i have to say i am surprised and am quite saddened to hear how many jdub marriages fall apart when one partner becomes an "unbelieving mate" or even an "apostate.
" i thought i might post my thoughts on my thinking process during the time my hubby, bethelyellowdollarbag, in my jdub thinking moved along the path from an "unbelieving mate" to an "apostate" over the course of 30 years before i finally woke up to ttatt.
"-1 corinthians 10:13.. *** it-1 p. 126 apostasy ***.
"Absolute Spiritual Endangerment"
That is the excuse my wife used to divorce me in 1989- she even had a letter from the Bethel service desk advising her she could divorce me with those grounds and the elders wouldn't disfellowship her- she even had the gall to go to court and ask for alimony-wife support. Didn't get it- or 1/2 of my pension, either.
in the usa a new record was set on food stamp enrollments, which seems ironic.
you would think as unemployment drops , food stamp usage would be dropping, too.
maybe those government unemployment numbers are fake numbers.
Here is a food stamp card for Arkansas-
if a store accepts what is called a Snap card- like the above card, - the customer uses their debit card to buy food, potato chips, donuts, beef jerky, sodas, frozen king crab legs, etc, whatever they can get away with
They used to be real paper coupons- folks bought food with them or sold them for like 1/2 face value for cash money to buy their cigarettes and beer- the EBT card is supposed to stop that fraud.
in the usa a new record was set on food stamp enrollments, which seems ironic.
you would think as unemployment drops , food stamp usage would be dropping, too.
maybe those government unemployment numbers are fake numbers.
The old science fiction books used to predict a future
that movie last year, Cloud Atlas, really disturbed me- the future has cloned workers who are owned by the Corporation. their memories get erased every night, so they don't go mad working 18 hrs a day- after 12 years they think they are getting freedom and get to move to Hawaii- wrongo- they get turned into high protein shakes instead-
Somehow, It all rings true- companies would love to have healthy workers- with no wages or benefits that they could dispose of before they started getting sick and OLD.
i have to say i am surprised and am quite saddened to hear how many jdub marriages fall apart when one partner becomes an "unbelieving mate" or even an "apostate.
" i thought i might post my thoughts on my thinking process during the time my hubby, bethelyellowdollarbag, in my jdub thinking moved along the path from an "unbelieving mate" to an "apostate" over the course of 30 years before i finally woke up to ttatt.
"-1 corinthians 10:13.. *** it-1 p. 126 apostasy ***.
Your story has to be a record here for how long it took a simmerimg pot to finally come to a boil.
Don't be so sure about kids never going back- we have heard stories of people who were gone from the KH for years- have a kid and suddenly they are back in the KH reading the WT bible stories book to the 2 year old. It could have turned out very differently for you , if the kids had become strong JWs with a JW husband and kids. You would have been trapped in the KH or leave and get shunned. I have a hunch, you would still be a JW zombie, if you had grandkids sitting next to you in the KH meetings. Your hubby reminds me of an unbeliveing husband who kept his lip zipped for over 50 years= never said a bad word about the WT-But when his wife died, he confided in me how he hated the JWs and how they always tried to run his family life.
Anyway, Welcome and continue with your stories- good stuff.
jehovah's witnesses/wts have reached "critical mass" - says ex-circuit overseer.
------posting copied from h2o-----.
posted by xelder [seeker4] on july 13, 2000 at 12:00:52 {rn3hpwrs1eubi2tgjvegd9bhhxgwag}:.
Hi Nathan!! Sorry you can't join us, but you got banned for making cedars cry or something like that.
yeah i know its taken me almost 5 years to reach 1000 post and many of you get that in a few months.. but i do take long extended breaks from the forums (especially in summer months for sun an fun).. i've seen where others had made a thread on celebrating this particular point of being a member on here and thoguht well that sounds fun so i will too.. plus considering how close we are to the "end of this present wicked system of things", and that it was going to happen any day now, and right around the corner, i figured i'd not make it long enough to hit 1000 post.
lol.
anyways hope this post finds all of you out there in good health, with plenty of wealth and enjoying your life to its fullest.
Simon did away with those fancy levels and badges- the Jedi level came with personal dangers-
don't you just hate it.
a school that strokes the egos of r-pioneers.
there is no school for publishers.
"The Finished Mystry"? It was in the 1970s.
Oh yeah- that was the book with the scary chart that shows us dropping off the 6000 year old cliff in 1975!!- and jump the JWs did- not so much after 1976- we gave Jehoover a extra year in case his watch was running slow.
in the usa a new record was set on food stamp enrollments, which seems ironic.
you would think as unemployment drops , food stamp usage would be dropping, too.
maybe those government unemployment numbers are fake numbers.
Another history lesson- when i graduated from highschool I was 18 and went to apply for jobs at factories- I had 3 months before college started-
The first place I applied was a GE factory- walked into HR that morning and filled out an application- handed it to the secretary- she looked it over and asked me to have a seat.
A few minutes later I was called into the HR office. He asked me some questions- I could tell he liked that I was a farm boy and knew about that thing called " manual work".- next I was sent to the nurse- a doctor gave me a 10 minute physical- they sent me back to HR down the hall. "have a seat Mr Smith". It was almost lunch time now. I had another visit with the HR man- he asked me- "can you start work at 3:30 pm on 2nd shift tonight?
So went home and changed clothes and my mother packed me my dinner bucket for the nightshift- We were busy and I worked a lot of overtime- my family was happy I could bring home money- and help out them, too.
That is how life used to be in America. That GE factory hired me on the spot, because they knew if they let me walk another factory would hire me first-
Makes me sad just thinking about how life has gone to the dogs for the working families of America.
That GE factory closed up about 30 years later- GE sent the work to Mexico. Many people who worked there didn't even own cars- they walked to work- shopped at the corner grocery and took the bus ( until that was eliminated by the city to save money) downtown to shop at Sears and Montgomery Wards.
Friday night downtown was grand- folks cashed their paychecks (some companies still paid by cash back then(60's)- cash money in a pay envelope)- and strolled the streets- movies were cheap- it was affordable for the whole family to go to movie. The only people who struggled were the real widows and orphans- an able bodied man worked- he didn't hang out on the corner all day with his gang members.
in the usa a new record was set on food stamp enrollments, which seems ironic.
you would think as unemployment drops , food stamp usage would be dropping, too.
maybe those government unemployment numbers are fake numbers.
Thanks goodness we have this program to make sure children have food- I hope it works that way.-- but we have seen reports that Snap cards are being used to buy an awful lot of junk/snack foods at corner markets.
I agree they are counting all these part time under employed workers as fully employed- and at some point after their unemployment runs out I know a lot of people who don't find jobs just aren't being counted as unemployed by the main labor department unemployment number that the news media likes to use- the true number is more like 14% .
Also, I think we are seeing the beginning wave of baby boomer retirements- and if Social Security is your onLy source of income, i hope the retirees who qualify aren't too proud to sign up for a Snap card- it might be the first time for many to ask for governmental aid. Nutrition is so important to keep the elderly healthy. Go and apply , if you are in need of help- don't assume you don't qualify.
- So to sum it up- our economy is not getting much better (speaking as a working class person)- people are still hurting. Our Synagogue has pledged to provide 1500 food items to our local food pantry in the month of April. Lets see what we all can do to help our deserving neighbors out.
Wasblind and I know what a good job is- We need to ask our congressmen to work towards making better jobs available and to encourage businesses to stay in the USA. A good job is way better than being on welfare.
in the usa a new record was set on food stamp enrollments, which seems ironic.
you would think as unemployment drops , food stamp usage would be dropping, too.
maybe those government unemployment numbers are fake numbers.
In the USA a new record was set on food stamp enrollments, which seems ironic. You would think as unemployment drops , food stamp usage would be dropping, too. Maybe those government unemployment numbers are fake numbers. - and what gives with Oregon having the same percentage as Mississippi and New Mexico?
-http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2013/03/29/47-Million-Americans-on-Food-Stamps
