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  This is about out beloved Dansk

  by mouthy in

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  how sorry i was to hear from dansk-he is going through a very difficult time.. i would like all prayers, thoughts, please keep this in mind ____ for me!!!!.

  the sad news he has cancer.it is lymphoma!!!

  they are waiting on the results of the biopsy before determining treatment..... he didnt want me to say anything at first- as he feels you all have your own problems & he didnt want to upset anyone-because he says "they are dear friends".

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  Gill

  Hi again Ian and Claire,

  Thanks for replying.!

  I just wanted to say that my story about the grocer is no exaggeration. I"ve lived here for about thirty five years now and I"ve always known this grocer, but not his medical condition. His cousin comes over to help him every so often, they're really funny and bicker like an old married couple. Any way he hadn't been at the shop for a couple of days and I asked about him and that's when his cousin told me about his problem. Now, she said to me that he'd been ill for thirty years so I thought, give or take in case of exaggeration. But that's when she also explained about the diet he has, only veg and no fruit or meat. To look at him though, you'd never know he was ill.

  That's what made me wonder when I was reading through the posts in this section, on the avoiding of acid food and trying to stick to alkali foods.

  On top of that he's a really cool and laid back dude. He hardly looks any different to how he looked when I was a child.

  The moral of the story, 'stay COOL and eat your veg!'

  Good luck!

  Love

  Gill
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  Positive proof that Watchman & those who post on his forum are LOONEY.

  by Schizm in

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  http://e-jehovahs-witnesses.com/viewtopic.php?t=1084&sid=584fa2df178b17b22f245bf648ff3e66

  modern day "garden of eden" ?

  good day brothers and sisters: .

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  Gill

  HI there all,

  Sorry to sound like a total ignorant twit, which I probably am, I'm new to this 'so called apostasy' game and having much fun. Is the e-watchman the same site as the Paradise Cafe?

  This,' he who must not be named' dude, isn't Lord Voldemort by any chance or is he a relative?
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  This is about out beloved Dansk

  by mouthy in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  how sorry i was to hear from dansk-he is going through a very difficult time.. i would like all prayers, thoughts, please keep this in mind ____ for me!!!!.

  the sad news he has cancer.it is lymphoma!!!

  they are waiting on the results of the biopsy before determining treatment..... he didnt want me to say anything at first- as he feels you all have your own problems & he didnt want to upset anyone-because he says "they are dear friends".

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  Gill

  Hi Dansk!

  Sorry to hear about your woes but remember that Cancer is a disease that people live with as well as die of.

  There's a fruit and veg grocer that lives near us and has had lymphoma for the last twenty five years at least.

  He tells me that he never eats any fruit at all but nothing but vegetables and he rarely misses a day at the shop.

  I also had a relative who had a diagnosis of a terminal cancer with weeks to live who decided she wasn't going anywhere and survived another thirteen years. She was given a total all clear after five years of her chemo. Then something really traumatic, terrible and shocking happened to her and her cancer came back. She fought like a tiger but only survived another two years. Though I know this story has a sad ending, I tell it because I know you already are aware of the power of positive thinking and that cancer can be fought with a powerful mind as well as all the medical and herbals treatments available. Use everything you can to fight it.

  Go for it and kick ass because you CAN do it. I've seen it done.
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  Signs of Discouragement in the Org.

  by JH in

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  most witnesses i knew were always positive thinking that the end was just around the corner, and that all your troubles were unimportant because the end was so close.

  did you know any jw's or even elders who gave signs of discouragement because nothing was happening like they expected?

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  Gill

  Hi everyone,

  It seems to me that yes there is more discouragement that we realise in the 'truth'. The congregation we used to go to has recently joined with another congregation in an unnecessary venture to build their own KH when they already had one they could share. The financial burden on the poor brothers is ENORMOUS and the work they have had to put in and are still having to put in makes them look and sound like the walking dead.

  I wondered whether all this frantic activity they have had to be involved in has been a ruse to stop any deep thinking taking place or just to keep them too busy to care whether the truth is the truth.

  They all decided or were persuaded to decide not to go on holiday this year and to put the money they would have spent into the new hall and they don't see that all they've done is move 200 yards down the road, for WHAT?!

  The heavy hand of Brooklyn keeps them too busy to break wind never mind think.

  I feel very sorry for them. They are afraid not to be busy so that they are not found resting when Judgement Day arrives. They deserve some pity.

  Remember how difficult it has been for most of us to leave the organization. If you're too busy to think for yourself, what with meetings, field service, studying, security duty at the new KH, holding down a full time job...etc!!!!

  Whar can the poor souls do?
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  Quick question, driving me nuts

  by dorothy in

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  which scripture mentions something about anyone not against us being for us?

  can't find it, i'm going crazy... and feel a little dumb starting a new thread because i'm too lazy to keep looking.

  thanks.

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  That doesn't matter Gumby! As long as he goes to all the meetings and puts his report in every month he's saved!
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  Faithful "ones" that married outside the faith

  by blondie in

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  if more wives were named and described, this list might be longer.

  did i miss some?

  abraham?hagar .

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  Gill

  This is the kind of stuff in the Bible that just pisses me off so much that I want to drop kick it into oblivion.

  Sorry, must be PMT at it's worse, I must have forgotten to take my magnesium pills today. Perhaps I need a lie down. No I know what I need to do. I'll tell you about a very elderly sister used to be in the congregation we went to.

  It was 1945 and her sweet heart returned from war. Her family were all extremly zealous witnesses, all pioneers and the men in prison for not serving in the war. Anyway, she marries her sweetheart and they move off to Yorkshire despite her family's opposition. Her brother comes out of prison and promptly gets his wife pregnant. They had both been full time pioneers and this baby was not in their plans. It would stop them serving Jehovah and getting into the new system which was about to happen any time, wasn't it?

  The whole family rush up to Yorkshire and persuade, or brow beat the woman to leave her husband so that she can look after the baby and the parents can carry on pioneering. She gives in and leaves. She is never happy again. And a woman more down trodden and mistreated by her family you have never met! All she does is study, preach, take care of the child. Then takes care of her mother. Then gets abandoned in an old people's home.

  I wonder about her and the life she missed.

  I don't intend to miss any more of mine.

  She married out of the truth and I believe she would have had happiness. All she had in the end was misery.
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  Signs of Discouragement in the Org.

  by JH in

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  most witnesses i knew were always positive thinking that the end was just around the corner, and that all your troubles were unimportant because the end was so close.

  did you know any jw's or even elders who gave signs of discouragement because nothing was happening like they expected?

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  Gill

  Yes! One very elderly relative of my husband, she's 91, always told everyone that she would never die.

  She complained bitterly and heart brokenly when the policy changed in '95.

  I now can imagine how she felt, which I couldn't at the time. Her whole world had collapsed around her. Her dreams and horizons had changed dramatically. She is now sadly accepting that she is going to die.

  I feel for her very much! Her house had been built on sand and been swept away from under her. At the time she was about 82 and for all her life she had been told, baring illness or accident that she would never die!
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  We're not Suitable!

  by Gill in

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  my husband and myself used to be witnesses, but not for quite a long while now.

  every last member of both our families are witnesses so i guess we're the proverbial black sheep, but we haven't been disfellowshiped or have me disassociated, just drifted quietly away.. my husbands grandfather, who is ninety-seven now, suffered a stroke a year ago.

  he spent several months in hospital.

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  Gill

  Thanks for all your interest. Sometimes when people do something so blatantly wrong you start to wonder if it's yourself or them that's in the wrong because it's such a bad thing to do. How could they?

  But, I'm a great believer in 'what goes around comes around.'

  Unfortunately that doesn't help Grandpa at the moment but it gives me a certain 'smug' feeling for what will happen to them in the future.

  In the meantime we're writing to 'the Court of Protection' for help, though I don't know whether they can do very much.
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  Where were you last night....!!!!!!

  by Gill in

  1. watchtower
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  what happened to jwd forum last night?!.

  anyway, i managed to find another way of entertaining myself and stumbled across the official jw discussion site.

  has anyone else visited this?.

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  Gill

  Thanks Blondie. I should have known that 'The Paradise Cafe' sounded too good to be true!

  However, if it's not under any direct or indirect WTS supervision what's with the strict editing policy and scrutiny for joining?

  I am seriously surprised that anyone would even bother posting on the site considering the fact that the administrators say that what is posted is subject to editing. What's the point?

  I was surprised also to see that they were 'discussing' the NGO, sex abuse and other scandals!

  So what's going on there?

  I know for a fact that my family know NOTHING about the NGO UN issue and think that I've invented it.
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  Where were you last night....!!!!!!

  by Gill in

  1. watchtower
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  what happened to jwd forum last night?!.

  anyway, i managed to find another way of entertaining myself and stumbled across the official jw discussion site.

  has anyone else visited this?.

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  Gill

  Hi Candidlynuts,

  the link for this site is www.e-watchman.com

  The sites name is Watchman for Jehovah's Witnesses and the Watchtower, Bible and Tract Society.

  If you want to join you need your birth certificate, medical records, criminal history and reveal all distinguishing features and tatoos which must be shown on web-cam and a blood test will be required and submission to full mental and physical examination.

  O.kay, I'm joking but you'll get the gist when you get on the site.

  Good luck

  Gill