my uncle just died yesterday.
he was just 2 years older then i am.
i had 9 uncles, now there is only one alive.
My uncle just died yesterday. He was just 2 years older then I am. I had 9 uncles, now there is only one alive. I saw a sign that said Cemetry St. and beside it was another that said Dead end, so true. I'm having a hard time accepting my death that is comming pretty soon. I guess that is normal.
Ken P.
did you know that your hard drive will slow down if you yell at it?
this is funny as hell:.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdacjrsceq4.
Did you see the adv. for a 1 TB hard drive for a little less than $100? I paid $ 700 for a 70 MB hard drive back in the early days of the PC. I also paid $1000 for a VGA video card and a 14 inch monitor back then. Any one else remember those days?
Ken P.
a sister from my "congregation" has a bible study, and this study had compiled a boatload of questions about russell, the wt history, and incongruencies etc.
and the sister told her that she refuses to answer the questions and that they are apostate teachings.
she told the study that "it isn't up to me to prove the truth to you, you need to prove the truth to yourself".. as another poster put up the topic of "doesn't it blow your mind?
Can any religion prove itself to be true? I think most people have religion to help them face death or in many cases cause them to face death. Most religions have some written book that they try to understand, which supposedly was inspired by some God that wanted humans to act a certain way to please HIM.(or whatever a God is) Humans cannot understand the universe, it is too complicated, so we look up in the sky and imagine someone up there made it all. Someone we can't see or talk with but who had a book written that can only be explained by some priest or group of men who have a special relationship with his spirit. Now we need to get out there and find the truth about it all.
Ken P.
Sorry, I'm a little off the real subject of this post.
has any one while out on field service been involed in a car accident.
say you killed someone and it was your falt and you had no insurance.
could the dead party famuly sue the wt.
My mother and several cousins was in an accident going to the convention in Hollywood Fla. in 1957. A couple of Nuns hit them and were killed but none of my relatives were killed. A JW lawyer sued the Catholic church and got a pretty good settlement form them. I forgot how to show the picture. http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z69/Undecided_03/FloridaWreck1957.jpg
i just made my first post in simon's new forum and it went without a hitch!
very clean.
very smooth.
I must have missed something. Where is the new forum? Ken P.
i just made my first post in simon's new forum and it went without a hitch!
very clean.
very smooth.
I must have missed something. Where is the new forum? Ken P.
i am, for now a witness on the outside, and still believe in god most of the time.
i have read dawkins "the god delusion", found it pretty interesting and helped me understand why athiests believe the way they do.
but i always have questions.....one that really bothers me about deism is the thought that god has always existed and always will, had no beginning and no end.
I think about this everyday and sometimes feel there is a Creator out there somewhere as I view the country side and all nature and thank him for life, but have no idea what he might want from us, if anything. I have no idea if there is something after this life, I guess I will know or not know pretty soon though. Ken P.
so i am sitting here crying, i am a pretty emotional guy.
i have been a witness all my life, so this is so hard.
first, this is my immediate family.
You can never really handle death very well, especially your dad, but it will get better as time goes by. You will always remember some of the times you spent together and cherish them the rest of your life. When you get my age you have someone dying almost each week that you knew. This morning at 5:30 I had a phone call and my wife's nephew had just died. I remember taking him and his brother up into the mountains of Va. for a picnic when he was about 7 years old. Later in life he dived off a bank on the river and broke his neck and was in a wheel chair the rest of his life. I hate death, but what can we do but accept it and keep on with our life and enjoy each day as best we can. I wish I could say something that would help you cope, but I don't know any answers of life. Ken P.
what a total mindfluck!.....this was not supposed to happen.....and i only (completely) woke up two years ago....so accepting my own mortality has not been easy.......i currently make good enough money....but damm....now i have to think about retirement?!?!?
?....and ya....just cause i have a touch of asthma ocassionally...i wont be able to get health insurance in a few years cause i am self-employed??
?....this just fluckkin sucks.................oompa.
oompa, you look forward because getting older is always in the future or forward.
Ken P.
come on i know many of you did.. i used to volunteer because 1. my mum forced me as a kid, then 2. i wisend up to the fact i'd miss quite a bit of the session if i volunteered.. many hours were spent cleaning stadiums, the loos (vomit), picking up litter.
in the days when they served meals at the assemblies we peeled potatoes, chopped onions, cooked, served the food / cooldrinks.
took the tickets.
I did at about every assembly I attended when I was a teenager, I washed dishes,dumped trash cans, etc. I was in charge of the rooming at the circuit assembly when my dad died a few weeks before the assembly. My brother was the sound servant at the circuit assemblies when he was about 20 years old.
We were very theocratic minded back then. We both left in our forties, well he was in his fifties. We are so much closer now as real brothers.
Ken P.
