"The only way that this can apply to us is if we make it a practice personally to look up scriptures in our own Bibles."
But if we post those scriptures on a message board or make comments via a microphone that is NOT controlled by our local body of elders (and, by extension, the Borg), then we are endangering our salvation and may stuble our brothers.
Posts by Dan-O
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45Living with Soundness of Mind in an Electronic Age - KM Part this week
by ezekiel3 inlooks like it is time to remind the flock that jwd is deathdealing.
this week service meetings are recycling old kingdom ministry articles regarding the danger of electronic communication such as the internet and email.. .
like i heard at a recent circuit assembly, "don't let your mouse turn you into a rat!".
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Dan-O
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Dan-O
"Catholics who desire to leave are told they cannot be "un-baptized" as Catholics!"
Unless they do something so heinous as to be denied communion or perhaps excommunicated ... such as opposing church doctrines dispatched from Rome. -
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I am scared of my future marriage
by jwbot ini am watching oprah (right now actually) and the topic hits close to home.
good timing actually, because yesterday i was thinking of talking with my fiance, mike about this very thing.
you see, mike really loves kids, and we plan to have them eventually, its a very important part in our relationship (to him, mostly).
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Dan-O
"So thats the "plan" (yes I know things do not always go according to plan). "
Bingo!
Mrs. O & I talked about kids when we were dating. I wanted a bunch, she wanted two. And the doc said she probably would not bear kids ... so we eventually ditched the birth control & got used to the notion that we might not ever have kids.
Well, just about the time I got comfortable with that idea, she was pregnant. And then a few years later she was pregnant again.
Yep. Not according to plan.
My mother said it best: "I wouldn't trade any of my kids for a million dollars. But I wouldn't give a plug nickel for another one." -
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Picking the nose....
by morty inwhat is the deal with the male species thinking it is ok, to pick their nose in public??.
i find it repulsive .... it just seems to me,when i catch people picking their nose, in almost all cases,it is a man doing it..... do men, find it hard to find a kleenex???.
morty of the, taught my boys not to pick their booger's in public class...
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Dan-O
"hold one nostril closed then blow wads out of the open nostril... ICK"
LMAO! I remember when I was a teen, I had just washed my dad's truck & cleaned the windows. And we were driving down the highway when he did that ... thinking the window was down ... but it wasn't down, it was just CLEAN for a change. So he had to pull the hanky out of his hip pocket & wipe the snot off of the glass ... -
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Picking the nose....
by morty inwhat is the deal with the male species thinking it is ok, to pick their nose in public??.
i find it repulsive .... it just seems to me,when i catch people picking their nose, in almost all cases,it is a man doing it..... do men, find it hard to find a kleenex???.
morty of the, taught my boys not to pick their booger's in public class...
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Dan-O
"Do men, find it hard to find a Kleenex??"
A Kleenex? Yeah, sometimes. But my shirttail is usually handy. -
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Do you believe in the power of prayer?
by cab1000 intoday, i was talking to a close family member....he owns many stores of a business...he was telling me about a huge deal going down for him, in his favor.
he is an elder.
a lot of brothers work for him.
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Dan-O
When it comes to 'talking it over with with G Hoover', I think I'm just as well off talking to the cat or to the spirit of my dead dog. People pray, but I think they get a lot further by getting off their buns & making things happen on their own.
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What religion have you changed to now that no longer a witness?
by AK - Jeff ini know many have rejected the idea of organized religion.
i teeter on that myself.
but i have toyed with hooking to a little country church with some friendly people to associate with.
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Dan-O
"what church, how has it gone?"
I spend my Sunday mornings at St. Sealy of the Mattress, praying next to Sister Feather Pillow. -
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As JWs, ever met any annointed ?
by greendawn inin your time as jws did you ever meet any of the annointed?
did they have good christian personalities and what did they think of the wts and its governing body ?
i met one and he was very unhappy with the way the gb treated him and generally the way they run this society, he told me he wrote them two letters containing a long list of complaints with full scriptural support but he was ignored, first letter got a reply amounting to "no need to write to us" the second one no reply at all.
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Dan-O
I remember an elder from the KH when I was a kid who ... well, if he was NOT annointed, he should have been ... and I have nothing but fond memories of him & his tales of being at Cedar Point in 1922 & such things. Dave was actually a good guy, and his wife Libby was a sweetheart.
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Prayers at mealtime!!?
by Frog inwho still find it strange years on to dive straight into your mail meal without 'giving thanks'?
i say main meal, because dad's prayers were always considerably lengthy before a main meal, and are an institution in every jw household.
even now after a few years i'm just about ready to tuck in when i find myself saying a simple thanks under my breath.
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Dan-O
"dad's prayers were always considerably lengthy before a main meal"
I never knew what hot food was until I left home.
These days, I bow my head out of respect to the Mrs. & her mealtime prayers, but I'm quietly thinking "Get it the hell over with. My food is getting cold!" -
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1874 vs. 1914
by mnb77 inin my study of the history of the jws, i have come across a piece that says the jw's story keeps changing.
the book i am reading says, " it is one thing to claim that christ returned invisibly in 1914, but another thing to make that caim after you have already sopent 50 years telling people that he returned invisibley in 1874-- and then changed your mind.
yet the jw org has done just that.
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Dan-O
"They would all have been executed in ancient Israel."
Darn shame they're not still around. I have some stones that we could throw ...