a sin worse than apostasy .
there was a very nice young couple in our congregation with one child.
no one could see why she should not be reinstated.
Reading that account gave me an immediate thought. She was attractive.
Subconsciously the elders were sexually attracted to her, as they are the roosters in the henhouse. She rejected them by looking outside, so they as good as killed her.
Only sexual rejection can create such a reaction.
i think i got a donation maybe once or twice here in the states.
most of the friends don't ask for a donation.
in south america, more people donated, but i think it's because it was phrased differently, we used to say, "you can give whatever you want for this magazine.
I always had the attitude, How can I charge money for truth?? Receive free, give free. (I know that wtbts always had a price on "truth")
That is still my mantra. When I read New Age stuff that charges thousands for a three day spiritual course I cringe and cry bullshit!
7 am - i wake up and walk up to my wife, "good morning, my precious!".
7:30 am *she hits the flasher button indicating she needs me* "yes, my queen??
" wife "oh stop.
Seeing I have no current fem in my life, I say to self "Gee your'e a great guy, let me buy you lunch!"
Self blushes and replies "Now you'll think I am interested in you if I except"
hubby says this site is making me obsessed, in a way that's making me angrier and angrier about jw's.
it's been almost every single day that i read a thread that seriously gets under my skin or makes me sick about them.
he's right, there's a lot on here that will only fuel my fire and help me to go into an angry spiral instead of bettering my life and forgetting about all the stuff i hate about the witnesses.
T o back up Carla's point, I ran into a jw not an hour ago and he actually spoke to me!
So I told him how (honestly) happy I am and that my exjw daughter is now a supervisor of ICU in the states largest hospital and is joining Doctors Without Borders when her children are old enough to take care of themselves. It's a gentle dig that "worldly" people are doing far more in a practical way than jws ever did to relieve people's suffering.
He seemed genuinely touched, so my witnessing for my current truth may have planted a seed.
imagine obama goes to the beach with his body guards....goes for a swim and disappears forever...no body, nothing!
this is what happened with our prime minister harold holt in 1967. went for a swim with a couple friends and bodyguards and disappeared.
search and rescue found nothing.
Cameo-d, you are closer than you realise!
He was having a long standing affair and was actually at the beach with her when it happened. That is why there was so much secrecy.
They had a holiday house down the coast from Melbourne. It is a notorious area for strong rips and large sharks. He was fit, a keen diver and swimmer but that coast is treacherous esp on the tide change.
if not, what age will you be when you are old?
as you age, do the answers change?.
Wasn't it said that you are only as old the one you feel? LOL
For the posters who live outside Australlia, a dingo is a native dog that has a reputation for being gutless and attacking the weak and defensless. Of course it runs off when it sees a man.....
well?.
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bf.
The first century also had (by bible reckoning anyhow) Jesus performing personal miracles, miraculous speaking in foreign languages (tongues), direct healings, resurrections, evidoers in congregations being struck dead for greed, direct visions of Jesus raised to heaven.
What happened?
Oh so they say that these miracles are no longer required due to preaching work? Well then no longer a need for cong, elders servants etc etc. Can't have it both ways.....
imagine yourself as a young generation dressed up in today's pop culture style, listening to today's popular music and have a pop culture phrases such as "dude", "chill" "l33t", "epic fail", "fo shizzle", etc.
you get my meaning.. now imagine a 80 year old trying to stay on top of today's pop culture with his pants below his waist with his underwear showing, along with some bling - bling, bangin' to today's popular music, etc.
(ew, i think i just threw up a little).. how do you guys feel seeing older generation trying to "get with it" in terms of language, clothing style, music and everything else that's considered "cool" in today's pop culture?.
It's an interesting point. In this country I see that fashion is stalling.
The baby boomers who ran fashion for the last twenty plus yrs, marketed to all generations, so this backfired into nothing being unique. Look at surf clothing. I see eighty yr old people wearing Billabong and Rip Curl surf and snow gear.
Knda funny that the next generation may find fashion in second hand shops, costing nothing...
i would like to know from everyone first of all what they think the difference is between a df'd person and a da'd person.. i would also like to know what everyone thinks that jw's think is the difference between a df'd and da'd person.. personally i am df'd.
i was df'd 10 years ago almost and did not argue it at all as i had no desire to continue as a jw anyway.
before being df'd i was always under the impression that if a person da'd themselves it almost always meant they were " apostate" and that there was no way a jw should have any contact with them.
I don't know or care if I am disfellowshipped or disascociated, just so long as they DON'T talk to me.
I want no contact with them on any level, "family" included.
This is not anger, more embarrassment! Lol
