hi everyone, i just read esmerelda's post, i can see where she's coming from, being a new member, myself.. i understand, though, that people have already made friends and have their own little community, and that's fine.. i don't mind at all, i just hope that i can get people's attention by saying something that hasn't been said before...... i'm struggling though......... bye bye.
chris
Am I welcome too???..........
NO! OF COURSE NOT!! HOW DARE YOU COME AND TRY TO POST HERE!!!
LOL
I don't see this place as being split between the newbies and the oldies. The line of definition is too blurred.
I think waiting said it the best. Regardless what "class" we see ourselves being a part of, we are all sitting in the same coffee shop together. And there are plenty of tables for any lurkers out there who want to join us too.
four catholic ladies are having coffee together.. the first one tells her friends, "my son is a priest.
when he walks into a room, everyone says 'father'.".
the second one chirps up, my son is a bishop.
LOL
(here is an article that russell &c wrote the year 1884 in zion's watchtower):.
our name.. new readers in all parts of the country are constantly inquiring:.
by what name do you call yourselves?
Yes, that is something that used to disturb me while I was in - how the organisation demands (and indeed, receives) the same honor and glory that should be directed towards God.
I had to make a decision - follow my conscience and leave, or follow a man-made relgion who made these demands.
The choice was easy!
....this is only my second post, so please be gentle!!!
thank you all for such a wonderful, supporting, loving, caring forum... where the truth at last can be spoken!!!
...i have soooooo many posts to make, and soooooo little time!!!
Hello!
Welcome and I'm glad you enjoy this forum - it's a great place to learn and share. I'll look forward to your experiences and insights too!
well thats what happens when you dont celebrate birthdays.
i became a master and someone else had to point it out to me.
funny i don't feel like a master!.
CONGRATULATIONS HIPPIKON!!
So does this mean that those who haven't reached Master status, are to be known as Master Apprentices?
Prisca (of the Fantasia class)
phenomenally.. phenomenal woman,.
phenomenally.. phenomenal woman,.
phenomenally.. phenomenal woman,.
COMF, my hero!
It's so sad that young girls get the idea from the media, that the thinner you are, the better.
Real beauty comes from within - either you have it, or you don't!
this is from the may km regarding district convention instruction.
it is posted for your amusement and comments....... concentrating for several hours at a time can be a challenge, what can help us to resist the tendency to drift mentality?
take advantage of the power of the eye.
Most go for the association, don't they?
I noticed at the last few conventions I attended, that more and more were ignoring the requests to sit down before the sessions started. Most seemed more interested in continuing their conversations with friends, some of whom they may have not seen for some time.
This increasing lack of "obedience" to the speaker's requests was an interesting thing to observe!
since brooklyn finally allowed the 1914 generation to die in 1995, the distributing apparatus of the multinational printing organization has been starting to slow down.. service is down, the numbers of pioneers are decreasing, the number of baptized show an alarming drop and people are leaving in their thousands.. after many decades of incessant harping on how jehovah, jesus and the bible had guaranteed that the end would be over before the 1914 generation was dead, the witnesses had the only thing that kept many of them going, ripped out from under their noses.
suddenly jehovah hadnt promised any such thing in the awake!
suddenly jesus had never been talking about the length of a generation, as usual the watchtower had never said any such thing, someone had speculated about the generation.
Thanks Norm for another great post.
One of the things that struck me while I was still in the org, was how the WTS blamed the common publisher for reading into their "prophecies", when the WTS was the one who should have taken the responsibility for inciting such hope in a paradise coming "soon".
As Norm said, of course the preaching hours droppped, when the average publisher realised they had some more time up their sleeves to pursue a real life. I know I did. Instead of having the hope that the New System was coming "soon", I had the awful realisation that I might actually live for a very long time in this world, before Armageddon came. I wasn't supposed to grow up before the big A came. I wasn't supposed to go to college, lest that my education was all for nothing (I could have been be earning twice what I get now). And why save for a house? You'll get one in the New System. So I never bothered saving for a deposit, and am now stuck in the rent cycle.
Not that I am totally unhappy with my lot. At least I realised I had been duped, and got out early enough for me to START to have a real life!!
Like a high school senior on prom night, the WTS without a date is a rather pathetic figure...
What a great quote, Stephanus! Very poignant!
why do we say something is out of whack?
what's a whack?.
if a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?.
WHY?...
Why do we say something is out of whack? What's a whack?
If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?
Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?
Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist but a person who
drives a race car is not called a racist?
Why are a wise man and a wise guy opposites?
Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things?
Why isn't the number 11 pronounced onety-one?
If Fed Ex and UPS were to merge, would they call it Fed UP?
like ellie mae, i just love kritters.. this is one of my best little friends.. here's me teasing her and 'faking her out' .... .
then i really give her just one peanut .... .
and looks what it leads to .... .
Awww... that is soo cute!
We don't have squirrels in the Great Southern Land, so I'm fascinated by those little "critters".
