i have lurked for over a year.
i keep coming back here - everytime i do - it's like witnessing a car wreck.
the things i don't want to read or believe are right here before my eyes - it's like a drug.
Welcome Sibboleth. I've also looked back on my life and felt the rage over a wasted youth. It's not easy to think about what you COULD have become had it not been for the Watchtower organization's insane rules.
It's never too late though. Go back to school, get your degree. I'm doing it right now, and so are a lot of others here.
The best way to let go of the past is to take control of your future.
its been a while since i posted here...hope everyone is well.. some in canada may read the national post newspaper...friday they had an editorial entitled "halfway between religion and cult", discussing the blood issue as it relates to the the surviving sextuplets in british columbia, canada.
i decided to respond, and to my suprise it become the "letter of the day", published in this weekend's edition of the post.
below is what i wrote.
Very well written!
i just want to know what most of jw(ex or inactive or active) parents use or used for curriculms.
and results of using certain ones.
I spy a fellow Jeep enthusiast. I almost home schooled when I was young, but my mother decided it would be better to keep me in school. My wife's brothers went through the American School program, it was total crap judging by their education level when they "graduated." As a thirty year old college student I would advise you focus a lot on Math and Science. Most of tomorrow's in-demand careers will depend upon these areas.
Today it's hard to find good engineers, but college graduates with business degrees are a dime a dozen.
i was wondering if anyone knew about the venue for a 2007 district (i believe) convention taking place in northeast pennsylvania over the labor day holiday?
where it's scheduled for?.
i work for a company that was trying to obtain blocks of hotel rooms for a soccer tournament the same weekend.
There's going to be a 2007 convention? I thought Deliverence was at hand?
my mom died last wednesday.
we buried her monday .
i am a bit numb still , she had been in ill health and i had tried to prepare myself for this day .
I'm so sorry for your loss Troubled Mind! I'm glad the elder had the decency to honor your feelings and beliefs. May your Mother rest in peace.
we had a talk at our hall recently and the speaker was quoting facts that i know had to be over 10 years old at least!
it was a talk on gods wonderfull creation.
he talked about things like the wonderfull organization of the universe.
Typically an elder has a set of canned talks he's developed over the years. My Dad had six or seven talks that he'd "perfected" and would give these over and over at every congregation we went to. (What a blast that was). It's likely that the elder who gave this talk actually worked it up twenty years ago, and just pulled it out of his briefcase last Sunday.
As far as the "scientific facts" that he mentioned.....what can you expect from people who barely graduated High School?
Jehovah's Witnesses, where else can a high school dropout/window washer have dominion over the lives of hundreds of people?
because of the length of this, it will be done in two parts.
part 1. i when to bethel march 21,1970. at the time you had to be a pioneer for two years to apply, by the time i left in 1974 they were calling people in who had never pioneered..........average stay was 5 months ( they had signed up for 4 years)..........the reason they left was......well, it was hell.. one of the reasons was, knorr hated bethelites, but he loved the gilead students and why?
because when they screwed up they were thousands of miles away!........just before i got there, they had kicked out over 60!
I still remember what a big deal it was to tell my Mother I wasn't going to go to Bethel. She was so disappointed. Thanks for sharing your experience New Guy!
i was just nominated to the national dean's list.
i know that there are a lot of other college students and college graduates here, anybody ever been on it?
did it help your career, or is it just a waste of time?.
Did you join Phi Theta Kappa (the 2-year college honor society)?
Yes, I was inducted last semester. It looks like there are three of us here who are members. Going back to school has been very therapeutic for me. I've rediscovered my love for Mathematics, and am finally taking Physics. NYCKid, send me a link to your discussion group, I'd love to join. What are you guys majoring in? I'm going into Electrical Engineering.
i was just nominated to the national dean's list.
i know that there are a lot of other college students and college graduates here, anybody ever been on it?
did it help your career, or is it just a waste of time?.
Wow, Nobody?
while reviewing i.t.
consulting opportunities after leaving atlanta this week, i came across a whiz bang janitorial opportunity.
former pioneers, bethelites, co's, etc.
Sounds like your friends should touch base with this opportunity, then they could get a Lexus SUV and clean those offices real "clean". Maybe even run a bootleg WTS used book business out of the back of the vehicle, seeing that the GB is monitoring E-Bay. I say tell them to go for it.
Man, I just fell out of my chair spewing beer and laughing my a$$ off.
