millie210

Joined

• started 23 topics
• posted 4,135 times   see topics posted on
• send a message

Posts by millie210

• 
  23

  The great poet Maya Angelou passes

  by designs in

  1. social
  2. current

  her life embodied how the human spirit can rise from crushing conditions to mentor, role model and teacher.. she went mute for 5 years after being raped at the age of 9. in that time she found her inner spirit to write and speak for others.. her life course went from working in brothels to teaching in universites.

  from broken home to addressing the nation at william clinton's inaugeration.. her poems touched millions of lives.

  i know why the caged bird sings; on the pulse of morning; a brave and startling truth:.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  millie210

  I've learned that I still have a lot to learn .
  ― Maya Angelou
• 
  27

  Has Anyone Heard Whether The New JW Bible Is Liked As Much As The Old One?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my mom told me that she, my brother and his wife really didn't like this new bible.. when i asked her why, she said they dropped the headings on the top of the pages and that just wasn't as good.. have you heard any pros and cons about the new good book?.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  millie210

  LOL on missing the green Bible.

  I miss the red one!

  But then again, I didnt even like it when my remote control quit working and I had to get a new one....
• 
  13

  Death in the Family

  by sooner7nc in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  today my extended family lost someone much too young.

  my 18 month old cousin bryler fell in a swimming pool yesterday and was missing for several minutes before he was discovered.

  his mom and grandmother and several other family members performed cpr and tried to revive him while waiting on the ambulance (which took quite a while as they live in the backwoods of southern oklahoma).

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  millie210

  How very tragic sooner. My heart goes out to you.
• 
  50

  My daughter's wedding dilemma

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my daughter will be getting married this coming august.

  she and her future husband are not jehovah's witnesses.

  they will have a non-religious wedding ceremony.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  millie210

  Good morning Rules&Regs,

  I didnt make it back to post this yesterday but I looked up some etiquitte sites online concerning weddings and receptions. Topics exactly like yours (difficult people - how to balance) are covered in a variety of creative ways.

  Depending on your desire, you may want to check some out!

  Wishing you all the best.
• 
  24

  My Story

  by objectivetruth in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i'm 30 years old, and i was raised in the organization, my parents and grandparents are witnesses.. i grew up in a small town, and due to boredom or adhd or rebellion, i never took 2 minutes to look into the religion.. i always went to meetings and field service.

  my parents were regular, but never "super-witnesses" so it was always the thing we did (meetings and service) not much more and nothing less.. the congregation, that i grew up in was for the most part friendly and enjoyable.. small towns, are very unique and they cannot be compared to larger city congregations.. i honk that they are a living and breathing organism, depending on the coordinators personality, so goes the personality of the congregation.

  thi king back, most of the people in the town that i grew up were good people, just simple hard working & honest people... i really long for the innocence, of the time when this was the truth, and there were no worries.. driving to the conventions at 3 am with my dad and another brother, them slicing meat, me sneaking around the halls of the college, getting into all kinds of things.. conventions were a really special time for me... when i was young me and my friends would run around, messing around, pulling pranks on people, getting into forbidden areas.. running in the hall ways.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  millie210

  I agree, you write well. I look forward to hearing the rest of your story!
• 
  50

  My daughter's wedding dilemma

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my daughter will be getting married this coming august.

  she and her future husband are not jehovah's witnesses.

  they will have a non-religious wedding ceremony.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  millie210

  Hi Desirous of Change,

  I thiink the poster is seeking viewpoints - thats why they posted their delimma.

  No one says she has to accept any one point of view. Sometimes in many viewpoints a solution becomes clear.

  I personally land on the side of the Dfd cousin myself but it isnt about me is it?

  I hope now that I see through the witness dogma that I do not become just as uyielding in the opposite direction as they are.

  My awakening is still fresh and painful and it would be so easy to throw the baby out with the bath water....

  All witnesses are wrong and have NO rights!/ALl DFd people are good guys!

  That thinking is too seductive and I am fighting not to slip in to that mode of reasoning.

  Disliking the disfellowshipping policy does not rule out using principles and it especially does not rule out giving the bride guilt free encouragement to do what she wants to make her day work....even if she may WANT some of the witness family members there.
• 
  50

  My daughter's wedding dilemma

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my daughter will be getting married this coming august.

  she and her future husband are not jehovah's witnesses.

  they will have a non-religious wedding ceremony.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  millie210

  Sorry for the repetitive parts in my above post....

  I lost part of the post and retyped it and then voila! It showed up after all.

  Hope the gist of what I am trying to say can still be clear, sorry for the confusion.
• 
  50

  My daughter's wedding dilemma

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my daughter will be getting married this coming august.

  she and her future husband are not jehovah's witnesses.

  they will have a non-religious wedding ceremony.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  millie210

  Hi Rules & Regs,

  This is a delimma for sure. Unfortunately this kind of thing happens often around weddings. If one mate is orthodox Jew and the other is not there can be a lot of "compromising" needed to make the day work. Same if you had a family full of Republicans and the bride wanted Obama to walk her down the aisle.

  Just because people hold a zealot view that makes them "wrong" (in our opinion) doesnt mean they will EVER see themselves as wrong.

  The statement above that it is the brides day is the ruler to go in measuring this situation.

  If the bride is emotionally attached to some of the 20 something witnesses mentioned in your post then could a compromise be reached? Most banquets last for hours. Could the witness family stay for an hour and leave and the cousin come then? Or reverse it, let him come, see his niece dance her first dance...whatever...have pictures taken etc. and then take his leave and the other family members come?

  If the bride is emotionally attached to various family members who are witnesses and feel they cannot attend a reception with a disfellowshipped person there, then some creative compromise is in order.

  Could the family come and stay a while - lets say an hour and then leave? Then the cousin and his guest could come and enjoy the dancing and cutting of the cake etc...

  no its not ideal but like was said "IT IS the brides day. The disfellowshipped cousins rights (and I am on his side on a personal level - I find the whole DF thing ridiculous) does not automatically trump the rights of the bride to spend parts of that special day with ALL of her family members.

  The witnesses are going to be more rigid. We know that. They feel they "have" too. Whatever.

  Its an ideal time for this entire family to show some real love and "Christ like" conduct by being yielding.
• 
  43

  Keep Seeking First God's Kingdom - RC 2014 - Saturday

  by OwnAccord in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  jehovah's help break free.. "greedy people".

  but the desire to have more money, power and.

  helped student.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  millie210

  Seems to really soft pedal the whole 100 years of Kingdom rule to me....

  absolutely nothing new.
• 
  9

  Who Appoints the Elders, BOE's, CO's or Holy Spirit?

  by outinthemeadows in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  first it was the holy spirit that appointed elders, then they began abusing children, so then they had to say its the body of elders that appoint elders.

  then they abuse even more children and now they are claiming its the co's fault.

  who actually does appoint the elders and ministerial servants?

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  millie210

  They wait for white smoke to blow out of..............

  no wait..............I may have that confused with that other religion..............