okay, so i want to talk this one over with my wife, but i need to kick the idea around here a little bit first.
i apologize if this has already been covered.
at the district convention this year, they did a bit about how jeroboam didn't want the 10-tribe kingdom going down to jerusalem, so he tried to set up calf worship and his own set of festivals, etc.
They are essentially ignoring an entire Testament's worth of expressions of freedom from the Law, and saying that true Christianity demands just as heavy a (or a heavier) load than the Jews themselves were under!
While this isn't a new thought for me per se, it's great to see how you were able to succintly sum this up! Thanks!
I better turn off the computer right away!!!
LOL, that is *SO* something a 6 or 7 year old would think, not a grown, rational-thought adult.
european natural gas supplies; the next, gazprom .
in moscow that something must be done if russia .
strategy, but modern russian history offers no .
More troubling that this synopsis is that Putin pulled up a little boy's shirt (about 4) and kissed him on his stomach this week while greeting a crowd. When asked why he did it, he said, "he wanted to kiss him like a kitten."
why have such a large family?
when we are out together we get questions like is this a school group?, are they all yours?, are you catholic or mormon?, dont you know what causes this?
these questions give us many opportunities to share with others the hope that is in us, that children are a gift from god.
You don't have to be on welfare to take advantage of the system. Big deal, he works. Anyone care to gander how much he pays in income taxes with 15 deductions? Probably not a penny.
we serve an extraordinary GOD who delights in demonstrating His great power!
Yes and apparently he has made MR. Duggar in his image as Mr. Duggar doesn't mind demonstrating *HIS* great power to Mrs. Duggar.c
i once was assigned a talk on masturbation when i was about fifteen or so.
the theme of the talk was to discourage masturbating (actually to forbid the practice), as it was considered by the society a no no.
looking back on it, it offends me to this day that they would give a kid such a sensitive and embarrassing talk assignment like that.
I remember a young bro who had to give the #2 talk, and that week it was Jeremiah 5:1-19. Here's verse 8:Horses seized with sexual heat, having [strong] testicles, they have become. They neigh each one to the wife of his companion
how embarrasing!
yesterday when i was working someone was watching some particularly un-jw approved movies on the big screen tv's i sell.
i asked them if i could help them as i usually do with customers and he hooked me into a conversation.
about 5 minutes later i heard the work 'jehovah' and freaked inside!
Call me paranoid but I think these people are following me and know I'm out here. I was even referred to as a lost sheep from the flock that had been found.
Someone from your old congregation 'kindly' referred your name to elders in your new area.
Listen to the JR Brown transcript, you will see that the JW intentionally keep congregations small so that they can monitor everyone. Watchtower's words--not mine.
A restraining order won't work unless you know their names.
Inform your manager that you are being harassed by customers.
Lisa
did rose ball sit on c.t.
russell's lap?
did they caress each other?
Then he said, "I am like a jellyfish. I float around here and there. I touch this one and that one, and if she responds I take her to me, and if not, I float on to others";
Terry I have seen this court transcript many times, and I can't tell you how the above words make me laugh every time I see them. Russell was a PLAYER!!!!
Lisa
awake 5/22/75.
real estate offers little in the way of security.
property owners suffer from heavy taxation, high maintenance costs, vandalism and inability of tenents to pay their rent.......
what really frosts my buns is when they ask their people to loan them money. The majority of JWs have no hard assets to speak of. The message is, "LISTEN to us about not accumulating material possestions, but if you don't can we borrow some money from you?"
hey guys, it's me- cordy, again with my life story of being in the jws.
i've lived in new york city almost all of my life and have been associated with the jws way too long- since i was a little kid- 8 years old in 1987, plus my mom studied as early as 1983. my mom didn't get baptized until 1995 and i myself got baptized at the age of 17 iin 1996. i know we were probably on a list at some point as a "non-progressive" bible study since it took us so long to get baptized.
my mom and dad split in 1993 and that year was great because we were barely at meetings....then we got a shepherding call and my mom got sucked right back in.
I still live with my mom as a 27-year-old helping her with her endless bills.
Welcome Cordy.
I think I'm the only one here who thinks this is not normal, or good. Your mother's bills are her own. You are not responsible for her financial well-being.
What I 'hear' from you is, 27 years of your life have gone by with you sacrificing your happiness for someone else's/
You deserve to be happy too.
Lisa
hello all.. ok i'm wondering if anyone here has ever had to deal with alopecia which is bascially loss of hair.. the reason i ask is because we have noticed that our 6 year old daughter's hair seems much thinner.
at first we thought it was just because she was getting ahold of the scissors and giving herself a trim.
but we are both (her dad and i) noticing that it seems like its just plain thin and that there is hair in her bed in the morning when she gets up.. i just noticed when she got out of the bath that it seems thinner at the root area.
Our daughter would pull out her hair and ingest it. She developed a small bald patch on her head (which has mostly filled back in, hardly noticeable now) with a llot of little spikey hairs from where she had broken them off. I don't recall her having lots of hair on her pillow like your daughter does. But it's something else to consider as a cause of hair loss...bebu
This is what I was thinking, I think its a disorder called "trichotillomania" or something, which means the pulling out of one's own hair obsessively. Have you taken her to the Dr?
for the past week or so the above phrase has been bouncing around inside my head.. i think it is from a talk to a graduating class at gilead, but i cannot for the life of me nail down the source.. does this ring a bell for anyone?
do you recall when it was said, and by whom?
can you point to a source?.
angry and tearful at the memory of those words
Belbab,
A big hug for you.
