if you ever travel i-75 through london kentucky, stop off at the shell station at exit 38. on the back side of the building beside the payphones there is a brochure rack for truckers, there are always watchtowers and awakes laying around.
i hit the jackpot on saturday when i was traveling north to dayton, i found a total of 8 different watchtower and awakes, i promptly removed them all.
this has been a tradition for me for the past few years.
Dave, you might consider talking to the manager of the truck stop. If he isn't a witness, then tell him that you this group is a cult and their writings are dangerous to families. Ask him to call the local KHs and have them let members know that it does not want the literature. (Maybe provide him with the phone numbers). Maybe it's coming from an employee...?
If the owner is a witness, leave him with a question or a paper with website addresses.
Good on ya for caring about those truckers.
bebu
for the second day in a row, the schools are closed because of the snow.
very strange for november.. it is collllddddd today and the roads are solid ice after the bit of a thaw yesterday.
another big snowstorm hit last evening.
Where I'm at it's not so bad, but it's icey. Yesterday it took my husband 2 hours to drive 25 miles to work.
This evening we are having turkey with all the trimming, believe it or not. So we'll feeling full and cozy tonight.
bebu
....the concrete of a turkish bath to be used by the pope, what scripture or short message would that be.
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ps... need your responses in the next 6 hours or so ;)
I vote for Mene Mene Tekel Parsin as well. Too bad this isn't a wall/foundation, and not a parking lot.
bebu
my grandson went back to the hospital for more test today and they found that the cancer was a type that can usually be cured.
the hospital is one of the best in the east.
i sure do feel better now.
I'm so thankful to hear this! Good news like this makes those other troubles seem more bearable.
Please let us know more as you learn it.
bebu
just head that my grandson has a bad kind of cancer.
it's hard to accept stuff like this.
i just hope they can do something to help him survive.. ken p..
I'm so thankful to hear that there is hope for him to be cured! What a great relief that must be to you!!!!
bebu
learning to find friends as an ex-jw.
i wrote this essay because of what i have observed and experienced in the way of disappointment and reward in the relationships and freinds i have made online.
i can relate to how you some x-jws feel about leaving online discussion boards.
I completely agree that friendship takes time, and there are many people I respect but with whom I am not "friends".
The first time hosting an international student, I inadvertently created problems during a discussion about friendship. Our student said that she made friends with everybody, she liked everyone. I said that it usually took me a good year to feel like someone was a real friend. Unfortunately, she took that to mean that we were not going to be friends, and so we went thru several months of her acting "cold" until she explained how she interpreted that comment.
One good simile I heard about friendship is that friends are like fellow travelers who meet as they walk toward a common goal. They have a shared value to discuss; their eyes look ahead as they walk, not (like lovers) looking into each other's eyes. They are truly companions.
I'm sorry you had such a rough bout with posters here; I guess I missed all those threads. But I AM glad you came back here, because I have always enjoyed your posts, and I respect you a great deal.
bebu
so, i'm out of the organization and have been for about 7 years now but my parents and sister are still in.
i'm about apostate as you can possibly get but for some reason my family still talks to me on pretty regular basis (note to all of you trying to leave out there, make the crazy cult issue your loved ones issue, its nothing for you to be ashamed of).
i called my sister tonight to talk about work and it was one of the best conversations i've had in years.
Vengeance is like very salty potato chips. They taste pretty good, but as soon as you quit you are dying of thirst. You feel compelled to keep eating even after they quit tasting good.
I found an interesting page full of excellent comments about the subject of forgiveness. Far better than anything I can quip up, read them here: http://www.forgivenessweb.com/RdgRm/Quotationpage.html
Hats off to lovelylil for that wonderful post. Lil, I hope the world follows your tremendous example.
JC, honestly, I hope you can enlarge your heart to forgive your enemy. There is no greatness of soul in hatred. Don't let your heart become brittle.
bebu
this recent article in the watchtower caught my attention.. where could such spiritual enlightenment come from?.
are we most likely in the last days?
without a doubt, the signs point to yes.
That was a recent article? Or a compilation of 8-ball-type statements that are simply typical of the WT?
I should have figured it was the magic 8-ball behind the FDS!!
bebu
just head that my grandson has a bad kind of cancer.
it's hard to accept stuff like this.
i just hope they can do something to help him survive.. ken p..
Unfortunately, I know a bit of how you feel. Now I am sitting here crying, too.
bebu
i think most of us were probably trained to believe that money can't buy happiness, but is that really true?
i know i'd be a hell of a lot happier with more money....what about you?
of course, there are the big examples we all know of---people who had lots of money, fame, but they weren't happy.
Money doesn't buy the kind of joy that only comes from relationships. I think of this every time I see another Hollywood marriage tank out, and I realize I would NOT trade places for all their wealth.
Someone said, Don't measure wealth by what you have, but by what you have for which you would not trade money.
bebu
