good morning, all.. it is good to be here.. thanks to all for your contributions.. love and blessings.
sylvia.
Yes, the two-faced $10 bill, from LA, I believe.
Re: electronics -- newer is not always better, especially for us who, initially, had enough trouble getting into our now old but once new laptops. My two get me by, but one is so outmoded as to its becoming less and less usable.
Have a good day, Syl, et al.
good morning, all.. it is good to be here.. thanks to all for your contributions.. love and blessings.
sylvia.
Be careful, Sylvia!
BTW, I teach creative writing to a bunch of senior citizens, and a point we discussed was the origin of "Dixie." Are you familiar with the derivation of the word?
Clue: $s
Sorry about huge font. Haven't a clue!
not long ago, there was a funeral for a sister i haven’t know very much, so i did not attend.
however, some old “friends” i know drove down to town to assist and i ended up spending some time with them.
quite honestly, i was happy to see them again.
Merci, Stephane.
How I relate to your story and all the more so as I have nearly ceased mourning my loss of JW kith and kin. It's almost as though my broken heart has, by imperceptible degrees, healed, and I want to move on. As a people person, I could not feel whole and complete as a human being without certain people continually contributing to my life and I to theirs. So many loved ones have departed from my intimate circle, never to return. I'm not speaking only of literal death either.
There no longer is anything to discuss. I used to make such an effort to switch over to JW-mode, you know, the walk, the talk. It was so easy. smoothly transitioning from the new "worldly" back into the pious-but-not-too-stiff righteousness of a true believer.
THANKS!
good morning, all.. it is good to be here.. thanks to all for your contributions.. love and blessings.
sylvia.
Hey, there!
7:37 a.m., California.
Sunny and warm -- at last! A wet, wet winter (some 100 inches of rain and 200% of normal average snowfall. It's as green as -- Alabama?
over many years i have been pondering how mental illness has impacted upon jw's due to the effects of indoctrination.
in my case; when i was 21 i had a breakdown and was hospitalised for 6 weeks.
i was diagnosed with anxiety tension state disorder.
Speaking of exacerbation and exasperation . . . and exaggeration.
If you are an eager Christian male, reaching out to do fine works, there is the element of getting dumped on. Of course, men AND women in the organization who are, by nature helpful and giving, receive the "difficult cases." How could they possibly say no to someone in need?
I can't speak for others, but I naively figured that in helping others I helped myself. True enough; however, Dr. Dixon, Bethel physician, told me that I was not so bright for burning the candle at both ends. How does a young indentured servant say no? There was the Bethel assignment, five and one half days a week, going out every night to meetings and/or service, and the entire weekend (after work, Saturday) out in service and doing shepherding. Oh, yeah -- more meetings and cleaning afterwards. Did I mention going to upstate New York and setting up new groups?
Now, to my point about exacerbation and exasperation. We often were assigned to help needy Witnesses with matters beyond spiritual: health, employment, legal, etc. I was in a foreign language congregation and few brothers and sisters knew English. Imagine guiding these poor souls through a maze of obstacles in relation to such trying matters. They came to America to work and send money home to impoverished families whom they missed terribly. Our trying to help them resolve these issues while maintaining our own balance was beyond hope.
And, in future congregational situations, the "special needs" friends created problems for us due to their inability to function on their own. After a while, sleepless nights and daily confrontation with seemingly unsolvable problems take their toll. There is no escape.
To survive, you -- the helpful, giving brother or sister -- have to quit. The above, you probably will agree, is no exaggeration of the facts. Suicide is the last desperate cry when there truly appears no help. I came close often, but many friends -- including fellow Bethelites -- ran away to find relief. Some stayed in the organization, but, either at Bethel or later on, ended their lives.
Then, for those managing to hold on, but barely, there's the FOG . . .
my commentary box is not coming up on some threads.
on others it's fine..
Thank you, Simon, for a comprehensive explanation that even I could understand (for the most part). I'm doing research on SSL now.
The Apple laptop uses an outdated version of Safari that, as already stated, will not upgrade, although progressively more websites tell me my ability to "do business thereon" will be hampered. Yes, it is mightily hampered. Well, they don't say hampered, but that's the idea.
I use Chrome on my DELL and, apart from the occasional "unresponsive" alert, it is great.
Thanks again for all you and Angharad do, Simon.
my commentary box is not coming up on some threads.
on others it's fine..
Thanks, Village Idiot, for your response.
Your point is well taken.
When Simon went to https:, the Apple immediately went basic, as described. He explained to me the possible reasons. The DELL has never ceased functioning properly on any and all websites.
RE: Facebook: iPhoto on Apple is terrific, but as of yesterday, I can no longer post photos from it onto Facebook. So, I have to email photos to my DELL and download them there. Then, I can post them here, FB, anywhere. And the DELL is, by far, the cheaper of the two computers.
Sorry to go off track here. Hope it all works out for you.
my commentary box is not coming up on some threads.
on others it's fine..
Likewise, Village Idiot, for me -- on again, off again.
I have two old laptops -- a DELL and an Apple PowerBook. The Dell, which readily updates, is fine here, but the Apple, which WILL NOT upgrade, allows only reading on this forum, i.e., no replies, no photos, no members only.
On my Apple, it's frustrating because more and more websites are not permitting interaction and are displaying text only. Facebook's a nightmare.
So, in my case, I believe it's my computers.
so i am in trouble for questioning the whole rats nest of deceit and lies.
in matthew 12 jesus says: whoever speaks a word against the son of man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the holy spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the one to come.
" the gb seems to replace 'holy spirit' with themselves.
So, then, are the Father, son, and holy spirit passe'?
They were very important when I became a JW.
greetings, word lovers:.
in my job, i work with words and wrangle them into shape, well, in a manner of speaking.
one word might be mistaken for another, a word with either a similar or identical sound.
weft and warp
