These are the images that say the so-called thousand words. No wonder the Paradise promised is so deeply embedded into the conscious and subconscious hearts and minds of Jehovah's Witnesses, et al.
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Animals, Blood, Food, and JW Beliefs
by dubstepped ini'm just thinking aloud here.
i watched a show yesterday and they were talking about how the largest mammals of the sea (whales) fed on such small creatures (plankton) rather than eating some other large creatures.
anyway, it got me thinking about how as jws we thought that in paradise animals would all be herbivores, that they would no longer eat other animals.
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Getting older, losing loved ones
by Gorbatchov injust reading a posting about relive a day for one year of your live... .
getting older, i am so sad thinking about years ago and missing my family members.
am i the only one believing they would never die?.
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Hi, Gorby:
We relate, feeling sad along with you.
I am your parents' age and now wish my parents were here so that I could tell them I love and appreciate them. Likewise, those of us who are estranged from JW family -- will we ever get to see them, talk with them, hug them before we ourselves die?
My family believe what I taught them; I was the first JW in my family. Their thought is if we inactive, lost sheep die before Armaggedon, Jehovah may, in his mercy, resurrect us into the New World.
I want to be with my family NOW!
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What is the difference ......?
by Phizzy inwhat is the difference between the way the gb are viewed/treated by jw's,even dead gb members, and the way saints are in the rc and orthodox churches etc ?.
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Beatification: In the Roman Catholic Church, a declaration by the Pope that a dead person is in a state of bliss, constituting a step toward canonization and permitting public veneration.
The Devil's Advocate: Likewise, in the RCC, where the term originated, this individual is appointed to present arguments against the proposed canonization of the deceased as a saint. Not only has the term been misapplied in everyday usage, but the office has been emptied of all its advocates by the Pope.
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I Await the Call
by compound complex inmy day's long and arduous journey winds down.. infinite night gracefully descends and takes me into her.
welcomed embrace.. i have no reason to fear the inevitable,.
that transition into a higher and.
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Thanks, Village Idiot:
This film clip was totally new to me, and certainly apropos!
I really enjoyed it.
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Has Anyone Ever Just Gotten Mad and "Popped" an Elder?
by Cold Steel init has to have happened.
people get stressed out, an elder or overseer takes just two steps over the line and gets a fat lip for his trouble.. does that ever happen?
or maybe someone "counsels" a brother at the wrong time and tempers flare at the old kingdom hall?.
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Figurative "popping." In this case, the entire BOE.
Regarding very sensitive family issues, the elders never talked to me and asked what was going on nor did they offer help. A few letters to the Society, from me, seemed to get their attention.
As I have related in other threads, privileges were taken away from me but never was there a word of explanation, never advance notice.
"POP!"
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I Await the Call
by compound complex inmy day's long and arduous journey winds down.. infinite night gracefully descends and takes me into her.
welcomed embrace.. i have no reason to fear the inevitable,.
that transition into a higher and.
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It seemed but yesterday though, Heaven knows,
it has been millennia since I embarked upon that
peaceful, dusty sleep.
Then, so startling, comes the clarion call from
quickened legions that the hour has arrived to
rise and be awake.
The celebrators of Earth and Moon beckon that
all rejoice as Sky unfolds and Earth proceeds
to kiss our Lady Moon.
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I Await the Call
by compound complex inmy day's long and arduous journey winds down.. infinite night gracefully descends and takes me into her.
welcomed embrace.. i have no reason to fear the inevitable,.
that transition into a higher and.
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Thanks, snowbird, nancy, OUTLAW:
Looks like OUTLAW is on the better end of the shovel!
Not so much the hope of Heaven as taught in Christianity; I just wanna be up in the sky with the clouds, floating about . . .
On my own power, like Icarus, but not too close to the sun.
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Where I live now, we have redwoods, but not the coastal fog. The summers are hot.
THE SEVEN REDWOODS
Seated in a lounge of cushioned steel, I lean
back and follow my wandering eyes up seven
towering trunks till their limbs and needles mass
as one, hiding rigid shafts that pierce the sky.
Removed from native soil and coastal fogs, I
marvel that dry and hot have harmed us not.
I, too, was born in mist but truly grew though
warmth was scarce and a steely cool prevailed.
Thrive I do amidst a scorching heat, the parching
wind; like our trees, somehow, we shall survive.
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I Await the Call
by compound complex inmy day's long and arduous journey winds down.. infinite night gracefully descends and takes me into her.
welcomed embrace.. i have no reason to fear the inevitable,.
that transition into a higher and.
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THE WANDERER
I am going home, yet not without sorrow;
for too long have I been adrift.
There was no place to call my own nor
anyone to take me in.
The price I paid for careless days of youth
spent has been far too dear.
I look upward to a welcoming sky that beckons,
reassuring that, soon, this
wanderer shall be home, in the warm and loving
embrace of the cosmos . . .
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I Await the Call
by compound complex inmy day's long and arduous journey winds down.. infinite night gracefully descends and takes me into her.
welcomed embrace.. i have no reason to fear the inevitable,.
that transition into a higher and.
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Thank you, wifibandit, for your question.
Yes, that is mine, I'll post more soon.
I appreciate your thoughts very much.