Congratulations, Coffee! You must be bursting with pride. And best wishes to your grandson. What a great opportunity he has. I'm keeping my fingers and toes crossed that all goes well.
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My grandson is interviewing with Harvard tomorrow
by coffee_black ini'm doing the happy dance!
just got word a few minutes ago.
his odds are pretty good!
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Just had an elder drop in for a visit
by biometrics injust had an elder drop in for a visit.
asking why i hadn't been to the meetings for over two years.
i told him there's a lot of things i don't agree with.. .
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Commencing rant.
"He started talking about how the Organization doesn't have everything correct and they're starting to acknowledge it. How the meeting format has changed, focusing less on 'details' and more on how to live a good life."
"He also said it he doesn't like the term 'the truth', and thinks it's a presumptuous term, because they don't have 100% truth ."
"We have had some wrong expectations about the end. But we are more concerned with obeying Jesus and saving lives than with avoiding criticism. - w2013 1/15, p. 8"
"We agree with the sentiment of longtime Witness A. H. Macmillan, who said: "I learned that we should admit our mistakes and continue searching God's Word for more enlightenment.""
All the above would be well and good IF the Society didn't require total and unquestioning acceptance of whatever "new light" appeared in the latest WT or was announced at some special meeting. No matter what you were REQUIRED to believe yesterday or might be REQUIRED to believe tomorrow, even though some of those beliefs directly affect peoples' very lives. "Don't bother to ponder, reason, or do outside research on spiritual matters. We have brothers at Bethel who are assigned to do just that! We'll let you know what to think. Don't worry your pretty little heads."
The Society values "unity" above freedom of conscience and a personal relationship with Jesus. They are presumptious to an astonishing degree, and seem determined to be the masters of your faith. They are spiritual bullies in a very real sense, and I hope they pay a heavy price in the end.
Rant completed. Resuming normal operations.
For what it's worth, I agree with the other posters who advised you to be very careful with this "friend." He may be setting you up, even unintentionally. If he repeats anything you've said, even innocently, it could easily lead to an investigation into your "apostate leanings." He may feel compelled to jump on the bandwagon to deflect questions about his own thinking. There is no way this would end well for you. I highly recommend you be as noncommittal as possible. Say little and avoid conversations like this like the plague, unless you are ready to be out of the Borg completely and officially.
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Visited Beth Sarim today
by exwhyzee inmy sister in law has been shunned by the family since she da'd herself at the age of 18 and moved out of the house.
i always insisted that my wife keep in contact with her and made sure she knew she had a soft place to land,with us, should she need it.
even at the risk of it getting us in hot water with the pioneer,elder,bethelite family members there was no way we were going to let her disappear into the wild blue yonder on her own.
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My hat's off to you, Sir. That's what Christian love is all about. Really, that kind of real love and concern for fellow human beings, especially family members, shouldn't be limited to the term "Christian." It transcends anything defined by any particular set of beliefs.
I hope to visit Beth Sarim one day myself. Purely for historical reasons, of course. The same reasons I'd love to discover the VIN numbers of those Cadillacs Rutherford had. It would be very interesting indeed to find out what happened to them. Hmmm...
Anyway, congratulations on caring for and about your sister-in-law all those years. I'm sure your little excursion to Beth Sarim was time well-spent and drew all of you a little closer.
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My Mother Passed
by Roberta804 inthank you for all of your support durning the two difficult weeks my mother was on her death bed.
last night at 10:30pm she breath her last with my sister and i by her side.
this is a real end of an era for me as i have known little these past 8 years other than taking care of my parents.
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So sorry for your loss, Roberta. Your good deeds will not go unremembered.
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Hello from North Dakota
by ndmom73 ini am fairly new here.
i came across this site a few years ago and tried to join but i wasn't approved as a member for whatever reason.
well, recently i came across this site again and decided to reapply to be a member and it was approved.
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Welcome aboard! We may have some mutual acquaintances. Check your PMs, please.
By the way, when you click on the little envelope the first time you are likely to get an error message. Just go back to the previous page and try again. It usually works the second time.
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QR codes: a way to stop APOSTATES !!!
by raymond frantz ininteresting meeting today.the do had the last talk and he mentioned a couple of things i have not heard before :.
1) the new lighter magazines are designed in a way to attract people to our website .
2)the ministry will change to incoprorate preacing in town centres and and with stands as in manhattan and certain brothers will be allocated to do this .so it is done now in a big scale ,organised.. 3)the qr codes at the back of the magazines are there for smart phone users to guide them directly to jw.org ,unlike bad old internet via laptops and pc's that you have to look for the website on google and sometimes end up in enemy websites that look like our website but are spreading lies about jw's (he said exactly that!
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Does anybody know the exact size of the QR codes as they appear in the magazines? I just might have some stickers printed up and look for opportunities to stick them over the original codes. Wouldn't that be a hoot?
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Terry, the advantage we have being 60 and older, we are smarter.
by jam inhow many folks knows the answer to these historical events, lol.. 1) after the long ranger saved the day and rode off into the sunset.
the grateful citizens would ask, who was the masked man?.
invariably, someone would answer, i don,t know, but he left this.
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I do remember most of them!
1. Silver bullet (Hi yo, Silver! Away!)
2. The Ed Sullivan Show (a really big "shew" tonight)
3. Route 66 (with Buzz and Todd)
4. Protect the innocent (Just the facts, ma'am)
5. The lion sleeps tonight
6. Chocolate
7. Jazz (?) Not totally sure about this one
8. Timex
9. Clem Cadiddlehopper (sp?)
10. Sputnik
11. Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco
12. Howdy Doody
13. The Shadow (knows what evil lies in the heart of men)
14. Speedy (?)
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I don't know you, OTWO, but I admire you and respect you for the unconditional love you have shown your sister. It is obvious that you have put her interests above your own many times and unselfishly looked after her needs. It's a shame that her husband seems to have used her situation as a way to provide for himself.
My hat's off to you, Sir!
One might well ask if a JW would do the same for their unbelieving sibling, particularly if they were DA or DF. Hmmm...
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What is your daily commute, and how long does it take you
by coffee_black inmine is 25 miles each way.
it can take anywhere from a half hour to an hour and a half each way depending on traffic.
there is no way way to get here by public transportation.. sigh~ .
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I usually ride as an extra crewmember on a company airplane from NH to TN. I leave the day before to arrive in position about 18 hours before I begin an operating flight. That way I can get plenty of rest, as most of my flights are about 14 hours non-stop.
If the first leg of my trip entails positioning on a passenger flight, then I usually leave out of Boston and fly to wherever my operating flight begins, typically somewhere in Europe or Asia.
The commute to my local airport to catch a company airplane is only about 25 minutes.
The ones I feel sorry for are the people who have to ride commuter trains or buses for an hour or two each way five days a week. Now that's brutal!
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I want this guy on the Governing Body. Now!
by usualusername inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpox2zd-rgy&list=fl868j_zisuing3g1hj8rtjw .
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I agree with most of the level-headed comments listed below the video on YouTube. He was confident and happy and wanted to share it with his dad. Bravo!
WAY back when I was a JW, I dreamed I was on that show and got to the million dollar question. It was a Bible question such as "What is the 8th book of the Bible, as listed in the King James version?" I knew the answer, but used a lifeline to call my father, who had been a congregation servant/elder since the 1950's. In my dream, I did it to honor him for being such a great dad and to acknowledge his part in my Bible education. I still feel that way about him and his life of being sincere, genuine, and consistent about his beliefs. Of course, I now know TTATT, but that doesn't diminish my love for Dad and my respect that he truly lived what he thought was right.
He passed on a few years ago, so if there is a life after death in any congnizant form, he too now knows TTATT. "Here's to you, Dad! I'll see you again, but hopefully not for a long, long time."