I wish this board was a vBulletin or PhpBB forum - they're both so much more intuitive and easier to use. This is the only forum I've ever visited where the new posts aren't on page one, and there's just so much random bugginess to it all.
Besides that, the folks here are absolutely great
i remember working at a banquet hall/resturant, and it was just around the time when the jw teachings/actions weren't sitting well with me.
but my mind was still very much a jw.
a lady, whom i clicked with & whom i'd hung out with a few times, came up to me one day and said "homeschool, there's a couple things i wanted to tell you.
"College" - oooh so evil and scary! Beware all the demunz!
"Sleeping in" - what, you're not waking up on Saturday morning to do service?
"Heavy petting" - dear brothers I'm so sorry, I gave in to the snare of heavy petting!
"Mother f*cker" - Ok, well, just stating the obvious here lol
this year's drama was based on the parable of the prodigal son.
the theme was "your brother was dead and came to life".
as some have probably heard, it is a modern day story based on that parable, so there are no fancy costumes or fake beards.. .
Wow, just reading that boils my blood for some reason. I can just imagine all the clueless Dub's in the audience that have a tear brought to their eye over how touching and warm the drama is. Ugh.
Just to re-state what's already been stated... this is utter crap as this fellow would be welcomed back by a judicial committee, and is such an obvious attempt to play on the emotions of the many many witnesses that have had family members "wise up" and leave "the truth" behind.
what do you think would happen if a lot of dfed folks.
showed up at a kh.
socialized with each other... and.
Man, what a brilliant idea! In my experience whenever there was 3 or more folks DF'd at one time within the halls I attended they would usually talk outside in the parking lot out of sight from the rest of the good Dub's. I do dig this idea though. Wish there was a hall somewhere around here with a big DF'd population, I'd definitely go to that hall and make friends.
I remember in my younger years there were so many brothers who were DF'd in the surrounding congregations that we all used to play basketball with that I joked with a friend of mine that we should have an all-disfellowshipped team and an all non-DF'd team that could play ball against each other.
this past saturday morning, i was walking through downtown guelph ontario when i saw 3 ppl standing on corners of an intersection with what i instantly recognized to be watchtowers in their hands.
while i was at an atm, i watched them approach various strangers and i started to get excited, thinking about what i would say to them when approached.
(1 middle aged woman 1 teenage girl and 1 man - interestingly, i first doubted the man was a dub because he had no jacket, blue shirt, orange tie, and had a cell phone attached to his belt - i cant imagine ever being allowed in service with a visible cellphone.).
It was the holy spirit protecting them from your evil apostasy IMO. The angels guided them away from you to protect their clean, undefiled hearts.
....district conventions?.
i know that the jews went to jerusalem and had a couple of celebrations where they gathered in large numbers during the year but did the early christians do anything like that?
i'm a bit confused as to what the precedent for district conventions or assemblies are.. thanks for any info,.
I agree with mindmelda - assemblies and conventions are basically big ol' mating, dating, and chaste courtship roundups. It's the time when all the brothers get to stuff a sock in the front of their pants and fantasize about maybe one day getting to see the nude kneecap of a sister. It's the time when all the sisters leave wet spots in their seats as they dream about a spiritual man holding their hand in service and conducting a good family study night.
a couple of things that come to mind: celebrate holidays and go tieless..
Yes, you are correct, but I no longer live every day with the fear that this could be A-day and God's going to kill me.
So, yea, fear of death :-)
with the recent illness of a gb member who has hurt many people, some have commented that they would like to have him suffer, various ways have been mentioned including having his mind fine, but his body suffering.. we all here have a hatred for child molesters, abusers, those who make others suffer.. and there are many examples in history as well.
hitler, josef mengele, john wayne gacy, and many others.. is it right to want them to suffer for what they have done?
should they be made to undergo the exact same suffering they inflicted on others?.
Out of all the people I've ever met and known in my life I can honestly say that there are 4 of them that I honestly hope experience painful suffering and die an agonizing death. Actually, one of them is already dead from cancer, which doesn't bother me at all. Hopefully the other 3 will get what they deserve - 1 of which is someone in my own family that used the stupid "2 witnesses" rule to get away with years of sexual child abuse. People like these 4 almost make me wish hell was real.
midshipman graduate michael david aragon, of tucson, arizona, reacts after shaking hands with president barack obama.
midshipman graduate christopher nicolet, of lakeside, arizona, reacts after shaking hands with president barack obama .
president barack obama hugs john sidney mccain iv, son of arizona senator john mccain.
Why on earth would anyone get that excited over shaking the hand of another human?
a couple of things that come to mind: celebrate holidays and go tieless..
My top 10 are as follows:
1 - Catch up on all the Smurfs cartoons I missed out on as a child
2 - Booty calls
3 - I can participate in evil "self abuse" without fear of God killing me if I'm bursting at the seams and #2 isn't available
4 - Watch non G-rated movies
5 - Allow the facial hair that God installed on my face to grow without fear
6 - Skip wearing underpants when I am forced to wear a suit
7 - Celebrate a birthday without worrying about a prophet or party guest getting beheaded
8 - No more "privilege" of KH bathroom cleaning - honestly brothers, how hard is it to miss the urinal? You're standing right in front of the damn thing...
9 - Saturday mornings spent sleeping, mowing the lawn, and/or having breakfast beer rather than hocking Awake magazines about "The Glory of the Dung Beetle"
10 - No more fear of death
