ok, folks, put this one in your diary if you please!.
sunday.
july 13.. just like the shindig we held last year, this one will also be held in my back garden at our home in weston super mare, england.
Mr Blair Eman
Bit of a bummer, just check my rota for work and I am in that weekend!
Not to worry though, I will try and book the Sunday and Monday off work.
How long does it take to get down to weston super mud (as a friend calls it, don't know why, never been my self, sound a nice place!) from Sheffield?
Mind you am I invited, didn't think of that.
Qwerty
i spent the week with a few people, 2 jw's and their 2 non-believing husbands.
a few different situations arose that suggested to me that some of these people are a little bit crazy.
now, i'm not talking about certifiably crazy,i'm talking about just a little bit nuts.
Quack quaaaaaark quack quack!
NO! Yes!
Qwerty
earlier this week, british cemetries in northern france were vandalised by persons objecting to the war in iraq.. .
a uk newspaper carried this report:.
the showpiece cenotaph at the graveyard in northern france was smeared in red paint with the words: dig up your rubbish.
I think the French don't like Americans because they are jealous!...........Sounds Childish I know.
Just been watching BBC New 24 they interviewed some Russians (in Russia). They feel the Americans need to be stopped, they said, that they are trying to take over the world!
Jealousy ........... is mans worst enemy!
...............Not too sure what the French think of us Brits!
Qwerty
a couple days ago, i was browsing the mini website checking out the new cooper s. today, i woke up the computer i was using to view their website and noticed that i didn't close out my browser session.
at first glance, i thought my wife sent a netbios message telling me to get off the computer(she thinks she is so cool now that i showed her how to do that).
but then i read on further and saw that it came from mini.
gsx1138
You will have to get your order in now...........there is a waiting list! So I was told.
Qwerty
when my dad died a year and a half back, i inherited his many photographs of family members, living and dead.
this one is of my great uncle and aunt taken around 1930. notice anything freaky about this photo?
mrs. shakita
Nooooooooooooooo....... Gooly Monsters!
Qwerty........ who's now...Hiding his Goolies.
qwerty.
you're a st. bernard!
no bones about it, you're a dedicated, trustworthy st. bernard.
Golden Retrievers.......One of my favourite type Doggies!
WuooooOOOOOFFFf!
Qwerty!
well, about a month ago, i had to have a talk with the elders.
primarily due to my lack of meeting attendance.
i decided to make an effort and attend, after about two sunday meetings, i found out about the un and haven't been back since.
I have Caller ID, it comes in handy. Just make sure you have all the elder names and numbers programmed in first!..........I think I am missing a few, thanks for the reminder.
I assume like me you are in the UK?
Qwerty
i have an ex jw friend who has been out for about 3 years now, and has since been going to every memorial just to keep her family happy.
she is baptised, and so far has sucessfully done the fade, though she has never actually told her parents that she wants no part of the org.
now the memorial is coming up and her family expects her to go.
Hi In_between_days.
You say she's been doing the slow fade, I think she should have stopped going to the memorial after the first time. Mind you, I suppose it's a bit later for that now!
I've been doing the slow fade since my awakening to the Borg for about three years or more also, from back in the days of the old H2O board. In that time I have, like many on this broad, suffered with feelings of hopelessness even been prescribed medicines for depression. I have not been to meetings for months and months, it's got to be coming up to a year now. The last time I went to meetings was around last Memorial or not long after. Strangely my depression has disappeared, wonder of wonders!
The only person that's inquired about whether I'm going to the memorial, is my wife, she knew I would want to go anyway but asked on the off chance. At the moment I've not really bumped into many of my XJW associates. Any I have seen have not dared to ask, but I if they do I will tell them straight, like I told a zealous newby JW at a BBQ last summer, when he enquired if I was coming back to meetings, I said - "No way"! He look shocked, I wanted him to question why someone like me (XPioneer/ MS almost Elder)would turn away from "da Troof".
Like your friend I am wondering what the reaction will be if I don't show up, no correct that, when I don't show up! I refuse to be like one of the hypocrites, that only show up to the KH once a year (no offence to your friend, she is trying after all to get out unscathed), whereas there are lots of one's who still believe it's the truth and go because that's the done thing for weak ones, LOL! There again who knows out of all those once a yearers, which ones - are also doing the slow faded but not been able to pluck up the courage to stop altogether.
I suppose the non confrontational way for your friend to reject the memorial, would be to make sure she has something planned for that night. She can say she can not get out of it. Sorry but that's the only thing I can think of without directly saying I am not going.
Qwerty
qwerty.
you're a st. bernard!
no bones about it, you're a dedicated, trustworthy st. bernard.
you're a St. Bernard!
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it's march 31. last day of the big round-up, isn't it?.
well i haven't seen the merest hint of a shepherds crook, let alone a crooked shepherd.
and you'd think i'd be an easy mark, what with the jw wife to let the elders in.
No I didn't get one either!
My theory is, if you have a JW partner they ask them for us if there is any change with how we feel.
Qwerty
