Posts by humbled

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Now predicting increase of anointed?

by jgnat in

i came across this nugget in the may 2014 issue:.

"are you moving ahead with jehovah's organization".

....at one time, the anointed remnant were like the little one, but their number grew as other spiritual israelites were brought into gods organization.

So what are you up to?

by Xanthippe in

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friends

anyone else bored with religion versus atheism or is it just me?.

i'm planning to go to greece in may.. i'm thinking about planting rocket and beetroot in my garden this year because they are getting rather expensive to buy.. this week i want to make chocolate refridgerator cakes.

some for my daughter who is coming home from uni this weekend and some to take in to work to give away with free tea and coffee because it's national libraries day on saturday.. i just finished reading the humans by matt haig which was brilliant.

humbled

Happy Valentine's Day!

GOLDIE HATCHED OUT a BABY CHICK TONIGHT!

There may be more by morning. Or no more than this. I wish I could send you the sounds she is making as she clucks in her throat to the one little hatchling under her wing. I saw its little beak stick out once then pull back under her.

I came in late from my caretaking job and looked in on her... Steadfast and alone. I felt sorry for her after setting the eggs for 21 days, some days through the bitterest cold. This was the day...and nothing. Half an hour later stirring up the meal, I heard a peeping and knew what had happened.

It's a flippin miracle(--see the post about her on page two). She had come staggering in for feed after sitting in her hidden nest for darn near 2 weeks in a briar patch through our last heavy snow. I didn't think there was much a chance she could bring anything through, but we brought her in by the stove after I found her eggs. I had marked when she had first left off roosting with the other poultry and knew it should be valentine's day for a hatch.....

................and life found a way!

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It is because of amazing breakthroughs like these... Awesome to live in 2014!!

by ILoveTTATT in

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friends

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/draco_(antiviral).

amazing... one drug that could potentially cure any viral disease, including hiv!!.

being developed since 2011..

humbled

A non-toxic(read NON-chemical) way to help with apoptosis in certain cancers is being carefully researched: grape seed extract (GSE)

I know my cancer doctors allowed me to use it during my treatment. I just read that prostate cancer and non-small-cell lung cancer are affected by the use of gse. Two reputable research journals report on the technical findings.

Online the U.S. National Medical Library National Institutes of Health and the Oxford Journal have information on GSE efficacy.

When one is burnt out with radiation and chemo, this is will not cause general harm--It just provides cancer cells with an assisted suicide.

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Are Men's Rights Laughable?

by Paralipomenon in

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friends

reading over the woody allen thread i noticed a couple things but didn't want to side track the "discussion".

1) woody allen is creepy.

2) nobody really seemed to care that his ex-wife was abusive towards her children.. an example i think is perfect was the release of twilight where you would see lineups of 30-40 year old women making very inappropriate comments about a 16 year old boy.

humbled

Men often are ashamed to report aggressions made on them by women.

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Are Men's Rights Laughable?

by Paralipomenon in

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friends

reading over the woody allen thread i noticed a couple things but didn't want to side track the "discussion".

1) woody allen is creepy.

2) nobody really seemed to care that his ex-wife was abusive towards her children.. an example i think is perfect was the release of twilight where you would see lineups of 30-40 year old women making very inappropriate comments about a 16 year old boy.

humbled

There is a lot of bad stuff on both sides. Men often do have a hard time getting the rights coming to them.

It makes me tired to remember all the bad stuff that happens in the man/woman world that I know among family, friends and co-workers.

Three years back I learned of a false rape accusation made on young man. I learned what happened in some detail because I knew him. His sister dug deep in her savings to pay for a good criminal lawyer --but it shattered him.

The police detective dug into the matter and determined that his story panned out--and the accuser's ex-husband said she had done the same thing years before--cried rape when she was caught with a strange man in bed while married. Turns out she had repeated the act when her boy-friend accused her of "dating" on the side--she called "rape" again on that young man.

The young man escaped prison but ended up in therapy. the lawyer told him he was fortunate. He would have been tagged as a sexual preditor for life.

I knew a professional man whose mentally ill ex-girlfriend tracked him down and threw some movie tapes at him, shattering his glasses and cutting his face. He called the police saying she had attacked him (not the usual scenario, right?). She claimed the opposite. He said "I've got blood on my face" and said that he only hoped for one thing--" One of us needs to go to jail--and I do not care which of us it is."

They thought for a minute--and took her.

I know many stories like this--not from reading the papers, either. Men who cannot get custody of children who are harmed by mom's new man, mommy's drug habit. Of the four cases I know myself, one young man finally got custody of a child he had "accidentally" with a woman when they both were teens. He struggled for visits. Worried about the drugs in the baby momma's life and finally won custody when the momma got busted for drugs. The girl is fine and 12 years old now.

But of course,men do bad stuff, too. Molestaters and abusers among them. Some one I knew years back cried on the phone to me--she wouldn't call it rape because she knew the fellow and they both had been drinking---but she had never been "with" a man before. She felt like a slut.

Three weeks later she missed her period.

The guy was an ass about everything.

Little girls and little boys with no justice, no help.

I wish people would JUST BE FAIR! be good to each other. No prejudice against women or prejudice against men. Make fair laws and apply law fairly---no matter if the accused or the accuser has no money.

Not everyone has a big sister wih deep pockets to hire "justice".

I almost skipped this thread. It is so rotten what people do to each other.

Take care, Paralip

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I am not going for JC!

by exWTslave in

this morning two elders visited me and said this years memorial day is on april 14, and we are informing you well in advance so that you can arrange your affairs and attend.

[i had given them the impression that i am very busy due to my secular assignments, hence most of the time out of station.].

then i thought two elders visiting me cannot have an ordinary purpose, and i should give them a piece of my mind.

humbled

It feels good to be honest, right?

It wears on you to self-edit all the time. Stop yourself from thinking and saying anything to rock the boat.

Welcome, ExWTslave!

Maeve

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DEEP SHT. . .but interesting sht

by Terry in

think of greek philosophy as rock n' roll.. .

there is still classical music, but, rock and roll overtook and dominanted popular tastes and changed the marketplace.. .

now, think of hip hop in relation to rock and roll.. .

humbled

James M. West's online article "Gnostic Enigmas in the Gospel of John" presents strong parallels to the deep sh*t you mention, Terry. He makes the point that the writer of John is very nearly the anti-orthodox gospel. In fact, elsewhere, the John Gospel is attributed to Mary the Magdalene--

The non-canonical sayings of Jesus and the ideas you mention have given me pause to not discard the possibility--even the probability--that a thoughtful workman in the "spot" he occupied in time and place may well have framed up a god that raised the hackles of the scribes, priests and pharisees. Not more or less than a fellow who was sick of the Org. of his day.

It's not a long read, West's bit. I'd post it here if I had the expertise to do it.

thanks for the thread, Terry.

Nice when we are able to think out side the box that's outside THAT box :>)

Maeve

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Schizophrenia

by thedog1 in

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friends

that is what it feels like at the moment.

i am leading a field service group tomorrow morning.

taking the wt study on saturday.

humbled

It is harrowing.

When you know that you are trying to response to God as you know him and you cannot talk with honesty to your friends in faith about that God-because they would think you were infected or deranged.

I myself ended up staying home, not answering my phone except for family members, my job and the elders voicemails. Finally when it resolved months later I got unfrozen.

But, then, I was not an elder. Still, I did learn that the world did not end just because I did not talk to anyone or go to meetings until the situation resolved for me.

Hang in there, dogwon.

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Had a strange moment last night.

by thedog1 in

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friends

in my line of work i have to deal with a lot of different people each day in a teaching capacity.

sometimes, with adults that i teach, we have some informal discussions not directly related to the subject being taught, but still important as far as developing a friendly relationship in the classroom.

anyway, yesterday i noticed that in one class the students had been given a little religious calendar in a diary form, quite a popular thing for people to do in the country i live in.

humbled

My truck knew before I did that I was "out".

After several meetings with the elders covering a certain topic I'd written Bethel about ( we were waiting for the FDS/Corporation to respond), I realized I was unable to comment at the WT study (though I'd been encouraged to participate). My heart just wasn't in it.

Finally, there came a Sunday when I was driving to the Sunday meeting and my truck's wheels seemed to turn by themselves into an empty parking lot about a mile from the kHall. I was shaking and soon began talking to myself and crying. I kept saying over and over again: "I can't go I can't go I can't go."

And I never went to a meeting again. Only one time more in the Hall for a final meeting with the PO and another elder to discuss the Bethel letter.

Like you, thedog1 and all the others, somrthing deep inside knew before I did that I was done with this false life.

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My Explanation of Why They Got it Wrong About Blood Using Only the NWT

by cofty in

10 " any israelite or any alien living among them who eats any bloodi will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from his people.

12 therefore i say to the israelites, "none of you may eat blood, nor may an alien living among you eat blood.

15 'anyone, whether native-born or alien, who eats anything found dead or torn by wild animals must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be ceremonially unclean till evening; then he will be clean.

humbled

A wonderful thing to read. This makes sense.