i have a son who will be 20 in may.
he's, by all accounts, what you would consider the.
"perfect child.
The parent job:
raise the child to be a man or woman best you can.
Let them go.
Give them advice, let them make the decisions and support that. If it turns to shit, they own the decision, they learn.
It is not the parents job to keep adult children happy or push them. It is not the childs job to keep the parent happy.
Oz
http://ex-jw.com/2012-memorial-protest-planned-in-uk.
just seen this.....anyone here going?.
it doesn't appeal to me, but if this type of protest floats your boat,,,,,.
Obviously, I won't be able to make it....
I think protests are more for a feeling of solidarity among a group than effective against an organization. Many feel helpless to get heard so a protest fits that bill.
Protests do work, and have changed hitory, but only when the media is actually interested enough to make it something. Otherwise they are just an object of curiosity to passerbys and policemen sent to keep the peace. The watchtower officials will look out the window, sip their tea and scoff "the gnats will be gone by dark"...
Oz
And here is the satire version...
Re: Announcement to be read following Watchtower Study during week of April 2, 2012
Dear Brothers:
The Internet is a technology that the marketing organization is scared of. Consider the hits our Web sites are having. On a typical day, 400,000 people, both Witnesses but mostly apostates, visit watchtower.org, jw.org, or jw-media.org. They criticize our publications online in over 430 languages. Each day they download close to half a million audio, text, or sign-language-video files that are examined for errors. Every day a hundred apostates request Bible studies.
To change the effectiveness of our use of the Internet, the Governing Body (actually, the writing dept) has decided to consolidate the three sites into one site called jw.org. The Web site will be completely redesigned. It will be a masterpiece of doublespeak and be easy to navigate using either a computer or a mobile device. Ok, we are playing catch up with the rest of the world.
The redesigned jw.org Web site is planned for release around the beginning of June 2012. It
will paint a lovely misleading picture of our preaching work, branch offices, Kingdom Halls, and conventions.
A newsroom section will provide up-to-date reporting on events we engineer to affect God’s people worldwide. Selected features from our magazines that can be manipulated more effectively on the Web site will now be published only on jw.org. These include the following: “For Young People,” “My Bible Lessons,” and the Gilead graduation report from the public edition of The Watchtower (but not for long) and “For Family Review” and “Young People Ask” from Awake! In addition, a series of online articles available only on the Web site will provide concise, propaganda to questions about the 'Bible' and about Jehovah’s Witnesses. But not about our global investment and real estate network.
The Old Guys have been advised about the growing tendency for people to obtain reading material from the Internet while browsing porn and has carefully weighed the effect this trend is having on the printing industry and on our ability to obtain paper and equipment for printing. (after being caught polluting our land) Based on these changing conditions, effective with the issues of January 2013, Awake! and the public edition of The Watchtower will be reduced from 32 pages to 16 pages. These magazines that we distribute to the public will continue to provide a rich supply of propaganda to attract unwary people to the Corporation. And save us a bucket at the same time. Nice 'sell' don't you think?
Since each issue will contain less material, it may be possible for more translation teams to be able to translate every issue of Awake! and the public edition of The Watchtower, thus increasing the number of languages in which they are available. We say may, because we keep on laying off Bethelites. The JW only edition of The Watchtower will continue to be a 32-page magazine, as it takes that many pages to keep you under control.
The CEO and his management team feel these adjustments in marketing strategy will enable us to reach even more customers with the religions life-altering indoctrinations while continuing to provide a rich supply of ca$h for the multinational investment house.
Your Masters,
cc: Traveling sales managers
4/2/12-E
Re: Announcement to be read following the indoctrination session during week of April 2, 2012
April 2, 2012
Page 2
PS to coordinator of the body of task masters:
This matter should be kept strictly confidential among the elders until the letter is read in
your congregation. Trust No body. Please arrange for this letter to be read to the congregation following the Watchtower Study during the week of April 2, 2012. This will be the same day as the un-special talk. In most congregations this will be Sunday, April 8, 2012. The brother who delivered the special talk should be invited to read this letter to the audience, if he is available to do so. Thereafter, this letter should be posted on the information board for four weeks. This should spin an air of importance to this downsizing information.
The reading of this letter is in addition to the shorter announcement to be read by the chairman
immediately following the special talk as outlined in the letter dated February 1, 2012, to all
bodies of elders. Therefore, the chairman will read the shorter announcement following the special talk and before the Watchtower Study. Following the Watchtower Study, the brother who delivered the special talk will read this letter and thereafter introduce the concluding song.
Got it? Don't make us repeat these complex top secret announcements.
ok, so i was a young jw when i got married, and married a nice guy who was my first boyfriend.
i thought we had chemistry, but things weren't really working out in the sex department after we got married.
we had a pretty infrequent sex life for our whole realtionship...i'm talking months of dry spells.
dont forget medical or other issues that may effect libido...
Oz
alan john miller (1962), more commonly known as a.j.
miller, a former jehovah's witness elder member and now leader of the australia-based divine truth movement.
[44] miller claims to be jesus christ after reincarnating in the 20th century with others to spread messages of what he calls the "divine truth".
sounds like we need Pontius Pilate to be reincarnated to australia too...
why is always Jebus that gets to come back?
Oz
ps...as for roo's...plenty in our hills and they don't play nice with cars...
exciting times.... son moved out of his jw home this week amid uproar from mother because he has follwed my advice about moving out and starting a new job.
visited him tonight in his new digs and he said: "don't know if i am going to stay in the truth"...!.
my advice was if that is what he wants to do then perhaps now is the time to not go to the new local hall and do a fade.... daughter read animal farm for school and commented: "i can see a few similarities to the jws in that story".... my response was well, wait till you read 1984 darling!
thanks all
one is thinking with the small brain, the other with the big brain...
but the outcome may well be the same!
Oz
thinking about these two characters you know.... the bible tells us what jehovah says satan is about and wants to do.. it also tells us what jehovah says he (jehovah) will do and his actions of what he has done.. the bible tells us of all the murder and mayhem cause by the israelites as they genocided their way through the middle east.. and who told them do this these evil deeds?.
and why hasn't satan appeared on the late show to say..."you know guys, iv'e had a bad rap over the years so i thought i'd pop in and tell my side of the story".... oz.
Thinking about these two characters you know...
The bible tells us what jehovah says satan is about and wants to do.
It also tells us what jehovah says he (jehovah) will do and his actions of what he has done.
The Bible tells us of all the murder and mayhem cause by the israelites as they genocided their way through the middle east.
And who told them do this these evil deeds?
And why hasn't satan appeared on the late show to say..."you know guys, Iv'e had a bad rap over the years so i thought i'd pop in and tell my side of the story"...
Oz
exciting times.... son moved out of his jw home this week amid uproar from mother because he has follwed my advice about moving out and starting a new job.
visited him tonight in his new digs and he said: "don't know if i am going to stay in the truth"...!.
my advice was if that is what he wants to do then perhaps now is the time to not go to the new local hall and do a fade.... daughter read animal farm for school and commented: "i can see a few similarities to the jws in that story".... my response was well, wait till you read 1984 darling!
BUGGER, I hit the wrong button
Mods delete this? Please.....
oz
exciting times.... son moved out of his jw home this week amid uproar from mother because he has follwed my advice about moving out and starting a new job.
visited him tonight in his new digs and he said: "don't know if i am going to stay in the truth"...!.
my advice was if that is what he wants to do then perhaps now is the time to not go to the new local hall and do a fade.... daughter read animal farm for school and commented: "i can see a few similarities to the jws in that story".... my response was well, wait till you read 1984 darling!
exciting times...
Son moved out of his JW home this week amid uproar from mother because he has follwed my advice about moving out and starting a new job. Visited him tonight in his new digs and he said: "Don't know if i am going to stay in the truth"...!
My advice was if that is what he wants to do then perhaps now is the time to not go to the new local hall and do a fade...
Daughter read animal farm for school and commented: "I can see a few similarities to the JWs in that story"...
My response was well, wait till you read 1984 darling! so she took my copy home to read too...
I see 'fun' this next twelve months. But not for the wicked witch of the north who is very quickly alienating her children. From her i see evil.
Oz
exciting times.... son moved out of his jw home this week amid uproar from mother because he has follwed my advice about moving out and starting a new job.
visited him tonight in his new digs and he said: "don't know if i am going to stay in the truth"...!.
my advice was if that is what he wants to do then perhaps now is the time to not go to the new local hall and do a fade.... daughter read animal farm for school and commented: "i can see a few similarities to the jws in that story".... my response was well, wait till you read 1984 darling!
exciting times...
Son moved out of his JW home this week amid uproar from mother because he has follwed my advice about moving out and starting a new job. Visited him tonight in his new digs and he said: "Don't know if i am going to stay in the truth"...!
My advice was if that is what he wants to do then perhaps now is the time to not go to the new local hall and do a fade...
Daughter read animal farm for school and commented: "I can see a few similarities to the JWs in that story"...
My response was well, wait till you read 1984 darling! so she took my copy home to read too...
I see 'fun' this next twelve months. But not for the wicked witch of the north who is very quickly alienating her children. From her i see evil.
Oz
