i am not sure if there are any other food network followers, but i love to cook, so i love the network.
i actually really enjoyed "dinner impossible", it was fun and witty and i liked that they would give him impossible tasks to feed huge amounts of people and he would most often come through.. alas, he lied about his experience and having cooked for the royals and presidents.
it's kind of sad, but now they are yanking the show.
Say it isn't so! I loved Robert! What a bummer. I really enjoyed the one where he prepared a meal at Colonial Williamsburg over an open hearth.
However, if he lied, he shouldn't be able to keep the show. Kinda like, if you lie to your flock, you should shut down your printing presses and go back to selling Magic Wheat.
friends:.
long time lurker, very occasional poster.
i have done the fade thing for 4 years now, and have not attended a meeting in over 2 years.
Dear DNC,
I know exactly how you feel. I tried to go it alone for awhile but just couldn't make any real progress. I was in a no-man's-land for years. I didn't fit in with the JWs anymore but I sure didn't fit in with the world. Non-JWs think differently! You can't just flip a switch and become "worldly." For myself, I finally went into psychotherapy for five years. It was a great help. Also, after many years of hating all religion, I decided to "try" christianity so that I could learn all the things that other people knew and took for granted. I wanted to be able to be part of the collective culture and, without that training, I just didn't "get" so many cultural references. I needed church to help deprogram the crazy JW beliefs I still had that I didn't know I still had.
I remember once right after leaving the JWs that we were going to get Good Friday off work with pay as a holiday. I turned to my co-workers and asked, what really is Good Friday? What's Good about it? They just about flipped out at my ignorance.
JWs have their own language and you really can't even communicate effectively with the outside world until you learn the world's language.
It's taken many years but now I'm happy in a marriage to a man who knows nothing about JWs and I'm happy in my church. It took trying out a few denominations. I still have occasional bouts of depression over the whole experience of "growing up 'Hovie" but am usually okay. However, my husband says the only times I seem wounded and scarred are when I talk about my experiences as a JW.
So, for me, what helped was this: I moved away so that I could start over with people who didn't know me and weren't JWs. I entered psychotherapy. I went to college. I became a christian. I made new friends. In a sense, I started life over again as an adult. Sometimes I feel like I'm 25 years behind in maturity where I should be for my age because I was so stunted as a JW. But, hey, if I were still a JW, I'd be even further behind! I don't think you'll ever get over your experiences, necessarily, but you can learn to have a good life. However, I know that every day I carry around a low level of sorrow over the loss of so many years of my life and the loss of family. I think that's just part of getting older. Everyone carries around something.
Good luck. You can come out a winner on this side. Find your purpose and live your life by your values now.
talked with my witness mom, 80 years old this morning - and apparently she is pretty stoked up about the bs my ex- bethel brother ( a cloned elder of 35 years ) said to her about all the changes at bethel going on.
obviously he still has inside ties at bethel.
to avoid being redundant ( as i know most of you have heard some of this stuff ), my mom explained to me that my brother told her , " they are selling off most of the buildings in brooklyn as in the next 3 years they plan to move the entire operation to patterson and upstate new york.
So why would it be such a horrible thing to the JWs if they were moving to cut costs?
the bible attaches importance to your name.
if not, what would you like to change it to?
i always hated mine!
I love my first name and my middle name. They are good, old-fashioned family names and I like the history that comes with them. What I can't stand is my surname. My maiden name was fine but my married name may as well be "thump" for as blah as it is.
In order to piss me off, my family calls me "Sue." Because, when I was little, Johnny Cash had a song called "A Boy Named Sue." My siblings used to yell a line of it at me, "My name is Sue, how do you do!" For some reason, it upset me. So, the family calls me Sue but nobody else can get by with it. Fortunately, I'm rarely around family.
Re: Harmony, I once worked with a woman who told me her daughter's name was Harmony. I said, "Oh, yeah, on Elton John's Yellow Brick Road album, there was a song named Harmony." She said I was the only person she'd ever met who knew that and, yes, her daughter was named after that song.
there is a situation at my wife's hall where a couple in their 40's are separated and going to get a divorce.
she has a restraining order out on him since he had used his fists on a few occasions to solve their arguments.
the husband has gone back to live with mom and dad ( respected long time elder) while things are sorted out with no problem.. he has not been df'ed for the abuse and in fact has not even been publicly reproved.
Do we really have to ask why the JC's, made up of a bunch of undereducated white men, cover up domestic abuse, whether it be sexual abuse, child abuse, or wife-beating? My experience with the elders is that they are men who are misfits and losers in the "real world" but can be big men at the KH. I'd bet these men with their puffed up egos go home and beat their own wives and children. Why does anyone think they'd turn on their cronies? The KH is a club for losers and idiots.
suppose there was a police raid at a kingdom hall and they discovered a confiscation cupboard, anyone got ideas on what the contents of the locker might be .i have a list maybe you can add to it.. item reason for confiscation.
chess set warfare simulation.
world's best cigarettes/ a book bad for health written by a russian, ivor chestikoff.. u.n .library card, name on it, fred franz say no more.. charles atlas body building course ,1920's don't need it armageddon will be here by 1940. victorian oil lamp old light.
A Big Blue Smurf
for anyone that looks at this thread, could you write something either profound or simply interesting so as to make the reader see the truth about "the truth"?
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If the Almighty God is truly directing this organization and they are his mouthpiece, why doesn't he tell them the right things to say? Why do they flip-flop, flip-flop and contradict themselves every other day? Russell said that no new light could ever contradict old light. Not true with the WT.
If God can create the whole universe in its complexity with master craftsmanship, why is the WTS incapable of ever getting anything right the first time? (Note: the 144,000 were sealed by 1935, except for replacements. See 2008: Sorry, we were wrong. Gotta wait on Jehovah. Did Jehovah lie to them about 1935? Do you really want to worship a God who lies and doesn't know what he's doing from one year to the next? If he has a plan for salvation, why doesn't he know what it is?)
dear ladies and gentlemen (but the ladies in particular):.
march is women's history month.. is there a woman who has become a mentor or otherwise very special person to you?.
my heroine, from an historical perspective, is rosa parks.
MissingLink, Men's History Month is every other damn month of the year.
this afternoon i attended the ca, pioneer / pioneer / pioneer / pioneer, everything else you might need to do in life is not important.
focus on the new system, and making disciples !
and near the end of the session, the district overseer made a quick but noted comment.
I can't believe a DO actually said Armageddon may not come in our lifetimes. That has got to cause a mass exodus of JWs, don't you think?
divorce is much more common in the jehovah's witness community than they would like to admit.
probably more so than the population in general.
if you have been divorced do you think that the watchtower society contributed to the divorce, or caused it, or is it just possible you married some jerk or abuser and divorce would have occured no matter what religion you were, or even if you had no religion?
Yes. If I had been allowed to go to college, I wouldn't have seen marriage as my only other alternative. If I had been allowed to choose a mate from all of mankind instead of the five or six "eligible" men in my circuit, I'm sure I could have easily found a better spouse. If we had been allowed to pursue counseling, maybe we could have figured out what was wrong and saved the marriage. The only thing we had in common was the religion so, when that went south, so did the marriage.
