every once in a while you hear people say they actually “miss” their old witness friends and or family.
some would have even stayed in the organization if they became a bit more liberal and open minded.
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I still stop by to visit a few of the older ones who remember better times with the Organization. I want them to know that my friendship isn't conditional.
But to get wrapped up in all of that competitive, self-righteous, judgmental garbage? No thanks!
i appreciate all my friends who stop to read what i write and post.
you help me more than you know simply by being there as a sense of 'family of friends' for me to talk to and 'share' thoughts with.i guess if i didn't have stories left to tell or people to listen, i could pack it in and join elon musk in a colony on mars.january 15, 2020. .
which world is this?_________________when the doctor pulled my screaming body out of mom all those 7 decades ago, i landed in a post-wwii world.it was--compared to today's world--an alien planet.the world i live in today has nothing in common with the world in which i grew up.there were no cell phones back then--there were black telephones with a dial-tone and an operator who placed your call.everywhere you found telephone booths!
Hey, Terry, Happy Birthday! Glad that you're still with us and that you are still coherent. I'm only a couple of years behind you and I'm realizing, too, that the world had come a huge distance since I was a kid. It is hardly recognizable!
Thanks for waxing philosophical "out loud,"
i don't know if this topic has been covered before - it might 've been.. i also recommend flipper's excellent music thread ('what songs have you been listening to?
', or similar).. but, i'd just like to start a thread about certain songs giving me goosebumps.
y'know, when you hear a song that profoundly effects you in some difficult-to-describe way and the hairs on your arm stand on end even though the room temperature's comfortably warm.. so, which songs give you goosebumps?.
Fink, Janis gets me every time with that one!
This one starts out mellow, but check out the pipes on this lady!
grant us peace______i was 12 years old.a jesuit (substitute teacher) entered my 6th grade classroom and beamed a handsome smile.. 1959 and this was music class.our actual teacher was unable to attend and sent her priest instead!how very odd.. i had never beheld an actual catholic priest before that moment, never had a human being with such a beautiful expression appeared.there is a word for it: numinous.. his name : michael.
the archangel.. he seemed to open his arms to the classroom...to enfold us inside wings of a theatrical presence.. he spoke and we were instructed.the song was dona nobis pacem (grant us peace.
)his mouth opened.
Numinous is new to me. But I grew up as a Catholic and an altar boy and in the choir. I have had a few of those transcendent moments as a Catholic, but I can't say that I ever had one as a Witness. Sure, sometimes a light would go on in my head when I grasped a piece of the doctrine. But, all in all, the experience of being a Witness was pretty dry.
Thanks for your posts.
Dominus vobiscum
adam was told not to eat from the tree of knowledge for upon the very day of eating from it, he would die.
i had someone say that god lied because, adam didn't die that day but, the scriptures say to god a day is as a thousand years so, since adam lived 900+ years after eating , he indeed died within god's view of a day.
methuselah the oldest to ever live 969 years still within god's set time of a day.
Yup. That was the day he said it. It seems too obvious.
good move or bad?
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LUHE, just making a point for any war-monger that might be browsing here.
good move or bad?
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good move or bad?
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My point, exactly.
good move or bad?
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LUHE, no,I don’t think that but it doesn’t matter what I think if all I have to go on is contrived information
good move or bad?
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Public opinion is very easy to manipulate. Finding the truth is getting to be almost impossible. For all we know that Iranian general fellow was on a peacemaking tour.
