...well that's what the law says.
to today is my oldest son's 18th birthday.
part if me is slightly incredulous cuz it really doesn't seem like 18+ years, they've flown by.
Shawn Jones is a nice name...if he were to become famous, he wouldn't have to change it .
I have two Sons who are over 18. You'll enjoy it when he comes to see you also as a friend, especially after it dawns on him how much you did for him and how much you love him.
i was wondering if you could help me out.. tomorrow, i will be visiting a jw and i learned that she has anemia and has been given 4 months to live.
i really care for this person who i've only seen about 3 times.
on every visit i've made, she seems to be drunk (probably because of all the stress) and she has mentioned a couple of times that she "wants to die for god".
Maybe she's got some kind of Leukemia that requires a blood transfusion so she figures she's dying for God since she will have to refuse treatment.
If not, maybe the old Cliche's will appeal to her.
Ask her if she believes that life is a gift from God. If it is, wouldn't it be showing a lack of regard not to do what is within her power to preserve it so that she can use her life to further his interests?
God want's us to be courageous like a Lion but dead Lions are of no use to him.
i have an old friend I knew in Bethel who I recently got in contact with. He is only my age but is suffering and in need of a major surgery or he will die in a short time. He is of the Annointed and is living for the day he can be with Jehovah. I told him he has all eternity to be with Jehovah if that's whats going to happen. Why not for his Mother's sake and the sake of his family, stick around awhile. His mind is made up.
so wrote out my whole story here, then somehow my ipad deleted it.
don't have the patience to rewrite it.
just need suggestions and encouragement.
Take things one day at a time....there is no emergency here, no need to rush into anything. Your relationship with God if you choose to have one is yours and his...you owe no one an expalination about your personal beliefs nor do you have to plan an escape. The confines and obligations you feel upon you are only as real as you let them be. Relax....make the best of each day as it comes. Make a plan to do positive, healthy, and good things for yourself and others. Time has a way of sorting things like this out.
sad indeed!
i was searching online when i came across these headlines.
early reports say that as many as 27 jws died in a bus crash in ecuador while on their way to a meeting a couple of weeks ago.
Very sad....but it does make you think about all the experiences that make it to the yearbook about the JW's who were spared from some disaster because they were at the meeting or an assembly. They almost indicate that you are protected by Jehovah more so if you are involved in a Society sanctioned activity. However when something like this happens, they put it down to time and unforseen occurance befalling us all. This probably won't make it to the yearbook....no way to put a spin on it.
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/church-leader-poisons-rival/story-e6frea6u-1226288214719.
This is exactly why "unlettered and ordinary men" should not be put in charge of counseling troubled individuals. JW Elders often have no idea what is going on in the mind's of those they dicipline. Counseling people should be left to highly trained professionals....not high school graduates who have read a few Awake articles and think they are Sigmund Freud.
i see in churches in the states standing up in church dancing, clapping their hands and being quite emotional even in a church.
things which that wouldnt be acceptable in australia.. the link below also shows black sda ministers dressed in clergy style dress which is quite unusual for ministers here in australia.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yynbdm0unsw&feature=g-all&context=g2e791f1faaaaaaaamaas .
could any of my american friends inform me i showed it to my father who is a lay preacher and he was mistified as to what tradition this dress comes from but seems to be concentrated to th eblack community also?.
i sometimes have to wonder....... if a subtle transition might take place with regard to the general context of being a jehovah's witness.. a transition away from being objects of hatred towards being legitimate objects of pity.. if this seems far-fetched, consider that some extended witness families have now drifted into having the next generation gone completely or faking it at best.
there are also cases of long term witnesses being accosted by long term co-workers as to 'what happened, i thought armageddon was supposed to be here' (and it's been twenty years).. when you hear a circuit assembly condemn college.... or facebook.... or the internet......or vampire novels, do you ask yourself, "how long can they repeat this stuff?
" i don't think the answer is 'indefinitely'.
There was a time - during the Cold War - when it almost felt 'cool' to be a Witness,
I know what you are saying Metatron but remember, you might be only able to say this because you have the advantage of 20/20 hindsight. During that time period most people.....milions...billions, thought it was anything but "almost cool" to be a JW. It was ourselves or our parents who fell for it....were taken in. The rest of the world didn't.
Whatever mind set we were in to have thought it to be "almost cool" is the same mindset of many of those that are still "in". Not having the benefit of hindsight, they look at every world event as significant proof that they will never grow old and will live forever. They are falling for it like we did...they haven't seen or lived through the blunders of the past. It's easy for them to dismiss these blunders because to them it's ancient history. History that didn't affect them. Just like when we heard about how they used to celebrate Christmas at Bethel or how they thought they'd be raptured in 1914 or how in the 1920's JW's sold their farms and belongings thinking that the end was coming any day. We didn't see until much later that what happened to them was exactly what was going on with us.
I feel the same way about JW's now as I do when I see the Mormon boys dressed in black, peddeling their bikes in the rain. I feel such sorrow for them and I'm touched, in a way, that there are still such trusting individuals around in this day and age that they would actually go along with something so transparent as this arrangement.
has anyone seen this year's memorial invitation?
maybe someone could post a picture.. on the front is a question to the householder, 'how do you view jesus?'.
then it gives multiple choices with accompanying pictues: .
Isn't this just par for the course to have them ask a you a question and then tell you what the answer should be ?
This happens every Sunday at the W. Tower study doesn't it ?
it's bad enough that i am being shunned in real life by my family in ohio who i had always been close to.
ever since i have had at least one dream a week about being around my family but they refuse to talk to me.. will the dreams ever stop?
how can i make them stop?.
Stop fighting the grieving process you are going through. Instead of trying to avoid these dreams or thoughts, turn around and face them....try to make them happen...look forward to them, realizing that the sooner you desensitize yourself to them the sooner you will be free of them. Medications and Alcohol may dull the unpleasant feelings they invoke for a time but eventually you will need more and more to keep them at bay. Turn and face the roaring Lion that these dreams are to you and they will shrink down to the size of a squeaking mouse.
my daughter is also on her email list.
i believe my daughter has informed her that i dont go to meetings any more, and i think my friend is trying to encourage me.
however, my daughter has shunned me, my husband and her two brothers for almost five years even though none of us are dfd.
I might mention something in the return email about how the JW's are encouraging this young couple to become Apostates from the Amish religion and in their opinion believe that since the Amish, are part of Babylon the Great and don't have Gods backing, have no scriptural grounds for shunning people for leaving. Yet they would be horrified if an Amish minister came around to their homes and tried to persuade their family members to become Amish or if one of thier members was sneaking off to Amish country to study the Amish religion.
What ever happened to "do unto others as you would have done unto yourselves? " Talk about a double standard.
