Posts by AIRVIEW1

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BEING ANOINTED, MARRIED,????

by zev in

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friends

i'm looking for an answer, and views to a disturbing question i have had for years.. for more than 2 decades, this has bothered me, yet i have been unable to resolve this dilema witin myself.

i hope some of you can help.. over the 40 years i was "in", i have known many "anointed".

most...were single, either by choice, or by the death of a mate.. but their are 2 i have known, who were married.. .

When I partook in 84, the elders were very uncomfortable since I was only 30 years old. One elder told me privatley that I was no more annoited than any man I saw walking down the street. My wife's response was, "Now everyone will think you are weird". The next year I had my own private memorial down an old dirt road with a wine cooler and a cracker before I took my family to the Kingdom Hall. I became depressed later that year and yearned for close intimacy with my Heavenly Father. One Sunday after the meeting I came home and closed myself up in my room and cried out to the "Great Physician" for help. I did not know what I needed but I knew he is the examiner of the heart and I was beginning to doubt that he had called me to Heavenly Life and I was beginning to become depressed. I did not know how but I asked him to please confirm his choosing of me. I reminded him of his word found in Hebrews 11:6 "For he who comes to GOD must BELIEVE that he exist and BELIEVE that he becomes the REWARDER of those earnestly seeking him. I fully BELIEVED that my Heavenly Father would answere my prayer, I didn't know how or when, I just BELIEVED.I then got up off my knee's and went into my living room and turned on the TV. Ripley's BELIEVE it or NOT! was just coming on. For the first time actor Jack Palance was introducing a new Co-Host....Marie Osmond.
The moment I saw her I BELIEVED Jehovah was giving her to me as a confirmational gift of his tenderhearted merciful love for me. I BELIEVE he gave her to me back then and SUPERNATURALLY SEALED our relationship by the power of his Divine Love contingent upon my faith.
I have kept and am still keeping my faith and BELIEVE I will be holding Marie in my arms soon. Nothing is impossible with our GOD!

Love,

James

Galileo in 1992

by AIRVIEW1 in

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friends

some decades after galileo's death in 1642, the church permitted a complete republication of galileo's dialogue.

this was not an admission that it had erred, but it was a tacit wink of the eye in favor of the copernican theory.

in 1978 shortly after pope john paul.

AIRVIEW1

Some decades after Galileo's death in 1642, the CHURCH permitted a complete republication of Galileo's Dialogue. This was NOT an admission that it had erred, but it was a tacit wink of the eye in favor of the Copernican theory. In 1978 shortly after Pope John Paul
II took office in 1978, he announced that the church should reevaluate the WRONG it had done to Galileo. He felt that a new look at the Galileo trial, WHICH POISONED RELATIONS BETWEEN SCIENCE AND FAITH, was VITAL! At last, in 1992, three and a half centuries after it sent Galelio to his villa PRISON, the CHURCH declared that what Galelio had done was NO CRIME! "THE ERROR OF THE "THEOLOGIANS" OF THE TIME" noted Pope John Paul II, "WHEN THEY MAINTAINED THE CENTRALITY OF THE EARTH, was to THINK that our understanding of the physical world's structure was, in some way, imposed by the LITERAL SENSE of the scripture."

Stictly speaking, it was not Galileo's discoveries that sparked his troubles, it was the conclusions that Galileo drew from his discoveries. However, INTERPRETATION is an integral part of the discovery process. The most serious consequence ever to have been faced by a discoverer.

One evening in 1993, my cat and I witnessed a space shuttle reentering the atmosphere in a bright train of orange fire that lit up the southern sky. It was so bright that the cat watched the the orange meteor move from west to east across the sky. Can it be said that the cat DISCOVERED the glow in some way? Without any means for the cat to interpret what he saw, I doubt it. At the risk of seeming trite, I contend that if a DISCOVERER does NOTHING with a find, THEN IT IS NOT A DISCOVERY! The cat,(dear Fred), did NOTHING! Galileo first RECORDED his observations, then PUBLISHED them in detail, then used them to SHOW that the earth is not the center of the universe, and finally HE FACED THE CONSEQUENCES OF HIS INTERPRETATIONS!

"It is the GLORY OF GOD to conceal a thing: But the HONOUR OF KINGS is to make the DISCOVERY!"
Proverbs 25:2

THE UNIVERSE IS VASTLY LARGER THAN ANYONE CAN EVEN THINK OR COMPREHEND
WE ARE ON THE VERG OF A FLOOD OF WORLD CHANGING DISCOVERIES!!!

BEAM US UP SCOTTY!

169

how old are you? the avg. age here?

by rekless in

jw
friends

i'm 56

AIRVIEW1

45 and single

91

What is you occupation

by Beans in

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friends

im a liceinced electrician now working in wireless communication installations.i love the electrical industry,there is so much to learn and so many different things do work with and technology is always changing.never a boaring day especially when we are working in the office buildings downtown,chicks everywhere!.

beans.

AIRVIEW1

I am a beef snack distributor for a national company. I have a fully
loaded company van and company credit card for gas and motel expenses.
I work 21 Walmart Supercenters, 5 Supertargets, 26 Winn Dixies and
82 Dollar General stores. I love my job and I am single.

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Newbies: what your future may be.

by refiners fire in

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friends

i been out of the org a full 20 years.. what progress have i made?.

well, im not angry anymore at the org.i dont even hate the gb.

i learnt a lot from reading all those old watchtowers about mind control.

AIRVIEW1

ok

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The mormons vs the jw?

by Nicolas in

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friends

i saw a report on tv about the church of jesus chrisht of latter day saint and they have a lot in common with the jw.

they go from door to door and as the jw, they believe that they are here to save the world.

do you think that this church will become more popular while the watchtower is losing his popularity?

AIRVIEW1

But behold, if ye will awake and arouse your faculties, even to an EXPERIMENT upon my words, and exercise a PARTICLE OF FAITH, yea even if ye can no more than desire to believe, let this desire work in you, even until ye believe in a manner that ye can give place for a portion of my words. Alma 32:27 Book of Mormon

High energy particle physics, Brigham Young University, Superconducting Super Collider, Senator Orrin Hatch, Senator Trent
Lott,Louisiana State University,(CERN) European Particle accelerator
research center, Geneva, Switzerland, 1975 "DIVINE VICTORY" assembly
(LIGO) Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory, The Mississippi Stennis Space Center, The Thiokol Utah! Rocket plant,
The Japanese Space program, The International Center for Superconductvity research in Japan, The International Center for Possibilty Thinking in Los Angeles, The Wall of Great Dreamers and
Marie Osmond.

All things work together for those who love God and are called according to his purpose.

concept of evil created by who?

by AIRVIEW1 in

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friends

god created the tree of good and evil.

before the tree was created and the possibility of evil existed.....did evil exist?

when they ate the apple it is said there eyes were opened!

AIRVIEW1

God created the tree of good and evil. Before the tree was created and the possibility of evil existed.....did evil exist? When they ate the apple it is said THERE EYES WERE OPENED! Now they were like GOD knowing good and evil....what does this mean?

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Who is realy Brainwashd ?

by happy man in

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i read a lot her that jw is brainwashd, and some of you make a bigg point aout of this, i dont agree, i think we can think ourselfs you put youself on high placese when you say this, i think we must acept what other peopel think and dont say they are dummis or something like that, who no the truth, perhaps you all have wrong, something to think abaout when you put out your very high complianing.. i can give you one link too see who realy is brainwashd, it is you peopel here, you as say good bless us, read and think,.

http://www.rense.com/general15/tr.htm

AIRVIEW1

If everyone in the world were right now TODAY! one of Jehovah's Witnesses would that stop all wars and killing? Try feeding a carrot to a hungry lion and you'll probably be running away without a hand.The teeth of a lion are not designed for chewing watermelon.If all everyone today were Jehovah's Witnesses would we kill all the animals that are designed to kill for food? Would we tell all the bears they must disarm (DECLOW) themselves? Would we tell all the snakes YOU MUST SPIT ALL YOUR POISON OUT! If Jehovah himself is against war and killing then why does it say in Revalation "AND WAR BROKE OUT IN HEAVEN".

Just asking

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I want to partake at the Memorial!

by BQE in

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friends

it's been a strong desire of mine for the 20 some odd years since i've beeb df'd.. what do you guys think?

should i go this year and make everyone's jaw drop??

any advice as to what i should say if i am interrogated?

AIRVIEW1

BQE,
I would not do it if I were not sincere. I know many of us feel
upset by certain things but is not anything sacred? Would you invite a sincerely devout cow worshipper from India over to your home just to see the shock on his face as you offer him a big steak dinner?

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Galaxies, rather than stars!

by Yadirf in

jw
friends

i suppose that if i were an avid reader of the various astronomy magazines available i'd have more of an understanding about this.

for quite some time i've wondered how astronomers must calculate that there are so many galaxies (although obviously they don't know the precise number).

i figure that it apparently has to do with first determining that certain points of light, visible through telescopes, are farther out than our own "milky way" galaxy.

AIRVIEW1

Another instrument used to calculate and measure what is going on in deep space is LIGO (laser interferometer gravitational wave observatory) a very high-tech sensitive detector. One has been built here in Louisiana another twin ligo facility in Washington State and a 3rd LIGO type called VIRGO in Pisa, Italy. Soon there will be a triangulational experiment between all 3 facilities in an effort to prove Einstien's theory of relativity using deep space gravity wave info. Recently 3 new theories have been proposed as possibilities to unify quantum theory, cosmology and relativity by dr Lee Smolin a professor ofv physics at the Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry at Pennsylvania State University. The LIGO project is a callaberation between The National Science Foundation, Caltech and MIT.

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