i do like the usa but winters suck!
florida has some charm but it gets brutal with heat and humidity.
california is too looney.
The Italian lakes especially Como or near the Pyrenees in France, the Languedoc area. The only trouble is both areas have boiling summers and freezing winters. They're gorgeous in the spring though.
I was thinking the same Fulano, Greece and Italy can hit the forties in summer. Too cold for you Min?
this is an hypothetical question...i am doing well.
but i was thinking about how my jw family, grandchildren and all will feel when their inactive grandfather dies with no hope of being reunited in paradise.
of course there would be immediate rejoicing if i came back to the "truth" and a surge of conditional love from the "friends".
I've had a few cancer scares which turned out to be false alarms but while waiting for test results I never thought about going back to that destructive cult. My concern was for my daughter and not wanting to leave her on her own. As for appeasing jw family, I don't appease people.
i remember when stores would advertise that santa claus would be there from 2-4 pm on a saturday or something for several weeks before christmas.
you would see them everywhere.. do they still exist in your area?.
maybe parents finally realized that having a drunk guy with a white beard getting his jollies off with young children on his lap was not a good idea.. just my thoughts.
We used to joke store Santa was a good part-time job for a pioneer. The other one was womb leasing.
i remember when stores would advertise that santa claus would be there from 2-4 pm on a saturday or something for several weeks before christmas.
you would see them everywhere.. do they still exist in your area?.
maybe parents finally realized that having a drunk guy with a white beard getting his jollies off with young children on his lap was not a good idea.. just my thoughts.
We used to joke store Santa was a good part-time job for a pioneer. The other one was womb leasing.
as much as i enjoy you and pete's company, you also know our understanding of how much we want you to be reunited with jehovah and his people.. .
we did not set the standards for what jehovah says about our associations with those who choose to not serve him.
so we will always be there for you and pete, but it is in your hands as to how we can enjoy your friendship.. .
Me: "I didn't choose to be raised as one
I love this snuggle bunny. I'm going to use it first chance I get!
in the us there is a bill in the house of representatives to decriminalize prostitution.
what do you think about that?.
Prostitution is legal in England, Scotland and Wales, that is the buying of sex for money. Soliciting in public places, pimping or running a brothel are illegal but being a sex worker, for example from your home, is not.
I don't have a problem with sex work per se as long as young women aren't forced into it by poverty, homelessness or being deliberately made to have a drug habit by a pimp.
you used to hear christmas music blaring on every radio station.
not anymore.
people used to jam the roadways and malls to do their christmas shopping and now it’s no big deal.
I just walked into town to meet a couple of friends and there's xmas lights everywhere. I listen to classical music on the radio all day when I'm not at work and its full of Xmas carols.
Battery powered lights are filling the shops now in England and people are really going for it. Trees and windows decorated, wire reindeer with lights on. Some of it's a bit much but nice to see people having fun.
according today's watchtower, all the remaining ones of the anointed ones will be in heaven when the great tribulation breaks to join jesus in the battle against evil.
the watchtower was making the point that at that time god's organization will be ran by members of the 'other sheep'.
it didn't say how these remaining ones find themselves in heaven, but presumably they will be taken, i.e.
I'm sure now thinking about it this wasn't the teaching thirty years ago. The remnant who were still alive at the big A were going to be 'Princes' on earth until they died. Doesnt anyone remember that?
when i was 5/6 i remember being in the car with my jw mom and a jw sister.
they noticed a yellow ish glowing cloud in the sky which really freaked them out and they both declared that it must be a sign that armageddon was here!
they then spent the whole car trip declaring that the police and army were about to come and round up all of us.
The evil thing this cult does by perpetuating this 'God will save you soon' teaching is preventing people from trying to solve their own problems.
according today's watchtower, all the remaining ones of the anointed ones will be in heaven when the great tribulation breaks to join jesus in the battle against evil.
the watchtower was making the point that at that time god's organization will be ran by members of the 'other sheep'.
it didn't say how these remaining ones find themselves in heaven, but presumably they will be taken, i.e.
Thanks respectful_observer, it's obvious they do believe in a type of rapture. If flesh and blood cannot inherit god's kingdom but the remnant will be in heaven to share in the war of Armaggedon they will be taken up, bodies left behind, effectively left for dead to all human observers.
As you said playing with words again to look as though their teachings are different from the rest of Christendom. I really don't remember this teaching as a JW thirty years ago I wonder when it started?
