you all are lost here, you have left "god's" organization and him.
you know its the "truth" you are just too lazy to make the effort, but you like it that way, to be worldy.
live as you want to and not how "god" tells you.
Live as you want to and not how "God" tells you.
Where does God tell us to turn in 10 hours of service a month? Where does God tell us to attend five meetings a week?
You don't live as God tells you, you live as the Society tells you. You do not worship the true God, you worship a man made organization. I feel pity for you.
yesterday after school i had to go work on a project with friends.
mom said be home by 5, but there was a huge accident a mile from where i live, and i sat on the road for like 10 - 12 minutes, and was 5 minutes late getting home.
mom was there (didn't go to work- guess why) and she was pissed.
Move out now! Take any future checks to a bank and deposit them, and tell Mom you want your 250 bucks back. Your mother is trying to establish control over your life, I went through the same issues with my mother 12 years ago, the only cure is to get out of their house and be your own man.
Keep your head up Richie, your a brilliant guy you'll come out just fine. The best revenge now is to live well. The organization has trained your mother in the belief that seperation from the Society leads to peril, spiritual and financial. Find a roommate, enroll in college and move into the dorms, join a good church and network with them for new friends.
Your mother has no right to take your cash or possessions.
does anyone still have any friends at bethel?
it seems that there is a massive layoff at bethel in all three american complexes.
the layoff is supposed to affect everyone between the ages of 35-50 or maybe 60. i feel sorry for persons who chose to stay there, they gave up going to college, possible job offers or making a decent amount of money, having children, the list can go on and on.
Or is it just as Legolas has put it, an idiom?
It's an idiom based upon a really old practice.
It's interesting to get some more news about the big lay-off, I feel for all those poor Bethelites who now have to make their own way out here in the real world. I have a brother-in-law who served for almost ten years in Brooklyn. When he finally met the right women, and got married, they gave him the boot. His new wife wasn't healthy enough (i.e. the total sum of her cleaning bathrooms productivity was less than the projected cost of her health care.) They've had a really hard time finding and keeping jobs, he keeps looking for some way to get back on the Organizational dole.....but to no avail.
neil young sets his sights on bush .
he is country rock's biggest icon, and he is angry.
recorded in secret, his forthcoming album savages the war in iraq.
I say bravo Neil! If you don't like his message don't listen to it. A lot of us supported Bush right after the 9-11 attacks, does that mean we don't have the right to change our minds later? I think not, on the contrary only a fool is that inflexible.
april 2006 km:
accidents and emergencies: emergency-response services have complained that they receive many cell-phone calls over minor matters.
if a medical emergency arises at the convention site, please contact a nearby attendant, who will immedietly notiy first aid so that our qualified personnel on site can assess the seriousness of the situation and render assistance.
My mother is an RN, and she works first aid at every convention/assembly she attends. Rarely are the first aid stations staffed with doctors though, the University of Awake does not currently offer a medical doctorate degree.
This announcement is just one more example of the controlling nature of the organization. I don't need some pimply faced 18 year old, wannabe Ministerial Servant determining for me whether I actually need an ambulance.
i'm growing tired of the phone calls from witness relatives proclaiming how wonderful it was that we had 203 in attendance, or 180, or 265, or whatever the number happens to be.
for whomever is calling.
someone from my old, old congregation informed me they had 203 and this person was just giddy about it.
I wonder what the average attendance at the Catholic Easter Mass was worldwide? 1 Billion? Numbers prove nothing, unless you're a JW.
it's his dad, he say's 'who is this?
the dad says 'where do you know my son from?
dad says, 'richie says he doesn't know you and i want to know how you know my son?
'hey its karl from school, i thought you were calling me tonight. its ok if you forgot or something. i will ring later'
Red flags just went up, Americans NEVER refer to a telephone call as "ringing" someone.
I have noticed that the price of food and other goods transported by truck have gone up. If we use public transportation, buses, cabs, planes, etc., we see an increase. Anything transported by trucks for sure will see or has seen a price increase.
That's the problem with the American economy, we are oil dependant. Everything we do ties back to oil in one way or another. The sad part is that we could convert to Ethanol and Bio-Diesel two replenishable resources that we can grow right here at home. Take the oil money away from middle-eastern countries, and you take some of the fuel away from the Islamic-Jihadist movement.
Memeber that in the US tax is pretty low compared to europe. .214 federal and .20 state, in most states.
Precisely, Europeans would pay about the same per gallon we would if their Socialist governments didn't add a 150-200% gas tax. But then, they do have better social services than we do, it's a trade off.
i've heard from 2 independent and impeccable sources "close to the gb" (i should have been a journalist!
) that the 2007 conventions are all to be held within a one month period.
as stadiums are often booked up to five years in advance , this has caused consternation among district overseers and at least one stadium has charged the jws several thousands of pounds in a penalty clause to cancel and reschedule the booking.
Here comes the Kool-Aid.
