well, last night i had a jw dream.
i was inside my home when i hear the door bell ring.
i open the door, and there was an older gentlemen offering wt literature.
ThiChi,
That was interesting. Perhaps just a coincidence too... I had an assembly dream last night. I have those and KH dreams occassionally that effect me deeply the next day. I started posting about it this afternoon in personal experiences but decided to delete it before posting it. Your thread made me decide to mention it anyway. Ya never know about that synchronicity stuff...
Thanks for sharing.
Kristen
an invitation:.
i would like to see a short description of your personal beliefs or religion today, after you lost faith in "the truth", from anyone here that feels for it.
I don't know yet.
would you have become a witness if not raised as one?.
for me i would say no way.
I don't know.
i'm pretty sure this question has probably been asked before but i'd like to put it out here and see what the responses are.
my doubts about the bible probably began maybe 6 or 7 years ago, they were very small ones however and i managed to supress them for quite a while.
however certain events in my life would make those events resurface.
I don't know what to believe in.
I am a lost soul.
Kristen
well i just wanted to share with you that another chapter in my life is done.
i spent my last day sitting in a classroom for my master's degree friday.
i just have my affliations left and then i will be an occupational therapist!
Hooray for you WW! What an exciting accomplishment. Now the fun begins!
I wish the best for you in your new career field!
Kristen
hey guys,.
did not connect the way it was suppose to.
sorry.. pureheart
Thanks for the link. That was interesting to listen to—and hauntingly familiar.
Kristen
of the "some have gotten the impression class"
i remember clearly the events in 1993 that surrounded this horrible massacre.
i worked in the town of palatine within a mile or two of the crime scene and remember how frightened i was in the immediate weeks after this event happened knowing the killer(s) was still on the loose.. they finally caught the bastards who slaughtered seven innocent livesfor some money and for the "thrill" of it.. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/showcase/chi-020518browns.story?coll=chi%2dnews%2dhed.
today, after nine years palatine and its surrounding communities are breathing a long-awaited sigh of relief.. may their victims and their families finally rest in peace.
I remember clearly the events in 1993 that surrounded this horrible massacre. I worked in the town of Palatine within a mile or two of the crime scene and remember how frightened I was in the immediate weeks after this event happened knowing the killer(s) was still on the loose.
They finally caught the bastards who slaughtered seven innocent lives—for some money and for the "thrill" of it.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/showcase/chi-020518browns.story?coll=chi%2Dnews%2Dhed
Today, after nine years Palatine and its surrounding communities are breathing a long-awaited sigh of relief.
May their victims and their families finally rest in peace.
Kristen
well, my brother and his wife came over to my parent's house to visit today while i was home.. to make a long story short, while my brother and his wife were chatting with my mother in the living room, my 1 and a half year old nephew reilly walked into the kitchen where i was making a caesar salad.. he walked over towards me and was smiling, how can any normal adult resist the innocent smile of a child who is your relative?
i picked him up and gave him a huge hug, and told him i loved him.. as i was holding my nephew in my arms, my brother walked into the room.
he was smack dab in the middle of an in-depth conversation about jehovah with my mother and his wife, and i admit i was rolling my eyes listening to him spew about the "truth" and "the only means for salvation in the last days of this wicked system" even though when i confronted him with info on the un, blood, russell gravesite, rape changes, exclusivity, etc, he had no response for me because he was dumbfounded and lost for words.
Jason,
I pity your brother. You handled yourself well. I'm sorry you have to deal with such a crappy situation. (((HUGS)))
Kristen
some of the messages on the board have prompted me to think about this a bit, seeing as how it appears to be a theme that resurfaces every so often.
actually, one of the reasons i'm posting a separate thread is that the other ones which brings this up is usually about something more specific and has gotten really long, and to be perfectly frank i don't have the time to read through it, but i think the issue is an important one.. we can be free from the wts physically, but a certain pattern of thinking sticks with us a bit longer as i'm sure many of us are well aware.
naturally, when you're out you're going to go out into the world and explore, doing this and that, the "normal" people stuff you might say.
It seems to me the main difference between the witness existence and the typical conditioned existence of people in the world ... we are conscious of that behavior, (conditioned existence in general) but people who've never had such an experience aren't. This, I think, is something very valuable that not everybody has, and we should not forget it.
That is a helpful perspective to me. Thanks intro.
K
my current job is due to be phased out within the next few weeks and i had been reluctant to make my announcement until i secured a new position.
i figured just in case my wife went beserk and left i would'nt want to be stuck looking for a job and carrying all the bills.. anyway i went on an interview yesterday within the company and this morning i got the call that if i wanted the job it was mine, so naturally i accepted without hesitation.
so now my next step is to get a second car within the next few days, that way i won't be stuck at the house when my wife is at the meetings or field service.
:No more getting up in the morning for field service, for once in my life I can actually wake up when I want to.
I love it when people are true to themselves. WTG, Leander and congrats on the new job!
K
