in total, the last few years, for family and a few friends, i spent over $2000.. this year, i expect to spend no more than $1000.. will you spend more or less this year?.
$200 on food and grog for over the 3 days, ours childrens prezzies (from us) $500, Santa Sack fillers for all 3 kids $150, we have a $10 limmit for each niece/nephew (so $130..), we dont buy for adults and our xmas cards plus postage will cost about $100.....
So.... this year, xmas will cost us well over $1000 dollars.... but it will be soooo worth the expence!!!!
Merry Xmas Everybody!
(my hubby has already bought my prezzie- I got a new car! yippy!!!)
20 years ago, i wanted to be a famous country rock singer.... now, my shower is my stage .
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20 years ago, I wanted to be a famous country rock singer...
Now, my shower is my stage LOL
oprah has announced she is ending her talk show.
.........i am so thankful to god at this moment...... .
http://tv.yahoo.com/the-oprah-winfrey-show/show/32704/news/tv.accesshollywood.com/tv.accesshollywood.com-harpo-president-confirms-oprah-winfrey-ending-talk-show-run-network-tv.
Yep, now she running for President LOL
i can't get warm.
its 13 degrees today but feels like zero.. the wind has been blowing down the chimney all day without letup and my feet are freezing :(.
at last check it was 39degrees C here- I m not far off putting my kids into bath again... it's our indoor pool on hot days like this... apparently it will rain over the next couple of days, but who knows- all I see outside is dust in the sky and no rain clouds... I will be so glad when we move further south!
hi...i have come across the jw text that says that "the word was a god" john 1:1...who is that "god"?
another god?
is him jesus?...
Shelby, I have been reading this thread and keeping up to date with it since it started, I held back from commenting untill I read this...
As I have stated before, ALL religions contain SOME truth. Because they are set up to “attract” the children of Light… whose primary existence in THIS world… is spent in search OF… the Truth. John 14:6
Jesus answered Thomas- "I am the way and the truth and the life. No-one comes to the father except through me."
# This passage makes more sense to me when followed by 14:7....
"If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him."
#How do you get to know someone? you talk to them. You can learn about someone by reading a book about them, but you dont 'know' them untill you have spoken to them in person, and had time to 'get to know them'. Otherwise, how do you know what you are reading is the truth?
I get it . (I kept my copy of the NIV just in case and for that 1% chance that I may have been be wronge- how big is a mustard seed?)
well, they are up to their old tricks again.
trying to manipulate rank and file members views of what " real love " is again.. the title of the study article is " love that never fails " .
as my jw daughter so succinctly informed me a couple weeks ago that the most important way jehovah's witnesses are counseled to " show love " is by preaching the good news door to door.
I have to say that every single time I read the WTB say "show love" I feel sick.... showing love on the surface is not as important as "feeling love and giving love".
I will try to explain this as best as I can, so bare with me here...
In the car on the way to a meeting with the lady I was studing with at the time, the conversation of what was happing down in victoria (fires) came up and it continued after ariving at the hall... another lady commented "Oh it's just terrible, those poor people" and changed the subject to how we know it's so close now... blah, blah blah....., but her comment to me about the fires, just didn't 'feel' genuine... she was "showing" compassion on the surface (half- she was still smiling), but you really can tell when something is 'scripted speech' and not 'heart felt'...it was almost like she was a programmed robot!
You will not learn of real love, from a society that teaches you not to trust your own heart and tells you to be glad that 'these things are happing'- the WTB version of 'love' is something I can do without!
this is in response to dubr post.
welcome to the board dubr.
i whish you and your wife success and happiness in your new path.
TJLibre... I do apologize, I have just re-read your first post and I read your whole post this time. I didn't get far past the first couple of paragraphs earlier and after actually reading your post- I feel i must apologize for rolling my eyes at you, I see where your comming from now....
Amy (of the, should pay more attention class).
only in the movies...
this is in response to dubr post.
welcome to the board dubr.
i whish you and your wife success and happiness in your new path.
Great response DubR, Welcome to the board!!!
*Lillith rolls eyes at Tjlibre- then moves on*
australian senator xenophon slammed scientology in a speech in parliment.
it was covered last night on national tv here by a current affairs program today tonight.
by sheer chance (as i usually do not watch tv) it was starting when i went into my mil's room (she is a jw who lives with us) so i stayed and watched the program.. the senator stated at the end of his speech, "scientology is not a religious organisation, it is a criminal organisation that hides behind its so-called religious beliefs.".
Hopscotch- the more threads covering this the merrier, I've been reading reports of protests breaking out across Australia, in front of the Scientology buildings (I refuse to call them churches). It is mainly in the larger cities here (Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane- haven't heard about Perth yet)... the protests were (as far as I can gather) organised by an online group called anonmus?? austanonm??? I added a link to the news on this on JWfacts thread... but here it is again for those that may have missed it...
http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,23189467-5014239,00.html
