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  Were your prayers ever answered while being a JW

  by Grouper in

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  did any of your prayers ever get answered while being a jw even if they where small maybe insignificant?

  pesonnally i never really needed my prayers to be answered but one time while the co visited us i was going to work with him durining saturady service i get there at 0930 but service started at 0900. i felt i missed my chance to work with him and show i was commited and i wanted to asked him how i can reconcile the fact i did not believe that noah's flood existed globally with the way the society views it.

  i left the kingdom hall pissed off thinking i fu*ked things up, so i kinda said to jah well i messed up gettin some clarity to to my quandry.

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  Steve2 said:

  In a way, the best answer to any prayer is no answer; that way, you're forced to take your life decisions seriously, rather than looking for nebulous signs.

  AMEN
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  Were your prayers ever answered while being a JW

  by Grouper in

  1. jw
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  did any of your prayers ever get answered while being a jw even if they where small maybe insignificant?

  pesonnally i never really needed my prayers to be answered but one time while the co visited us i was going to work with him durining saturady service i get there at 0930 but service started at 0900. i felt i missed my chance to work with him and show i was commited and i wanted to asked him how i can reconcile the fact i did not believe that noah's flood existed globally with the way the society views it.

  i left the kingdom hall pissed off thinking i fu*ked things up, so i kinda said to jah well i messed up gettin some clarity to to my quandry.

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  Lies all lies

  I am flabergasted at that conversation you had with those witness women. Just when you think you've heard it all in the witness world you hear crap like that I wish those witnesses could have an outer body experiance and see how hateful egocentrically moronic they sound
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  Were your prayers ever answered while being a JW

  by Grouper in

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  did any of your prayers ever get answered while being a jw even if they where small maybe insignificant?

  pesonnally i never really needed my prayers to be answered but one time while the co visited us i was going to work with him durining saturady service i get there at 0930 but service started at 0900. i felt i missed my chance to work with him and show i was commited and i wanted to asked him how i can reconcile the fact i did not believe that noah's flood existed globally with the way the society views it.

  i left the kingdom hall pissed off thinking i fu*ked things up, so i kinda said to jah well i messed up gettin some clarity to to my quandry.

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  Pubsinger said:

  You got an answer to your prayer. It just wasn't the answer you expected.

  You thought you'd missed your chance. You prayed. Lo and behold an opportunity to work with the CO appears out of no where. You ask your question. CO can't/doesn't answer it. Years later you probably have an answer to your question but not from the source you expected.

  Maybe God said "OK you can ask the CO if you want but the answer isn't there. But if it's what you want . . ."

  If that is true my admiration for God got a bump

  MeneMene Said:

  No they weren't, but then I realized later "God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers."

  Can you elaborate on that
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  Inadvertent benefits of leaving the WTBTS

  by Grouper in

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  the thread would you ever return to the truth started by my friend the package, .

  nvrgnbk said:.

  music can save your "soul" as well.

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  The thread would you ever return to the truth started by my friend the Package,

  Nvrgnbk said:

  Music can save your "soul" as well. And the physical excercise will keep you healthy and fight depression. You look skinny in you avatar, LOL!, but many find they lose a few pounds and gain energy and a new joy for living upon leaving the cult.

  That is soo true in my case. I stopped going to meetings 10/2004 and some of the inadvertent benefits I have enjoyed are:

  Lost 30lbs

  Did the LA marathon this year and now usually jog 3 miles a day.

  Read more books

  Have heavily gotten back into music primarily indie/alternative rock

  Weight train

  Mountain bike every other weekend

  Don't drink alcohol as much

  AND have a positive outlook on life and see that in general people are good

  One more benefit going back to school this fall to get a master's in business management or organizational leadership.

  What about you, what inadvertent benefits have you enjoyed because of leaving the truth
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  Were your prayers ever answered while being a JW

  by Grouper in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  did any of your prayers ever get answered while being a jw even if they where small maybe insignificant?

  pesonnally i never really needed my prayers to be answered but one time while the co visited us i was going to work with him durining saturady service i get there at 0930 but service started at 0900. i felt i missed my chance to work with him and show i was commited and i wanted to asked him how i can reconcile the fact i did not believe that noah's flood existed globally with the way the society views it.

  i left the kingdom hall pissed off thinking i fu*ked things up, so i kinda said to jah well i messed up gettin some clarity to to my quandry.

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  Did any of your prayers ever get answered while being a JW even if they where small maybe insignificant?

  Pesonnally I never really needed my prayers to be answered but one time while the CO visited us I was going to work with him durining Saturady service I get there at 0930 but service started at 0900. I felt I missed my chance to work with him and show I was commited and I wanted to asked him how I can reconcile the fact I did not believe that Noah's flood existed globally with the way the society views it.

  I left the kingdom hall Pissed Off thinking I FU*ked things up, so I kinda said to Jah well I messed up gettin some clarity to to my quandry. So I leave the KH and go down a street I usually do not travel and guess who I saw the CO with the group, I get out of my car and joined the group and worked with the CO. I thought to myself Jah came through big time.

  The funny thing about it is that after I worked one door with him then did RV's I asked the CO my question about the flood, I thought to myself yes my answer will be given to me that will squash my doubts. But instead I got a response that sounded like I was bothering him with my trival things and therfore he would not even attemp to answer it. What a let down, the self serving ass could not answer my question so instead he coped an attitude and ignored it.

  So much for your prayers being answered.

  One more prayer that never got answered was with a reaccuring nightmare I would have. I would call on Jahs name to make it go away but never did until during one of my nightmares I though to myself WTF am I scared about demons when they don't exist and that what I was feeling which I thought were demons was sleep paralysis. Ever since then not one more nightmare.
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  So....What Do You Think Happens When We Die???

  by minimus in

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  are we going to heaven hell, purgatory?

  are we able to sense anything?

  do we really die??

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  Everything goes blank
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  The Smashing Pumpkins are back!

  by nvrgnbk in

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  the new cd is called zeitgeist.

  german for "the spirit of the age".

  it's to be released in july of this year.. of the original members, only corgan and chamberlin remain.. sounds decent.. worth checking out..

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  Here in LA the track that's being played a lot is Tarantula which sounds quite good. If your a fan of The Smashing Pumpkins give Silversun Pickups a listen and tell me they don't sound the same.
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  While being an active JW, did you throw away Watchtower literature?

  by JH in

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  i remember that magazines and books came in faster than i could read, it was accumulating fast.

  in my first years, i didn't dare throw away anything.

  even later when i was starting to cool down, i still had mountains of books, magazines and brochures.

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  Yesterday after leaving our marriage consler, we threw away 10-15 bound volumes, index, and misc books at our doctors ofiice trash bin. My wife still a beliver was ok with it because some watermelon juice fell on them (from a watermelon she had left in the back of our SUV for a week) while she was taking them to goodwill.

  Meow
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  What song would you like to hear entering the Kingdom Hall?

  by JH in

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  here i am, rocked you like a hurricane.

  here i am, rocked you like a hurricane.

  here i am, rocked you like a hurricane.

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  Queen,

  Another one bites the dust
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  Earthquakes and rumors of war or whatever ;o)

  by Hellrider in

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  i was so inspired by the ridicolousness of thirdwitnoid in that other thread ("the gentile times reconsidered again...but this time i am using the bible"), in which he actually dared bring up the old "increase in earthquakes"-fairytale from the wt and asleep.

  it really had nothing to do in that thread, which was about 607 vs 587 (oh no, not that again.... datelocationdeathsmagnitude.

  jan. 23, 1556. shansi, china .

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  So Jehovah or Jesus is responsible for increasing the amount of earthquakes that are killing 4x more people post 1914?