my mother started studing with the jw's when i was 2 years old.
she became more involved with the organization over the next few years.
i was very young so i don't remember much about my early years in the jw's.
CBeMe: Welcome to the forum!
"I still have problems reacting with and relating to other people from being so isolated growing up. I am still very innocent in a lot of areas"
Boy oh boy, is THAT ever the truth! The REAL truth. I'm almost twice your age, and am just now coming out of that developmental fog.
"All I really want in life is the freedom to make my own decisions."
So easy to say, so hard to do, eh?
Again, WELCOME!
Craig
"Halfway House, Next to Soon-to-be Empty Lot"
there was an elder at our hall ,when he would call on someone , he would help the brother with the mic to find the person.
he did this by saying: " sister little in the front"....hehehhe ,, of course being bored to death, this always cracked several us of rowdy back seat sitters up.. here are more examples from our old hall.
sister key , in the rear.
Well, this is more of a "things done on the stage" thing.
Phil Daugherty had a service meeting part about "Workers in the Field," and he asked Jan Utting and me to assist. This was in the days (35 years ago) when meeting parts could be "spiced up" a little. He brought some old construction clothes to the Hall, and they were so big that Jan and I could put them on over our suits. We went over to a side room that had a door leading out onto the stage. When he started his part, we went over into the room and put on these big old baggy dirty clothes. On cue, we came up on stage, each with shovels in our hands. We stood there, both doing everything possible to refrain from laughing out loud, while Phil went on with his talk about how good it was to be hard workers in the field.
Well, the pants I had on over were SOOOOO big that I had to hold them up by grabbing them through the pocket in the old frumpy coat I was wearing. In the course of my belly chuckles, I didn't realize that I'd lost the grip on my pants, and down they went!
All of a sudden, the whole audience was laughing their asses off!!!! Don Whiteman (the congregation servant) always sat in the front row, and he was literally stretched out so far laughing that only his shoulders were still on the seat.
Of course, Phil, Jan and I had NOOOO idea what was going on, until we all looked down at the pants bundled around my ankles. End of talk, off the stage.
Still brings a big smile to my face.
Craig
Except for beer and sex, of course
Craig
just sitting here watching the action, noting that a lot of it comes from a certain sector, nudge nudge.
thinking, why not set up a special area that would encompass the rollicking fun of people from this sector.
whatcha think, simon.
What's an Ozzie? Something from the Kama-Sutra?
Craig
the latest nov. km recommends getting the bound volumes from 1951 onward, because they are still useful to us.
if someone suggests that we shouldn't read the older publications because of the "old light", this km sets the matter straight!
my question is "why on earth would the society recommend re-reading these old volumes"?
I already reread those old volumes, years ago.
Only 5 more electroshock sessions to go, and that part of my brain will be cleared.
Muwahahaha!
Oops, sorry for the outburst...just had a treatment today.
Craig
i've been doing a lot of thinking about christmas with it coming up so quickly.
its a little overwhelming rethinking your whole belief system.
how many of you celebrate?
This Christmas will be my very first ever (after 50 years). And I already know that I'm going to get the very bestest gift I could ever ask for...
Katie (bikerchic) are getting married on Christmas Day!
Craig
i have received inquiries about how i was trained by spirit as a psychologist.
i was led to many sources of enlightenment.
books routinely was i led to that it was important i read.
Gauss's congruence notation made a significant impact on the development of number theory. One reason is that congruences share many properties with equations. For example, every number is congruent to itself, a a (mod m), and, if a b (mod m), then b a (mod m). Also, if a b (mod m) and b c (mod m), then a c (mod m). For a given modulus, congruences can be added, subtracted, and multiplied as though they were equations.
Oh well, let's try 12543706
Craig
my sister who is still a jw called me today and was talking to me about my "situation".
i said to her that i am studing, doing research and trying to find my way and what i believe.. i said how mum said is pleading for me to go back to the meetings and i said to my sister that i cannot make up my own mind if i am at the meetings.
her reply was "the only way you can is at the meetings because that is where you get holy spirit from.".
SoxofNine: "...and of course I'm gonna die. If I didn't, I'd be the first."
Hebrews 9:27 "Just as man is destined to die once...
I can face that.
...and after that to face judgment"
I can face that too.
DJ: "Just seek and you shall find."
What God reveals to us individually, and what we discover in ourselves, varies. And we may very well discover a simpler way of seeing life. Ocham's razor.
Craig
here and there a newbie will post and its obvious that they think that this site is for jw's and not ex's.
did any of you ever come across an apostate site on accident?
what about the first time you came here?
Simon: No way I would give up "onacruse" now, especially after being so aptly described as a "soppy sod."
Craig
edited to correct "sloppy sod" to "soppy sod" LOL
Edited by - onacruse on 24 October 2002 3:25:33
