https://eu.tennessean.com/story/news/health/2021/10/26/meet-acclaimed-doctor-whose-parents-tried-block-her-college/5831248001/.
her parents tried to stop her from going to college; now, she's a world-class oncologist.
great story..
"there's still a part of me that simply just longs to hear my parents say, oh my goodness, I'm so proud of you."
This is the part that tugs at the heartstrings the most. I am glad this brave person got on with her life. Her accomplishment should be applauded. Unfortunately all she wants is for her parents to acknowledge her achievement. It is highly unlikely to happen.
deut 14:21 you shall not eat anything that has died a natural death; give it to the stranger in your community to eat, or you may sell it to a foreigner.
for you are a people consecrated to yhwh.... it seems quite self evident the ritual of blood letting prior to eating meat was understood by the deuteronomist as binding only on jews..
Paul's words in Acts about "Keep abstaining from blood" is a reference to bloodshed, murder, and not eating blood.
this week i have to travel a long way by car with my 75 year old father.. he was a liberal elder, but with climbing of the years and the correct covid trouble, hé takes all possibility's to let me know the chaos is what we expected and the big a is around the corner.
because of the love and respect i have for him, i want to avoid the conversation, but that will be very dificult.. now i have the idea to talk with him about the conversation at it self, if he starts his endtime speech about woke, gender and putin.. i have a flowchart that i want to discribe the risks of the conversation.. whould this work out?
to talk about the meta factors of the conversation?.
Be honest. Be yourself. There should be no fear in a relationship.
I deal with the same thing. Every dark cloud is evidence that Armageddon is nigh. Just ask my father.
It is one thing to acknowledge tragedy. It is another to add our own ideas to it. Things what they are and nothing else.
"the campaign will feature the distribution of a special edition of the watchtower magazine containing the cover series “a better world is near.”".
"more than 36 million printed copies of the magazine will be distributed in some 230 languages to communities in 240 lands around the globe.
in addition, the digital publication is available on various platforms in nearly 400 languages.".
"Near"? As in "the Andromeda galaxy is nearest to the Milky Way" near?
russel and his followers were a byproduct of the religious orthodoxy revolt that originated in europe.
this revolution of ideas crossed over to america seeding all the fringe groups who russel then became a part of.
this resistance to the establishment is similar to what we have seen recently with the q annon phenomena.
Jehovah's Witnesses started out as a 19th century version of QAnon? I totally see that.
the major topic of conversation was that almost all do not want to go back to the meetings and field service!
and we are talking very zealous and active witnesses!
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This came to mind...
every day someone somewhere is being disfellowshipped.
after the trauma of being cast out and shunned by relatives and friends, many exjw's start an investigation of the watchtower society.. they begin to collect every scrap of evidence they can get their hands on to prove they were lied to.. some of these archives may come in handy.
if you need something and it is not in an archive somewhere, send me a pm and i'll see if we can get it for you.
This is why I appreciate this website so much. People here work hard to help Jehovah's Witnesses free their minds from captivity. Well done!
atlantis:.
do you have a copy of a letter that was sent out by a congregation overseer, with a complaint from the federal post office inspector, concerning letters being sent out by jw's?.
yes, i have it, but very few people show any interest in the letters anymore.
US Postal Inspectors are stationed next to my group. I concur with DropOffYourKeyLee - this is outside the duties of US Postal Inspectors.
i know for a fact it would not start off with a talking snake, magical fruit, invisible beings that desire beautiful women to have sex with.. and it wouldn’t end with a flying dragon, a two horned lamb, locusts that resembled horses with men’s faces, but with women’s hair and teeth of lions.
and the book wouldn’t allow for hundreds of millions of religions to spurt from it.
i think the first thing a book written by god would have, is that it would be written in a way that all languages could understand without being translated.. regardless of what language you would speak, we could read it and understand what it said.
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It was right there all along. Staring us in the face. So long and thanks for all the fish!
the watchtower—study edition | january 2022. during the great tribulation, gog of magog’s forces may try to assault us in our homes.
but we can take comfort in knowing that jesus and his angels are aware of what is happening and will defend us (see paragraph 13).
13. when gog of magog attacks, why will we appear to be vulnerable, but what reason for confidence will we have?
We will be unarmed, untrained in warfare. The nations will see us as easy targets.
I have been a SWAT operator for over 2 years and making entry on high risk felony warrants for about 8 years now. The first thing we do is what is called a "threat assessment". That is to say, using a matrix of facts gathered through intelligence we decide if the situation warrants a SWAT operation.
Uh, yeah...no SWAT team with an MRAP would EVER be deployed for such a situation! Based on those facts the family would be sent a letter by Certified Mail that says "You are under house arrest. We will let you know when your trial date is set. Have a nice day."
