"there was a kid who turned down a college scholarship so he could pioneer.
how stupid!
i would do anything to have a scholarship.
She is a smart kid. We have done a lot of critical thinking exercises the last few years. there are workbooks out there specially made for elementary kids. I also had my teenage son do higher level critical thinking workbooks, we would read the scenarios and have to debate the reasoning. My daughter loved to sit in on those discussions and she would find answers too.
Her father made her go, she hates going.
"there was a kid who turned down a college scholarship so he could pioneer.
how stupid!
i would do anything to have a scholarship.
"There was a kid who turned down a college scholarship so he could pioneer. How stupid! I would do anything to have a scholarship." Smart girl! This was seriously the very first thing she said after 'Hi".
It is obvious the WTBTS is back on their horse about not getting a decent education, rather pioneer, and oh yeah, don't forget to donate your meager earnings to us, as it is SUCH a privilege to use unrighteous riches in such a manner.
yesterday me and the wife were talking about how much better life has become.
she said something that got me thinking and made me a bit sad for a while.
we were discussing where we are at individually in our quest for understanding about the "super-natural" and i expressed i have no belief in it at all and how much i have changed she says, "i don't think you have changed much.
confused & Lisa-You both have nicely summed up how I used to feel and how I feel now! You both said it much better than I ever could have.
before i dive into the actual write-up of this experience, let me put some things straight.. i have thought long and hard if i should write more about my experiences during the 10+ years at different branches.
during these years i worked from financial department, service department, home office and different it assignments.
as you can imagine one sees and hears and reads a lot of stuff going through different stations in different countries.
BluePill2-I'm so sorry that you are carrying around these horrible experiences in your head. It is very traumatic thing to have witnessed, especially personally, to be forced to keep it hushed up must have eaten a hole into your soul. To think that your family disowned you, but not the people who perpetrated these crimes in unthinkable. Getting these experiences out into the open may be the best thing you can do to heal yourself.
if so, how are you enjoying it compared to maybe sitting in an office or going outside the home for work.
i use to work in the office environment but after starting up my own thing with the with we eventually got office space.
then as we grew we have decided to leave the office space for the employees and work from home.. i am sure it is not as exciting working from home but the wife disagrees.
Yes, it can be very distracting. I try to chunk my time in office, take a 5 minute break, do another chunk. Getting motivated in the first place and getting to work instead of goofing off is a daily battle, but the motivated me is starting to win! Yay!
i thought that it was a good time to post my experience about visiting new york last spring.
enough time has passed that no one can put my experiences together with any kind of timeline..... so our family discussed the trip to the holy land (ny bethel), as none of us had ever been.
anyone who is anyone knows that you aren't really a good jw christian until you visit bethel!
So, they pray after eating too, is that so they don't suffer from indigestion?
sorry if i'm stepping on any toes here, but i haven't seen anything positive about home-schooling...at all.
the notion is that parents are taking advantage of the formative years to inculcate more worthwhile values while protecting their kids from worldly influences.
they end up with lazy, socially inept, illiterate duds who haven't a clue.
I homeschooled my kids, not for religious reasons, but because our school district is more concerned about football than education. That being said, I live in a high compliance state that requires portfolios, attendance records, testing by outside sources, and a yearly evaluation. I was putting one of my kids back into school last spring. The school was in the middle of PSSA testing and didn't want to admit my child while testing was going on. They didn't think my kid was going to score very high on the test, she out score virtually the whole school and was asked to partake in testing by Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth, reserved for the top 95th percentile performing students worldwide. I put my kids into day camp during the summer so they had lots of contact with kids there age. It can and does work if done right.
sharing my wild day at work today because it is 1am and i can't sleep.. i am an assistant manager at an apartment community.
the manager has been a complete nightmare (bipolar and incompetent) so the last 10 months have been challenging to say the least.
got to work this morning and our regional was already there which was a little strange but half expected due to something that happened last week.
Congratulations on your promotion! Sounds like you were doing most of the work anyway, now you will get the pay too.
god ordered the killing of men women and children and animals and pillaging of various nations around them.
in some instances god apparently led the way with his might arm.. this is not a question of wether it is right or wrong, but moreso a question(s) of:.
1. if you were there would you have personally participated in those killings or would you ignore the commands?.
Probably, if there was a frenzy of killing by everyone else around me. People tend to get caught up in things around them. Look at Nazi Germany, a lot of people there got caught up in the 3rd Reich killing machine. Recently saw an interview with a woman who admitted to being a guard at a female camp, she was very remorseful now and ashamed of her past, her only reasoning was it was what was going on around her.
it has been 5 months since my last post here.
it has been very nice to have forgotten jehovahs witnesses.
my life got so busy running my biz that i just had no time to concentrate on anything else for a while.
Hi Aussie-It is great to hear that you are moving on in your life, and that you and the kids are adjusting well to being 'out'!
