this is an interesting thing .
wonder if any of you have heard what the governing body is telling the witnesses to do?
my 22 tear old son was e-mailed by his fanatic witness mom, my ex-wife.
The storage of food is fine if you use it at some point. Even canned and dehydrated food have a sell by date. Hope all this emegergency food is not going to waste.
Oompa, maybe you should get in there once in a while and give away the food that is going to expire!
i am still a newbie compared to many here, and i don't even know who does what, nor have i ever read all those numbered rules and such that are below every post.
so thanks for not kicking me off.
simon, ladylee and jgnat as well as any other veterans on this site......i sincerely thank you for you efforts regarding jwd....(like elders...your pay is low i guess).
Thanks oompa. You have become one of my favorite posters.
i received my copy of barbara andersons cd paedophilia in an american religion a month or two ago, and i have been reading through it since.. what follows, although i have called this a review, is in no sense a scholarly consideration of the legal merits of the cases described, a task for which i am wholly unqualified.
these are, rather, my subjective reflections on the material presented, the impressions i gathered while reading the legal filings, my untrained, common-man appraisal of the cases laid out in those documents.
ill also admit to being swayed by tone of voice adopted, and to using my own common-sense yardstick in determining the reasonableness of the statements made, the responses given and the arguments put forward.
Thank you for your review. It was really eye opening. To me it makes no difference if the lawyers are JW or not. At the end of the day they still represent the client (WBTS). I hope many lurkers have read this post. Maybe one of the mods can move it to the "Best of" section.
i thought after 7 years out i had done a pretty good job of getting my mind free of the jws.. then yesterday i went on youtube and typed in jehovah's witness.
after watching a few apostate videos, i came across a pro-jw video of a convention.
as i started the video and they started singing "we thank you jehovah" i got a mega wave of nausea and felt like i had to switch the thing off.. has this happened to you?
I cannot read any of their articles. I tried to read through the PDF copy of the 2008 WT and I just couldn't do it. I couldn't read past the first few sentences and then my mind seem to refuse to go on. It was the wierdest feeling, I love reading and can usually read just about anything. I wanted to see if there was any "new light". Now I'll have to trust you guys to keep me updated.
no wishing for more wishes.
no wishing to know what to wish for.
i, the genie, have the authority to grant your wish or not to grant your wish as i so choose.
I wish my daughter was wellWhat's her ailment?
I wish my family would open their eyes to JW bsGive it time.
I wish I really looked like my avatar.Who do you look like
My daughter has a under active thyroid that has caused learning problems. It breaks my heart to see her try her best and not quite get there.
I look like my self! Not like Angelina.
no, not gas, not a kidney stone... .
i passed my phd exams!!!!!!
ugh.
Congratulations, I'm very impressed!
i'm not after a discussion on the rights or wrongs on abortion, what i'm asking is whether or not your views have evolved over time.. perhaps leaving the watchtower was enough to allow your true feelings on abortion to find expression.
maybe abortion is one of those subjects where you still find yourself in agreement with your old jw self.
did becoming a mother change your perspective in any way or solidify your views?.
Pro Life. I had a miscarriage at 22 weeks. I saw my little boy all perfectly formed with 10 fingers and 10 toes at only 22 weeks you could already see that he looked just like his dad. I think abortion is murder.
Having said that my cousin has a severly disable child. When she fell pregnant with her second the doctor told her that the baby was also serverly disable. She had an abortion and I can't say that I could judge her for that. She spends all of her time looking after her son. She just could not have coped with another.
I think I'm more against women that use abortion as a form of birth control, that is criminal. Women who chose to abort like in my cousins case or women who have been raped. That's a grey area for me.
i sent the following email to trevor following the revelation of trevorgate a few days back.. trevor [or whatever your real name is] - this is not hate mail.
and it won't be long.
i have like 5 minutes before i leave for work.
unless, of course, he really is delusional.
Exactly Ian, I think he is. He seems to be a lonely man that was looking for attention and it all got out of hand. Anyone on this site never ever tell a lie? Thought not. I really hope he gets the help he needs.
when i interviewed for my position my now boss asked me why i didn't have a degree.
my mind filtered out "well you see sir i wasn't allowed to go to college and without that hope basically glided through high school and then went to a trade school so that i could eat.
" instead i told him that it was one of my major goals.
With that kind of commitment you'll go far in life. Congratulations
Dead Poet Society .... seen it about 10 times and cry everytime.
