after years of hard work and study, former bethel boy snare & racket is now officially a medical doctor.. his story is an inspiration that there can be life after the watchtower.
he has given me permission to post his graduation picture.. .
So proud to see this happen!
Thanks for the picture--never thought I'd be happy to be part of anyone's "great crowd of witnesses"---but there you go: we can reclaim words that were trademarked to stop us from living and thinking fully. You are doing it, Dr. Snare. You are restoring " love your neighbor" with passion.
Beautiful. Beautiful.
Maeve
a loud get well grace from all of us to you.
everyone, grace has been in and out of the hospital and i'm sure she would love to read your get wells.
we miss you grace:) wish i could post pictures.
Dear Grace--Just glad you know that we love you--And if you ever get your bucket back -- remember it is full of love where ever you are kicking it! You are an inspiration to me and so many others.
Maeve
they are so cute in their cage with the red heat lamp warming them.
there are eggs in our future.
coop is built all i need to do now is put the fence in.
Chickens! I've got a mixed lot here. t
They are funny creatures--entertaining and eggs are delicious. Do you have a rooster too?
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got a cool job, surgery and emergency medicine in a nice holiday town, super happy :d. .
Snare!!!
i'm not suicidal just fed up.. i did think of suicide (briefly), but as there is no painless way and it's not something i would willingly do just in case things would have been better the day after.
i do have a slight grain of hope.. money problems.....problems at home (that's another matter with a son up court for something he is adamant he didn't do.
first offence but the pigs police and the cps have got charges made.
This time after I couldn't believe there is a God has been in the winter. that's a drag.
But I miss talking to him. I used to organize my anxieties and then--no matter how it came out, I always knew it was "God's will" and it was good enough for me.
It is strange now. I have a sort of paralysis of will that--maybe is because I am 61 and am kicking/have kicked cancer. Maybe is because my life in the rurals with my aged hubby (81 years old) has become more restricted and that is making me feel anxious. Maybe because i listen to the news. maybe because I am on this site too much.
Maybe I have a glandular issue. HAHAHAHA!!!
Sometimes I have trouble taking my depression seriously!
I do love people and I do love the earth and life. It does seem hard right now to feel happy. Maybe we just need more SUNLIGHT!
But...things change. and they should for you, too, Punky. as I hope they do for me.
I'm celtic and dark sometimes-- loosing god has been hard. so I don't have anything to say that others haven't said already. Just hang in there, Punky, I enjoy your company around this place. Or--if you bail out of here for your mental health, let us know you're having a good time out and about in the world.
and, if you find a new remedy for recovering from a life of believing there was a kind listening ear in the blue sky, let me know.
O---and I challenge you to do a graphic novel(remembering a thread you mention a thought on that line)--I am starting one myself..HaHa--Outing myself, here. i have to make myself do something....
there are sources to help you do that, did you know?
oops----I'm rambling
...when i told them i didn't believe anymore.
they cried like i'd never seen before.
my oldest, 10, pleaded with me that she'd do anything to get me to keep going to meetings ("i'll get a's on my report card!").
This is scarey for them because they don't know what it means--except there is explicit and implied DEATH for unbelievers !!!!!!
If they know you are safe, and they are safe they will be alright.
If it doesn't offend you, I suggest, for children their age to watch the movie "Dumbo" with them. I myself have had to remind myself that like the little elephant, I have had the power to fly on my own. But I had put my faith in a magic feather for so long that I had/have trouble believing that I have "flown" before and will fly again. I have been "flying" on my own for 61 years and have only just realized it.
When they begin to see how good effort often produces good results---Even among those in the "WORLD" they will see more clearly how this is so--and they may let go of the magic feather too.
My heart goes out to your family. all the best--Maeve
according to bloomberg news:.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-04-07/wedding-photographer-rebuffed-by-top-court-on-same-sex-ceremony.
"the u.s. supreme court turned away an appeal from a new mexico wedding photographer found to have violated a state anti-discrimination law when she refused to take pictures of a commitment ceremony for a same-sex couple.. the photographer, elaine huguenin, argued unsuccessfully that she was being unconstitutionally forced to convey a message conflicting with her religious beliefs.
The photographer was not being forced to publish or to endorse the ceremony, so why feel compromised? The prints if not the negatives become the property of the persons hiring the photographer. Is this a problem? I do not send a message if I am paid to photograph a subject. I am simply recording an event. If I do it for free then I might be seen to be tacitly endorsing it.
That said, I would not want someone taking photos for me of a personal nature who had such a visceral disgust for the subject.
That's how I see it at this moment. It's an interesting problem--a sticky one.
so as far as we know jesus was never married.
i've often wondered why this was.
was it because of a personal belief?
Marriage seems to be humanity's way of getting people to be responsible for their "significant other" and offspring, WAWYM.
Marriage seems at its core to be a way to sort out"who's watching the kids" as FHN said.
Being a fatherless child was a problem w/o government subsidies.
Being "used" then discarded w/o ceremony has indeed a problem for women.
Jesus seems to be concerned about failing to truly acknowledge responsible family connection:"Corban"let children ignore the welfare of an aged parent. The woman at the well had not made a claim to a husband but was yet "shopping" herself around--no mention of children.
I don't know what to think of marriage these days. I mean that.
so as far as we know jesus was never married.
i've often wondered why this was.
was it because of a personal belief?
Modern marriage =vows? Not always.
While some churches call the bans of marriage "vows", marriages are mostly civil/social contracts both now and in Jesus' time. Even now the spiritual aspect certainly is part of the desired privilege of marriage that same sex couples seek but the social/civil benefit of having legal recognition if paramount: rights of a spouse confers so many practical protections.
Sex was an implied contract of "one flesh" that has long formed a part of a marriage celebration.(Children do not ask to be born yet--who will care for them? Who will claim them?) But it was not necessary(and I understand still is not) for a rabbi to officiate a wedding for it to be legitimate. A dear friend may bless the union. There were witnesses needed, in the main, to note that the couple did indeed go alone into the marriage chamber--the assumption being that two healthy people so attracted to each other would indeed become "one flesh" if left alone for a little while .
Personally, marriage vows that bind you tighter than the personal commitment to one's spouse are bad. They set you up for hypocritical and disfunctional union in the same way as a JW baptism.
Yep--let your yes mean yes. And for goodness sake--somebody take care---lovingly--of the children.
Edit: Sorry, missed your clarifying post--but I agree that the JWs confine two people as much as join them. Not good. Small wonder--that's what their baptism means. They don't let you work out your own marriage or" your own salvation with fear nd trembling".
do any of you lovely ladies, or men even, have any natural remedies for night sweats???.
i'm going crazy with them at the moment.. thanks in advance..
I didn't have night sweat-only day time hotflashes --yes it finally passed.
I have a good friend who has had a protracted change-of-life and she carries a little palm fan where ever she goes. she turns beet red and glows. What she does at night I wonder--the fan?
