she is off to ny in a few days for 6 week long stay with her daughter who lives in manhatten.
i am dead envious and wish it were me travelling to the us - i would ask you all to plan an apostafest of note in each state!
love.
A@G - my MIL is cool - I was not a good little witness girl and I met and married a wordly boy so she is just ye olde normal worldly person. She thinks my JW family is crazy and I am closer to her than my own mom!
We can do research all over the US - Tennesee included!
so i was cooking supper a few hours ago and i broke up a dried birds eye chili with my fingers into my pasta sauce.
now supper is finished and i am relaxing and i get an itchy eye - i rub my eye... &*%$ ... it is 45 minutes later and my eye is still sore!.
what stupid self inflicted injuries have you suffered and what can you recomend for a burning eye?.
So I was cooking supper a few hours ago and I broke up a dried birds eye chili with my fingers into my pasta sauce. Now supper is finished and I am relaxing and I get an itchy eye - I rub my eye... &*%$ ... It is 45 minutes later and my eye is still sore!
What stupid self inflicted injuries have you suffered and what can you recomend for a burning eye?
my brother is 14 years old.
he has been held up by three guys brandishing knives.
he had to hand over what little valuables he had on his person.. i'm shaking my head here in absolute disbelief!!!
Sorry Lou!
What else can I say - I know what you are going through girlfriend!
they are all over me with all of these "end of this system of things" signs......earthquakes, cyclones, pestilences, cost of food to lead to food shortages, blah, blah, blah....did they make an announcement at the kh that "this is it!!
" they say that we've never had all of these things happening all at once like we've had the past few weeks...... .
My mom backed off for a few weeks after I unofficially outted myself as an apostate a couple of weeks back, but she is now back on in full force.
Here is South Africa, we are in the midst of a huge problem with crime and violence - you should try arguing that these arent the last days with a South African JW - there are news stories every day that are constant fuel for their fire!
Interesting about the newsweek article - I need to bookmark that!
my family just took a stroll down witness lane this month as we searched for photographs that our graduating high school daughter needed for her display at her graduation party.
we have an immense file of photos of a previous life with the jw's.
in a way its a history of a former life.
I have photos of old witness friends - they dont bother me.
What I do have a problem with is the sole photo of my baptism - I cannot decide whether this photo should be kept or disposed of. I feel that by keeping it, it means that that baptism meant something to me, which I know now that it didn't - I was a 14 year old girl - to young to be dedicating herself to anything except homework! But, as JustHuman said - these are all memories and they were our life at one stage so it kind of feels wrong to chuck them away!
i'm putting this picture up because i think the ""outside"" world isn't exposed to the truth of south africa all that much.
i think what you get to see on your tvs and read in the newspapers are selected items of news.
very biased, as "they" don't want to show you what's really going on.
AK Jeff, look at this sight http://www.702.co.za/news/alexpics.asp - This is a local Johannesburg Talk and News Radio Station. Alternatively look at IOL.co.za( http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=nw20080519134703108C384923 ) - which is a SA daily news paper website.
I am just off now to drop some blankets and food at one numerous organisations that have stepped in to help these people. The situation is horrible and scary and way out of control!
PDB
she is off to ny in a few days for 6 week long stay with her daughter who lives in manhatten.
i am dead envious and wish it were me travelling to the us - i would ask you all to plan an apostafest of note in each state!
love.
Lou that sounds like a great idea - I think that with a bit pf planning this can be done (I will of course have to convince my other half of the reason why I am abandoning him for an overseas vac, but can be done! )
i'm putting this picture up because i think the ""outside"" world isn't exposed to the truth of south africa all that much.
i think what you get to see on your tvs and read in the newspapers are selected items of news.
very biased, as "they" don't want to show you what's really going on.
Lou - this situation is absolutely shocking! The zandspruit inofrmal settlement is no more that about 4 or 5 kilometres from where I live and I pass nearby the Kya Sands settlement almost daily! My filing clerk is hidiing for her life as she is a zimbabwe'en immigrant!
These Zimbabween people should be treated as refugees and be placed in refugee camps where they can be protected! Why are the army not stepping in? Why is our beloved president not saying anything! There is a now a mob mentality which has taken over!
"Crisis - What Crisis?"
hw said to respond to his post only if you are an elder or ms. since i'm neither, i felt the need for a separate post to this unusual question by a relatively new member of jwd.
is his question out of bounds for a new poster?
it seems like a digging for facts so he can turn someone in type of question.
People thrive on drama - we havent had a serious troll for a while - maybe some are having withdrawal symptoms?
If you need somewhere to practice your investigative skills - come play Werewolf with us - there is a sign up thread going currently!
difficult to understand how even heavys that taught about having a relatinship with god now proclaim that it was imagined after leaving the truth.
puts into question appointments and people serving.
i can understand if some one new leaves the org.
Simply put... NO - I never understood how one was meant to have such a relationship and I still dont - God is a concept, but not a reality to me.
