but i plan to buy her a gift and a blank card in a week or two to show appreciation to her as wife and mother in substitution for valentine's day and mother's day.
Its optional for me. I would love to celebrate it. I'm single but since I had to work this year wasnt able to go out for it. I think holidays are wonderful, but its optional for me to celebrate it. It looked fun many many years ago. Holidays nowadays seems so fake, forced, and phoney.
i have heard rumors for over a year now that the wt is not going to have a 2014 dc.
i know they are having a circuit assembly and special day talk assembly but what about their yearly dc.
has anybody heard anything?.
>>>>These district conventions are big money for WT Scam Society
Pretty much took the word right out of my mouth...LOL!
it's absolutely amazing what exactly the same event can do to the jw community and the exjw community.. the difference is that the jw community does not think and has the expected response... we think and, of course, have the exact opposite response as the jw's.. take for example the march km with the "will this be the last?
here are some comments from a jw site:.
wow it comes like that in the km?
They always talk about the same brain washed drivel. A snail has a more exciting life then a J dub.
i work at a hotel, and our hotel literally sold out in two days.
the jdubs aint playing!
you would think that the end of the world was coming how they were calling for hotel rooms.
^ @ Finkelstein, I'm going more out of curiousity of seeing our new ball park here in Milwaukee. I havent been there since they opened it. And then I want to see some of the people that go to my old kingdom hall, well my childhood and early adult hood kingdom hall. Trust me, I have NO PLANS on returing to the kingdom hell.
i apologize if this topic was already covered, i didn't have time to look thru several pages of posts.... after several years of fighting their ban in russia.
russian court declares jw's literature extremist:.
http://en.ria.ru/russia/20140113/186483571/russian-court-declares-jehovahs-witness-brochures-extremist.html?fb_action_ids=530487500391762&fb_action_types=og.recommends&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%5b1377130229215916%5d&action_type_map=%5b%22og.recommends%22%5d&action_ref_map=%5b%5d.
Yeah they are always getting banned over there because Russia hates religion so much.
i haven't been to a meeting in over a year, and as you know as soon as you stop attending meetings/fieldservice the "conditional" love becomes more apperant.
the coordinating elder starts off by saying how much he loves and misses me, etc.
i ask him, when was the last time you called or texted me?
They are always so fake. This elderly brother who was in a senior home that our family was good friends who died at the beginning of last year would always know that when the elders came around, it must mean that it is a C.O's visit.
LOL @ Shirley I was thinking the same thing.
i work at a hotel, and our hotel literally sold out in two days.
the jdubs aint playing!
you would think that the end of the world was coming how they were calling for hotel rooms.
I work at a hotel, and our hotel literally sold out in two days. The Jdubs aint playing! You would think that the end of the world was coming how they were calling for hotel rooms. Literally every 10 mins they were calling: Do you guys have rooms for the Watchtower convention. There is gonna be a convention going on at Miller Park this year. I think I'm gonna go just to check it out.
this is a very lonely time of year for me i admit it.
i'm suppose to be going over my aunties house wednesday after work.
but going to christmas/holiday parties and get togethers, i still kinda feel out of place.. i really wish i grew up celebrating the holidays more.
Great replies. Thank you.
this is a very lonely time of year for me i admit it.
i'm suppose to be going over my aunties house wednesday after work.
but going to christmas/holiday parties and get togethers, i still kinda feel out of place.. i really wish i grew up celebrating the holidays more.
This is a very lonely time of year for me I admit it. I'm suppose to be going over my aunties house Wednesday after work. But going to Christmas/Holiday parties and get togethers, I still kinda feel out of place.
I really wish I grew up celebrating the holidays more. I got influcenced by it but never celebrated it. I left the kingdom hall back in 2010, and mentally I still am not a very 'fesitive' person . Not only did my parents not celebrate the holidays growing up, but then I had a grandfather who did allow his daughters to celebrate it (my grandparents were not J-dubs). But as far as I knew, he didnt believe in holidays and he thought work was more important than celebrating the holidays. Besides the holidays I have a birthday coming up on Feb 16th, I'll be 31.
I am free to celebrate the holidays now, but the holidays, not just Christmas, Thanksgiving, and New Years, but all of them, seem so forced and commericalized, captialized, etc. It just seems so....fake. If I have kids (which I dont) I dont care if they want to celebrate or dont. This lady that came to my job (I work at a hotel ) was telling me that its too expensive, especially Chistmas. She said that kids are very ungreatful nowadays. I still have mixed feelings.
My parents are so anti Holiday, anti Birthday that its hilarious. I dont care either way, and I never understood what was the big deal growing up. I mean if a person gives me a gift, I'll appreciate it. A lot of people did give me cards and gifts for my graduation from high school, and I deeply appreciated it. Buuuuut the J-Dubs in my congo and circuit were so hypocritical growing up when it came to graduation parties and bridal showers, wedding anniversaries, etc. OMG, I couldnt believe how they could flip the scriptures around to go in the directions that they wanted it to go. It made me sick to the stomach.
How do you guys feel?
