienced when they were alive.
two that immediately come to mind for me are,
a. stevie ray vaughn (legendary blues guitarist)
Bob Dylan
*ducks from PopeofEruke*
~Beck~
my wife and i disassociated 3 months ago and my wifes mother is still a jw....but.....she still sees us regularly.
today, a 'clipboard' elder went down to see her.
he has been her book study overseer for a year and has never once gone to see her even though her husband is dying.
For a minute there I thought I was back in the kingdom hall...eeeekkkkk!!
does "god" come to your mind anymore?
jehovah god, christ, a supreme being???
since you've stopped believing as a jehovah's witness, does "god" in any form come into your heart and mind?
No, I'm way to busy doing worldly stuff that I know god/yahweh/jehovah would object to, like sleeping in on a Saturday, buying a xmas tree, laughing out loud at rude jokes, saying words like 'lucky' and cursing when I watch sports on tv.
I've joined the world of the damned so I choose not to think about 'god'.
~Beck~
awhiile back i posted telling you about my grandson whos mother hit him for not saying grace before a meal ( he is 15yrs old ) he has been hit on many occasions,he hates being a witness and is forced to go to the hall by his mother.
my grandson phoned us on the day his mother had hit him,he was sobbing down the phone to us and said he wanted to come and stay with us, i said yes and that i would fetch him, anyway his mum and dad have had nothing to do with me since despite me writing to them expressing how much i love my grandchildren and that i wish to see them,i have had no reply.. the other day my grandson phoned and said to my younger son that he is leaving home when he is 16 and can he come and stay with us,of course i said yes.
what i need to know is will he be disfellowshipped for living with his grandma ( i am not a jw ) of course i know what this will mean for him,his brothers and parents will shun him.. as for me what else can i do to see my grandchildren.
Most JWs would shun their kids for leaving home and rejecting the "religion". There are some who may not. Only time will tell.
This is so true. The parents will most probably shun your grandson if he chooses to leave the religion. If he simply chooses to leave home, then they will try to convince him to continue with meetings and field service etc etc.
At any rate, he is very lucky to have you as a friend and grandmother. Well done and all the best.
~Beck~
i just found out that , on my wife's side of the family, the last witness kid has given up!.
he was the very last one in that half of our extended witness family.
ten years ago, i never would have.
End of the world? Nope, but this is the Watchtower's last generation - you can count on it.
The Watchtower's last generation!! I like that phrase.
The only sad thing is, some of these kids leave with issues, especially if they are 5th or 4th generation kids. I was 3rd generation and sheesh, I had issues, yet I was 32. My kids were 4th, but they were lucky enough to have me. How would you be if you were a 4th or 5th generation with no one?
My heart goes out to the kids - they need to know they are NOT wicked, they are just ordinary kids wanting some sort of normality.
~Beck~
the more i live this life the more i come to the conclusion that this life doesn't belong to me entirely.
i am constantly brought to the realization that i'm living living in the footsteps of my father.
i never really understood what he was going thru until i got to be an adult.
u, living the life of dannyboy but wishing I was living the life of brummie or beck_melbourne.
It's not easy being a horn bag Uncs, *flicking hair to the side*
Do You Feel You're Living Your Life or Someone Elses?
I used to feel like this when I was in the borg, but not now. I'm so over my sanctimonius self - I'm much more comfortable being a wicked, vomit eating dog, gouging the eyeball of christ apostate!
we were devout jws and most likley would have reported him
Wednesday, you reminded me of the scumbag that I was. My ex father in law, a kindly dottery Slim Dusty fan used to always accept apostate literature and would engage in conversations with apostates when he would come across them on the doors. He was counselled from time to time and told NOT to engage in conversation with such ones. I recall on one occassion reporting him to the elders for being disobedient because he chose to not only accept an apostate booklet, but he was seen 'reading' it. What a mole I was.
~Beck~
recently my mother dropped in on us and in front of other people, very nicely handed me some trinkets aka dust collectors for my house and some wts magazines.
the way she handed everything to me at once i just held out my hands and took it all.. i threw the magazines away immediately, i consider them trash and don't even want them around... but then decided exactly what i was going to do.
i am going to buy a yard sale cross or virgin mary statue and give it to my mom.. i specifically told her i don't want any publications and she slipped them in anyways.... so, on that note, she hates any religious icons, i am going to give her something that she doesn't want.
My mum always gives me magazines, and then she says 'oh but you better not read it, or you'll get scared'....ie. the end is near and all that shite. I just smile at her quirky little ways and put the magazines on my coffee table to make my apostate friends eye's pop out when they visit.
On the other hand, if my grandmother were to offer me or give me publications, I would be inclined to refuse them. She has a manner that offends me, yet my mother doesn't. Funny that.
~Beck~
