Posts by LaniB

Hello to all, sorry I haven't been around for a while. Almost lost my hubby last year to illness so I've had limited time on the computer and just tended to log on to do the quiz.

I've just logged back into a few messages.

Looking forward to catching up with everyone

:)

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What teaching did you find unacceptable that made you question the WTS?

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

the selection of the society in 1919 as the faithful and discreet slave after jesus spent nearly 5 years observing them.

jesus must have had some good lsd.

Well the first thing that made me question the society wasn't so much a teaching but an attitude, that if you had family in the "truth" you were automatically better than any others who came in from the outside. If you came from a family of elders/pioneers you couldn't be touched unless you not only crossed the line but stripped naked and did a merry little dance on the other side of the line.

The teaching I found unacceptable was the way child abuse and others were dealt with, very underhand, quiet, hush hush treatment.

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Recent Awake! Directive

by whitman in

i was informed recently by my mother about the new awake!

directive concerning having an emergency bag of some description in preparation for 'disaster'.

apparently the directive was also highlighted at some meetings.

LaniB

Kind of funny but that is what the latter day saints recommend their people to do, have a 72hr bag ready for emergencies and also go further and keep supplies on hand for times of trouble (and for future scriptually predicted hard times ahead). Their recommendation includes a years supply of food for every member of the household so if the Borg starts recommending putting food away for future hard times we will know which religion they are borrowing from.

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Ever have a paranormal event in your life, please share?

by free2beme in

jw
friends

i am one who believes strongly in the spirit realm, paranormal activity, etc.

even with such a strong belief, i am often told by skeptics that such things are foolish and nonsense.

while i accept people have the right to feel however they want, i have often shared stories with people that are hard to explain with logic and find others have events like this too.

LaniB

I've always had weird things happen around me.

When I was a child we lived in an old farmhouse, my mum always found me talking to my "imaginery friend". However one day she was looking for me in the house and saw me out in the paddock. I apparently came in later and asked her what she had wanted. As she knew I was out of earshot and couldn't have known she was looking for me she asked why I thought that she had been looking for me. I told her the lady in black told me. Apparently my "imaginery friend" was a old lady in black. It was either just before or just after my dad removed a wall in the house and found an old picture of a women dressed in black. My sister and I used to feel someone tuck us in a night, a really warm motherly feeling but very strange when you know dad is at work and you can here mum talking in the living room.

I think the strangest was when I was in primary school. In the middle of my favourite subject I looked at the clock, and imagined what it would be like if my parents were killed.... the principal's assistant coming to get me from class, waiting in the office for my sister to arrive, being told about the accident. It all went through my head in a few seconds. Later when I got home I found out at that time my parents had been run off the road by a log truck. Mum said if they had been a metre further up the road would have not been able to get up on the verge and out of the way.

When my daughter was born I used to feel like there was a male around me, never anything scary, more curious but someone unknown to me. I often wondering if it was my mind (all the hormones) or if it was my fiance's grandfather who he was close to or his older brother who died when he was 10 days old. I always leant towards the brother who died as a baby as it seems such an innocence.

It's something thats always been there, severely repressed during my years in the borg, but always there. My sister (still in the borg), my mum and I share it, my brothers don't. It's just so many things over the years that can not rationally be explained.

But many things can't be fully explained. I have a friend who is a twin. Her brother lives two towns away and always knows when she is in labour (and hates it everytime she announces another pregnancy) however it works both ways with them. He once came off a tractor at his farm and got flung into a trunk of a tree and was in horrible pain. She doubled over and was intense pain, at the time they were about 100 miles apart.

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I've just become a father

by jwfacts in

i have been married for 10 years and have two wonderful step kids, 15 and 21. being a jw i did not want a child as life seemed so pointless.

things changed for the better since leaving and i am now the proud father of a big baby boy zac - 9pounds (4.1kg), 52cm long and huge lungs.

my wife is filipino so the baby looks very asian at the moment.

LaniB

Congratulations Paul. I am so happy for you and your wife.

You'll make a great dad

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A mother's love

by LaniB in

this came on the news yesterday, valentine's day.

parents with two children in the car got stuck in the floods here in australia.

father and the four year old made it to safety but the mother with her baby was caught in the water and left clinging to a tree keeping her baby safe.

LaniB

This came on the news yesterday, Valentine's day.

Parents with two children in the car got stuck in the floods here in Australia. Father and the four year old made it to safety but the mother with her baby was caught in the water and left clinging to a tree keeping her baby safe. She was so exhausted by the time rescue came in her efforts to keep her baby safe that she collapsed moments after she and her baby were rescued. Unfortunately they could not revive her and she died.

What a mum. What a terrible loss for her family and friends.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23211478-2,00.html

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