Posts by Apostate Kate

I have the one at Seans Research. I am looking for the one with a bull sitting on a thrown with glowing eyes. I have a friend who is working through some old fears and that picture is one of them.

Thanks

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Mama Bear and 2 Cubs

by Cabin in the woods in

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our property connects near a national forest and you never know what is going to pop out of the woods and where!.

today, looking through tall grass in a field sat / laid a big fat mama bear peering down the hillside towards the road and beside her were 2 cute little cubs leaping and playing.

they were darling and very, very shiney and healthy.

We had a bear in a joshua tree up here that I didn't get to see but someone took a picture of it and posted it in the paper. The other day a road runner was trying to kill a snake in the yard but Dave walked out and the roadie left. The snake stayed behind and was on the patio. He is beautiful and unharmed.

Our yard is sancuary for all the wild critters. We have 1 of 5 acres fenced so the quail, bunnies, chipmunks, squirrels, birds, all come to eat and nest in our safe trees. The coyotes can't get them. The baby bunnies have been so adorable this year, I seen two little ones chasing each other around a big boulder. The chipmunks and the cactus wrens argue on who gets to play in the dog house.

My niece and her family came and said, "this is very relaxing and entertaining just sitting here". It truly is.

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"Giving a fine witness"

by Lady Lee in

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recently i have heard a few movie stars make the comment that entertainers should not look at their on-screen image as any sort of idea of who they really are.

trying to live up to a manufactured image for the screen is a huge mistake.

i know what they are talking about

Apostate Kate

I love Dog the bounty hunter too. That guy brings me to tears sometimes. He is so rough looking around the edges but really sweet and caring. It just goes to show us that we cannot judge what is on the outside of someone, because we have no idea how beautiful someone is on the inside

I think Dog gives a very fine witness. And Beth too! She makes me want to go platinum and wear pink lipstick! lol

On the season finale, the best of the season they showed her talking to a junkie. She really cared so much about him, tried so hard to reach him. He ended up dead 7 months after she had tried so hard to reach him.

My own hubby is addicted to cigarettes. His mom smoked while she was pregnant (it was ok in those days) and all of his growing up life he was saturated in second hand smoke. He can be quite the character at times, but we have a phrase around here "EVERYBODY LOVES DAVE"

He loves all people and they love him, he is humble and helpful, even the wild critters come and hang out with him! But he would have been disfellowshipped as a JW. He tried hard not to do it in front of any kids because so many look up to him.

It is not what goes into your body that defiles you but what comes out.

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What are "Christian Principle's?

by jeanniebeanz in

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i hear this all the time.

he/she has good christian principles.

how are christian principles any better than, say, societal or cultural principles?.

Apostate Kate

After thinking about it I don't think I have ever heard any mainstream Christian pastors use the term Christian Principles.

The ones I have listened to, there have been many since I left the Borg, they all teach grace, repentence, and unconditional love. Some people may think that repentance is a condition thus God's love is conditional. I see repentance as the only way to heal and move on. If I repent of the harm I have caused others, I will then apologise and heal that relationship etc. If I can not forgive the harm done to me by others, then I am remaining in self made chains.

I think that term may be a particular to the org and maybe some other legalistic religions.

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"Giving a fine witness"

by Lady Lee in

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recently i have heard a few movie stars make the comment that entertainers should not look at their on-screen image as any sort of idea of who they really are.

trying to live up to a manufactured image for the screen is a huge mistake.

i know what they are talking about

Apostate Kate

It does feel great to be free. Your post makes me think of the difference of the JW facade, and Dog the Bounty Hunter. He smokes and cusses and doubtless JWs would think he is as bad and crass as it gets and far away from the will of God.

I think he is great. He is himself. He cares passionatly about helping get people off drugs.

I remember one time calling a JW "sister". She was esteemed, pioneering, faithful meeting attendance. Her daughter picked up the phone, layed it down, and went to get her mom. What happened at that point was quite shocking to me. The girl did not get a chance to tell her mom I was on the phone because of the barrage of SCREAMING, cussing, sounds like things being thrown....this went on for at least 15 minutes.

The outside looked pretty good, but I was not immune from that ugliness inside, trying to keep up with meetings and studies cultivated an ugliness inside me. That phone call made me realize I was not alone.

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Doubting our own intuition - reality vs. reality

by Cady in

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when someone asks about the jws, i usually find myself talking about disfellowshipping, the blood issue, the child-molestation problem.

but looking back i think, although those are the easily explained and perhaps somewhat sensational bad things about being a jw, they're not the only things that have left their marks.

in fact, only the disfellowshipping issue has personally affected me (although i'm not officially df'd, but of course you don't have to be to lose your friends/family).

Apostate Kate

What gets me even more is that I don't trust myself. We were constantly told "this is reality" when our senses and our intuition clearly said "no it's not." But of course we listed to what we were told, and learned not to listen to ourselves.

Have you ever felt that other people "got it" when you were a thousand miles away from getting it? It literally took me many years after leaving the JWs to fully understand what this even means; "TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE"

As you free yourself from the chains and clutches of the Borg, it will all become clearer.

Life is beautiful and can become as simple as we make it.

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Global stupidity of JWs, its getting worse. JWs come from Adam and Eve

by vomit in

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i myself try to refrain from calling anybody stupid, especialy since i dont have great writing skills.

but what are jws doing to eachother?

it seems to me that they are indroctronating them selves with espressions that even the watchtower doesnt explicitly teach.

Apostate Kate

As a child I parroted what I had been taught. "We JWs have a history all the way from the beginning because there has always been a faithful remnant, now only JWs are the faithful remnant, FDS"

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John 8:3-11

by Zico in

3the teachers of the law and the pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery.

they made her stand before the group 4and said to jesus, "teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.

5in the law moses commanded us to stone such women.

Apostate Kate

Thanks for adding your comment, I was thinking the same thing as you but you said it first.

Some well meaning intelligent people, no one in particular, are of the opinion that all Christians do not know everything there is to know about Christianity, and if they did, they would leave that faith. Mainstream Christianity is nothing like the WTBTS.

We are not all stupid.

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Divine Name

by 4Him in

why was the organization, "jehovah witnesses", not known by this name at their inception?

Apostate Kate

Welcome!

The answer to that would be due to "New Light"

The bible says God never changes, Jesus is the same yesterday today and tomorrow, but god tends to jerk the Governing Body around a bit.