Fleur

Joined

• started 37 topics
• posted 1,227 times   see topics posted on
• send a message

Posts by Fleur

• 
  24

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

  by pr_capone in

  1. jw
  2. friends

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

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

  if its any good, prolly twice the same day!

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  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
• 
  18

  Blood Substitute Vexes Jehovah's Witnesses

  by blondie in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

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

  wednesday, december 22, 2004. .

  blood substitute vexes jehovah's witnesses.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  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
• 
  31

  CZAR II: The Spawning!

  by czarofmischief in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  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.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Fleur

  WOO HOO! babies are just yummy. Congratulations!!!!
• 
  18

  Blood Substitute Vexes Jehovah's Witnesses

  by blondie in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

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

  wednesday, december 22, 2004. .

  blood substitute vexes jehovah's witnesses.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  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.
• 
  24

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

  by pr_capone in

  1. jw
  2. friends

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

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

  if its any good, prolly twice the same day!

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  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)
• 
  19

  Depression in the congregation

  by badboy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  any takers

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  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
• 
  23

  Alcoholics and alcoholism in the congregations

  by badboy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  was it a problem in your congregation?

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Fleur

  huge problem in every congregation I ever attended.

  We had one elder in the family who used to get drunk and start talking about judicial committee matters at family dinners...needless to say I left the table to help in the kitchen. A lot.

  ~essie
• 
  29

  death of a friends child; funeral obligation

  by franklin J in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a friend of mine just lost his young 4 year son in a sleigh accident.

  the child ( the same age as my young caroline) sledded down the front hill of his property into the path of an on coming school bus.

  terrible tragedy.. my wife and i ; who have known them for some time; must attend the service this eveing.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Fleur

  oh my god. As someone whose child was injured on a sled (seriously injured; shattered bone; could have broken her neck) at exactly that age when the relative she was with made a bad decision (hubby and I were NOT with her or it never would have happened) this story cuts right through to my heart. I also knew of another child that died on a sled near here, at the same park and hill that my daughter was injured on. Sometimes people don't realize how dangerous sleds can be. I feel so sorry for the parents.

  I am so, so saddened by this. You are a good friend to be there for them. I can't imagine what they are going through.

  At least when an elderly person passes on; you can justify that this is the natural order; and they had a good life to celebrate. But the loss of a child is horrific;no rhyme or reason.

  this is so true. It's one of the reasons that I struggle so hard with believing that there is a god...
• 
  48

  If you love me, wish me a HAPPY BIRTHDAY

  by LDH in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have a picture but i don't know how to post it?!?!?.

  my hubby and daughter bought me great gifts, and the three year old helped me blow out the candles and open the packages.. i am eating dicicco's pizza, my b'day dinner of choice!.

  lisa

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Fleur

  Happy Birthday, sweetie! You're a gem and we love ya!!!!

  love,

  essie
• 
  64

  Dr. Phil wants to talk CULTS

  by ChakkaConned in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  dr. phil is looking to talk to people who feel a family member may be involved with a cult.

  check it out if you'd like on his website (drphil.com) under "be on the show".

  chakka

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Fleur

  Why wouldn't it tie into the cult issue? Marina wants to live with her JW grandparents so that she can continue to be a JW but Mario wants to keep her far away from that cult. Marina could bnefit from Dr Phil's input.

  very good point, NL2. I agree that she could benefit from Dr. Phil's input, Mario too.