if you mate died suddenly or left you, could you handle life alone?
would you remain single or get married again?
i ask this because my brother in law's witness mom just died recently, and we're wondering how his dad is going to handle life alone now.
This ones hitting my life kind of hard at the present time...my mother being left alone after 33 years of marriage and easily almost 40 plus of being dedicated to him by a sudden accident has left her broken...and left me wondering how to deal with the new dynamic...everyday is a new up and then down....but then its still relatively fresh so maybe after a year or so things will get "better" lest one can hope anyhowz...
-Z-
http://029c87e.netsolhost.com.
it's been slow.
but it's coming to fruition..... this has been something that has truly been a labor of love.
My suggestion would be to get a DEAF person to guide you on this labor of love...in your bio it talks of downs syndrome and the special olympics but u use sign language like as if to say it is the language of the disabled over ALL disabilities?
Having lived with some exceptionally intelligent DEAF people and worked with many more it just makes me wonder if you have talked to any actual DEAF people from your area. Or even going online to National Universities for the deaf such as Gallaudet, or NTID (National Technical Institute for the Deaf)....I hope this is not coming off as a tirade but I use ASL daily in such a WIDE variety of complex ways that to see the "ABC"'s of sign language used in reference to Downs Syndrome, Special Olympics WITHOUT making mention of the other myriad of ways ASL is used on higher levels is somewhat frustrating....
I have nothing bad to say about the website..it is marvellous for what it is. Not ALL deaf people are within a severely handicapped state....neither is their language...or mine for that matter...
-Z-
(of the BOTH parents DEAF and highly EDUCATED class)
http://029c87e.netsolhost.com.
it's been slow.
but it's coming to fruition..... this has been something that has truly been a labor of love.
My suggestion would be to get a DEAF person to guide you on this labor of love...in your bio it talks of downs syndrome and the special olympics but u use sign language like as if to say it is the language of the disabled over ALL disabilities?
Having lived with some exceptionally intelligent DEAF people and worked with many more it just makes me wonder if you have talked to any actual DEAF people from your area. Or even going online to National Universities for the deaf such as Gallaudet, or NTID (National Technical Institute for the Deaf)....I hope this is not coming off as a tirade but I use ASL daily in such a WIDE variety of complex ways that to see the "ABC"'s of sign language used in reference to Downs Syndrome, Special Olympics WITHOUT making mention of the other myriad of ways ASL is used on higher levels is somewhat frustrating....
I have nothing bad to say about the website..it is marvellous for what it is. Not ALL deaf people are within a severely handicapped state....neither is their language...or mine for that matter...
-Z-
(of the BOTH parents DEAF and highly EDUCATED class)
thou shall not turn around and look at the rear end of someone walking by you .
ok, now you know i'm nuts...lol.
Thou shalt not spread butter over the presiding overseers car in a fit of anger over being DF'd....(not that I know anyone who has done such a thing ) wait..this sounds less like a biblical commandment and more like a recipe for a carrot top routine...sheesh..I am tired...almost done work now....
...in case you're in the east washington area december through february.. i will be in the seattle and portland area in the spring.. .
best,.
bryan.
I hope this in no way offends the writer of this thread but I totally mis-read the topic subject line....must be a occupational hazard for me...cuz im a SIGN language interpreter so when i read ur title i had this image of you standing SIGNING and speaking..sheesh...( I must be tired )
When i opened the thread and realized it was a BOOK signing I very sheepishly had to comment on my own blunder...
-z
i read how certain ones will profess their "love" for another poster---a poster that they probably never met in "real life".
is it me or does this strike you as almost impossible??
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I think that the word "love" has been blasted down our throats for so long in a context to "love only jehovah or those serving him" that it makes it hard to "love" something that stems directly from our history with them.
I can remember being told CONSTANTLY that "god is love" and that since JW's are the only ones that REALLY love him then the definition of love stems directly to him.(having a hard time controlling my gag reflex already) so now, 10 plus years after my crazed departure, being asked if there is LOVE amongst this jw, xjw forum it just reflexivly makes me cringe. I enjoy this forum...I respect many of those here..I have even met some awesome people who have my admiration, but my definition of "love" is so skewed when it comes to anything jw or xjdub that it makes it difficult....for me at least...
Hmmmm not sure if any of this makes sense....
aside from leaving the watchtower, marriage(s) date(s), birth of children, what are the top three events that were the most influential in your life?
1. the day my father died 2. the day i decided to start interpreting seriously 3. the day i moved back to NM...
dear friends.... "happy saturday""!!!
and merry christmas to you all!!.
it is truely amazing how many new ones are coming on the forum!!
gotta be at least 10 years for me......;) memories....
-Z-
suffered a bit of damage over the weekend, but it was soo worth it.
the tree in the back...yea, that's not even the one that did it, i missed that one.
i wish i had a picture of where it slid down that hill the first time and into my mom's jeep.. .
Sounds awesome..i am very familiar with Santa Fe actually...im in alb and yah a meet up wud definitely be kewl.
suffered a bit of damage over the weekend, but it was soo worth it.
the tree in the back...yea, that's not even the one that did it, i missed that one.
i wish i had a picture of where it slid down that hill the first time and into my mom's jeep.. .
That looks like fun....and yah the snow came down even a bit in albuquerque too...after years in cali it felt good to see the snow come down from the sky...didnt stay long but was good to see...:)
-Z-
