for a religious group that claims to be above reproach, with a self proclaimed, excellent reputation for godliness, i don't feel that claim is quite true.. in fact, i think its a sham to make those assertions.
they trully should not feel they are different from any organized group, when it comes to its members following righteous standards.
true, the wt would like all to believe they are clean and morally straight, that they are different and not tainted from the world.
The portrait of the ideal witness is someone who is running around preaching to everyone they meet like their hairs on fire they live in the cheapest undecorated place clean a few houses for money never watch tv or movies or listen to anything except kingdom melodies and only read jw material.
no one can really live like this and technically speaking if you don't your disobedient and deserve to be df'd it's crazy!
but damm it can be tough on the outside!!
!.....hi old friends....it would be sooooo much easier if you work for a company...with normal people around you....but damm if you have your own biz for thirty years with five jw employees out of 15 that pretty much run your company.....well just crap!!
!....anyhwho.....good luck to all moving on....it can be a bitch...but it is worth it....and damm divorce is a bitch...and so is settlement...and so is fukkin alimony!!!!!!
your restored cottage sounds beautiful any pictures we could see?
do all your plants grow?
i recently asked a friend about certain gardening problems and wondered if, despite all your own green thumb efforts, some of your plants - potted or in ground - remain stunted in their growth.. thanks!.
coco coleus.
We had a house once and I went through a wild planting phase. It was great fun and experimental I learned how important it is to know your area and what grows there.
where we lived it was very hot with akaline soil so if you plant acidic soil plants it can be done but not easily and at the nursery the plants might say full sun but full sun in texas is different than in ohio for example so from my experience I'd say know your area and what does well there.
also watch your garden and the sun because I had a shady area I thought but about five everyday the sun shot a beam on one spot of my shade garden and incinerated a few plants.
i'm trying to impress upon my sister the damage this cult has inflicted on our lives.
it really affected the decisions i made.
i'm a nurse but i never really wanted to be one.
I was not raised a witness, but when I think about it I never really wanted to be anything I just wanted to understand life and what it was all about.
I wanted experiences and new thoughts sometimes I feel like Thoreau when he went to the woods.
"iI went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately to front only the essential facts of life and see if I could not learn what it had to teach and not when I came to die discover that I had not lived"
I'm 60 now and still searching through ideas and have never been anything like an occupation or career or anything like that.
some of you know i have struggled with this for awhile.
i really do believe in marriage and the committment, however, sometimes enough is enough.. his endless preaching at me and calling me and my (adult) children satan has me realizing that this situation is not going to get better.
the other day he kicked my son out of the house for wearing a cap, in his car, with a skull on it.
little bird,
everything will be okay just concentrate on healing yourself believe in yourself and enjoy peaceful moments listening to your favorite music or spending early mornings waking up with the world.
it's a new beginning and as kahil gibron says "ready am I to go and my eagerness with full sails await the wind only another breathe will I breath in this still air only another loving look cast backward"
i love psychedelic music.
some of my favorites include the beatles' "blue jay way", .
the beastie boys' "namaste",.
vanilla fudge
get out my life why don't you babe you just keep me hanging on
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it's easy just lay upside down and hang your head over a stack of towels .....bwaaahhahahaha ........my cat is nuts !!!
this is what i saw when i came in the back door yesterday ....he's smiling at me .
cats are so wonderful and the camera loves them
i've been away from the borg for many years now.
the only information i have about new light/doctrine change/flip flops is from this board.
so i'm hoping you can help me with a couple of questions i've had since i was a kid.. does the wtbts have a plan for what the jws are supposed to do while the battle of armaggedon is being fought?.
Bird watching seems to be a popular conversation topic at witness gatherings.
One of the last ones I went to a young woman said to me "have you noticed all the birds lately" I felt sick inside and I couldn't hold back so I just told her that I didn't enjoy thinking about the death of billions and I walked away.
i would like to see variety of suggestions.
thank you!.
chocolate, pecans, ice cream and a dash of chili pepper
the internet is full of confliction on the subject.
anyone have firsthand knowledge?.
I think the difference between muslims and Jws is that jws want god or angels to do the dirty work of execution while they watch. The muslims feel that god has appointed them to do the execution. Alot of other christian religions just want people endlessly tortured but out of sight.
there's alot of different methods for getting rid of the other guy.
