i was reading a judicial meeting transcript last night on the inet and the accussed had added vasectomies to the list of procedures that are frowned upon, or forbidden, by the wts.
is this true?.
shelly.
More to the point was the law about a wife who tried to help her husband in a fight. If she grasped the privates of her husband’s opponent, her hand was to be amputated....
Gee-whiz ... that'll teach her! What happened if she brushed against his scrotum? Would she lose a finger? (This is definitely barbaric!)
well i got e mailed another jw urban legend...er experience.
maybe you have heard it before but if not.... .
i received this great experience, well worth sharing.. .
Re: the little dog. You just think he was saved. Upon arriving home the man gave the little dog a bath and when attempting to dry the dog's rather long fur, discovered the hair dryer had been stolen in the robbery -- but the crooks had left the microwave. So, the man stuck little Fluffy in ... and ... horror of horrors ... the dog blew up. No kiddin'.
it started about 2 years ago, but its picking up.
i keep catching women looking at me with that look, that look i'm used to only getting from other guys.. this is making me tense, yet in some ways jolly.. i'm not sure what the proper facial expression is to give in return.. i cannot figure out why its happening to me now.
is it the greying beard, the balding head, the bulging ---, oh, right, it can't be that.. please explain this extraordinary phenomenon.. joel
Well, Joel, it could be the obvious -- as Elvis said, you're a "hunk-a-hunk of burnin' love!" There are those gorgeous guys who tend to induce ovulation among estrogen-crazed women. And brother, maybe that's you!
Or, it could be your sensuality transcends gender and women believe you are really latent heterosexual. And they're dying to be your first and go where no woman has gone before!
And someone said you work at Home Depot? Whoa, bro! I love that store. I GO to Home Depot to cruise guys. Customers with those butch boots, tight jeans, muscles bulging under a T-shirt -- all held together with a tool belt. I fall in love everytime I walk past that section where they have the great big pieces of wood stuff and nail stuff ...
Or ... it could be you live/work in a neighborhood with a disproportionately high number of fag-hags. And they're looking for a new project.
All said with love,
Pete
well i got e mailed another jw urban legend...er experience.
maybe you have heard it before but if not.... .
i received this great experience, well worth sharing.. .
Hey, I think I've heard this one before ... only it was from some televangelist's wife. I was surfing the TV when I came upon the story ... seems the man in the park was close to suicide because he was going blind and his house had been robbed by drug dealers while he had been at the doctor's office. The teen-ager urged him to accept Jesus as his personal (notice, not personnel) savior. Well, miracles of miracles, the guy was "saved" and had his vision problem healed. Of course, he never got the mayonaise and eggs back.
My question is: Why doesn't Jesus do more of this magic in Third World countries?
Pete2
i was watching law and order svu and they were trying to catch this guy on murder and rape, but they needed his dna.
when they went to swab his inner check, he said he could not do that because he was a jw.
i think the show got it wrong, i never remember being told as a jw that i could not give up dna samples, anyone know?
I saw the show last night. The suspect didn't want to give a swab sample -- and by law he didn't have to. He was obviously being glib when saying he couldn't because he was a Jehovah's Witness. If he was a JW -- the guy probably had his congregational privileges restricted since the guy proved to have a long history of murder and rape. Just my observation.
Pete
i have only two close friends who are witnesses that i care about.
i would like to share my feelings with them and still not get dfd.
do you think it is possible or should i forget it.
If not getting DF'd is something you'd like to maintain -- I'd be extremely careful. To criticize or question the society is something most witnesses feel they have to report, or at least share with elders when out in service. And most of us know where that can lead -- can you say "elder inquisition"? I'd say be true to yourself, be authentic, and let the chips fall where they may.
I had many dear friends after a lifetime of being witness -- but when I left, I realized just how DYSFUNCTIONAL many of these families were. So, I made new caring friends with whom I could be honest and trusting.
You quote Rita Mae Brown, are you "in the life"?
Love,
Pete
in a conversation with my son, we were going over all the young people he grew up with that were jws.
there seemed to be an inordinate proportion of felons among them, compared to the "worldly" people in his school.
and also compared to the people at work that i know whose kids are doing fine now.. our tentative theory is that raising kids as jws can be very damaging to many of them.
I believe there were two types of JW children when I was growing up in the 60s and 70s -- you had your repressed, artificial, Stepford kids who behaved like automatons and then you had your gangster Satan spawn. I, unfortunately, was of the previous.
I agree, it is an inauthentic life. What is on the surface is not what is in the heart. All that emotional duplicity takes its toll. Most all of the "good" kids I knew have left the WTS -- some DF'd or DA'd. Sadly, some even suicided. Same for the bad kids -- jail, drugs, murder. Sad.
What's a mother to do?
Love, Pete
years ago, congregations all over the world were built up.
and solidified by the door to door work.
since all witness.
Good post. I think the door-to-door work disguised as "preaching the good news" really comes back to the realization that the WTS is a publishing company. It is the distribution of literature that is the important thing -- not people.
How many books and magazines does a religious organization need? What was truth a decade ago ( for example, the "generation" promise) is no longer true. There could be more effective ways of gathering disciples -- doing charitable works, hospitals, feeding the homeless, practicing sincere love and kindnesses to one's neighbor -- but the WTS is so enamored with its construction of a publishing giant that it can't see beyond its presses.
Hey, Trevor good to see you back. I visit only occasionally so maybe you've been back for a while. What have you been up to?
Love,
Pete
well, after a wonderful week in italy, its back to reality.
i will soon post some pics of the wonderful things that christina and i saw during our stay.
weve toured sorrento, walked the streets of pompeii, taken the chair-lift to the top of the isle of capri, scoured the unbelievable beauty of the amalfi coast, and , yes, stood on the edge of the volcanic crater of mount vesuvius that threatens the lives of 3 million people in naples.
Hey E-man,
So sorry that I contributed to your thread. I seem to be the "death-nail" (pun) to any thread. I guess, well, I've got a bad reputation on this board. Oh well, my real life awaits!
Love, Pete
well, after a wonderful week in italy, its back to reality.
i will soon post some pics of the wonderful things that christina and i saw during our stay.
weve toured sorrento, walked the streets of pompeii, taken the chair-lift to the top of the isle of capri, scoured the unbelievable beauty of the amalfi coast, and , yes, stood on the edge of the volcanic crater of mount vesuvius that threatens the lives of 3 million people in naples.
Hey Englishman,
I have to agree -- family seems to be paramount to Italians. Although, I think it can be dysfunctional at times -- you know, what is spoken and what is left unspoken. Control, loyalty, guilt. I was told that children are expected to live with their parents until they marry -- so, for many gay Italians they remain with their parents without ever telling their parents "I'm gay." And it seems that the parents like having their children (especially sons) living with them throughout the parents lives. (For example, filmmaker-writer Pier Paolo Passolini who lived with his mother and unmarried sister until he was murdered at 53.)
Yes, Sorrento is a beautiful place, the Isle of Capri. I remember going to Sorrento in the off season and there was absolutely nobody there. Then, one time while staying in Naples I took a crowded train down on a friday night and it seemed to be the recreational thing for many poor Italians to do -- ride the train to Sorrento and stroll, window shop and eat gelatto while cruising the main street.
The thing about Pompeii is that it was destroyed in 79 A.D. -- nine years after the destruction of Jerusalem. Walking the ancient streets, seeing the buildings, the coliseum -- I really felt connected to that time period. BTW, most of the frescos, sculpture, mosaics, etc., are in the Naples Museum. So, if you see Pompeii you really need to see the museum.
The Catholic Church seemed to me to still be a powerful force in Italy -- especially among older Italians. I can recall when, as a JW, I would have been horrified walking into a "pagan" Catholic Church. But seeing the Vatican is a definite must if you go to Rome. Incredible sculpture and art everywhere. (Sure, if you take the little side trip through some of the Vatican museums -- you gotta wonder, just how many pieces of the "original cross," now embellished with jewels and gold, can there be?) The Sistine Chapel? arrive early.
I love Rome and found it to be a very international city -- many Africans and Asians there. And of course, there is Florence with it's Uffizi Gallery, Michelangelo's "David" and fantastic architecture. Venice, fantastic, you should visit Peggy Guggenheim's gallery.
And, as HS said, they love their food! It's an art.
Yes, Italians love their country and their history -- but I never found them to be as condescending and rude as the French in Paris.
My son and I will be visiting Italy and Greece again during his winter break -- any suggestions about places to see?
Gotta run,
Love, Pete
Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,
che la diritta via era smarrita.
