watching all the pundits on tv after the killings at va tech yesterday, there were a handful of things that kept getting repeated that are just stupid.
usually they also require an impossible level of hindsight (which a good number of the pundits have, it seems).
i've just got to rant about this for a few minutes.
Excellent points, seeker.
Since when can any law control a random act of violence, which is exactly what this was? Someone who decides to do this kind of thing is not concerned with the "law". Any logical thought process had already made it's exit, if it was ever there to begin with.
we are having a boy and can't decide on names.
we want something a little different, not in 'the top 10'.
it also has to be english or german orgin.
Adler, Braiden, Cooper, Derek, Eaton, Garrett, Garrison, Kegan, Ritter, Rylan, Teagan, Tucker
Nope. I don't think it really meant anything to me when I went either. When I was little, I do remember being petrified that I would spill the wine and whether I would be smote on the spot for daring to spill the "sacred" emblems. Then I got older, and it was my dad's turn to buy the "emblems. When we got to eat the leftover crackers and (I think) my parents drank the leftover wine, I realized that these things came from the local store, not some special heavenly mini-mart, and I wasn't afraid any more. At some point, I realized that we heard the same talk year after year, and that It was just another boring meeting that we had to go to in addition to all the other boring meetings. The difference was that for this one, we actually had to endure bible readings for the week before to "prepare" and we usually got to get some spiffy new clothes. I believe that 1998 was the last memorial that I went to - possibly even 1997. And that damn song still runs through my brain when ever a thread like this pops up to remind me of it. In any event, it is as meaningless to me as any other meeting.
ok, so we all know the wt used to be our passion till that died!.
what are you passionate about today?
kids are an automatic, and so are spouses for some people.. i'm referring to your interests that make up the core of you..
Scrapbooking and reading.
to me there is a definite difference in my generation and the one coming after me, when i graduated you basically had three choices.
military, college or a fulltime job which meant more than 40 and you were expected to grow up, today kids are seen as postponing this for years, it reminds me of the proverbs 29:21 kjv says .
21 he that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length.. when is it time to push the little birds from the nest and tell them to flap real hard?.
I think you were overly generous by furnishing his new place and doing all you did, I'd have taken him down to the local roach motel with a kitchenette, paid for a week, given him a couple of cases of Ramen noodles and told him he had a week to either figure out how to pay for the room or make other arrangements. Unfortunately, it seems likely to me that as he is completely lacking in character by what you have said here that he will sell off all of the new stuff you have so generously purchased for him and be out on his ear when the prepaid rent is gone. The new landlords are not likely to be as tolerant as you have been regarding his delinquent rent payments.
That said, I'm sorry for you and your wife that you have had this experience and happy for you both that you have finally kicked him out.
it's been a long time since i left the borg and jw matters are rarely discussed with my jw relatives.
i am however, interested in the subject of pioneers.
a few years back i half expected my nephew to do some pioneering, but he opted to get married at 19 to a fellow dub and it wasn't long before they had 3 little girls to support.
My step son is a pioneer (19) For him, I don't know if it is so much the pressure, or the accolades and personal perks that he gets that make him want to do it. When he was in school, I think it helped him escape an unpleasant and volatile home environment. Now, I think it is some pressure to "live up to his commitment" It also doesn't hurt the ego to be looked up to in the congregation. Without that title, he would just be the son of the resident mental patient who likes to slit her wrists. Oh, and the fact that Mom will forego charging him rent as long as he remains a pioneer doesn't hurt either (because it ups HER status as well to have raised such a "dedicated" son.
remember when the society forbid the watching of soaps and the reading of romance books?
how many watched and read anyway?
were you hooked on the soaps and romance novels when you were still a witness?
I started watching Days when I was in high school and still watch it a few times a month. I watched Another World when it was still on. I watch passions every once in a while, but I'm not hooked on it.
doesn't ring a bell for me. I grew up in VT, but not that area. Sorry!
seeing as the new system of things is taking it's sweet time getting here to restore everyone's youthful appearance,
Yes, when money is no longer an object, I would like my boobs lifted back to where they started before my 2 kids!!!
i'm "tarty smurf".
http://www.quizopolis.com/smurf_name.php.
Married name = Bipartisan Smurf
Maiden name = Sweet Toothed Smurf
