Hey Frannie....In a rush this morn, but want mark this so I could get back to this post. Was just listening to a Depak Chopra CD and he was talking about sound therapy and how different sounds resonate in different parts of yours body and can help to heal certain things that are out of balance in the system. Well, I am not sure--but it is an interesting theory. Anyway, there was a whole lot more to it than that and I will mark this one and come back to it later.
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An experiment in self-empowerment - Any Volunteers?
by Frannie Banannie ini need volunteers for this experiment, but i'll explain what it's about first....you'll find it's gonna be easier for some than others.
this is about the power of sound and the power of written and/or spoken words and their affect on our environment.
within the last 30 years an instrument called an eidophone was discovered.
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Artwork portraying the coming Paradise earth.
by Blueblades inmany readers of this journal and its companion, awake!, enjoy the artwork portraying the coming paradise earth.
of cause, we do not know exactly what the paradise earth will look like, and the pictures published are simply artisic impressions based on such bible passages as isaiah 11:6--9.. nevertheless,one christian woman said:"when i see pictures of the coming paradise in the watchtower and awake!, i examine them closely, as one would a travel brochure.
i endeavor to see myself there because this is where i truly hope to be in god's due time.".
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The above pictures are horrifying to me. What is more horrifying is that I didn't see them as horrifying during my 20 plus years as a JW.
signed:
The now ashamed of myself class
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Comments You Will Not Hear at the 9-19-04 or 9-26-04 WT Study (Highlights)
by blondie incomments you will not hear at the 9-19-04 or 9-26-04 wt study (august 15, 2004 issue) highlights only
review comments
will be in black and parentheses ().
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They were all pioneering and had to get their "time" in. The Dakota wind blew a little colder that December night. I have seen Witness love up close, first hand.
Gary, these couple of sentences speak volumes.
Para . 4 "Satan is the source of all unjustified hatred against Gods people" .. So if I contest a point of doctrine, or conscience with my dub family, I am therefore an agent of Satan
Blues bro...I see the JW religion breeding more and more paranoia and suspicion against any who have left the Org. It is unbelievable to me that after 20 years in the Org to be cut off and treated with such coldess by close family and friend because of the mere fact that I am no longer attending the meetings.
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I love Jehovah's Witnesses...
by FMZ inyes, that's right.. i love them.
i love everyone.... "love your neighbor as yourself".... does it specify which neighbors?
the good ones?
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Well, this is a hard one for me... Because I haven't attended meetings in over a year now I have been cut off by every JW I have ever known including my own flesh and blood sister and my very best JW friends. Even though I have committed no sin and I am a decent human-being they cannot handle the fact that I have left the fold for any reason. I have never spoken to them as to why--nor have I spoken out against them or their beliefs. I am now being treated as if I have some sort of a plague and they have all cut off contact with me. This has been heartwrenching to say the least, but I am surviving and moving ahead with my non-JW family and new friends who treat me with love and respect. So, do I love these people who have treated me and my family with so little regard and love and to the point of cruelty by some? It is difficult. I don't like where the organization is leading these people. I don't like the fact that their members are following the directions given to them and sacrificing so many people along the way. I have no respect for their actions. To think about their cold hearted actions towards me and my family makes me feel quite upset. These people no longer give me warm fuzzy feelings. They don't make me feel happy or loved. I have faced the fact that I have to let them follow their own path. I also realize that I can no longer put any energy into trying to make these people love me. How can I love them (feel love towards them) when they don't treat me with love???
I do feel a sad pity towards them, but it doesn't feel like love.
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Snipits from Sept 2004 KM's
by qwerty ini don't think i am breaking any copyright law here by retyping (quoting) a small section from the km.. just look what tactics the organisation are using by appealing to the consience of those trapped!respecting jehovah's authority.
with what do you associate the ancient names korah, dathan, and abiram?
rebellion!
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Please (to the WT appologists), STOP refering to things I say and do and STOP EQUATING this with disloyalty to the Christ.
On the contrary, it would BOTHER my god given conscience to do some of the WT things.Amen Confucious,
I think that is why a lot of JWs are depressed and on medication. Many of them are ignoring their gut feelings and conscience on many things, expecially if they are truly trying to follow the example of Christ.
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Comments You Will Not Hear at the 9-12-04 WT Study (Abbreviated)
by blondie incomments you will not hear at the 9-12-04 wt study (august 1, 2004 issue date) abbreviated
jesus said: "whoever wants to become great among you must be your minister, and whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave.
paragraphs 14-17. how can we acquire the proper view of greatness?
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Concluding Comments
Can you imagine the people, including the elders, in the congregation, washing your feet. No, they barely gave me the time of day and now that I stopped going to meetings they haven't come by to see if I'm dead or alive.
Can you imagine an elder cleaning your bed linen when you are sick as Jesus touched the leper? No, in fact the only encouragment I got from the elders when I was sick was to call with the concern that I had missed the meetings. Once when was recovering from major surgery the elder called to see if I had any time for the month and I said: no, I had surgery and was in bed recovering. He never asked how I was doing, but got off the phone right away probably to make some other calls on people who forgot to turn in their time.
Can you imagine an elder weeping at the funeral of your non-JW mother as Jesus mourned for the woman who lost her only son? NO, When close family members passed away never did I receive condolenses from the elders or anything like a sympathy card (they weren't witnesses) After my mother-in-law died one of the elders came up to me (Mr. Joker-man elder) and with a big old shit eating grin on his face said..Well, ya got the old lady buried, huh? In a congo I attended a woman's son was killed in an accident. She had been a faithful sister for years ,but of course they could not use the kingdom hall (her place of worship) for the memorial because her son was "worldly." and then of course it was a matter of conscience whether or not one would attend the funeral of a worldly one.
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Snipits from Sept 2004 KM's
by qwerty ini don't think i am breaking any copyright law here by retyping (quoting) a small section from the km.. just look what tactics the organisation are using by appealing to the consience of those trapped!respecting jehovah's authority.
with what do you associate the ancient names korah, dathan, and abiram?
rebellion!
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(6) How did they let friends and family take precedence over loyalty to God?
Guilty as charged. In the end I couldn't sacrifice my loving family and friends in trade for the dyfunctional unloving hypocrites in my congo. When I became "weak" in their eyes they went in for the kill and their unkindness and unloving attitude towards me and my family damaged my faith beyond repair. They believe that loyalty to God is loyalty to the Organization and when you stop going to the 5 tedious uninspiring Organizational meetings a week they drop you like a hot potato. They won't even give me the time of day now and no one even stops by to see if I am alive--they don't care...
Sorry about the rather bitter soap box this morning, but this articles like this really bring it all home for me and this one will give those behaving cruelly, towards family members and others, their delusional justification for doing so.
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LET US TRY AN EXQUISITE CORPSE
by Terry inamong surrealist techniques exploiting the mystique of accident was a kind of collective collage of words or images called the cadavre exquis (exquisite corpse).
based on an old parlor game, it was played by several people, each of whom would write a phrase on a sheet of paper, fold the paper to conceal part of it, and pass it on to the next player for his contribution.
i will begin the story.
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Barry Manilow--after all he wrote the songs that made the whole world sing...What was he thinking? He had to slap himself upside the head again---he didn't even like Barry Manilow music. He was into retro music--60s style. He was wishing that Jimi Hendrix was still around--surely he would add a bit of life to the place. Mooky looked around at the crowd and figured this wasn't exactly the Jimi Hendrix type of crowd--in fact....
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Ever met high ranking JW and felt uneasy
by AlanB inthis came up in another topic and feel it needs a topic of its own.
does anyone else have experiences of meeting (cant use the word 'brothers')men from high up in the borg and felt uneasy about it.. alanb wrote.
i was at twickenham many years ago (about 20) and went to the admin area to get info about serving where the need was great (great plan that turned out to be) anyway there were two elderly yet autstere brothers standing at the steps to the main office area looking as though they owned the place, they had a real air of seniority and importance about them, i have no idea who they were, yet sense they were senior one was english the other american.. .
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Of course of an intellectual level I don't believe it, but on a gut level I related to the story.
I must clarify my words, just in case someone misinterprets what I said. Cyber-sista does not believe the lizard story either. Just that it creaped me out in the same way that the WT leaders creaped me out on a gut level. Some of them seemed cold like lizards, but that is as far as it goes. Anyway, just defending my reputation here. The woman in this story was probably going through some major mental stress and sometimes under those conditions the mind will interpret feelings into reality (she felt these men were as cold as lizards therefore started to see them like that). Read some of Franniebananies stories--she had this happen to her.
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Ever met high ranking JW and felt uneasy
by AlanB inthis came up in another topic and feel it needs a topic of its own.
does anyone else have experiences of meeting (cant use the word 'brothers')men from high up in the borg and felt uneasy about it.. alanb wrote.
i was at twickenham many years ago (about 20) and went to the admin area to get info about serving where the need was great (great plan that turned out to be) anyway there were two elderly yet autstere brothers standing at the steps to the main office area looking as though they owned the place, they had a real air of seniority and importance about them, i have no idea who they were, yet sense they were senior one was english the other american.. .
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I just recalled a story about a CO that always bothered me. He had been to our congo and couple of times. During one of his weeks visiting our congo I saw him at the post office (all dressed up in his expensive suit looking very out of place in our small town). I gave him a big smile and friendly hello, thinking that I was being sisterly. He didn't say a think, but just gave me a cold distainful and hateful stare--it really upset me at the time I was dressed in my normal street clothes, so I guess he didn't recognize me as being a witness, or if he did he didn't have time for me. At the time I thought he probably didn't recognize me as a witness, but it still bothered me thinking that he would treat anyone like this. (It wasn't a good witness)