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  Watchtower =Kingdom Hall only building to survive Tsunami!! -Cheesy alert!

  by Witness 007 in

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  2. bible

  this article has more cheesy hammy moments then a domino's pizza.

  warning mega cheesy alert!!.

  watch.

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  Gill

  Time and unforseen circumstances occur (and even avoid occuring) to us all!

  By coincidence, the JWs did rather well in the Tsunami BUT, this can be used to draw some into dangerous situations. Some may begin to view this in a superstitious way and when disasters actually threaten KHs as well as other buildings may be drawn, superstitiously to the Kingdom Hall.

  The WT is setting an unfortunate trap for some of its 'not so bright' followers who will begin to see KH's as 'safe' places of refuge when they are no different to anywhere else. I have a vague recollection of sometime possibly in the 60's or 70's when JWs were killed when their KH's were distroyed in disasters and they had hurried to them for refuge.

  This article is not only cheesy but very dangerous.
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  All Things Mystical - Real or Not?

  by Sirona in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  gareth knight (real name basil wilby) is an author who i respect.

  i have met him - he is getting old now but he's no less intelligent or fascinating.

  some 40 years ago he wrote a well respected book called "a practical guide to qabalistic symbolism".

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  Simon - Book looks interesting BUT Arthur C Clarke is an even bigger sceptic and he produces very sound reasonings explaining many 'unexplained phenomenon'. However, even he has come across the occassional unexplainable.

  However, Arthur C when he was writing much of his acclaimed studies on the paranormal was pre present day Quantum physics and it appears this bloke in the book you recommend may not be disimilar to the 'mystics' he knocks in that he is out to make money, which appears to be the sticking point when people discuss whether the paranormal is 'real' or not. This bloke is just making money by knocking it, hence just the other end of the spectrum.

  I love sceptics as I was and still am a sceptic. BUT I am one who knows that somethings go beyond what is understood at present and that one day there may well be solid scientific explanations for even my own experiences.

  Look at it this way, a person wants nothing to do with 'the mystical' having been brought up a dubbie and been terrified of demons their whole life.

  But this person then has many peculiar and correct experiences. No longer believing in demons etc, the person begins to look for the real reason......and science begins to unfold the answers, slowly I'll admit, but it does.
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  All Things Mystical - Real or Not?

  by Sirona in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  gareth knight (real name basil wilby) is an author who i respect.

  i have met him - he is getting old now but he's no less intelligent or fascinating.

  some 40 years ago he wrote a well respected book called "a practical guide to qabalistic symbolism".

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  Gill

  Loosie - The book is fascinating, though obviously remember a lot of it is theory physics, BUT, the neurophysiology is fact and well documented.

  A few years ago, after a partiulary passionate night I remember a little voice in my head saying : 'Now you've done it! You're going to have twins!' And I said to my husband, 'I think we're going to have twins!' in a worried tone, which he took as meaning that he was a spectacular sexual athlete.

  Nine weeks later we went for a scan at the local hospital and he was as white as a sheet when he saw the twins on the scan!

  Don't tell me there's no 'know it all' little voice, because I've heard it......and every time I've heard it, it's been right!
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  All Things Mystical - Real or Not?

  by Sirona in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  gareth knight (real name basil wilby) is an author who i respect.

  i have met him - he is getting old now but he's no less intelligent or fascinating.

  some 40 years ago he wrote a well respected book called "a practical guide to qabalistic symbolism".

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  Gill

  loosie - The Ka talks to the Ba or the Eidellon talks to the Daemon. One side of the brain talks to the other side, and is the guide to the physical self.

  We all do it consciously or unconsciously, talk to 'the other person' in our heads.

  If you take a look at the book I recommended to Sirona, you will see there are scientific and medical experiements that prove we have a 'secret lodger' in our minds....someone who 'knows' everything.
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  What really is a Soul Mate? --- Is it possible Yes or No?

  by Hope4Others in

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  2. friends

  soul mate.

  n. one of two persons compatible with each other in disposition, point of view, or sensitivity.

  there seems to be a variety of defintions on the net so what does "soul mate" mean?.

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  Dorktacular - What if the two people involved are complete opposites and disagree on everything but still are soul mates?

  My husband and self, have only our JW back ground in common - absolutely nothing else.

  We both tolerate eachother to such an extent that we encourage eachother in our own separate interests. We have little in common except what matters, love and being together and there for eachother.
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  All Things Mystical - Real or Not?

  by Sirona in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  gareth knight (real name basil wilby) is an author who i respect.

  i have met him - he is getting old now but he's no less intelligent or fascinating.

  some 40 years ago he wrote a well respected book called "a practical guide to qabalistic symbolism".

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  Gill

  Sirona - What's interestisng about the study quoted is the electrodermal reactions. There seems to be 'a reaching out' that takes place.

  I would suggest also, that this is why the exercise is so exhausting. Also, it is a reaching out of our physical shell with a 'flabby muscle' that is never used and it 'aches' after doing the work.

  I also find interesting, knowing the future. Several experiences have 'told me' what was going to happen to me and they have always been spot on. I think this may suggest that either we have all been 'along this path' before OR we can see or 'feel' the future also if we listen to what our inner or other voice is saying.

  So, the new physics theorys make more and more sense as they uncover more about the physical laws. Things no longer seem 'occultish' but have real solid basis to them.
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  All Things Mystical - Real or Not?

  by Sirona in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  gareth knight (real name basil wilby) is an author who i respect.

  i have met him - he is getting old now but he's no less intelligent or fascinating.

  some 40 years ago he wrote a well respected book called "a practical guide to qabalistic symbolism".

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  Gill

  Sirona - Should 'Precognition' ever be totally proven without doubt to be true, then many of the accepted laws of physics, for example 'time' would be thrown out on their heads and theory's such as the 'many universe' theory, etc would become more than just theorys.

  Midget - We tend to use different packs of cards....but non of them are brand spanking new.

  We cannot play the game unless everyone is relaxed and quiet and concentrating.

  We tend to count: 'I can see a spade (or whatever suit we can see in our mind) as a near miss. We older ones tend to be right most of the time and my youngest tends to see only the number and colour but we don't count her in our 'stats'.

  The really hard part is projecting the picture of the card BUT what is amazing is when the rest of us suddenly shout out '2 of hearts' (or whatever the card is) at the same time and we are so right! Wow! It's like electricity and a bit unnerving.

  Four out of five is NOT a guess at how accurate we are..... we are bloody good when the concentration is spot on. Things have to be quiet, everyone relaxed and I don't know if we could perform, because when you 'perform' you are under stress and not 'concentrating'.

  The concentrating and projection is really, really exhausting. It's like thinking in a completely different way. You have to 'make' the picture in your mind of the card and then 'place it' in the mind of others. It's almost like a physical task and there has to be no distraction.

  I've read about people who can make people stop walking in the street just by mental projection of 'stop'.

  I've tried to get my husband to get up and make a cup of tea for me by projecting a cup of tea picture.........not worked yet!

  I don't think we're special. I think anyone could probably do this if they concentrated and used their mind hard enough, but as I said, very exhausting.
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  One Reason Why I Worship the God of the Bible

  by snowbird in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  while this may be construed as a rebuttal to nvr's thread re: why i post about atheism, that is not my intent.. it is my intent, however, to show how i developed a belief in and love for the god of the bible.. my paternal grandfather, who died before i was born, was a baptist preacher, so you could say i cut my teeth on the bible.

  i loved having it read to me, and once i learned how, reading it for myself.

  i'm convinced that spirituality runs deep in my blood.. i've always had such a strong sense of right and wrong that injustices make me literally sick.

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  Gill

  'Rex Mundi' aka Jehovah is too cruel, jealous, petty minded to be 'God'.

  God is 'bigger' and 'better' than Jehovah. Sad to say, he is a God of fear and irratonal behaviour not to mention cruelty.

  Who could worship someone who could command deaths of old men, old women, women, children, babies, pregnant women, not to mention ordinary men. I refuse to believe that the 'real' God would ever want or command such cruelty, not matter what the WT or any other religion might say.
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  What really is a Soul Mate? --- Is it possible Yes or No?

  by Hope4Others in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  soul mate.

  n. one of two persons compatible with each other in disposition, point of view, or sensitivity.

  there seems to be a variety of defintions on the net so what does "soul mate" mean?.

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  Gill

  Ninja! I didn't make him go out of his way to ride his motorbike past my house every day from when he was 16 to 19 !!!! Who was stalking who!!!???

  Somewhere, I'm still sitting on the back of his Suzuki bike and we're riding off in the sunset again! However, he doesn't have a motorbike anymore as he put his knee out in an accident......so now I jump in the Espace with him.........and the four kids who are still at home jump in the back!!!
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  ???Do you spank your kids???

  by Princess Daisy Boo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  tell me how you feel about spanking your kids - be honest now!!!

  have you ever, and under what circumstances?.

  what other methods of discipline do you use?

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  Gill

  What for?

  There are far more cruel forms of punishment!

  Chopping off playstation plugs!

  Not putting the password into the computer so that they cannot use it for as long as I choose.

  Disconnecting everthing electrical they own!

  'Losing' their favourite games!

  These are my favourites and they NEVER cease to work and I don't have to hit anyone!!!!

  Muhaha!!