my old boss was forever going on about us being careful "not to set any presidents".. hl's friend's ex-hubby needs some surgery on his knee to have "his cartridge removed".
she's signed an affy-david as part of the divorce process.
meanwhile he spends his time in night clubs watching the cadbury.. jenny, the pub's landlady, took the quiz a couple of weeks back and questioned us about "far from the maddening crowd".
In a seriously country-hick congregation I attended, it was not at all uncommon for people on the Theo. School to be counseled on "Pronunciation" which was invariable mispronounced as "pronounce-ee-ation". One very old, very well educated older retiree used to sit and giggle away to herself...
Dave
i've just read an intersting article on the flood to do with dates and whether is was truly global or a regional flood.. http://www.commentarypress.com/essay-flood.html.
my father used to be an elder for many years and the flood was one of the things that made him walk away not just from the jw but also belief in the bible.
he was hung up on issues like the flood taking place about 3500 bc and how that fit in with the pyramids.. i don't know much about egyptian history or the ages of the big pyramids, but his reasoning was if the flood wiped out every human on earth except noah etc then at 3500 bc there were only 8 people on earth.
Same here, the Bible really fell apart in my hands over the Noah story. (And praying for others, and Balaam deciding to try to reason with his suddenly talking donkey [rather than recoiling in horror]) I could just reject Noah and keep the rest, except for the fact that Noah appears in the lineage of Jesus, and Jesus himself referred to the Noah story as fact. Once one dominoe falls, the whole house of cards comes down. Checkmate.
hi everyone..............it's been yonks!!
we are doing fine, just really busy living life.. well, last saturday i was out at the markets with a friend (thank goodness).
when i got home mr bliss informed me that a servant brought the co around to our place for a 'friendly' visit.
we've had our christmas lights up for three weeks now and nobody's said a word.
Oops, spoke too soon! Two elders just "dropped by" to ask us if anything's "changed". Short conversation, but wanna bet more is coming?
i just watched the breakfast club for the bazillionth time.
i always turn 15 again when i watch it.
i need to score the dvd, it isn't the same when they clip out scenes and rewrite the "naughty words".
"We are sexy, we are great. We're the class of 88"
I was in the class of '88 as well. I liked the fact that no matter what year anybody else scrawled into the desk or wrote in their text book, you could easily change it to 88!
Dave of the 'never went to pep rally's because dub's weren't supposed to' class. 
i just watched the breakfast club for the bazillionth time.
i always turn 15 again when i watch it.
i need to score the dvd, it isn't the same when they clip out scenes and rewrite the "naughty words".
I just watched The Breakfast Club for the bazillionth time. I always turn 15 again when I watch it. I need to score the DVD, it isn't the same when they clip out scenes and rewrite the "naughty words". That movie really captured the teenage soul, or at least what teenagers think their soul is.
Loved it, loved it, loved it. Again.
"Don't-don't-don't-don't-DON'T you... forget about me.... don't-don't-don't-don't-DON'T you... forget about me...."
hi everyone..............it's been yonks!!
we are doing fine, just really busy living life.. well, last saturday i was out at the markets with a friend (thank goodness).
when i got home mr bliss informed me that a servant brought the co around to our place for a 'friendly' visit.
of course if I rearrange the letters Satan, as the JWs always point out.
You mean, "Staan"?
Yeah, that's probably a bit edgy: http://staan.com
Dave
hey guys,.
we have roadrunner and i'm so disappointed in it i could scream.
when it works, it really is fast.
Hey Guys,
We have roadrunner and I'm so disappointed in it I could scream. When it works, it really is fast. But it goes down so often that it hardly seems worth the bother. And support is crummy, I talk to a dozen people before anybody decides to do anything, and then the tech comes out in a week or two and just cuts the ends off all the cables, attaches new connectors, tests it, and declares it "fixed". Three weeks later, we're right back where started.
So now I'm thinking about switching to DSL. Slower than cable, but still much faster than dialup, or so I'm told.
What has been your experiences? Will I still get low reliability from DSL? I *love* dialup for its reliability, but Zach homeschools via computer and needs a fast connection for all the junk they have him download. (Mostly flash-based stuff)
Sounds like it's roughly even money either way, so reliability and speed are my main concerns.
Thanks!
Dave
for the purposes of this thread i am a dub.
a 2nd generation, dyed-in-the-wool, sincere and genuine jehovahs witness (just like i used to be).
well i just feel the need to hone my debating skills after having been in a 'faded' state for quite a while.
What's the deal with not taking a blood transfusion?
Acts 15 says to keep abstaining from blood, things strangled, and fornication. You can't here tease out of the word "abstaining" something that isn't meant, like "not only shouldn't we eat it, we should ABSTAIN from it, meaning don't touch it, etc" because that would mean you couldn't touch a strangled animal, either. Eating is what's prohibited here, strangled animals or blood.
And your "if a doctor told you not to drink alcohol, could you still inject it?" reasoning won't fly either. If a doctor told me not to eat liver, would he object to my getting a liver transplant? A blood transfusion is a transplant of an organ, it isn't "consumption".
And of course, don't try to bring the health risks of blood transfusions into the discussion. Every medical procedure has risks, but this is the only one forbidden by your religion.
(No, I don't want any magazines. No, I don't want to contribute to the World Wide Work. No, no one else in my household would like magazines, either.)
hi everyone..............it's been yonks!!
we are doing fine, just really busy living life.. well, last saturday i was out at the markets with a friend (thank goodness).
when i got home mr bliss informed me that a servant brought the co around to our place for a 'friendly' visit.
I'm sure it varies from area to area, but we've had our christmas lights up for three weeks now and nobody's said a word. There's an elder's son, an inactive couple, and "good JW" and her on-again-off-again daughter that drive by our house every day. So far, no visits, no phone calls.
Maybe they figure the demons done got us already, and they ain't fixin' to be next?
i am not a jw but i am a business manager and one of my employees is.
i want to be able to understand her better and be able to respect her choices but i struggle with certain issues such as sending holiday cards to company clients.
she won't do so because of her beliefs and the clients cannot be neglected so this of course creates added work to those who are already very busy.. i am unsure of when to separate religion from business and am confused about why it's ok for her to take the vacation days designated for christmas, yet she can't cater to the needs of the business.. i do not ask things of her that fall outside the scope of her position and because of the lengths we go through to provide concierge service for our clients, i find that her religion is an out for her participation.
When I was still one of Jehovah's Witnesses, I didn't like taking part in holiday stuff for my job, but I would do it. Hang decorations, send cards, whatever. I was a bank teller, so I had to put on a happy face. I never wished anyone a Merry Christmas, and I always answered, "Thank you" when someone wished me one.
It seems that all JW's draw a different line on this issue. It's hard to say what a specific witness will or won't do in regards to holidays.
They see the holidays (particularly Christmas) as highly displeasing to God because the trappings of the holidays (trees, wreaths, gifts) are all based in false religious worship. You can read about the Watchtower's views on it at their web site, http://watchtower.org
There may be a Watchtower article that you could show your employee showing her that she's authorized to do holiday stuff when it's required by her employer. I don't know of one, hopefully someone else does?
Dave