...well that's what the law says.
to today is my oldest son's 18th birthday.
part if me is slightly incredulous cuz it really doesn't seem like 18+ years, they've flown by.
Mrs Jones, It's hard to express the pride and love a mother has for her son but I believe I know. I agree that raising children to become responsible members of society is the hardest job on earth. There is always that pesky variable of free will. LOL. You are clearly doing a great job and your kids are wise enough to use their will wisely. CONGRATS!!!
Happy birthday Shaun!!!!
question: how does the leadership of jehovah's witnesses instruct its members to prepare for the eventual elder care of its members?.
answer: it pretends it will never happen!.
is this responsible leadership or some kind of cognitive dissonant malfeasance?.
Yes Terry, this callous disregard for the elderly hit home to hubby and me and was one of the reasons we left the Borg. I intend to start a thread detailing the treatment my faithful, widowed, born in, 93yr old mother recieved when I wrote the WT$ on her behalf and asked them to repay her last $20,000.00 loan to them.
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i thought i should introduce myself as i have been reading your various threads.
007, welcome, so glad to have another contributor on the board. It's interesting that you have been a mediator. We could use you when things heat up around here!
my jw parents refused to eat food from religious restaurant, they have very good reviews.
i was wondering when you were jw, did you go to any religious restaurant?
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Undercover, hubby and I would definately drive a dood distance to eat at Jimmy's Buffet!!! We would avoid Cheeseburgers in Paradise like the Plague.
someone else suggested this so i just figured, ok let's do it.. 1. all present jws died and i became the sole leader of the entire religion.
2. then i would dissolve the religion and burn every last memory of it ever existing.
3. all books would be burned, all buildings destroyed.
Wha Happened, Hilarious! I can see it on the marquis now: 1975-The musical
or do your fingers move fluidly across the keyboard when you type?.
i admit, i'm far more proficient with letters than i am with numbers and symbols..
If there was a contest for worst typest I would win hands down. I look, I peck, and it takes foreeeeeevvvvverrrrrrrr. But you folks make me want to talk to you. Sooooooo I type despite my handicap.
tonight i just got my certificate: i'm officially a member of my church and a baptist.
(i think of myself as just a general christian, but i like the laid-backishness of the baptists.
i definitely don't think one denomination is better than anyone else though, and my church is multi-cultural, so i'm not a hater of other races like some southern baptists).
Congrats! Just curious, what made you pick the Baptists as opposed to any other Christian faith?
i was born as a third generation (perhaps even fourth gen. but my great great grandfather never got baptized) jw.
i remember that when i was young, perhaps about five years old, i would think about jehovah as this big black ghost with yellow eyes.
to me he was quite frightening, and i was constantly catious not to piss him off.
Being a child of the fifties, and having a harsh father, and being told that Jehovah is my heavenly father, I was terrified of making him angry. According to what I was told, pretty much everything enjoyable makes him angry. I spent my whole life trying to help him see something good in me.
i just ran across this video and enjoyed it a lot.
i hope you guys do too..... i can still remember the fake-ass elders scrambling trying to get everyone to show up for service and put on a big face...lol.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=royjqnqrcc0&feature=related.
The kindest CO I've ever had was forced to quit after only about 2 years in the circuit work. His wife (also very sweet) came down with cancer and he had a nervous breakdown. He was about 40, raised as a JW and full of empathy. Of course, his nerves couldn't stand dealing with the particularly horrid elders in our circuit. We were his first and last. I'd love to hear someday that they left the Borg.
It figures. There are 2 kinds of people: The ones who GET ulcers and the ones who GIVE them.
since finding out the truth about the truth myself and having successfully extricated myself and my parents about the jw's, i find myself with a new dilema that being they still believe the bible as a literal book for their salvation as i has read all of thomas paines works and how the bible is not very good for the human family, as they are of advancing years would it be inappropriate to shatter their illusions of some kind of paradise and let them flounder in a moral precipice and wonder what their lives have been about.
on the flip side once their time has come how would i feel for not telling them their false views.
at the moment i am in the deist point of view, with a tendency of the agnostic, it is quite a dilema!.
Totally agree with the others . What is the point when a parent has only a few years or less. My 93 year old mother was not expected to live out the month at this time last year. Instead, she continually got better and now attends all the meetings. Thankfully, I don't have to take her-she lives in another town. She actually looks foreward to those meetings. They make her think she is insuring her eternal salvation as well as giving her the social interaction she craves. If I told her TTATT she not only wouldn't believe me but she would die broken-hearted that I was going to be eternally destroyed. How does that help anyone???
