my elder buddy and i would frequent strip clubs when we wanted to.. a few friends knew i enjoyed clubbing and music concerts and i seldom ever spoke of my private social life to others.. i know many jws, including elders, that drank excessively but that wasn't considered too big a deal..
You are all evildoers and obviously have been rooted out of the congregation for your wicked works!!
I on the other hand was perfect...other than the drinking, smoking, loose conduct with the opposite sex, R rated movies, dislike for meetings and field service, unwillingness to admit I was a JW and general apathy towards the organization.
I hope you all can turn around from your demon inspired conduct!!
i loved it!
but then, it went right along with my own personal beliefs concerning mankind's origins, so i'm a little biased.. wondering what a religious person's thoughts would be?.
All serious philosophical analysis aside, I was disappointed with the movie. Maybe my expectations were too high, but I felt the film was a bit uneven and the ending was a big disappointment...I walked away with a "where's the payoff" feeling. I saw it in IMAX and didn't feel it was worth the $30 per ticket price tag!
i'm on a rock kick again, and i never realized how much i adore songs with crazy horns.
i've always loved horns in hip-hop, (work by gang-starr is a must hear even for non-rap lovers if you can appreciate horns), but i want to really explore horns as used in other genres, particulary classic rock.
plus there's a song i heard years ago that i can't seem to locate and can't even recall any of the words or its melody, just that i loved it at the time.
Jazzy R&B horns...
i'm on a rock kick again, and i never realized how much i adore songs with crazy horns.
i've always loved horns in hip-hop, (work by gang-starr is a must hear even for non-rap lovers if you can appreciate horns), but i want to really explore horns as used in other genres, particulary classic rock.
plus there's a song i heard years ago that i can't seem to locate and can't even recall any of the words or its melody, just that i loved it at the time.
Mellow, mellow horns...
i'm on a rock kick again, and i never realized how much i adore songs with crazy horns.
i've always loved horns in hip-hop, (work by gang-starr is a must hear even for non-rap lovers if you can appreciate horns), but i want to really explore horns as used in other genres, particulary classic rock.
plus there's a song i heard years ago that i can't seem to locate and can't even recall any of the words or its melody, just that i loved it at the time.
Not quite classic rock, but definitely massive horns!!
i don't know if there is any hard evidence on this or anything, but about how many of the new baptisms each year are children of jws, other family members of jws, or acquaintances?
how many are actual new people who have no ties to them at all?
it seems like the largest number are kids who are sort of pressured into it.
I agree that that high percentage is true for western countries, but I would venture many in Latin America and Africa are reached through the "preaching" work...as those countries grow to a mature JW population, they will probably fall in to the cycle of primarily replenishing the ranks via born-in children.
heard a new rumor that:.
the borg is going to phase out big district assemblies - so they can fit 'em in assembly halls.. they will reduce the size of circuits.
they will synchronize c.o.
AHHH...Jookbeard, the good old days of the 8 day convention...I am downright misty-eyed with nostalgia!
LOL...re: private equity!
as some know here, i am a retired cop (30 years).. .
i am a member of narpo (national association of retired police officers) - uk.. .
it seems that hardly a day goes by without an e-mail from my regional branch with details of yet another brother or sister officer who has died.
I can imagine that being an unarmed officer is quite stressful...here in the U.S., the police are all armed but that doesn't decrease the stress levels. It does tend to "even" the playing field a bit. I have had 25 years under my belt as a LEO, so I can empathize with you Joe! Often it is difficult to leave the job behind after retirement...thus the high incidence of depression and suicide amongst retired police officers.
since finding out the truth about the truth myself and having successfully extricated myself and my parents about the jw's, i find myself with a new dilema that being they still believe the bible as a literal book for their salvation as i has read all of thomas paines works and how the bible is not very good for the human family, as they are of advancing years would it be inappropriate to shatter their illusions of some kind of paradise and let them flounder in a moral precipice and wonder what their lives have been about.
on the flip side once their time has come how would i feel for not telling them their false views.
at the moment i am in the deist point of view, with a tendency of the agnostic, it is quite a dilema!.
I am torn on the issue...it depends which side of the fence you are on. If you are a Christian you would want to see your parents have a hope for salvation and that is only available to them through accepting Christ. The fact that they are JW's would work against them (since they aren't considered Christian by the mainstream), so you would feel it your Christian duty to enlighten them. If you are an Atheist, Deist, Agnostic or other "non-believer", you would probably take a less critical stand and let them live out their final years in their perceived happiness...it is all perspective.
i don't get it.. the idea is that it's ok to eat food on any day as everyday is a day of thanksgiving.
it was the only holiday that i knew witnesses to celebrate.. .
Turkey is on special during November...why wouldn't you provide a fine meal for your family while saving money at the same time...just plain good stewardship if you ask me!
