but thanks to the excellent health care on this site iam on the road to recovery, and can now fully appreciate what a gloriouse thing it is to be free from the w.t and savor approaching spring in all its beauty, ....however i am not sure i am ready for debating on all the boards many heavy threads about gods existence and evolution .. anybody else feal the same?
" tis a gift to be simple, tis a gift to be free, tis a gift to wake up and breath the morning air, and tis a gift to each day walk on the path we want to be....." .
the rebel.
Let those with a thirst for debates have their debates. I've never had the desire to beat a topic to death no matter how right I think I am. Granted, I'll hang in the game long enough to make my position clear, but after a couple of go-rounds I'm perfectly content to let the opposing side run along.
For some it's a blood sport. Not for me.
Your lyric is perfect:
they are doing it again.. a new group trying to boost membership is adding people without permission.. "ex-jehovah's witnesses aka behind the veil of jw.org" added me this afternoon.
they were bragging about how quickly they grew to over 2000 members.
i quickly exited the group.
Interesting.
I joined that group voluntarily a few weeks ago. Since then, I have noticed this Tim Nasson character is very self-promoting. If he really pulled a stunt like you just described, I'll be leaving his group too.
Hope he didn't screw you up too much.
ok so a car pulls up to the house and 3 eldurrs from my dads congo come up.
they come in and have thee nerve to ask me to step out so they can speak to pops!!!!
this is the good part.....pops says...and i quote " whatever needs to be said..can be said in front of my son".
Wow! When visiting an old man the elders couldn't slow down a notch and at least TRY to mimic socially acceptable behavior, care, concern... anything? Did they try to encourage him? Read him a scripture? Offer a prayer?
Or was it all, "You have a nice house and car. You must be able to give more money"?
as a jehovah's witness:.
two things finally struck me:.
1. i was really in a grown up kindergarten and .
hadn't seen this site before, i thought i'd share it:.
http://www.evilbible.com/.
a very close friend of mine has gotten his letter.
although he was planning to leave willingly, he told me that he can't help but feel a sense of being stabbed in the back by a bunch of self righteous traitors.
he gave tours for years, always telling the visitors "this is the best way of life, i would never change anything here and i'll never regret making this decision to come here.
dear friends:.
i imagine by now we old timers have adjusted to the fact that we are getting older and, one day, will make our exit.
are your "senior moments" ever a cause for worry to you?
I JUST went to the store to buy a few items, one of them being milk. I collected a few other items and then I remembered I needed milk so I went to the dairy isle and grabbed a gallon.......
..... and set it right next to the other gallon of milk in my cart.
googling around looking for music, i stumbled upon a group i had never heard of, the canadian tenors.
these young men are phenomenal.
they sing mostly christmas and gospel music but i can enjoy quality music despite the vomitous theme.. check these guys out.. .
Googling around looking for music, I stumbled upon a group I had never heard of, The Canadian Tenors. These young men are phenomenal. They sing mostly Christmas and gospel music but I can enjoy quality music despite the vomitous theme.
Check these guys out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTx8IGPwrIk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pVgronyBXY
http://www.peoplexpress.it/2016/01/26/le-iene-pelazza-servizio-choc-sui-testimoni-di-geova-quando-una-religione-ti-toglie-la-liberta-video/.
google translated into english below.
article in italian at the end.
the rule was (is) that you go to your assigned congregation.. growing up, i think our family was in our assigned congregation only one of three times.
the family made two major moves when i was a kid and each time my folks would visit the various congregations in the area and pick the one with the most kids.
given our association restrictions with the world, they wanted to make sure we had plenty of friends.. i have to give them credit where due.
The rule was (is) that you go to your assigned congregation.
Growing up, I think our family was in our assigned congregation only one of three times. The family made two major moves when I was a kid and each time my folks would visit the various congregations in the area and pick the one with the most kids. Given our association restrictions with the world, they wanted to make sure we had plenty of friends.
I have to give them credit where due. They even stood up to an elder in one congregation who told us we didn't belong there. My dad got in his face and said THIS is where we choose to be.
And so it was.
