today, today, as with all those new days before, .
i awoke from the sweet dreams of nocturnal .
flights of fancy, and that they should take .
I have become old but sensible,
too busy for foolish dreams,
too distracted to smell a rose.
An abundance of occupation
weighs me down, demanding
I should keep my nose to the
Grindstone and shoulder to
the wheel. Ah, perhaps then
I will please my taskmasters,
They who promise cake but
fail to offer bread. This life, so
short, is probably all there is.
from paragraph 12. one brother began viewing pornography at the age of 12, and he continued to do so in secret for over a decade.
he relates: it was very hard to admit to my wife and to the el- ders what id been doing.
but now that i have admitted it, i feel that a huge weight has been taken off my shoulders.
Andre gave it up at 22-plus years old -- he was already married and an ms?
so any ways to deal or cope with elders who just don't like you (you didn't do anything wrong or they're just making stuff up about you) assuming that you can't leave?
especially when it comes to for example becoming appointed as an elder.
or are you pretty much "dead in the water" if the elders are determined to like you despite reasonable efforts to win them over.
A belated welcome, toto555!
So many excellent thoughts are presented here.
'Kill them with kindness,' as stillin said and gave examples of worked for me. Little drops of water -- continually -- did the trick. Like The Searcher, I was overlooked constantly at Q&A sessions, even if mine was the only hand raised. Veiled comments about me, too, came from the platform. A trusted friend was warned by a particular few not to talk to me.
Now I laugh!
I'm in a different hall now and the lovebombing I get is genuine and heartfelt. I love these people -- I need community -- and I've decided that crazy doctrine and weird rules and regulations will not again separate me from family and lifelong friends.
Best regards.
CoCo
greetings, health-conscious friends:.
i had a wonderful cup of peet's coffee today at a friend's house, but had only low-fat half-and-half to add.. just isn't the same .
.. what do you eat and drink?.
Thanks, happy eaters!
Signing off and heading to the dogs . . .
Love,
CoCo
greetings, health-conscious friends:.
i had a wonderful cup of peet's coffee today at a friend's house, but had only low-fat half-and-half to add.. just isn't the same .
.. what do you eat and drink?.
It does help, stillin!!!
Are Brownie points fattening?
Keep it up!
CC
greetings, health-conscious friends:.
i had a wonderful cup of peet's coffee today at a friend's house, but had only low-fat half-and-half to add.. just isn't the same .
.. what do you eat and drink?.
Greetings, health-conscious friends:
I had a wonderful cup of Peet's coffee today at a friend's house, but had only low-fat half-and-half to add.
Just isn't the same . . .
What do you eat and drink?
Thanks.
CoCo Consumes Nice Fats
question: how are members of the governing body of jehovah's witnesses themselves, actually viewed by jehovah's witnesses today?.
well, the following related experience may help answer that provocative question, giving us a glimpse of what the possible future days will bring us.
yes, the answer to that question may even be quite shocking to us, ... with simply terrible, disastrous results!!!
There were two Brothers Knorr.
During one of many slide presentations of official WT sojourns to the Third World was a shot of Nathan Knorr holding in his arms a little African Witness boy. He was chuckling over the fact that the parents named the lad "Brother Knorr" in his honor. What a namesake!
Where are you, Brother Brother Knorr ? You'd be about 40 years old by now.
this here is very educational.. http://www.funtrivia.com/tournament/jwd-trivia-quiz-75350.html.
come on, y'all.. sylvia.
Nan & rip:
CC
this here is very educational.. http://www.funtrivia.com/tournament/jwd-trivia-quiz-75350.html.
come on, y'all.. sylvia.
Billy Crystal's movie "City Slickers" had him and friends -- all them rascals -- toting pistols in their western adventure. Maybe not . . .
flotsam, jetsam, lagan
prologue.
weapon-flash burst and thundered ominously outside the atmosphere bubble of mars colony 7.. .
"this is captain nobile, now here this!
Good work, Terry!
Holst's "Mars the Bringer of War" would be the perfect musical backdrop.
I find your style evocative of Clark Ashton Smith, whose grotesqueries make the anticipant reader squeal with fiendishly lip-smacking relish and quiver with timber-shaking undulations.
Love, too, those ululations . . .
CoCo, who loves all things Aries.
