Since he's shunning you in favor of a religious cult, he's failing you as a father now. What's another failure once he's started down that slippery slope? He's a failure as a father. There are no degrees to that in my mind, he's either a failure or he's not. Go ahead and ask him. Do it in a letter if that makes you feel better.
Francois
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Facing some answers
by JenGill97 ini have not been in contact with my father in quite some time and i need to call him.
you see he has the answers to some questions i need to know.
for example, when he found out about my child abuse, did he report it to the elders?
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Should I Call My Father???
by L_A_Big_Dawg inmy father shunned me and my kids around 1998. i was contacted about two weeks ago, my cousin called me.
she was told by her mother that my father had a pace-maker implanted.
my aunt was the one talking to my dad, and he asked about me and my kids.
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Francois
I can't help but wonder why, if his pacemaker has woken him up, he doesn't drop the other shoe and call you.
If you call him, I suggest you open with, "Hi. I hear you've got a pacemaker." and see where it goes from there. If he wants to talk about something else, he will. Let him guide the conversation. You broke the ice after all.
francois
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Euthanasia
by iiz2cool infirst of all, i don't really have an opinion on euthanasia one way or the other.
but since my mother has a terminal illness, i've been thinking more about it.
not for her, but for myself when the time comes.
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Francois
Actually, I'm thinking more about your mother, poor soul. What is her illness? Is she indeed terminal?
I believe that when the quality of life becomes intolerable that a person should have the option of ending their life. I don't think this should be a response to a treatable situation like depression, but to a terminal disease, or even to a chronic situation that has a very negative effect on life quality e.g. Chris Reeve's situation.
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The Society's worst release
by Nosferatu inwhat, in your opinion, is the worst thing that the society has released?
(book / tract / video / audio cassette)
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Francois
FDS = Faithful & Discrete Slave = Feminine Deodorant Spray. Coincidence?
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I was attacked by a crazy woman!!!
by little witch inso, hubby and i take our kids swimming at our local park today.
we bought them new swimsuits, and buy them lunch, and they swim for several hours.
we sit outside the pool area, due to my husbands medical condition.. after a few hours, my oldest daughter (14), comes over to say a boy tried to cut in line on the water slide, and she politely told him no.
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Francois
Isn't it amazing how all the fights ever between kids started when she hit him back?
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Harry Potter Promoting Occultism??
by Satanus inis harry potter promoting occultism, in your opinion?
i haven't read any of the books, but i saw the first movie.
i do some stuff that would be laballed occult by the wt, yet i didn't see any of that there.
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Francois
If Harry Potter promotes occultism, I'm the Virgin Mary.
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The ten best ways to disrupt a District Assembly:
by czarofmischief in1. have an apostate food truck outside with free burritos and shasta cola.. 2. wear a smurf costume and run across the stage.. 3. bikini car wash across the street.. 4. have an old-school breakdancing session on the corner, cardboard and all.
bonus if you do it on a mat made of watchtowers and primary colored book covers.. 5. have a garage sale or flea market in the neighborhood during the afternoon session.. 6. sit in the audience and applaud everything that anybody says - try to get a standing ovation for each sentence of the closing prayer.. 7. put a recording of rap, heavy metal, or other forbidden music on instead of the kingdom melodies.. 8. get fifty of your friends to walk around in the stadium during the session, holding signs that say, "louder please!
" and "take your shirt off!
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Purchase LOTS of chocolate EXLAX, remove the wrapper and re-wrap with Tootsie Roll wrapper. Give three or four to each and every kid under six years old you can find in the entire assembly. Tell 'em to eat 'em fast cause they'll melt. Best you not hang around for the whole program.
Get your doctor to give you some of that azo dye used for urinary tract infections. Grind into fine powder. Put this into as many cokes and other drinks as possible. It will turn everyone's pee a brilliant red. Pandemonium will result. Start rumor that Armageddon has arrived as everyone will start to pee blood as their insides become disconnected.
Sneak in a fairly strong concentrated solution of silver nitrate before the session starts. Get lots of it. soak every seat you can, especially down front where the really righteous sit. The next morning when these people get up, the skin of their behinds will be jet black. And it won't wash off. It has to WEAR off. Takes about three or four weeks, as the black comes from a chemical reaction of the free silver ions in the solution with negative ions in the skin. This one is brilliant. People will think they're starting to rot, so start a rumor that Armageddon is beginning with people's skin rotting off starting with their bum.
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TV programs that make you go ughhh
by Brummie intv programs i have to immediately turn off include:.
i'm a celebrity get me out a here...(yeah, get em outta here fer crying).. oprah winfrey/ricki lake...omgaawd, oprah thinks she's "a god" or something and so does her audience.. neighbors/eastenders/corra st/ all of em come to think of it.. what grates your teeth?
or do you enjoy any of these ones?.
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Francois
The last television program I was hooked on was Hill Street Blues. Tell you anything?
I am currently mildly amused by re-runs of Friends. I missed it the first time around.
I am a hog for the History Channel, the Learning Channel, Biography, Wings, and such like as that.
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RAPE & GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by JT inthese are two words that are truly hard to use in the same sentence- i have had the opportunity to work with rape victims since leaving wt and i is unreal-.
in the old testament the god of the bible requires the woman to scream out, even if no one heards her- now this is an interesting bible verse- .
consider this ---here you have a woman or child who is under divine judgement to scream even if no one heards them in the village.
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Francois
"I believe that, basically, since Adam and Eve's sin, God has decided to let humans see if they can rule themselves, because that is what Adam and Eve wanted to do -- they wanted to choose for themselves what "good" and "bad" was."
I have seen some extraordinary examples of superior, super-human reasoning in my life, but this certainly isn't one of them. The very idea that because in the dim and distant past, the so-called "original pair" of human beings screwed up somehow, that God has sentenced the entire human race to get along without his help is perhaps the most brain-dead, absurd, stupid and generally drooling from the mouth piece of crap pretending to be reasoning I've ever seen.
Your idea of the nature and character of God is somewhere in the tenth basement parking deck, the one just above the sewer. The very idea of original sin is an affront to the Living God and should be to each and every one of his children, as should be the atonement doctrine.
In fact, the above "reasoning" is so lacking in anything resembling consistency with the ideals of the creator it deserves no more comment from me. And it's author needs to have his/her head examined next time s/he passes by a vegetable stand.
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1914, how does the Watchtower calculate this ???
by run dont walk inokay i haven't been to a meeting in 15 years and my memory has slipped on this one, so to the best of your knowledge how does the watchtower come up with 1914.. i understand the 607 bce jerusalem thing, (which we know is wrong more like 587/586).
i understand the gentile times / seven times thing that gives you 2520 years ( 7 x 360).
i understand the day for a year calculation.. but the part i don't get is why only 360 days for a year and not 365 or 365.25, you can't calculate only 360 days a year through history because it would throw everything off.. hey maybe the watchtower will get "new light" on this and change it to 365 , it would give them an extra 35 years to work with ????.
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Francois
I still like my method.