there's a lot.. one rule that is dumb is that a brother must wear a suit for a sunday public talk that he is giving.
any other time, the brother could wear a suit coat with a different pair of pants and not be counseled for it.. another dumb idea is that you cannot date a person unless you seriously might marry them.
if you're on a date, you were supposed to always have a chaperone and holding hands might not be allowed as well as sitting together.. what other dumb rules and ideas can you add?.
the PO actually gave a talk that
"suggested" married women
have their attire aproved
by their "head"... including bending
in front of said head to have HIM
determine if there was too much
cleavage.....
single women were told to check
themselves out by bending forward
in front of a mirror ....
and married women were too stoopid?
then there was the "skirt slit" spirituality indicator....
do i have to explain it to anyone here?
... if she will prove me from the bible accuracy of 1914. and i stressed i really mean it.. we had one of the usual evening discussions and this was the result.. she said she is not ready for this and must do some preparation and aditional study (which is funny for somebody raised up in a hard-core jw family, baptized over 25 years, who spent over a decade in regular pioneering, reads wt for hours every week and have brought several people into jw cult...).
but ok, she pulled out several publications and is doing her preparation now and tonight we will have the discussion.. to motivate her i told her:.
1) if you will be succesfull i will go to preach to everybody in our street about 1914/607 during my pioneering.
great outcome for you mate....
i would have been worried she
would insist on "pioneer hours"
to hold you to your bet!!!
JW have conventions
JW make the best magazines
JW have meetings where I feel good
there has to be any number of
Xn offshoot religions that can
give her all three of those criteria
i know there are televised evangelical
services that appear not to differ all
that much from a "convention" atmosphere....
the peeps attending seem so moved by spirit
they raise their arms in praise of their lord cheeses
...when i had my dear old cat, puss puss put down this morning.
i had her for 18 years.
last night i bathed her and used the blow dryer and brush on her matted fur, and she didn't even try to fight me.
sometimes i think these creatures
we bring into our homes make us
better people for having loved them....
puss puss almost sounds like how it is
having to live with a teenage...
resisting most the ones who love them best.....
it is never easy to have to make
that decision that allows them
release from their suffering....
it is the hardest part of loving them well
godspeed you to a place of manifest comfort
fare thee well, puss puss
(our 17 year old girl was pussi)
i was.... the last years i only did 4-5 hours max/month and they offered me pioneer support...huh...which i refused btw.. now i regret i didn't just put 20-30 hours every month without in fact going out in the booring service at all!!!
just to keep them happy.. .
it never even occurred to me to fudge
d 'oh!
and that being said, it was eye-opening
to learn that so many do it/did it as a matter
of course, making the "statistics" the b0rg
loves to parade as a banner utterly meaningless.....
i guess it only took three years, but they were hell in so many ways for both of us...she was not happy and lived in denial as much as possible...i was not happy and lived in a bottle as much as possible and glad that is over for me....but it was one of the saddest things i have ever experienced in my life....as was the visit to my parents before i told her....but yes...she said she kind of expected it...was thinking something was going to happen soon as she noticed i had more and more trouble saying i love you back to her when she said it on the phone at the end of goodbyes...and when i was leaving the house...i had noticed it for over a year and it was killing me..... i told her how sorry i was for changing so much again....and that she still walks on water...and is a great person and so pretty....and that she will be ok because she was happy single before me for many years and had all she needs for that again...her closeness to jehovah and her freinds in the congregation...she is very close to both and will be ok i hope...it was very surreal....very calm...very sad.
my bitterness and disdain for wt rules came through when talking to my parents and i was very open about how i feel as to their upcoming shunning of me, and how it feels to my son since he was just 17....and how the fear of losing them had kept me trying in my marriage for the past few years...dad was firm in his position of future action....mom said they will still always love me...and will still talk to me until i get dfd.....oh how this hurts.....dad said there is a name for people who only live for themselves and deny god but could not think of what it was....i told him i was not living just for myself...that i am a good person and there are values from him and the bible i hope i always have....i cry so hard as i type this and tell you just so you can know how painful this is....i told him i so loved the rule of treating others how you want to be treated and have always done that...even allowing myself to be wronged on so many occasions to keep peace....... he said that was a good rule....i agreed and said it was a big one too....and that while i could do it...treat him the way i would like to be treated...he would not be able to!.......left as i became emotional...big hug from mom, but i just barely put an arm on dad............oompa.
(((((oompa)))))
crying right along with you, mate
while at work today, a man in the office next to me had a heart attack.
the office staff were yelling for someone who knew cpr.
i thought to myself,' i know cpr'.
bloody wonderful!!
white dove has it right...
i took my requalification
for CPR a few months back
the instructor said unless you see
the person go down ( or are in proximity
as you were) there is a very very slim chance
of actually pulling someone back from the brink
congratulations for being prepared to
get that 4% miracle
i know plenty about it!!
4 homebirths...
the smallest was 9 #
the biggest was 10.5# !!
i would hardly characterize
the birth sounds as "moaning"...
THAT is the sound i would ascribe
to the activity that led to the birth pangs.....
sheesh
best stand up comedy i've seen in a long time, i didn't stop laughing for over an hour.
if you have hbo its on demand.
here is a little snippet:.
she is one funny lady...
and has a bit of an activist streak
i find encouraging.... she partnered
with GLSEN and the Ad Council to make
a Public Service Announcement (PSA) for
thinkb4youspeak.com
just thought i would share this.........a brother who used to be a mercenary before he came into the truth gave the talk at the hall yesterday and he said that the bible was like jehovah's cv.....it told us everything about him.....so we can really know him.. he also said with all the governments and all the rules and regulations in the world, and nothing working at the moment, we should appreciate that jehovah only has 2 laws.............love him above all other things, and love our neighbours..........if only the whole world obeyed those 2 laws there would be peace without the need for armageddon................so its all down to humans why things are going wrong.. if we abandoned the planet tomorrow the earth would repair itself and there would be peace and harmony in nature.......... man has really messed up.. thank goodness we have had the chance to know jehivah and have a hope for the future!!.
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did he mention the looming geomagnetic shift
indicated by the expanding south atlantic anomaly?
if he could tie that in with how well "nature"
will thrive were "man" to vacate terra firma, then
i would think the talk brilliant indeed!!
when i first got on this site, i would bristle at the thought that i ever belonged to a cult.. do you believe that witnesses are truly "cultists"?.
HEY!!!!
dressing in drag is WAY OFF TOPIC
plus as an ally for the queer community
of which my transgender son is a member
i find the bandying about of the term as
an insult to be highly offensive....
back to the topic: yes, WTS is a cult
