Why do you want to answer an unreasoning comment with a constructive statement? Isn't that the same as casting pearls before swine?
Posts by AnneB
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29"You are so Focussed on The Past that you can't see the Blessings in front of your Eyes!"
by BluesBrother inthat statement has been made to me recently - i think it is a sound-bite from the new dvd about jerusalem's fall.. hmm.. i need to reflect on a reply .
several thoughts come to mind but it has to be constructive and form a reasoned argument rather than a smart answer.. what blessings?
are we unreasonably obsessed with the past?
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It happened!!!! my first HOLE in ONE!!!!
by dreamgolfer injuly 4th 2012 - 201 yards par 3 with my big driver.
i can die happy!.
i got mine!.
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AnneB
You know what I like about your post? That you said "My first...". Great attitude!
Congrats! from AnneB
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To the Household of God, Israel, and Those Who God With...
by AGuest inthe greatest of love and peace to you all.
on another thread i posted what i stated was my last post.
that wasn't true; this is my last post on jwn.
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AnneB
Vaya con Dios (as I know you will).
Much love from AnneB
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How do I hear/feel God?
by doinmypart inthis is a serious question.. i know people that hear/feel god (and see postings about people's experiences), but i have not experienced this.
i have never heard anything audibly (or otherwise) nor "felt" anything inwardly.. i've prayed, read, quieted my thoughts, etc...but still nothing..
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The Humbling of Anthony
by Duncan ini didn’t really care for anthony very much.
at the time of this story he was 13 or 14 years old, a clever and precocious kid down the hall.
he was extremely zealous about the truth and took it, and himself, very seriously.
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AnneB
Anthony had that precious "theocratic" quality, freeness of speech.
He'll be fine.
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Woman jumps into pool during Long Beach DC!
by puffthedragon inhttp://youtu.be/dht3cedgg6e.
watch the right hand side of the screen.. .
i am trying to imbed it but can't make it work.
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AnneB
She probably had to sit through one too many summer conventions! Then the thought came: "I wonder if I could..."
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The Vent of Whathehadas
by whathehadas ini wish i could go back and get away from all the time i spent sitting in those kingdom hall seats.
i wish i could go back and take back all those comments made for the watchtower and book study.. i wish i could go back and take back all the money spent on buying suits and book bags.. i wish i could go back and take all the money......no wait....some of the money that i placed in the donation box.. i wish i could go back and hang with all the friends labeled as bad association.. all in all, i hate that orginization.
the time spent there worrying about my "spirituality" and trying to be happy amongst fakeness.
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AnneB
Of course the "good" that can be found in WT (and individuals who are JW's) can be found elsewhere. The point is....we weren't "elsewhere" or able to get there, or we would have *been* there! We were all doing the best that we understood at the time, with our individual limitations, be they material, intellectual, etc., and WT is where we ended up. That's why I say I don't regret anything: it's where I was, it's what I was able to access, it had "bad" and "good" just like any other option (whether or not those options were accessible to me in my particular circumstances at the time). It isn't about the cost; people "pay" whatever they have to when their backs are against a wall, and that's how we were...or we wouldn't have taken the WT Way. So, having done it, why gripe? Grieve, maybe, but not gripe. Take it for what it was (good and bad both acknowledged to the degree appropriate for each) and move on. Or complain, crumble, and be crushed. Your choice.
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untitled
by Gorbatchov inyesterday i visited the local congregational meeting.
some elders did parts of the meeting.
i mentioned they acted tired, worn out and on routine.. they walked slowley, tired to the stage and did so walking from the stage.. it seems they are fed up with it.. gorby.
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AnneB
Typical propaganda, Gorby... Slow and tired do not mean fed up. They mean Slow, and Tired.
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The Vent of Whathehadas
by whathehadas ini wish i could go back and get away from all the time i spent sitting in those kingdom hall seats.
i wish i could go back and take back all those comments made for the watchtower and book study.. i wish i could go back and take back all the money spent on buying suits and book bags.. i wish i could go back and take all the money......no wait....some of the money that i placed in the donation box.. i wish i could go back and hang with all the friends labeled as bad association.. all in all, i hate that orginization.
the time spent there worrying about my "spirituality" and trying to be happy amongst fakeness.
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AnneB
If what you did back then was the best you knew and could understand at the time, why are you complaining now?
I don't regret any of it. The way I look at it, there were things I needed to learn and help I needed to have, and WT/JW's-as-individuals provided that assistance in a manner that I could comprehend and accept. Now, what came along with the "good" may not have been all positive, but when is everything ever "perfect" in life?
As bad as it was, there was good in there too! Acknowledge both....and move *forward*.
AB
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The WT doesn't believe in infant baptism, but does an 11 year old really understand what they're getting into isn't just a pool with a lot of people looking on?
by oppostate ina scene from today's "safeguard your heart" district convention of jehovah's witnesses.
(with thanks to ignacio luis gutierrez).
http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/182579_326510270757133_1763913794_n.jpg.
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AnneB
If, by "understand what [he] is getting into" you mean a commitment to do "right" or "good", the answer is yes; an 11-year old can certainly understand that much.
If you mean understand the convolutions of the WTBTS, even an adult can't understand that!