i was paired with this older "brother" when i was a teenager.
he was very very strange.
he was a nice guy but goofy.
Just came home from work and thought of some more.
When i was just 15 yo one of my first doors was a 30 something woman who opened the door topless.
Another time, my wife's skirt fell off while we were talking to some guy at the door... it was one of those Ricky Ricardo moments...ha!
Then there was the time my 5 yo son disappeared while I was talking at the door. I ran around the corner of the house and he was peeing on her rhododendron.
i was paired with this older "brother" when i was a teenager.
he was very very strange.
he was a nice guy but goofy.
i was paired with this older "brother" when i was a teenager.
he was very very strange.
he was a nice guy but goofy.
i was paired with this older "brother" when i was a teenager.
he was very very strange.
he was a nice guy but goofy.
a very thought provoking poem.... .
the morning after i killed myself, i woke up.
i made myself breakfast in bed.
hello my dear friends,.
while this post may not be entirely witness related, i figured i'd write out my thoughts here as a form of release and reflection.. recently, a lot has changed in my life.
i'm away from home for the first time in a long while training to get certified in a field i'm not even sure i want to work in anymore.
Ha! When Louise said look in the mirror in the morning... it reminded me of this scene in the Angel-A movie:
hello my dear friends,.
while this post may not be entirely witness related, i figured i'd write out my thoughts here as a form of release and reflection.. recently, a lot has changed in my life.
i'm away from home for the first time in a long while training to get certified in a field i'm not even sure i want to work in anymore.
I couldn't help overhearing. I was eavesdropping.
i'm no relationship expert at all. in fact, my moniker is 'basement guy'. (but i'll save that for another thread)
but my older 'never a JW' sister is good at giving me advice. She told me that she believes in the wisdom of Louise Hay. So here's part of what my sis tells me in an email: "She wrote a book called "you can heal your body" (then a subsequent book "You can Heal Your Life" in which the first book is just a chapter!) and it covers every ailment from headaches to Aids and what's causing them. It's about the body "yelling" at us because something is going on in our lives and we're not paying attention. Most of the stuff is amazingly logical."
Not that this is about your body, Garret. But I think FayeD may be on to something. And maybe it would help to read some of Louis Hay's stuff or even watch a youtube of her. here's a sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmCLfVRxgtw
i guess she's helped a lot of people.
a while ago the user vinman started a forum thread called: "ray franz was an idiot".
the reaction to it was quite negative but i have to admit that the title of that thread was intriguing to me.
by nature i am an iconoclast.
Franz wanted to rule the world like everybody else, and he had personal selfish motivations. His supposed pure altruism was pure horse manure.
I believe RF was not typical of GB members of his era. I had friends at Bethel that said he would mingle with the workers and discuss their personal matters and concerns with them. Ray seemed genuine in his concern for the boys at bethel and how they were doing (according to my friend), while other elites treated him (my friend) harshly. I agree w/ Wasanelder "he was not in any way seeking status or prominence" and I can't impute a takeover strategy to him or even impure motives...don't think it's in his personality. He was a man of conviction caught between a rock and a hard place. He did the best he could do under the circumstances... must've aged him. I'm grateful to him for what he did.
a while ago the user vinman started a forum thread called: "ray franz was an idiot".
the reaction to it was quite negative but i have to admit that the title of that thread was intriguing to me.
by nature i am an iconoclast.
I believe he knew what he was eventually going to do when he left if he could not make reforms from the inside.
If there was a takeover conspiracy and if it had succeeded, I'm wondering what reforms we would have seen and if those reforms may have caused a mass exodus? ie partaking of emblems, d/f policy changes, etc
if a fellow j.w.
asked a publisher/pioneer/missionary j.w., "how are your hours this month", they will gladly reveal how many hours they've racked up "for jehovah.".
now ask them, "how much money have you contributed to kingdom interests this month", they'd look at you as if you were beelzebub himself, and tell you that that was "personal.
J.W. "charity" is allegedly the preaching work
Dictionary definition of charity: an organization set up to provide help and raise money for those in need.
Bible definition of charity: If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing. 1 Cor.13:3
Dictionary definition of write-off: thing that is given up as hopeless or pointless
JWs believe most of mankind will not respond to their message - and therefore die. Are they really giving out of love... or is it just a write-off for them?
