richie's thread got me wondering what ever happened to the practice of chaperoning???
i mean really, was this just a regional thing where i grew up?
we had to have a chaperone always with the opposite gender even if we were old!
Ugh I hated being the chaperone. My sister and her husband's first conversation alone was in the car leaving their wedding.
I visited my brother in bethel once, and his roomie was away for the weekend. I wasn't allowed to sleep in his roomie's bed that night because of 'what people might think'.
Oh don't get me started. I'm just glad I didn't marry when I was still living with my parents...
i think that motherdarling actually likes to hear about earthquakes, especially the ones that cause a lot of death.
i don't know why she's so excited about terrorist bombings and hurricanes though, they're not mentioned in matthew except for the faint out of fear thing.
i saw a website once with exact stats on eathquakes in the last few centuries and was delighted to learn that they only seem to have increased because of the increased population in areas where they occur and the more sophisticated technology detecting small shudders and movement in seabeds etc.
Oh and hurricanes, storms and terrorist attacks are also covered under the 'faint out of fear' theme.
i think that motherdarling actually likes to hear about earthquakes, especially the ones that cause a lot of death.
i don't know why she's so excited about terrorist bombings and hurricanes though, they're not mentioned in matthew except for the faint out of fear thing.
i saw a website once with exact stats on eathquakes in the last few centuries and was delighted to learn that they only seem to have increased because of the increased population in areas where they occur and the more sophisticated technology detecting small shudders and movement in seabeds etc.
I think that MotherDarling actually likes to hear about earthquakes, especially the ones that cause a lot of death. I don't know why she's so excited about terrorist bombings and hurricanes though, they're not mentioned in Matthew except for the faint out of fear thing. I saw a website once with exact stats on eathquakes in the last few centuries and was delighted to learn that they only seem to have increased because of the increased population in areas where they occur and the more sophisticated technology detecting small shudders and movement in seabeds etc. That delusion is so frustrating... a recent sister's answer to a watchtower question was (imperfect quote due to poor memory): "Clearly the planet is falling apart - the weather systems are causing earthquakes". I wanted to run a little instant lesson on plate tectonics, to demonstrate that even in a perfect world, they're going to need earthquakes to replace all the livable land that gets washed into the sea.
was about 8:30 last night and the phone rang....it was an elder from my old congo he wanted to come over and i said "why" and he goes we want to know what we can do to help you spiritually.
in which i replied "things havnt changed for me i still feel the same way, there are things i dont believe in and never will and im not going to be one of those hypocrites sitting there pretending i believe,.
a bit of background info i sent my d\a letter off prob bout 7 months ago now, they just disregarded it thinking i was doing it to get back at my dad!.so he asked me last night after 7 months if i wanted them to go through with the d\a letter...i was like wtf.
Hey I don't know about all that... they might have just set it aside for you to think about. If there was never an announcement they might be wondering now what to do about your letter and if they should start the ball rolling; that might have been what the call was about, just an 'are you sure?' thing.
All the best for the upcoming wedding Es, I'll post details of mine when I can.
do you think it matters?
how long did it take for you to start voting?
was it liberating?.
Mah man just suggested that if witnesses voted they'd expect to get a say in the running of other organsations that control their life, like, say, the congregation, or choosing their branch overseer, etc.
there is a tv programme on at the moment on itv and it just got to me.
i was surprised but perhaps i shouldn't be.. it was about kids here getting their 16 yr qualifications...they're gcse's for those who are not in the uk.
anyway, it showed a girl getting the same results as me, pretty much a's for all exams, and her family listening to her results and celebrating them.
No, they're discouraging college again... this year's drama focussed on young Timothy who also when weaned had to go to be a fine elder and there he did grow... sorry just had a little 'youth song' flashback there.
Okay, in this drama Timothy was young and had a cool friend who was moving to the big smoke for an education and encouraging Timothy to also. Timothy however has bigger plans which include being the unpaid page boy for some travelling older men until he becomes a man himself which isn't until he's 30. These guys like to impose themselves upon the hospitality of their new poverty-stricken congregations and if they're not given the good wine and having their feet oiled with tears and dried with human hair they walk out of the city and shake the dust off their sandals. Ha! Take that, you god-forsaken city! See how you like watching a smelly old man who eats stolen grain shake the dust off his warty unwashed feet! That will teach you a thing or two about hospitality.
Sorry, sidetracked again. Timothy tours a lot and hooks up with his hip buddy sometimes who is doing very nicely thanks to a local guy who has good contacts. Hip guy also gets a nice new bride who looks like she'll be a bit high-maintenance in the future, but at least she knows her place, which is in the kitchen preparing refreshments for the men *insert stupidly large food preparation gestures*. Eventually Timothy sees that his hip buddy's contact is a bit of a skim merchant and talks his buddy into living a more simple life. Ahhhh... see? That education really wasn't worth it in the end.
i was cruising through the nicer neighborhoods today at lunch, looking @ houses.
i saw a car up ahead that appeared to be broken down.
i could see i guy in a suit standing next to it.
The "how to treat disfellowshipped ones" article written by Franz in the seventies includes offering assistance to a disfellowshipped sister with a flat tyre who was on her way to the kingdom hall scenario... but that wasn't reiterated in the more recent articles, and my sister actually told me that this means it has been retracted. Retards.
i went over and visited my parents today.
my mom broke her hip while we were in hawaii, and i've been mostly house/bed ridden myself since we got home.
so i finally got over there today.. we talked a little about the hurricane, which was on the news she turned off.
Yeah it cuts me up too... mostly it's Motherdarling, for whom the system has outlasted at least 20 years. We weren't going to grow up and make our own lives as adults, we weren't going to need to make grown-up decisions. She wasn't going to need a retirement plan, she wasn't going to have to put her parents in care.
Mind you, I wasn't going to graduate high school either, much less get long beyond college age and resent those years out in the field.
do you think it matters?
how long did it take for you to start voting?
was it liberating?.
Do you think it matters? How long did it take for you to start voting? Was it liberating?
my wife and i just got home from the gym and there were 2 jw's at our door.
i couldn't help myself....i felt rage building up inside but i tried to play it cool.
just coming off the ne apostafest and hearing everyones story just pissed me off when i saw those two dubs standing there.
ooo-ahhh! Well done.
I'm preparing a story, about 'a girl I work with, she used to be in your church, but was molested by her father who was a minister, and they only spoke to him and didn't call the police, it was exactly like those girls who were on (find out name of show and quote it)'... etc Their first reaction is to defend their faith to non-believers; they must clear up these lies I have been told.
If they fall for it, 'she told me that you believe in ... and this can't be true because.....'
not too knowledgeable, mind!
