i remember my mum standing at the kitchen sink preparing little cypriot meat patties in a beat up enamel dish.
there was a window overlooking the small garden where me and my brother and sisters used to play (wonderful, wonderful times before the cult got its tentacles into our family).. my mum used to sing lots of tunes but this lynn anderson song is the one i remember .
actually choking up a little .
MsDucky..I think I love your Mom too....LOL
Here's my Mom's last favorie song....this haunting melody would give her goosebumps and and take her to far away places. We lost her the weekend before Mother's day in 1989. The following weekend, How we wished we could have celebrated Mother's day all those years we were together....all that pagan origin nonsense from the WT society....another memory of lost opportunities.
i remember my mum standing at the kitchen sink preparing little cypriot meat patties in a beat up enamel dish.
there was a window overlooking the small garden where me and my brother and sisters used to play (wonderful, wonderful times before the cult got its tentacles into our family).. my mum used to sing lots of tunes but this lynn anderson song is the one i remember .
actually choking up a little .
Wow...lots of responses to this question !
My Mom was a Audrey Hepburn look alike. She was from Europe had the same soft voice and accent as Audrey. She was tall and lythe like her and made her own beautiful clothes for next to nothing. I'd be so proud when she'd come to my school and the kids would ask me if she was a Model. People still refer to her as stunningly beautiful.
She played Piano and taught herself to play the Guitar and harp. She had the exact guitar shown in this video and I can still hear her playing the guitar and softly singing this song as we lay in our beds. We lost her at 57 years of age and hearing this song does me in...big time.
the first date is a very important time for you and the person you are dating to get to know each other.
you dont want to give off the wrong impression or let your nerves get in the way of your conversation.
there are online advice sites that provide different dating tips to help you with your first date.
The first date is a very important time for you and the person you are dating to get to know each other. You don't want to give off the wrong impression or let your
nerves get in the way of your converstaion.
That viewpoint in itself might be enough to make ones nerves get in the way of the conversation....talk about self induced pressure. It might be better to take a more relaxed....less do or die approach to the whole matter. After all, it's only a first date...not a lifetime commitment.
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It was pretty common that the feeblest excuse for a joke, would send a whole row of Witnesses into a fit of the giggles during a prayer.(or any other time really) But the oddest prayer experience I remember was at the conclusion of one of the last memorials I attended. The old brother that usually delivers the memorial talk, was cheezed off because some young visiting speaker got invited to do it instead. Our Hall was being rebuilt and because we couldn't meet there, several local Congregations rented out the banquet rooms at a nice Hotel and we had the Memorial all together as one huge crowd which made it even more of a special occasion than normal. Not to be forgotten, this old brother was invited to give the closing prayer. It was his moment to shine at last. He started out the prayer normally..."Jehovah we know that you want us to blah blah blah... and of course Jehovah we would never want to ...blah blah blah" etc. Not to be forgotten, he somehow managed to segue from giving a prayer into doing a full on talk and eventually started recapping the whole memorial point by point. After awhile everyone was peeking at eachother from out of the corners of their eyes because he had even started quoting scriptures. You could hear the rustling of pages as people who had forgoten he was just praying, began looking them up in their Bibles out of habbit. I was half expecting him to start passing the wine around again.
thinking back on some other posters' threads and experiences, combined with some things i've read on silent lambs, and adding in my own personal history, it would seem that there was/is a lot of maternal abuse going on in the jw community.. brizzzy talks about her hellishly abusive mother.. the_raisin also started a thread about her psycho mom.. my mother was an absolute diabolical tyrant.
i firmly believe that she got a sick thrill out of beating me bloody with a belt, or whatever object was at hand, from spatulas & wooden spoons to cast-iron frying pans.. it just makes me wonder if the wts's stance on women being powerless, second-class citizens has anything to do with their women lashing out violently?.
just a thought.
The only thing I fault my Mom for is it seemed like she was using us to make herself look like the ideal JW mother in the eyes of other JW's. We had to have the best answers...give the best talks (which she wrote) and be out in service even if she didn't go herself. She wanted at least one of her boys to go to Bethel (me). I know she loved us very much, and was terribly concerned ,nearly driven mad with fear about our making it through Armegeddon, but beyond that, our successes as Witnesses were definitely a feather in her own cap. It would have been nice to have some books in the house other than JW literature...but they might have distracted us from what was important. We learned to play instruments...but only so we could play Kingdom Songs. To her horror, my Brother and I learned Stairway to Heaven and Innagadavidaa by Iron Butterfly when her back was turned. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4g-wx2Y_wg
1873 [six thousand years of man's existence ends in a.d. 1873] {wr apr 1880 88}.
1873 "here we furnish the evidence that from the creation of adam to a.d. 1873 was six thousand years.
and though the bible contains no direct statement that the seventh thousand will be the epoch of christ's reign, the great sabbath day of restitution to the world, yet the venerable tradition is not without reasonable foundation.. if, then, the seventh thousand-year period of earth's history be an epoch specially noted as the period of christ's reign, we shall, by showing that it began in a.d. 1873, be proving that we are already in it.
'They Shall Know that a Prophet Was Among Them'
To be fair...that wasn't a prophesy...more of an error in calculations or misreporting of information. But still you'd think the mouthpiece for God would have gotten it right the first time.
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?.
I wonder if Beatrice's hat pulls in Showtime or HBO ?
The Princes car was pretty cool too !
a while back dogpatch posted some thoughts about primal emotions and joining/leaving the wt.
at the time, being the pathological intellectual i am, i disagreed with him.
i thought it was all about doctrine and scriptual analysis.
In looking back I realize that I joined out of emotional need. I was in a dark place in my life and these people came into my life and offered hope, community and all the answers. Upon reflection I don't think it made any difference what those answers were.
Yep...that's often who is targeted...very intentionally....and we thought we were helping them. I suppose in a way it got you through the dark spot you spoke of...gaving you a sort of , felt board and marker to look at while you were lost, metaphorically. Those of us who were raised in the "Truth" didn't have a chance to see anything other than that side of things...this was the truth and you would be destroyed if you didn't believe it. Some would say that was a good thing...we avoided a lot of heartache. Others would disagree.
I think this is why the average JW has been impervious to discussions of facts. As long as he's content with his position, he won't care what the facts are.
Yes....the facts are just a side issue....it's simply a nice side benefit when the beliefs happened to make sense .....when they don't, they can be simply ignored so long as the feeling of contentment remains intact. It all goes along swimmingly and one can feel very selfsatisfied, thinking they have all the answers. That is, until the day reality collides with some of the especially flimsy teachings and one forced out of their place of complacency and into a place where it becomes necessary to re-examine ones beliefs and how they were obtained.
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?.
I only saw a little of the re-cap on the news. I saw Harry saying something funny to William as the Bride came down the asile... I don't know why, but ever I saw Harry as a little boy sticking his tounge out at the paparazzi, he's been my favorite.
I do have to wonder how soon we'll be hearing all the scandalous reports from the tabloids. So far I've heard them say there was something wrong with Kate's sister wearing a white dress...horrors! I'm sure we'll soon be hearing that the young couple fought on their honeymoon and slept in diffrent hotel rooms! or that Kate is pregnant with Elton John's Baby.
the background: a female jw who introduced herself as lisa came to my door a couple of weeks ago with a memorial invitation.
i acknowledged that i knew what it was about, and had asked her why they dont accept the wine and bread.
we had a discussion about that, with me stating that the bible only gives a heavenly hope, not an earthly one.
Don't you just feel sorry for that Sister ....standing there all alone presenting the teachings of a faceless organization...haven't we all been in that position before ? That of having been sent out to teach or defend something we haven't fully looked into from all angles for ourselves because we weren't supposed to question what we were taught.
I'm glad you took it easy on her....these kind of discoveries can really rock your world, when you've grow up as a Witness.
