i used to be here a real lot.
now i make about 15 posts , if that,.
per day and read a few other threads that interest me.
Dear Diary,
Thank God for the forum. RiRi's gut-wrenching autobiop gave me a perspective I didn't know possible. I've been hurt and I have hurt. But toxic people must be excised from our lives, however nastily they rant about what we are "doing to them." Get back to you this eve, DD.
I think I might just make it , after all!
C...
it was the 14th of april last year that i had to sit my mother down and tell her i was an apostate.. i was closer to her than anyone else.
my father and mother are still married, but he let her raise me as a witness, and that meant it was me and mom.. me and mom in field service for 100 hours in july because she had to make her time as a regular pioneer.. me and mom fighting over what to bring for lunch to the district convention.. me and mom up late at night, when she would berate me, and then unload all her problems on to me.. me and mom and our 4 hour family studies, where we discuss 2 paragraphs of a random book, and then she would browbeat me until early in the morning.. somehow, through all that, i pretended to be a witness for years, just to appease her.
looking back, i don't know if i loved her, or if i was just afraid of her.
Dear Richie,
I am sorry. Just now read your words---difficult for me as I only earlier today "gave up" my friend Schizo. Cannot give the real details. But he runs the lives of those close to him. Impossible to reason with. Might as well be the GB---same effect. Your painful story has come at a crossroads for me; it will help me move forward and heal.
Wow---are you ever eloquent!
Peace and love,
CoCo
i used to be here a real lot.
now i make about 15 posts , if that,.
per day and read a few other threads that interest me.
Dear Diary,
Back from some much needed exercise and talk with a neighbor. He needs some help around the place. A good thing, after all, that I got out for a bit. Cleared the head and a new little job. Debussy's "Reverie" was on earlier. Such a cool, dreamy piece---well, that's the name.
Got to do some more reading: MOBY DICK, GALILEO'S DAUGHTER, ISOCF.......
Back later on, DD.
C...
i used to be here a real lot.
now i make about 15 posts , if that,.
per day and read a few other threads that interest me.
Dear Diary,
I am once again beside myself. Schizo called and simply cannot understand what grief he causes others. They are cowards if they do not agree and champion his cause. God will strengthen you to take up my cause. My own issues and battles are of no concern to him. I must focus on Schizo and his needs. It's no wonder I had to turn off the phone and go to an answering service. My mistake for calling him back. He said that I and everyone else he knows is afraid. Well, good luck, Don Quixote---you can go tilting at the Borg for all you're worth. I choose not to bring down the So. with your fire and vengeance. I called you back, I hung up on your abuse, and I am sorry---for you, not for hanging up. Five years of this; escaping the WT was a piece of cake by comparison.
I am still shaking, DD. May go for a vigorous walk and shake off the shakes.
C...
i used to be here a real lot.
now i make about 15 posts , if that,.
per day and read a few other threads that interest me.
Dear Diary,
A very good morning to you! Looks as if, once again, the Academy Awards are looming on the horizon---next month. I'm in an emotional muddle over best actress category; I only saw Meryl Streep's film, "The Devil Wears Prada." She was incredible. Then I hear Judi Dench and Helen Mirren are up too! Guess I'll have to spring for a DVD player to see their work. All my faves. Forrest Whitaker and Leo DiCappucino up for the guys.
Sir Edward Elgar's gorgeous "Enigma Variations" playing now on NPR. A set of 14 variations on EE's then anonymous 14 friends---hence, the "enigma." Written---or published?---in 1899. Conducted by [Sir] John Barbirolli, Philharmonia Orchestra.
Warmish today---somewhere in the 50s. "State of the Union" by GWB tonight; 20,000 more troops. Palestinians in Bahgdad fear for their lives.
Back after the breaking of the fast, DD.
C...
direct and cross-examination questions in child custody cases.
wtb&ts, page 42.
"be careful that they [jw children being questioned] don't get the impression that they are in a demonstration at the circuit assembly, when they would show that the first things in life are service and going to the kingdom hall.
BTTT
I repeat---Dr. Jerry Bergman's article on WTSTWS and "her" peculiar need to lie:
www.dannyhaszard.com/whylie.htm
CoCo
during the gilead school graduation exercises, september 7, 1975, fred franz admitted to the students and their families that no governing body existed during the time of the apostles, nor one since then.
he had already concluded that the doctrine of a governing body from the days of the apostles to the present was a false teaching.
as franz revealed the unscriptural nature of the doctrine, his audience sat in bewildered silence.
bttt
hi all ,got my copy today read 90 pages already ,so far very interesting and an eye opener rutherford comes across as a very dishonest man and a dictator.
knorr comes across as very insecure.anyway back to it .have fun and i will let you know as i read more .dan
Regarding Objective and Subjective Assessment of the Man, Ray Franz, and His Work:
Please consider the opinions of JWD Board Members, vis-a-vis RF and his writing,
FWF Disavows GB on 9/7/75 --- www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/126699/1.ashx
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i used to be here a real lot.
now i make about 15 posts , if that,.
per day and read a few other threads that interest me.
Dear Diary,
What do you think of this letter, from a daughter to her father? It is in reference to the death of her father's sister, her aunt:
"We are terribly saddened by the death of your cherished sister, our dear aunt; but our sorrow at losing her is as nothing compared to our concern for your sake, because your suffering will be all the greater, Sire, as truly you have no one else left in your world, now that she, who could not have been more precious to you, has departed, and therefore we can only imagine how you sustain the severity of such a sudden and completely unexpected blow. And while I tell you that we share deeply in your grief, you would do well to draw even greater comfort from contemplating the general state of human misery, since we are all of us here on Earth like strangers and wayfarers...."
Those are the words of Sister Maria Celeste, written to her father, Galileo Galilei, from San Mateo in Arcetri, 10 May 1623. - GALILEO'S DAUGHTER, Dava Sobel, pp. 3, 4.
What a dear child she must have been! Of Galileo's three children, she alone was his confidante and reflected his intelligence. She proved herself a very sensible and hard-working individual, on behalf of the Church and her father. What an inspiration she is, to this very day.
The day was indeed beautiful, DD. I did more work on the grounds today, as payment toward the high cost of utilities this time of year. Ironic, that I, the gardener of this estate over 20 years ago, should now return and bring it all under control---as resident-gardener. I will have to take you outdoors, Dear Diary, to show you about. It is truly beautiful here, on Walden Pond............
C...
direct and cross-examination questions in child custody cases.
wtb&ts, page 42.
"be careful that they [jw children being questioned] don't get the impression that they are in a demonstration at the circuit assembly, when they would show that the first things in life are service and going to the kingdom hall.
[Discussion of various circumstances under which the WTBTS "asserts" that the end justifies the means---only when pursued by the Organization.]:
"Similar examples of inconsistency may also be found even in Watch Tower counsel given Witnesses, including young people, who are to testify under oath before a court. The legal department of the Society now supplies a brochure to Witnesses who are faced with child custody cases (the opposing mate in such cases generally being a non-witness). The brochure of more than 60 pages supplies guidelines to Witness parents, their children and their attorneys, as well as local elders and others who may testify, by reviewing difficult questions that may be presented by the opposing side and then offering suggested sample responses. Recalling the WATCHTOWER article on honesty cited earlier, we may remember that it asked:
'What about truthfulness? Do we really respect the truth, or are we
willing to twist the truth a little bit, to get out of an inconvenient circum-
stance, or to get something we want?' - WT, 3/15/77, pp.191, 192.
"Compare that with some of the responses suggested in the Society's manual. Under "APPROACH BY WITNESS PARENT TO CROSS-EXAMINATION," we find this question and suggested answer (page 12):
'Will all Catholics (or other) be destroyed?'
'Jehovah makes those judgments, not we.'
"This sounds good, implies freedom from a dogmatic, judgmental attitude. Yet the Witness so responding knows that his organization's publications clearly teach that only those who are in association with "Jehovah's organization" will survive the "great tribulation," and that those who fail to come to that organization face destuction."
["Only Jehovah's Witnesses, those of the anointed remnant and the "great crowd," as a united organization under the protection of the Supreme Organizer, have any Scriptural hope of surviving the impending end of this doomed system dominated by Satan the Devil." - WT, 9/1/89, p. 19.]
More information on WT "broadmindedness" to come. [ISOCF, Ray Franz, p.283 (above)].
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