Topics Started by kifoy

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does the ability to pray come naturally??
by lostyettobefound in
1. jw
2. friends
hey guys as you can see i am still new and still keen to hear other peoples points of view on my issues.

anyway i always wondered because i have friends who are pentecostals who seem to have this amazing ability to pray and they feel like they are talking to god.

i never ever felt like i was communicating with someone when i prayed it always seemed futile and it always seemed like a repetition of someone elses prayer.
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Things YOU eat, that other people think is weird.
by misanthropic in
1. jw
2. friends
this mornings events have got me thinking about things.

i love peanut butter, not the sweet kind but i like the old fashioned peanut butter, usually laura scudder's with no sugar or preservatives - it just tastes better imo.

i put it on everything including pancakes which are really good with peanut butter and maple syrup.
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Can someone help me out?
by Nancy Drake in
1. jw
2. friends
i'm looking for the art that was in the back of the "sing praises to jehovah" songbook.

i tried some image searches, but no luck.

anybody know where i can find this without actually purchasing the book?
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Talk on Apostates
by IslandBrother in
1. watchtower
2. bible
have you ever walked on the beach and tried following another persons footprints; matching your own steps with them as exactly as possible?

by calling ourselves christians, we have indicated our desire to do just that, to follow closely in the footsteps of christ.

have you ever noticed though that on a crowded beach, , there were several sets of footprints, many of them may look alike.
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16 children!!! I'm fascinated!
by winnie in
1. jw
2. friends
i have been following the story on the duggar family ever since i saw it when they were having their 15th child.

we get it on pay tv here.

anyone else as interested as i am?.
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Did you really want to have "Privileges"
by JH in
1. jw
2. friends
i don't know about others here, but i couldn't care less about privileges.. i had a couple of privileges, but i really didn't want to get too deep in the org and get too many privileges.

i didn't want to get tied down with that, and have to leave 30 minutes later every meeting, or have to spend an extra hour or two preparing for something.. .

all that counted for me as a dub was "paradise" and "eternal life" .
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Should all JW's know by know about the changes to the Watchtower mag?
by oppgirl63 in
1. jw
2. friends
when i picked my roommate up last night from her bookstudy, i asked her if they had announced the information about there being a separate watchtower for the public.

she said she had never heard of such a thing and asked where i heard that.

i told her i read it on the boards.
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(Ex)-JW Terminology, is there a faq?
by kifoy in
1. jw
2. experiences
my first post in this very interesting (indeed) forum is a request.

i was born and raised a jw (and wrote the goodbye letter to the elders some 4-5 years ago), but i live in scandinavia.

that means i'm not at all familiar with all the english/us terminology and abbreviations that you use over there.
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Resurrection vs. Re-Creation...
by Tuesday in
1. jw
2. friends
um, what's the deal with this?

i'm speaking with a witness and he keeps talking about the resurrection and the way it's explained sounds like it's really a re-creation of all of our memories in god's mind then put back on earth in a re-created body.

so in essence a clone of me with my memories and personality will live forever in paradise, how exactly is that a resurrection.
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I have to aux pioneer?
by thebiggestlie in
1. jw
2. experiences
ok so apparently the gb has instutuited some kind of quota for aux pioneers for the month of april for the memorial or something.

so the pos wife came up to me yesterday and told me "every congregation needs at least 16 aux pioneers for the month of april.

you should can i count on you?