how many of us have had a problem with the blood issue when you were a dub??
what help were the elders in the cong?.
are you still opposed to taking blood??
Hi All,
I'm not opposed to having a blood tranfusion but I wouldn't unless it was very necessary. I know of two instances where a blood tranfusion killed people. My aunt and my daughters grandma-in-law. It's not as safe as some may think. Both instances were mistakes by the doctors.
I have no religious stigma associated with it.
Ken P.
this is to remind everyone to stop and enjoy life.
i love sunsets, so i'm sharing a good one lately with all of you.
grab your favorite drink and enjoy.. j2bf.
Hi Joy,
Just finished my glass of wine in time to see your beautiful picture. Thanks, I love the universe except when it gets mean and nasty, but sometimes that is even captivating.
Ken P.
ok, this is me, in my freshman yr. check out the hair.... .
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lara
My high school picture in 1954.
Those were the days!!! I scanned this from my annual that was printed each year for the school.
I noticed what I wrote in the front as a farewell to school days.
"Here's to all the wonderful expierences I've enjoyed in school.As my days in school draw to a close I can look back and see the many oportunities I've missed to better myself. I could have worked harder and made better grades, but heck I had fun not making them. May all the things I've learned be used for something worthwhile. I hope the years to come may be beneficial for myself and others by the things I've learned. I will miss the good times I've had and especially the many friends. This is bidding you farewell."
I went to a class reunion a while back and it was good to see so many of my old friends. I was a JW but didn't shun anyone at school. Times have changed since the fifties. I was on the basketball team, in the Beta Club, FBLA, Glee Club, Recrecreation Club, Band, Student Council, Bus Driver and Beauty Pageant Escort. (Copied this from my annual)
It wasn't so bad being a JW back then, I even dated several of the girls from different schools. Damn would I like to do it all over again!!!!
Ken P.
... hi ho hi ho, it's not off to work we go.... well, i am redundant, or will be as of end april, when the two factories of my company shut-down and approx.
500 people get made redundant.. nil desperandum and all that... i don't see this as a disaster... if it had been announced in a month i would probably have just signed mortgage papers, and that, whilst still not a disaster would be a tad inconvenient!.
gizza job?.
Hi All,
Talking about work, my brother made a comment years ago to the president of the company we worked for that I thought was really good. My brother and the president were five minutes late and as they were going through the door the president asked what time do you go to work? His reply was,"I go to work as soon as I get here but some sit around and read the Wall Street Journal for and hour or so. The president just laughed, he was really a good guy.
Ken P.
i was wondering since you guys have put some serious time in with the wt, how it felt "back in the days" when major changes occured within the org.. in recent times, it seems that only a few people stop to really think about the changes in doctrine that the wt makes, e.g.
generation theory, the voting issue and the certain parts of blood that are now acceptable.. did the same happen in your time?
did little or anyone at all complain, murmur, get "cold" or simply just leave when certain changes were made?
Hi Patriot,
The only change I can remember was when Franz gave the part at the NY assembly and changed the idea of the "faithful men of old" not being resurrected early but that the ones already in the org. was the fulfilment of that scripture.
I think I was just following what I had been raised to do and didn't give it much thought. Now that I look back on it I was sort of a hypocrite I think sometimes, I really didn't deep down believe all the things I was exhorting, I just didn't have a better explaination.
When I was with the COs and DOs, I didn't really feel like I fitted in very well. They made me feel inferior. When I got the opportunity I hit the road running.
Ken P.
and i mean older in the literal sense not time in h20 or jwd and with some serious time put in with the wt.. how do you feel?
how do you or did you face the facts of the wt and dismiss everything and everyone that you have believed in and has been your friend for so many years?.
how do you make up for lost time?
Hi,
I qualify as old at 66 I guess. I really don't have any regrets, I have enjoyed all my life and if I could do it over again I probably wouldn't want to change much. I was raised as a third generation JW by loving parents who gave me the choice to do many things that I enjoyed. I have a tendency to remember the good things and forget the bad things, but I'm glad I do because it makes life better. Life as a JW back when I was young wasn't nearly as controlled as it is today, at least in the congregations down south that I was acquainted with.
In later years when I was in my late 30s I just quit because it was taking all my time and energy to handle all the responsibilities I had in the congregation. I still believed most of the "truth" but just put it in the back of my mind. Recently I have become agnostic and think I will just die and that will be the end of it. I have seen so much of the truth become non-truth that I would be a fool to hold onto it. Now I just enjoy my family and hope for a few more good years before it all ends.
Ken P.
what the borg doesnt want you to know perspectives of an ex-jw turned christian .
readers of the watchtower bible and tract societys literature (otherwise known as the borg), are taught a premillennial eschatology that jesus christ will return to the earth soon to destroy all non-jehovahs witnesses in armageddon and perfect paradise conditions will follow for jehovahs clean people for a thousand years before the final judgment.
it was taught this would definitely occur in 1914, and when it didnt, the date was revised until later (and when that didnt work out, it was later still).
Hi,
What is the big deal about Christ comming again? I thought just having faith would save you and your imortal soul would float heavenward at death. Why do all you Christains need a second comming? What most Christains say is you are saved when you accept Christ. Why the need for a second comming? It would only affect the lives of those living in a period of time of about 80 years or so.
If there was a thousand year reign and then the judgement, wouldn't the ones living have already overcome the effects of sin by living a thousand years? All this balony doesn't make any logical sense at all.
Just my view,
Ken P.
here is a paragraph from the1997 august 1st.watchtower re the generation change:.
"recently, 'the faithful and discreet slave' has helped us to refine our understanding of the term 'generation' used at matthew 24:34 and of the timing of the judgment of 'the sheep' and 'the goats' mentioned at matthew 25:31-46, as well as of our view toward certain types of civilian service.
no doubt some apostates would have been delighted if many of jehovah's witnesses had stuck rigidly to the previous understanding of such subjects and refused to progress.
Hi Englishman,
I found a new explaination of the generation on another stupid Christain religious site.
People have said the end was near many times in the past—true. But did you know the Bible shows us no prophecy of the latter days meant anything until Israel was reborn into a nation? Did you know God’s Word indicates to us a generation would not pass from Israel’s rebirth, till all be fulfilled (which includes the Rapture, the Tribulation, and Jesus Christ’s return)? A Jewish generation can be figured from the age of 20.There are always new explainations for scripture by those who are waiting for the rapture, end of the world, Armageddon, Kingdom or whatever.
Ken P.
first i get a group of gullible people and tell me that i am in possession of the only true religion.
then i print a whole bunch of books and magazines using free workers who are only too glad to have the "privilege" of working free for the "lord" at my book printing headquarters and then i tell my local groups of gullible people that it is the will of god they buy all the books and magazines i print, not just one copy but mutiple copies.
of course, each person in their family has to have their own copy too, no sharing books.
Who is getting the money??? Is there any way an individual can get his hands on any of it? I've never seen any evidence of this. If money is the motive who benefits from it? I just think they are blinded by their own power thrill!
Ken P.
hi folks.. the other day i was with my brother-in-law at one of his rental houses(he has 25 in eden) and i saw a box of cds.
i picked one up and it read "kingdom songs" and it was produced by the wt society.. i asked him if they were jws, he said he didn't know but they weren't catholic but were mexican.. a few days later i saw a couple of people next door talking to my spanish neighbors.
they had to be jws, book bag, bible, literature and that "look".
Hi Beck,
I didn't question him about why he new they weren't Catholic, but I know the ones next door are fundies, Church of God I think. They have their own church group. They have asked my wife to come pray with them and she did. They don't like JWs, they told my wife this.
I will check to see if there is a Spanish JW cong. anywhere in this area.
Ken P.
