1.fell for a group that i can be judged by three that didnt even know my name ?
(for something i did 10 years ago) now family and freinds wont even look at me....(pethetic).
2.investing in microsoft or walmart 20 years ago.
11 years of pioneering (10 reg, 1 aux) and didn't seek a career in my 20's that would provide a retirement. . .went job to piddly job because 'the end is coming', therefore, always with the money problems because of no financial sense in our heads, but I could prove you wrong with every book of the bible.
Not seeing the truth sooner: that people are people no matter what religion they profess, some people are evil and seek to control others and hurt them.
my daughter goes to a school where one of the office personel is a jw.
my hubby is df'd i haven't been to a meeting in 3 years.
when we go into the office and have to talk to her she directs all of her responses to me even if my husband is the one that asked the question.. once my husband went in there with my daughter and this person didn't direct her answers to my husband who asked the question, but to my daughter who was just tagging along.. this is stupid.
What an unprofessional! But the bad news is for her: she may be guilty of discrimination on religious grounds, and doesn't deserve her job---laws are there to protect you, your husband and your child. Schools will JUMP to fix situations like these because they exist by the grace of your and your husband's income tax dollars. What if your child (gasp!) was injured or some school-wide emergency took place (unfortunately--a likelihood!) and this lump had to contact your husband. . .do you see where she has already has made plain that she will not help him??
If your husband was of another race and she behaved this way, you wouldn't hesitate to light a fire and end her employment there for discrimination, plus she will put your child AND your husband's rights as a parent at risk.
I'm voting with talk to the principle and explain their shunning practice and her actions, using words like 'discrimination' and 'because of our religious beliefs'--if that doesn't work write a letter to the principle, school board, whomever. Teach her a lesson and educate people about JWs.
OOOooooh this makes me mad!
(short story--In an apartment leasing office two families came in, each with a child. The leasing agent helping a white family fussed over their baby and said 'how cute' etc; the leasing agent helping the black family didn't--the family claimed racial prejudice, a judge decided that the 'business'--not the individual--displayed preference for the white family. The topic of whether either party was approved for an apartment was not at issue! My friend was the leasing manager, I read the judgment.)
but he got better in 7 years.
i can't believe they left that story in the bible, then have the nerts to tell us that werewolves are demonic or aren't real.
.but the bible's "lycanthropy" is an illness.
But he got better in 7 years. I can't believe they left that story in the bible, then have the nerts to tell us that werewolves are demonic or aren't real. . .but the bible's "LYCANthropy" is an illness.
Or, was he severely bipolar and some days just out of his mind and couldn't comb his hair and eat with a fork? Did he refer to it as 'a dark time for me' in front of his grandkids?
Come on, I mean, come on.
i've been to the u.k a number of times.
always spent a good while in london - i absolutely love it.
i love the business of the underground, i love the shows that theatres offer, i love the sights and sounds so much.
Great pictures on the derelictlondon cemeteries link!
olah.... .
this is my story if you care to read...thank you.....all make my long story short.
ive always been a beer drinking pot smoking fool...w/occasional trip or 10.. .
Hi and welcome, glad you're here. And, hey now, be patient with the spateful indiscreet knave, you know, the fds don't ya know. They're just making up the rules as they go along and calling it new light. . .as someone wise once said here, 'The 'New Lights' are on but nobody's home.' LOL
We were all stoned the entire time we were witlesses. Had to have been.
i thought this was a compelling and honest account about overcoming a particularly traumatic childhood.
it was written about an associate professor of english studies.
the article was published in the daily nebraskan, the independent student newspaper of the university of nebraska in lincoln.. beneath the article is a section where you can add your comments for joy or for the student journalist who wrote the story.. http://www.dailynebraskan.com/media/storage/paper857/news/2008/02/19/news/unl-professor.writes.memoir.to.cope.share.help-3217944.shtml.
My husband and I read it 2 years ago. . .my husband's not an avid recreational novel reader, but he read it cover to cover in about 3 days. I came into the bedroom one afternoon and he was tearing up near the end.
It's not just a great ex-jw book, it's a great book for anyone who's been abused, but much more, she's such talented writer, it's so expressive without telling you exactly how to feel.
sometimes even the media gets one right.. .
80-year-old john wayne fan puts attacker in hospital .
10:06 am cst on friday, february 15, 2008. .
NICE!!!
yep, the smurfs movie: http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/02/17/first-look-the-smurfs-movie/ .
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i can just see the talks & gossip around this one...
I heard that Lyman Swingle got up and ran around the aisles during a showing of the Smurf's movie.
the pledge of allegiance is a promise or oath of alegiance to the united states and to its national flag.it is commonly recited in unison at public events, and especially in public school classrooms, where the pledge if often a morning ritual... ( when i was a child).. nomoreguilt and i... talk about the way we were raised alot.
him as a jehovah's withness and myself as a catholic.
back years ago as a young child in grade school, i remember a boy horrible teasing, taunting a younger boy that was waiting for the school bus.
Hi. Great thread. I had to go outside the classroom EVERYmorning for several years (preference of certain teachers) through 8th grade for the morning Anthem and pledge.
Sure it can make you strong, but strong is a parent's job, not a 5 year old's. . . having to make a 'stand' at a very young age makes one grow up too fast, too cynical, too separate. It reinforces on the young JW mind that they are different, and there's enough of that when you're a kid anyways.
My parents were Marines (of course, they now deny the honor of that service) and they still have a small booklet put out by the USMC that outlined care and reverence of Our Flag. In it, it described 'almost worshipful reverence' of the symbol of our country. "So you see, reciting the Pledge is worshipping the flag!!!" How many times did I, and my teachers, hear that!
okay, so i know this seems trivial, but i just tried to change my avatar picture.
it's coming up on my end as the same old pic.. does my avatar show up to you as me holding a nice, shiny salmon?
i thought the pic didn't work but i got a pm from someone saying "nice fish".
Hi.
I've had the same: avatar changed on website when posting, but not in my profile on my computer, usually w/in hours it changes. Fishing sounds fun, haven't fished in years.
