real time with bill maher plays on hbo throughout the week.
the new show was on last night, and during the discussion, he started in on religion and talked about jehovah's witnesses and michael jackson's upbringing, including no birthday celebrations.
try to catch it, if you can.
I loved the way Bill Maher was talking about the Muslims ruling in Iraq and how crazy their religion was. Then he stated he was watching VH1 and how Michael Jackson was raised a JW and how guilty Michael was just throwing a birthday party for his mother.
Wasn't hard to connect the dots that he thought the crazy Muslims and JWs were similar with their crazy behavior and doctrines.
at this week's service meeting it a letter was read to all congregations in usa:
bethel wants lawyers, lawyers specializing in tax law, and cpa's.
if you are in any of these professions you were supposed to talk to the po that evening.
franklinJ :
Bethel found out about him and offered to pay his student loans if he became the dentist at Bethel, which he did until the early 80s.
oh gawd, he was awful. If I were you, I wouldn't even mention that I know him. lol
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/ebayisapi.dll?viewitem&category=366&item=6157457202&rd=1&sspagename=wdvw
you will have to copy and paste the link into your address bar..
i thought the starting bid was a nice touch !
ROTFLMAO!
excellent!
poor thing, she's had alzheimer's for about 10 years and the last year she's been on hospice care because she's been so close to death.
the past few months she's been slowly filling up with water -- they gave her lasix (not sure of the spelling) to relieve the edema and it worked, sort of.
last weekend she actually looked a little better.
((((Nina))) I'm so sorry to hear of the loss of your mother. You have shared so much personal things about your life in such a heart felt way, that I'm just sobbing knowing that even though it was a relief, you are still grieving.
((((Chris, Jeanie & Jackson))) please be good to one another. You all are a beautiful family.
Joy
i finally got through to lady lee.
she's living in ottawa and is mostly confined to a wheel chair.
her feet are worse and can barely walk.
((((((Lady Lee)))))
missed you terribly around these parts.
I'm sorry to hear you are not getting any better, feet wise.
Hope you find permanent residence soon, with DSL!
Hugs,
Joy
gosh!.
the drama!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4289225.stm.
The drama!
dear concerned forum posters:
i feel at this time, in my long and varied career here at the forum, i must protest to the exalted and respected administator of this site, that a problem does exist in it's "labeling" of posters.
this concerns the titles that are given to posters when they reach a certain amount of posts.
I never look at labels/time/etc. It all means nothing to me.
I like to get to know posters. They are people, you know.
the wife of one of our lawyers is a judge here in dallas, and i overheard her husband telling a couple of other lawyers about this really tough case she has right now: deciding to issue a court order to give blood to premature twins whose parents are witnesses.
i popped in with "i'm an ex-jw -- ask me anything" so he and i started talking about the blood issue.
the father of the twins was in tears in the courtroom -- not because of his babies getting blood but because he was afraid he would be accused of giving his consent to the blood transfusion.
Nina,
I'm glad you were able to educate the lawyer/judge on the silly self-imposed rules of JWs. It is about time that we as xjws can speak up and quit hiding the foolish hidden rules that those people have to live under. The more the rest of the world understands about the insidious, mind controlling actions of JWs the more they will stay away and realize it is a cult.
Hope the babies do ok. Very delicate time of life and they still have a long way to go besides just having blood to help them.
Joy
wow, great to hear about *cough* older ones who faded before all the silliness lately. How brave of you!
Joy
my name is ayernye... sometimes i go by stephan... it used to be stephen mcguire back when i was a witness in the wilmington and groton massachusetts congregations from '83 - '94.
was a pioneer and ministerial servant and was married for two of those years.
with tremendous agony and confusion, i moved far away to discover myself... took years to adjust to my new reality... drugs... drinking... anything to numb my tired brain... but the transformation was eventual and so worth it... of course... i am now my own person... mostly happy, adjusted and living my life to the best i can... .
heads up, you may want to talk with a poster here by the name of 6of9. He's a photographer and has done his own short film about jws/xjws.
But I say wonderful on your project. Especially while we watch the news about the screwed up Michael Jackson. Don't you think his childhood contributed to his reality???
Anyway, I'm sure you'll have plenty who volunteer, if not, I'll be happy to talk about my past. (see profile) and how happy I am now.
Joy
