Posts by Flowerpetal

could you still love her if she were a man?years, before i was a twinkle in my fathers eye he met an attractive young .

woman at a sock hop.

a sock hop is a dance for those not familiar with the .

Flowerpetal

I remember an episode fron Star Trek: The Next Generation about Dr. Beverly falling madly in love with a man who had a symbiote (same species as Dax in Deep Space Nine). Everything was fine, until the host got deathly ill and they had to find a new one. Problem was, a new host was days away so Commander Riker volunteered to be the host until the new person came. To make a long story short, they got the new host, put the symbiote in and the person was a woman this time. She went to see Dr. Beverly, still in love with her. But because the host was a woman, Dr. Beverly couldn't return the feelings. Beverly couldn't love "him" because she was a woman now.

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Jesus was not a carpenter, Let's end the lies! He was a stone mason

by magdalenefan in

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i believe jesus was not a wood carpenter like long believed and taught by the churches.

i think this is a lie!.

i believe he was a stone mason.

Flowerpetal

From some of the posts I have read here thru the years, it seems some have the idea that the Watchtower org. wrote the Bible. If that was true, how does one explain all the Biblical scholars who teach at many universities throughout the world?????

Translating the Bible into any language is a tricky task, however, since the New Testament was mostly written in Greek, why wouldn't anyone accept the Greek word for carpenter to mean carpenter?

And besides, in The Passion of the Christ, when Jesus was a young teen, there were some very believable scenes of him working with his foster father, Joseph, doing wood working.

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Comments You Will Not Year At the 6-3-07 WT Study (BUILD UP CONG?)

by blondie in

comments you will not hear at the 06-03-07 wt study (april 15, 2007, pages 25-29)(congregation built up?).

review comments will be in red.

wt material from today's wt will be in black.

Flowerpetal

Welcome to the forum, Oracle, and I'm looking forward to seeing your posts in the future.

Today, those being considered for appointment as elders must have proved their faith and devotion over time. Others in the congregation thus have reason to put trust in the direction and leadership provided through this arrangement.

When I was still attending meetings, I took a look at some of the elders in my hall--and didn't see any of them, maybe with the exception of one, who I could ever trust for leadership when and if persecution ever came. I just wouldn't trust their judgement.

While it is true that each Christian should have a personal relationship with God, we cannot deny that he is using a worldwide congregation, as he did in the apostles' day.

Each Christian? Does that mean non-anointed JWs? Do they really expect the R&F to have a personal relationship with God when they say only the spirit-begotten "Christian" has special relationship. It took me a few years to see thru this one.

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Kansas City DC summary

by stillajwexelder in

ok just got back from the dc in kansas city.

i know there has been a thread on the dc already but i will post "highlights" or lowlights depending on one's opinion, of the dc in kc on this thread.. 1) bethel speakers so far 1 from patterson bethel, 1 from brooklyn bethel and 1 from walkill bethel + governing body speaker anthony morris 111. friday major talk on christ on last talk by morris.

illustarted earthquake in armenia few yaers ago.

Flowerpetal

Like regular pioneering is the best thing one can do for themselves...give me a break.

I never liked going from d2d, and in my yrs. in the society, I "vacation" pioneered, "temporary" pioneered, "auxillary" pioneered and was a regular pioneer. The only thing I enjoyed was conducting a Bible study--but I can only count on one hand those that got baptized and I wonder if any of them are still witnesses.

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How Do You Let Go Of Your Guilt?

by minimus in

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as witnesses, you are trained to feel guilty.

i don't know if i'm rare regarding my guiltless feelings but i have not had any guilt whatsoever after leaving the witnesses.

not even a little bit.....what about you?

Flowerpetal

I don't feel guilty about leaving JWs, but I do feel guilty about questioning God, and why He hasn't stepped in yet to fix all the injustices in the world.

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Zone talk by David Splane - Four figurative giants - Education etc

by truthseeker in

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found this interesting talk on e-watchman's site.

it was given by david splane, a gb member.. the talk is really interesting as it gives a more focused look at the troubles the society is facing as it trys to cope with education, peer pressure etc.. .

http://e-jehovahs-witnesses.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=454.

Flowerpetal

I am so glad my husband and I didn't force our kids to get baptized. What these persons who run the society don't know, who have never had children, is that after a child is born, you get the God-given privilege to see a human being develop to and adult. From before birth to birth, their little personalities start to develop every day. Parents see who might have a delicate personality. Forcing a child who has a delicate personality to do something that you know down to your very soul, (such as making them go out in service or get baptized at the wrong time) is not the right thing for them, can destroy them.

Parents are the ones who know what's best for their children because we have lived with them for almost a quarter of their lives before they leave the nest--not any GB member of the society, etc.

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GB MEMBER Herd Says Just Because You're A JW It Doesn't Mean Anything!

by minimus in

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there's a tape circulating around the witnesses stating that when the separation of the sheep and goats happens, witnesses shouldn't think that they will automatically be saved just because they're witnesses.

if they aren't wholesouled, then they should not expect that having one foot in the "truth" and the other in the world will let them make it through the great tribulation....herd was trying to motivate the troops!

Flowerpetal

"What's 2 mill divided by 144,000? "

If I did this correctly the answer is 13.888888888888888888888888888889

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Comments You Will Not Hear at the 5-27-07 WT Review (Congregation?)

by blondie in

let the congregation praise jehovah.

(psalm 26:5; 89:5-7) however, most often the hebrew scriptures apply it to the israelites.

*** w06 7/1 p. 30 par.

Flowerpetal

Thanks Blondie!

When an elder came by my house the end of March to invite me to the Memorial and how much my husband and I were missed at the KH, and could we take the time to come this year, I told him that I could observe Jesus' death at home, and didn't need to come to the KH. He said "what about the emblems?" I said they didn't have any significance for me anymore as partaking of them is only for the anointed so why should I come just to pass them along to the next person? The WT, just seems to be pushing the unanointed Christians more and more out of the club, so to speak as this article so glaringly describes.