i'm now part of an elite club of memorial invitees.... my mother mailed each of her satanic children without any hope for the future a one page tract reminding us of this important date.
no accompanying letter, no "how are you?
" nothing but the rhetoric filled tract re-explaining how we can all benefit from this "important occasion".. my one sister was a pioneer and a missionary, my other sister was a pioneer.
Thanks sass,
You're absolutely right. I love my mom very much. And I know she loves me, and would like to think she is conflicted... but I can't. Nor can I bring myself to just laugh it off and move on and label it as conditional love. I don't want to convert her. Just want a meaningful conversation now and then where we can agree to disagree. This Mexican standoff B.S. is killing me.
FBF
i'm now part of an elite club of memorial invitees.... my mother mailed each of her satanic children without any hope for the future a one page tract reminding us of this important date.
no accompanying letter, no "how are you?
" nothing but the rhetoric filled tract re-explaining how we can all benefit from this "important occasion".. my one sister was a pioneer and a missionary, my other sister was a pioneer.
I'm now part of an elite club of memorial invitees.... My mother mailed each of her Satanic children without any hope for the future a one page tract reminding us of this important date. No accompanying letter, no "how are you?" NOTHING but the rhetoric filled tract re-explaining how we can all benefit from this "important occasion".
My one sister was a pioneer and a missionary, my other sister was a pioneer. I was a witless most of my life. It's not like we don't know the date when Elvis Jesus with his huge hair (I hated the superman swirl they always drew on him) "died upon a tree, to set all mankind free." While we insult real Christians by just passing the emblems and turning our noses up at them.
I toyed with the idea of responding, but decided it wasn't worth the effort. You can't reach someone with glazed eyes and a world view controlled solely by GB spoon feeding. My sister called me today and said she will respond, though not in a nasty way and asked me to edit the letter (she knows how much I love this board and my true apostate self ). I'd like to help her but really would just like to ignore it. I don't think there is a point. I thought about mailing her a copy of Crisis of Conscience with no accompanying letter but she would drop it like hot coals and press number one on her speed dial to get the elders over to do an exorcism. Mostly I'm p*ssed because I know she is counting her time mailing us this tripe (all of us are still technically baptised.) This is just a visceral reaction, and I'd appreciate any advice on what I should do.
FBF
:
living or dead who would they be?.
1. jeaus.
2. egar cayce.
My Father
My Mother
My Wife
So we could be a family.
FBF
soon after we arrive on this earth, we become aware of the most fundamental fact of our existence, that we won't be here very long.
an average life span lasts less than 30,000 days.
we sleep a third of that time, so the days we experience number less than 20,000. we may try, but we can't ever completely deny our mortality.
I tend to obsess about it. As Woody Allen said, "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it by not dying." Alas, I'm afraid I have to agree with Kid-A. "Gather your rosebuds while ye may."
FBF
do you tend to swear and curse now??
overindulging in drinking??
smoking??
I don't "rejoice" when a Tsunami or earthquake happens and thousands of people are left destitute.
I think "independently".
I do good things without a thought of a "reward".
I smoke a joint once in a blue moon.
FBF
she just told me last night that she has a part.
it is with her dad.
she will be talking about a music teacher "making fun" of her for not participating in singing holiday songs.
Great job putting a positive spin on it and helping your daughter see that it isn't really true. I've witnessed instances of Elders fishing for examples of "persecution" against kids in school and asking them leading questions on the platform just fill a part in the service meeting. I honestly think that the Dubs create scary "worldy people" scenarios for people and pump it into their heads so repeatedly that over time they actually believe they are "true". It's their way of polarizing the R&F. Never in a million years would a teacher here get away with teasing a child for any reason. The teacher would be fired, and it would instantly be on every talk radio station across the country.
FBF
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyid=7798711.
just click 'listen'.
she talks about it beginning around the 9:00 minute mark.. it looks like this was recorded some time ago, so it might be old news..
"I think they're a more benevelolent and understanding group right now."
She needs to go to my old hall.
FBF
ok, so this is purely speculative, but with the dwindling numbers in the org do you think the wts may actually start encouraging the r&f to have children?
as counterintuitive as it may seem with the constant impending armageddon agenda, i know of many died-in-the-wool company men (and women) who would swallow whatever spin the society feeds them to keep the numbers up.
farfetched perhaps, but what else can they do?.
Ok, so this is purely speculative, but with the dwindling numbers in the org do you think the WTS may actually start encouraging the R&F to have children? As counterintuitive as it may seem with the constant impending Armageddon agenda, I know of many died-in-the-wool company men (and women) who would swallow whatever spin the society feeds them to keep the numbers up. Farfetched perhaps, but what else can they do?
FBF
nu 31:17-18 moses, following the lord's command, orders the israelites to kill all the midianite male children and "... every woman who has known man ...." (note: how would it be determined which women had known men?
one can only speculate.
dt 21:10-13 with the lord's approval, the israelites are allowed to take "beautiful women" from the enemy camp to be their captive wives.
even if you do notice, the brainwashing kicks in and you just ignore it: 'Who am I to question god, maybe it'll be explained in a magazine soon.' or: 'I'm sure god had a good reason.' or: 'That can't be what it really means... otherwise someone else would have noticed it by now.'
So true. It was the "wait on Jehovah" indoctrination. Nevermind we are waiting on a bloodthirsty, insecure, tribal God. I remember my mother justifying the rampant genocide in the Old Testament by saying that "archaeologists" found records of their societies and found they were so "wicked" they wondered why God didn't destroy them earlier. I was a kid at the time so I just swallowed that pill, but of course my mother couldn't name any said "archaeologists". Doesn't sound much like objective science to me. One has only to look at the story of the beloved hero Samson (My Book of Bible Stories anyone?) and see he was a mass murdering (Judges 14:19, 15:15, 16:28-30), animal torturing (Judges 14:6, 15:4,5), prostitute frequenter (Judges 16:1). What a fine, shining example for youth today. This is just one example of how ridiculous it is for anyone to base their morality on a ridiculous, contradictory, compilation of atrocities.
FBF
ever since i started posting here i have wanted to tell my story.
but being long and in many ways painful.
i hope to get some of it out in these my journey posts.
Very well written. I can relate to the threats of Jesus being ashamed at Armageddon. Kids are cruel enough to those who are different, why would any parent want to paint a target on their child? Looking forward to your next chapter!
FBF
