WTW~You poor guy. It is difficult to see how much pain you must be in. The JWs really did a number on you and I'm truly sorry. There are truly evil people in this world who cause immeasurable pain to others and the GB members are on the list.
Posts by StAnn
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68What makes someone so sure...
by loosie inthat a surpreme being is gonna help us?.
on another thread that i started i asked what is wrong with the new age ideas.
some people seem so afraid of it.. one poster mentioned that new age stuff is incorrect because jesus is for sure gonna come take us away from this world.. now i am opened minded.
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What makes someone so sure...
by loosie inthat a surpreme being is gonna help us?.
on another thread that i started i asked what is wrong with the new age ideas.
some people seem so afraid of it.. one poster mentioned that new age stuff is incorrect because jesus is for sure gonna come take us away from this world.. now i am opened minded.
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Primate Dave~ Interesting point about psychic ability. I've had other very minor experiences that could point to some possible psychic ability. I've never looked into it.
Nvrgnbk~I don't have an answer to your question. One thing I do think is that, when I got out to the trash can and heard the screaming, my first thought was that it was a domestic dispute between spouses and that I would be foolish to intervene, might get myself killed. Then I heard the father screaming about the blood and decided, against my better judgment, to go check out the situation. I had an opportunity to make a choice as to whether or not I would help. I chose to help. Maybe in other situations, people decided not to help.
StAnn
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my inactive family hates that I researched why the jws are wrong
by sosad inthey don't want to hear it, they think i am being hurtful having so many books about cults, jws in particular etc etc.
i never talk about it but they saw my bookshelves in my office during a recent visit and are besides themselves.
they want to know where the anit catholic literature is - (my husband and kids are catholic, i am not).
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Where's the anti-Catholic literature? Tell them they've got it all on their shelves in the WTS publications! Maybe they'll share a study edition of the WT with you about how christendom's clergy speak worthless and valueless things.
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Aug 15-08 Study WT - More evil apostates!
by still_in74 inwell i just got the aug 15 study edition.
i flipped through it for about 10 seconds and found the word apostate.
big surprise.
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Once again, broad generalizations that Christendom's clergy and others presumptuously claim a priesthood for themselves that belongs only to true christians! Of course, JWs are the true christians. This stuff is just blatant propaganda and ego-stroking. I'm embarrassed to remember how smug and superior I felt when I thought that I was one of the few true christians as a JW, only to discover that I wasn't a christian at all.
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What makes someone so sure...
by loosie inthat a surpreme being is gonna help us?.
on another thread that i started i asked what is wrong with the new age ideas.
some people seem so afraid of it.. one poster mentioned that new age stuff is incorrect because jesus is for sure gonna come take us away from this world.. now i am opened minded.
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StAnn
Once I was in my kitchen on a Tuesday afternoon and a voice in my head said, "Take out the trash." I thought, that's strange, why would I take out the trash on a Tuesday? My trash pickup was on Monday. See, I always kept my trash in the mudroom until trash day because dogs would get into it and make a mess. I ignored the "voice" and kept washing dishes. A minute later, I heard the voice say, "Take out the trash." I thought that this was really strange! Why take out the trash? All I knew was that I had an overwhelming desire to take out the trash, so I picked up a bag and started heading out to the alley, where the trash cans were. I kept thinking, "this is so stupid. Dogs are gonna get into this and I'll have to pick it all up again," but I absolutely felt compelled to take out the trash. I learned a long time ago to trust those little nagging feelings. Anyway, when I reached the trash cans, I heard someone screaming. Then I heard a man scream, "Oh my God! There's so much blood!" I ran towards the voices, even though I couldn't see, and discovered a little boy lying on the ground, bleeding profusely from his foot. He was barefoot and had jumped off his back porch and landed on a Mason jar. The jar was imbedded in his foot, almost coming through the skin on the top of his foot. His parents were the ones screaming and they were trying to pull the jar out! I immediately ran over and took control of the situation. The parents were so freaked out that they hadn't even called 911 yet. I knew they could do more damage getting the jar out and that the jar was plugging the hole. If they pulled it out, the boy would have bled to death. The parents finally called 911 and it took 45 minutes for the ambulance to arrive. I laid the boy on his back and held my thumb against the femoral artery in the leg to stop the bleeding. He still bled a lot over a 45 minute span but, if I hadn't known what to do, he would have bled to death. It took surgeons at the hospital three hours to get the jar out without severing his foot. He lost movement in a couple of his toes but that's all. His mother and the ambulance driver both told me that, if I hadn't been there, the doctor's said the boy would have died. I didn't know these people and had never seen them before. The mother told me that she was praying to God for help and I just appeared in their back yard and saved her son. She thought I was his guardian angel. So, I do believe that God intercedes in our lives when we need it. If I hadn't listened to that little voice, which I believe was the Holy Spirit, telling me to take out the trash, that little boy would have died. You can believe it was something else, not God, I don't care, but I've never doubted that there was someone in the universe who knew there was a little boy whose life was in the balance and that I was only a block away and qualified to help. That "someone" contacted me and got me out into the back yard where I could hear the cries for help. I've never doubted that God exists since that day. I think everyone has to come to their own acceptance or rejection of belief in a divine being themselves. It's not something that comes from books. For me, it was personal experience. StAnn
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Do You Wake Up With Answers?
by compound complex ini just now awoke from a nap, a "solution" to a knotty question at my bedside, patiently awaiting my return to wakefulness, with the answer that eluded me during conscious deliberations.
generally, when this has happened, now and in the past, what appears to have been an instant realization turns out to be exactly what i needed.. have you ever experienced this?.
why does it happen?.
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I used to keep a tape recorder by my bed because I thought that I dreamed really great things. After listening to my morning tapes, I discovered they were pretty stupid and incoherent and stopped taping them.
What irritates me is when I'm awakened mid-dream. I try to get right back to sleep and get back into the dream to finish the story but that doesn't usually happens. Then I wake up ticked off. The whole day is fubarred.
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did you have CO's with speical dietary requirements ??
by karter inwe hade one if you served him a meal with onions he would not eat it and said to one sister"don't you know i can't eat this!
" no she did'nt.
the latest co around here if you have them for a meal you get a list what they will not eat.
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I just remembered an old couple, Bro. and Sis. Palms. Nice couple. He was overweight and she requested I bring them a salad for lunch and nothing else. I complied. It was a very nice salad. She was happy but he was really ticked!
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did you have CO's with speical dietary requirements ??
by karter inwe hade one if you served him a meal with onions he would not eat it and said to one sister"don't you know i can't eat this!
" no she did'nt.
the latest co around here if you have them for a meal you get a list what they will not eat.
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We had one CO who was allergic to alfalfa. Glad he told us. Geez, I have to take special pains not to cook with alfalfa.
What did he think we were, cows?
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Should the Name Jehovah Appear in the New Testament?
by hamilcarr inthis is the title of an article from the august 1st issue of the watchtower (public edition).. it can be downloaded from http://www.jw.org/index.xjp?option=qryqzrqvnznt but is not yet available in print.. the absence of the divine name in nt manuscripts is vaguely described so as not to confuse the average jw reader.
the opening paragraph even gives the uninformed reader the impression that some of those nasty non-jw translators deliberately chose to omit the divine name.
bible scholars acknowledge that god's personal name appears in the old testament or hebrew scriptures.
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OTWO, sounds like you're vying for position with V here! Good post!
StAnn
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How Do Your Worldly "Relatives" Handle JWs at Family Reunions?
by jamiebowers inrecently i read a post that said exjws in a particular family could not attend family functions/reunions even with "worldly" relatives because of the jws in the family.
i can't remember what thread it was on, but i didn't reply, because it was off topic of the thread, and i didn't want to be a highjacker.
last year i organized a family reunion on my jw mother's side.
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JB, my family is extremely dysfunctional. The JWs come and bring card games, board games, etc., and sit in the corner and play games with each other! They'll turn the backs to all of the "worldly" people and act like we're not there!
My sister is having her 25th wedding anniversary party this weekend. Of course, I wasn't invited. My worldly aunt, never a JW, asked me what I was taking to the party. I said, what party? So, the JWs come to the parties that the worldly people throw and then ignore them, but generally won't invite non-JWs to their parties. And they won't throw parties, graduation or baby showers, etc., for family members who aren't JWs.
I'm going to send my sister a card anyway, just so she knows that I know about her party.