i miss you so much i just cant say how much i hurt inside.
i think back to when i was just a child and how you gave me the food from your plate when there wasnt enough for each of us to have dinner.
you always put me first, your joy in life came from seeing me happy, knowing i was safe and i had everything you could give me.. i miss doing my homework with you, the way you taught me to draw and how much confidence you always had in me and i still remember how you gave and gave until you had nothing more to give me.
Hi JACK ! Missed your posting,I have always enjoyed reading and reflecting on what you post.I do feel your pain.As I have written here before,my MOM died in my arms some years ago and I still feel the pain,I miss her so very much.What a beautiful song you posted about your mom.Sharing with you.
Blueblades
hi everyone, i heard this first hand, although it remains unofficial at this point.. pioneers who are currently serving, will get the new replacement to the old pioneer book (1977).
i was told they most likely would go back to pioneer school to get one.
there is new information in there, though i wasn't told what it was.. bad news is (if you can call it that), that pioneers who are no longer on the list will not get the new book.
It's all DUPLICITY hypocritical double-dealing! If you have read the last ten years of the watchtower magazines,you will know what is in the new-duplicate book.
So the old pioneer book is the new pioneer book,no matter how they try to dress it up.
in 2 kings 19:35 (nwt) it states: "and it came about on that night that the angel of jehovah proceeded to go out and strike down a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the assyrians.
when people rose up early in the morning, why, there all of them were dead carcasses.".
the account goes on to say that, because of this, sennacherib, king of assyria, pulled away and took up dwelling in nineveh, whereafter two of his own sons put him to death and then esarhaddon, another son, began to reign.
Dansk,thank you for your time and effort put into this article,I never read this account they way you presented it.You have given me and my family one more thread of evidence to add to our collection,as to why we have left the Society!
There is no myth of certainty here!
just got done cleaning the house.
i hate cleaning.
i just hate it.
I like a clean house,not a museum,clean,not immmaculate,I like a house that looks like it's been,is, lived in.I can't stand visiting someone and then you have to watch where you sit ,stand or walk in their home.
I can't stand that everything is book-picture perfect.Like I said: clean but liveable,where the home owner lets you relax when you are visiting them.
I help my wife clean -up when I can.We clean co-op buildings so cleaning up is no bother.
i: some relevant quotes from watchtower publications
1: the position of the watchtower as regards smoking
*** jv 181 13 recognized by our conduct ***.
From the "Reasoning Book "pages 109 to 111.
"Why do Jehovah's Witnesses view tobacco smoking as such a serious offense?
It shows disrespect for the gift of life
It is not consistent with what God requires Christians to render to him
Smoking is a violation of the divine requirement that we love our neighbor"
SMOKING IS A DISFELLOWSHIPPING OFFENSE.
Jesus said,"Out of your own mouth you condem yourself"
Blueblades
here's god's last known communication to his creation;.
no, it's not photoshopped, and you can see the page it's from here;.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap030630.html
ABADDON, Is there a face in the palm thumb area.It looks like a baby face smiling back?
for those not familiar with brci, it was founded to assist ex-jws to readjust themselves as former jws.
it is not abouit bashing the watchtower religion.
brci itself is not a religion and does not try to get people to leave the jws, nor does it lead people to any religious organization.
Thanks JIM,good to hear from you,missed you,take care of yourself.
Blueblades
whose children have left "the truth".... .
i don't even know where to begin to broach this subject with my daughters (should they ever speak to me again.
they are not witnesses, and were never baptized, they are angry at me for something else).... .
Rosemarie,as James Thomas said,"Let it go".I too have raised my children in the tru---err,LIE. They are out now and happily married to disgusting worldy women condemmed by the Society.
These daughters of ours by virtue of my sons marriage are two of the most beautiful woman a father and Mother in-law could want.My wife and I are so happy for them and contented,knowing that they are in good hands with their loving wives.
Our children do not blame us ,knowing that we were looking out for their everlasting happiness as we understood it back then.
Now they are balanced when it comes to religious discussions etc.They blame the Society ,not us.
They too have moved on with their lives.They are in their 30"s
Rest assured that you too did the best you could at the time,let it go and move on as many others like yourself ,including my family have done.
Take care of yourself, Blueblades
below are scans for the two-page document that jehovah's witnesses give to legal authorities to state their official policy on blood.. page 1:.
page 2 can be found here, but is too large to comfortably include as an image: http://home.attbi.com/~alanf00/images/med_alt_p2.jpg.
alanf
Thanks Alan, "Legal Purposes "??? Who actually wrote this information ???Legal or Governing Body by a three thirds vote or what???Did Jehovah or Christ by Holy Spirit dictate this Life and Death information to them,if so,how is it that it is so confusing to six million of the rank and file whose lives have been bought by Christ???Where is the public forum,open discussion like in the first century.No closed door discussion back then.
But you already know this,Alan,BLOOD ON THE ALTAR,is still BLOOD ON THE ALTAR,AND SO MANY HAVE DIED NEEDLESSLY SPILLING THEIR BLOOD ON THE WATCHTOWER ALTAR.
It just breaks my heart!
Blueblades
the christian ministry- our main work
1) all of us have various kinds of work we must do.
providing for ones household is a divine requirement.
All of the information in the June KM is for the Anointed only.The Disciples were the Brothers of Jesus,THE CHRISTIAN GREEK SCRIPTURES, is addressed only to them not to the rank and file,so those 8,000 or so wine and bread eaters have their WORK cut out for them.
If the rank and file can't eat the bread and drink the wine,then they can't do the work of the Anointed,because all those verses cited are addressed to the ANOINTEDDDDD!!!!!!!!
So,you brothers that are newly anointed stop by the infirmary and pick up your older brothers of the Lord and take them out to the field,even if you have use a cane ,crutches,wheelchairs to do it.Isn't that what you tell the rank and file to do,set the example,practice what you preach.
