i have just witnessed for myself one of the most hypocritical scenes ever before in my life!
my sister's ex husband, ( father to 3 boys, 12, 15, 20 years) commited suicide a few days ago.
he has been a jehova's witness all of his life and and also suffered from bi polar disorder for most of it also, particularly bad in the past 3 years.
Elders are always the most useless people to call when someone is suffering mental health issues...I found that out first hand myself several years ago.
Of course, JWs usually don't realize this until it is too late.
I am so sorry for you and your family. I hope your nephews and sister have some other support system that can be there for them. Sounds like you are doing what you can for them.
ok, i had an old friend who stopped by tonight.
she is in a bad marriage.
in way over her head in debt, no where to go and is actually concidering staying longer in this abusive relationship for financial stability.
Flying could be right...sometimes the abused are too afraid to leave, and will sometimes use silly excuses to stay.
Either way, your friend shouldn't have said that to you. It was pretty rude.
I stopped using our garbage disposal as much because we would sometimes have issues...I fell your pain. They suck to deal with. My mother in law dump a whole pot of burned corn soup down it once, and didn't have it on long enough. It got stuck somewhere, and the dishwasher started backing up into the washing machine, and leaked through our carpet in the office my husband had just finished in the garage...yuck, He had to get on the roof and use a long snake through the air pipe to get it in clogged....it was nasty!
My house is usually a mess. My friends undestand they need to call first and let me know they want to come over...I know they are not going to give me a hard time, but it gives me 30 minutes or so to run around the house and get some stuff taken care of. They do it out of kindness for me, because they know I may be embarressed, if it has been a rough day.
She may not realize she was being rude, but maybe when she gets her life in order she will, and maybe even thank you for the offer and apologize for being a boob.
anyone notice what i am saying.. is it a lack of posters at the moment?
or has a social-evolutionary change begun here that is changing the board forever.. just seems like nothing is going on most of the time now.
maybe just me.. jeff
eh.....
irrational naturalism (#201) .
by henry morris, ph.d. .
abstract .
flying spaghetti monster.
All hail this god...he who gives pasta and taketh it away.
these 2 were lots of fun.
sometimes its fun to go back to their post history and look at their very last post.
try and figure out why they left.
Maybe he was told he better not post here any more by thed overlords elders of his congregation and he got scared?
It is a scary proposition to get DF'd if the congregation is your only social network.
i just got this in email...very funny.
now that we know the real story here is the complete scene from empire strikes back.
a furious lightsaber duel is underway.
Empire Child Support Agency
hahahahh...imagine trying to collect from Vader hahah!
I forget where I found that...I think maybe my husband sent it to me in email. I think I am going to get my son to use it to do something funny in flash or some other animation program he wants to learn.
Or maybe a sock puppet theater performance. My 5 year old daughter has Vader's "NOOOOOO!" from the last movie down pat.
i want you to start eating less meat, as it makes me feel better?
i want you to start investing in stocks, as it made me a lot of money?
i want you to break up with your girlfriend as i do not like her?
I do somewhat control my children's lives. One reason is because I have somewhat of an obligation to until they can totally fend for themselves. Sometimes I have to make them eat their vegatables, make them take a bath, and make them go to school. Right now I have a situation with my husband, that I would like him to change a certain thing. However, after many months of frustration, tears, and fights, I realized that I had to give up the notion of making him do anything. Once I gave up trying to change him, and just started trying to work on myself (my reaction), I felt a lot better. He has made some changes, too, although there is a long way to go. One thing I changed was to stop sending mixed signals: bitching about his behavior, but then enabling it. I stopped both. We still discuss it, but I don't enable the behavior any more. I show my intolerance for it that way, but we don't fight any more really at least. I think we sometimes try to control out of love, because we don't want our loved ones to be hurt, etc. Sometimes we try to control others because we want things to go our way, whether for the good or bad. As an employer, you have to have some amount of control over your employees to run the business effectively.
i read the most extraordinary claim the other day.
"the bible is factual.
" i wondered, how could the speaker possibly back up such a claim?
Excellent post!
I am reading "the Age of Reason" by Thomas Paine. He makes some excellent points about the bible, very interesting.
It is a worthy read for those that are Christians and who are not. (He wasn't an atheist by the way, but a Theist, so those that have issues with atheist writings don't have to worry about that.)
I do still find value in the bible, as I regard it a great piece of work that touches upon human nature. But there are just too many holes for me to believe it is the word of God.
in the final installment of my story, i am done with my local congregation now.
in the past month, i have been df'd, un-df'd attended a meeting where i shook everyones hand and smiled ... and now i have sent everyone in the hall this letter, roughly 60 addresses:.
open letter to the north congregation of jehovahs witnesses.
yes...please update us
follow this link.
http://nbc6.feedroom.com/iframeset.jsp?ord=700573 .
and in the upper left hand corner there is a menu that has: the spirit of south florida:.
I couldn't find the video...maybe because I saw this too late?
Is there something in text on it?
