for those of you that know my background, you know that my only sibling, a sister (nonjw) disowned me back in the '70s along with my parents when i became a jw.
when i daed myself in '99, i wrote them and apologized for making a terrible mistake, etc and heard nothing.
i just got an email from my sister asking for my address because she wants to write to me, and she signed it "love, your little sis"..
That is great news Sunspot.
You may need to do some explaining to do but at least the door is open to you now. She sounds like she is willing to hear it. She may even start from now! and let the past be the past. Can your parents be far behind? I hope all is well with them and wish a wonderful outcome for all of you. Keep us posted.
e-watchman has sent over 5000 letters to congregations in the u.s informing them of the ngo debacle and a similar one to 101 branches around the world.
and according to his guestbook post he has signed his real name to the letters!
great work and great news!
PRESSINGFORWARD,
But I do know that Jehovah acts quickly against any who threatens is people whither the source be from men or from demons he is a God of action.
If this statement is true, then why when "HIS" people in "HIS" congregation are having trouble and pain from "men", the answer is to "WAIT" on Jehovah? Seems to me everyone spends alot of time waiting, waiting and more waiting. Just wondering.
woman sentenced in dog attack case.
by heather leskanic .
the clarion county resident was ordered to serve six days in jail in connection with the death of her granddaughter.. clarion - a 62-year-old lucinda area woman was sentenced wednesday for her negligent conduct related to the 2003 dog-mauling death of her young granddaughter.
Oh but the Grandmother isn't worried........she has the hope of seeing the baby again in a paradise earth.
i felt compelled to post this to kind of stick up for my buddy a little bit.
i'm not sticking up for mormons....only sticking up for a friend that happens to be a mormon.
some may say he is secretly trying to convert me, but he really is, just a friend that happens to be a mormon.. i am in no way endorsing mormons or have any desire to be one.
Maybe you should change your screen name? You aren't alone. Sounds like you have a very good life long friend.......so does he.
Thanks for the insight.
i feel it occasionally, and i just felt it a minute ago (get your minds out of the gutter).
i'm talking about this little pin-prick sensation i feel at the end of my finger like someone wanted to come along and poke me (hey!
) just for the hell of it.
Is it just like one pin prick? or several at once? If it is in one distinct spot it could be a sliver of metal (using steel wool pads?) or more likely glass (pick up any broken glass? ) imbedded deep. It could be trying to move itself out everynow and then. Or when you type or do other things it could be pressing the point deeper. Glass can stay in your body for years but will usually try to work its way out. My Cousin went thru the windshield of a car over 25 years ago and she is still getting glass out of her forehead.
If it is more like tingly then it sounds like it could be a nerve.
blondie i cant help but think how long it must take you to do all your posts.
are you a full time messenger on here!
i dont think i knew as much as an elder with all the pre-study and preparation for all my items.. how do you put together all the references.
I also am amazed at how knowledgeable she is and how well she says what she knows. Blondie take a bow, you deserve it for all the times you have come to the rescue.
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i remember elders giving talks and giving good advice they didn't even keep themselves.. saying, don't listen to this or that kind of music, and when they get in their cars, that's exactly what's playing on the radio, or when they said to obey the law and then they go faster than the speed limit and say it's ok, i'm just following the other cars.. do you have any other examples of "do what i say, not what i do" witnesses?
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At my cousins wedding years ago my very, very, very tipsy JW aunt told me I should'nt be smoking.
i have a serious business dispute with a jw and it is getting out of control - i need to know if there is any procedure for seeing mediation that he can trust (through your organization, for example).
i am also a serious practicing christian believer, although i am not a jw.
i have no reason to believe that this man is not exactly who he claims to be, as he has always acted honorably, apart from our business together, regretably.
It does sound like you maybe screwed if it is to late to back out of the contract (3 Days in the USA). You signed your name to what was on the contract, not what he may have said before that. If nothing else you could bring it up to his elders that he deceived you but even they need 2 witnesses. Yep sounds like he got you. Get a lawyer.
is there anyone out there who remembers being taught by the wt that love of the self was sinful?
if so will you please point me to a piece of literature which contains that teaching, preferably a scan if possible.
i have a vague memory of hearing something along those lines as a child and don't know if it was part of jw teaching or just something my family taught us.
Cath,
I don't know how to find it anywhere but I think my JW aunt heard about it 40 years or so ago.
I had a cousin who was about 11 at the time, she loved her long blond hair. She spent time taking care of it. I guess she spent too much time looking at it in the mirror and didn't do something she was suppose to do because one day my aunt dragged her by it and took sissors and hacked it all off very short saying it was a sin to love herself that she was conceited. It broke my cousins heart.
It took me many years to even start to forgive my aunt for all the mean things she did to me and my cousins. I thought of her as a Witch. She was a strong JW, but a horrible person.
has anyone received this mail too ?
on the back of the envelope it says:.
dear jesus,.
Celia,
I received one of those months ago. I figure they want MONEY. Prayers shouldn't cost any thing. I threw it in the garbage with the rest of the junk mail.
