the thread above "help, my jw-mom is pioneering at the age of 76..." made me think of this:.
my grandma on dads side was a very devout jw.
unfortunately, she couldn`t walk very well, partly because of obesity.
Anyone else here also had grandmas doing this?
No, not grandmas. But a few months ago a co-worker showed me a JW-letter she got. It was also written by hand and the hand writing looked like it was written by a female preteen. The girl wrote that she used letters to reach people who weren't reached in field service.
do the wbts understand anything better today then they did 10 or 20 years ago other then they have been wrong alot?
The light is indeed getting brighter. Only that it comes from another light bulb now. This new one is called "world wide web".
here i am 25, going on 26(birthday is on july 12th) and i am thinking about getting botox.
i have been using anti-wrinkle lotions since i was 16. i take care of my skin daily, kind of a freak when it comes to my skin.
anyway, i have found my answer.
What makes it so difficult for women to accept themself? Why are wrinkles and such often seen as personal enemies? I remeber having the same thoughts when I was younger. My thoughts were my enemies. I started to rethink around 30. It was then when I realised that I wouldn't be able to avoid getting older (with all the visible signs of it) no matter how hard I would try to so I better accept it and relax. It took some time for me to cope with that idea but eventually I did.
Now I'm 38 and I have to say that today I feel good with how I look like. Sure, I'm getting older, I get more and more grey hairs, my face doesn't look like a clean white sheet anymore. So what? I can't find anything wrong with that. I want people to take me seriously but how could they if I looked like I've never been through anything? So I'm fine with people reading my face and getting to know me by seing the tears I've cried, the pleasures I have enjoyed, the anger I felt.
Brooke, your children don't love you because you have a face like a little babys botty. They love you because you're you and I hope so does your hubby. So please do yourself a favour. Go and spend the 300 bucks on a great weakend with your loved ones. Enjoy life and forget about the wrinkles. You will get them anyway. You can't run away from them. And you know what: It doesn't matter. After all the only thing that counts is a life well lived.
this mask keeps me from moving as they give radiation to me.
this machine is the spherical cat scan that they use to plan treatment.
i get to keep the mask when it's all done!
(((((confusedjw)))) Isn't it great to live in the 21st century? I wish you a complete recovery!
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Debbie
just to let you all know why i won't be able to post for some time...i am finally getting in to the hospital for a much-needed operation that kept being postponed.
i have been back and forth to three different hospitals and various doctor's offices for tests, x-rays, consults and then more pre-op tests and x-rays.
(i have never heard of "nuclear testing before now...i wondered if they were going to send me to nasa!
((((( sunspot & buffalosrfree )))))
Good luck to both of you! Stay calm, hopefully you will feel better soon. I also wish you both a speedy recovery!
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Debbie
you are only an invisible observer.
you cannot interact with people or the surroundings at all and will remain unaffected by the experience.
history will not notice you.. so, do you choose to be present 3 hours before and after the big bang!?
I would like to go back and have a six hour lunch with my 17 yr old self.
Oh yeah, that would be great!
I would also like to watch and listen to Mahatma Gandhi.
And I would like to be at Marilyn Monroes house at the time she died to find what really happened.
a good friend of mine moved away 10 years ago.
needless to say, we lost touch over the years, but our family always spoke of them warmly and with with great affection.. last week, their daughter looked my son up on my-space and we reconnected.
they've left the organization, basically got fed up with the hypocrasy of the membership.
My best friends today are those I made at age 6. But none of them is or ever was JW.
I never found real friendship in the hall. That was probably not only but also due to the fact that we were only able to see each other at meetings, as we lived on the country side and and there was no public transport system between our places.
Thinking about this made me remember a funny incident. I made my decision at age 13 but had to attend meetings with my parents until I was about 17. Once a sister walked up to me, tried to look dangerous and forbade me to talk to other kids in the hall, because "You know that you are bad association as you don't want to obbey god. So you must not speak to the other young ones. We don't want them to be influenced by your rebellious spirit". I wasn't scared at all. Actually I thought she was quite funny. All this eye rolling. Absolutely hillarious! LOL
Any of the young ones shunned me, they all had doubts, too, but not one would talk about it openly until long after I had moved far away. Meanwhile all of them have left the org (my parents kept me informed). It would be interesting to see how they are doing today.
what does the term "morality" first conjure up in the jw mind ?
caring for the social concerns of others
looking after ones own religious prospects
IMHO:
4. Not having sex (at least not outside the 'sex rules')
5. Obeying the rules
I can't see morality in a healthy sense.
Example: My father emailed me last week to also tell me the following: My parents had thought about visiting my grandma who had knee surgery and is in a recovery facility at the moment but decided against visiting her because they wanted to spare the money for the international convention they have to visit in July. That's morality as described in No. 5! Needless to say how my grandma would feel if she knew about my parents priorities!
who is the liar if it is not the one that denies that jesus is the christ?
this is the antichrist, the one that denies the father and the son.
(1 john 2:22)
I saw my Mum yesterday straight after she got back from three days at the Coventry District Convention. She has given up even trying to 'encourage' me anymore and we barely even converse. I think that's where this thread is coming from.Big sigh
((((((nicolaou))))))
the watchtower claims that hisorians say 1914 was when the world changed forever.
as a jw the year 1914 is repeated so endlessly that it seems it must have been the turning point in history and hence the beginning of the last days.
but i have never really heard anyone else ever mention that year, apart from the odd history lesson on ww1.. do people in general ever think of or discuss 1914 as being a year of any significance?.
It's a white European perspective thing - that 1914 was the year a big war started (in our history) - so it must be the most important, right
A Paduan, thanks for sharing your view. I have never seen it that way. Maybe the WW I is a turning point for me only because it happened on my continent.Maybe otherwise it wouldn't be.
