as you may remember, i have a jw window cleaner, one who likes to whistle kingdoom melodies while he works.
drives me crazy!
so i put music on while hes here and it stops him.
If you're into classical: Ave Maria (read somewhere a GB liked the tune, even though it was clearly from Babylon the Great).
Gospel is always a great idea to annoy devout JWs.
Amazing Grace
Oh Happy Day!
How Great thou Art (Carrie Underwood)
Prayer (Celine Dion) - I love this one. It's actually more a pop song.
That's if you're actually into Gospel and appreciate that kind of music. I know I found it inspiring, even when I was still mentally a JW.
a thread for all of us who are proud of the united states of american, and proud to be called americans.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuv1mt6kmou.
oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light.
@ Iron Head
I'm not American, but there's just something about American pride and these songs that I find admirable. I think they inspire confidence and determination. Good for you for feeling this way about your country.
i was considering recently the value and content of talks by reviewing notes i'd taken.. it seems i've taken copious notes but the content was naff.
not because i'd missed interesting bits but the talks were bland 'ministry' adverts.. the talks all seemed to be full of 'do more or god will murder you'.
'feel guilty because you don't measure up.
@Mr. Falcon
I used to take notes like crazy too, almost felt like a university lecture. I had between 20-30 notebook pages. But I rarely reviewed them at home, and when I did I realized it was the same old, repetitive 'counsel'.
That was until last assembly we had in September. I'm sure I won't be attending the next one.
watchtower bethel application from 1982 .
questions asked tell their own story.
today i posted onto my blog the first post-1980 update of the bethel application.
I can't believe they have marks (A - E) for spirituality, alertness, etc
ever so sweetly flow his timeless declarations, .
like the cascading brook, its waters to the sea,.
the robust but mellow verse of our bard of avon.
"If you have a favorite Shakespeare quotation, please feel free to post it here."
I absolutely love Shakespeare.
By all the vows that ever men have broke,
In number more than ever women spoke,
In that same place thou hast appointed me,
To-morrow truly will I meet with thee.
(Midsummer Night's Dream)
I pray you, in your letters,
When you shall these unlucky deeds relate,
Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate,
Nor set down aught in malice. Then must you speak
Of one that lov'd not wisely but too well;
Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought,
Perplex'd in the extreme. . .
(Othello)
"This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."
(Hamlet)
there are four different links on sendspace.com .
each link is one of the pages of the letter here are the links.
page 1 http://www.sendspace.com/file/03vk19.
Great point Murray Smith, about blood being the symbol of life once the animal was sacrificed (or in the case of the Lord).
Also in the second page I noticed they say that the Society has weighted matters and determined the components: plasma, rbc, wbc, platelets shouldn't be used because that is how blood settles out naturally. Actually blood settles into serum and cellular parts. So according to the WT definition, serum and clot should be not allowed.
The entire thing of full of flaws. Who is to say that the way blood separates outside the body is a valid indicator for it being still blood? On page 3 they say that "at some point blood that is broken down ceases to represent life and it looses its sacredness". Who can say when that actually happens and back it up with the Bible?
i'd like to ask undercover why he has so many responses that are similar to what i think?.
finally free, are you really as cranky as you seem?.
brotherdan, I just saw your comment. lol
Are you so forward in real life?
vm44, he seems to have aged in these later pics you added. I wonder if they're recent photos.
prologue.
get out shouted the audience you must be ashamed of yourself.
the crowd was in a hysterical state, every time that we tried to say something we were silenced by the clapping and screams which got louder and louder of the majority of the two hundred people in attendance.
Hi Paul,
I just read about Henschel's visits in Malta at freeminds, and your very courageous letter to him.
Please post more on your life story, it is really empowering to read about such experiences, and how others reacted to the aftermath.
have any of you who formally diassociated yourself from jehovah's witness by letter sent anything in writing to the entire congregation?
would it be considered bad form to send a letter to friends in the congregation regarding your decision and the reasons for it, before/after/simultaneously you send a letter to the boe?.
i think i would feel compelled to, out of acknowledgement that most of them would not speak to me after "the big announcement.
I'd really appreciate any feedback on this, too. I'm planning to DA, and I want to send a few letters to some friends. Chances are, they won't read it if I send it after the announcement has been made. So I think it best to give the friends and the elder(s) the letters in person within the same week.
