that is the question for the next months ... i am 32 and i will turn 33 on december....i am freaking out!!!
my hubby and i have no children and we are not looking for one right now because im studying a masters.
i will finish subjects in june and after that i will write my thesis (6 more months).
My kids are my world to me. Life is like a pie chart full of different things we fill our life with and children can be one of those segments. At the moment you want more than can fit in your pie chart. You need to decide what is more important to you a career of family, most women struggle to balance both unless they had kids young, I was at uni when my daughter was 2yrs old. I could have a flourishing career now if it wasn't for packing it in for pioneering.
Kate xx
visiting her "lost son" and this morning she says there was demonic "knocking" on the windows and ceiling and she did not sleep.
my wife has her own buisness and works late so her holiness asked me to drive down to see if she was fornicating with anyone....she thinks two worldly people taking an elevator to the 10 floor would have had sex by the 5th floor....thats the quality of anionted alive today...she is not nuts a well respected pioneer nazi..... .
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Do you think perhaps she needs to see a doctor, it sounds like her mind is failing her. Quite sad really. Kate xx
internally, being a father of many children, and being present for ultrasounds and other testing, etc., i appreciate the value of life.. as i understand it, the after-morning pill essentially terminates a 1 or 2 day old conception.. are there any thoughts about this?.
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Proper family planning is important, but there is no problem in my mind about using the morning after pill, it's resposible if the timing is not right for a child. Kate xx
we talk here about the importance of being mentally and physically out to be really free.. what about being emotionally free?.
i realized for me, i had to be emotionally awake first.
i had been yo-young back and forth for years.
I am mentally out and physically out. But your thread has got me thinking, I have been physically out for almost a year and I still think I am emotionally conected in some way. I can't quite put my finger on it but I am connected to loved ones and the thought that they are nice decent people. I have slowly moved on and don't keep in touch regularly.
I think I need to work on becoming emotionally free too, but I am not quite sure how to do it.
Kate xx
i've posted on and off here over the past year, but not much recently.
anyone who read my previous posts will know that i started learning all sorts of surprising things about jehovah's witnesses about a year or so ago, well, surprising to me anyway.
i feel very sad now as it is getting harder and harder to go to meetings.
I was a serving brother up to not so long ago, but cited my family situation as a reason for jumping ship from that responsibility.-thedog1
The fact you have stepped down as an elder is a step in the right direction. Well done! you need to concentrate on your wife now and just miss meetings with her, do something fun like go to a movie or out for a meal when you miss the meetings if she is up for it.
Kate xx
one soldier is shot at war memorial.
multiple shooters suspected.
national post has live updates:.
This is really sad and at the same time quite frightening. There seems to be no solution how to stop these killers, lets hope the authorities can put some strategies into place to prevent this unprovoked attack happening again.
Kate xx
at the international convention last week i caught up with my old congregation and asked about the young ones...there were 2 answers.
1. they flat out left got a boyfriend etc.
and 2. havent seen them for awhile meaning they faded or went off the grid so as not to be disfellowshipped.
This is all good news, my son goes with his dad and doesn't want to be a JW. I am hoping his opinion remains stable, but I still have my concerns that he may be manipulated into getting baptised by the dangling carrot of more privileges, like getting to hold the mic.
This thread has shown how capeable this generation are and how confident they can be, plus my son has family already out which will make it easier for him to leave when he is of age.
Kate xx
automatic bank payments & being disfellowshipped.
as noted on this site, the organization has in place numerous electronic provisions for people to donate money, ranging from one-off payments through to monthly automatic payments from donors' bank accounts into the organization's.. this is all well and good - and consistent with what lots of organizations - religious or otherwise - do.. but, should a donor be disfellowshipped - or disassociated - is the pre-selected donation provision stopped by the organization itself?
do they have any policy at all on it?
Of course the WT will accept donations from DF'd JWs. Especially if the DF'd JW wants to get reinstated and their donations are then evidence that they are repentant. WT will see this as clean money from a wholesome source. They can twist it how they see fit so as to keep all the money.
Kate xx
this excellent little video sumamrises some of the evidence for the evolutionary history of cetaceans.. if focuses on comparative anatomy, embryology, fossils and dna.. .... .
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Kate, there is no need to run down the hallway in the opposite direction exclaiming, "What's their agenda?"-Steve2
hahaha lol, perhaps I am being too critical. I suppose it just gets my back up that they have to use "evidence for evolution" for a title. It's not real evidence for all of evolution it's just the evolution of whales. I am not saying there is anything wrong with the facts either. So perhaps I am being overly critical due to my WT past and not wanting to be duped again possibly.
Kate xx
i really don't understand the concept of forgiveness .
lately in my life several people have thrown that term around so easily ,and i am confused .
is it because we were taught to cut people off so easily as jws that i find it hard to forgive ?.
Forgiveness is subjective, so sometimes it's not appropriate to forgive if the person keeps on hurting you. In other circumstances if someone has turned their life around they have proven they desrve forgiveness. Some people forgive more easily than others and can actually be vulnerable.
Kate xx
