StAnn

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  What is the one thing you will never give up no matter how hard times get?

  by snarf in

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  17 years ago

  with the talk of everyone trying to cut back and reevaluate their necessities due to the rising cost of products from gas to food, what is the one thing that will never go in your life...a "luxury"item that has wound itself so deeply in your soul you would be incomplete without it?.

  my item is a daily frapuccino, those little devils are so delish that i can't even think of going a day without.

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  My books. I remember reading The Diary of Anne Frank as a child and she mentioned that Jews were no longer allowed to purchase books. They could only borrow them from the library.

  The Dark Ages came about because of a crisis of subsistence. People didn't have time to spend on things like education and music because they were consumed with survival. I worry a little about that, especially with many people working two and three jobs just to pay the bills. When do they have time to better themselves or their children?

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  Are some Congregations more "Elite" than others...?

  by Casper in

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  17 years ago

  during my 13 year stint as a witness,.

  i noticed, that not one time, that i can remember were any of "our" brother's used to give talks at the dc.

  they were used at the circuit assemblies tho.. i also never personally knew anyone in the dramas.... is it normal for some congregations to be left out of such things, while others seem to be used over and over again ??.

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  Yes. Once I saw it come back to bite a cong. in the butt.

  There was a cong. where income was high and field service was low. It was all about being a social club. The women were very competitive, all wearing designer clothes, expensive jewelry, and tons of makeup. The men competed with fancy cars. Poverty and body fat were not tolerated.

  Then we changed circuit overseers. He told me that his wife cried whenever they had to come to our cong. because none of the sisters would talk to her or associate with her because she was overweight. It was true. He was angry about this. He came down on that cong. very hard, said they were too cliquish and not field service focused, and dismantled the cong. He demoted all of the elders. He assigned the people in cliques to differing congs. so that they couldn't re-establish their little groups elsewhere. He also took the KH and sold it outright.

  That cong. eventually rematerialized and built a new KH but is in a different part of the city and has different people in it now.

  They should have been nice to the CO's wife.

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  What makes someone so sure...

  by loosie in

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  17 years ago

  that 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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  these kind of experiences are universal among humankind regardless of religion, faith, or spiritual practice

  Dave, I'm sure that is true. And I'd bet most of the christians on the board recognize that God loves all of us WHERE WE ARE. I can't believe for a moment that, had that child been buddhist or sikh, that God wouldn't have intervened.

  Another nice thing about not being a JW: your God doesn't have to be so narrow and cold.

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  gold stars

  by Hortensia in

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  17 years ago

  sitting here on friday night watching dr. who, humming "mull of kintyre" and thinking about the gold stars i found in my desk today.

  think i'll give myself a gold star - i taught myself to weave and finished my first hand-woven-with-love-totally-useless-really-pretty thing.

  that was an accomplishment!

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  Isn't Harrison Ford a little old to be chasing bad guys through the brush?

  Hortensia,

  Last week we took the kids and my mentally retarded cousin (47 yrs old) to see the new Indiana Jones. Afterward, I asked him how he liked it. He said, "Too old. Not Indiana Jones, look more like Granpa Jones."

  Cracked us up.

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  FW: Very Encouraging !!!?

  by moomanchu in

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  17 years ago

  daddy loves you.

  daddy loves you.

  he was just waiting for her to give up the .

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  StAnn 17 years ago

  I'm sorry but I think this is cruel. Of course, I know this isn't a true story. But still, did that little girl have any concept of real vs. fake? To her, it was just a pretty necklace. If her dad wanted it so badly, he should have explained why. I don't think this story exemplifies a loving God. I think it exemplifies a God who plays games and treats people cruelly; oh, yeah, that's the JWs god, isn't it?

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  middle age revelation

  by lancelink in

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  17 years ago

  just thinking here, reading some comments, and realizing how attitude changes with age.

  when i was a teenager, .

  being able to have some menial job (such as walking around with a please take your seat sign) at the convention was an awesome privilege.

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  What middle age has done for me: I'm no longer subject to peer pressure. I don't care what the other "sisters" are wearing anymore. I wear what is comfortable and what I like. I don't "strive" after privileges. I do what I have time for and don't overload so that I can enjoy the things I do volunteer for.

  I'm comfortable with who I am, I like who I am, and I'm making the life that suits me best.

  I couldn't have done that when I was younger and I wouldn't be able to do it today if I were a JW.

  I see my elderly mother and you wouldn't believe the crazy peer pressure things she's trying to keep up with at the KH. And she's in her 70's! For instance, one old woman had problems with her knees and started bringing a little footstool. Now ALL of the old ladies bring footstools and, of course, an enterprising "brother" is taking orders for them and making them to spec. They're getting more and more elaborate as they compete with each other. It's hilarious. Hopefully, with middle age comes self-confidence and maturity and a clearer mind than when you were young. (But not for my mom!)

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  What makes someone so sure...

  by loosie in

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  17 years ago

  that 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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  I figured it was OK to comment as the topic was thrown out for discussion.

  Exactly. That's what's so nice about being out of the Borg. We all have different world views and IT'S OKAY. Freedom!

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  What makes someone so sure...

  by loosie in

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  17 years ago

  that 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 17 years ago

  COG--I'm not trying to convert you to my way of thinking. I was simply answering Loosie's original question.

  It's really a strange thing. I know that my experience changed me forever. I have absolutely no doubts as to its origin. I also don't expect any one else to believe me unless they have experienced something like that. I'm sure it seems incredulous to outsiders.

  Keep in mind, something you don't know, I was raped and beaten many years previous to this. No one intervened, no one saved me. But it never occurred to me to be angry with God for sending me to help that little boy when God hadn't saved me years before. You'd think I'd be mad. It just wasn't like that. I guess you had to be there.

  For me, it really does go back to free will.

  Re: certainty, it's kinda like when I met my husband, I knew he was the one. I find marriage to be very difficult (he's difficult to get along with, LOL!) but I still know, without a doubt, that he's the one and it never occurs to me to leave. The experience with the little boy, I had the same certainty about it. Can't explain. It's just the way it is.

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  What makes someone so sure...

  by loosie in

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  17 years ago

  that 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 17 years ago

  Loosie, perhaps you saw movement via peripheral vision and your subconscious caused you to hesitate. Thank goodness you didn't turn!

  Sometimes I think mothers have a "sixth sense" about things, we're so protective of our babies.

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  gold stars

  by Hortensia in

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  17 years ago

  sitting here on friday night watching dr. who, humming "mull of kintyre" and thinking about the gold stars i found in my desk today.

  think i'll give myself a gold star - i taught myself to weave and finished my first hand-woven-with-love-totally-useless-really-pretty thing.

  that was an accomplishment!

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  My gold star moment of the day: I bought and mailed to my sister a silver wedding anniversary card, even though I'm not invited to her party because I'm not a JW anymore. Of course, I just had to buy the card at the Catholic book store down the street, so there's a little scripture quoted on the card, and it ain't from the NWT.

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