Posts by chicken little

as many of you know, i made the "big news" statement when kerry louderback-wood's scholarly article about watch tower's blood misrepresentation that was published in the journal of church and state was just about to be published.

i was excited about it because lives were at stake and weve never had such an article before to be able to use to show how the watch tower misrepresents the blood issue through its literature and people die because of it.

chicken little

Thank you for your Big News article, I for one am grateful for any information that confirms all the suspicions I had about blood. I exited in 2007 but had been in great doubt after giving birth to my third child in 2000 and finding out that it was ok to have the injection against rhesus negative blood. I was so shocked to think I had risked my second childs life based not on God's word but men. So keep up the good work! It really helps people to see the light.

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Highdose in a bit of a mess... but in a good cause

by highdose in

i am once again trying really hard to come off the pills ( anti depressants) i've been off them for 3 days, am having the most awful withdrawal symtoms.

inculding terrible vertigo!

i just looked up the offical symtoms of coming off my brand of meds... this is the list.

chicken little

Hej High dose, good to hear that your life is going so well now that you feel ready to quit the meds. It takes a few weeks before the side effects wear off; I had the dizzy spells for quite a while, it will pass. If you have any really nasty reaction go to the doctor, I cut down very very slowly over a month or two until I was taking a quarter tablet every second day.

Love and a hug to you

Chicken little

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Baby P dad

by Married to the Mob in

a while ago this story came out that baby p dad had become a jw.. http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/child-abuse/181524/1/baby-p-dad-converts-in-prison.

well it seems now he has become a catholic.. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3395142/baby-p-killer-steven-barker-34-claims-god-has-forgiven-him-for-child-death.html.

someone at the watchtower is going to be loving this and probably claiming it as a "return to satan".. .

chicken little

This piece of garbage should be put in a dark hole and left. His acts are so atrocious that it makes one sick just to read them, I believe that the injuries to his little boy were so terrible that the jury were not allowed to see photographs. Hell is too good for him, so the catholics should give up on him.

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Australian Convention Pioneer family Experience - We found our vegetables in the gutter..why do they wanna be Martyrs?

by Witness 007 in

a couple years ago district convention - a pioneer family with two kids explained how they had ran out of funds and had no dinner...as they turned the corner out witnessing they saw a vegetable truck had spilled some produce in the gutter and so "jehovah provided in our time of need..." i felt like yelling get a job you bum stop starving!!

not encouraging.

this week an elder with pnemonia discharges himself from hospital, promising to remain home...so he can go out preaching!

chicken little

Thanks Roski, its true what you say and just like your Dad we experienced something similar. It was the sheer number of these experiences that baffled me over the years when I was grappling with my doubts about the whole Jw thing. I hung onto the idea that this was proof that God was with this religion. I have realised as I wrote before that my experiences out of the religion have been just as awesome and at times inexplicable on the surface. Dig a little deeper and a logical explanation surfaces, usually connected to general kindness in people.

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so what have i missed???

by oompa in

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been very self absorbed for awhilel....shame on me!!

but i called that crazy canadian chick the other day....god i love her voice and personality...and if you ever get to call or see mouthy...go for it!!!

!...she has more life in her now than i ever will.

chicken little

So good to see you are getting back on your feet, hope you keep on healing and feeling better each day.

Love Chicken little

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Australian Convention Pioneer family Experience - We found our vegetables in the gutter..why do they wanna be Martyrs?

by Witness 007 in

a couple years ago district convention - a pioneer family with two kids explained how they had ran out of funds and had no dinner...as they turned the corner out witnessing they saw a vegetable truck had spilled some produce in the gutter and so "jehovah provided in our time of need..." i felt like yelling get a job you bum stop starving!!

not encouraging.

this week an elder with pnemonia discharges himself from hospital, promising to remain home...so he can go out preaching!

chicken little

I have to write in on this one as I have had (sorry to say), similar experiences and have related them at the assemblies. At the time my husband and I were pioneering on a bare subsistance wage cleaning at all hours of the night. We often had little food and had an experience similar to the australian one. We were walking home from work in the night and came across a ditch were a bread lorry had lost its load out of the back.

We collected as many wrapped loaves as we could and were very grateful for the bread from heaven as we called it. It was not stealing as no company would use packages that had been on the earth.

We had many other experiences that at the time we gave God the glory for. Our tiny old caravan fridge broke down and we had no money for another one, one service the next day at a return visit we see a fridge in our visits hallway, we ask him if he has just got a new one, he says yes but he wants to get rid of the old one that is working well. We of course were overjoyed and yes we gave thanks to Jehovah. Actually our visit was a very kind man and as we have found out since leaving Jws there are lots and lots of people that do very kind things when you are in need.

I view the way in which we were used by the society in giving our experiences as assemblies, much the same as the revivalist churches in the last century. They needed testamonies of God's power, healing etc to give them credibility, the society does the same with our experiences. "See God is blessing you in pioneering, see what wonderful things happen when you serve God", I truly believed this and it was one of the points that held me in longer than I wanted because we really did have unusual experiences. I now see they were not so unusual at all, since I have left I have had just as many "strange" coincidences that have brought good things into my life to help others.

I work for the Red Cross with women who are beaten, whenever I have had to find furniture for them when they move to a new place; I can be sure that I will find just what I need within days, either through Facebook, at work in the rubbish containers (bookcases, chairs etc) or through kind friends that just want to help. So now when I meet the Jws I tell them how kind people are generally and how much I am inspired by their kindness. My dear friend told me that good things tend to happen to people who put themselves out for others, maybe that sounds a cliche but I think there is truth in that saying.

So yes I did take part in the boasting for God sessions, but now I am boasting for humanity, people are great!

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Australian Convention Pioneer family Experience - We found our vegetables in the gutter..why do they wanna be Martyrs?

by Witness 007 in

a couple years ago district convention - a pioneer family with two kids explained how they had ran out of funds and had no dinner...as they turned the corner out witnessing they saw a vegetable truck had spilled some produce in the gutter and so "jehovah provided in our time of need..." i felt like yelling get a job you bum stop starving!!

not encouraging.

this week an elder with pnemonia discharges himself from hospital, promising to remain home...so he can go out preaching!

chicken little

I have to write in on this one as I have had (sorry to say), similar experiences and have related them at the assemblies. At the time my husband and I were pioneering on a bare subsistance wage cleaning at all hours of the night. We often had little food and had an experience similar to the australian one. We were walking home from work in the night and came across a ditch were a bread lorry had lost its load out of the back.

We collected as many wrapped loaves as we could and were very grateful for the bread from heaven as we called it. It was not stealing as no company would use packages that had been on the earth.

We had many other experiences that at the time we gave God the glory for. Our tiny old caravan fridge broke down and we had no money for another one, one service the next day at a return visit we see a fridge in our visits hallway, we ask him if he has just got a new one, he says yes but he wants to get rid of the old one that is working well. We of course were overjoyed and yes we gave thanks to Jehovah. Actually our visit was a very kind man and as we have found out since leaving Jws there are lots and lots of people that do very kind things when you are in need.

I view the way in which we were used by the society in giving our experiences as assemblies, much the same as the revivalist churches in the last century. They needed testamonies of God's power, healing etc to give them credibility, the society does the same with our experiences. "See God is blessing you in pioneering, see what wonderful things happen when you serve God", I truly believed this and it was one of the points that held me in longer than I wanted because we really did have unusual experiences. I now see they were not so unusual at all, since I have left I have had just as many "strange" coincidences that have brought good things into my life to help others.

I work for the Red Cross with women who are beaten, whenever I have had to find furniture for them when they move to a new place; I can be sure that I will find just what I need within days, either through Facebook, at work in the rubbish containers (bookcases, chairs etc) or through kind friends that just want to help. So now when I meet the Jws I tell them how kind people are generally and how much I am inspired by their kindness. My dear friend told me that good things tend to happen to people who put themselves out for others, maybe that sounds a cliche but I think there is truth in that saying.

So yes I did take part in the boasting for God sessions, but now I am boasting for humanity, people are great!

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I'm lost

by Newborn in

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i feel confused, empty, alone, sad, sensitive, hurt and so on.

more and more it seems.... will i ever find my place, my home and be content and happy?

sometimes it feels impossible.

chicken little

Hej Newborn,

Someone wise said "this too will pass", and hard as it seems at the moment you will come through this time. Remember to learn to love yourself before you jump into finding someone to love you, it sounds odd but the hardest love to accept is to love oneself. Best wishes for this New Year.

Chicken little