on another thread i asked about this life being all there is.
if so, what would you consider important to have done or accomplished before you die so that 'your time alive' would not have been a total waste?.
if you haven't done it, or accomplished it, are you currently on a quest to do so?
I think i will always be on a path of self improvement. i still have many goals but am confident i will reach them. I dont have guilt and fear holding me back. I have more inner peace now than i did in the first 39 years of my life.
jgnat- I LOVE your painting!!!!! You are very talented :)
sanger, california, usa.
during the summer of 1972. i was five years old.
i actually remember the neighborhood, the lady at the door - the entire historic event with reasonable clarity.
i dont remember my first talk. i was 4. i think it was out of the pink great teacher book. thats what my mom told me. and could not tell you when i place my first magazines. my best friend and i were going to the doors by ourselves at 7...sooo...not much recollection.
i do think that all of those talks and presentations did me a world of good in a practical sense. i can speak coherently to virtually anyone in english and spanish. no fear of public speaking.
i read in a forum in spanish that there is a strong rumor spreading in the corridors of the wt.
has anyone heard anything about this??
the change that is emerging is this: the great crowd has not yet appeared, and it is a group that comes out of the great tribulation.
if i think about it i think that is basically what they teach now.sort of. the only reason anyone claims to be of the great crowd is because we were all assured with out any hesitation and without any doubt that armageddon was RIGHT around the corner so of course we were all of the great crowd. But if someone died now they became just one of the othere sheep. the only reason people feel they are of the great crowd is because they think (as i used to) that they are never going to die and live on into the new world.
has anyone ever felt a strong desire to go back to one of their former "return visits" in order to warn them about ttatt?
i used to call on the sweetest gentleman who was truly hurt as a child by the catholic church and its doctrines.
last we spoke he was still so fearful about being damned to hell.
This is exactly what i want to do. i have thought about the ones i would go to. i am positive all my rv's were picked up by others since i supported the car groups virtually every day with my calls.
there was one particular woman that freaked out any time she saw witnesses on her street. i want to go to her door. apologize. then tell her to put up no trespassing signs and tell everyone she knows to do so (that cong takes the signs seriously).
i so want to warn them all to just say NO!!!
"we should be mindful".
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
"now let's pay more than the usual attention to (insert name of any and all part or talk)" since we were obviously deficient in our listening skills at every single meeting.
at 9 pm on abc.
previews in last two videos on this link:.
http://www.wetpaint.com/greys-anatomy/articles/greys-anatomy-season-9-episode-13-spoilers-7-things-we-learned-from-the-sneak-peeks-video.
i watched the episode with my daughter and while there were things that were right on track, iot didnt have the feel of a jw family. regarding the dog tags...my dad wears his and my grandmother had them. it was so if there blood card was MIA they would be covered. my daughter had the reaction i wanted to hear...that she doesnt see how god would want someone to die over that.
good day:.
just a query....how did growing up a jw impact your views of relationships, in terms of love/marriage?.
were you too gullible, naive?.
my relationships in the org were completely disfunctional. its hard to have a positive physical relationship because its drilled in your head that sex is bad sex is bad sex is bad and then poof...u get married for the wrong reason to one of the available single men in ur area who has the right "spiritual" qualifications and its ok. sad thing is the sex wears off (if ever was actually any good) and u r left with someone u barely know and dont even like. then ur stuck. there r no other options. my bf now is amazing and wonderful and he is an athiest. i love him for who he is and not because he fits the jw mould.
i just got my hard copy of coc because i wanted to read a book instead of having a pdf and there is a note signed by him on the inside cover.
do all copies have this?.
its not a hard bound book. its a used paperback but it has a hand written note
i just got my hard copy of coc because i wanted to read a book instead of having a pdf and there is a note signed by him on the inside cover.
do all copies have this?.
really? i wonder why this one is signed. pretty cool.
i just got my hard copy of coc because i wanted to read a book instead of having a pdf and there is a note signed by him on the inside cover.
do all copies have this?.
i just got my hard copy of COC because i wanted to read a book instead of having a pdf and there is a note signed by him on the inside cover. do all copies have this?
