i have just seen the hottest girl ever on facebook and turns out she's a jw.
i swear i'm so close to make a temporary return just to have a chance with this girl.
due to privacy i won't link her picture, but all i can cay is ddddaaaaaaaammmmmmmmmnnnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
BG
Fantasies are free--everyone does it. Most people would never do the things they fantasize about-you do it to get hot or to assit in having an orgasm.
( ie most men think about 3 ways, but most don't ask their wife to do this ).
That makes you the thought police. OMFG
Most of us can separate fantasy from reality.
he is 56 and his wife is 47..they are expecting a baby!.
can you imagine..he will be older than me when his kid graduates hs... and she will be in her middle to late 60's... makes me feel young again.... .
I'm sure it did have everything to do with the death of their son last year. What a horrible thing to happen -I can only imagine their pain.
It is not at all unheard of for men to become fathers in their 50's and 60's. The women are usually in their 20-40's however. But hollywood has set the trend in the last 20 years or so of women having their first babies in their 40's. I also think I recall that Nancy Grace ( may have her name wrong) a cable network talk show host has had twins a few years ago in her mid to late 50's. I recall Bette Midler made the news when she had her beloved Sophie after the age of 40 .The trend was just catching on at that time and then more and more women who had put off having children began to try and have their first baby in their 40's.
I feel tired just thinking about it.
In years gone by it was fairly common for a woman to have babies up to and around the 50's. It was not their first baby however. My grandmother had 10 children and the last was a menopause baby around 50.'s Of couse the way people handled that was the oldest child raised the youngest as often there was 20 years or more between them.
the european court of human rights declared illegal on thursday a ruling by a russian court in 2004 to dissolve the moscow branch of the jehovah's witnesses.. it ordered russia to pay 70,000 euros to the movement's members.. russia's committee of salvation ngo lodged a suit demanding a halt to the activities of the jehovah's witnesses in moscow in 1995. the christian-based movement responded with a countersuit at the strasbourg court in october 2001.. in march 2004, a moscow district court dissolved the organization, which russia considers a sect, and banned its activities.
it said the "sect" encouraged its younger members to disown their families, commit suicide and neglect their civic duties.. the strasbourg court said the moscow court's ruling lacked sufficient grounds and was "too strict a measure.".
under the european convention on human rights, russia or the applicants have three months to appeal the ruling in the court's grand chamber.. the jehovah's witnesses, with up to seven million believers worldwide and 300,000 in russia, have already been banned in a number of former soviet republics.. the group, best known for its door-to-door evangelistic work, was founded in the united states at the end of the 19th century.
Maybe Janis Joplin was right, " freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose..."
If I read the report correctly, they are reversing it b/c you can't ban a religion just b/c you don't like what they believe.
okay gang, warning!.
this is going to sound real new-christian preachy to some of you, but hey, this was 1982ish, so don't come down too hard on me.
i just tend to put all i got into my work, but i've mellowed out (called "getting older").. i am not a fan of churches or institutions personally; more of a loner.
Randy I enjoyed reading your history of what happened at Bethel in the late 70's and early 80's. I too wish I could have known what was happening but as an average jw I was told evil apostates were trying to take over the org. Some of the jws back then, the elders and their friends knew more about what was happening, but most of us knew nothing. The area I lived in had its own drama with a KH being " taken over" by apostates and a lot of the cong. disbanding. The wts of course sent in the troops and built a bigger and better KH but it was a real turing point in this area. I believe it was what caused the change in who has the title to the KH's.
I had never read one piece of apostate literature or talked with them, yet I figured it out by myself. Jws showed me themselves who they were. The real turning point for me was the change in the baptismal vows. I knew then this was not God's org. Indeed, I had decided God did not have one org, but accepted all who came to Him .
The biggest challenge I have had was including Jesus Christ . I know that sounds crazy, but jws gave Jesus such a low key presence that I found it hard to pray to Jesus. I was even scolded by one of the xjws ministers b/c I could not do that but it did not feel natural. It took time to remove all the brain washing . I started readig the Bible myself and lets say I am a work in progress.
Thank you for your life of dedication,and caring. Your mom was right. She did dedicate you to God.
food was passed from one side and if you were #10 you may not get too much to eat!
when i finally did, she was not at all interested.
but i was lucky it didnt work out, for she never would have left the watchtower.
I'm looking for part 2 and can't locate it. I see part 1 and part 3 but where is part 2? This time period affected my life so much and I really want to read your experiences of the great apostacy during the 80's.
woman jailed for testicle attack s bo s sf a woman who ripped off her ex-boyfriend's testicle with her bare hands has been sent to prison.amanda monti, 24, flew into a rage when geoffrey jones, 37, rejected her advances at the end of a house party, liverpool crown court heard.. she pulled off his left testicle and tried to swallow it, before spitting it out.
a friend handed it back to mr jones saying: "that's yours.".
monti admitted wounding and was jailed for two-and-a-half years.
" I am not a violent person..." Dear Gawd, if that is not violent, what is?
i've read on multiple threads that ray will not have a memorial service per his request and that he will be cremated.
on one hand this is good because it's confirms his sincerity and humility and shows he doesn't seek praise or attention.
it's more evidence that his books were written honestly and weren't written out of spite or for just monetary gain.
AST
yes I understand he did not want an offical memorial but we can do one ourselves. That is what we are doing now, really. It was just a thought, and I don't think a bad one.
i've read on multiple threads that ray will not have a memorial service per his request and that he will be cremated.
on one hand this is good because it's confirms his sincerity and humility and shows he doesn't seek praise or attention.
it's more evidence that his books were written honestly and weren't written out of spite or for just monetary gain.
you know if we can attend apostfests,we could have one in his honor. It could be in a central location or there could be separate ones at various places. We can still have a memorial to his life if we wish.
just setting the record straight.
there is another thread that notes a claim on wiki that said that ray has died.. he had a stroke yesterday, and is in the hospital.
he is still alive.
Thank you Ray and Cynthia. . You took the "hit" for so many of us.
It is really alone at the top, but someone had to do it.
just setting the record straight.
there is another thread that notes a claim on wiki that said that ray has died.. he had a stroke yesterday, and is in the hospital.
he is still alive.
Thank you Ray for being so brave. It is hard to face down this rotten org.- they try and destroy you if you do.
Ray faced them down and helped so many others.
Thank you for taking the hit for so many of us. I and so many others will be forever grateful.
