i just read the mary/gumby where are they thread.
i want to say right from the start that i like gumball very much.
i've talked by phone to him in the past and we've had some discussions here over the years.
I can understand it...and if I had to (like for my daughter) I would concider it.....However I would have to get really good at controlling the urge to roll my eyes all the time.Or make these facesAnd lastly.......
I hope the ultimate reason for "going back" is accomplished....and worth the mental anxiety.(For all that do)
"... shortly, within our twentieth century, the 'battle in the day of jehovah' will begin against the modern antitype of jerusalem, christendom.
" the nations shall know that i am jehovah - how?
1971, chap.
I think most JW's would say... "The battle against Christendom has begun"....because they really don't know what exactly that phrase actually means....ya know?
can anyone come up with names of some famous people (dead or alive doesn't matter), respectable men (sorry ladies, but a bearded lady wouldn't help my case), who've grown beards or kept a moustache?
thank you.. inq.
Tom Selleck came to my mind first too!
Sean Connery
i know a few here have and do so - i have listened to tons of the audio testimonials and have even had one poster here offer me a place to stay should i decide to go in october.
i just might go this time.. wnfj= witnesses now for jesus [ mostly former jw's and mormons] .
jeff .
What are the conventions like? I have listened to testimonies on MM Outreach and they were very enjoyable and light hearted....not boring like the JW conventions....Is that what they are like? Are there a-lot of "talks"?
i was 14....and that seems pretty common for those that were in it young....... .
how in the world is a 14 year old ready to commit themselves to anything life altering?.
Happy Birthday!!
as a jw in the d2d work, i always had this feeling of special right to be there.
i had worked the territory so often that i knew every house, sidewalk, what door to knock on, etc.. i noticed in myself a comfortable sense that i had some sort of 'right' to be there, not as if i was walking on someone elses property, though i knew that and respected their property - but a feeling of familiarity that looking back was out of bounds.
almost like the territory was literally 'ours' - as in ownership.
I think you conveyed it just right....and THAT is exactley how I felt too. We had a-lot of nerve, didn't we?!? I remember driving down a street in a recently worked territory, and it felt like I knew everything about all the people that lived there.
if only i'd had..., or if it wasn't for so and so, i'd be...i found myself thinking this many times since i did the fade.
then i realized from this forum and books that i have read, that it doesn't matter how true we believe these statements to be, we need to stop looking back, fiqure out the next step to go forward, and keep going.. we'll never change anything that has already happened, but the future is already ours to mold.. what do you think about this?
are you still stuck in the past?
I don't feel stuck in the past....I get frusterated by the results the past has brought into my "here and now". All and all I am happy with how things have turned out....but I do have times I wish I could have arrived here a bit differently.
you had to get baptised,because of parental pressure..you had to get baptised,to date a potential mate..you had to get baptised,to get married at the kingdom hall..you had to get baptised,to keep your marriage together..you had to get baptised or god would kill you at armageddon.....the list go`s on......wbt$ rules are such that,your life can be disrupted or destroyed unless your a baptised jehovah`s witness.....were you forced into being baptised?...outlaw
My reasons for getting baptised at age 14 was so I would be appear very spiritual to a possible mate. Oh, and I wanted to have my baptism party at Chucky Cheese.
my right leg has had a little pain for about a week, but yesterday it began to hurt so bad i could hardly stand it.
i stood up straight and bent back alittle and felt my back hurt, evidently the nerve is being pinched.
don't know whether to go to a doc or wait a while to see if it gets better.
Ken...It's those "golden globes" you've been carrying around all your life!! Just kidding!
I do have some advise for you for the cold coming around. Get some Emergen-C. It is sold at Wal-mart, wal-greens, CVS, health food stores....near other cold and flu products. It is a dose of vitamins that really seems to keep the illnesses away.
Maybe try a heat pad for your back....or a chiropractor?
i was 14....and that seems pretty common for those that were in it young....... .
how in the world is a 14 year old ready to commit themselves to anything life altering?.
I was 14....and that seems pretty common for those that were in it young......
How in the world is a 14 year old ready to commit themselves to ANYTHING life altering?
