well i am hitting the big one on friday and i am happy it will soon be over.
it is lovely that all my new friends are excited for me, its just a little hard to get into it wholeheartedly when i am still nervous to get our son home.. .
still i did buy 6 bottles of champagne...so there must be a party feeling coming up in me!.
Well I am hitting the big one on Friday and I am happy it will soon be over...actually it is a little hard to be in the celebrating mood as our son is not back safe and sound from Afghanistan for his leave until the 29th. His birthday is today so everything is on hold until he gets home.
It is lovely that all my new friends are excited for me, its just a little hard to get into it wholeheartedly when I am still nervous to get our son home.
Still I did buy 6 bottles of champagne...so there must be a party feeling coming up in me!
Just thought I would share with you guys..have a lovely spring day...sun is shining here!
so this woman that i grew up with has sent me a friend request on facebook.
we've done a bit of back and forth "how are you" chat but i haven't accepted her request.. i can see she is still a jw because she belongs to some no-blood facebook group.. i do not want to be her friend on facebook.
i consider witnesses to be bad association and i severely limit the number of jw's i have on my facebook - only close family and people that i share close history with.. so what should i say to this woman?
You don't want to be her friend. So just explain that you only keep your facebook for family. No offence intented but you won't add her to your facebook.
If you do not want to say that then just press ignore.
I added a person that had been a friend on my facebook. She reported us to Bethel for celebrating christmas. I deleted her immediately.
Women and children were anointed in the first century and they had no "ms, elder status". Still this is no surprise, remember as a teenager in 1975 in our congregation a young guy in his twenties claimed to be of the anointed. He was disfellowshipped for causing divisions because he stated his case so stridently. I remember being shocked when I met a co here, he was a former drug addict and became a witness and claims to be anointed. I had to laugh because he would have been disfellowshipped if it had been back home in my old cong. Here he has hero status, everyone quotes him, but he is such a big head!
my dad,an elder for 25plus years,concentration camp survivor,the works,died in a few weeks ago.i am df'd but have been the only one who helps him and my mum.my jw sister couldnt give a rats ass about them.i was at my mom and dads house after he died,helping my mom with everyting,hell,id been there for 2 months because i was afraid to leave them alone.i knew my dad wasnt feeling well.guess he was worse than i realized.he died.the witnesses came in droves.small kitchen.im sitting at the table.they not only didnt speak to me,but they didnt even acknowledge that i was in the room,about day 3,i stopped answering the door..one "lady" called.sister carol.when i answered the phone she hesitated and said",now you know,i caint tawk to yew"{strong southern accent.ala elie may clampett}"you orta let cher mawma ainser the phone.
"i told her to bite me and hung up on her...same here,when we got back home.i hate these people with the fury of a thousand suns,but for some reason,i am now in possession of some great elders notes.been laying low,but im going to start posting the juicy stuff.just cause itd be nice for calvin to know that he was seen "dancing recklessly" at a wedding and that sister renee was being councied for her weight and still insisted on gaining more.also that sister e wasnt giving her husband his "due"..{yik}and that certain concetration camp survivors were being coerced into saying that they were jw's at the time of incarceration.but one wouldnt.my dad refused to play their game,and as a result he was asked to step down as an elder at age of 80.that and that he refused to shun me.his notes have been very enlightening..nice folks thise jw's,no?
they were so mean to my dad, he really believed this crap,and tried to do the right thing.but because he wouldnt dance their way,and turn me,his favorite person{and he was mine|into the cold they treated him badly and mocked him and even his accent.i hate them.really.any ideas?the local elder here,just asked my mom about her financial situation...grrrrrrrrrrrrr.
So sorry to hear about your dear Dad, he had a treasure in you and he knew it! Weird to think that the witnesses love to pull out the concentration camp survivors and interview them (those that are left), yet cast your Dad aside after a lifetime of service. Hateful and willfully wicked. I hope you can support your mum, ask her if she really wants to see these people. If she doesn't then tell them they are not welcome anymore.
Just read newspaper article here in Denmark..not sure where the source info is from, it says Harvard University has undertaken a survey of thousands of people worldwide and they all took a Moral Sense Test. The result is that we all decide the same morally no matter what our religion, background etc is. The thinking is that morality is inborn and therefore prior to religious influence.
Yes...I understand that one! Remember the old joke..how to tell a jehovah's witness? Only window cleaner with five suits in the wardrobe!
The first thing my husband did after we left was bundle all his suits and ties into a black sack and give them to charity. I think now about those crazy days when we would get home from work change into field service clothes, then drive home for lunch and change into meeting clothes. Then sometimes home after the meeting and change again into work clothes....so idiotic.
I used to wonder what our neighbours thought, we must have come across as soooooooo weird!
Thank you for posting this. I am so relieved that this woman changed her mind. It is true she may die under the forthcoming operation, but she is not a martyr for the Jw religion. Hopefully her children will also be kept away from the religion in the future.
How sad that her "spiritual family" turn their backs on her at such a critical time. The much used expression "what would Jesus have done?", comes to mind and there is no way he would behave the way these people do.
Kidnapping children that are not registered or even proven to be orphans is a terrible crime. These people are taking advantage of the chaos in the country and they should be held accountable for their actions. I hope they are given serious sentences as that will discourage other religious groups from doing similar things in other poor countries.
