.
or would he?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5ky5clijl8.
Hey Juni, yep cool hair do. I love sixties style, music, movies etc. Yes I do know the Dave Clark 5 well - I collect sixties vinyl, especially singles and EPs.
Clam
Edited after seeing Juni's pic
Wow -groovy Juni - Here's a picture of me in the 60s but I reckon it's about 1963. Maybe we should start a thread of posters when they were kids?
.
or would he?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5ky5clijl8.
Hey Juni
Just for you here's the real thing. Was that you screaming in the audience?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DcV1UI1B6M
Clam
.
or would he?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5ky5clijl8.
Jeff it's a shame they put the English subtitles in, or I would've assumed it was simply I Wanna Hold Your Hand being sung in Hindi.
Having said that the Bollywood producers have great experience in pushing tackiness to the limit.
.
or would he?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5ky5clijl8.
or would he?
it is my parents wedding anniversary saturday and every year since i left i have always sent them a card.
i wondered whether i should or not this year.
on balance i wasn't sure what would upset them more - waiting for a card that never came, or receiving a card at all, especially since i said in december that i wouldn't "bother" them anymore.. anyway it felt right to send a card so i did and i decided to put a little note inside, folded and bearing the message: "my news, but don't read it if you aren't interested".
Crumpet the whole shunning crap really gets to me. I feel a mixture of sadness and anger. People are deprived of family love and association for the sake of a big fat pile of bullshit. Ughh.
Shall I start something fluffy to offset the down side?
Yeah go then, LOL.
it is my parents wedding anniversary saturday and every year since i left i have always sent them a card.
i wondered whether i should or not this year.
on balance i wasn't sure what would upset them more - waiting for a card that never came, or receiving a card at all, especially since i said in december that i wouldn't "bother" them anymore.. anyway it felt right to send a card so i did and i decided to put a little note inside, folded and bearing the message: "my news, but don't read it if you aren't interested".
Heartbreaking. (((((Crumpet)))))
Clam
(who needs cheering up now )
i have pondered this question on many occasions.
when i began to have 'doubts' and began to 'question' some doctrine, and particularly the lack of christian love, very little effort was made to 'snatch me out of the fire' as elders are admonished to do.
i have always wondered why we as jw's would spend countless hours trying to start bible studies with 'wordly' people, while at the same time ignoring those who are moving away from dead center of the organization.
It was always a mystery to me too. I agree with Willyloman. Admonishment is easy. Conciliation is harder.
The WTS
ä is a commercial organisation that in my opinion doesn't protect its investment, although maybe it can be said that shunning and other methods are their preferred tactic.
I stopped going to meetings
and only one person asked me why, my Elder ä brother-in-law. "Don't you believe it's the truth anymore?" he asked. I love him to bits and I didn't want to rock his world. "Yes I do but I can't live up to the standards" I replied. I'd so much love to go back in time and give him the real answer. In an attempt to save his feelings I put the blame on myself rather than the Watchtower. ä
Clam
Ó
the book study overseer hasn't asked why i won't come to the bookstudy, he gets .
be the month i stopped going to the k.h.
not going this week than it was about missing other meetings.. i told her that i would not be going to the meetings at all anymore.
Good one OnTheWayOut. Congratulations on saying goodbye to the meetings. It sounds as though your wife is an intelligent and reasonable lady. I know there are many powerful factors here, but I hope that your wife will see you as a strong independently minded man who has the strength of his convictions. It takes guts to do what you're doing, and whatever the cult dishes out I'm sure you'll come out of it with a lot of respect.
Clam
compound complex has a thread that starts with the words persecution wanes.
in it he states:.
"after the judge's death, as world war ii was ending and persecution against the witnesses began declining, along .
Getting back to the subject matter, I found this quote. Not only are the WTS merely a printing and publishing company but Jehovah himself appears to have been involved in the commercial enterprise, either at the manufacturing end or at the seed funding stage -
"The interpretation of prophecy, therefore, is not from man, but is from Jehovah; and Jehovah causes events to come to pass in fulfillment of the prophecy in due time.
It is his truth, and not man's ; and when men attempt to give the honor and glory for the message of truth to a man or men, such make fools of themselves.
Jehovah provides the machinery, the printing presses, and all materials for the purpose of preparing his fiery message that must be poured out or scattered upon ‘Christendom’...
They carry the message of truth to the people in printed form;.... They go from house to house, carrying the message of truth in printed form of books and magazines."
WT 5/1/1938 page 143
Clam
i want to see if i imagined it!.
mad.
Did you see anything Strange at the Memorial- if you went???
I want to see if I imagined it !I
Oh you mean the horse in the swimming stuff? Yes I wondered what that was all about.
