by that, i mean you do not want to have children.. i have been told since birth it would not be safe for me to have children, so i never even considered it.
i never went through a grieving period because the concept of having babies was not something i once had and lost.
i always envisioned myself as a happy career woman.. i recently married and am still sure i don't want children.
Am I the only person who finds children irritating and plainly a nuisance?!
You crack me up Crumpet! From now on, you shall be Grumpy Crumpy to me.
When I was a child, I prefered the adults like you over the ones into children more. So hard luck, you might find them irritating, but they're gonna love you, because you won't treat them like children, if you see what I mean.
ig (of the "glad I didn't have to get my ball back from Grumpy Crumpy's garden when I was a nipper" class)
...that doesn't benefit society at all.
you know - the ones where people get paid buttloads of cash for basically doing nothing that helps people in general.. i'll start off.
here are a few of my "pink slip" jobs:sports commentatorsactors/actresses (do we really need sitcoms, movies, etc?
Any more nominations for the Golgafrincham B-ark?
Feng Shui consultants, anyone?
ig.
to understand so that's why the wts published the new book being released at this year's district conventions.. the new book gets "straight to the point".
according to her "and many others", the knowledge book was too difficult for those just beginning a bible study.
i said, "you're kidding!
In 10 years time I suspect they'll only have one real doctrine left - people are sometimes nasty to each other, therefore we're living in the last days.
Trouble with the old fashioned spiritual "meat" (i.e. Freddy Franz at his maniacal ranting best) is that it's all proved to be a load of old bollox, and Brooklyn are probably fed up with still sweeping up after the mad old goat. The less they say, the less nasty old apostates can blow raspberries at them, I suppose they think.
ig.
...that doesn't benefit society at all.
you know - the ones where people get paid buttloads of cash for basically doing nothing that helps people in general.. i'll start off.
here are a few of my "pink slip" jobs:sports commentatorsactors/actresses (do we really need sitcoms, movies, etc?
Duke (specifically, of York and of Edinburgh).
ig
analysis of a typical congregation.
group a. percentage: 10 % .
name: the holy ones.
75% water, 19% carbon... (Edit: well, you see his post wasn't there to begin with, so my comment was quite funny for a few minutes...)
i found a best book for asking question to jw.
i this is a best book and every one must read this.
it will give you some questions and reasoning by which you can fight with jw.
Can you at least give us the number of words in the title? Number of syllables? Is it a book, film or tv program? (oh right, it's a book. He already told us that)
ig.
here is the long awaited first chapter.
as always, a complete formatted copy can be obtained if you drop me your email address.
in the beginning.
Oh man that's funny Frozen vegetables! Bwaa haa haa
I'm reading this on a computer terminal in a library, trying to laugh very quietly, and failing. Thanks!
ig.
i mean a specific location that you would go to time and again to just sit and look and enjoy?
or a favorite vacation destination?.
i love the cascade mountains as example.
No, and this always used to bugger up hypnotherapy sessions for me. The hypnotherapist used to say "imagine yourself in your favourite place..." and she didn't really want to believe me when I said I had no such place. I wish I had one though. Unfortunately, wherever I go I seem to take myself with me, which is enough to mess anywhere up.
ig.
i was reading the recent posts on 2034 and was wondering... .
the 1975 debacle left the fds scrambling for explanations for the mass exodus of r&f who were disillusioned by their bs.
the pat answer has always been, "those people didn't keep pace with god's chariot" and they weren't "strong in the truth" and allowed something so "minor" to "stumble" them.
Yes, it's depressing that the generation change didn't cause a mass exodous.
Here's part of a post from Hillary Step in the (seemingly endless) 605 or 624 thread.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/10/87714/1563050/post.ashx#1563050
... a few years ago I spoke with a very senior member of the Brooklyn contingency, and I mean at GB level regarding this issue.
He was prepared to acknowledge that the WTS had a problem on their plates with the 607BCE issue and that 'in Jehovah's time' things might change. He was at pains to point out that 'dates do not really matter, what matters is the sign'. He was discussing the sign in Matthew 24, which he said precluded the need of dates as the evidence is 'out there for all to see'. I suspect that this is the spin that they are preparing to run in the future. They will gradually bury 607BCE in preference to a 'visible sign'.
So, if this is true, the theology will be dumbed down even further, no chronology whatsoever. And, if past experience is anything to go by, the vast majority will not even notice the change. Most r&f don't know anything about 607 anyway do they?
If only World War 1 hadn't co-incidentally started in 1914, who'd know anything about Russel today?
ig.
hey,.
my partner in life (26yrs) has been converted to jw by his mother.. i am not one to whine -as very aware many have more troubles in their life.. i suppose one of my fears has been this exactly- as i know he was raised jw and should have saw the "signs.
" he always regularly visited with his mom, which i respected as felt a good sign he had a mother/son relationship.
freefly, the situation you describe is horrible. You've been put in an awful situation. To be honest, you seem to have pretty much got it worked out correctly in your own mind, it doesn't seem fair or practical for you both to live as "housemates". The only other (and very bad) option is to marry him, but as you say he has been deceitful, and why would you marry a deceitful person?
As for his reaction to the events of Sept. 9 2001, that really rang a bell in my head. My mum became a JW in the early 80s, my father wasn't interested (sensible chap) so I was brought up (on and off) going to enough meetings for the JW bull$hit to get under my skin. I was never baptised, and by the time Sept.2001 came round, I had not had anything to do with the JWs for almost 10 years. However, when those planes hit the towers, my FIRST thought was that this was armageddon, and that the JWs had been right all along. Their mojo is mighty powerful. Luckily for me, I ended up here discovering the truth about "the truth", rather than back in a Kingdom Hall.
He has made this bed for himself, so he must lie in it, I feel. Any chance you can kick him out? (forgive me for being blunt). Maybe he can go and live with his mother, so she can cook and wash for him, as well as think for him. I wish I had better advice for you.
ig.
