a 5 min.
talk will be given from the kingdom ministry about "donating" more to the world wide preaching work.
remember the woman who gave 2 coins of little value?
My mother always gave the money she got from "placing" the mag/books back to the KH. I never really gave to the KH. I always figured they had enough
money. I needed my money for my children, besides we all spent alot of money on gas going out in service all the time.
She looks awful, but I think she thinks she looks good. I knew a mother and daughter that were tanaholics. The young girl was about 25 and looked 40. both of them had skin like leather but they thought the were beautiful. As someone said, this woman will be sorry when she gets cancer!! Dumb Dumb!
the lying, the faking and pretending, the hiding, the endless mind-numbing meetings, service, preaching, assemblies, everything!.
most of the time i can handle it quite well.
but not today.
As darth frosty said: get busy living or get busy dying.Life is going on, don't let it pass you by. You have received some good advise above. You need to make friends and build a support network. Take some University
classes, join a gym, do something to meet other people with whom you can become friends and do thing together. Life is not easy, but it is harder when you are in a place where you are not happy. The organization
will only keep you down and keep you from the many opportunities life has to offer. Most of us who have left, had it rough for a while, and sometimes things still get rough when we cannot associate with our family, but
life goes on. There is life and happiness outside of the organization.
last week a young elder giving the public talk made.
the statement that "some were led to believe that the.
end would come in 1975, but aren't we so thankfull.
Terry, I am so sorry about your wife. Many of us who spent our life under the illusion that we would never die if only we believed and stayed faithful to the "truth" lost our balance when we had to face the fact that
we had been duped. As you alluded to, the WtS teaching about the end coming in 1975 was accepted as an Absolute Belief by those of us fully blinded by the so called "truth." We have been left embittered by the
loss of our youth and the opportunites missed due to the organization's teachings. Your wife's loss of life and your loss of her, and children's loss of a mother is, of course, the ultimat loss. As stated eariler, no one
who has not experienced this "crisis of faith" can fully understand what happens when you are forced to "grapple with the dawning realization that the Watchtower religion was [is] FALSE." It is devastating
to realize your whole life has been based on a LIE! And NOW! to learn that the Organization denies what they themselves preached to us continually and put the blame on US for misunderstanding
is so disgusting and unbelievable. Too bad for them that there is not only written proof of what they said but those of us who remember (How could we forget!) and lived through their debacle who can testify to the
lies they have told.
dear friends,.
much of what we do on a daily basis is routine and of no particular, earth-shaking importance.
however, after reviewing letters of family going back to wwii, it is fascinating to read what dad was doing on board the aircraft carrier in the pacific on any old day, what mom was cooking on her ever-steaming range, how i was dealing with the roller coaster of emotion at bethel [mom saved all my letters], how nana wrote that she would not study with the witnesses [per my request] but 'here are some mittens i knitted for you when you canvass new york with your magazines.
does anyone remember the thread in which "deathbird" by harlan ellison was mentioned or a link to it was provided?
i was printing it to read and ran out of paper and somehow lost the thread.
now i can't rember which thread it was.
Does anyone remember the thread in which "Deathbird" by Harlan Ellison was mentioned or a link to it was provided? I was printing it to read and ran out of paper and somehow lost the thread. Now I can't rember which thread it was. Thanks.
PamG.
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In all fairness (is there such a thing?) the only people actually committed to keeping the LAW (and all those wacky details of OCD observance) were
Jews who had presumably embraced a covenant. Nobody else was required to do anything except what was right in their own eyes.
It isn't so much THE BIBLE that tells us (who is "us"?) we have to do this or that nutty thing. It is the history of a particular time and place and people
serving as a puppet show being held up as an example. The BIBLE merely reports it.
Christians claim to be free of the Law while insisting the 10 commandments be posted publicly and revered! How confused can they be?
I finally got through all the posts. There were some good poinst made by both sides of the argument. I had never heard of this man Dan until I heard his name on Fox which is what prompted me to click on this thread. I agree with what Terry said above. Why worry about a Law that had been done away with and only applied to the Jews? Although some of those things stated by Dan Savage are restated in the NT.
Tal, people who have previously been homophobic can change their viewpionts. Not everyone of them (us) has a closed mind. I believe everyone has a right to live as they wish and not have to fear being killed or harassed to the point of suicide or harassed at all. I saw the video and was not offended by it or the use of the word bull s..t. I Hear worse from young people all the time, but it would have been better had he not used the word. I think a good convincing argument with a good vocabulary works better.Once you attack people's beliefs, most stop listening. Their departure may have been staged because they did leave very early into the discussion. Anyway, it was a long and interesting discussion.
I would like go on the pilgrimage "The Way of St. James" in France mentioned in the movie by Emilio Estevez, not because I am religious, just because it looked interesting. My brother just returned from his third trip
to Europe and he told me he had a great time. I really like Colorado and may move there soon; beautiful state, except for Pueblo. I don't like that town. I went to an assembly there once and it gets hotter than hell
there.
i got a text from my mom when i got into work today saying that a brother i've known for a while had died.
he was a bethelite and they found him dead in his room.
he was the same age as me.
dear friends,.
much of what we do on a daily basis is routine and of no particular, earth-shaking importance.
however, after reviewing letters of family going back to wwii, it is fascinating to read what dad was doing on board the aircraft carrier in the pacific on any old day, what mom was cooking on her ever-steaming range, how i was dealing with the roller coaster of emotion at bethel [mom saved all my letters], how nana wrote that she would not study with the witnesses [per my request] but 'here are some mittens i knitted for you when you canvass new york with your magazines.
She is one week into her new age." I need to make some changes in my life." she says to herself. Who else can she say it to; the dogs? They are good listeners. They greet her each morning with eyes wide open and their spirts high. The little one, Tony, is so assertive and cannot enjoy the moment, his attention is always directed towards the poodle; wants to make sure he does not receive any attention. His attitude reminds me of some people I have known, but he is such a devoted dog. They both are. "Okay" She thinks, "I need to replace the carpet in my bedroom with hardwood floors. I can't believe Jesse locked the dogs in there for a week while I was gone! What was he thinking? My beautliful plush gray carpet is now ruined!" She goes into the kitchen to brew some coffee before taking the dogs out. She returnes to her desk and as she peers out the window, turning her eyes from the computer screen, she sees around twenty bicyclists pedaling down the highway; all of them dressed in gray and red and wearing head gear.Traveling behind them is a car pulling a trailer with the words "Eat, Sleep, Bike" written in red, with a paint brush it seems, on the side of the trailer. "WOW" She says outloud to herself, "that's an interesting sight! I wonder who they are and where they are heading?" She recalls that only a few months ago she just happened to look out the window to see one of those fancy bus-like travel trailers slowing down in front of her house as if to turn into the lane beside her house. She saw an 18-wheeler behind the travel-trailer traveling at a high rate of spead and said to herself "Why is that truck passing the trailer on the wrong right side where the is no road?" "DAMN! He's trying to avoid rear-ending the trailer." She stares transfixed as the 18-wheeler drives through the ditch in front of her house, bearly missing crashing into the travel trailer which, in fact has turned into the lane. The 18-wheeler crosses the lane and stops, scarcely avoiding the pine trees lining the far side of the ditch. The 18-wheeler stops. She quickly puts her shoes on and darts out the door, taking the porch steps two at a time. The truck has stopped with the truck side facing the bottom of the ditch. It is leaning dangerously, nearly jack-knifed, but still upright. When she gets to the truck, man is already climbing into the passenger side of the truck to aid the driver. Within minutes, the police and EMS arrive to help the driver. She recalls that the driver was seriously injured, but he survived. "I never know what I am gong to see when I look out my window onto this highway", she say to herself, for now, I need to go see about that hardwood floor."