i am trying to contact my mothers elders in riverside ca, because my mother doesn't talk to her family.
since that means at least 12 phone calls to various kh's i thought i'd start with my aunt to see what the name of the congegation is.
unfortunatly she didn't know.
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I will never forget how hard she cried. She was humiliated but would not complain. It was shaming. Family members were outraged and told her they would call someone at Bethel for her. The overseer was just some local nobody. She cried. NOt a true JW after an entire lifetime of effort. She was born-in to a member of the remnant during Russell's time.
That is really sad about your grandmother. It's hard to believe how some people can be so unfeeling.
i am trying to contact my mothers elders in riverside ca, because my mother doesn't talk to her family.
since that means at least 12 phone calls to various kh's i thought i'd start with my aunt to see what the name of the congegation is.
unfortunatly she didn't know.
good for you loosie, I hope you set them in line about your mother's safety, but as another poster stated, she may need some association with these people to keep herself happy and fulfilled.
PHG
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bts, you are correct, Hispanics are very different, depending on where they came from. I am not so sure they vote as a block, but I will leave that to those who know more than I do. I am a so called "Chicana;" don't know nothing
about Mexico. Well, yes I do. I have a BA in Spanish but am American to the core. I confess I don't know about life in Mexico through experience.Things, life was different back in the day, the younger generation of those whose
ancestors lived in the US before Texas and the West were part of the US, is quite different today, but there are not enough of them getting educated as there are Blacks or Caucasians getting an education.
From what I have read, Hispanics, excluding Cubans, are not even graduating from High School on a large scale. I am pro-Hispanic and would like for them to do better. What is your opinion about why Hispanics are not more
represented in sciences or math?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzcneuuajvg.
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cedars.
The person without a degree asks "Would you like fries with that?" [Or: paper or plastic?]
St. George, that is funny. Isn't that sortof a line from "Scent of a Woman"? I love that movie,.
i watched casablanca last night.
rick blaine is cyncial and an alcoholic.. but, he rises above his malaise to do the "right thing" to make the world a better place.
he realizes he doesn't need to sacrifice love or life to do it--he only has to incorporate a larger view of what is valuable into his life and exchange something valuable to achieve it.. in other words, this film has a vision that allows an ideal through behavior by demonstrating a greater opportunity than mere complaint, destruction or self-destruction.
I just happened to buy "Casablanca" a few days ago. I have seen the movie, but it's been years ago. I will watch it this week. My coworkers are all much younger than me and I am struck with the difference in expectations. Most
of them don't really realize what a good life they have. They expect a lot. I don't believe they realize what their grandparents gave for them to have what they take for granted. They are good and giving people, but I just don't
believe they know what their parent's and especially their grandparents have provided for them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzcneuuajvg.
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cedars.
The longer I contemplate this video the more disgusted I become. I don't think Anthony is an idiot. I think he a lying and deceiving B*****d. I will bet he does not practice what he preaches. To compare a university degree with
so called "higher education" provided by the wts is ludicrous. I'm sure if Anthony needed an iv chemotherapy drug, he would not ask another member of the GB (whose higher education was obtained through the wts) to mix it up for
him. That would be certain death, or make his disease worse. If he was an idiot, that would be one thing, but he knows he is lying to the sheep who trust him. He is rotten to the core.
among jehovah's witnesses self-sacrifice is a price everybody is expected to pay.. members of this religious group are told they are being watched by the world as a public spectacle in an ancient roman coliseum.. all sorts of sacrifices must be transacted to convince jehovah of their sincerety and to titillate the worldly people with spectacular acts of faith.. .
jw's give up the best secular education and the highest-paying careers.
it is a sacrifice.. jw's have been urged to give up marriage and child-rearing to devote time to door to door evangelizing work.
One of my earliest memories of my mother was her saying we had to suffer and sacrifice. I believe she carried this belief from the Catholic Church into her jw belief. I grew up thinking "we all have to sacrifice," so I did.
I sacrificed my youth, my life to my husband's wishes, to anyone who needed a patsy to sacrifice for them, no matter what it cost me. When my mother told me, yet again when I was older, that I had to suffer/sacrifice, I
challenged her with the question "Why do we all have to sacrifice? What good is it to sacrifice?" I decided I did not want to sacrifice anymore. I even told my husband that my sacrificing days were over, done. I told him my first
years had been sacrificed for what he wanted and now it was my turn. I was now #1 and he was # 2 on the importance list. Sounds mean, but it is not. I would sacrifice for my children, maybe even for a stranger who really
needed something, but not for a religion. As you correctly stated Terry, God is self sufficient, He does not need anything we have. Jesus' sacrifice covered all people's sins forever. There is no other sacrifice needed; especially
no sacrificing for the WTS. Faith is a personal response. It does not require a sacrifice. Sacrifice could be described as "altruism - unselfish regard for or a devotion to the wefare of others" (Merriam-Webster). Nelson Mandela is a
prime example of this and altruism is something to be admired and I believe it is practiced by many, but it has no place in religion, in the sense of " for the religion."
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The President of the Oncology Nurses Organization, a world wide nurses organization is a vibrant Black woman from Atlanta, GA.
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Quendi, as a Hispanic woman I believe that most people of color think these attainments are not for them. Those who have made it to a University to develop those skills had parents or someone who helped them believe that
they could accomplish being a success in whatever they attempted. Out of my father's ten children, I am the only one with a University degree. I am the eighth child and a woman. I never thought I could be a Registered Nurse with
a BSN. The only reason I made the attempt was because I was desperate for a way to make a decent living. After attending University, I realized I had the ability to have become a doctor, a lawyer, or whatever I wanted, with the
exception of a mathematician (I am smart enough to know my limits). It is sad to not see more Blacks or Hispanics represented in the math and science fields. I feel it is lack of motivation and knowledge of the fields but also lack of
examples and belief that these fields are open to them and that they can do it. My father worked for Philips Petroleum and they provided a free college education (2 years) for the employee's children and we still did not take
advantage of it. I just believe we didn't think it was meant for us because even the Catholic Hispanic kids whose fathers worked for Philips Pet did not take advantage of the free college.
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This is the stuff science fiction is made of. What a feat; a rover on the Red Planet.
