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i never understood the convoluted "reasoning" on standing for the pledge of allegiance but sitting for the national anthem .... your thoughts or experiences, please.. thank you.. cc.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/198711/1/i-will-sit-no-more-forever.
Oh the pain this brings back! At school assemblies they always played the national anthem and I always sat through it. Burning up with the embarrassment of everyone looking at me.
A few years ago, before leaving the org but after I started thinking for myself, I decided it was absolutely ridiculous to say that if you are standing anyway, stay standing, but if you are sitting don't stand. I realized all standing is doing is showing respect. So I stood when it would be played at games, etc.
"I talk to God all the time and he's never mentioned you."
my boyfriend left today for a 17 day trip to johannesburg south africa as part of a charity group to help provide blankets and clothes to people in outlining areas, and give support for aids victims there..... this is the first time we have been apart since september, i miss him already but he is doing so much good and he has such a loving heart.
i love you baby, come back to me safe .
chg.
I wish him all the best. What a wonderful thing to be doing.
this was posted in the men's room stall, i hear the instructions in the womens room was more detailed.. this was in addition to having a "bathroom attendant" handing out 1 paper towel per person.. i haven't felt so childish since i was in grade schooll, i had to wonder if all the tall people around me were really grown men and women.. .
Confuzzled: Back in the day, I always volunteered and for several years I was given restroom duty. I had to stand at the head of the women's line and tell them when a stall opened up. And yes, it smelled awful. But the worst thing was that the first badge I was given said attendant, and then it was decided that no mere woman should wear such a label, so they changed it. I had to walk around all day with the word "Restroom" on my chest. Not "Restroom Attendant," just "Restroom."
today is my 2yr anniversary since being df'd - and my life has changed a lot!!!
this is a letter i wrote to my parents...i did see/talk to them in feb when i had my surgery, but of course as it goes, now that i'm 'better' - they are back to shunning me.
so this was sent to them both, so that they understood that despite all the jw bull ish, and how they are treating me now - i'm ok and happy!
Beautiful letter. It made me cry. It was so reasonable and loving and lacking in bitterness.
And may I quote once again a statement from an Awake article that makes me CRAZY!
Awake July 2009 page 29: No one should be forced to worship in a way that he finds unacceptable or be made to choose between his beliefs and his family.
I wish I had the funds to put this on billboards.
the watchtower september 1, 2010 11. .
the dangers of being deceived (page 10/11).
to deceive, says one dictionary, means to cause to accept as true or valid what is false or invalid.
Awake July 2009 page 29: No one should be forced to worship in a way that he finds unacceptable or be made to choose between his beliefs and his family.
Watchtower April 1, 2008 page 31: God's battle is directly solely against those humans whom God judges to be incorrigible wicked.
Huh?
faithful & discrete - discreet.
tow the line - toe.
could care less - couldn't.
I know exactly how you pronounced it Syl! So would I have!
faithful & discrete - discreet.
tow the line - toe.
could care less - couldn't.
Here's someone's mistake I enjoyed: She is a died-in-the-woods witness. Ha! I wonder what this person thought that meant. Dyed-in-the-wool means inflexible, because, I assume, the dye is in the very fiber rather than the cloth being dyed after being woven.
faithful & discrete - discreet.
tow the line - toe.
could care less - couldn't.
When I first saw the name Persephone, I pronounced it Per-sa-phone. I thought, "what an ugly name." In my defense, I was only 12.
faithful & discrete - discreet.
tow the line - toe.
could care less - couldn't.
Mischievous is pronounced mis-cha-vas not mis-chee-vee-as.
