it was last year at easter time that i had a big insight that still looms large with me.
my elderly mother was living with me and she had been suffering from dementia.
i was taken aback why this one elder would come over once a month to try to get my mom to come up with 15 minutes of fs.
Mr. Freeze - LOL!
They are obsessed with numbers. How manyfyears you've been in "da twoof," how many meetings you attend, how many times you comment, how many magazines you place, how many bible studies you have... As long as your numbers are good they love you. It has nothing to do with cultivating a Christ-like personality or showing love.
rabbits are pretty much mute.
not a peep out of them.
seems like there ought to be an awake!
Of course rabbit Peeps are wrong. Rabbit is an unclean animal. 
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Welcome, Apocryphal!
at every meeting and every assembly i went to, a sister would always ask me "how are you?
how is your family?
" she says it with a gloomy face every time!
The elderly elder who spent a couple of years special pioneering in Central America in the '60s and had to mention it in every talk and comment.
The pioneer brother whose wife was misdiagnosed then died of cancer 10 years ago, but he has to tell the story in the car group every single day.
The 86-year-old slightly senile and very deaf pioneer sister who managed to lose her hearing aid every morning, so unless we wanted to spend the day shouting at her we'd have to stop at her apartment and help her find it.
The snooty sister who, during a time when my ex and I were barely scraping by and our car broke down, said, "Why don't you just buy another one?"
Those are great!
john upton jr. gained acclaim in the 1990s for his documentary on the abuse of romanian orphans under the communist dictator ceausescu.
20/20 featured his documentary.. in an ongoing dispute with his neighbor, michael vilkin, over a privacy hedge the dispute ended with vilkin shooting upton first in the stomach and then in the head.
vilkin is claiming self-defense.
There has to be more to that story. Why would you be gardening with a side arm?
what it the point of view of the watcthower on transexuals, transgenders and intersex people?
an article was written about it by the watchtower bible and tract society, but was never published.
however, several jehovahs witnesses in position of authority are aware of it.
I knew an intersex person after I left the borg. It was by knowing her that I realized people vary tremendously and why shouldn't there be a difference in sexual preference.
a canadian in china, facing the elders in a starbucks.
great story.. .
the believer - leaving the witness.
Wow, what a powerful story!
http:www.amazon.com/crises-conscience-raymond-franz/dp/191475044.
sorry i cant make it printable ( old age).
Yowzers! That's expensive!
aargh just shoot me, my wife just came home from field service bi&*&ing about her friends inactive/faded husband.
the thing is he and his wife use the excuse that he is sick from irratable bowel syndrome.
however he works 50+ hours a week.
WMF - ME TOO!
