it's time for me to move on.
i would like my leave with a good reason why we should leave j.w.
organisation.. from my son a birthday card:-.
It's time for me to move on. I would like my leave with a good reason why we should leave J.W. organisation.
From my son a birthday card:-
" To my dad. To the person that always stands up for me. Happy Birthday Michael. With lots of love and kisses and hugs" ect ect Orlando.
Such a simple gestures of love should not be taken for granted, yet as a witness such love was denied us and our children. Don't let the bastards win...
a recent o.p origins of the universe bought home to me with ovbious clarity that i have no scientific background.
this realization was rather embarrassing for myself to admit, particularly as my child of 11 has began asking some rather intersting questions on scientific matters.
anyway i have subscribed to " scientific america" because i find it a great magazine for those with no scientific background.
COFTY.....thanks for the Khan Academy recommendation, my son and I spent hours yesterday on the computer science learning to write codes using the Processing language. We both can't wait to continue tonight...with a delivered pizza and coke.
Wish I had these opportunities as a kid.
Not sure the point I am trying to make, except any poster posting on the board could pass away at anytime. Now I am not saying we are " dead men walking" but I think I am deeply skeptical of elevating strong posters who passed away, and failing to recognize the many posters who were less prominent and had less impact but sadly now R.I.P.
What I am saying is when I was at the K.H, I noticed how those that were not baptized were treated when they passed away. I always remember a strong family in the truth had a son who died from illness, and as the son was not baptized and had his problems, it was as though the congregation thought him not worthy of mourning. I never understood why his parents didn't tell the congregation to f...k o..ff. I mean the son wasn't even allowed a "proper" witness funeral. I noted his mother was devastated by her sons death, and I won't judge her, but the way she was treated by the elders and congregation at this time really pissed me off. I visited her with my wife many times, but I once visited her on the ministry with an elder and she was smoking,or at least the cigarette packet was clearly visible...as we left I said "those cigarettes are between us" and I believe they were.
it's a shame the unthinkable needs thinking about, and we will all be added someday to the list of those who contributed to this board and now R.I.P. Yet hopefully for most of us we will part company from the board and find a happy life before that inevitability happens. However the contribution of a posters posts can be more meaningful and worthwhile, than they realized. It would be a nice thought if those posters who "Phadero" mentioned in her O.P made such a contribution to a strangers life in hyper-space. It kind of makes a life worthwhile..
a recent o.p origins of the universe bought home to me with ovbious clarity that i have no scientific background.
this realization was rather embarrassing for myself to admit, particularly as my child of 11 has began asking some rather intersting questions on scientific matters.
anyway i have subscribed to " scientific america" because i find it a great magazine for those with no scientific background.
Thanks Cofty & LoveUnHateExams. I took a peak at "khan academy" and will research it further.
Keinlezard, Thanks for engaging and your opinions. Communication is never easy, so I appreciate your attempts at English, particularly as my compulsory French at school showed me how hard it is too speak and write in another language.
My son is in charge of his education and I am their to support him, the "watchtower" is not. My son will have a better education than the " better than university" education I was told I was receiving growing up reading the awake magazine.
a recent o.p origins of the universe bought home to me with ovbious clarity that i have no scientific background.
this realization was rather embarrassing for myself to admit, particularly as my child of 11 has began asking some rather intersting questions on scientific matters.
anyway i have subscribed to " scientific america" because i find it a great magazine for those with no scientific background.
A recent O.P origins of the universe bought home to me with ovbious clarity that I have no scientific background. This realization was rather embarrassing for myself to admit, particularly as my child of 11 has began asking some rather intersting questions on scientific matters. Anyway I have subscribed to " scientific America" because I find it a great magazine for those with no scientific background. The readership seems aimed at general readers, and therefore the articles I hope will encourage my son and I to create a shared interest in his ovbious desire to learn about science.
If you are familiar with " Scientific America" your comments on the magazine would be appreciated.
now i know i am getting older or of the older generation.
i have had a very strange day with a lot of strange dealings with people with strange behavior today but this one incident was just over the top.
so i came out of a store in a busy shopping center.
Jeannibeanzz, " interesting rebel:, your Facebook comment made me think....
there are too many rebels on the forum, so please don't associate my inferior comments with those of " rebelfighter" However for really meaningful and worthwhile " rebel" comments I recommend a poster called " rebel 8"
when you were "in" did you ever actually enjoy the ministry?
and i made no secret about it.
instead i would joke about me feather knocking, and made sure i had my bible in hand so as they come to the door they know what im about so they can shut me down before i even start.. i always wondered how or why there were people who enjoyed it.
I hated door knocking because I am very shy, but I made some great friends from it. The trick was to knock on the door and find some great people who invited you in and who you found a connection with. So if I knocked on a door it was always the person who opened the door and not preaching the magazine in my hand that was important to me. Why? Because I learnt that the person who opened the door was always more interested in me first and the magazine second. I am pleased to say I have friends today from door knocking, because we connected not by my preaching, but by a connection we had for playing records, or talking football ect...
now i know i am getting older or of the older generation.
i have had a very strange day with a lot of strange dealings with people with strange behavior today but this one incident was just over the top.
so i came out of a store in a busy shopping center.
Tornapart " I don't think changing clothes in certain places is unacceptable, people do it all the time on the beach. As long as a person doesn't go totally nude"
The Rebel:- have you ever been on a nudist beach, because if you have you would find even having clothes to change in certain places is unacceptable:-)
now i know i am getting older or of the older generation.
i have had a very strange day with a lot of strange dealings with people with strange behavior today but this one incident was just over the top.
so i came out of a store in a busy shopping center.
Well said DJS..
let's end this thread with a little Charlie Brown.
Lucy alias " DJS " you come here thinking you are better than us?
Charlie Brown alias "rebelfighter" " Me? ME? Better than someone Else? ME ??
Now on too your next O.P rebelfighter, who I admire very much.
