fifi40
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Advice needed.......
by fifi40 ini recently wrote a thread about my son who is being brought up in the jw religion by his dad, his dad and i share custody, so 4 or 5 nights of the week he stays with us............tonight i was taking him over to his dads (tuesday night meeting routine) and he was telling me about a school trip he is due to go on at then end of term..............he said his dad had filled in the medical consent form but had put no to the blood transfusion question...................i have been away for a couple of days and i usually get these forms first and i fill them in according to my beliefs not the governing body's...........anyway i said to him that if the school refused to allow him on the trip because of his dad saying no to blood i would do another form for him.............to which he replied that he wouldnt want me to and that his dad had said he would take him to alton towers (the theme park his year are going to) if the school declined to take him........ so where do i stand with this, does anyone know..............if my son required blood (he is a minor, 14) would my wishes over rule his fathers, would my wishes over rule my own son's (he is not baptised)???.
i also spoke with him about several other things, briefly summarised as.
1. just because you are taught something from birth does not mean it is right.. 2. i want him to check out things for himself thoroughly before he commits himself to the jws and i spoke to him about the consequences of getting baptised in relation to me and to any future thought changes he might make in the future.. 3. i told him jesus was not baptised until he was 30ish and that getting baptised in your late teens is probably not always the best idea.
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A Prayer for the Stressed
by fifi40 ingrant me the serenity to accept the things i cannot change.
the courage to change the things i cannot accept.
and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those i have killed today, because they got on my nerves.. and also help me to be caerful of the toe's i tread on today, as they maybe connected to the feet i have to kiss tomorrow.. help me to always give 100% at work.
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Women and Men....Can they be 'just good friends'........
by fifi40 ini regularly talk to a poster on this board via the pm system...............mainly because i like his mind.......today he suggested in reply to something i had said that basically men and women dont do friendship.........he asked the question 'why do people even bother with each other if they dont fancy each others intimacy?
'...............not that he was suggesting this about us.........but i am just wondering what you lot think.. it has been my experience to have some wonderful men friends...........i love mens company and their conversation..........now i am wondering if all those 'mates' were/are after something else............well not really........i am pretty sure at least some of them arent.. so whats your view/experience.........can men and women just be good friends.. oh and to my friend who i pm.........this is not a criticism of you.........i am interested in what others experiences are..........and i will give you a big kiss (on the cheek) one day when i see ya to make up for it.......... fi.
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Westboro Baptist Church.............
by fifi40 inwow.............caught a programme about them today...........now there is a normal bunch..........not.........what a bunch of loon's.. these people wear t shirts with 'god hates fags' written across them.................. they were enough to put you off god and religion forever.. anybody else come across them?.
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The blood.......in reality is the person himself
by fifi40 injust found this cool site for watchtower statements..............this one is on blood and goes on to say how 'moral insanity, sexual perversions, repression, inferiority complexes, petty crimes-these often follow in the wake of blood transfusions'.
there are lots more topics to compare watchtower statements on from racism, rape its all here...............amazing and sorry if its already been posted about.
http://www.reexamine.org/quotes/admin-site-map.htm#beliefs.
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How I felt when I left the truth..........
by fifi40 inafter my disfellowshipping, i felt like a person alone in a very dark room full of strange objects..........someone grappling around in pitch black wary of everything i touched.
i didnt want involvment with another religion..........my thinking was that the jehovah's witnesses were right despite my having put myself in the position where i was no longer acceptable to them.
other religions had no draw for me, and to this day, i still remain indifferent to them.. and yet, i missed the comfort that i had experienced as a witness..............the hope, the so called 'answers and the feeling of belonging to a community of like minded people.. occasionally i have dabbled with other forms of 'answers'..............reading my stars, doing tarot, a mystic meg approach to the answers of life.
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Favourite TV characters...........
by fifi40 inwhilst i have admired martin sheen in his role as president in the west wing (and also toby and josh), and got quite caught up with jack and the president in 24 and various others in various shows.................................................................................................................... my all time favourite has to be..........................alan shaw in boston legal.......... he is just the best.
who are your favourite tv characters?.
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There really are some sad, sick people out there................
by fifi40 ini dont know how much you folk in the usa know about this story...................but a little girl called madelaine mccann was abducted from her holiday villa in portugal on may 3rd.
her parents both doctors have remained in portugal with their other children, 2 year old twins and the story is huge over here and in at least parts of europe.
whatever your personal feelings on the reasons why she was able to be abducted, her parents had left her and her siblings in the locked apartment whilst they had a meal with friends 40 yards away in a restaurant, it is still a horrendous and sad story.. maddy's parents and family, along with the help of major celebs and the media have made this hunt for her the biggest story on the news, tabloid's etc.
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Prince Harry not going to Iraq.................
by fifi40 inwhilst the rest of harry's regiment has been deployed to iraq, harry will not go, because the threat posed to him and those serving alongside him is 'unacceptable'.
militant groups are reported to have planned to either kidnap or kill him.. needless to say some british families are asking the question why should their loved ones have to go out to serve, why is he special.
it is answered with the emphasis being on the threat to those serving alongside prince harry.. what is your opinion?.
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Do bad things happen to us for a reason.................................
by fifi40 insome believe that things happen to you for a reason...................that you are being told to slow down, or get fit, give up spending hours on the internet.....................i think you get the picture.. so i dont know what yesterday was all about but here goes..............i parked up in the petrol station, got out to fill up and thought i'd lock the car (as i needed to get bread and milk from the mini supermarket attatched to the petrol station - sainsburys for uk readers)..........so i am happily filling up the freelander with diesel when the darn thing starts to roll forward..................aaaggghhhh..............panicking i dropped the pump on the ground try to open the front door (which i have locked) then i am trying to get to the remote but the keys are in the petrol cap making it very awkward to get to..............meanwhile the car is still slowly rolling toward the pay kiosk and on its little journey blocking the exit path for other cars.............eventually i get it open and pull on the hand brake (our other car has an automatic hand brake ........so being a dumb blonde i forget sometimes).
i then returned to filling the diesel tank up.............aghast at the amount of diesel that had slopped down the side of the car.......................got in the car reversed up a bit to allow the exit path to be clear and went into pay.
next i had to stand in the queue for 10 minutes because the person on the till was on the phone to the police because somone else had filled up before me and driven off without paying..................eventually i made it back to the car and drove off...........only to hear this loud grunching noise coming from the underside of the car............it sounded like i had a bike stuck under there..............so i pull up in the middle of the road in front of some traffic lights and get out to inspect..........back, front, sides and nothing showing........so back in the car up to the lights (which change on me just as i am about to cross and i am now nervous that the car is about to disintegrate around me so i stopped past the lights, but had not gone across the road and i cant see the lights so i dont know when its my turn to go).........fortunately there was a car behind me so when he started to move so did i...............but still it sounds like i am dragging half the steel industry around with me.......so i pull up again..............which is when i notice the little green light on the display area blinking madly at me.........................in my haste to pull the hand brake on i had managed to switch a fourwheel drive/steep incline button on................the problem was soon resolved.. so what is life trying to tell me...........................should i get a bike or maybe a horse?.