Posts by 4JWY

After almost five decades of it's absorption into his own "three pound beauty", he was filled with so much anxiety at the waiting game for the "Big Show", that he checked out rather than wait any longer for it's arrival.

With all the warnings about what association, movies, television, and music to avoid, etc........... the WTS thinks nothing of what they are filling member's minds with.

It's a sick cult. YES, BEWARE!

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praying for mass destruction and death

by Cognitive_Dissident in

so i was writing a paper the other day, specifically about the skewed world view that i had had as a witness, and i typed the following - .

pain, misery, strife, these were all things that used to prove to me that jehovah's witnesses were correct in their assessment of a dying world which was soon to be liberated/obliterated by the hand of god.

this "liberation" was something that i desperately longed for.

4JWY

Yes, ha - having a steady diet of "death and destruction" for 42 years, I finally had had enough.

An elder had called after talking to my father who was "concerned" that I'd stopped attending meetings - I told the elder outright that "if I heard about death and destruction and the judgment of all one more time, I'd go running and screaming out of the Kingdom Hall!"

This was two years ago, and I've never heard from the elder again, except when he called to find out "if it was really so!" that my zealous jw dad had just killed himself. Death and destruction had permeated his every long winded comment for so many years, it finally got to him too.

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What would you do if all the gas dried up?

by jayhawk1 in

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okay, we know all the gas won't dry up soon, but it sure is expensive.

i got to thinking, what would i do and what would others do if there simply wasn't any gas to buy?

myself, would it no longer be worth making payments on my home and moving to another one closer to work?

4JWY

We'd probably consider ourselves rich as the whole family wouldn't be paying exorbitant insurance rates, auto maintenance, and the cost of gas.

Recalling that my husband rode his bicycle to work for the first ten years we were married, it really did make a difference in our budget. The only thing keeping him from riding to work now, is the dangerous curvey road with no appropriate bike lane and the early morning darkness at 5:00 a.m. He's working on rearranging his schedule and keeps trying to convince me there's another route he could take that would be a bit safer. Riding to work each day is a great way to get that daily dose of exercise, for mind and body. You don't have to be trying to fit in that trip to the gym after work.

I was taking note on the newscasts, that there really wasn't any population in New Orleans with bikes, and that's sad, since it could have provided a way out. The USA lags behind many other countries in this regard yet we may be due for a resurgence in two wheel drive!

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Update: New Governing Body Pics - Have fun!

by Neo in

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the twelve men who exert control over the lives of 6,000,000 people and who could put a stop to all the harm caused to families if they wanted to:

as i said in another thread, most of them started partaking the emblems after 1935. that's a clear sign that there's a corrosion of the "remnant" doctrine, because now most of the governing body are considered "replacements" of 'anointed ones who have fallen away'.

i finally found out the new gb members' ages.

4JWY

Or, Pin the tail on the donkey??

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Update: New Governing Body Pics - Have fun!

by Neo in

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friends

the twelve men who exert control over the lives of 6,000,000 people and who could put a stop to all the harm caused to families if they wanted to:

as i said in another thread, most of them started partaking the emblems after 1935. that's a clear sign that there's a corrosion of the "remnant" doctrine, because now most of the governing body are considered "replacements" of 'anointed ones who have fallen away'.

i finally found out the new gb members' ages.

4JWY

Darts anyone?

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OMG! I'm so relieved....

by under74 in

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friends

i found out friday morning that 2 of my cousins took a trip to new orleans last week without telling my aunt....but they are adults so.... anyway, they're known to take off to have fun (usually to gamble) so i didn't think much about it last weekend but time went on and my aunt got really worried.

my older brother started calling around to mutual friends and found out that they went to new orleans last week.

so to make a long story short my aunt just called saying my cousins are in someplace called new roads.

4JWY

That is great news!

El Camero probably = El Camino

A scene that really touched my heart was when tv showed a group of young folks, bartenders, waitresses, that worked together in the French Quarter, hiking out of the city down the interstate very early on. I hoped my kids would have done the same had they found themselves there.

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Preaching at the Astrodome

by 4JWY in

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some evacuees see religious message in katrina .

across three states, survivors weigh links among faith, sin and the storm

reuters

4JWY

I wonder if they are imagining just how much worse than this their armageddon is going to be . Of course there will be no tv or internet so they won't be privy to all the carnage their "loving" god will wreak

I'm really curious to know if any have brought that thought up to active family members/friends for a response? The thought of it must just warm their heart. I know, if I was still in, I'd be tossing that around.

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Preaching at the Astrodome

by 4JWY in

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some evacuees see religious message in katrina .

across three states, survivors weigh links among faith, sin and the storm

reuters

4JWY

Some evacuees see religious message in Katrina
Across three states, survivors weigh links among faith, sin and the storm Reuters Updated: 5:43 p.m. ET Sept. 4, 2005

HOUSTON - In the last week, Joseph Brant lost his apartment, walked by scores of dead in the streets, traversed pools of toxic water and endured an arduous journey to escape the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in his hometown New Orleans.

On Sunday, he was praising the Lord, saying the ordeal was a test that ended up dispelling his lifelong distrust of white people and setting his life on a new course. He said he hitched a ride Friday in a van driven by a group of white folks.

“Before this whole thing I had a complex about white people; this thing changed me forever,” said Brant, 36, a truck driver who, like many of the refugees receiving public assistance in Houston, Texas, is black.

“It was a spiritual experience for me, man,” he said of the aftermath of a catastrophe al Qaida-linked Web sites called evidence of the “wrath of God” striking an arrogant America.

Brant was one of the evacuees across Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi who gave thought to religion Sunday, almost a week after the floods changed their lives, perhaps forever.
For one, ‘the work of Satan’At the Astrodome in Houston, where 16,000 refugees received food and shelter, Rose McNeely took the floods as a sign from God to move away from New Orleans, where she said her two grown children had been killed in past years in gunfights.

“I lost everything I had in New Orleans,” she said as she shared a cigarette with a friend. “He brought me here because he knows.”

Gerald Greenwood, 55, collected a free Bible earlier in the morning, but sat watching a science fiction television program above the stands in an enclosed stadium once home to Houston’s baseball and football teams. “This is the work of Satan right here,” he said of the floods.

The Bible was one of the few books many of the refugees had among their possessions. On Friday, several Jehovah’s Witnesses walked the floor of the Astrodome, where thousands of cots were set up, to offer their services.

For another, the wages of sinOn Sunday, the Salvation Army conducted an outside religious service that included songs such as “What a Friend We Have in Jesus.”

“Natural disaster is caused by the sin in the world,” said Maj. John Jones, area commander for the Salvation Army, who led the service. “The acts of God are what happens afterwards ... all the good that happens.”

“God made all this happen for a reason. This city has been going to hell in a handbasket spiritually,” Tim Washington, 42, said at New Orleans’ Superdome Saturday as he waited to be evacuated.

“If we can spend billions of dollars chasing after [Osama] bin Laden, can’t we get guns and drugs off the street?”, he asked. Washington said he stole a boat last Monday and he and a friend, using wooden fence posts as oars, delivered about 200 people to the shelter. “The sheriff’s department stood across the street and did nothing,” he added.

The Salvation Army’s Jones was one of many trying to comfort victims in Sunday services across several states.

What God demandsAt St. Aloysius Catholic Church in Baton Rouge, several hundred local parishioners and storm survivors attended the Sunday service. “I wish we could take your broken hearts and give you ours,” Rev. Donald Blanchard told the gathering.

In addition to consoling storm victims, the church’s lead pastor, Jerald Burns, said Katrina’s tragedy needed to be a rallying cry for parishioners, church leaders and government leaders to help the needy.

“It’s not what God is asking of us,” Burns said. “It is what God is demanding of us.”

Some people walked out of the church in tears in mid-service.

Churches in many states have taken in evacuees and organized aid for people who in many cases lost everything they had in the storm. But at least some bristled at the role of religion in helping the afflicted.

“We’re getting reports of how some religion-based ’aid’ groups are trying to fly evangelists into the stricken areas and how U.S. Army chaplains are carrying bibles -- not food or water -- to ’comfort’ people,” Ellen Johnson, president of American Atheist, said in a statement.

“People need material aid, medical care and economic support -- not prayers and preaching,” she said. Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters.

URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9206991/

Don't the witnesses have such an encouraging message to share with the folks in the midst of this calamity? "Just wait, SOON the whole world will be in this condition and how we look forward to that day! Are we not anxiously awaiting the fulfillment of the promise??"

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What's the very first thing .......or amount ......you ever won?

by hubert in

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i took a chance on a raffle in a variety store, and won a "mothers day cake"!!!

ha, ha !!

it was so freakin' dry, too !!

4JWY

Most have been won from radio stations, and their various contests for being "caller number 10" or answering a question correctly.

I've won:

- cash in amounts of $1000, $500, and $100

-front row seats to big name concert artist's performances

- 4 tickets to Disneyland to include 2 nights lodging and $250 cash to spend in the hotel's restaurants

-tons of tickets to major league baseball games (many of which were on meeting nights!)

- t-shirts, free tanks of gas, deep sea fishing trips, boat rentals, books, weekend trips w/lodging, movie premier tickets, cd's

As a matter of fact, I'm calling in today, every hour to try for the hundred bucks giveaway and concert tickets. I've even won things I haven't bothered to go pick up as it's a three quarter hour drive in traffic to get to the station's offices. I usually try to convince the station to mail the stuff to me, but they don't always go for it. When you win cash, you have to sign for it and fill out a W-2. I'm still hoping for the trip to Hawaii and the doubling of my paycheck.