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here's a few of mine:.
donnie darko, madonna's drowned world tour, o, lucky man!, mulholland drive, hedwig and the angry inch, andrei rublev, blue velvet, once upon a time in the west, the brak show!, the ali g how, the godfather, nostalghia, flowers of shanghai, kwaidan.... what's on yours.... - preston
Ray Stevens Music Videos, the Matrix set, Blazing Saddles, Monty Python's The Life of Brian, Chappelle's Show Season 1, some XBox games, The Labyrinth, Milo and Otis, The Lion King, Ice Age, Bruce Almighty.. and a number of others that I can't think of right now...
Katlin
IMHO.. I gotta go with whoever it was that said "Love is like a muscle.. the more you exercize it, the greater it gets." I think one can love as many people as one has the capacity to love. For some, they loved 20+ people. For others... it was only one.
I have had thus far, only two great loves in my life. I define these loves from the other loves in my life because these two were the two I loved completely unselfishly. I heard some movie once say that a "Great love is the love that changes you forever." I believe this. Thankfully, I married the second such man to come along in my life. The minute his gentle soul touched my life, I knew I would never be the same, and you know what.. if he ever left, I would be forever changed because of him.
Katlin
what is your definition of a friend?.
i believe you have one or two friends through out a lifetime.
all others are just people you know.
I heard a great quote once..
"A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and appreciates you today just for being who you are."
I have several very close friends.. numerous "aquaintences" (People I am friendly with but wouldnt trust with sensitive or highly personal information) Many may disagree with my ability to juggle so many close friends, but I rather like having three best friends.
Katlin
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what they do , what they believe and if they have physic powers.
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To answer this question..
You have to look at spells like prayer. Its a much more ceremonial prayer but - for the most part - it is still similar to a prayer. We dont actually levitate things (Though I have seen it done) and we dont shoot balls of flames at people. Charmed is completely wrong. Harry Potter is closer to right, but still off in left field. Even worse are the bad witches like on The Wizard of Oz - the ones who eat children.
As for being a "good" versus a "bad" witch, it depends on your own personal perception. There are those who go out casting nothing but the negative stuff, but they tend to do it for personal gain so they believe it is good yet the rest of the world would see it as bad. Do they exist? Well yes they do. But they're hard to miss because they're normally very egotistical, appear to have a few screws loose, and almost sociopathic. To be a witch like that, you kind of have to be.
Telepathy.. no. We can't Literally read your mind. Not in the way YOU are thinking, anyway. The thought is a very private thing and God likes to keep it that way. Reading auras, energy.. thats a whole different story. Have you ever known someone so deeply that you can tell what mood they are in just by which eyebrow is higher? That's the telepathic powers in a very infantile form. The psychic powers are powers everyone is ABLE to have (but most have been raised to surpress their individual gift normally via a parent who says "Oh stop it. Youre making it all up.") but if a person broadcasts their certain gift and uses it for monetary gain, they are almost certain of losing this gift. I've seen it happen time and time again.
Like I said, You can email me anytime about any questions you may have. I enjoy answering questions.
Katlin
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what they do , what they believe and if they have physic powers.
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Bless everyone on this board for trying as best as they can to describe this. I try not to openly broadcast it, but I am a 4th generation Astrau Pagan who learned everything from my mom, who learned from her mom.. etc. (The reason I'm here is my dad is a JW and he was trying to induct me. Plus Lilbit said it was a good idea to join. Lilbit even asked me to throw in my two cents on this post.)
Anyhow, the "White Witch" is completely "touched". As a practicioner myself, I would never have contact with a person who automatically labled themselves "white" because magic is both light and dark and it is impossible to practice magic and be 100% "white". This is the first sign that the "witch" you are dealing with only has half of the facts. You can't follow the "An if it harm none" rule to a tee and still cast a spell. If you cast a prosperity spell, that money comes from somewhere so youre technically taking it from one person to give to another. If you do healing, you are asking to kill the infliction, which, if its a virus, bacteria or other single celled living organism, is technically praying for the demise of the virus or bacteria. But most witches are not out to purposely hurt you. We're normal people who just have a different belief system than mainstream society.
Think of it this way. Those witches you see wandering around with their magical crystals in hand, laying them out tenderly in a certain way when playing Bingo.. the ones sitting at the mall shuffling a deck of tarot cards while wearing a veil.. The one in all black with big huge pentacles covering their arms and fingers... these are all versions of the same fluff bunny "witch" who TENDS to call him/herself a "white witch". You can email me for more info, but your best advice is to shrug her off as the town nut job.
Katlin
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i just thought i'td be neet to get a poll of how many people on this board are still meeting attending, time reporting publishers, who believe the wts is all crap?.
Dad and other mom are active Dubs..
Joined this group because they were starting to try recruiting me
No Memorials. No Services.. One bible study ever - about 3 weeks ago
Katlin
evolution versus creation has been beat to death lately, this isn't another debate thread.
i wanted to showcase a hugely funny site i found when researching creationists' views.
note that i don't believe this site in any way depicts the beliefs of most creationists.
Omg. This site is just irking me to NO end. As a present day anthropologist, reading some of their "Evolution debunked" articles just made me MAD. Thanks for the link.. and the eye thing was funny as further proof of JW circular reasoning.. even so.. this one BUGS me.
Homo Florensis being PROVEN to be a pigmy homo sapian.. omg! We just found the darn skeleton! Nothing is proven YET.
I'm SO done with this site.. but thanks for posting it!!
Katlin
uugh!!!
i am sooo lost.
not more than a couple of days ago, i ran into a great post about how the figures from the bible were.. erm.. less than "christian".. (one reference was made to jacob being in love with another guy).. now, i can't find the article!!
uugh!!!
I am SOOO lost. Not more than a couple of days ago, I ran into a great post about how the figures from the Bible were.. erm.. less than "Christian".. (One reference was made to Jacob being in love with another guy).. Now, I can't find the article!! Little help please!!
Katlin
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it has been suggested by someone that genesis says that a&e were neolithic farmers.. they were humans before a&e,but a&e were first to have a soul.. interesting take on theory of evolution..
Neolithic LITERALLY means "New Stone Age". You're looking at the end of the pleistocene.. archaic homo sapian.. something like 100,000 years ago. I'll bust out the anthropology books for a more detailed explanation, if you want... Im an anthropology major in college, though I specialized in Applied Cultural Anthro, we all had to learn physical anthro and archaeology.. It's ironic that this got brought up.. In archaeology we learned of the "Eve" hypothesis that these two australiopithicenes, thus far known to be the earliest bi-peds, could be Adam and Eve, since all we have are the footprints of a male and a female walking side-by-side and a bunch of happy furry animals running under foot before everything was covered by volcanic eruption.. but Mary Leeky isn't exactly known for NOT being a few fruit loops short... Katlin
i've been reading the forums for a while now, as a guest, and have decided that i need a counterbalance to the indoctrination i am recieving.
here's my story (as short as i can make it): .
i was raised pagan, hearing the witnesses were a cult like morminism and islam.
Hello!
I've been reading the forums for a while now, as a guest, and have decided that I need a counterbalance to the indoctrination I am recieving. Here's my story (as short as I can make it):
I was raised Pagan, hearing the Witnesses were a cult like Morminism and Islam. I "experimented" with Christianity when I was about 16 but made the decision that I was following rather than making my own decision. At age 19, I found my biological father, and discovered he was a Jehovah's Witness. So is his wife, my other mother (and she really is like a second mom to me), and 3 of my very young siblings. At 20 I married a lapse Methodist who recently renounced his faith in all Christian religions. At 21, I started reading some of the propaganda my father continually sends me and it piqued my intrest. Today a pair of older sisters showed up on my doorstep to do a Bible Study. Not wanting to be rude, I entertained them. And thus the indoctrination begins. They will be returning next week for another study and I am positive that I will once again entertain them.
I am firm in the belief that Jesus Christ didn't die for MY sins, therefore alienating me as any form of a Christian. I also hate the idea that one dies and that's the end, as the Witnesses teach. I like the idea of an afterlife.. a heaven if you will.. where I will go to rest a bit before being reincarnated again. I question the obsessive teaching of all Christians that we are in the "end times." If my research is right, we have been in the end times for about 2000 years now. But God is coming.. soon.. and has been coming soon for the last 800+ years.
I'm a student of Anthropology (About to get my BA and considered one of the prize thinkers in my department at my university) and made the sisters uncomfortable when I posed the probability that creationism and evolutionary theory can co-exist peacefully via the archaeological evidence we HAVE. My trust in Anthropology as a science further eliminates the possibility of me becoming any form of a Christian. One could say that I am on the fence for the most part. I retain some of my deeply held Pagan beliefs that I learned as a child, along with theories from the buddhists, catholics, and Baptists I learned about as a child. I'm monotheistic, very spiritual, and appear to be sitting on the fence with regards to picking a lone path of religion. (My husband jokes that we go to the church of ATM and worship the almighty dollar so our religion is capitalism.) But lately I have been trying to get back to a way of life that was how God intended it to be. I am planning a Home Birth for when we decide to get pregnant, I am starting to return to a more natural diet.. and my spirituality seems to be following hand-in-hand. I just don't want to become a follwer again. I would like to maintain my originality.
I keep hearing about all the lies the Witnesses teach, both on this board and from several ex-witnesses I know in real life. So it's about time I asked for an in depth explanation. Personally speaking, I like reading the Watchtower and the Awake when they present articles I actually care about. Being that I'm 21, with no kids and none planned for some time, I could care less about how to deal with a rebellious teenager. But I like reading about animals and how the Bible is now being printed in an Eskimo tongue. I like reading about how God didnt say we COULDN'T be rich. But I need a counterbalance so I don't fall victim to their teachings involuntarily.
Hope I will be well recieved and I hope to gain what I seek.
-Katlin
