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  Do YOU Believe You Contribute Much To This Board?

  by minimus in

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  i'd like your thoughts, please..

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  I haven't contributed much yet but I've learned so much from all of you here.

  I'm very grateful and am slowly trying to be share with you too.
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  Did Prayer work for you, or not?

  by gaiagirl in

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  jws, and christians in genreral, are taught that god answers prayers of sincere believers.

  on the other hand, there is a popular bumpersticker which reads "nothing fails like prayer".. what has been your experience in this regard?

  did god answer your most heartfelt prayers, or were they ignored?.

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  Yes some but not all, but it may have been that circumstances just worked out that way.

  I have also had pagan prayers and spells work.

  Maybe it's true that our own energy can affect the outcome of a situation? Maybe coincidence?
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  'Deserving of Death'

  by R.Crusoe in

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  this is a poingnant statement for several reasons!.

  it deeply poisons feelings and thoughts long after leaving and so maybe needs a closer examination for many of us?.

  i've tried thinking of a number of ways it harms humans but if you can think of more please add comments ?

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  Growing up as a JW, this was drilled into me from a very early age and it is one of the lingering vestages of that religion that haunts me.

  I don't believe it on a conscience level but it does creep into my head at times and I see it in my families eyes and hear it in their voices when they talk to me. I feel it when I hear about people telling others to avoid me because I'm dangerous.

  This is probably one of the hardest teachings to deal with.

  Personally, I think reincarnation makes more sense than the JW beliefs. I'm learning not to fear death.
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  A Protest at Bethel

  by mydearestfriends in

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  i am currently organising a peaceful protest at bethel headquarters during april.

  at this stage i intend to do so on my own; although anybody willing is welcome to join me.

  it will take place april 17-19 .

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  I would love to go but circumstances won't allow.

  I will be sending much positive thought for success your way.
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  Romantic Notions of returning to.......

  by nomoreguilt in

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  the organization.

  i have observed in a number of threads some of the members here have expressed the need to return to the org.

  or to become active again.

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  Oh Lordy

  I did this a few years ago, we were just inactive but we still really wanted to believe it was the truth.I thought that my problems were just with the local Elders and the GB were golden. Basically we were still living as JWs even though we weren't doing anything about it. It was lonely and life threw a lot of problems at us and we went back.

  BIGGEST MISTAKE OF MY LIFE

  To make a very long story shorter, we went from a family that was inactive but intact to a divided family that is like living in a war zone at times. My daughters don't want anything to do with the JWs but my husband expects our 13 yo to go with him. She's trying to do a fade by saying she's sick or visiting someone when it's meeting time but it's really hard for her. My husband never goes in field service or to the book study but he is adamant about the other meetings. He also spread it around the family that I was going on apostate websites which I had not done yet. Figuring that since I was getting blamed for it , I might as well check out Freeminds and found way more than I expected. That's where I found JWD .

  Now that I've written all this, maybe I needed all these experiences to finally get it in my head that it's not the truth. I'm not the problem, they are.
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  Your opinion about Self Injury

  by yumbby in

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  as a life long self injurer i belong to a couple self help type groups.

  one issue that keeps coming up over and over is everyone's dismay over peoples attitude toward them when they are discovered.

  i try to help the young ones ignore peoples ignorant remarks but its difficult.

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  My daughter has been self harming since she was 12 years old. She has been hospitalized several times for suicidal ideations. The hospitalizations led us to a series of therapists which were mostly wastes of time until we were hooked up with a therapy group that did DBT-Dialectical Behavior Therapy. It made an amazing difference to all of us. It recognizes that life is painful as the self injurer sees it and eeaches how to recognize what triggers the behavior and gives solid alternatives to cope with the feelings as well as skills for getting along with people.

  She found that her behavior was the result of sexual abuse by an older neighbor boy and her father's rejection of her as a "worthy" daughter. He attended all the sessions with us but it never sank into his head that he's part of the problem. She is 21 now and married to a wonderful Catholic man who was also abused as a child and is dealing with some issues of his own.

  She still occasionally cuts but only rarely now. She has made it through some severely stressful situations without cutting. I recommend DBT to anyone that's dealing with this type of problem.

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  Me un-dying was just for Satan to trick me in thinking that God heals?

  by A-Team in

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  i'm sorry, but this has kinda pissed me off.

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  i was a high risk sids baby who was infact dead at 4 months old.

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  Hi Free Willy

  I can't answer for A team but I surely can for my experiences. I had severe RA for years , my file is about 3 inches thick. I was using the most powerful drugs and still had active disease. When I went for my last 3 month check up there was absolutely no sign of active disease in my joints or in my blood work. I feel better than I have since I was a teenager. I only know my daughter said her husband siad something over me when I was sleeping.

  My Mom certainly didn't ask to be healed, ditto for the medical proof of disease and subsequent lack of symtoms. She still doesn't know how she recovered.

  Her cat was dripping bloody urine and Mom couldn't afford the vet fees. It took about one week for her to recover and she is fit and sassy now with no Vet visits. My SIL said he couldn't bear seeing Grandma so sad and so healed the cat.

  Teeth do NOT fix themselves. My JW husband saw the tooth fill in in just 3 days.

  I don't really expect you to accept this all at face value since you don't know us and don't have access to the information. in our medical records. It was hard for me and I'm living it. lol If you're really interested you could look up info on Indigo people and see what I'm talking about. It is extremely hard to have grown up believing that healers are charletans and possibly demonic and then to find out that it truly happens.
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  The Memorial

  by TheDoctor in

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  i saw some mention of this in another post, but i wasn't sure if there was a topic about it.

  being raised in the "truth" its always pointed out that even people who haven't been to meetings in years still come to the memorial.

  ive noticed that a lot of time that is actually the case.

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  Last year was my last Memorial. I only went to make my family happy. I'm glad I went though because the elder that gave the talk brought up the fact that the Israelites set the time of their holy days by the moon. My daughter heard that and whispered that astrology by any other name is still astrology. lol

  We're not going this year and I'm hoping that the family already knows we won't be there.

  In the short time that I've been lurking here as Only Me. I've gone from being by myself to having my daughter and my niece stop going to meetings. I guess I should change my name. lol
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  Me un-dying was just for Satan to trick me in thinking that God heals?

  by A-Team in

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  i'm sorry, but this has kinda pissed me off.

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  i was a high risk sids baby who was infact dead at 4 months old.

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  Aarrgh, meant to say he has always had these psychic abilities all his life.

  I had never known anything like this before. It is hard to keep from thinking it could be demons but I really don't believe that there is any connection to anything like Satan or demons involved. My Mom would NOT be happy if she knew she had been psychically healed lol
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  Me un-dying was just for Satan to trick me in thinking that God heals?

  by A-Team in

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  i'm sorry, but this has kinda pissed me off.

  backgound: .

  i was a high risk sids baby who was infact dead at 4 months old.

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  I believe you,

  My son in law has the ability to heal people, also he hears people's thoughts. It's disconcerting at first but after a while we got used to him knowing what we're thinking. Says it's just a different sound frequency and it can be very distracting, most of the time he just hears our thoughts as white noise but he can focus in on any one of us and listen to what we're thinking. I can be looking for something I lost and without me saying a word, he'll find it and give it to me. I don't mind him hearing me as long as he doesn't mind hearing what I really think.

  As far as his healing abilitities- he heals without letting the person he's working on know what he's doing. My daughter had a huge cavity in one of her molars and he actually made the tooth whole again. You can't fake that.

  He cured my severe Rheumatoid arthritis, my JW Mom had an inoperable groth in her pancreas that' he healed and her cat had a severe kidney infection that he cured. All without us knowing he was doing anything for us. All documented by doctors. He also repaired some of his own bone fractures in a matter of days.

  My Mom still doesn't know how he helped her but she knows the growth is gone.

  Anyway apparently he is one of the indigo children, has had psychic abilities.