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  Well, I think my apartment is haunted.

  by Steve Lowry in

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  yep, thats right, haunted.

  i have never had a dwelling place with so many unexplained noise and goings on.

  lights that have been turned off, magically turn back on and visa versa.

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  Steve Lowry

  Thanks for all the replays. To answer a question, I haven't really noticed any particular time of day or night with the events occur. I also haven't noticed any strange pools of water. (Don't know if that was a serious question or not?)

  Wednesday, interesting story about the black cloud. I haven’t actually seen anything yet. I think that would kinda freak me if I did.

  FMZ, I had a bad experience with Ouija Board back in my twenties.

  I’m not so sure I wanna interact with it, just in case it could be of the same ‘cloth’ as what I remember. I don’t think that I’m in any physical danger, but I’m a bit suspicious of what it might be. But that said, I will take your suggestion under consideration. Thank you.

  K, I don’t know if the following would be what consider proof or not of the ‘supernatural’. Maybe it can’t be since its just word of mouth and didn’t happen in a laboratory. I played the Ouija Board back in my twenties for about a year or so. Here a few experiences;

  The first time I played it was with a lady who introduced it to me. It spelled out "ABORTION" right away and the initials ZA. I thought it might be referring to my former girlfriend who had an abortion while we had been dating. Her mother paid for the abortion as we weren’t married and they had money. The lady I was with on the Ouija Board asked if the girl’s mother intitials were ZA. It wasn’t, it was ZB. The next day I called my former girlfriend and asked her what her mother’s maiden name was. It began with the letter A. (Not proof I know but pretty strange.)

  I had a skeptic over one night and he wanted to play the Board. I asked him if he ever had a pet when he was a kid. He said yes. I had him lean his head back and close his eyes tight and then asked the Board for the name of his pet dog. It spelled out HAUS. I asked him if that was the name of his dog. Well, lets just say he became a believer.

  I always burnt candles when doing the Board for mood, and I always bought a pack of four. One night I bought a typical pack of candles. I would usually ask the Board a question I knew the answer to, to test the ‘connection’. So, I asked how many candles in the pack? Answer, 3. So I asked again. Answer, 3. This went on several rounds until it spelled out on its own, STUPID. Well, I gave up and continued on for the night. When it came down to the last candle, it wouldn’t catch flame. I flipped it to light the other end, but same thing. I held the candle up to a light. There was no wick. Ergo, 3 candles.

  These and even more like these are what I experienced. They may not prove there is another realm to someone else, but these things happened to me and it convinced me there is. I don’t know what it is, I just know that it is.

  Steve
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  A deeply heartfelt goodbye.

  by Gregor in

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  it has been a wonderful several months getting to know y'all.

  we've had some laughs, some tears, a few sharp words, but ultimately we are still brothers and sisters of the church of screw the watchtower and i will always remember this period of my journey.

  there are so many names i have come to know, some real, most aliases, because your still scared of being found out, you apostate little bastards!

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  Steve Lowry

  "we are still brothers and sisters of the Church of Screw the Watchtower"

  I must admit, I actually laughed outloud when I read this sentence. Good one G.

  Steve
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  Well, I think my apartment is haunted.

  by Steve Lowry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  yep, thats right, haunted.

  i have never had a dwelling place with so many unexplained noise and goings on.

  lights that have been turned off, magically turn back on and visa versa.

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  Steve Lowry

  " Does this happen more when your little girl comes to visit? "

  I've been in the apartment for about 18 months and the occurrences started almost from the beginning. My little girl has visited all that time but this is first time I was aware of an "event" while she was actually here.

  One morning I got up to pray at about 5:00 am. I have my pc setup in the kitchen, and I noticed I had left the monitor on from the night before. When the monitor is on and it’s dark outside, it illuminates the whole kitchen easily and can be distracting while in the living room if praying and stuff. So, before I went to sit down and pray in the living room, I physically turned off the monitor. I had been praying for about 5 minutes in the living room I guess, when I started hearing sounds like what someone would make if in the kitchen preparing food or something. When I looked over to the kitchen, I noticed my monitor was on even though I had just turned it off! Well, I just figured I must not have actually turned off the switch on the monitor and it simply it went into power saver mode coincidentally when I touched it. Well, I didn't feel like getting up to turn it off, so I just kept praying. When I finished praying I looked up and the kitchen was dark again. I went to the monitor expecting it to be in power saver mode. It was turned off.

  Strange goins’ on . . .
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  Well, I think my apartment is haunted.

  by Steve Lowry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  yep, thats right, haunted.

  i have never had a dwelling place with so many unexplained noise and goings on.

  lights that have been turned off, magically turn back on and visa versa.

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  Steve Lowry

  Hey, thanks for all the reply’s.

  Personally speaking, I don't have a problem believing there may be something that exists, even though I can't visibly perceive it. Astronomers for instance, believe that there is a completely opposite /negative Universe that exists to the one we know of to our existence. IMHO, its somewhat short sighted to say that such occurrences (as what I am experiencing in my apartment) must NOT be of a spiritual nature or something that does not exist but on a different plain. The question for me, is just what is it? Maybe we find out these kind of answers when we die? Maybe we never find out? When I was a kid I discovered the Ouija Board and I could tell y’all stories about that thing that would raise the hair on the back of your neck. I don’t think I ever really believed in the spirit realm before that experience, but I have ever since.

  As to how old is my apartment building? Less than Five years old.

  Could I learn something by doing a genealogy check regarding my ‘spook’ experience?

  Uh, I wish I had a parrot! ;u)

  Leave "them" a note and see if "they" reply? Interesting, but kinda creepy.

  I’ve thought about asking about previous renters in the apartment, but if I found out someone had been murdered or something like that, that might unnerve me a bit.

  I did buy some items at a garage sail a few moths ago. It was about the time the weird things began to happen. I bought some very old Watchtower and Awake magazines! If there ever were something a ‘demon’ would like to ‘possess’ that would be it! LOL
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  Contacting the "other side"

  by sinis in

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  i find it very interesting that the bible and mythology are very close, when speaking about god.

  also the statement made by god in the bible to worship no other god but him, in effect saying that there are others gods.

  has anyone actually looked into the occult, for lack of a better word, and actually made contact with an entity?

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  Steve Lowry

  "No I wouldnt, although I dont know what I believe in at the moment, I wouldnt want to invite something unknown into my life thankyou very much."

  No problem. I guess thats the difference between me and my old JW crowd. I ain't afraid of nothin' anymore that used to scare me when I was a JW. Life's an experience. Grab all you can get.

  Booga Booga! LOL!
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  Well, I think my apartment is haunted.

  by Steve Lowry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  yep, thats right, haunted.

  i have never had a dwelling place with so many unexplained noise and goings on.

  lights that have been turned off, magically turn back on and visa versa.

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  Steve Lowry

  It’s a fairly new building, but its not building noise. I'm fifty and I have had many places and I know all about settling noises and weird sounds homes/apartments make. This isn't like anything I have ever encountered before. I expect to look up and see someone moving about, a few feet from me but the is no one there of course. I have real sensitive hearing (I’m musician) and there's no mistaking what I'm hearing with that which would be noises from another apartment. Its in there with me, whatever it is making the sounds. I do believe in the spirit realm, just maybe not the way the JW's believe in it. I don't look for spooks under every rock or blame "demons: for this and that. I don't see dead people, but I have communicated with the other side in my past. I don't know what exactly that it is, but THAT it is, I am sure.
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  Well, I think my apartment is haunted.

  by Steve Lowry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  yep, thats right, haunted.

  i have never had a dwelling place with so many unexplained noise and goings on.

  lights that have been turned off, magically turn back on and visa versa.

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  Steve Lowry

  Yep, that’s right, haunted. I have never had a dwelling place with so many unexplained noise and goings on. Lights that have been turned off, magically turn back on and visa versa. Mostly though, its sound related. Ya know the kind of sounds you hear when you're in one room, and someone else in another room moving about? It’s like that. There's no mistaking it. The other day my little girl was over and we were alone in the apartment. We were in the living room area when all of a sudden it just sounded like there was someone else in the apartment with us, down the hall and in the bedroom, moving about. My little girl who is 10, quickly looked at me scared as hell that someone had sneaked into the apartment, but of course no one had. I deflected her concern by saying that it was just "apartment" noise coming through the walls, and she calmed down. But it wasn’t like that at all. You would have thought someone would have come walking out of the bedroom with all the noise going on in there. It doesn’t really bother me all that much, but it can be a bit unnerving. Like the morning I got up to pray, and I was sitting in my easy chair in the living and it sounded like someone was making toast or something for breakfast in the kitchen. Really weird. Nothing ever seems to be misplaced, but there’s no mistaking the sound of movement. Anyone ever had to deal with something like this? It’s kinda funny really, but it’s kinda weird too. Booga Booga!
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  Contacting the "other side"

  by sinis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i find it very interesting that the bible and mythology are very close, when speaking about god.

  also the statement made by god in the bible to worship no other god but him, in effect saying that there are others gods.

  has anyone actually looked into the occult, for lack of a better word, and actually made contact with an entity?

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  Steve Lowry

  Well, I don't know about contacting a "diety", but I have spoken to the 'other side', as it were. Tell ya about it if ya like.
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  All JW thoughts, ideas, and subject have been covered her several times

  by free2beme in

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  i have come to this board for ever a year now.

  one very openly obvious thing, that you notice within a couple of months.

  is that subjects repeat here, often.

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  Steve Lowry

  
  
  
  
  

  I think also one of the reasons for a forum like this one is that its a safe haven for those who need to get advice, but also who need to ‘hear' their own words. It helps when trying to sort things out, and if they didn't have those of us here who have heard it all before, then they would be at a loss. I have been out of the WBTS for going on thirty years now, and sometimes I wonder why I make my rounds over here when cruising the Net. I think for me its all about connection. Having being a JW is not quite like any other experience most people have ever had and only another former JW can completely and readily relate to my experience and visa versa. It creates an instant bond regardless of spiritual or political views. I may think you’re nuts to believe this or that way about whatever, but with the JW thing, we got that down. It’s kinda like a family that way, and I guess that’s what keeps me posting and interacting here on the forums. Just my thoughts on the matter.

  Steve

  BTW, nice idea for a thread!

  ;u)
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  Masturbation quotes

  by 5thGeneration in

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  i didn't want these buried deep in the favorite quotes thread because they are just too dang funny and/or weird.

  *** watchtower 1973 sept 15 pp.564-5 breaking free of self-abuse-why?

  that masturbation is abnormal and unnatural is also indicated by the fact that abnormal, mentally deranged people are notorious masturbators.

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  Steve Lowry

  I find all these quotes of the Watchtower Society to be rather ironic, considering the whole JW life is jerk-off!