no i am not going to turn into a pumpkin----------lol.. the two towers first showing will be at midnight and we will be there!!
i have been waiting for a yr for the next lord of the rings to come out!!
i can't wait to see it!!
I'm going to see the Two Towers on Sunday. I bought the extended version of the Fellowship of the Ring(1st movie) and it is well worth the money. There is extra footage and scenes that were not in the Theatrical release.
I started reading the series when I was 12 and read it again every couple of years. It felt good to be able to use your imagination unlike most things in Dubland.
Wolfy
"never chase a lie.
let it alone, and it will run itself to death.".
- lyman beecher
Here's some more,
"The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie" Hilaire Belloc-The Silence of the Sea
"Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have" Elizabeth Bowen(1899-1973)-The House in Paris
"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place"H.L Mencken-Prejudices
"He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar"Nietzsche-Nachgelassene Fragmente
"You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time; but you can't fool all the people all the time"Abraham Lincoln
"You can fool too many of the people too much of the time"James Thurber-The Owl Who Was God
"Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualitites which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep"Samuel Johnson-The Rambler
"He led a double life. Did that make him a liar? He did not feel a liar. He was a man of two truths" Iris Murdoch-The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
"That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought wih outright, but a lie which is part truth is a harder matter to fight." Lord Tennyson-The Grandmother
"A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent" William Blake-Auguries of Innocence
"You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it" G.K. Chesterton -The Man who was Orthodox
Wolfy
i have seen several threads about how the elders are going to be going around asking people if they still consider themselves to be jehovah's witnesses.
this will undoubtedly result in multiple da announcements in the coming months.
i'm curious how the average jw will perceive this and respond to it.
I am expecting a visit in the very near future. The last time I spoke to one of the Elder's(about a week or two ago) he mentioned that "they" would like to come and visit to see how we are doing.
I am not sure how to approach this or how to answer any questions they ask. Family is still in and that is where the difficulty lies. I already warned my best friend (besides my wife:)). He is not active and does not believe. I told him flat out that I consider myself an "apostate" and that there might soon be trouble. I told him to expect a visit soon as well. LOL..He said he didn't care and that he would tell them where to "shove it". BTW my wife does not identify me as a Witness but hopes that I will come around someday and go back to the hall and become a Wit. again. Kinda funny as she has doubts herself(nothing even remotely near the issuses I have).
I will let everyone know what happens:)
Wolfy
with all the different religions and beliefs that contradict each other, do you still believe that one of them is the true religion?
the more we try to understand god, the more we are lost.
the more we pray, the more we are deceived.
I have had my fill of religion. No thanks.
Wolfy
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recently, and reportedly in coming months, elders will be contacting inactive members.. it has been suggensted that their main objective is to hunt for apostates.. i'm inclined to think that "finding apostates" is just a side effect of their main objective, which is to boost meeting attendance.. any thoughts?
Looks like I'll be getting a visit soon:(. Ran into one of the local Elder's last weekend. Aside from asking how everyone is he offered to study with me and mentioned that they(I assume here that he it means the Elders) would like to come visit us. I turned down the study and told him that this is a really busy time of year and that I'll get back to him on when would be a good time to come over. I had actually studied with this Elder awhile back but discontinued it and he is aware of my "misgivings". Going to try to put them off for awhile until I figure out how to handle this.:)
Wolfy
there are so many colas on the market, but 2 of them stick out.
coke and pepsi.
i love coke and hate pepsi.
Coke Classic all the way! Used to drink a 2litre bottle a day or more...Have cut it down to 2 or 3 cans. It's not good for you but I need the caffeine.
Wolfy
for all those that think life is miserable outside of the us, canadians are quite content to be canadians .
[url] http://www.torontostar.com/nasapp/cs/contentserver?pagename=thestar/layout/article_type1&c=article&cid=1035775215655&call_pageid=968332188774&col=968350116467[/url].
canada is a feel-good country indeed in no country in the western world do people feel better about their lives or the state of their nation, according to a just-released global survey.. .
Proud to be a Canadian!
Canada has so much diversity in it's land and population. I have to agree about Celine Dion though. she is overplayed here and when she hits the high notes it's enough to give me a headache.lol.
As a JW we are not to be patriotic. I always had a hard time with that. I was born in Canada and it only seems natural to have love and pride in the country I live in.
My thoughts:)
Wolfy
i read a few apostate books during my research as a jw...after confessing in private to a best friend that i'd read them i got snitched on and they ran and told the elders....prats!
this led to a judicial and a 6 month probation, wasnt allowed to do carpark duty (sobs) or michrophone duty (baawl) for 6 months nor could i answer up at meetings which led to tongue wagging, could go on doors though... a bit strict huh.. also know of a 6 year old who handed in her dad for speaking to apostates!
was you snitched on?
Yup. I was snitched on by one of my so-called best friends. Talking about things we did in the past and I mentioned something to him that I had done before I was even married. I should have noticed that he wasn't too specific about his past misdeeds but I considered him a buddy and didn't really take notice. I had told my wife years before and it was no big deal. I get a call out of the blue from an elder in his hall telling me I have to talk to the elders in my hall. Seems my "friend's" conscience was bothering him and he fessed up to the elders. Didn't even have the balls to talk to me first. I ended up in a meeting with my elders. Instead of the normal 3 elders I had 5 of them. Ended up losing my priviledges over it. This was in the mid 90's and nothing was announced in the hall. Fun eh?
Wolfy
this morning as i got up, it was 0 f outside.
this morning at 9 o'clock as usual the same witnesses will go door to door at this temperature.
i already saw them going door to door at -25 f. i wonder what it would take for them to say it is too cold or too hot to go out in the field service?
I don't know how many time we ended up digging the car out of snowbanks or trying to push cars up the hill to the Kingdom Hall. The Hall was on a hill and you would have to get a run-on at the bottom to try to make it up. Always thought that was crazy. If the snow is too deep to drive in what the hell are we having a meeting for?
I remember going door-to-door and it being so cold you could hear the trees cracking and snapping. Happens when the sap freezes in the trees..Pychos I tell ya.
Wolfy
doing the "fade" thing is like a slow, painful torture to me.
i have to do the fade because of my current circumstances (wife being a jw but starting to doubt/both our families very strong jw's).
it makes me angry at having wasted so much time and energy (and money) being a jw.
Thanks for your thoughts Scully. I live in the Hamilton area but don't want to get too specific:). My wife does have doubts but gets upset when I talk "negative" about the JW's. For her sake I try not too but it is a very difficult to do. She does see a lack of love in the hall and she doesn't understand some of the "rules" the org has. She is a 4th gen. Witness so there is alot of pressure from her family. We do talk about things religion wise but it is difficult to do.:(
I want to say thanks to everyone for their kind words. I don't know many of you but for some reason I feel better knowing others are or have gone through what I have.
If I do end up going to the hall on Sunday I wonder what type of reception I will get..I have since grown a goatee and my wife says I look evil..lol.
Thanks again
Wolfy
