we just got our memorial invite today.
along with that the brother again encouraged hubby and i to attend the meeting tomorrow.
no menion of the big announcement or anything.
We just got our Memorial invite today. Along with that the brother again encouraged hubby and I to attend the meeting tomorrow. No menion of the big announcement or anything. It's been about 2 1/2 years since I've been to a meeting. Do I break that and go, just to get the new book, or just forget about it? I honestly don't know what to do and need some advice.
What are other faders on here doing?
Advice and suggestions needed please!!!!!
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dear granny, .
i know it's been a long, cold winter ... but .
it's almost spring, and i wanted to remind you of the wild roses that will soon be everywhere ... .
Very nice talesin!
I have Mouthy to thank for encouraging me to join and post at JWD.
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has anybody invited you to go to the memorial this year?
do you expect to be invited?.
usually elders come over a few days before to invite me, but they didn't come yet....
Nope, no invites yet, we'll see this Sunday am, maybe get a visit. I was really surprised at my mom, my hubby and I planned to attend her hall for memorial (we go for apperances sake). When I talked to her about it she was very vague, said she wasn't even sure herself where and when it was. I found this really, really hard to believe, she's in a small country hall, the only cong that goes there, so you know it'll be at 7pm. So I don't know exactly what we'll be doing this year. I might have to work late!
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to date, 2 donuts here (yuck, i hate donuts)!.
kwin
Last week I won one cookie and one muffin. Zilch this week, and I usually have two a day. My hubby has won one donut and he gets atleast two a day, sometimes three!
Last year a woman he works with won a bike, and I know someone who won a bbq a couple of years ago. When the contest first started we'd win something all the time - now whenever I see "please play again" I just want to have a little temper tantrum!! LOL
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i posted yesterday or day before regarding my anger at my wife being shunned the day after her father died.. in fact it was a very deliberate shun by 3 women who went out of their way to brush right past my wife.. i saw 2 of them today and went up to them in the school playyard and said very loudly for all the parents to hear:.
"i would like to thank you both for your condolensces and for walking right past my wife when her father had just died.. true christianity??
?.....isn't it lovely!!!!!!.
When my father passed away, my brother was df'd. Pretty much everyone was talking to him, the elder handling the funeral was really, really good. The only person that openly shunned him was our uncle, my fathers only sibling. He refused to even shake his hand, let alone give him a hug. All he said to him was "you know what you have to do". This really really upset my mom, she really had not much use for my uncle anyways. He never once came to visit my dad the whole time he was ill (several years! and it's only about a 45min drive).
I was not "regular" in my meeting attendance in my hall, but at the time was attending my moms hall to support her, and help with my father. Only one brother and sister came to the house. This was someone I had considered a "friend". It was about two weeks later, and they said they couldn't stay, but would come back within the week and visit with hubby and I. I'm still waiting and it's been three years!
I firmly belive you reap what you sow, what goes around comes around. It will catch up with them all one day.
I'm glad you said something chukky, maybe it will make them think about what they did, and it's great that others overheard what they did to your wife.
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there is a new fad presentation going around, a simple but loaded question.
"what would it take for you to be interested in the bible?
of course you can't say no, and if you say, "nothing" the followup question is "why?
There is a new fad presentation going around, a simple but loaded question. Ask the householder: "What would it take for you to be interested in the Bible?"
I'd ask what makes you think I'm not?
OHHHHHH, I'd be hoppin' MAD if I encountered this question at my door!!!!
I'd also ask what it would take for you to leave me alone and never darken my doorstep again!
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the society's new book 'organized to do jehovah's will', to be released in the congregations .
on the 20th of march, introduces a change in the df and da announcements.
announcements will read the same: "[name of person] is no longer one of jehovah's .
Oh Man!!
I'm going to have to be careful about answering the door after March 20th now, and screen my calls too. We've pretty well faded completely, but there is this one brother that makes it a point to come around every once in a while. We've already been asked the "questions" - "do you think this is the truth" etc. I loved the way my hubby glossed over it by saying "well I think there's truth out there to be found".
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one of my former bs conductors and her husband decided when they got married, they wouldn't have any kids 'in this system'.
i know the world could be better, but i see no reason not to have children if that's what your wishes really are....and you're able to for that matter.
she just turned 34 and really wants to have a child.
My husband and I decided to not have children. I think part of it was being raised in the "borg". All the stories my mom told us about whta the GT would be like, what we would have to go through, hearing parts at assemblies not to have children in this old system, blah, blah, blah!!
Part was both of us being young when we got married, and he just didn't feel mature enough to be a father (still feels that way at 37! lol). I felt like I practically raised my half brother and sister, and just needed a break from children. (I did the dirty diapers, the feedings in the middle of the night, the hospital emergency rooms, the school trips etc.) I'm now 36, my husband has had a vasectomy so our decision pretty much final. I still wonder from time to time what our life would be like now if we had children. My hubby said he would go for a reversal if I really really felt strongly about having a child. I wrestle with the decision all the time! My clock is starting to tick really fast now, so if we were going to have a child, he'd better make that appointment soon!!
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over the years i have become less of male chauvanist pig and much more chivalrous - my wife says she as a woman likes men to be men and hold doors open for her and stand up on an airport shuttle bus etc .
if there are no seats left.
to me the wtbts is very chauvanistic and not very chivalrous.
I love it when my husband opens the door for me - he almost always does. I have given my seat up on the bus for people that really need it - man or woman. I don't think just able bodied men should be expected to do that. I've given my seat up to pregnant women, elderly men and women, a mom struggling with kids, strollers or groceries, or anybody else that looked like they needed it.
I always say thank you to anyone who holds a door for me. I think men really appreciate it especially, they get so many mixed messages from society, should they hold the door, or will it offend us women? You poor guys!! Very rarely when I hold a door for someone do they say thank you. Sometimes when it really bugs me if they don't I'll yell out "your welcome!". Common courtesy should be extended to everyone - regardless of gender.
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cannot get to e-watchman or to the paradise cafe.
is anyone else having problems.
sf
e-w started a thread about this on his site back in early January, here is the link (hope it works!!)
http://e-jehovahs-witnesses.com/viewtopic.php?t=1375
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