http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/7/153830/1.ashx.
hi, just an update to my pervious thread.
i have left several messages with aps to report the elder abuse of my father in law by his wife.
TOTH, I had a similar situation and found APS to be somewhat overworked, underfunded, ineffectual bureaucrats. We finally took the person in question straight to the police station, reported it to them, and refused to leave until we were listened to. That forced APS to get involved and APS said they were too busy to handle it and turned it over to the State Police.
Are you willing or able to bring your FIL to live with you?
the ones i know are either life long window cleaners with little education behind them or ex army /police /teacher types that are used to public talking and a bit of power , which ones did you find were the best elders ie kind and caring , i would go for the uneducated window cleaner /manual worker type by my experiance , in fact it was because the intelligent ones believed it was "the truth" that made me think well it must be true if he believes it
Well, now, Billy, you're the exception, of course!
I think I probably had my ex-husband in mind when I spewed that post~my wife-beating, child-beating ex-husband who is married to a pioneer who is so overly zealous that even the JWs think she's a bit over the top....
dear wannabe writers,.
i'm sure that all of us have been either fascinated (or bored to distraction) by the loquacious reciter of personal tales who tops off his soliloquy with "i could write a book!
writing a book has left the realm of the remote possibility to become a truly practicable challenge.. do you have a tale to tell?
I, too, am a wannabe writer.
Here's a thought. Bear with me. There's a series of books that is very popular called "Surprised by Truth." It's a collection of conversion stories of people who have converted to Catholicism.
What if we all wrote our story of how/why we left the JWs and put then together in one volume? Then we'd each only have to write a small part of the total book. People in this country would be shocked to hear the truth, and all of our voices together would be louder than our individual voices. It would be a great selection for Oprah's Book Club.
What do you think?
the ones i know are either life long window cleaners with little education behind them or ex army /police /teacher types that are used to public talking and a bit of power , which ones did you find were the best elders ie kind and caring , i would go for the uneducated window cleaner /manual worker type by my experiance , in fact it was because the intelligent ones believed it was "the truth" that made me think well it must be true if he believes it
The only good elder is an ex-Jw, ex-elder. If they weren't power hungry control freaks, they had to suck up to power hungry control freaks to become elders. They're all reprehensible. Usually losers who wanted to be a big fish in a small pond.
2 special pioneers i knew were at the assembly last year i wanted to know how they were since they have special pioneered for 20 years.
both got sick and have chronic fatigue.
they quit pioneering to rest and get better.
I've had fibromyalgia since I was nine years old. It's real. Not in my head. If you were afflicted with it, you wouldn't be so quick to pass it off as imaginary. Just because a disease process is not yet well understood doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
i'm reading a great book.
"history the end of the world: how the most controversial book in the bible changed the course of western civilization" by jonathan kirsch.
as a jw, i grew up reading, rereading, and rereading the revelation book.
For another take on the book of Revelations, read Dr. Scott Hahn's book, The Lamb's Supper.
http://books.google.com/books?id=Rolocdi4etcC&dq=inauthor:Scott+inauthor:Hahn&pgis=1
Whether or not Bushy was influenced by the Left Behind books is a good question.
i have to admit when i am wrong, so here goes.
my family is the same as every other.
just as lowdown, greedy and liars to the core.
On second thought, I shouldn't have said "it's only money." It's actually about love and respect. The WTS has beaten all natural affection out of their adherents and turned them into cold-hearted pod people. Remember, though, that we don't love people because they love us or are good to us. We are good to people because we are good, not because they deserve it. Make sure you stay a good person, despite this ill treatment.
i have to admit when i am wrong, so here goes.
my family is the same as every other.
just as lowdown, greedy and liars to the core.
So, suck up to the great-grandson. Become his favorite Aunt.
Seriously, I've had to accept this with my parents. It's very hard, I know. But my feeling is that, legally, they are only obligated financially to raise me. The money they have now is money they worked for and saved back all these years. It is their right to do what they want to do with it. They've done for me what the law required. Anything else is just a bonus.
It's only money. I've pretended not to know their plans and told my mother to please leave my share to my children's special needs trust fund, as two of my kids are handicapped. Let's see how wonderful my JW mother looks to all of her friends when they find out she disinherited her handicapped grandkids.
all my deep south friends stay safe.. it's been really warm today.
we have severe storms coming in tonight and a forecast for possible snow tomorrow or wednesday.. does god need prozac or what?.
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It's raining here in SW Ohio. After last year's drought, my FIL had to sell his horses because he couldn't make enough hay to feed them and you almost couldn't find hay to purchase. It's rained a lot here this year and I'm glad, so we can refill our aquifers and hopefully make up for last year's crop losses.
It's still winter. At least it's not icy. Spring will be here soon. I can't wait to get outside and dig in the dirt.
this video is imho pretty funny.... goto http://www.chewbear.com/pc.html and click on the "pioneer corner" link.
This was cute buy, yes, too long. Some observations:
1. When I first heard the music I thought, wait, is this a porno?
2. When I saw the bad acting I thought, wait, is this a porno?
3. When I saw the young pioneer getting prepared for his perfect pioneering day, I knew that he couldn't really be a pioneer because there were granite countertops in that kitchen. No pioneer can afford granite. Also, his egg carton only had two eggs, so he must have employed magic in order to get 8-10 eggs in his mug. Also, as a good JW, my mother always taught me to crack open the eggs individually before dumping them in together because one of the eggs might be fertilized and then, you'd be eating BLOOD! Not likely to happen now with storebought eggs but us farm folk had to really watch that.
4. Another sign it was a fantasy was that there were so many kids in that KH. Given how the congs. are dying out around here, they'd have had to film that at the circuit assembly to find that many youngsters.
5. I noticed that it appeared the young man and the young woman were pioneering in the car together unchaperoned. Scandal! Now they have to get married! (And in six years, get Df'd and divorced.)
