ok, i've done my share......geeze, it took me most of the night to get all the decorations up, but i think my kh is jes' about ready for the 25th!!
i caught a couple of the elders belting back their daily allowance of their holy 'spirit' in the form of a 40 ouncer and asked them if they wanted me to take their pictures, to which they agreed.
anyone else gonna get in the speeerut and decorate their local kingdumb halls?
LOL! No kidding eh? Yep, Christians have Christmas, Jews have Hannukah, Muslims have Ramadan, and the Witnesses have absolutely nothing to celebrate, no joy, no nothing. Gee I wonder why the Happiest People On Earth are all on anti depressants?
You guys forgot about the Memorial. Now there is fun for the entire family.
ok, i've done my share......geeze, it took me most of the night to get all the decorations up, but i think my kh is jes' about ready for the 25th!!
i caught a couple of the elders belting back their daily allowance of their holy 'spirit' in the form of a 40 ouncer and asked them if they wanted me to take their pictures, to which they agreed.
anyone else gonna get in the speeerut and decorate their local kingdumb halls?
I see even Santa lost it when he saw a cheery looking Kingdumb Hall all ready for the holidays.
this christmas is a special one.. first of all it'll be the first i've celebrated with my eldest daughter.
she turned 16 this summer and moved to the netherlands from the uk to live with me and my fiance.
she is absolutely delighted with trees and tinsel and everything about it; her face when we went to the christmas decorations department was a classic... she has her own tree in her bedroom and i swear it's about to go through the floor it has so many fricking decorations on it... talk about tinseltown.... it is also our first christmas in our new house, which we moved to to make my daughter's move possible.. and finally, over the past few weeks i have learnt that three of my nephews have told their parents they are not going to meetings any longer.
What a wonderful Christmas story. It is nice to hear something positve like this at Christmastime.
Have some eggnog with brandy and listen to the Nutcracker. That should help you get in the spirit.
in honor of steven colbert's new word becoming word of the year at miriam and webster, i have decided it needed to be used here in reference to the wts.. what is truthiness you ask?
well, if you do have to ask you are obviously lacking truthiness to begin with.
according to seven colbert, truthiness is a devotion to information that he wishes were true even if it's not.
I was but I think I've been cured or at least gotten over it.
i have had time to think about this........... i was an attendent for many years.......... and looking up and down the rows at every family that was seating there in the khs........... no one was happy!.
i think of my mother (who brought this religion into our house)......she was one of the most unhappy and miserable people you would ever meet!
she was a spiritual orphan with few friends and no real family to speak of.. she got the "good news" back in 1950, that "the world" was a bad place and god, would soon be killing most everyone......she was thrilled!...............
People that get sucked into cults are usually at a low point in their lives. They get love bombed and are tricked into believing the WT has all the answers. After they have been there a while they begin to see it isn't the perfect religion they thought it was but they have a lot invested in it by that time. Edmund Gruss referred to them as the Apostles of Denial for good reason they take all the fun things away and don't give you much in return. For Christmas, Easter, birthdays you get the memorial. A boring even where where you get to pass around wine and crackers and no one dares to partake of anything. I haven't gone in years so it is hard for me to think back to how people were at the KH however I see them going door to door all the time and the look completely bored and miserable.
I would make it clear to him that I am no longer interest because I now realize that many of there teachings are false. I would print some examples and encourage him to look into them himself. I would tell him to come back and see me if he ever get out of the WT.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/4394987.html goodfellowstresalyn gray sits on the couch with husband jermaine giles and daughter ikea, while her other children, brajae', from left in front, a.j.
and jernay on his shoulders, share a laugh.
giles was severely injured in an auto accident in april and has not been able to work.tony bullard: for the chronicle since tresalyn gray's husband was injured in a car crash in april, she has focused on dealing with the emotional stress on her family.
She asked Goodfellows to help make the holiday season special for her four children
Jehovah's Witnesses don't have a "holiday season". You'd think even the most brain dead witness would know that much about their religion. Why didn't they go to elders if they needed help? I guess it would be a little difficult to go to the elders and ask for financial assistance so you could get the kids presents at Christmastime. You might get an answer like this: Well brother thickie in case you haven't been paying attention during the past 10 years since you became a Jehovah's Witness.............WE DON'T CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
from as long as i remember the watchtower society has painted an idyllic rural scene for their future existence on the planet earth, free from the non jehovah servers that live now.. my mother regularly talks about her 'little donkey and cart' that she's going to own in the 'new system of things'.. so do the jehovah's witnesses dream of living in an 'amish paradise' minus the amish, of course?.
do they have any idea what kind of nightmare existence that entails, especially adding on top of that five meetings a week, continuing fs, studying etc?.
Anyone see this series on TV or read the book? I think this is gives us a pretty good idea of what it would really be like in a Watchtower. paradise. Who would they asign to do these jobs? I'd also rather have the "dirt nap".
in the january 1 2007 wt, there is the following quote in one of the articles regarding the "first resurrection" (there are a few other posts on that article already):.
it seems that resurrected ones of the 24 elders group may be involved in communicating of divine truths today.. this may be the most significant sentence in the article (haven't read it in its entirety yet).
i don't recall seeing anything like it in print before.. seems to be laying the groundwork for a "flash of new light", to be exposed probably whenever the last of the 3 old-timers hanging on (barr, barber, jaracz) drop off:.
It seems that resurrected ones of the 24 elders group may be involved in communicating of divine truths today.
Do the dead contact them or do they contact the dead? I wonder if they'll publish a list of the names of the spirits who are working with them.
