i'm sure texas isn't much different from any other state.. we want clean air.
so, the auto manufacturers came up with a glorified box of charcoal that "filters" out the pollutants (simultaneously making the energy output less efficient requiring yet more fuel) called a catalytic converter.. most cars' converter lasts about 10 years.. .
i'm driving a honda accord from 1998. the coverter has given up the ghost and i don't pass the nox tests.. so.... i can't renew my registration and have to spend about $1700 to replace that stupid box of charcoal.. .
I had my catalytic converter removed for free
Me too - last Sunday, along with four of our neighbours! There is a scrap metal crime spree in the UK at the moment :( It's running into £millions - they're even stealing from railway signalling systems! They never seem to get electrocuted though - shame!
i have such a love/hate, 50/50 relationship with this organization any more, but a letter was read to the elders and ministerial servants that has pushed me to the 30/70 range in favor of hate, if even momentarily.
most of you if not all are aware of the auxilliary pioneering initiative for this upcoming april.
it's no secret that i'm not real fond of pioneering as its unscriptural for one thing.
What are you two like? - Out five minutes and you're overdosing on Paganism!
i ask this question in harmony with deedub's swan song thread which i linked below.. http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/members/private/205902/1/time-to-say-good-bye.
to some degree, i think i understand where she's coming from.
just speaking from my own experiences since stepping into the world of anonymous apostacy, i went through a few different phases of personal outlooks.
No - not at all. It reached a crescendo when every piece of literature I read made me angry. Every meeeting I atteneded left me emotionally drained because I was having restrain my inner self. Assemblies? Don't go there...... never experienced such a haughty lot of two-faced people ( for the most part).
my decision to de-program my mind, about a year ago, has been fairly uneventfull, despite a few intense but very real conversations with my wife and parents.. however in the past couple days my father has pretty much made it clear to me that he will put the gb (not god, although they are pretty much viewed the same) before me.
also tonight the inlaws, who have probly gotten whiff of my inactivity and who never get personal, started to give a lecture on the extreme importance of the family worship arrangement so lovingly arranged for us by the fds, and how if we are not taking advantage of this wonderful provision will not be prepared for armagedon.
i swear blood was gushing from biting my tounge.. im starting to sense that consequences are coming for my sin of independent research and study.
Im starting to sense that consequences are coming for my sin of independent research and study.
Yep. Freedom and a clean conscience!
just been reading this...... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12342031.
Just been reading this...... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12342031
i've seen several posts relating to the mood among longtime jws here recently.
i thought i would add to that collection and recount a discussion i recently had with my dad and a small group of folks about his age.
quick background on the group:.
My family on both sides are working on raising generation #5 in this bootleg religion.
No.... you're wrong.... it's just the one generation because they have overlaps!
I agree, the mood is definitley changing but I very much doubt, as a whole, if the house of cards will collapse..... sadly.
by opening this post, you are admitting that you are failures - well done!
lol.
i must say, i have had so much fun on this site - some real laugh out loud moments for my friends and i to enjoy.. no need to respond - i am busy pioneering from tomorrow, so will no longer have time on my hands to sit at my pc enjoying laughing at your pathetic comments.
We've all graduated. We know why we're here..... (nothing to do with failure) more to the point we know we're allowed to be... what's your excuse?
I can reference 26 points of your failure..... oh, hang on, 27 - forgot your need to brown-nose and help screw up others' lifes!
these comments are from the jw.org website and it's clear from this that they think they are above the law.
the court of appeals acknowledged that even if the woman felt distress because former acquaintances chose not to converse with her, "permitting her to recover for intangible or emotional injuries would unconstitutionally restrict the jehovah's witnesses free exercise of religion .
the constitutional guarantee of the free exercise of religion requires that society tolerate the type of harms suffered by [her] as a price well worth paying to safeguard the right of religious difference that all citizens enjoy.
You've got to bear in mind Religion receives big protection in the US courtesy of the Constitution and it's Amemndments. I'd like to see it challenged in a less' protected' arena though.
can someone email me a link to download the new eldersbook.. .
i need it asap.. .
What a wonderful place this is. Thank you
Coffee please - white with a little sugar - Ta!
can someone email me a link to download the new eldersbook.. .
i need it asap.. .
Sorry folks.... I missed the link a few weeks back..... any chance of a PM with a means of obtainng this precious secret please?
