LouBelle

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  Does anyone think there was a great deliverance of the Hebrews from Egyptian captivity?

  by humbled in

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  LouBelle

  MP - never said it was - and please take my whole comment into context.
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  Does anyone think there was a great deliverance of the Hebrews from Egyptian captivity?

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  LouBelle

  I actually haven't research anything on this - I remember recalling a doccie regarding artifacts in the red sea and what may have looked like a chariots wheel - I never followed up on it.

  There would surely be archeological evidence of such a move - one need only trace their journey and see if there is "stuff" lying buried - with such a huge contingency of people they were bound to leave something behind.

  It's not a huge thing for me whether or not it actually happened as I don't take the bible literal anyhow. I view Egypt as the religious world and ones journey out of it as enlightenment. Leave Egypt and it's falsehoods behind.
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  Will cong members support charity challenge?

  by newdawnfades in

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  i am going to participate in a physical challenge for charity with some non jw workmates which will require many hours spent in training.

  i am intending to publicize this in the congregation.

  do you think i will receive much in the way of donations for the charity?.

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  maybe friends will support you. You may get comments about wasting your time with a worldly charity.
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  shunning wrecks families

  by bigmac in

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  thread started to avoid going off topic elsewhere.. this matter of shunning---my story.. i made the decision to resign from the jw religion in my early twenties--i'm 65 now.

  i knew i would never deny any of mine a blood transfusion--just to appease this religion --and its deity.. my jw wife had just had our first child--a girl---and we went on over the next 7 years to have 2 more planned for kids---both boys.

  i like to think i was a good dad--they meant everything to me.. i hold up my hand and admit i caused the break up of that marriage---my wife stayed in the religion--and--apparently it was announced in the kh i couldnt be d/f'd---as i hadnt been a jw for years---so they said i was an apostate.. fast forward a few years--into the mid 80's---i had remarried--and led a relatively normal life.

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  Shunning breaks families! - I haven't had any interaction with my grandmother, aunt, uncle and 5 cousins for years now. I no longer miss them, I no longer worry about them - I focus on my little family that I do still have around me. I am very fortunate my dad never took to the faith and when I started questioning my mother listen and we were both disfellowshipped for apostacy (tm) My brother was never introduced to the faith and lived with my dad growing up - so he doesn't understand the anger that wells up now and again.

  I can thank fully say that I have helped 2 people not progress with their study - the met up with me, we had an open honest discussion and they have decided to no longer carry on with that faith.
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  Argh! Fading on hold?

  by Gypsy Sam in

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  i think i picked a bad time to fade so fast.

  suggestions?

  all this happened in 48 hours.. a. had a message today looking for our time, since november.

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  LouBelle

  A) lie about the time - who cares....only the elders get upity about it.

  b) keep bringing up the child abuse stuff with your sister in law and that may open up other leads. They might be pressurised into pioneerying

  c)ridiculous - absolutley ridiculous - but hey I got spoken to about worldly wild hair - yes I would slowly broach stuff with her, agree with her about how stupid it was for the sister to actually take her home/how judgemental etc.

  d)eish - it's always difficult trying to talk to people who aren't asking questions.

  All the best.
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  Tears

  by LouBelle in

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  i was checking some old threads and messages and came across people's messages and threads that have passed on ((dansk)) ((oompa)) two guys that i liked and shared some laughs / thoughts / hopes / encouraging words with.

  pulled at my heart strings.. you're still remembered.

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  Talesin - just remebering some of our past posters.

  Yeah I've had personal experience with cancer - my uncle past away from prostate cancer and I was very hands on for a year.
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  Tears

  by LouBelle in

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  i was checking some old threads and messages and came across people's messages and threads that have passed on ((dansk)) ((oompa)) two guys that i liked and shared some laughs / thoughts / hopes / encouraging words with.

  pulled at my heart strings.. you're still remembered.

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  Talesin - just remebering some of our past posters.

  Yeah I've had personal experience with cancer - my uncle past away from prostate cancer and I was very hands on for a year.
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  South African cardinal suggests child abuse is illness not crime

  by besty in

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  http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/16/us-safrica-cardinal-idusbre92f09a20130316.

  johannesburg | sat mar 16, 2013 11:54am edt.

  (reuters) - a south african cardinal who helped elect pope francis this week has told the bbc pedophilia is an illness and not a crime.. cardinal wilfrid fox napier, the catholic archbishop of durban, told bbc radio 5 on saturday that pedophilia was a "disorder" that needed to be treated.. "from my experience, pedophilia is actually an illness.

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  ah from my neck of the woods - delightful (not) Ja, many south africans have a warped sense of what is crime and what isn't anymore.
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  Is this true? Do the elders really do it like this?

  by Julia Orwell in

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  i put this week's wt paragraph about disfellowshipping on my fb page and said how poor robert's family didn't even check to see whether he was dead or alive in 16 years and a friend of mine of the 'conscious class' commented about how unchristian she felt disfellowshipping to this degree is, and i agreed.. another friend, and uber-jw who has a host of illnesses and yet pioneers, who everytime she and her husband go to another congregation, if he's not appointed within three years they move to another and try for an appointment there - he used to be an elder and no one is willing to promote him again- replied to my thread.

  now keep in mind she has a dfd son and she doesn't even know whether he is dead or alive, because she follows the wt to the tee.

  she replied, among other things,with this:.

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  LouBelle

  I knew the consequences of my decision. But they didn't even try to prove their beliefs with the bible and only the bible - I asked them too and they sent a sister to me who brought all the literature along - no one on one with the bible.

  I don't blame anyone.

  The faith does advocate conditional love. Believe as we do and we'll associate with you, choose to leave = shunned.
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  Tears

  by LouBelle in

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  i was checking some old threads and messages and came across people's messages and threads that have passed on ((dansk)) ((oompa)) two guys that i liked and shared some laughs / thoughts / hopes / encouraging words with.

  pulled at my heart strings.. you're still remembered.

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  LouBelle

  Lois Lane I've been on here much longer than 7 months - been a memeber since 2005.

  I had some great conversations with Dansk and Oompa - and I will remember them.