i will start....i can speak conversational albanian....thanks to the foreign language field...really useful in everyday life as a cleaner....sniff...why didnt i pick mandarin?
..would be useful when they take over the world....but one day i will find an albanian to talk to ...that or a needle in a haystack....the emmerdalian world of jw's
I can sometimes, but not willfully predict things straight before they happen. More often than that, I feel a strong deja vu.
I don't consider either of those things weird, as I've always experienced them. I only thought they were odd when I would ask others if they had those same feelings, and they don't. Usually.
how many of you actually read the watchtower and awake magazines from cover to cover when you were in?.
ld.
I think I read more during the study of the Watchtower than I ever did any other time, and it was usually the sappy played up life stories.
I also was confronted at the door by someone that asked if I read the magazines myself. Too afraid to lie, I deflected...I said "Excuse me? Why wouldn't I?" the woman replied something along the lines of having more respect for me if I'd just said no.
I never viewed door to door work the same again.
information taken from the june 2010 awake.
my guesses for releases this year will be an update creation book and a book on jeremiah.
two books were released as recently as 2008 so i don't think this would be out of the question.. friday.
Donuthole, looks like you beat me to the same observation.
Audio drama is where you just sit on your numb butt and listen to a drama, but there are no actors. They are all on stike, don'tcha know??!
information taken from the june 2010 awake.
my guesses for releases this year will be an update creation book and a book on jeremiah.
two books were released as recently as 2008 so i don't think this would be out of the question.. friday.
If this is indeed the line-up for the upcoming-I'm-not-coming convention, then it's refreshing how much time they are giving to Jesus. (tongue in cheek obviously)
My second comment would be that they are Jehovah this, Jehovah that (mostly all about not being irritated or impatient with him) and the for the PUBLIC talk, it says God. Well hell, lets not offend the worldies, we'll sneak in his "real" name later. @@ <----eyerolls.
i am at the point in my custody battle where i need to decide if i'm gonna "go for the gold" and bring religion into the fight.
my lawyer thinks i have a chance based on the parental alienation aspect of the religion.
i'm df'd and my kids are being raised to turn against me.
Well, my ex is just taking me back to court after being divorced for over a decade. The children in question with this ex are almost emancipation age. He was DF'd as was I, I came back, he didn't. He never stopped me from raising the kids as a JW, and IF HE HAD, I would have dug my heels in out of pride and just because I was pushed. I wouldn't say I'm a manipulator or mind f**k type person (he may disagree) but I would have fought him, because you are supposed to...ya know? So tread carefully.
If you can get it in the courts that he can't do certain things with the kids, that doesn't mean he'll obey it, and it's expensive to go to court over things that are hard to prove like "they didn't get to make Valentines and they were embarrassed" when it takes like 5 months to go to court and it's already Halloween by then.
Just BE the example of what you want your kids to be. Don't bow down to, be irritated with, or degrade your ex at all, because then it becomes a me against him...and you don't want to create even MORE of a reason for them to choose. Just be you, be their role model, take the higher road, and teach them to think. Anything else, you won't be sure to win anyway, it's stressful, expensive, and potentially distancing for your daughters and yourself. Being the bigger person, you'll win either way, you'll be able to live with yourself, and your kids will see by how you live, love and laugh that life is worth living on the "other side" of JW's.
'man with the golden arm' saves 2million babies in half a century of donating rare type of blood .
by mail foreign service.
last updated at 1:43 am on 23rd march 2010. comments (54)add to my storieslife-saver: james harrison has donated his rare blood nearly 1,000 times.
"funny" how this man enabled my mother in law to save her own life and her babies 2 years before she became a JW, but would now fight us in court over letting her grandchildren die over the blood issue. I wonder if she even sees the hypocrisy there. I bet not. I wish I could forward this article to her and let her know how two faced she is, but we are on a stand-off, who can shun who harder. I intend to win.
i've read some old posts and they don't really fit my situation.. my wife just told me she wants a divorce and that's it after nearly 20 years., she doesn't want to try to work on it.. other posts talk about friends and family.
i have no family and no friends (due to a lot of traveling).. i went back to my hometown a year ago (after many years away) and even then old friends treated me as a stranger, like they've moved on.. i've had a lot of emotional / mental problems, basically a breakdown so have found it impossible to fulfill my role as a husband for many years, emotionally and physically and she said she's had enough, although she's never talked about it before.. she went out and had an unplanned one-night-stand.
i forgive me but she says she doesn't love me anymore.. we both find it very difficult to communicate our feelings.
I am not sure I follow...you don't have a lot of friends due to traveling for work, AND you have a borderline fear of leaving the house and talking on the phone?
Are you sure you don't want her to leave because she helps you cope with everyday life? Is there a way she'd be willing to edge away slowly, allowing you to learn to cope or put in place other systems or supports, and you two can be friends...she can live her life how she wants, and yet not abandon you?
Seems from the few short replies that maybe you need her for a reason that is not marraige specific, and she needs a break and doesn't know how to do it, unless its like ripping off a bandage.
If I'm totally wrong and out of line, I apologize.
you may not remember, but i know you very well.
i met you a long time ago when you came to my house with your smiling faces, your neat clothes, and your soft voices, and a bible tucked neatly under your arm.
you told me many beautiful stories of a "paradise earth," and a "righteous new system" which would be established shortly.
I feel you pain in your words. We are here, listening, and understand.
here is a quick version of my life in the org.
i was born and raised in it.
my father was physically and mentally abusive to my siblings and i. he was inactive from the meetings and service for much of my life.
Thank you for taking the time to type that, it helps us all to get a feel of who everyone is, and where our support is needed most! Its hardly ever an easy thing to do, thanks for being brave and open.
(this thread was inspired by titus 2006 photo of the gb thread).
do you feel pride or pity?.
rage or reverence?.
When I was in, I would think that it would be nice to know these men, and a little jealous/resentful that all that we in the congregations did made it to where they didn't have to suffer working for a living, and making ends meet...all those things they counsel us on getting through, they didn't have to experience...with no thanks to us.
Now out, take away the nice to be able to meet them part, and magnify the resentment by about 100% and add in anger that they have my family and old friends, and I don't. They've never even met them, and never will.
