Thanks, crmsicl:
Just what the doc (me, actually) ordered!
Signing off for the night.
Thanks everyone and stay in good health!
CC
Thanks, crmsicl:
Just what the doc (me, actually) ordered!
Signing off for the night.
Thanks everyone and stay in good health!
CC
Thanks, MrFreeze and Shirley, for that enlightening info -- much appreciated!
CoCo
That's it, troubled mind! We posted at the same time -- please see above. I'm really torn, given what has happened to me and some friends.
Thank you.
CoCo
Interesting posts, dear Tal and wasblind! THANKS!
Hope you're better soon, Taleisin -- so sorry about what had happened to you. I had a very bad reaction myself and was off work for a month.
As a matter of fact, I do walk backwards, wasblind!
Best.
CoCo
Thanks, BOTR:
I'm glad reaction was minimal.
Good Health!
CC
Thanks, Captain.
I hope the pain wasn't too bad -- I've heard so.
CC
raymond franz introduces a declaration made by uncle fred:.
still later in 1979, in fact on november 17, the day after i left .
on a "zone" trip to west africa, fred franz, now the society's .
Raymond Franz introduces a declaration made by Uncle Fred:
Still later in 1979, in fact on November 17, the day after I left
on a "zone" trip to West Africa, Fred Franz, now the Society's
president, conducted the morning Bible discussion for the head-
quarters family. He made these comments, which one member in
attendance wrote down as they were given and passed them on to
me upon my return as a matter of interest:
Some persons are now talking about reading the
Bible, that we should read "just the Bible." Well,
that's what Christendom's churches have been tel-
ling the people to do for centuries and look at the
mess that's resulted.
It's good to remember that we were the Watch
Tower Tract Society for a long time before we be-
came the The Watch Tower BIBLE [emphasis: FF]
and Tract Society. Only in comparatively recent times
have we actually published Bibles. The sole purpose
of our existence as a Society is to announce the Kingdom
established in 1914 and to sound the warning of the fall of
Babylon the Great. We have a special message to deliver.
--- ISOCF, by Ray Franz; RF notes that the Society's
original title was Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society
Thanks for sharing.
CoCo
it is not chains that bind me to the position i now hold .
and, that, for a lengthy time now.. i stand motionless, my eyes peering through dark curtains, they fixed steadily upon cheerful passersby on the street below my third-storey bedroom window.
by their simply being out and about in the daytime sun i perceive that, in contrast to my placid self, these happy souls are at peace with the world.
Hi Rip:
Pillows do come with warning labels! My fave is a feather pillow. My others are too hard, with no give. Maybe I could put them to better use . . .
???
Thanks -- had forgotten this thread.
CoCo
i haven't much time.
conflict is on the horizon, moving ever closer toward us.
our being a peace-loving people does not mean that we are weak and ineffectual.
I peer through my tiny glass darkly and wonder how, for so many years, I survived an overly illuminated existence in the arboretum. So hot, so stifling, so luxuriant my unbridled growth. Shunted away to a darkened hovel -- never did they say why -- I languished by degrees, till, at last, I come to be in this state of mental and physical decay.
I would leave momentarily but for limbs too weakened to sway e'en by breath of Zephyr himself. Into the earth, whence I came, will I return? I am bound at feet by entwining tendrils that halt all escape.
Nature, Nature . . . why have you forsaken me?