Posts by Louise

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Regional Convention 2015 - Program

by Designer Stubble in

friday morning9:20 music9:30 song no.

5 and prayer9:40 chairmans address: imitate jesuswhy and how?10:20 symposium: lessons from jesus word pictures observe the birds and the lilies have salt in yourselves build your house on the rock11:10 song no.

120 and announcements11:20 follow jesus patternkeep on asking, seeking, and knocking!11:45 keynote address: concealed in him are all the treasures of wisdom12:15 song no.

Louise

How happy am I that I get to enjoy my weekend. My schedule:

Friday Morining:

9 am - wake up and potter around in my jarmies. Make tea and play with my dogs.

11am - head out for a late breakfast somewhere on the beachfront. Sip cover and look at the ocean.

1pm - meet up with some friends and pop a beer. Talk about shit and show them my thumb. Have some hubbly. Laugh and joke around.

4pm - a lil buzzed, get a braai going and chill.

6pm - a lil more buzzed, eat, talk more rubbish, drink a lil more whiskey.

......

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Who REALLY believed in the idea of living forever on earth??

by stuckinarut2 in

seriously.....even when you were 100% in "the truth", did you really believe in living forever?

?

Louise

I did. I thought how wonderful it will be to live in perfection in a paradise and that I could travel and see all the world and take my time. Naive, yes but I believed it. I love animals so much I want to interact with them all, so yeah that was the perfect setting for me.

Once I realised the truth about it all and that once you die that is it - facing my mortality was difficult.

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New forum: one month progress report

by Simon in

well, we survived the first month at least!

yes, the new forum is now 1 month old.. of course there have been some issues and i'm grateful that people have been patient while i worked on them.

a big thank-you to everyone who's been patient, have provided useful feedback or just been willing to adapt to something new during the transition.. i've also made some improvements along the way and am fairly happy with how things are from a basic functionality and performance perspective so it's time to start looking at some of the new features i've been planning.

Louise

Thank you. This site is SO important and I truly believes saves lives in the very literal sense.

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Tear down the whole of South Africa

by Louise in

jw
friends

there was a statue outside the rhodes university.

a 30 year old black student then threw his pooh on the statue and that got the ball rolling to pull the statue down.

the board of this university built also gives out burseries and grants to previously disadvantaged black south africans and not disadvantaged black south africans.. there has been a huge debate in the country and now the statue has been removed.

Louise

Our president (gwad he is pathetic) hasn't even come out and taken a firm stand against this. He has't issued a statement in the papers or in any media. He is silent.

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Having my stitches out....

by Louise in

jw
friends

and i'm a little scared.. yes they are ready to come out.

my thumb pad is tingly and burning.

the skin around the stitches is numb.. with the injury being so bad, it is going to take at least a year for my thumb to be 90% recovered.

Louise

ok - so that was beeping painful and I have a high pain thresh hold. The ones through the nail were a breeze, but the other 4 through the meat were so painful I screamed at the doctor and told him I would take them out myself.

He calmed me down and proceeded to get them out. It was a combination of the awkwardness of the stitches along with the caked blood which refused to budge.

They are out and now more healing can begin. I've dipped it in saline solution, alcohol swabbed it, dabbed it dry and put a thin gauze over it while I'm at work (gems an' all)

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Having my stitches out....

by Louise in

jw
friends

and i'm a little scared.. yes they are ready to come out.

my thumb pad is tingly and burning.

the skin around the stitches is numb.. with the injury being so bad, it is going to take at least a year for my thumb to be 90% recovered.

Louise

Slammed it in the kitchen door crack - so hard that the wood sliced through and detached the thumb pad meet from the bone. Not my best day.

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Question for atheists and nonbelievers

by pressman in

i profess to teach the truth to you all and get you to all to think and believe.

believing in christ through his words and not through evil religious cults, like hoj and jw, can and will save you.

do you all realize that every time you are victorious and receive something of value through your hard work and sweat, it was our holy god who blessed you.

Louise

NewYork44 - AGREED!

I have a pretty damn good life too. And even when I didn't - I know why and I dealt with it maturely and made decisions to change certain things and accept others.

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Having my stitches out....

by Louise in

jw
friends

and i'm a little scared.. yes they are ready to come out.

my thumb pad is tingly and burning.

the skin around the stitches is numb.. with the injury being so bad, it is going to take at least a year for my thumb to be 90% recovered.

Louise

and I'm a little scared.

Yes they are ready to come out. My thumb pad is tingly and burning. The skin around the stitches is numb.

With the injury being so bad, it is going to take at least a year for my thumb to be 90% recovered.

The feeling is like itchy, burny, tingly, pulling, sensitive, numbish - all in one. It's very irritating and my thumb can't 'rest' - like restless legs - if you've ever had that.

I just hope it's not sore!

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Jury Service in the UK

by Nambo in

i had always thought the powers that be knew i was a jw and so never called me up for jury service.. today however, i received a summons for jury service.. what is the jw's position on jury service?, what will happen to me when i refuse to swear an oath?.

Louise

We don't have the jury system here in SA - wish we did - would love to be on one.

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Jehovah kicks a puppy

by Simon in

technically incorrect, but effectively he does .... if we're to believe the genesis account the serpent deceived eve and made her eat of the tree of knowledge.

it all went pear shaped from there on in, although most people believe it was an apple (boom tish).. but anyway .... either it was a literal serpent that could talk on it's own behalf or, as people typically believe, it was satan who was the puppet master and possessing the creature.. the first raises all sorts of questions that contradict the whole bible narrative (another creature that could reason, talk, debate existence and law etc...) so let's go with "the satan theory".. how does got react to his 'perfect' creation immediately being completely imperfect as soon as he takes it out of the box?

(he's like 0 for 4 ... satan, serpent, woman, man ... all break his rules).

Louise

You know what always gets me about this god ....is that this almighty god got offended and let his ego get the better of him. Now he expects to be worshiped and placated with offerings and humans begging forgiveness for sins done and thought of being done and not being done but you never know you may just be doing, because you are imperfect and thus flawed and cursed and pathetic and sinful and must die.

But it's all your choice. Choose god and live or don't choose god and die.