what things, modest and attainable, will be on your bucket list to do after covid ?
preferably post things you would not be allowed to do if you were still a jw!.
i will start, i want to go to an actual horse race, and have a small flutter on each race..
When I left, I registered to vote right away, I never miss an election. Holidays and birthdays, yes. I just tried to live like a normal person. Oh, and premarital sex with my husband of 31 years lol. Sometimes buy lottery tickets.
Funny, when I left I felt a huge weight lifted off of me.
recent controversies in america brought this to mind , although i don’t want this to become a political thread , rather to discuss the wts rules that stop a jw showing respect for the national anthem.. the watchtower says that doing so is an act of idolatry, giving worship to the state or its icon.
as such witnesses remain seated when the anthem is played.
in britain people simply stand quietly to show respect, there is no hand gesture.. when i was a boy, every cinema show and theatre concluded with the anthem,being played .usually it was orchestrally with no words sung.
I love this thread. I was told by my parents that I would DIE AT ARMAGGEDON if I said the pledge or stood for the national anthem at school, so I complied, feeling like an UTTER ASS and wanting so badly to stand and sing or recite the country that I loved. Because Jehovah reads hearts, at age 6, I knew I would die anyway, because big J would read my heart and kill me. No way for a kid to grow up. It’s child abuse.
i agree with people who say all lives matter.
i think blm is a racist group.
if white people pushed an agenda saying white lives matter, some people would have a conniption..
I passed a car in my neighborhood, in the window was a handmade sign which read, “All lives don’t matter until black lives matter”. Wow
watchtower bound volumes from 1950 till 1993. awake abound volumes from 1968 till 1993. yearbook 1950 till 1993. many more items from rutherford till 1993. any one interested kindly send a message or email:.
paul bonanno.
malta.
Are these in English? If so, I’ll take the Awake 1969 bound volume. The one with the famous quote in it.
they hanged mary!
(the townsfolk did)i'll tell you about it - but .... the facts will turn readers against her.
i mean, after all, she did kill a man.sympathy instantly dries up; making her agonizing death--as awful as it was--much less empathetic.
Poor thing, so sad. 😞
the latest issue of the watchtower shows a man with a beard praying.. .
i fully expected to see him 'progress' to clean-shaven in the following pictures, but instead he is still bearded when 'applying bible principles'.. .
i then realized that he was already featured on the cover itself.. .
Maybe they have “new light “ on beards.
the fake news wants us to believe that one cop who murdered one person sparked all this.
i am seeing this crap in london and around the world.
this does not make any sense.
I smell a rat, too. And I am a lefty, but middle of the road lefty. This sucks.
according to history, now only a reichstag fire is needed to eliminate democracy.
it is very likely that this will happen.. g..
Gorby, you are scaring me. I guess my AHA moment would be when the govt states they are “temporarily suspending the Constitution “.
from the peacefull netherlands i have a question about the current situation in the us.. is a civil war possible?.
g..
Civil war? I don’t think so, but black people have been abused by cops since slavery ended. (Terrible and shameful part of US history). This man was killed, not on purpose, but if he had not committed a crime that day, he would still be alive. I feel for the cops, too, damned if they do, damned if they don’t.
last wednesday my elder brother called me to let me know mom had died.
she was 97 years old and was in a nursing home for the last 7 years.
her mind had left her many years ago to the point she didn't recognize any of us.
Sorry for your loss, Still Totally ADD, may she Rest In Peace. And hopefully, your brother softens a little.
