after 3 days of work at home depot i have come to the conclusion that i do not like work.. please send money.. love.
joel
Somebody call poor Joel a waaaambulance!
Here's how to do it, JB: http://www.oddtodd.com/
Joel, I love my job, but sometimes the circumstances start to really suck bad. At those times I have to remind myself, the only real reason I'm doing this is that I keep getting hungry all the time.
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and the lord was with joshua.... the lord commands joshua .
1 after the death of moses the servant of the lord , the lord said to joshua son of nun, moses' aide: 2 "moses my servant is dead.
now then, you and all these people, get ready to cross the jordan river into the land i am about to give to them-to the israelites.
By faith Noah constructed an ark for the saving of his household.
By faith Abraham resided as an alien in the land of promise.
By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.
By faith Sarah received power to conceive seed.
...By faith Joshua stoned cows and donkeys...
(Hebrews chapter 11)
there has been much said about the watchtower saying that the end would come in 1975. i have never seen any evidence that the watchtower said the end would definitely come in 1975. if there was such evidence, there would certainly be little or no witnesses left today, i believe.
i do not believe that excuses the fact that they definitely put that idea in peoples heads.
i was 10 years old then.
It is all in the bible, isn't it?
No.
i have watched the discussion on this forum for some time,have never been able to commit to a response.. my question is this , while recognizing the catharsis of discussion and debate ,when do we say enough is enough and get on with it?(life).
how do we,why are we so drawn to the process of yelling at a community who largely will not hear.
when do we say enough is enough and get on with it?(life)
You stopped?
numbers 31.
31 so moses and eleazar the priest did as the lord commanded moses.
32 the plunder remaining from the spoils that the soldiers took was 675,000 sheep, 33 72,000 cattle, 34 61,000 donkeys 35 and 32,000 women who had never slept with a man.
I'm sure God's portion was used by the priests.
> > subject: "he doesn't serve god" .
> > even though this is just a poem, we know from experiences that we read .
>in> > > the publications that this has indeed been the sad outcome for .
Sounds like the author is trying desperately to convince herself.
i posted on the belief board last week when i started reading a book by thich nhat hanh.
i read the chapter on self-love and was deeply moved.
i know society, but especially the borg tells people to be selfless and do all these things for others and the borg, that we tend to feel awful about ourselves.
Thanks, 77. It isn't possible to genuinely love anyone else until you love yourself. And everything we do--EVERYTHING--is selfish. Even self-sacrifice is done because of how it makes us feel. That's as it should be.
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i thought the name of this thread was so on time for this thread demostrates one of the sad things about claiming to speak for god, when one actually does not.. when i was a newly appointed elder at the tender age of 27 .
i was introduced to the world of the judical committee.. it was in fact my first case.
i had gotten a call from the po before the meeting stating that their would be an elders meetings to discuss some judical matters.
Oops, my mistake. I thought this was another butalbee post.
the question keeps coming up here.. how could we have ever been a part of something so evil and sinister as the watchtower society?.
maybe its because we are evil.. joel
I joined the Watchtower Society because I was evil. Here's what I told them when I decided to get baptized.
this week is spring break for school children and so my kids are home this week.
while i was at work yesterday some witnesses paid a visit to my home and tried to talk my 14 year old son into having a bible study.
when my son politely refused, saying that he could not commit to a study without first asking permission of his parents, they told him that they knew many children who had defied their parents to study with the witnesses and come to meetings.
There is a very simple logic supporting their actions, as anyone who was once a dub ought to know. It is that they have life-saving truth and the time is short. Jesus said, "I came to put, not peace, but a sword. For I will cause a division, with a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother... Indeed, a man's enemies will be persons of his own household."
I'm not saying they were right in their actions. I'm saying that they use stuff like this to convince themselves that they are right in such actions. You exJWs should know this, and should know also that just because you see the inherent wrongness of it doesn't mean they are going to see it as you do.
They will become convinced all the more of their rightness when you add something that can be construed as persecution. Best to simply keep a wholesome relationship with your child, and praise him for his good judgement in such situations.
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