a painstaking satire/critique of gb anthony morriss 2007 convention talk, .
http://www.freeminds.org/women/morris2007.htm.
they keep following the lamb no matter where he goes".
Gee, I thought the only mediator between God and humans was Christ. But then I think that was good ol Paul and he was kind of running his own show by that time.
Reading this makes me sick that I was part of that audience for 36 years.
Thank you for the post. Keep them coming.
this is a lighter topic.. how do you feel about your dogs on the bed?
forbid it?.
my boys are allowed on the bed all day but at night we say "down to the crate" the crate happens to be a very expensive leather couch with many pillows.. they listen to what ever we say, but the human bed seems to be the best place.. i change the sheets every other day.....can't stand the itchy, scrachties!.
Yes, my dogs sleep on the bed. Well, actually only one. The other prefers his bed on the floor. I keep an old sheet on top of the bedspread. There is no problem with "dominance" I am the boss. The big dog on the floor weighs 145lbs and the "little" dog weighs about 80lbs. They never wake me up or disturb my sleep and are wonderful company. When I had four big dogs in the bed it got a little crowded but as long as I got there first they had to do with what is left of the bed. Now Katie only snuggles when it gets a little cold. A one dog night.
ive viewed this site from time to time over the years and thought it was about time i made a contribution.. last monday morning, glorious day, i was on the phone when the doorbell rang.
two happy, smiling jehovahs witness ladies.
they agreed to call back in ten minutes.
Great job Snappy and welcome!!!!
this is actually hilarious to me.
i am not df'd or da'd.
i just haven't gone for 3 years.. this woman (sister) works at my daughters school.
I rarely go to Nordstroms but had some time in the mall (and I hate going to malls) and strolled over to see if my work nylons were on sale. There was a sister there looking at socks on sale. I said, "Well Hi Sue. You look great! whats new?" She fled. shunned over sale socks. Boo hoo.
you see a jw on your street and wait for them to come to your door.
yes, seriously, it happened this past tuesday morning.
i saw a jw going to my neighbor's house across the street, so i waited patiently for a knock on my door that never came (at least in the 2 and a half hours before i had to leave the house).
They could have been doing return visits (used to be called back-calls). They don't come to my house because of my 6ft fence with a lock on it (a friends calls it my "witness protection program"). It's really for the safety of my animals.
well, for those that don't know the story, here's a quick recap.
my sister, mom, and dad felt i was an apostate, freaked out on me, then went to the elders and ratted me out.
i haven't spoken to her in about 2 months because i didn't like the way that she treated me.
C, This is a breakthrough. A realization that maybe the borg doesn't do people right. Families ebb and flow. Going into your cave isn't a bad thing. I hunker down when things get out of hand. I still function like working and yard stuff but I just stay out of the storm. Too much energy taken from it.
i realize that the contents of this thread may enflame the passions of those on all sides of the house.
if your sensibilities are easily damaged, you take yourself to seriously, or your humor is wanting, then be warned this may not be the thread for you.. i have been reading with interest a thread on this board today that is discussing the treatment of us veterans.
i have noticed that when such subjects are discussed there is an automatic assumption that those who don the uniforms of their respective nations, they somehow are automatically walking on a higher moral ground.. i find it all the more puzzling that those who cry the loudest for 'special' treatment for soldiers, and by special i mean as compared to the rest of the working masses, seem to be of an republican bent.
Anyone can cloak themselves in any arrayment of things. They still are who they are.
you don't need to exaggerate the foibles of jws to get the point across that they are not "the truth".
can you state some facts that show that jehovah's witnesses are not "normal' and that their religion is weird and simply abnormal?.
I had never heard about blacks becoming white. What a crock! Isn't it true that Adam and Eve HAD to be very dark? It kinda jogs the memory about all the pictures in the publications used to all be about white anglo saxon people. Even Jesus was pictures like superman with blue eyes. I recall
circuit serpent decribed how integration was very difficult for the brothers down south. Really racist roots. Wouldn't they all crap their pants if Jehovah turned out to be a big old sassy black woman wearing trousers? Please let this be true.
in my spiritual journey, which includes trying to decide if i still believe in god anymore or not i am beginning to question if god listened to my prayers or even answered them.
i think i had a track record of praying more when i needed something.
terrible i know.
I think love is way more powerful than prayer.
by that i meant - how many remember being an active jw when this happened?.
what was the general reaction from the rank & file, the elders, even the co/do?
does anybody remember there being magazine articles on this?.
Yes, I remember it. It was so crazy weird with them gunning down the people coming to check on them and then murdering their own kids...even squirting cool aid down babies throats. One of the things to remember is that it didn't happen suddenly. People had been following him for years letting his brain (which got more and more warped the more power he got) destroy their reasoning. They gave him literally everything, land, money, time, moved away from family and country. In the end they did not believe they could live without his will.
