5 days after the big showdown with my mom, she called me today.
well she is a bigger person than me - i certainly did not have the guts to do it.
we made a bit of small talk and then she brought up saturdays discussion.
You can always just do the fade thing too...My daughter did, it worked out O.K. My son did the DA thing which is the big F*** you..
In the end their mother hasn't talked to either one of them in the last 6 months...choosing her "friends" to her own "real" family.
Hang in there my friend...life will get better.
we are nearing the end of the journey.......so this next two chapters will be called "odds and ends" or things i didn't put in the right chapters..........because i thought of them after those chapters were written..... bethel joke.
three guys are sitting around, each drinking a large glass of beer.........a publisher, a pioneer and a bethelite.......just then, a fly lands in all three of their glasses of beer........the publisher....pushes the glass away and says....."i can't drink this now"...........the pioneer looks over........picks the fly out of the beer and keeps on drinking............the bethelite.........picks up the fly by it's wings and holds it's head over the glass and says "spit it out......spit it out!".
one guy, who didn't spit it out.........we'll call him bob.......went to my roommates polish wedding, in green point.......now those people know how to put on a wedding!
Just for the new folks here... It's been a year...
the courtship from hell.......i started driving up to rhode island in september of 1972. i would go about every other week.
i needed to "step down" as a book study servant, because at the time daryl christianson had come up with this brillant idea that all the book study conductors should visit everyone in their own book studies and everyone in someone else's book studies every 2 months.........so between, bethel, and a part time "g" job, going up to rhode island and shepparding everyone in the book studies, it was just to much.
so for the first time in my life, i declined a "privilege of service"........it didn't feel that bad......and in fact felt damn good.......little did i know i was leaving one hell for another one.. what i 'm about to tell you...........is the absolute truth!..........we had 2 dates in a year and a half........that is two dates in 18 months.........."2" dates...........the only time they would let us be together with out a chaperone was in the field service...........the whole courtship was spent on her parents couch in the living room......with one of them in the other room!
Life is good...Real Estate sucks I have 20 listings and have only closed 2 deals in 3 months.
the courtship from hell.......i started driving up to rhode island in september of 1972. i would go about every other week.
i needed to "step down" as a book study servant, because at the time daryl christianson had come up with this brillant idea that all the book study conductors should visit everyone in their own book studies and everyone in someone else's book studies every 2 months.........so between, bethel, and a part time "g" job, going up to rhode island and shepparding everyone in the book studies, it was just to much.
so for the first time in my life, i declined a "privilege of service"........it didn't feel that bad......and in fact felt damn good.......little did i know i was leaving one hell for another one.. what i 'm about to tell you...........is the absolute truth!..........we had 2 dates in a year and a half........that is two dates in 18 months.........."2" dates...........the only time they would let us be together with out a chaperone was in the field service...........the whole courtship was spent on her parents couch in the living room......with one of them in the other room!
Well it's been just over a year thought I resurrect this for the new folks.
new york times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/30/nyregion/30hotel.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin.
hotel where dodgers celebrated a title is up for sale .
Hay Guys...
I know what you mean, I spent 4 of the best years of my life (21-25) making $21a month plus room and board, for the Watower Bible & Tract Society.....
So all I can say is, when I see them selling shit off...GOOD! because...
Buying means "getting bigger"
Selling means "getting smaller"
Of course there is.
It was at bethel that I saw the bull shit raise to a level that even me a self rightious "Nazis JW" couldn't shake off..
NB
i am just trying to understand what my choices are.
i have been reinstated for just over 5 yrs and still have not had my privileges back.
i am a single mom and have been to all the meeting that we can, doing our best outside of kids colds and flu's, not to mention car trouble, but i have always turned in my time each month and study reports, but still i can not answer.
She gone..."This speech is schocking you can hear it"
when i was 9 i wanted to be daisy duke from the dukes of hazzard, but had to put aside the dream when i realised my legs weren't going to ever get any longer.. when i was 12 i wanted to be ghandi, but realised wars wouldnt stop because i missed breakfast.. when i was 16 i decided that by leaving the borg and living fast and hard enough being alice cooper was achievable.. now i'm 32 i think i'd quite like to have the sensuous, striking confidence and certainty of helen mirren when i grow up.. who did you want to be and why?.
About 10 years ago some elder asked that question at the Tualatin KM hall. One kid raised his and and said...
"I want to go to Bethel...
One kid said...
I want to go to Gilead...
One kid raised his hand and said..
I want to pioneer...
Then Johnny raised his hand...The elder said "What do you want to be when you grow up Johnny?"
7 year old Johnny said...."Thuck Driver!"....The hall went crazy....To this day people walk up to this poor kid and say...."Hay thuck driver" and laugh.
So my answer is "Truck Driver!"
i told him that i have no intention of leaving.... he told me that i was like "a dog returning to its vomit"... .
What is so crazy is I would have said the same thing to my wife 30 years ago....
But I wish now, she still would have said....
Some times it takes time for the seeds to grow....so give him some time.
there are so many after after 52 years in the "borg".. my top two would have to be at my last hall tigard oregon.. one lady slept in her pickup truck with 30 parakeets, sometimes in the kh parking lot.
people tried to help her with accommodations but she like the truck.
she really dressed up for the meetings......feather boa's, big hats, looked like may west from the 30's.
Sorry I see I already posted this.
