Topics Started by Sumflower

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Memorial Experience
by CaptainSchmideo in
1. jw
2. friends
at my congregation's memorial, i saw two things i have never seen before.. 1. since jesus said a prayer "over the bread and wine", the elders who gave the prayers just before passing the utensils took the microphone out of the podium, walked over to the table, and said the prayer "over the bread and wine.

" never saw this before in over 30 years of attendance.. .

2. one elder, probably the most knowledgable, been a witness since he was a kid in the fifties, was wearing a lapel pin on his jacket, very small, looked like a black button.
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4 year old pushes religion on my kid...
by flower in
1. social
2. family
so this kid at my kids preschool apparently had a goldfish named peppe who died over the weekend.

for the past 4 days he has been telling my son repeatedly that the fish is in heaven where everyone goes when they die unless they are bad.

my son in turn has been questioning me on a daily basis about death and dying and the like.
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What does everyone do on the forth of April after sun down?
by PinTail in
1. jw
2. friends
i think i should do something to remember jesus and his faithfulness to the human family.

i don't know if i should drink the wine and eat the bread or not.

i am only fifty, but something has moved me to this hope for about twenty years.
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Pharmacy Refuses To Fill Birth Contol Pills-Do They Have That Right?
by wednesday in
1. watchtower
2. medical
yesterday, a pharmacy cvc, refused to fill a script for birth control pills.

the customer was btw, a married woman with 2 kids.

the pharmicist aparently did not believe in birth control, so refused to fill the script.
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Help with a scripture...
by Sumflower in
1. watchtower
2. bible
there is a scripture, i think in acts, that specifically says not to go from door to door.

i wanted to compare the greek words used there to the ones in other parts of acts that probably should be written "in private homes" that they use to "validify" the preaching work.

i can't for the life of me find where i wrote that scripture down at though... anyone know it off hand?.
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Response from my elders about UN
by Sumflower in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
i presented that document to an elder from our hall... he called and told me exactly what i expected they would say (library card deal).

so i wrote the un and got a letter back saying they were totally seperate and so forth, and fwd'd it to the same elder.

he told me at the meeting that night that he called again and got in touch with someone who knew something.
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What happened to the Vicki Boer case?
by Sumflower in
1. jw
2. friends
i ran across it here: http://www.recorder.ca/cp/national/030929/n0929181a.html and i read an older thread in this forum about it.

i'm moved by the story, and i was just curious where it is at now?.

summer
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Do You Feel Embarrassed That You Were Ever A Witness?
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
i do.
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Need Paradise Quotes
by Unclepenn1 in
1. jw
2. friends
hello, i am looking for some quotes about jw's restoring the earth to paradise conditions.

i am talking to a long time witness and showing him the fallacy of the paradise earth.

how will all the witnesses clean up all the buildings and rubble, especially since there will be no heavy machinery?
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Are You a Taker Not a Giver
by blondie in
1. watchtower
2. medical
many posting here once would not accept a blood transfusion or give blood because of the wts doctrine.. having left that doctrine behind and being willing to "accept" a blood transfusion, are you willing (if able medically) to donate blood?.

if willing to accept an organ transplant, are you willing (if medically able) to donate an organ, either as a live donor or when deceased?.

if yes, to both questions, do you donate blood regularly?