Posts by jamiebowers

Jam, I do not mean any disrespect to you, especially since you prayed for your life while serving in Viet Nam. But what bothers me about prayer, and the reason I stopped doing it, is because I wonder why everyone's prayers aren't answered. For instance, why don''t all of the people fighting in wars survive? Another example is a good friend of mine who is a born again Christian. She's survived a little more than a year after being diagnosed with a cancer that kills 80% of the women her age who have it. Did God hate that 80%? She thinks Jesus spared her life.What makes her so special and the other 80% rotten enough to kill?

On November 22, 2010 my husband was dead for a full five minutes, (proven by data retrieved from his pacemaker). The only reason he didn't have brain damage was because the CPR we did kept enough blood circulated to his brain. He was revived by a defibulator, and thankfully, alive today. He saw no white light and wasn't greeted by his deceased parents, siblings, and friends. He remembered nothing of that terrible Monday morning or the weekend before it.

I didn't pray during that awful ordeal or during his two-week hospitalization and surgery to install a pacemaker and defibulator. Instead I spent the whole time, from beginning to end, begging him not to leave this earth and leave me behind. It never dawned on me to pray, yet I'm in the same situation as you. I call myself agnostic, because I don't have the balls to be atheist, and sometimes I'm not even sure of agnosticism.

I guess we just have to take life one moment at a time and learn from every experience.

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Watchtower Argues on Behalf of Jimmy Swaggart

by 144001 in

the wtbts filed an amicus brief in the u.s. supreme court case of jimmy swaggart v. board of equalization of california, and actually argued that swaggart should win this case.

in response to numerious requests i have received, here it is: .

http://kvisit.com/snsujag.

jamiebowers

Yes that's true. If I correctly remember, the Watch Tower did that in hopes of not having to collect sales tx on their publications. They changed charging for "printing costs" to the donation arrangement when Swaggart lost his case.

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Informative Youtube video of Barbara Anderson and Husband Joe at Watchtower Society of Jehovah's Witnesses, New York.

by Scott77 in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkw0gp4uvyq&feature=related.

jamiebowers

Marked

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Youtube Video of Watchtower Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses who were Homosexuals

by Scott77 in

most troubling are the sexual sins of the gb.

two of their number, ewart chitty and leo greenlees were both found to be homosexuals.

chitty was sent back to his native britain in 1979 and not disfellowshipped.

jamiebowers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uP7UftOMTI&feature=related

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Dubs badmouthing children

by rebel8 in

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i was remembering the 1980s when it was in vogue to shun children.

they went through a fad when they'd call unbaptized excommunication as "disassociation".

within a short period of time, most of the teens and preteens were "disassociated" or disfellowshipped.

jamiebowers

I was in during the 80's, and being disassociated was the same as being df'd except it was for unbaptized people.

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My wife's JW brother/wife and cousin/husband are coming for a visit....

by NVR2L8 in

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it's been 2 years since my last meeting and i have been avoiding all contacts with jws to stay under the radar.

i've had my brother, sister and mom visit from back home 300 miles away and except for my mom i told the others why i stopped believing in the wt's teachings.

they told me that i should do what makes me happy and that nothing would change between us...we will see.

jamiebowers

But having them hanging around for a week? Unless they were the fun type to want to blow off the meetings and do lots of fun stuff, I'd have to come up

with a reschedule of my vacation to stay busy and away from them.

My thoughts exactly!

And if they're diehard dubs, couldn't they stay home and aux. pioneer instead?

Oh GAWD, maybe they're planning on doing that while at NVR2L8T's house.

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Hello again, sorry it's been so long!

by theBGB in

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i joined the site a few months ago, made a big splash then kind of dissapeared for a while.

i would like to thank those who i came into contact with and let me into their lives and hearts.

if anyone worried about me during my absence at all then i apologize; i have not regressed or been kidnapped/re-brainwashed by the borg.

jamiebowers

Welcome back! The more you know about this cult, the more you'll heal. Isn't that weird?