Posts by Fleur

I got some surprise presents from friends already...including a great down throw and slipper set that is heavenly! I am really not expecting much for myself this holiday cause I got a trip as an early present in November. But I did it up big for our child as usual and I think hubby will be really happy too. He's been a very good boy this year :)

Happy Holidays everyone!!! You are all in my heart as I count my blessings this year.

essie

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Idea to help Utopian Reformist..... Benefit album!

by Nosferatu in

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many of us here have been touched by mario's (utopian reformist) situation.

his life has taken an incredible spin and has thrown him into some pretty tough situations.. if you haven't read the situation, here's the thread:.

http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/8/80403/1.ashx.

Fleur

Hey Nos,

I sing, and play a teensy bit of piano but I don't have any good recording equipment :( And I haven't written a song in years.

Wish I could, would love to help...(((((((hug)))))) it's a beautiful idea, quite an undertaking, dear...

hugs,

essie

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Do you become empty inside after leaveing the witness's?

by PinTail in

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i find myself feeling empty inside sense drifting away after my being shuned, and my divorce from my wife who was a witness, and after my daughter had been molested by a stupid brother in the hall that my ex-wife started living with after my becoming disabled.

i am newly married now to a good women who is not a witness, but she is honest and kind to me and understands what i have been through, but still i feel a empty somewhere in side of me.

of note during this time of pain, i fell hit my head and lost a major portion of my brain which left me disabled, and very emotional at times feeling like all is lost, i just can't throw it.

Fleur

Hi Shane,

I'm sorry that you're feeling lost right now. Believe me, I've been there. I was lucky enough too to find love with a wonderful person after leaving the Borg and that has opened up life to me in a way that I never imagined. He's taught me so much, never having been subject to the Dub guilt and grief.

I felt empty because of losing my family. But from the moment I realized "I'm not a Jehovah's Witness anymore" my soul felt more full, and alive, and inspired than it ever did droning along with the rank and file.

I wrote this a long time ago. http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/4771/56672/post.ashx#56672 Maybe something in it will sound familiar to you, in my post or the replies. Just know that it does get SO much better in time, and to me now, I know that the emptiest life I could live would be if I ever gave in and went back. Can't do it, just can't.

Wishing you happiness...

essie

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Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.... THE MOVIE!

by pr_capone in

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http://hitchhikers.movies.go.com/index.html

anyone else gonna go see this opening day?!?!?!!?

if its any good, prolly twice the same day!

Fleur

I am nervous too...I just don't know how they can really translate all the subtleties to the screen. I mean, "That about wraps it up for God?" How do you put that in a movie in 2005 and not get major flack for it?

Those books are just, a wonder. I was so sad when Douglas Adams died. I love to write, and so I just marvel about the way he turns a phrase and the dialog.

I haven't read Salmon of doubt: thanks for recommending it mkr, I'll have to look into it!

Ah, the memories...."my fonting turlingdrones...the macuriatians are to me!" (i'm sure I botched the spelling LOL)

My favorite part in Restaurant at the end of the universe is the part about the group who missed their dinner because their Messiah was late...time to get those back out and read them again! First one is still my favorite of all.

essie

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Blood Substitute Vexes Jehovah's Witnesses

by blondie in

http://www.detnews.com/2004/health/0412/22/c01-40027.htm

wednesday, december 22, 2004. .

blood substitute vexes jehovah's witnesses.

Fleur

How many oldtimers remember when the WTS changed their stance on organ transplants in 1980 after 13 years of it being a DFing offense?

I remember! I was just a kid, but old enough to understand what I was hearing at the meetings. It made no sense to me. I always asked my parents "But doesn't blood go through the organs? Doesn't that make taking them unclean?"

They responded by telling me that they would never take an organ transplant, because they didn't believe it was acceptable to Jehovah.

I heard the article in the paper was a lot longer than the online version, if I can get my hands on it I will try to summarize it. But it may be a few days.

hugs

essie

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CZAR II: The Spawning!

by czarofmischief in

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well, it's almost christmas, and i have a big announcement to make.... my wife, the czarina, is soon to bring forth the heir to my mighty empire.

yes, we are bringing a little pincushion into the world.

i have sired.

Fleur

WOO HOO! babies are just yummy. Congratulations!!!!

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Blood Substitute Vexes Jehovah's Witnesses

by blondie in

http://www.detnews.com/2004/health/0412/22/c01-40027.htm

wednesday, december 22, 2004. .

blood substitute vexes jehovah's witnesses.

Fleur

Blondie, I looked all over for that article yesterday, my mother was up a TREE over it. She is of the old guard, the "pour it on the ground, take no fractions" camp. She said that she is sure there are "Apostates" infiltrating the organization and telling people that it's okay to take this stuff. She said she is saving the article for me.

She tells me this as if anything about the organization could possibly shock me anymore...how little she knows me. Nothing they do shocks me anymore.

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Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.... THE MOVIE!

by pr_capone in

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http://hitchhikers.movies.go.com/index.html

anyone else gonna go see this opening day?!?!?!!?

if its any good, prolly twice the same day!

Fleur

Woo hoo! can't wait for it...more excited about it than about the next Star Wars film...

essie

(a hoopy frood who definitely knows where her towel is)

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Depression in the congregation

by badboy in

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any takers

Fleur

Hi- I was very depressed while I was having a Bible Study with the JW's- and I think it went beyond depression because it's been over a year since I've been there and I still can't shake the darkness that they instilled into my life. Something very sinsister lurks there- I don't ever want to give them the chance to play with my emotions again.

Welcome, SB! Glad to have you with us. You're right, something sinister DOES lurk beneath the cloak of the "good news" that the WTS preaches. Depression in the congregation? Are you kidding me? I think it would be harder to find someone who WASN'T a depressed witness! You know, they make the environment as such that if you're happy or smiling, something must be wrong with you spiritually. After all, the way to salvation is cramped and the way to destruction is broad and spacious. Satan is persecuting God's true people in this day. So if you're not suffering, what are you smiling about? What is there to be happy about in this Old System of Things? Surely anyone who has any level of contentment in their life now is living in the moment and not Storing Up Treasures in Heaven (I don't know how scully does that little TM mark!) If you're happy in the organization, you are not spiritual enough. So much for the joy of "God's happy people." The only way to be happy as a JW is if you're a masochist. ~Essie