. . .in about 11 years. Going to SF next month, which I've wanted to do for some time, because I went there as a kid several times with my folks and have happy memories. . .
and all I can think about is calling my parents to tell them or to send them a postcard or something, but we don't speak because I don't read the literature they send me. . .
and freak that I am, I miss them.
last monday my husband, a nice guy, after ranting for a bit about terrorists, came over to me, to kiss me i thought.
he hit my head and then started to choke me, shouting "be healed.
" i managed to get away from him and he kept yelling "be healed" and saying that i was bewitched and had put a curse on him.
i am planning a three week rv camping trip out west and back in june.
we want to see some dinosaur digs,redwood trees, yellowstone national park, the grand canyon, my two grown kids and our two granddaughters.
6000 miles in 3 weeks- and i don't even want to think about the gasoline bill!
That sounds like a blast.
My husband and I, just minutes ago, bought airline tix, our first vacation in about 11 years. . .going to San Francisco for a few days, and midweek to boot. Haven't been there in about 20 years, I remember it being a lovely city.
Then, in June we're going to Gettysburg, PA for my husband's grandmother's 90th B-day!
Hooray for vacations.
ok this is kinda twisted.. a brother in my old hall, used to always complain that he got the 'bad' bible readings.. for instance, he got this weeks reading - it include jer 5:8.. who really wants to say that from the stage?.
i got thinking, how many times does the wts have us read that verse when we are in jeremiah?.
out of the 5 times we have read jeremiah in the last 20 years, 3 of those the wts had some poor shmuck of a brother reading 5:8..
'garsonne, bring to me that one, the one with the strong testicles. . .'
there comes a time when you realize that there are paths you can no longer go down.
at first, it is hard to tell whether the path changes or you change.
but the farther along the new path you travel, the more you find that it is really you, yourself that has changed.
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how would you react to it?
naturally, this is all speculation because the .
Oh, my answer is No, thank you.
They'd have to tear it all down and start over, in my book.
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how would you react to it?
naturally, this is all speculation because the .
Help me out with some WWCoC history. . .was their apology issued at a time when they came under new management? What was the situation at the time at which they apologized for their mistakes?
(as I recall, their printed issuance is quite humbling, and seems to not hold back--addresses unscrupulous motives, haughtiness of leaders and underhandedness.)
i am now vaguely recalling either an awake or watchtower that came out right after the september 11th terrorist attacks on the world trade center....and anyone can hear me out on this...i remember they had a bunch of little stories of people that were actually there and like every single person they wrote about apparantly ran to bethel away from the chaos and all of what was going on by the world trade centers...i'm not doubting these people in the article did run there, but seriously, the whole point of the article was to just be like, "ah, yes, all of them ran to the safe mother," it was really weird.
i mean, it was all like a commercial that apparantly bethel is the place to be when disaster strikes or other bologna like that.
:(
It was the G (code for Awake) and the cover was a pic of the rubble of Ground Zero, entitled Courage in the Face of Disaster. It was about the 20 or so JWs that were directly affected by this horrible attack on America--(was it approx 12 dead Jws) and 6 more that ran around with asthma trying to helpand getting lost. It was their attempt to show that they are different from everyone and that they are not terrorists (See, we were hurt too); it was a slap in the face to this country.
Thank Jehoooovah!
i posted a similar topic a year and a half ago.
i thought with all the new people it would be interesting to ask it again.
so i began to research ... and here i am.
Wow, all great comments, super topic. Darned apostates and their LOGIC!
i was raised in the religion by wolves, the youngest of 5.
At age 12 I wondered why we couldn't study science or medical books and be saved, why it had to be these particular books that would save our lives.
From then on I had a secret I never told anyone except my husband and only a few years ago: The concept of God's eternalness was too much for my head, I couldn't stand it, I couldn't really believe it. I had to force myself to not go insane from it from me youth on up. I believed though what I heard, that if I had doubts they were my prob to pray and forget about until another time, but it never went away.
As children of JWs we are taught to hate injustice, but tolerate it from mature friends and elders. Never could swallow that.