Welcome Catfish!!!
Did you really see APOSTATES in here??? Man....they are everywhere!
They keep luring us into those garage sales, taunting us with the
demonized Smurf dolls, and worst of all....the cookies....sending
the little Nazi Girl Scouts around, with cookies...those militaristic little so-and-so's with their cookies....trying to lead good witnesses to their destruction!!!!!!!!!
Anyway......
Welcome again!
Hope you have fun!!!
graceabounds
you know, the society sure could use some advice from c.t.
russell.. "if we were following a man undoubtedly it would be different with us; undoubtedly one human idea would contradict another and that which was light one or two or six years ago would be regarded as darkness now: but with god there is no variableness, neither shadow of turning., and so it is with truth; any knowledge or light coming from god must be like its author.
a new view of truth never can contradict a former truth.
You know....it seems like the witnesses had a good idea, and
the right motives at the time the religion began.
The question:
What happened??????
I printed this one, too. Absolutely a "keeper".
graceabounds
just for fun (movie is coming out soon).
you need to cut & paste, i tried it as a link & it leaves out the last ,0 and it won't work without it.
closer.
I am Empress Busy Bee, and my daughter is Marchioness Laughing Bear.
graceabounds
Do you think that busy bee means I'm nosy?
Hmmm....the name probably fits, then.
i was trying to do a little catching-up on posts this afternoon and read the thread where leander discussed his resignation as a ms as he is ending his days as a dub.
congratulations, leander!
you made the right choice!
Hi! I'm one of those evil, so-called, apostates. The non-
witness, one from "Christendom". I've found this post very
interesting. Farkel makes alot of good, educated points.
non....if I write anything...are you going to take it to
heart? Or, am I simply an apostate wench without "understanding"? I stopped studying with the witnesses because they could not
prove what they taught. There were more holes in their teaching,
than in a slice of swiss cheese.
I prefer my cold sandwich without swiss.
But, I am interested to see how a "godly" person such as yourself, non, would act, if faced with one of these "homeless"....probably with the same compassion that you have demonstrated here.
Uh-yeah....right.
Hope that no tragedy ever befalls you.
graceabounds
i was reading some news reports on yahoo about suicide bombings likely to happen here in the us.
what irks me the most are statements made about the justice departments inability to track visas issued to foreign students.
i remember watching a portuguese newscast via satellite tv sometime last october.
Sole,
I think that the government always knows more than they admit
to the public. They say....when people find out that they have
been kept in the dark....that the government was just doing
this or that, for the public's safety. Or some such shit.
If they don't know for sure about a certain date that something
is going to happen, they do have an idea, it seems, that
eventually it will happen.
The WTC bombings are a good example. But, ofcourse, the warnings
were "too vague".
My opinion....The president is far too happy that all of this
happened. The press conferences right after the planes crashed,
he was radiant, his eyes shining(happens to insane people, too)lol.
Anyway....
He wants to go down as a legend....is it only me that sees the
coincidence between war/the first Bush....war/the second Bush?
He wants to outdo daddy.
By the way...
Did I mention...I'm a Democrat?
I'm also 25 miles away from a border...Canada....the Windsor Tunnel
and Bridge are right up the road. They stepped up patrol so much, that people who worked in Canada had about a 2 hour wait each way..
trying to get to work in the AM/PM. But, no one ever worried about the border before this. They would ask..."Citizenship?"....you say, "U.S."...they might ask destination...not all the time.
And you were in. Ba-da-boom, Ba-da-bing.
Who knows if any people came thru that were dangerous....
That is the scary part.
graceabounds
viewing the tennesseans article today "disfellowship described as being 'worse then death'" one of my co-workers asked if this was true.. i told him that many have viewed it that way in different aspects.
some have been driven to suicide because of not knowing how to deal with the prospect of being df'd.
they are cut off from their family, and the only people they have really been allowed to associate with as friends.. this brought out a question from my husband on the way home from work tonight: "are jehovah's witnesses really a happy group of people?".
Hmmm....
Not as happy as they appear. I saw alot of REALLY happy people, too, at an assembly last Fall. This was a couple of months after
I first began studying. I thought....what a wonderful group of
people!!! Always so kind...
(Ignoring the main theme of the lecture..."Having a Healthy Fear
of Jehovah")
Well....never mind that. Onward....into oblivion. Where I had
to have a healthy fear, and my kids had fear....I can't remember
being afraid of God at 7 years old. I felt close to God then...
and how could anyone, child or adult, be close to God....when they are afraid of him?
HATE....worldly things/people.
FEAR.....of Jehovah.
HATE....all that is bad.
FEAR....of disfellowship.
Hate and fear and hate and fear.....I can sure see how they would be happy!!!
graceabounds
"For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." But if you bite and devour one another take heed that you are not consumed by one another.-Gal 5:14,15
i wondered if there were quite a few ex-witnesses that are.
here in the metro-detroit area?
in the area, or if there is anything planned for that .
Hi all,
I wondered if there were quite a few ex-witnesses that are
here in the Metro-Detroit area? If there were any ex's
in the area, or if there is anything planned for that
evening. I know that Green Peace just had a (protest?)
in Hart Plaza....which moved to the Detroit Institute of
Arts later that evening(May 2).
My point is.....it would be wonderful....as someone else
had suggested....if ex witnesses(although I am only an almost
witness)could make a stand for the victims of abuse. A united stand,
in different areas across the country, perhaps.
Just thinking....and wondering if anyone might have any ideas....
graceabounds
now as we know the jehovahs witnesses don`t celebrate the "birthday"!
now when a baby is born that is the birthday and if you bring a gift to the new baby, that is a birthday gift hence the birthday is celebrated.
as we know the bible does not instruct that the birthday should not be celebrated so why not continue celebrating the birthday every year instead of the first one as the jehovahs witnesses do?.
I'm interested too, SPAZ...who practiced Baptism before
in pagan times?
I never knew that it was also a pagan tradition.
If anyone could answer that question, I'd appreciate it.
Thanks!
graceabounds
well, mom is now on morphine, so she has a few days at best.
her organs are now faling, heart and lungs are the worst off.
went in the hospital today, laid there next to her for hours.
It's a shame that none of them ever learned how to empathize.
But, I'm sure that they figure...Hey, it's gonna be alright,
'cause Armegeddon is just around the corner....again.
I, however, can empathize. I just lost my dad a little over
a year ago...for a few weeks he was on morphine. We waited...
those last days...and the woman that he had never married, but
had been with for 20 years....never left his side all through
the nights. She had a hospital bed put in(thru Hospice...they
are great people...if you haven't contacted them...you might
consider....they offered us grief counseling, also)...she had
put an inflatable mattress in her room, and slept by the
hospital bed...incase he needed anything thru the night.
The last days are hard...you wait...and that's about all.
They told us....through Hospice...that it is a good thing to
tell the patient that you will be OK. Meaning, you will be OK
after they are gone. I finally brought myself to do it...to
tell my dad that me and my kids...we'd be OK. I think that some
do hold on...even in pain...because they worry that their family
will not make it. And even though, saying it, I wasn't sure that
I would be OK....I said it.
It's a difficult, painful time....My prayers are with you, and
your mom.
graceabounds
sorry, i didn't mean to start a new thread, but i started a new post by mistake, so here it is anyway.
this is my comment to cello.
sorry folks.. cello,.
I think that most everyone is capable of loving more than one person.
Because there are so many "kinds" of love...friendship, passionate
love, love that you have for your parents, or that you have for
children....so, anyone capable of loving can love more than one person, even at the same time.
However....as for the soulmate stuff...I don't believe in it. Last
year about this time, I visited a psychic...he came well recommended.
lol
Anyway, he told me that I needed to find someone I did not need to
fix.(In the way of a relationship). He told my, now ex-boyfriend,
boyfriend at the time, that I was his soul mate.
Question: How could I need to find someone that I did not need to fix, yet I was his soul mate.
I think that, when looking for a life's partner...you have to choose who you will love. Not just "fall" in love. The thing about "falling"....
you always hit the ground...
hard.
As for loving 2 at once....
that might be a personal choice.
It would be too confusing for me...;)
graceabounds
