are you a fan?
are you going to follow this coming season?.
lurk3r.
I have watched that show since it first began! I have been hoping they would keep on doing two per year as they have in other years....but they haven't....so I am quite overdue for my Big Brother fix, LOL! Julie Chen is pregnant....or at least WAS the last time I heard anything about her!
hugs,
Annie
on may 19th, theodore jaracz had a stroke.
he's in very serious condition in the hospital.. that's all the information i have for now.. barb.
In 2003, I suffered two strokes....one in August and another in September about four weeks apart. The first one was severe and left me paralyzed on my right side and without speech. The second one was much milder.
Strokes are devastating...especially when you are very weak and have to be re-taught how to feed yourself, dress yourself , learn to walk and learn to speak all over again. My heart goes out to anyone that experiences this.
Having said that....I will also add that this particular individual is so arrogant, so evil, so unfeeling, so cold-hearted and has shown such a very little human compassion for others....that the reactions to his current plight as we are seeing here.... are completely justified and obviously very well-deserved. People do not LIKE him because he notably has the reputation of being so totally unlikable.
It is not hard to figure out how very little love and how very minimal his Christlike qualities he demonstrated as he lived his life......and how very little of these he will ultimately carry out when he departs from it.
Annie
i read on an ex-jws italian forum that in certain congregations witnesses are getting rid of their hello kitty toys.
the reason?
well, it's because the hello kitty is mouthless ... and that's how the "story" (the metropolitan legend) goes: .
Along the same line....back in the 70's there was some WTS garbage that unicorns were demonic like the Smurfs were soon to be seen as....
I had befriended a newly-interest one (tm) whose young daughter had a lovely and colorful poster of a unicorn covered with garlands of flowers....hanging on her bedroom door. Being the "spiritually strong" (tm) pest that I was....I gently informed her that "we" should not have pictures of these fantasy creatures in our homes etc. Needless to say the poster stayed up for as long as I knew these people....and my "wise WTS counsel" was NOT appreciated.
hugs,
Annie
on april 1, 2009 a letter was sent from the governing body of jehovahs witnesses to congregations in spain informing them that the printing, shipping, and storage of watchtower publications would be discontinued at the madrid branch office.
the letter expressed confidence that the spanish witnesses would, despite the move, continue to generously support the world wide work and ends with an appeal to remain united under the direction of the witness leadership.. at a glance, this story may seem like a non-issue, perhaps, just another example of reorganization and consolidation within a multinational corporation; however, the dissolution of the printing branch has caused considerable hard feelings among some of jehovahs witnesses in spain.
to understand the reason we must first look at the history behind the branch office and external factors that some feel prompted this abrupt move.. early in their history, jehovahs witnesses began printing their trademark watchtower magazines and associated books and tracts in-house at their bethel headquarters in brooklyn, new york.
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=493&invol=378
Scott---THANKS for the link and the truth behind what the WTS called a "loving Provision of Jehovah" that turned out to be their PHONY DONATION ARRAGEMENT.
Sorry for the tiny print but I cannot get a bigger font to "do it's thang" for some reason.
Hugs,
Annie
this is in response to a post i did on another thread about the borg not having as much swagger as they used to.
it was suggested that i post it under a new topic so here it is.
it's a brief summary of the decades and how they've managed to get away with claiming that 'the end' is nigh for over 130 years now.
Mary,
You have outshined yourself with this topic!
I usually like to pull out a pertinent thought from larger opening posts....but as I read through this one I realized that each paragraph so truly resonated with my own experiences and observations of this hideous cult's hold on me for 30 years.
I have sat here over the nine years since I broke free and walked away, and wondered just what WAS IT that held my entire being so tenaciously and what it WAS that had me clinging to such total hogwash for three decades? My family had fallen apart by bits and pices as ones came into the WTS and then exited....my nonJW parents disowned me when I "actually went and did it" and became baptized into the "only pure religion on earth today"....and my only sibling, a sister.....had followed suit to appease my parents....and had disowned me as well. (She contacted me from CT in 2005 after both our parents died.....we reunited....she spent a few days with me up here in my home....and we are very close...proving that LOVE CAN win out over all obstacles in the end)
But back to the past.....I clung even closer new family (lovebombing works...but fades quickly)....and while living through the utter embarrassment of 1975, telling every nonJW within the sound of my voice: friends, relatives, neighbors, the bread delivery man, the milk man, the Avon lady, etc....I WAS the consummate and fully devoted WTS follower and bent everyone's ear with the wonderful "New System" (tm) that was going to be here in 1975 because this was about ALL that dominated my thoughts and conversations the closer it got. The JWs where I was living then...were so focused on this event as we heard talks "from the platform" (tm) on this, talks given during the "Serve-US" meetings, talked about it in car groups out in field circus, and excitedly chatted about it at one another's homes. NOW we hear----UH-UH....nope...the WTS never said that......WE were mistaken and WE read too much into what wew THOUGHT we heard.
I was loyal and devoted and "progressed with the organization" which meant I pulled the blinders on even tighter and swallowed my wounded pride...continuing ON with serving the WTS trying to gain new recruits for them... until getting a computer in 1998. I joined the old discussion board, H2O, and began to engage in conversations (or so I thought :O) with my fellow WTS defenders.....only to discover that the folks there were NOT advocates of the WTS but had legitimates beefs with MANY of its aspects, doctrines and very questionable history of unchristian behavior and sleazy tactics that I had no clue about at all.
It was a year and three months from the date that I joined H2O...to when I wrote a letter to the WTS HQs, the CO and the PO to let them know how disappointed I was in "the only true religion" (tm)...and the reasons that I could no longer, in good conscience....(the bible-trained conscience they wanted me to develop... mind you) could I want to be or have any part of this organization for another moment....
And I have never been happier, despite the rough patches of dealing with the very cruel, purposely hurtful and hatefilled shunning of thirty years-worth of friends and relatives that had been sucked into the cult. I am still being punished for finding out "my religion lied to me" and for honestly "examining my religion" to "make sure of ALL THINGS I was hearing".....applying ALL the wise counsel and the advice I had heard over my 30-year stint in the WTS army (through all their little catch phrases)....they turn like angry and snarling wolves when one of their own actually AWAKE!S up and puts the "slave's" own advice to good use!
I have yet to find the answer as to why I was SO gullible....and for SO LONG.... and what it actually was that my brain somehow refused to SEE for all those years?
I am sure I am not alone in this.
hugs,
Older and finally wiser..... Annie
she's home!.
the medical bed arrived yesterday at 10:15 am after i left the nursing facility and got it all set up.
it's a single bed with a regular mattress and a gel mattress on top of it.
Oh my goodness Yiz....I just don't know what to say! I am so glad she is home but so sad to hear the terrible things going on with her. My heart just goes out to you both. You are such a darling person and I pray things will improve.
hugs,
Annie
she made another comment on the view that the jw's believe only that 144,000 will go to heaven, in her own way she is definitely getting the word out that the dubs are totally off the wall.
so whoopi gives her that wtf comment like, how do you know you're one of the chosen?.
i remember when she mentioned she had to go before the elders when she was a teen for sexual conduct and had these grown men questioning her about all the "details" and her father just sat their just looking down and keeping quiet, i remember the audience actually gasped when she relayed that story.. keep up the good work sister sherry, with all the people that watch the show, she's definitely gettin' the word out they are total nutjobs !
You know that is really great. It may have more of affect to the general public than the expose of the news programs. Millions of people are watching "The View," let alone the the continued talk among the hosts behind the scenes and DB's for the show.
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I said this to my hubby this morning after watching "The View"! I just left a post on this on another thread on how her Dad's disfellowshipping and the expected shunning had impacted her life.
Knowing how many prospective householders are watching this program every day....and hearing the experiences related by Sherri....folks are surely getting the scoop on the sweety-faced smiling and well dressed JWs at their doors, LOL! She had also mentioned that JWs would "remain on the earth while nonJWs would have already been destoyed" which more than likely made more than a few viewers sit up and take notice over that remark!
I hope she stays on there a good long time!
hugs,
Annie
i am in my early forties.
grew up in the truth.
i remember talks at the assemblies by the governing body in the 80's.
From swagger to stagger! I liked that!
You can see the caliber of WTS defenders that are on different forums desperately attempting to support this wacky and hideous form of religion.
Perry~ I went to your website and enjoyed what I read.
hugs,
Annie
Being negative is the JW creed. Many of them can't look at anything without finding some kind of fault with it.
It's not necessarily their fault. Look at their "mother", the organization. Look at the negative climate that it visualizes for all its followers. Everything demonized, everything worldly, everything doomed to destruction.
After so many years of being bombarded with that kind of negativity, you tend to exude it yourself.
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(I wish I could figure out how to quote other posters )
But I SO agree with this crummy mindset....as applied in EVERY situation!
No matter what the subject....they are sure to pick up on something and make a big deal out of things that are really quite insignificant. Nit-picky to the Nth degree....except when it comes down to their OWN tiny pagan idolatries when it comes to bridesmaids, groomsmen, wedding cake, and several various elements that are part of the wedding ceremony and that all JWs turn a deaf ear to listening to when you try and inform THEM of how "pagan" their wedding ceremony is.
i had the last in a series of tests and scans today and the verdict is that there are no signs of recurring cancer showing up!
needless to say, the day was very long (as has been this entire week) and i am still quite tired out.....but i am so relieved and so grateful that the healing hand of my precious savior has touched me once again.
he has blessed me.. thank you all for your loving prayers and your good wishes that have been so encouraging to me along the way.
Thank you ALL from the bottom of my heart....for your prayers and support during my ordeal and for the wonderful responses to my great news!
HamsterBait---did you have the shots and the capsule I had and did you have such a horrid reaction to them?
Mary----did you get my email? I really need an answer to be able to take care of things from my end!
hugs to you all~
Annie
