There are probably a good number of non-dubs who would be uncomfortable with some of that stuff. (I'm thinking of my parents)....especially naughty statues.
Posts by luna2
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7House of Spiritual Stuff
by Moomin inlast month, my husband and i went on holiday with my family and stayed in a big house in the norfolk countryside.
the couple who owned the house couldn't afford the upkeep but didn't want to sell.
they made one of the barns habitable for themselves and then rented the house out for holidays.
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Things that stay in your mind
by KW13 insometimes, i find myself whistling kingdom melody tunes and things and also i remember 'burnt into my head' many pictures of babylon the great, people falling down cracks in the earth and demons hit with lightning.. anyone else?.
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luna2
That's part of the problem, Mary...we have to take lunch at different times. I'm thinking about what I can do, though. I turned down an invite from the other store (the people that bought our store have two others) to a retirement party...I shouldn't have done that. I hear that they do get together over there on a semi-regular basis for other stuff. Next time, I'll go.
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Five years posting!
by LittleToe init doesn't seem two minutes since i first joined this site.
on the other hand it feels like i've been here forever, accumulating about 15,000 posts in the process.. it was a wednesday (12 september 2001) on a small island off the west coast of scotland .
in recent months i had experienced a spiritual awakening of such proportions that it caused me to question one after another of the beliefs that i'd been raised with as a jw.
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luna2
Happy JWD Anniversary, LT! Glad you're here.
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Is it time for some new GB members?
by dozy init must be white smoke time shortly at brooklyn , following the death of 2 members in the last year.. by all accounts , there can only be 7 active members....... herd (71 years old) , jackson (51) , lett (57) , losch (63) , morris (56) , pierce (71) and splane (62).. the other 3 are all very aged.
barber (101) is confined to bed , jaracz is in his eighties and (allegedly) has heart trouble and a friend who met jack barr (now 93 years old) in the london bethel this year reckoned that this would be the last time he would be travelling over to the uk as he is very , very frail now.. with new, "grafted in" anointed ones very thin on the ground (and most regarded as certifiable by the r & f) , it is increasingly difficult for the gb to constantly appoint credible new members every few years.
for years now , the wts has increasingly been talking up the growing influence the non-anointed ones (nethinim , "chieftain class etc) are having in wts affairs - is it now the time for "new light"?
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luna2
I'm sure its time, but they do have a few problems to overcome. I wonder if they are going to revamp the whole annointed doctrine. Maybe get some new lazer light and come up with something different...or I guess that as these guys die off, the whole GB could end up being comprised of non-annointed Nephininumbskulls.
Whatever. The dubs will swallow it without even needing a glass of water.
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Things that stay in your mind
by KW13 insometimes, i find myself whistling kingdom melody tunes and things and also i remember 'burnt into my head' many pictures of babylon the great, people falling down cracks in the earth and demons hit with lightning.. anyone else?.
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luna2
The other day I said a swear word at work (in front of people). I shocked myself and felt very guilty.
I still don't buy lottery tickets...gambling. I forced myself to play slots when I went to the casino with some friends, but it was almost difficult to do at first.
Occasionally, a scripture will float tot he top of my mind (the bad associations one has come up several times), and I'll have to banish it back to the depths.
I still can't seem to make friends. There are people at work that I've known for 14 years but for so many of those years, I rebuffed their invitations that now.....well, they don't ask any more and I'm embarrassed to try to break down the walls I built as a dub. I've gotten used to my walls I guess.
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Did You Know what You Were Getting Into?
by Honesty inwe as jehovah's witnesses do not allow people to become baptized prior to gaining accurate knowledge of what we believe and teach according to the bible.
if someone wants to join with us in worship and become baptized, they must also demonstrate that they know what they are getting into.
that they agree with what we believe and teach.. .
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luna2
I studied with a very nice woman who was proabably more knowledgable, kind and moral than 95% of the witnesses I've met since. Sadly, I wasn't thinking clearly and didn't ask the right questions, either of myself or of her, when I was studying. I didn't do any independant research to discover the history of this organization that I was being sucked into either. Once the hook was set (and it got set early), I was lost to objectivity.
The truly bad part about studying with this gal is that she gave me an inaccurate idea of what the majority of JWs were really like. I thought she was the norm. That most JWs were intelligent, compassionate, hard working, spirtual people of integrity. I wanted to believe that. I wanted to be one of those people and I refused to see past my own desires.
Of course, she gave me the WTS-skewed view of their past failures. She mentioned briefly and glossed over the early history of the org, the 1975 debacle (some make wrong assumptions ), but she wasn't being deliberately deceptive, just relating what she truly believed.
I often wonder if I would have looked online, if such a resource had been available to me at the time. I really don't know. I mean, I didn't even looking online for information until after I'd been inactive for four years. I was such a complete sucker.
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Thank you & update
by Ralon inhi friends,.
thank u all for all the loving comments and encouraging words in reply to me post "visiting after 4 years".. as requested here is a short update of what has happened since i left:.
during the search of my son and up to about a year later my wife took the jws side, more or less,she continued going to meetings.however,the treatment she received from the congregation was unbelievable !!!
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luna2
Facinating stuff, Ralon. I, too, would be interested in hearing more.
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My First Earthquake and I Didn't Even Feel It
by Kenneson inthere was an 6.0 earthquake yesterday morning along the west coast of florida and you would know it i didn't even feel it.
it's really rather bizarre, as some people felt it and others didn't.
but, in a sense, i'm glad that it was nothing serious--at least no one was hurt and there was no damage.
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luna2
I guess we had a couple of quakes when I lived in Fairbanks (many years ago), but because the based surrounded the airfield and there were often planes overhead, who could tell. LOL
Glad the one in the Gulf area didn't disturb anything too badly.
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What Excuses Did You Make To Get Out Of "Theocratic Activities"?
by minimus inas an elder, i always seemed to be at a meeting.
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luna2
I was never that truthful min. I got so I'd say that I just wasn't up to it or that I was tired, but I never told them that the meetings sucked.
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Is ALL sin WILLFULL?
by gumby inmany time believers differentiate sin as willfull and non willfull.
is there a difference .....not including an honest mistake?
gumby.
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luna2
Gum, Terry is completely ignoring us. Ah well, its still amusing.
almagothika, very insightful/interesting comments. Not sure about the no more men on earth in a couple hundred years. That's not something I've ever run into before. Of course, I having' been paying attention to anything terribly scientific lately. Hm. Sounds like a good plot for a sci fi novel.
BTW, your avatar is quite alarming. I'm glad that it isn't bigger.