I was thinking about getting the book and reading it...not sure if I will participate on the forum at oprah.com. Has anyone read the book yet and is it worth getting?
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Oprah's new Book Club selection - A New Earth - anyone here participating?
by poppers inabout 10 days ago she announced that eckhart tolle's book a new earth is her latest book club selection.
tolle will be appearing with her on a live internet feed for 10 consecutive mondays starting march 3. this is a great opportunity for those who are looking for the ineffable "something" else that they find lacking in their usual pursuits...
this isn't the usual kind of book that she promotes.
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VH1 Program-Michael Jackson's Secret Childhood online
by Dogpatch inmichael jackson's life is on the line in front a california judge.
spanish transcript.
nbc dateline-witness to the prosecution-read transcript spanish transcript view video- a video- b .
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This was just re-aired recently and I got to see it, somehow missed it the first time around. Wow...between Michael's abusive father and being brought up in a sexually repressed religion, no wonder he's so screwed up. My heart really went out to him. Bill Bowen did a nice job I thought.
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Mother-in-law gets a letter from JWs
by Jim_TX infirst - let me point out that (for those that do not know this), neither my wife nor any of her family are jws.
my wife studied with a jw - but that was many years ago.
she never got too far into the jw religion - but got a knowledge of what - and who they are.
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That's how my M-I-L starts her time every morning. She sits down at 7 and starts her letter writing until right before 9 when she meets with the group. However, she often times spends those 2 hours on the phone with relatives (all JW's) chit-chatting about who knows what. At least she got 2 of the 5 hours she needed for the day.
I recently had a conversation with her about why it is necessary to count time. That did not go over well.
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Are You Having A Tough Time Making Ends Meet?
by minimus indo you believe we're in a recession?
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Wow! Had to jump in on this one. First, let me say that YES I am having a tough time making ends meet? I take full responsibility for this as I made the debt. I have always lived above my means. They say admitting something is the first step to recovery. There, I've said it.
Up until last summer I had no trouble paying all of my bills and then lost my job (I'm in the mortgage industry...need I say more?) I've blown through all of my savings trying to keep credit cards paid and now I'm out of money and getting phone calls every day from the credit card people. I have been sending out my resume religiously but haven't secured another job yet.
One of my credit card companies has offered me a "hard-ship program" but I can't afford to even do that right now. I would sell my car and drive a rust-bucket but I'm upside down on it so I'm pretty much up craps creek right now. Not sure what I am going to do, but I have to face the music.
Most Americans that I know have a "have it now, pay for it later" mentality. That's why we are in so much trouble.
I will find a way out of the mess that I have created but it will take some time. Once I am out, I plan on NEVER getting into debt again. I'm learning to live on less and have seriously downsized my lifestyle.
Congrats to all you "frugal" ones...wish I had been like you!
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Tricky situation - need some advice
by TweetieBird ini have a good friend that is cheating (with her boss) on the guy she lives with.
i keep telling her that she needs to either break it off with the boss or move into her own place and away from the boyfriend.
the guy she lives with is friends with my husband and me but there are things about him that are troubling.
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I have told her that I don't want to know about her extra-curricular activities, I am not and have never been able to lie about anything with success and should her boyfriend ever ask me something, I may have to throw her under the bus because of it. I don't agree with what she is doing but I do understand why she is doing it. She is ready to leave him, doesn't love him but doesn't want to hurt him. I told her that she is hurting him more by staying with him and being dishonest. At least if she breaks up with him, even though it will crush him he will be able to move on and find someone else that loves him in return.
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That Voice...My Story
by Confession inwhy doesnt he just talk to me later?
i dont really talk about this much, but i just dont get it.
he seems confident that eventually ill understand him.
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Just keeping this active. I've been a member since 2001 and do not remember reading your account before. I have always had a problem with the society's confession process. For the sisters, to me it was like being raped going before a judicial committee. So many good points that you brought out, I will now have some ammo should my mother-in-law ever speak to me again.
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Tricky situation - need some advice
by TweetieBird ini have a good friend that is cheating (with her boss) on the guy she lives with.
i keep telling her that she needs to either break it off with the boss or move into her own place and away from the boyfriend.
the guy she lives with is friends with my husband and me but there are things about him that are troubling.
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I have a good friend that is cheating (with her boss) on the guy she lives with. I keep telling her that she needs to either break it off with the boss or move into her own place and away from the boyfriend. The guy she lives with is friends with my husband and me but there are things about him that are troubling. I am so afraid that he is going to start asking me questions and I don't know how to handle it. He's kind of a Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde, has been married 3 times before and all of his ex-wives have cheated on him. Has anyone else been in this situation? Any advice is appreciated.
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I am so bummed!
by TweetieBird ini live in an apartment and work from home.
earlier today i see a couple of sheriff's cars, an ambulance, and fire truck go whizzing by my apartment and head down to my friends building.
she just called me and told me that the guy that lives above her hung himself.
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Hi Johnna - not to change the subject but I lived in San Diego for a few years. Just moved away from there recently. I really miss it, especially the weather, the mountains but definitely not the traffic.
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Elders and JWs who study a lot...
by cognac indo you think they know its not the truth???
elders, for example, through jcs are privied to info about the jw involvement with the un, 607 bce, etc, etc... .
people who actually do study a lot, you think they figured it out???.
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They are taught to study the publications. The scriptures that are referenced are to give the illusion that whatever is being discussed is scriptural. When I was a good little dub I would look up the scriptures cited without REALLY reading them, just gave them a quick once over to see what they were and notate it in the margin of my WT to show that I really did study. What a crock! It wasn't until I started having doubts that I really read the scripture to see if it backed up what was trying to be conveyed. Sometimes I would scratch my head and think that it was a bit of a stretch. Most JW's blindly accept that it means what they say it means without ever questioning, afterall...if something is not understood correctly, "Jehovah will straighten it out in his own due time, we just have to wait on Jehovah."
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Anyone Shunned Even Though Not Baptized?
by Country Girl ini've found that even though i was raised a jw, but never baptized, i'm pretty much still shunned.
i can still talk to them, but they pretty much they still treat me the same.
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I have a niece who HATES the witnesses to this day because she was shunned by most of her witness family on her mom's side. Her mom & dad were both raised witnesses, they divorced, her dad stayed in and her mom left for good. Her dad remarried a witness and they had kids. The kids friends were not allowed to bring their half-sister over because she was "worldly" and it has made her very bitter. Fortunately my side of the family never treated her differently but we did make her feel like an outcast at times (unintentionally) until she set me straight. I really felt bad for even making her feel even slightly different.