May the good lord bless and keep you.
AB
do you find that years after leaving the jws birthdays just don't matter?.
i just can't get into it.
in years past the inlaws have made an effort and given a little party but now we are out country its just not a big enough deal to be bothered with.. no presents, no cake.
May the good lord bless and keep you.
AB
may you all have peace!.
just came across this article:.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44629271/ns/technology_and_science-science/?gt1=43001.
Shelby asked "What is Truth"? Truth is that which cannot be disputed.
Could Einstein have been wrong? Yup. It just took people a while to come up with bits of information with which to challenge his assumptions.
AB
may you all have peace!.
just came across this article:.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44629271/ns/technology_and_science-science/?gt1=43001.
Change may be a constant but I wouldn't say it was a "truth". There are "truths", or one united "truth", but nobody's got it these days. Adam had it, but didn't seem to hold it in high enough regard. We'll get it again someday, and face the choice of living by it or not. For right now everything is subjective and we're at loose ends.
AB
and i did see ones posted earlier in the week (wishing an early - well, premature, actually - greeting, but who's being pendatic?)...
where the heck is the "happy birthday, tec"... on her real birthday day... thread?
surely there is one on this, the 29th (i think... it is the 29th, isn't it?
It was those doggone nanoparticles! http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/216238/1/HAPPY-BIRTHDAY-TEC
dear friends:.
something has only now come into my possession: all my mother's daily journals.
i am feeling incredibly overcome with emotion as i realize her many dreams went unfulfilled, particularly in the fields of writing and art.
Fifty cents an hour is just about what remains now after deductions for fuel, auto upkeep, taxes, supplies, etc.
folks, i almost feel silly creating this thread, but i think i must do it based upon comments by folks who think the various governments in the usa can make any legally enforceable laws they want.. they cannot!.
in the usa we have a republic.
we do not have a democracy.
Not "of the land", but "of the nation". They claim the land but have no right.
i realise that may sound like a stupid question on a jw forum but i was thinking about the events in the uk this week and i am wondering if we need to 'widen out our associations'.
it would be preferable if our efforts were directed not against the leadership of a single religion but towards raising awareness of the use of thought reform.
as things stand i am not aware of an effective way for us to communicate with ex cultists from other groups.
When JW-people go looking for "something" online, a JW-related forum like this one is a good place to start. One a person gets past perceiving him/herself as a JW-only, maybe a forum with a broader scope would be helpful (high control group info, etc.). Changing the focus of this site (and others whose focus is WT-related) could mean taking away the "first step". Think back through all you've read, most JW's don't perceive themselves as being part of a high-control group, but many do sense that something is wrong. You have to start where a person "is", then allow that person to move forward at a self-chosen pace and direction. There are many sites dedicated to other causes and perspectives but not too many for JW's. This site, and some others like it, are best left as they are.
AB
may you all have peace!.
just came across this article:.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44629271/ns/technology_and_science-science/?gt1=43001.
spacetime could be warped in a way so that neutrinos can take a shortcut without really being faster than the speed of light.
If this proves to be the case, should speed of light continue to be the measure?
of course, i would be very surprised if the watchtower society ever retracted or apologised for anything.
still, it could gain a lot of publicity and put pressure on them to curb their hate speech.
if they refuse to apologise, it could demonstrate that those statements were intentional and not just a slip of the printing press.
Petition: A formal written request, typically one signed by many people, appealing to authority with respect to a particular cause. Make or present a formal request to (an authority) with respect to a particular cause.
Why give WT the appearance of authority? Sue their you-know-what's or bring other, appropriate legal action against them. Don't go crawling with a petition!
http://www.concordmonitor.com/article/282059/life-of-mental-illness-ends-in-violence?csauthresp=1317045871%3a5dma6uqf4gb51ccvnpdbjnt710%3acsuserid|csgroupid%3aapproved%3aa955edbf7d0543430de7104e3c2115c3&csuserid=94&csgroupid=1.
desperate acts, violent endingsa life of mental illness ends in violencerelatives say woman had psychiatric issuesphoto by alexander cohn / monitor stafffamily photos of shelly naroian fill a board thursday, september 22, 2011. naroian was killed during a stand-off with hillsboro police in may.purchase photo reprints at photoextra by annmarie timmins and maddie hanna / monitor staffseptember 26, 2011share thisemailcomments (2)print3photo by alexander cohn / monitor staffa hole where the bullet that killed shelly naroian last may can still be seen in the wall of the family's hillsboro home; thursday, september 22, 2011.purchase photo reprints at photoextra four months later, jim naroian still displays the condolence cards that arrived after his wife, shelly, was killed by a police officer's bullet in the living room of their hillsboro home.
the cards reassure jim his wife isn't forgotten.
"She just wanted my son (Ken) out of the house, and Philibert knew that," Jim said. "Everything could have been avoided if the police just said, 'Shelly, we are making Jim and Ken leave.' But instead of engaging his brain, (Philibert) engaged his trigger finger."
If Jim really believes this, why didn't he move his son out before the situation turned into a tragedy?
Jim wanted the police, his son, and himself to cater to a madwoman bent on murder? Leave their family home because she was behaving like a bully? He sounds more off-balance than she was.
Not a very "pc" post, I realize, but I'm pretty fed up with anything that even remotely seems to advocate doing things the "sick" person's way. Duhhhh!!! They're siiiick!!! Would the healthiest and most qualified person please take charge here??? Oh. He did. The cop sized up the situation and wouldn't let her get by with any more bullying. Good on him! Now nobody in the area has to worry about what she might do if she took a dislike to some other situation.
Jim, stop your whining. Grieve if you wish, but you're the one who enabled the woman for all those years. That's not love, that's just plain twisted. Ken, I hope you don't torment yourself over this, it had very little to do with you.
There's nonsense and then there's sensibility.
AB