it seams that most of the british isles are represented here, we have english, welsh, conrnish(well they like to think they are a seperate country)irish (no offence , but you're close enought to britian),but where are the scotts?.
or have i missed you?
OK THAT'S IT!
Living in southeast MI, I've always driven south to get to Canada. According to your map, LDH, Canada is north of the US? So Canadians are not "our neighbor to the south"?
Things were so much easier before the Internet, when the US was the center of the universe.
Hmmm
a little to late, and amazing re: annulments.
i apologize to all of you who responded to my 'craving for attention' post for not responding on time.
i was to sick and it's kind of late now to give all the responses.. you certainly gave me the courage to even post again and i already know it's ok if i don't get responses, i'm healed, (you help).. i started to compose a line to each of you, but just know that i love you and i appreciate what you did to me: get confident on the forum and post and practice.. to amazing, willy_think responded to your questions about the annulments and she did a good job.
"I wondered what the Spanish bit said ..."
I thought it was a recipe for paella.
Hmmm
it seams that most of the british isles are represented here, we have english, welsh, conrnish(well they like to think they are a seperate country)irish (no offence , but you're close enought to britian),but where are the scotts?.
or have i missed you?
OK, you guys are really starting to confuse me with this Geology thing. Aren't all those places just part of Olde Fashioned England?
Hmmm
there is a question about the wts's future that i can't answer.. what happens when they 'lose the will of heaven'?.
that's a chinese version of 'what happens when the wizard of oz.
is exposed as an ordinary guy'?.
Good post (as usual) Metatron,
I'm not sure what you mean when you say they will eventually be exposed as infallible. I don't think they ever will, to their ever-shrinking group.
Sure the world at large will see it, but it already does, doesn't it? I don't think you'll ever have the Witness population as a whole sharing an epiphany of this sort.
I don't think they'll ever drop the Spirit-Directed schtick, but even if they did, today's generation of Dubs would hold on to it--they have to, to justify decades of self-sacrifice!
I do believe the JWs will slowly mainstream. And I do believe that in the process they'll lose a generation of kids. (I'm not sure which will cause the other.) But I think even the new and improved JWs (whose members will look on blood bans and holiday bans as ancient history) will always have an undercurrent of the Papal Infall--er, Spirit-Directed doctrine.
Hmmm
i was working on my car in the factory {bld.
1} on friday oct. 31 1973, when all hell broke loose, the fire alarm in bld.
4 went off at about 9:30. the night watchman could find nothing.
If Fred Franz had jumped, they'd have said, "Did it look to you like he was flying for a second? I coulda sworn I saw him ascending to heaven... just for a second."
Before the day was over, they'd have had him disappearing behind a cloud, and the most common JW urban legend wouldnt be about the smurf or the Avon lady, it would be about Fred Franz, and how he jumped but his body was never found.
Hmmm
<fluff> .
at the book studies?
they were the highlight of the month.. thing is, all the sisters would try to outdo each other making nice food, which amused me no end, and also kept my stomach filled up, but drove me nuts, because my mother would spend the entire afternoon making a giant racket in the kitchen and screaming @ my sister whilst doing it, just to bake a cool cake for the book study.. also, remember those last ~15 minutes before the end of cake night book studies?
In my some-teen-odd years in, we had maybe two cake nights. I would hear friends talk about their halls doing it on a montly or bi-monthly basis and it drove me nuts! We had plenty of overweight sisters at the hall who I just KNEW could bake a mean cake!
Hmmm
... on the news yesterday they announced that president bush had made a statement regarding the elections in zimbabwe, that they were 'severely flawed' or something, and that the result shouldn't stand.
this caused her much amusement.
i know there's not that much of a comparison, but it's funny how people forget, isn't it?.
I forgot about this thread over the weekend. Uhhhhh, yeah, I was joking (like I'd admit it now, if I weren't).
Hmmm
(double-checking map of Eastern Europe...)
where do you enjoy most - making love with one another, making that deep down, soul to soul shared connection?.
for me, if it were possible, it s/he would be out within nature, upon the woodland floor, with a few sleeping bags and cushions, amonst the leaf strewn woodland floor, at night with the moon overhead, owls calling, wow!!
the connection there i imagine would be pretty awesome, still never done it.. or on top of the cliffs, with the waves pounding below, sending ripples of vibration through the hillside above.. in stormy weather, on the beach, each place adding / sharing another shared perspective in our one soul love creating.. hmmmmmmmmmmmmm if only.. peace, lots of it, kindness, joy and great friendships, music, wine and general jollity and boogeying it down.. love.
Outtake of The Newlywed Game
Host [Wink Martindale?]: Where is the strangest place you and your wife have made whoopie?
Husband: [embarrassed pause... but this is for a fabulous trip!] In the butt
Hmmm
some interesting comments about the confusion caused by using multiple identities in the last day or two.. i was wondering, as there are some strange sounding tags about, what is the story, if any, behind your screen names?
and what are your favourite alternatives (i thought about being dungeonmaster).
i am 'dmouse' because it's a shortened version of my full name, dean moorhouse, and i used to love the (uk)cartoon dangermouse when i was a kid.
My real name (Fred Hall) and Eureka! were taken, so I settled with this.
Hmmm
a little background is that i stopped going to the meetings 7 months ago.
my husband is and has been inactive for many years but still feels that even though there are many things wrong with the org.. that they are the true religion.. ok, so what was my reaction when my husband came out of our room and asked: .
"what is this crisis of conscience book ?
"What is this Crisis of Conscience book?"
"I have noidea"
Hmmm
