i'd like to start off by saying that i will be very vague in everything i say.
i am fairly "high up" in jw land and have to be somewhat careful how i word and say stuff.
sorry in advance if any specific details are left out.
I hope you find ways to cheer up, ways out of this depressive situation,avoid ruminating. How fine that you help others and are cool, do you have friends to talk with about.? Instead of merry chrismas gift I send you this link
http://www.wikihow.com/Cheer-Up
the following is a paragraph from the new february study watchtower article "learn from jehovah's loyal servants.".
7 a conflict of loyalties may arise when a close relative is disfellowshipped.
for example, a sister named anne [1] received a telephone call from her disfellowshipped mother.
If a need- to-be-disfellowshipped would be really so devian and dangerous for the congregation to deserve to be shunned....why the elders then follow the disfellowed-subject, trace the lost sheep, go behind it, speak with it and invite it to return to the congregation with words like "we really miss you"?
In most cases the disfellowshipped are not harrassers, professional whores and professional malesluts but only week and doubters of some doctrines, inexperienced, to much inobiedient, immature ?.
the following is a paragraph from the new february study watchtower article "learn from jehovah's loyal servants.".
7 a conflict of loyalties may arise when a close relative is disfellowshipped.
for example, a sister named anne [1] received a telephone call from her disfellowshipped mother.
What is most shocking is that these policies and practices are not subliminal taught but taught from the stage, even in interview form, as model conversation e.g. on conventions, a public demonstration to all how JW treat offender .
This makes the JW shunning not a personal decision but is a organisational guilt.
in this age of violence with the san bernardino and france massacres sometimes it's good to reflect on the wise words of the peace advocates among us who proposed a better solution in bringing a more civil society to our universe.
john lennon, martin luther king jr. - people who stood up for equal rights and world peace and denounced violence and war - no matter how that violence occurs.
please feel free to comment on stories of john lennon on this thread and feel free to post any you tubes of his music that you may have enjoyed through the years.
the following is a paragraph from the new february study watchtower article "learn from jehovah's loyal servants.".
7 a conflict of loyalties may arise when a close relative is disfellowshipped.
for example, a sister named anne [1] received a telephone call from her disfellowshipped mother.
the oaf and the one-legged man.
spatters of rain dribbled into unsettled silence.. the man with the prosthetic leg dropped the umbrella from his shoulder and shook it onto the sidewalk in front of the bookstore.
his scooter chair roosted nearby like a guide dog for a blind man.. steadying himself, he exchanged tattered raingear for his cane and wobbled uneasily toward the door handle.a tall man with a van dyke beard held the door open for him with a neighborly grin.. "you get caught in this downpour on that thing?
Wonderful self reflexio? contemplation? enriched with so many vivid details of Dubs daily struggle. The details made me laugh more than once...how he handles the seemingly endless series of difficulties. The whole situations is a little bit funny and sarcastic at once, but never base rather lovely personalities apear, like yours.
Some passages like ."played appreciation towards clients"
" the temperature was fifteen degrees too cold "
"As he speaks he deliberately speeds up his work" have drawn my attention.
It was interesting how you describe persons and objects (like the cup) interact and become part of the adventure, on a little spot in a corner of a bookshop.
Terry, Have it been experiences like those that made you to an author?
homecoming.
my good friend bob and i usually try to get together on friday to listen to live music someplace and decompress from the week's pressures.
robby knew betty back in high school.
More than once breathless and couldnt believe that the story was true. How could that really happen to anyone ever.? Such a fortuity.
Precision landing on my emotions and my tension. Thank you.
P.S. I wondered why just Fort Worth, why was just F.Worth It worth?
https://web.archive.org/web/20151210004420/http://www.jw.org/en/news/releases/by-region/united-states/jw-headquarters-peak-construction/.
http://imgur.com/a/dbsqt.
are they just moving the goal posts now that 2016 is almost upon us?.
Looks like the new residence of North Korean President Kim Jon un - from the tower he would look through his binoculars and watch out for the world.
http://www.chelmsfordweeklynews.co.uk/news/11227290.plans_for_huge_jehovah_s_hq_take_shape/.
its going to be a real beautiful place when its finished.. they are going for quality over quantity.
it used to be accommodation for a few thousand permanent residents, now its looking like less than a thousand permanent with the possibility of a few thousand more in temporary accommodation should the need arise.. some say the plans are going to be like a garden of eden in england :) i mean they had farming in london over the years but this is going to be epic what they are planning for temple farm at chelmsford.. they are planting thousands (literally) of fruit trees, including tropical fruits in huge green houses, huge vines yards and then the same basic farming activities as before.
It is a developping project, where nothing was before, a plus and benefit for the community
Looks better than Warwick , in my opinon, cause Warwick looks terrifying.
sweet jesus real estate deal.
monday 12/14/15.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/jehovah-witnesses-1-billion-nyc-properties-article-1.2464957.
You should not be huffy so quick. I simply have read some threads here on this forum about the same issue. It has become a daily news now that the religion has enough money that is not shared with the poor but stockpiled.
