yesterday i was trying to find a place to park at the clinic.
and its not easy.
so i see a guy get in his car, so i put on my blinker and wait.
Impatient people who think they can drive your car with their horn! They are so anxious to get around you they don't care if you're already going over the posted speed limit and when they do pass they have to flip you off and tear off like they are soooo pissed off!
Road rage has gotten so bad I always keep a loaded pistol in my lap just in case I get behind some slowpoke.
i know god has sense of humor.
i believe i have been the butt of a few of his jokes!
so when i saw this one, i just burst out laughing!
Jesus on the cross: "Hey, Peter! I can see your house from here!"
i know god has sense of humor.
i believe i have been the butt of a few of his jokes!
so when i saw this one, i just burst out laughing!
King David to his men: "I need you to circumcise at least 10,000 Philistines today, and try to be back by five, we're having fried clams tonight"
i just noticed that minimus has a similar thread....i guess he knew that i was going to start this thread, so he started it a few days before me........... .
gas was $1.13 a litre last night and this morning its up uto $1.22 a litre.
so it's as if gas went up from $4.27 to $4.61 a gallon overnight.
Here in Portland, OR I paid $2.699 for regular yesterday, $32.00+ to fill the tank of my Camry which gets about 23 mpg around town, 32 hwy.
the elders love me!.
they want to meet with me again, tonight at 8:00pm, no explaination as to why, just that they need to ask me some more questions.they must miss me by now its been almost a week since my last committee meeting with them.
i've picked up some interesting bits of information from listening to the audio files and i feel i might know the reason they want to meet with me.
"We wont be brining in any witnesses because we don't want to get in arguments over words"
It's good to know that they have stopped pickling witnesses.
Sorry, I don't usually jump on typos but I really like that one.
i've been disfellowshipped for 4 years now (for loose conduct - lol) .
what i want to know is, what am i supposed to believe now?
i was brought up a jw but i know that so many of their teachings and doctrines are completely false.
Go back and re-read Terrys post on pg 2. He put it as well as it can be put. Try this too, Google the term "secular humanism" (or humanist) Read some of the basic tenets of that philosophy. They make a lot of sense. It works for me.
But, if you still crave a supernatural fix, well, you've already said you were moved by the "Passion of the Christ" movie with all its heavy Catholic blood and suffering, etc. Maybe you would be happy as a Catholic.
Best wishes
i was happily day-dreaming the other day.
and somehow i thought of the witnesses i've personally known who've gone to china to spread watchtower propaganda.
and then this absolutely malevolent thought struck me.
I say leave 'em be. They are misled WT clones like we were in the past.
Bad karma, too. Also bad Feng Shui. Not as bad as bad mooshu pork, but bad.
i mean, noah's ark???.
floods over mt everest???.
burning bushes???.
News making events in Afganistan and other conservative Islamic regimes over the last few years has helped me to look at the Old Testament from a fresh perspective. It is so similar to the ultra conservative, anti-female, harsh discipline of the mullahs today. Cutting off heads and hands for minor infractions, publicly killing women for showing their faces, denying them even basic education, the parallels go on and on. As far as the supernatural events, like those associated with Moses story, etc. I know that these are simply the fabrications and exagerations common to all primitive religions, pagan or Israelite. Great stories, but please, don't take them seriously!
there are things in life you cannot relate to, you just have to observe.
before the generation change in 1995, i had read coc and discussed it with my father who has been a jw since the late 60s and had a first-hand-experience on the 1975 fiasco.
he admitted that there was some disappointment.
I think Dr Jekyl called it. I like people like your father. They do everything with a lot of passion and they wear their emotions on their sleeve. He feels personally vindicated right now but it is inevitable that another issue will test him. Stay cool and nuetral with it and he will always come back to you for a shoulder to lean on.
just got home from a family easter get together in vancouver, wa.
had bbq chicken, ham, potato salad, etc.
we had a huge peep war that spilled into the street and got the neighbors involved.
Just got home from a family Easter get together in Vancouver, WA. Had BBQ chicken, ham, potato salad, etc.
We had a huge Peep war that spilled into the street and got the neighbors involved. Great fun! This is a family tradition that goes back over fifty years. It started when we were witnesses and a relative worked at the Peep factory and brought home seconds by the sack full. We realized that marshmallow Peeps were not good to eat but were great to throw. They make a satisfying 'thwack'! when you hit someone at close range.
