just seen her do it, less than a minute ago.
serina beat her sister venus to win the wimbledon women's tennis championships a moment ago.
in front of the whole centre court, sue barker asked her for her comments over the microphone system.
Yup! She sure did!
TWICE, even!
I just happened to turn on the TV moments before the interview, and she DID say it again. Not quite as loudly, and kinda slurred......my Grandson was sitting on the couch next to me, and when she said it the second time, we both turned to each other to see if we had each heard it again, and before I said anything, he said---"Yeah, I heard that one too!"
Hugs,
Annie
[Hmmmmm.....WHAT do I see.....what do I see?]
[shrug]
A Mister Potatohead wannabe?
Windchaser commented;
***When I saw the www.boners.com I was hoping for something else...
Well yeah.........there's that! (giggle)
Hugs,
Annie
on or about june 30, 2002, thousands of jehovah's witness elders around the world received a letter from "the worldwide .
christian community" urging them fully to take on their voluntary responsibility as "shepherds of the flock of god" .
with respect to child molestation that occurs among their "flock.
Dungbeetle said;
***great minds think alike, hey sunspot?
THAT was so funny!! And then Wendy posted this;
***Path, Same question, how do you know that there are those who are non christians(right word?) representing the Worldwide Christian Community? lol
So I guess I wasn't the only one who thought "Path's" post sounded odd!
Hugs,
Annie
on or about june 30, 2002, thousands of jehovah's witness elders around the world received a letter from "the worldwide .
christian community" urging them fully to take on their voluntary responsibility as "shepherds of the flock of god" .
with respect to child molestation that occurs among their "flock.
Heathen said,
***So rest assured that it will have no impact on their policies and doctrine.A total waste of time and material to write and mail .In fact they will probly wind up with a bunch of watchtowers being mailed back.
OUCH! Now there's a slap in the face!!! LOL!
Pathofthorns said, |
***It would be nice to know who constitutes the "The Worldwide After reading that letter, I'd LOVE to know who wrote it myself! *** Since many who participated in this effort are not "Christian" but supported the over-all concept of the project and the impression that it leaves with Witness leaders, it would be nice to know exactly what or who is "The Worldwide Christian Community". Thanks. ???Boy am I confused with this statement LOL! I don't mean to sound sarcastic (hoping my thoughts won't be taken the wrong way through the wonders of the written word :0), but you just stated that you didn't know [or, it would be nice to know ] who "constituted" the World wide Christian Community [you said it twice!], but then in the next "breath", you said that "many who participated in this effort are not Christian, etc" If you don't know who's involved, how do you know their religious background? Could you clear that up please? WOW! This is SO interesting! Hugs, Annie |
i will spare you all the gory details until she is ready to post them.
my mom (mulan) is having trouble with my grandma again.
looks like this time she has finally burned her last available bridge and will be moving out.
Dear Mulan,
How frustrating and stressful this has to be!
Hugs to you, Princess, and your hubby,
Annie
>subject: fw: recall notice!
important!
>date: mon, 18 mar 2002 22:05:16 -0800
"I'm going to give them a book that will explain how they can get out of that mess I put them in. But I'm going to make it so convoluted that no will will be able to understand it! "
Mighty disheartening, ain't it?
Hugs,
Annie
thought everyone would like to hear some great news about the calgary blood case.
i was sent the following, which i've modified to protect the guilty:.
at the witnesses' request, the trial has been put over till october.
Thanks so much, Alan, for taking the time to share this with us.......
It is SO uncharacteristic of the WTS to fold up and run........but I LOVE it!!!! They've had so much CONTROL over so many people, and this seems to shatter their illusion of bravado and total control in the "arena" in question.
It's such a pleasure to see both the halo and the crown slipping so quickly and so publicly, isn't it? How long we have waited for a reaction like this one!
One JW lawyer was likened to a "polecat?" (heeheehee) Am I wrong, or is that another name for a SKUNK????? (I lived in WV for four years and I seem to remember that's what they called'em) Anyway, the name fits!!!!
Thanks again Alan!
Hugs,
Annie
i saw this in the wall street journal, friday, june 21, 2002, page w15...it's a good article, unfortunately, i had to type it because i can't find the article on-line.....so forgive the typo's.... .
houses of worship / by jason l. riley .
door-to -door, disturbingly .
WOW!
Great post and VERY interesting article, Dedaisy!
The Wall Street Journal isn't found on my coffee table, so I wouldn't have seen this! LOL!
Hugs,
Annie
do your emotions come back when you leave a cult?.
i believe they do perhaps as gradually as they left.. i remember when i was 18 yrs old and first started becoming a jw that was 30 yrs ago and the one thing i remember is that i loved my worldly relatives and wanted so much for them to get saved and the emotional torture i went though thinking they were all going to die soon at armageddon.
it was really hard to cope with the thought of them all being destroyed.. i work really hard not to think about it, and over time i started to view all my nonjw relatives as worthy of destruction at gods hands in order to have my thinking line up with gods.
Well........
I must have been a REAL "odd duck" as a JW!!! I've ALWAYS been emotional, sensitive, whatever.
I remember when a sister was telling me about something that had happened to her daughter (she'd gotten severely burned) and as she was relating the story, my eyes had welled up. She just looked at me in awe and said she couldn't believe how what had happened to her daughter could affect me so much!
In one congregation I had belonged to, our bookstudy conductor's darling 7 year old son had gotten attacked by a dog at a get-together (I hadn't been invited to) and our car group had stopped by to visit. When I walked in and saw his little face and all the swelling and stitches, I had to bolt for the kitchen so I wouldn't lose it in front of him. For YEARS after that, his Mom would comment on how astonished (but touched) she was at my reaction.
I had been working out in service with a newly re-instated brother and in chatting with him I had discovered he was the son of a dear older sister (annointed) that I had known from another congregation. I loved her! She was very sweet and very humble. I asked how she was doing since she had moved to Florida a few years before. He looked at me wide-eyed and said she had died recently...and I just said "Oh no!".......and got all teary-eyed to the point where I couldn't pull myself together enough to go to the doors any more that day.
Five or six more incidents come to mind, but I won't put'em all down here.......I guess you get the idea. For some unknown reason, I never adopted that cold and callous attitude I was supposed to have as a JW! (except when it came to shunning DFed ones)
Quack-quack!
Hugs,
Annie....the Odd Duck!
a few thoughts about the society's efforts to protect itself from litigation.. i attended the elder's seminar a few years back where we were instructed to write in our elder's manual a few extra instructions pertaining to filling out the society's disfellowshipping forms and other aspects related to judicial cases.
that was nothing terribly unusual.
we often wrote in clarifications and updates during meetings with the co. this time was a little different because we filled an entire page with seven(i think) specific instructions.
VERY good thread! (Except that it made me angry!)
"warm Christian love"----my A$$!
Hugs,
Annie---who hates the WTS more and more each day
