i admit it----i plan on getting up at 4:00 freaking am to watch it.
i remember getting up around that time 30 years ago .
anyone else plan on watching it?.
my good friends in the UK have always told me that the royals are considered a joke in their own country
My British relatives sort of mock the royals themselves yet at the same time wouldn't take it well if an outsider made any disparaging remarks about them.
My favorite part of these royal doings is seeing the ornate carriages being used and the horses and guards in all their regalia.
i admit it----i plan on getting up at 4:00 freaking am to watch it.
i remember getting up around that time 30 years ago .
anyone else plan on watching it?.
Since I was a little kid, my London relatives have referred to me as "Mr. Abbey." Apparently one time when we were over there visiting, I wanted to see Westminster Abbey and kept asking "When are we going to see Mr. Abbey? " Years later, I brought my wife and boys to the Abbey and there was an announcement that there would be a celebration of the Eucharist. I asked a rather snobby elderly woman working as a Docent, to explain this ceremony to me. She said "Oh....where are you from?" I told her I grew up on the west coast of the U.S. She said " Oh...you don't sound like an American...you actually have a very nice acent" (SLAM) Then she went on to explain the Eucharis to me and asked..."Are you a Catholic then? " "No" I said, hoping to leave it at that. "Well what religion are you then?"she asked (DAMN !) I had to say it... "We're Jehovah's Witnesses" I said. She looked as if she were about to faint...her face blanched...she put her hand to her throat, stuttered and stammered and made some excuse about having to be somewhere else and made a quick exit.
Anyway Me and Mrs. exwhyzee were married a few weeks before Charles and Diana and had our 2 boys at almost the same time as they had theirs. We were outside Kenzington Palace just after her death and saw the mountains of flowers. My Uncle who is an Engineer at the Royal Mint, grew up with Charles (his Dad was a Palace Guard and got my brother and I one of those tall Bear Skin helmets each). My Cousin designed one of Diana's famous dresses (you'd know her name and mine if I described the dress) My mother (a Diana look alike) and Sophie Ryhs Jones great grandfathers were brothers....anyway there seems to be a ongoing thread here... so yeah....we're going to watch the Wedding too I'm sure.
it appears to me that even in the few months that i have been here there is less and less emphasis on jehovah's witnesses and anything remotely related to jws and more very poor posts about politics, foreign affairs and celebrities.
i can't omit the juvenile sex ones, which i find lacking in erotic nature.
it seems the 6th grade boys are meeting in the locker room.. the posts that involve jws have a very different tone from the drivel posted on others.
It's easier to put on a pair of slippers than to try and carpet the whole world
I enjoy hearing what's on other people's minds....drivel or otherwise. If someting doesn't strike my intrest, I just leave it to others who are interested and I move on. It's sort of like television...instead of complaining about what you're seeing, you are free to change the channel or turn it off.
I'm glad there is a place like this where people who have had their own thoughts so heavily monitored, can come an express themselves. As a former JW, it's nice to hear people who share the same backgrond as I've had, talking about somethnig other than religion. For some of us it's a new experience and we are novices at voicing our own thoughts rather than those we read somewhere in a publication.
1. Did you hear about the Klu Klux Klan member who after studying with the Witnesses and gaining an accurate knowledge of the truth, began burning Torture Stakes on peoples front lawns instead of crosses ?
2. I heard they've converted one of the Bethel buildings into an umbrella factory, in preperation for Christs thousand year reign.
severe abdominal pain turned out to be pancreatitis !
very scary .... his levels of enzymes should have been 180 ,but were 4,500 .
all the tests xrays , ulta sound and mri showed no gallstones or blockages just one mother of an inflamned pancreas .
have not had one return phone call or call to show concern for his well being .....I am so disgusted by her lack of natural affection .
Sorry you have to experience the tough JW love via your son's illness. We went through this a few months after our son was DF'd and then was diagnosed with Cancer a couple of months later. Having the loving JW friends and family leave you in the learch at such a crucial time makes it clear how off balance they are when it comes to using their own hearts and common sense over the WT rules. I have written my Son's only living "Pioneer" grandparent off...sort of DF'd her in my mind. She didn't even come to see him or call when he was in intensive care or during his Chemo. Stayed busy knocking on the doors of complete strangers while her own grandson was fighting for his life.
All the best to you and your Son for a speedy recovery. He is lucky to have you in his corner.
they say the average person will own about 25 cars in their life time.. from 1982 to 1988 i owned a 1971 dodge challenger convertible.
it had a 340 with a 4 speed stick.
i loved that car.. i didnt cry when my wife left me....i did cry when that car drove out of my life!.
they say the average person will own about 25 cars in their life time.. from 1982 to 1988 i owned a 1971 dodge challenger convertible.
it had a 340 with a 4 speed stick.
i loved that car.. i didnt cry when my wife left me....i did cry when that car drove out of my life!.
When I use the attach photo button and enter the URL, all that shows up in my post is a little empty box. If I enter the URL from facebook in, ALL my photos are accesable. (not good)
i was at home this morning typing up a couple legal documents for some general contractors to sign that were going to be doing some tree removal on my property, when i get a visit from a sister in the hall i used to attend.
she usually stops by at least once a week.
i haven't been to meetings for over a year now and didn't attend memorial this year, but she was quick to remind me how i missed out.
I've been a baptized witness for 20 years, why do I need someone to come to my house to preach to me about the ransom as if I have forgotten what it is or it is about?!
You just need to have a litte more humility Sista' (yuk yuk)
(I'm assuming you are a sister because unless she was wearing a head covering, a Witness woman would never talk to a Brother like that would she ?)
so what were your biggest jw accomplishments as a rank & file?
curious as to what level you climbed the r&f ladder while in the org, or if you still are in.. did you regular pioneer, or auxiliary pioneer?
bethel?
Probably being a Bethelite was the thing that could've given me the most gold stars if I'd have wanted it. Much to everyones bewilderment, I turned down every invitation to get on the platform and tell my "experience". I avioded telling anyone I was at Bethel because they expected so much from you...profound comments, exemplarly behavior, walking on water etc.
they say the average person will own about 25 cars in their life time.. from 1982 to 1988 i owned a 1971 dodge challenger convertible.
it had a 340 with a 4 speed stick.
i loved that car.. i didnt cry when my wife left me....i did cry when that car drove out of my life!.
Wish I knew how to attach a photo of my favorite car....the photo bucket method dosen't work for me.
