i read the thread a few days ago about co, & do charles sinutko and his famous 1967 talk that ended with "stay alive 'till 1975".
it brought back a flood of memories.
i listened to his talks - randy has plenty of them on his website, too- http://www.freeminds.org/wav/wav.htm.
Not that is would make one bit of difference, they aren't going to change but a writing campaign could be cathartic for us. Can we get more CO and DO address'?
Does anybody know Manaera-sp? A CO in the early 70's, SoCal. made me cry and sign the pioneer application.
back in my dub days, i used to make copies of all the old recorded talks i could get my hands on.
in the process i was surprised to come across several talks in which the "faithful slave" tried to make the case that all the scriptures talking about the "heart" were not figurative, but referred to one's literal heart--the organ itself!
as i recall, they even incorporated some pseudo-scientific quotes as "proof" that the heart could effect your thoughts and motivations.
Oh yes, I remember that teaching well. And the Kidneys too.....there is a scripture about Jehovah reading the kidneys....don't remember and no time to look it up.
My mother often used that phrase with Bible students 'reaching deep into the heart' As if the heart was the brain. It is more romantic than scientific.
I do believe all our organs make chemicals that effect emotions and thought. And vice versa, our thoughts produce chemicals that effect our organs.
when i was growing up, i remember my parents would put those plastic "cover" things over my sisters panties and put those protective sheets on the bed to help them with potty training.
especially when they were doing great with using the potty on their own during the daytime.. my aunt in texas would beat her kids arses if they wet the bed.
(now i do not agree with this way).
Ok, I'm going to jump in here with the Grandparent viewpoint. If you want me to care for your child overnight and is not yet potty trained then I'm going to use 'pull ups' because I'm old and don't want to set my alarm to get up. I've played and washed and carried this little sweet thing all day and now I'm pooped out....Gotta go to bed. Heck, maybe I should try a pull-up so I don't have to get up in the night.
Please don't be offended, I'm just saying, maybe they are worn out. I had 4 children and all needed a different approach to 'potty training' My oldest son trained himself at 18mos. My daughter, with lots of work trained before 3. The next two boys needed every trick in the book. The youngest wet the bed until almost 5. The thing I learned was, they all learn to use the potty long before the start hight school.
In the Big Picture of things, this potty training phase is a very short period of time. Keep your washing machine is good working order and make peace with the wet bed.
i must say that i haven't had an internal struggle with myself before as i've had in recent months.
i'm learning so much about myself....about the kind of person i truly am, more about my flaws, my weaknesses, my strengths, the person i want to be, etc.
i'm learning more and more about having a more realistic view of dealing with life.
Good For You, RF ! I do relate to your struggle, the Good Struggle to learn about your self. As JW's we were told to mindlessly obey and all would be well....Well, we found out, didn't we, all is Not well. Life is not stagnate, everyday we face change. For myself, I never developed or learned to accept that I would grow old or that my loved ones would grow old and die....Ha, guess what, I'm now eligible for AARP benefits and my mother needs full time nursing care. She raised me to believe she would never die, I am unprepared to care for her.
I've learned that Change happens everyday and we must learn to adjust and grow with it. I came upon this quote a few days ago that is now prominently displayed on my refrigerator. Prehaps you will enjoy it too.
"In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways" Edith Wharton, A Backward Glance
our bookstudy conductor said that the chinese gov't wanted to buy meps for "millions" from the society.
anyone else ever heard this story?
or is this one region specific?.
Yes, in fact I remember the CO's wife telling us about China in connection to Matt 24:14. The entire inhabited earth will recieve the Good News because China wants the MEPS program in exchange for allowing our literature into the country. And something about using our books to teach english in schools. So don't worry, the 'work' is getting done all over the earth................The End can come now.
This was about 5yrs ago now. She told this to everybody, as if Big News! And there was never any retraction at our KH.
i just watched a fifteen min, video on youtube of julia sweeney's letting go of god.
i usualy just down load movie's off of the net.
but i may buy this one.
I've been a Julia Sweeney fan a long time. Since the SNL days of 'Pat'. I love her humorous take on difficult life issues and even tragedies. Watch her monologe on her brother's cancer. The Letting go of God piece is moving and funny. She put into words many things I had thought of but to afraid to openly state. Holy Smokes, is that Lighting I see coming at me? I'm not saying I believe or do not believe in a god or God. At this point I don't know much except I do not ever want to be afraid of my religion again. Julia helped me realize the god I know would never condem me for asking questions.
started one thread serious, so thought i'd go light and easy on this one.
so what say yee to this?
here are mr. flippers, about in this order, but not necessarily.
The Princess Bride Didn't see that on anyone's list. One of the BEST. Do some consider it not a comedy??? Someone put in Cockoo Nest and I kind of don't think of that as a comedy.
Waking Ned Devin, if you've missed this, you need to get it asap. All that great dry humor. 'how about some of those expensive friuty soaps'
This is really fun. I should start another thread but.....has anyone seen 8 1/2 ? No, not a comedy, i knowww. I have it coming from Netflix.
we all hear stories an experiences that happened to a "friend of a friend," and the witnesses are no exception.
they even have their own urban legends.
here are my favorites, and please post yours as well.. 1. watchtower theologists according to one of the old guys i used to pioneer with, there is a super-scary-secret organization of apostates called "watchtower theology.
oh yes, I was told the Dinosaur bones were fake and from the Devil. All that carbon dating was set up by Satan. I loved reading about dinosaurs so this broke my heart. We went to the LA museum of Natural History and those Big Bones, a real....er.....FAKE dinosaur. I told all the kids in school they were fake and my teacher was upset and gave me a bad grade. I proceded to go all through school believeing everything the science teachers taught were Lies! Never did pass biology becasue I refused to believe evolution.....oh the shame
we all hear stories an experiences that happened to a "friend of a friend," and the witnesses are no exception.
they even have their own urban legends.
here are my favorites, and please post yours as well.. 1. watchtower theologists according to one of the old guys i used to pioneer with, there is a super-scary-secret organization of apostates called "watchtower theology.
Some years back when the internet was first getting started I was on a email list of "JW Friends, Things to Share" or something like that. We got all kinds of sicky sweet notes and lots of 'experiences'
One was about a young women studing with JW and her father was extremely opposed and also in the Mafia. He threatened her to stop going to meetings and study but she did not so he cut off one of her fingers. She continued to study and eventually he cut off several fingers before he saw the LIGHT. Somehow he began looking into the literature himself and low and behold he turned around his life and became a witless....er....witness. And the story goes this was an experience given at an assembly and the father and daughter were introduced to the audiance with the women holding up her fingerless hand.
Now I live in a small town so everybody got this same 'experience' and all talked about it. One young handycapped sister even cried when she read it and talked to me about it. I was so angry that I did some writing to the moderator of the JW Friends site and ragged on her to STOP with the baloney.
Another story went that a JW was invited to the White House as part of a school event and 'slipped' a Live Forever book to Pres Clinton. The secret service caught this but they backed off because they could see this literature could change the world.....er....yadda yadda....something about angels in there too.
OMG!!!!! the majority of Dubs believe the stuff, that's the part that really scares me.
so ihear her meowing.
so harley(my shih tzu) and i go looking.
no not in pantry, nor low cupboards.
My dad always named all our cats DC - Damn Cat. He loved cats but sometimes it was a 'love / hate' relationship.
We love our kitty, Sushi, with all the kids grown we had an empty nest until she came along. She gets into every cubbyhole and places she could be harmed, including the fridge. Thank goodness she has a loud siamese meow. The only time I get annoyed is when she sleeps on my sweaters and leaves fur on everything.
