Susan,
Thanks for the post. You have a wonderful mother. I didn' know she had a birthday.
Mouthy, HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY to you.
great big thanks to all who participated in my mother's 80th birthday.... it was great, and she was trhilled..... she had a smile on her face the whole day long.... so many showed up to celebrate, and those that couldn't shared by phone calls, cards, flowers and gifts.
the memory album i put together for her turned out great, so thanks to so many who sent me a page to put in, it's a memory she'll have forever.... all her children and grandchildren were there, except for the ones in montreal who are still jw's.. .
thank-you to all, a million times.
Susan,
Thanks for the post. You have a wonderful mother. I didn' know she had a birthday.
Mouthy, HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY to you.
elders love to counsel people.
it feeds their ego.
over the years, you must've been counseled on different things.. when i was almost of age to become a ms, an elder counseled me for my "lack of seriousness".
I was going to an elder's house for dinner and a get together one night and I was wearing leggings and he made me go home
and change. He said leggings were to tight. He would watch how I dressed at meetings after that to make sure I was modestly dressed.
It was not an issue with the other elders but, this one elder had a problem.
edited to add on to
it never seems to be brought up in jah's so wonderful org.
but depression seems rampant, i can name 7-10 people right now on antidepreswsant drugs.
shamus 100
Thanks for the info,I'm still reading it. I'll finish it as my eyes allow. LOL
I knew a dub that said she was healed of her schizophrenia. She was an elders wife and pioneered. She said it was because she prayed,studied, pioneered and attended all the meeting that she was healed.
Her husband would make fun of her by saying she was "healed it's a miracle." It explained a lot when I went out in service with her.She was very self rightous and that put me off more than the disease.
it never seems to be brought up in jah's so wonderful org.
but depression seems rampant, i can name 7-10 people right now on antidepreswsant drugs.
I knew of a handful of jws that would talk about it.
One tried to kill herself.
"my wife just left me yesterday and took my 2 girls.
she's hold up in the presiding overseers (big beautiful) custom built french country house.
i know my 14 yr is probably freeking out and my sweet little 9 year old, i know, loves her daddy.
btt
i'm a newbie as far as delving into information other than wt based, and have only just started posting on this board...so maybe the following thought will be old hat to some of you, not a concern or perhaps something you occasionally think about.
but, are you scared to watch the news?
purely for the fact of seeing things go on in the world that would prompt you to think about your jw upbringing?
btt
i have been having doubts for years about the org, but it's mostly been just the past couple of months that it's really all unravelled for me.
i'm at that stage now where i don't know what i believe about anything...esp about what happens when you die.. and maybe it's just cause i never had to think about death before (was always countin' on that resurrection in paradise earth!
), but lately i can't stop thinking about it!
2 pink
After leaving the Borg you will have time to think more clearly about what you choose to believe about death and
everything else the jws are teaching you now and in the past.
Hang in there.
i have been having doubts for years about the org, but it's mostly been just the past couple of months that it's really all unravelled for me.
i'm at that stage now where i don't know what i believe about anything...esp about what happens when you die.. and maybe it's just cause i never had to think about death before (was always countin' on that resurrection in paradise earth!
), but lately i can't stop thinking about it!
Out Law
After leave the Borg silly.
i have been having doubts for years about the org, but it's mostly been just the past couple of months that it's really all unravelled for me.
i'm at that stage now where i don't know what i believe about anything...esp about what happens when you die.. and maybe it's just cause i never had to think about death before (was always countin' on that resurrection in paradise earth!
), but lately i can't stop thinking about it!
2 pink
I agree with Big Tex.That it is natural to think about death after leaving.
Everyone processes the thought of death in their own way and time.
I am still forming my own beliefs and like the freedom I now have to do so.
any of you who believe in satan or demons, have you had experiences with them?.
have you ever seen satan?.