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My mom is not comming for xmas day like she requested. She had insisted that we not celebrate any xmas activities if she did come xmas day. My wife (who was never a witness ) said no way. I told my mom she could come any time but she had to respect our beliefs. The good news is she will come the day after xmas.

What Ever Attracted You To The Witnesses In The First Place?

by minimus in

jw
friends

i have an excuse, i was born in it.

the thought of living forever and never dying was certainly a draw but when i realized it wasn't true, there wasn't much of an attraction anymore.. what attracted you as a witness?.

recovering

I was forced into it from Childhood..

pesky circumstance known as "birth."

so very true

help me please

by recovering in

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friends

my mom just called (she is an active jehovah's witness) she basically has very little to do with me.

however she want's to come and visit me and my wife on christmas day .

she lives in another state and wants spend the night.

recovering

I am disfellowshipped , just a very weird situation

help me please

by recovering in

jw
friends

my mom just called (she is an active jehovah's witness) she basically has very little to do with me.

however she want's to come and visit me and my wife on christmas day .

she lives in another state and wants spend the night.

recovering

She want's to visit her non jw sister in another state our house is half way between mom's house and my aunt's house. she wouls only be spending xmas day and night with us. My wife suspects that she wants to stay at our house on xmas because my aunt would never agree to the non celebration of xmas terms.

It is so hard because i miss my mom so much, but the jw control thing really bothers me

help me please

by recovering in

jw
friends

my mom just called (she is an active jehovah's witness) she basically has very little to do with me.

however she want's to come and visit me and my wife on christmas day .

she lives in another state and wants spend the night.

recovering

My mom just called (she is an active jehovah's witness) She basically has very little to do with me. However she want's to come and visit me and my wife on christmas day . She lives in another state and wants spend the night. She however has made a request that we do not celebrate christmas while she visits. My wife and I have made plans to for christmas with our grown children to have xmas dinner with them at their house. what do i do? We have invited her to our home many other times and she has always declined.

By the way my wife is not nor has ever been a jw.

Millionaire JW's....who happen to be fraudsters!!

by Loquacious in

not sure if any of you have heard about an australian company called firepower which was run by a man named tim johnston.

he basically started a company selling a miracle fuel pill that never actually worked while he collected millions of dollars, bought properties in many countries, antiques, paintings and jet setted around the world with his family.

investors have lost plenty of money and in some cases their life savings.

recovering

Johnston fights for $2m in art

SEAN COWAN and GARY ADSHEAD, The West Australian November 28, 2009, 2:43 am

Antiques and paintings worth up to $2 million are at the centre of a tug of war involving besieged Firepower chief Tim Johnston and entrepreneur Warren Anderson, whose family company made an estimated $20 million from the failed fuel technology company.
If successful, the items could become a target for anyone seeking Mr Johnston's assets, including a bankruptcy trustee or Firepower's shareholders.

The Johnstons' obsession with antiques is borne out in dozens of letters between Mr Johnston, his wife and Mr Cook in 2006 in which they discussed buying pieces worth up to $580,000.

Mr Johnston also commissioned works.

"Can you please send Vlad some money before Xmas towards the orientalist painting he is doing for you - the one of the beautiful slave girl with lion by a bed with the king and an attendant," Mr Cook wrote in December 2006.

"She is looking good. Such an orientalist temptress.

"Vlad loves painting her - passion in every stroke, of the brush that is."

Mr Cook spent hours researching items for the Andersons, the Johnstons and the Johnstons' daughters, and travelled to Europe with them twice on buying sprees.

On one occasion he was funded by Mr Johnston.

"What a great and rewarding experience," Mr Cook wrote after one trip.

"The bodyguards, the chauffeurs, the hotels, the meals etc."

In one letter about an Ashoka-cut diamond ring, Mrs Johnston gushed to Mr Cook about her recent trip to Italy with daughter Emily.

"Lago Maggiore was fantastic," Mrs Johnston said.

"Emily got a beautiful Valentino gown for her ball so she was chuffed."

Mr Cook told * _The West Australian _ *yesterday that Mr Anderson was one of Australia's biggest collectors and had given Mr Johnston sound advice on antiques.

"But it's very sad when good friends fall out and I have no understanding of any financial arrangements between Mr Johnston and Mr Anderson," Mr Cook said.

While spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on pieces from Russia, France and Italy, including a commode worth $37,000, the Johnstons were busy overseeing the construction and purchase of a luxury Bali villa at Nusa Dua.

This was done with the help of former WA police minister Gordon Hill.

But all of this was done while travelling extensively, in either first or business class, trying to secure contracts for Firepower's bulk fuel additive.

They were also networking with celebrities like Russell Crowe and former Australian cricket captain Steve Waugh.

Also among the documents obtained by _The West Australian _was evidence of Mrs Johnston's commitment as a Jehovah's Witness during several family crises and conflicts with other church members.

"You will be humbled, Jehovah does not sleep, you might be fooling the elders because you . . . don't want to get disfellowshipped, you are treading and playing a very dangerous game," she wrote to a fellow Jehovah's Witness who was involved with Firepower.

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Pork Chops with Peaches

You may grill these pork chops outside or cook them on the stove. Either way, the peaches do the trick.

•2 boneless pork chops, lightly dredged in

•1 tablespoon flour seasoned with salt & pepper and a pinch of dried rosemary

•1 teaspoon olive oil

•1 tablespoon shallots, finely chopped

•2 medium sized ripe peaches, peeled and sliced in half inch wedges

•1/2 cup of dry white wine

•1 teaspoon unsalted butter

•1 teaspoon fresh rosemary leaves, chopped fine

•Dash cayenne pepper (optional)

•Salt & pepper to taste