Re: [Mid] (OT) Horrible week at work!

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>From: Sally Burnell <sburnell@raex.com>
>To: sca-middle@midrealm.org
>Subject: Re: [Mid] (OT) Horrible week at work!
>Date: Sat, Dec 4, 1999, 9:12 PM
>

> At 08:53 AM 12/03/1999 EST, Robin D. Kullick wrote:
>>What a crappy week! Wow! All I have to complain about is rude customers.
>
> Well, me too, in a way. Amazing the way people react when they get an
> overdue notice about overdue library materials! Or when they check out a
> book they end up not liking........sheesh, you'd think we put a gun to their
> heads and force them to check it out!!
>
>>As for your co-worker, just keep an eye on the poor guy. I've discovered
>>that lots of the many flavours of Christianity often have a really hard
>>time dealing with death of a loved one. It mostly goes to the root of the
>>"where do I go when I die?" question. The more hell-bound the belief
>>system, the harder the reaction. If I'm not mistaken, J.W.'s are stuck
>>with a very hell-bound belief system. Just be there to support the guy.
>>Maybe make sure that he's eating, sleeping, etc., at least for the
>>holidays, which, of course makes losing a loved one even harder.
>
> They believe that only 144,000 people will be chosen to go to sit at the
> right hand of Jehovah, and who those 144,000 chosen are and how they are
> chosen is a mystery. What happens to the rest of them who are not chosen,
> who knows? Limbo? I don't think that would personally bring me any great
> comfort in an hour of bereavement, but then, I'm not a J.W., either. Maybe
> that is why my co-worker is so distraught, partly. If he had a more merciful
> belief system on which to lean, perhaps he would be able to draw some
> strength from that. I dunno.
>
Having had J. W. friends, I understood that all of the J. W's will be saved
when the world ends and Paradise comes-i.e. there will be a big war and then
the Garden of Eden will come back but the J.W.'s are the only ones who can
live there and not anyone else-everyone else will die in the war.
That was just my understanding. But I also understood it as only the people
still alive at that time would be there. Not a comforting thought.

Siobhan nicInis
>>On the personal level: cheer up! Boar's Head is next weekend! Huzzah!
>>(ok, that means you have to live close enough to be able to attend
>>without coming halfway across the Kingdom)
>
> Well, I will be there, actually, as I am flying into Chicago O'Hare this
> coming Friday night and being picked up by a member of my Household. I
> suppose we will day-trip Saturday and return to Chicago that evening, and
> then I fly home Sunday afternoon and get back to Cleveland Hopkins around
> 5:00-ish or so our time, getting me back to Kent at around 6:00-6:30-ish or
> so. So, yeah, at least I will have that to look forward to, anyway!
>
> I just hope this coming week is a bit better than this past one was. My
> co-worker is going to try to return to work on Tuesday, so we'll see how it
> goes. I'm still worried for him and wondering if he is at all sleeping or
> eating. I know how he gets when things things go wrong. His already high
> blood pressure shoots up, he does not sleep or eat and he ends up
> compromising his health. I plan to light a candle for him tomorrow morning
> in church. I just hope he is going to be OK........................
>
> Lady Saradwen Ariandalen
> Marche of Gwyntarian
> (Akron/Kent, OH)
>
> From: Sally Burnell <sburnell@raex.com>
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Received on Mon Dec 6 11:50:37 1999