anyone care to guess why?.
(a) she was concerned about the fires and if bd and i were ok.. (b) she called to tell me she was planning to attend the 2009 international convention in peru.. (c) she called to tell me my cousin's husband has brain cancer.. (d) (a) and (b).
pick a answer any answer, only one is the correct answer.. philip.
I am glad to hear that this horrendous fire has not reached you and BD, I pray it stays that way and that this disaster will be brought under control. I would HOPE that your sister would have called to see how you are and to offer ANY assistance she could while these fires are raging in your area.......but knowing JWs, I sincerely doubt this was the correct answer.
hugs,
Annie
below is a copy of the e-mail my sister sent me.
i had to make arrangements for my kids to be babysat somewhere else until after the wedding.
there little hearts are broken.
Don't do that - it's your sisters day, not yours. Be quiet, and loving, and calm. Be the person there who makes sense, who makes her happy, and isn't an idiot.
Just be happy for her.
It IS "her day", but does that give the bride a free pass to dump all over someone that some elder is attempting to railroad? IS it what the bride really wants----or is this another stupid made-up Watchtower rule? If the bride had been left alone to plan this wedding the way she really wanted....would this even BE a problem at all?
I feel sorry for the bride because she is being manipulated by WTS MEN that are already running every detail of her entire LIFE----although she is not even baptized. The groundwork is being laid for future shunning activity on anyone the WTS does not "approve" for whatever reason. It is a purely rotten and unloving cult.
i just got a call from my jw mom asking if i was watching the news.. i'm like, "no, what's up?".
i'm imagining something must really be up, like we invaded some more countries or mushroom clouds over american cities, or maybe somebody famous did something horrible in public, or something.. she tells me 'half of california is burning.'.
i'm like "yeah, it's been doing that for a while now.".
Yeah.....I remember in the early 1970's when Pres Carter was meeting at Camp David with bigwigs and signing a peace treaty....and how we were SURE that THIS was the signal that they would be calling "peace and security".
That didn't happen either.
so today i was thinking... and i haven't posted here in quite some time!
i came and started reading through some recent posts... and boy have i missed a lot.
the whole trevorgate thing... and danny haszard... whew.
Hi Richie!!
I am glad things are going so nicely in your life! I did flinch a bit when I saw the second "tongue" pic----how long does it take for something like that to totally heal? Wow.....I can't stand a canker sore when *I* have one......hard to imagine what THAT must have felt like!!
Have a great Halloween!
hugs,
Annie
...my book crisis of conscience was finally delivered!!!
i know it is not really a thread subject.
but i am just too excited!!!
Right after I wrote my DA letter to the WTS and the PO at the local KH.....a very kind and thoughtful person sent me C of C, the ISoCF, a new bible and a couple of other well-known books/booklets from S Hassan, R Watters, etc. I was so eager to read them all, that I kinda did so in a hurry.....and I am going to go back and re-read the Ray Franz books again to try and recall the things I may not have "gotten" the first time. His books are jam-packed with information----and ACCURATE information TOO!
we had a disagreement a few months ago because she asked me to pay for her to come to see my brother graduate from his masters program.
whats the big deal with that?
she said that her conscience would allow her to come and give him support even though i was there.
I wish you well in any resolve you can find with your Mom. JWs are not the easiest people to make sense of when they are working with their WTS-approved consciences.
hugs,
Annie
....to sum it up, what a snoozfest!
i guess that i have went to a different kh, because i wasn't greeted with love, but only by 2 people.
part of this may have been i decided to keep my full beard.
Yeah...I had 30 years of these under my belt and I am thrilled that I no longer have to sit through those meetings OR the conventions. The WTS does not encourage any personal feelings, emotions out what they would term as "uncontrolled outbursts" from any member in the audience. It is all timed and practically choreographed, and only allows audience members to respond to pre-written questions on the paragraphs they have designed. Emotional offerings are not part of the program. It IS all pretty well cut and dried.
And they call it........"worship".
Doesn't it make your heart skip a beat when you see deer in your own yard! Thanks for sharing!
In 1991, the morning I found out my dearest and very best friend had lost her two-year battle with cancer....I was standing there looking out my window and thining how ugly the world seemed to be now.....OUT of the woods, ambles this beautiful deer and comes right up to the house!! It blew me away!
We have woods on two sides here, and last week we had about 30 wild turkeys step out of the woods, walk around for about ten minutes, and turn around and go back into the woods.....just taking a stroll! We have fox, many rabbits, three huge racoons that come right onto the porch, possums, red squirrels, gray squirrels, one black squirrel, that appear here regularly, summer and winter alike. We never know what will visit!
not to be mean but why should i care that you have 3,000 posts?
this yet again proves how useless even making stats like this public are.
it just gives people ammo to say, "i have 25,000 posts so obviously i am more vested in this board then you".
I left the Borg because I was tired of being measured...
I was tired too, of not feeling as if I was "doing enough" or constantly hearing the "DO MORE" mantra every meeting....but I have never equated the number of posts here on JWD as the "more" of the WTS. To ME----that is ricidulous!
No....afraid not.
