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Thanks Blondie,
The writers of such worn out articles can just as well pick up and paste together bits of previous similar articles and change a little the arrangement of paragraphs. There is strictly nothing new in those "study"articles, which betrays a cruel shortage of imagination, initiative and scholarship in the current writing dpt and reveals the definitive downhilll trend of the WTS.
this was a favorite way of getting away from the very unloving "loving brothers and sisters".
hide in the toilets, no one can collar you and tell you off.
and even better you won't be in amongst a group of people but still feeling so alone... at least you will actauly be alone!.
The best bit is the feeling of relief that it's over when I get to drive away.
Reminds me of that elder trying, during midweek meeting, to convince us about how wonderful attendind meetings was and how much good those were doing to us. He said something like "who among us, brothers and sisters, hasn't experienced this, that we didn't feel for leaving home to go to the KH after a work day but, at the end of the meeting, felt so much better, satisfied". i'm pretty sure that quite a few "brothers and sisters" were then thinking what Sapphy says.
so ladies ?
what are you looking for in a man, emotionally, physically, and mentally in a relationship ?
yeah, i know, all the good ones are taken !
Momzcrazy,
A saying goes that when there are several motivations for something, one suffices and supersedes all the others. Hmm, what may be yours ?
i've been reading this forum a for some time now.
since i find myself on a crossroad i decided to start participating.
i was at gilead in 1980 and remember standing in de elevator alone with ray franz, how just gave us a lecture.
Welcome, Not Sure Yet,
you are very honestly expressing your inner feelings on the board, so why wouldn't you simply let your husband and children read your posts ? that would be a short cut and save you many words of explanations to them. After the first shock they will probably want to discuss openly your, and the whole family's new situation. I can see only benefits to this straightforward way of handling the case.
i don't think i've ever been in love, and have no idea what it is or what it is like?.
is it somthing fictional or real?.
I believe that being in love requires that the other person be in love with you.
I beg to differ, Poopsie, and say that it is rather the opposite. Inter gender relationship seems, IMO, to suffer from this basic flaw whereby one loves while the other accepts being loved, and in more (not so) extreme situations, one suffers as the other yawns.
so when we moved here from maine to okc, six years ago this coming april, my daughter was 7. the military moved us so it brings a big moving truck to your house and unloads all of your stuff etc.
we had been settling in for a few months and my daughter starting telling me that she was hearing things in her room.
small things at first, just enough to prick up her ears.
Razziel,
having read your -rare but valuable- previous posts, I would venture the explanation for the failure of your marriage that your wife simply thought that you were too brainy for her. As AWF pointed out, you write superbly.
AWF, I've no qualm in believing in evil spirits, and I think that every time some otherwise normal people, like Rwandese, or Germans in the past, engage in mass slaughtering, only evil forces can direct such madness. This is one of the reasons why the JW message about the Devil being in the vicinity of the earth has never sounded weird to me.
a few months ago there was a thread about a couple of elders at the mill hill bethel being disfellowshipped because they disagreed with some wt doctrine (i can't recall exactly what it was) and that several other betheliteswere under 'investigation'.
i haven't heard anything since, does anyone know anything more about this?.
borghater xx.
is Mel Parkin still alive? and does he reside at The London Branch?
I knew him as a CO in Chelsea around 1978 or 79, he was already all white, looking about 60 of age. Would then be more than 90 by now. I've been told by an English elder that the branch has built special homes for their old faithful servants.
btw, and off topic, I had a look at Chelsea cong accounts for 2009. The hall is quite small so it must not be a big congregation, unless they merged, say maybe with Fulham (couldn't find the accounting report for the latter) but anyway, they have garnered some £ 62 000 in 2009 and their expenses were less than £ 20 000. Makes a hefty surplus of £ 42 000 !! what on earth have they done with all that money in excess, has the whole of it been funnelled to the branch ?
as mentioned by narkissos a couple months ago, doubting bro yesterday, and no doubt others.
is this where they are headed?
i say "evidently" it is.
armageddon could well come on my 100th birthday!
Not so sure because at the very time you think you will get hold of the "prize", a kid will overlap your life and He will see Har Magedon, some time around 2150.
this is an email going round the jw's, contains several accounts.
here are some new reports that i received today about our brothers in haiti.
for those unfamiliar with the geography of the area, haiti shares the island with the dominican republic which is referred to as "dr" in the report.
can't we skip the Watchtower study for once, a quick prayer okay, but, my goodness.
So true, EI, fortunately some JWs, individually, think that "their relationship to Jehovah" will be better expressed by showing mere humanity toward their neighbours
as mentioned by narkissos a couple months ago, doubting bro yesterday, and no doubt others.
is this where they are headed?
i say "evidently" it is.
That's old light, Slim,
If the 7 times between the fall of Jerusalem and God appointing Jesus as king were calculated out of 365, and not 360 day years, and assuming we keep the - 607 date as the start of the period of time, we would get 7 x 365 = 2555 years, and 1914 would become 1949 (607 + 1949 - 1 = 2555) as the beginning of the last days ! and if we agree with historians who say that Jerusalem fell in - 587, the last days began in 1969.
Just add 120 years to make room for anti typical Noah's days and you expect ARMAGEDDON FOR 2089, or 2069 (about the date Issac NEWTON foresaw) if you stick to - 607.
