if you could list the major themes of the watchtowerland per decade, what would they be?.
for example, 2010-2014: overlapping generation, gb=fds, jw.org, 100 years.
2000-2009: harder stance on higher ed.. 1990-1999: generation no longer a major doctrine.. 1980-1989: getting over 1975, ray franz, year of peace, end before 20th century ends, generation is 70 years old.
1950-1960 Armegeddon just around the corner (from a childs point of view)
1960-1970 and thru 1975 Time is so short we now on countdown for Armageddon. Don't marry or have children will make it harder to get thru tribulation (A teenager point of view)
i would love to know where most of our fellow forum members are from.... is there a way to compile a quick list?.
for example, i would love to know how many live near me......
Northeast FL. Jacksonville
So sorry. Losing friends is just as hard as losing family, somtimes harder. HUGS!!!!
i refuse to go to any meetings, assemblies, conventions, special talks or the like...however, i get coerced into going to the memorial every year.
because it keeps the peace at home with hubby and also makes my parents, who live elsewhere, have hope that i will come to my senses and become an active witness again.
there is no chance in hell of that happening, but it prevents the ties to my family from being severed.
Not since my mother died but before that yes. My sister in law told me she is going for her mom and sons.
and did you always seem to get caught?.
my daughter told me that all her teenage friends used to smoke tobacco, pot, do drugs, get drunk and "misbehave" with other kids all the time..
I will answer with the same topic I had with my 40 year old daughter this morning. JWs hold on to their young so tight its likea rubberband the harder youu hold it the farther it flies when you let go. ANy one that had a balsa/wood airplane that you wind up with rubberband will know what I am saying. And yes in the 60's we teens did were a lot worse when wewere together than when I finally hung out with "worldy kids'
title pretty much explains it all.
lots of people are getting married at midnight tonight.. what do you guys think?
maybe if anyone gets called on by a jw this weekend you can ask them what they think about it.. im just glad because it shows that religion doesn't define our conscience, that basic human decency can prevail over time and hopefully, these types of gradual but big changes will be present in the wts too in the future .
when my son legally married his partner of 19 years it didn't change anything in his father and my marriage or his sister and her husbands marriage. His neices still plan on marrying males. 'In other words life goes on peacefully. Love to all.
well, we held the princeton application open, just to see what would happen.... .
mit, here he comes!
(he had already decided anyway, so no great loss.
Your son is doing a awsome job preparing for his future and his parent has been awsome by raising such a successful son.
yes that's right reopened mind and me have been married 40 years ago today.
we had a little party today at our uu congregation.
we brought wine for the pot luck dinner we had today.
Happy 40th. Its so special to be married such a long time. I looked into all my Jw friends who married around the same time and for a religion that discourages divorce very few are still married. Again congratulations and I wish you another 40 years together.
is being followed daily at www.swrnn.com for those interested.. this afternoons coverage said he was an elder at the time of the murder.. i think when the story first came out no one was sure if he was or not..
Gypsy Sam I saw this incident on 20/20 recently. Such a heartbreaking life.
as the title says, share what you love about the truth!.
we know that the gb or anything else in the truth is all true and nothing is false!.
love u guys xxx.
I've had 66 years to think this over. NOTHING I LOVED. I have wasted life waiting for a new system that never came. I lost confidence, education and celebrations. I was left in aworld of fears. Fear of my father dying at the big A, fear of kids at school, a fear of displeasing God. If Armageddon arrives next year I no longer have that fear. The dead knows nothing.
