Or you could write some real interesting comments in the book and give them a real witness then hand it back. THey will have their eyes opened and the book will be useless anyway...just a thought.........
Purple
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Can't you just FEEL the love?
by Puternut inhad a call from an elder yesterday: "hi, this is elder n. we haven't seen you in a while, just checking up on you.
oh btw, we haven't received the eldersbook back from you........".
did he really wanted to see how i was doing?
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Further Education
by scotsman ini had lunch with a jw friend who's just finished a law degree.
she was saying that at the last circuit assembly the bethel speaker, (philip longstaffe) said that the society had not changed its stance on further education, and that college for vocational skills was all that they thought was ok. my friend's a bit of a free thinker (i'd half hoped that this lunch date was to tell me she had doubts, but no) so she doesn't give fig what they think.
i was actually appointed as an elder the month before i started attending uni and the co had told the other elders it was no reason to prevent my appointment.. anyone else heard this at their assemblies?
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Purple
Dunno what the official stance is but before I left there were a lot of elders children getting into uni and the congregation praised them for it because it meant that there were more brains for the society to use in the future. You should of heard the fuss though when I annnounced I had gotten in to uni in my first preference and was a mature aged student!!!
Of course looking back now I can see it was jealousy because here I was no hubby in the truth, with freedom, doing exactly what I wanted and them under the thumb champing at the bit to do half the things I was doing...oh if they could see me now!!! Tattoo, loosing wait, voting, going back to uni again to do post grad study, highly paid, absolutley free and wanting to sleep around, going out and having fun under no ones control but my own!
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Aw, man :( ...and musings about death
by onacruse ina "worldly" friend of mine, who i've know for over 20 years (he's a couple years older than me), had a heart attack yesterday.
he's ok..."missed a bullet.
" he had an arthroplasty, and is out of icu...doc says he'll probably feel better than he has for years.
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Purple
Well having faced death literally I can tell you it makes no differeance at all. What counts is how we live our lives now. Thats something that most dubs ignore as they keep their eyes firmly on some promise about the future. All we have is this moment....no wait this moment....buger missed that one......anyway the point is to make the most of what you have today, cause there is no guarnantee for tomorrow. Life can be over in literally a breath so why worry about what happens after. If there is something then its a bonus or not if there is nothing then you wont know about it anyway. Hehehe if the dubs happen to be right and you die in this system well then you have paid for your sins so why worry?
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Have you ever had something just hit you like a box of rocks?
by dustyb ini was thinking today inside the kingdom hall (because they were still talking about obeying mosaic laws, and obediance and law was above all other), and i got to thinking, why does my girlfriends mom hate me.
my girlfriend is allowed to talk to her friend (lets call him boy 1), her other friend (boy 2), but not me.
because she's being deceiving!!!
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Purple
Does my husband pulling me backwards off a chair then hopping on top to strangle me and bash the daylights out of me count? Not only did it end my relationship and eventually marriage but my faith and trust in anyone is gone to!
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How do JW"S treat each other in the cong in your area?
by fearnotruth22 in"by this they will know that you are my disciples, if you have love amongst yourselves" is this true in your cong?
how do the bothers deal with each other in your area?
do they really love each other?
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Purple
What they said! Plus it depends also on whether you tow the line or not. When they worked out that I was an individual and would not fit the mould the shunning started and the cold shoulders. That is of course unless someone wanted something then that was a different story. They you were their best friend. Lo and behold if such as bit*h as me ever was successful in field service. The elders would always call me in for a talk when I got someone poor unsuspecting fool to study with me. Then it was well sister so and so would be more suited and has more time and so on . Talk about catty and bit*chy and that was just the elders! Jealousy, gossip, back stabbing and nothing resembling love was really the law in my cong!
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It's holiday time in Oz..........happy Australia Day for the 26th January.
by BLISSISIGNORANCE inchairman's message
your say on australia day
australia day.
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Purple
Thanks mate. Australia Day is always a hoot. We have one of our famous long weekends and on Sunday in Adelaide we have a massive fireworks display called skyshow where we all sit for hours in a beautiful green park by our fowl smelling Torrens River, have a picnics tea, perve on all the beautiful people going by, watch a concert and when it gets dark the show goes on in the sky. I love it and the whole weekend! Sometimes on the Monday which is the actual day we have a BBQ and play cricket and stuff and other times I stay in bed and sober up because Tuesday is a work day afterall and all the kiddies go back to school YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dont ask me what we are actually celebrating, heck its an excuse to drink, have a long weekend and a BBQ.. Australia rules!!!!!!!!!! Imagine if the whole world had this attitude!!!!!!! Ahh the eternal land of the long weekend!
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Purple
Dunno havn't done it yet but hopefully it will be something you beaut, breath taking, curl your hair and worth relating and regailing people with!
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Is it ok for a man and a woman to live with each other wihout being wed
by fearnotruth22 in.
sometimes it may not be possible to get married for a lot of reasons so is it ok for a man and a woman just to live with each other?
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Purple
Why not??? After enduring 18 years of pure hell under the guise of happily married I can say that the biggest crock of shite ever invented is the institution of marriage second only to religion. It is a pure control mechanism that the church and state purpetuated to subjugate men and women. I think I head that less than 40% of people get married now. So join the majority and live and enjoy yourself! In the end it really is just a piece of paper that has massive legal implications for the parties who sign the contract. Hey your a long time dead and only have today so live for today and who cares what other people think as long as you are happy that is all that matters.
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The Drive Home Tonight,Crying.
by Blueblades inlet's see,where do i start?i decided to have a quiet drive home after work.it takes about one and half hours.no cd playing,no talk radio,no news, just a quiet drive listening to my own thoughts.i'm not concentrating on any one thing,just kind of letting my mind flow wherever it wants to.. then it starts,my mind goes back to when our children were small.as i'm driving i am having this flashback,i'm going to save my family from dying at armageddon,why the little ones are dependant on us for their future life happiness.. there will be no birthday parties,holiday celebrations,even though one of them was born on the 4th of july.no extra-curricular activities at school,and everyone will know that they don't salute the flag,nor sing the national anthem.and at the infirmary they know that they are not to take blood.. after school homework,the preparing for meetings,more studying comes next.no tv.
tonight,it's a meeting night.oh goody,the weekend is here,now we can go out and play.sorry,we have to go out in field service,mommy and daddy will show you how to have so much fun in the field service on saturday and sunday.. i start to cry,literally,there is real pain in my chest and a lump in my throat.as i have this flashback on the drive home tonight.i think of how i robbed my children of their childhood,i'm getting very emotional and angry,a picture flashes across my mind of all those years,30 plus,that i lost for my wife and children.the opportunities that we turned down,we are going to survive armageddon!.
i have had a talked with my family about my regrets over having put my family through this before and they don't blame me.they feel that i was doing what i thought was the best for them at the time.they forgive me,but i having yet forgiven myself.. the family says that they learned something about life,religion etc.that the experience has not made them bitter,and they have moved on.the children are happily married and doing fine.my wife and i are doing the best that we can with what time we have left.we are in our sixties,no retirement or pension fund.taking it day to day.. this is what happened on the quiet drive home tonight,it's been a year and a half of being inactive and still the flashbacks of the past 30 something years in the watchtower and all of what that has entail in raising my family still wells up inside me when i try to rest my mind and think of nothing.. i cried all the way home for one and a half hours,pain in my chest and heart,my head feeling like it would explode,angry at the society for the big chunk of life that they stole from us.. and i thought of so many others sharing the same feelings and experiences as my family,and those still stuck inside.soon as i arrived home,i collected myself together and said:"hi honey,i'm home!
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Purple
Gosh blueblades what a ride home that was! All this and driving too?? How did you do that? I have regrets too about missed out family for the troof. Only I can never make it up with my mum she passed away whilst I was pioneering in the troof and I was too busy to spend time with her apart from a few occassions. She died not knowing how I really felt about her. All I can say is that every day is an opporutnity so make the most of it.
You cant change the past ever, unless you are the Borg then you can simply rewrite it! Regrets only distract us so look forward to now and each and every moment you have to spend with your family and look forward. At least you were still a family and together, despite all the distractions and there would of been some good moments you shared because of being a family in the troof. Maybe think about the good times more than the bad????
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What Would You Do If...
by dh in.
you suddenly found out that you only had six months to live, how would you choose to spend those last few months.. (morbid topic i know, but i thought it would be interesting)
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Purple
Interesting becuase today is all we really have so every opportunity we miss we will never get back again. I would tell everyone in my life I love them everyday of that 6 months. I would make sure that my nieces and nephews never forgot who auntie teenie was and the world would be richer for having me in it. No one would leave me feeling depressed or sad but glad they took the time to spend a little of their time with me. Heck that is how I live my life anyway! So I would do everything I have been afraid of doing, try new experiences, love, havbe lots of fun and sex and go out in style. Err no thats my plan for this year anyway apart from the go out in style bit...nuts what was the question again?????