MERRY PAGAN FESTIVITIES
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Happy New Year's
merry christmas to you all!
for whatever reason you celebrate christmas, i hope it is a happy and merry one for you.. you are all a great bunch of people, and i am glad that all of you have come into my life.
my life has been enriched because of knowing you.. richard.
MERRY PAGAN FESTIVITIES
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Happy New Year's
What else?? Drink beer and eat turkey!!
well i would like to wish you all a merry apostmas!
for those that i have met here on the internet and in person it has been a great year!.
beans.
Top O'postmas of the Mornin' to You All:
May all your opostmasses be right.
can you name the christmas carols these wordy phrases describe?.
1. move hitherward the entire assembly of those who are loyal in their belief.
2. listen, the celestial messengers produce harmonious sounds.
16 O Holy Night
21 Go Tell it on the Mountain
DAH B DAH B DAH B Thats all folks!!!!
well so this is christmas?.
i've just spent the last hour looking over an old photo album with my 13 year old neice.
it brought back a lot of old memories, alot of which are buried, but all good.
Well Scully, heres another thought,
When they visualize entering their 'new system', are my family members planning on carrying photos of us 'goats' into eternity. Or are we just going to be forgotten like a bad hair day?
well so this is christmas?.
i've just spent the last hour looking over an old photo album with my 13 year old neice.
it brought back a lot of old memories, alot of which are buried, but all good.
Well so this is Christmas?
I've just spent the last hour looking over an old photo album with my 13 year old neice. It brought back a lot of old memories, alot of which are buried, but all good. I wasn't born into 'the truth', i was 13 when my mother started studying. I spent alot of my teen years, from 14 to 17 involved in the organisation. I fortunately was never baptised, so when I left the org, there were no binding ties.
Lets fast forward the last 26 years, now it's Christmas 2002. Half my family are JW's, half are not. Looking at the photo album with my neice reminded me of the Xmas's spent as a family before Jehovah came into our life. Every year our parents would have a professional photographer do his art with the four of us kids posed in seasonal setting. This has left us with a scrapbook of Christmasses past. Thus the waltz down memory lane with my neice.
I long for the days when all 4 of us kids saw eye to eye. There is a bridge between the family members who are JW's and those who are not. When I am with my family members who are "in the truth'. I feel like I am an outsider..
The saddest part is: they have thrown out their copies of the old Christmas photos.
for years i started a conversation with ......i am __xxx_____ and i am a salesman for__xxx____!!.
after being fired from a couple of jobs and while being unemployed i realized that i am much more than just a career person....many people get caught up in this.....many when they first meet you will ask, "what do you do" ?????.
i think all of us are much more than just a working stiff.
MY two cents:
Whereas one's job doesn't make you who you are, it is certainly a large indicator. One's choice of career shows alot about a person's character. Your career tells more about you than your shoe size does.
And breeze, if I saw you burrowing in the mud eating worms... i'd guess you were a lawyer.
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i'm just not interested in celebriating christmas.maybe the witnesses had that one right.. if i had children i would probably give presents , just so they don't feel left out , thought not having them myself did me no harm , maybe it made me stronger.but christmas is just one big fake pushed by big businessess, i am not their pawn to be played with.. ok you can have a good laught a few drinks and all that but all the while we are being taken advantage of by the comercial world .imagine the money they would lose if their was no christmas.. can't wait for that big turkey tomorrow though.
I can relate to what you're saying Sleepy. I too have no kids of my own, I come from a family that at present is half witness/half worldly.
Christmas though is one of my favorite times of the year. If you can look past all the commercialism and greed you might find a REAL meaning of Christmas that works for you. I'm an atheist, so Christmas has no religious significance whatsoever. For me Christmas is a good time to get together with family and friends and celebrate the joy of being alive, the joy of knowing there are people out there you truly care about. Christmas can be whatever you make it. For me it's family, friends and love.
i realize a lot of you here have lost faith in one form or another but i'll i want to say is jehovah god never forgets those who belong to him.
all the righteous blood spill from abel till this modern day will be accounted for.. .
there is not a terrorist on this earth that can hide because if you spill righteous blood there will be judgment rendered by jehovah god.
So Spec.
When's he going to do something to protect the innocent lambs in the congregations being molested
by people they trust?
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i have only been active on the board for a short time (compared to all of you masters, jedis, emperors, and supremes
I've got clean socks on.