if california takes the revenue from counties and cities, what happens to the counties and cities and how are they supposed to pay for their needs?
california's revenue has dropped dramatically and negates the ludicrous claim that unemployment is only at 10%..it most obviously is substantially higher and not moving in a good direction yet.
sammieswife.. the state's ability to function by issuing ious to contractors was projected to last until early september without a balanced budget in place.
As the wife of a state employee, I'm grateful the budget has passed. However, we still have to live with a 16% cut in total income (BTW, our taxes did NOT go down 16%).
I'm getting really tired of Californians demanding services without being willing to pay for them. What a mess.
i know i got bothered by all the self righteous music police who would condemn me or others for our awesome record collections from early years as a teenager .
several experiences were really quite odd .
one brother came up to me saying i was wrong to listen to the moody blues " nights in white satin "!
Oh, yeah, this was a big issue. My df'd dad was a huge rock-n-roller (Stones, Byrds, Dylan) which of course led to my own great taste in music (Springsteen, Tom Petty, Bonnie Raitt, Robert Cray). Get it? Basically, pretty tame folk- and blues-based rock.
You'd have thought we were freakin' devil worshippers.
But then my youngest brother got into KISS, and the whole Kingdumb Hell had a fit about it. He was "unapproved association" for quite awhile. And now they wonder why he left.
as a kid, i used to read all the watchtowers of the 40s and 50s to see how the present day information developed from its original "thought".
i was exposed to many eye opening statements but i swept them under the carpet (although it stayed in the recesses of my brain) until the time was right.. so for me, it was a gradual thing.. how were you affected by your first encounters with "apostate" material?
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I did the fade as a teenager in the mid-70s (right after I got my driver's license in 1976, something that was never supposed to happen because the Big A would be here first). My belief had been slowly torn down by the lead-up to '75, then crushed by the message that the WT had never said what I had personally heard them say.
Around that time, I read an excerpt of Harrison's book in Ms. Magazine, then 30 Years a Watchtower Slave...and pretty much just walked away. Over the years, I'd pay attention whenever somethng about the JWs made the mainstream news (the TIME article on Ray Franz), but I never picked up the book. Then, I went back to grad school, and while researching something else, stumbled across Penton's book, APOCALYPSE DELAYED (this was in 1995, I think). After reading that, I did a quick search of the 'Net, found H2O, and finally ended up here.
Mind you, this entire time--more than 30 years--my family has been hoping I'd "straighten up" and come back. Argh.
its been so long since i was involved with the policies of the witnesss.
i just have not kept track of their grandiose wise views, (snicker) concerning this subject.
so any input or attachments would be appreciated.
WT Wizard hit it on the head:
Treatment is allowed, so long as it does not get to the real root of the problem. Use medication, as long as it will help one to play the role of the "happiest people on the planet" (but do not publicize that the witlesses are probably also the most medicated people on the planet, short those in psychiatric wards in the hospitals). But, do not advise them to get out of the religion, because then they might not need the medication after all. Worse, they will no longer be assets to the cancer.
One of the things I've noticed is that the JWs in my life are all too willing to take pills and all too unwilling to consider any changes in thinking patterns or behavior patterns that might change things. Instead, they think everything is a medical problem, and there's nothing wrong with the way they see the world.
You ought to see the medicine cabinets. Eeeek!
she starts out with some banal stuff about where they want to move, etc, then, she launches into this:.
that brings up something i wanted to tell you in person but itseems that i am not going to be able to do that very soon.
i amhoping to throw some light on what has happened within our familyesp during the time we were over there.. it has become very apparent to us now that during that time period from early spring on, in 200[x], satan launched an all-out attack on our family, son.
Yep, insane. And deceptive.
One of the things that I learned from being a cop is that the more vague someone is in his/her language, the more they are trying to conceal. This woman is keeping secrets--or at least, she thinks she is.
Jankyn
the medical stories are really getting out there..... here's the last line from the story:.
michael jackson starred as the scarecrow in the wiz, the 1978 musical version of the wizard of oz playing the character without a brain opposite diana ross as dorothy.. click for story .
Just remember when Elvis died...and we were treated to all the information about how he died on the toilet! Some things never change.
(apologies if this has been posted already...couldn't find it had).
http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2009/05/prop_8_ruling_a_blow_to_all_minorities.html?hpid=talkbox1.
i was sent this by a missionary.
Joel Engardio is still trying to get his momma's love and approval. He hasn't yet accepted that she's in a cult, and her love and approval is contingent on his doing what he's told. One of these days, he'll wake up; you can't win the love of a cult-mind, because they have no love to give.
growing up j.w.a new book about being raised among jehovahs witnesses sends these sn&r writers down memory lane.
by jenn kistler and kel munger .
jenn kistler and kel munger bicker over which book for jehovahs witnesses children is scarier.
I knew Munger was an ex-Dub because she's written about it before (and I think she reviewed Brian's book, Have You Seen My Mother?). But I didn't know about this other writer. She mostly writes about upcoming events and music and stuff like that, and Munger's writing more about political stuff. Pretty cool to have two ex-Dub reporters at my hometown alternative paper!
Now if they'd only cover the pedophile stuff...
it's amazing how the congregation i was in promoted passive-aggressive behavior.
whenever you saw someone behaving inappropriately, you were supposed to run to the elders to tattle.
in some cases these were things that were none of our business or should have been handled privately.. there was a pioneertm who was having personal problems of some sort.
The extreme lack of personal hygiene that's being described here is a glaring sign of mental health issues, though. There's a difference between being a "slob" (you know, not ironing shirts, having a messy desk or letting the dishes sit for a day) and complete neglect of personal grooming and upkeep of your surroundings.
You're describing some very sick people---and yes, I've seen that in action. Back when I was a cop, I once assisted on an ambulance call at a house that was packed so full of stuff (old newspapers, broken toys, old clothes, just CRAP) that they couldn't get the gurney inside. The older couple had been living in it like that for years. They had trails to get around; slept in their recliners because the bed was covered with stuff; couldn't cook because the oven was full of stuff--and of course, hadn't bathed or changed clothes in gawd only knows how long.
Severe mental illness. Very sad.
i guess i was a lousy jw because i was never very good at preparing for all the meetings.
the "special needs" talk would point out how a good dub will buy out the opportune time.
start the day with the daily text, next listen to the wt on tape as you drive to work.
I must say that, even as a child, I read the daily text every day. That's because my mother kept the text book in the bathroom! (Seriously. She still does.)
