Posts by COMF

regarding this subject, you'll be glad to know that human efforts fail but if you get right with god via the jehovah's witnesses, jehovah will cure you in his own due time!!!.

so you see, they are still discouraging people from seeking professional help.. http://www.watchtower.org/library/g/2001/7/8/article_03.htm.

The society won't come right out and recommend AA or "worldly" counseling, true. But they came as close as they probably ever will, with an article in the Awake of December 8, 1982, entitled "Living With Alcoholism" and told by the wife of an alcoholic. Note that although the society doesn't recommend AA, they allow this sister to espouse some of the principles of AA, and to describe how she was helped by it.

"Several times he went to Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). They talked about alcoholism, but he felt he didn't need to hear that. His problems were at home, he thought. My hopes were then dashed again. I felt trapped, angry.

(She describes first herself and then her husband contemplating suicide)

"The next morning I knew I had to do something. I got in touch with AA, and they referred me to a woman in my area who had faced a similar situation. She recommended a local group made up of family members of alcoholics. So I attended some meetings.

"They helped me to see that I really couldn't blame myself for my husband's drinking. He had started before I even met him. Those in attendance seemed to be in control of themselves. They were cheerful and openly discussed their feelings. They lived one day at a time. That's what I had to do! And even if the same problems were there, I had to realize that today had all the anxieties I could handle. I recalled Jesus' words at Matthew 6:34: "Never be anxious about the next day, for the next day will have its own anxieties."

..."as I listened to them talk about living with an alcoholic, I learned a number of helpful things. The most important thing I learned was this: I shouldn't shield my husband from the consequences of his drinking, as I had been doing. Instead, I had to help him realize the problems his drinking was causing. It took a great deal of strength to overcome so many years of negative thinking, but I was determined. I began applying these suggestions.

..."on one occasion some months later, he drank all night. But when he got up the next day he asked me to take him to the hospital. He couldn't take it any longer. I had him call the doctor and make the arrangements. When we got to the hospital, he admitted himself and remained in therapy for two months.

"Well, several years have passed now and our life together is getting better and better. It hasn't been easy for either of us. We must constantly guard our thinking and motives.

..."Learning to take one day at a time was a big help in controlling anxiety. In particular did I benefit from learning not to shield or protect my husband from feeling the consequences of his drinking. Without such insight, I don't know what might have happened.

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Alpha Club. First Time of the New Economic System

by enricofrassinetti in

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dear brothers and sisters.. is it from 3 years that we jehovah's witnesses, from italy, are preparing the bases of one new economic system.. when the great tribulation will be started, one international recession economic, the condition of poverty for all will be inevitable, also all witnesses around the world.. for this, we, are starting this system capable of give help when succeeding the conditions previewed from revelation 6:6.. in that time, the beast 666, will impress his mark to all habitants of the earth.. for survive, only those that receive his mark, will be possible buy and sell, for eat.. in that case, all loyal jehovah's witnesses, not must receive his mark.. in prevision of these times, we are starting the bases for one electronic coin expendible, in one new economic system capable of give economic freedom, without to be slaves of the project of the beast.. .

visit the web sites for only members.. www.thealphaclub.com

COMF

Visit the Web Sites for only Members.
www.thealphaclub.com

Okay, I visited. You were right, by golly... it's for only members.

What will we be able to do with our electronic coin expendable?

COMF

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Is this how we want to be perceived?

by Joyzabel in

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friends

this quote is from someone who lurks on jwd!

sorry for the long email, but this has been therapeutic and i just may post this on the db one day.

(lol) but i have to get up the nerve, because those people can be a little mean at times.

COMF

We be ourselves, and people perceive it however they will. There is maturity in freedom. And there is freedom in maturity.

COMF

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"ARMAGEDDON COULD HAPPEN"

by You Know in

even as apostate dubs plan their next apostofest, world leaders speak of the very real possibility of an event so dreaded that they are evoking the image of the biblical armageddon.

in the wake of the anglo-american policy revision of recklessly targeting various nations with the threat of a first-strike nuclear attack, it appears that iraq has been singled out as the first on the hit list.

in response to the increasing drum beat of war against the poster boy of evil, "sodom" hussian, the jordanian king has warned that an attack upon iraq may unleash uncontrollable destructive forces.

COMF

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God says "hey man I`ll answer one question...

by Waygooder64 in

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here is the scenario: god is bored one day and says to himself " lets give all the poor saps down below something to think about.lets give everyone on earth the opportunity to have one question answered truthfully" so that is my question,if you had the chance to have one question answered that you always wanted to know what would it be ?

any response counts and if you want to get goofy go nuts!

i would like to know if there really is life in outer space...

COMF

My question: "What's the problem with telling us everything we wonder about, instead of grudgingly granting us just one question?"

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#&)^%!!!!!! I'm in the mood to kill.

by LoneWolf in

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friends

and if you read some snarls in between those words, you don't know the half of it.. my wife asked me to go to the memorial last night, and i decided to go if for no other reason than to keep tabs on what's going on.

those who know my story know that my situation is unusual.. just before we left she came to me privately and said that she had something to tell me before i heard it from anyone else.

she knows exactly how i feel about the society, and was scared as to my reaction, and i don't blame her: there's hell to pay.. jeff strebe committed suicide the night before.

COMF

I'm sorry to hear of this, Wolf. My heart goes out to his family.

Why would a man with financial and marital woes have a one-car accident and then run from the cops, accidentally killing himself? It's a give-away, man. He was drunk. That's why he had the wreck. He was afraid of getting a DWI--very expensive and a reputation-ruiner, as well guaranteeing his insurance wouldn't pay for the car. That's not to mention the rammifications in the congregation.

COMF

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I am falling into my old habit

by rekless in

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when i studied jw stuff at first i coundn't get enought of it.. then i got overloaded with the same old crap lost interest then got bored then started liking fluff.. then .

two years ago when i started to really question everything about the wts i read everything i could find, did research, read ray's book, studied the chonological data on 607 etc, etc, etc.

now i have lost interest in trying to prove them wrong.when i see a long winded post about the organization and what we can do to damage them ijust can't read it.

COMF

Check out Lady Lee's web page, y'all.

- http://members.shaw.ca/leemarsh/

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Aposta-Crawfest

by Elsewhere in

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it is almost crawfish season.

would anyone be interested in an aposta-crawfest here in the dfw area?.

before i start doing any legwork on this i would like to get a head count.. "as every one knows, there are mistakes in the bible" - the watchtower, april 15, 1928, p. 126 .

COMF

Debra and I have it on our calendars, fer shur.