Thanks to Simon and Angharad for hosting this forum, so that I might have some value yet. And now, I think I'll rest my case, until I'm rested up once again to battle on the fronts that I must. Blessings to all.
Spike Tassel
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Spike Tassel
It's Jehovah and Jesus Christ who are worth my time. The rest are part of Jehovah's people, just as I am: we all are there to learn from each other. I make my contribution to the zeal, both in meeting attendance and in singing. don't any of you worry about that. The may wonder why I can sing all the words enthusiastically, but I know what contributions I make, whether here or elsewhere in my life. "When I am weak (like now), then Jehovah can be most powerful". That's my version of it.
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I have stuck solely to just the congregation where I was DF'd (almost 4 years ago), ever since the marathon JC that went beyond my physical limits and the announcement which followed it. Going to any elders seem not to be an option, unless I would have the "right thing written down". It's OK though. After all, Jehovah's been with me through the piece this far even with my bewildered perspective. After all, love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.
Meeting one-on-one is as much as I am willing to handle now. Sometimes even that is overwhelming, what with the talking the gestures, etc. to try to figure out, plus what I'm trying to get at with what I say.
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With health care cutbacks, and not being able to use an Advance Medical Directive, I am not able to access the system now so as to get proper treatment as far as I know. I refuse to have any mention of my involvement with JWs (which basically boils down to a dispute with must my JC now), but that is the basis of my life.
I have no-one where I live who can go with me for any accommodation. An oral setting is problematic enough with my digressions and weaving several stories at a time with those of my immediate family who know me (as much as they care to). Anyone else would have to have written communication on both sides for me to trust it, whether it's the brothers (who I no longer know) or whether it's medical personnel (who don't have the time to know me).
With my sleep as variable as it is now, I can only go to a "walk-in clinic" but then I would have to put up with the left-overs of tobacco smoke and perfume and cleaning products, which all play havoc with me articulating clear thoughts.
Probably, if I were to go, I would need to take a variety of my Posts on JWN. NO, it's simpler working things through JWN for the time being.
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You, nathmedeah, are one person, and do not speak on behalf of the entire forum and certainly are not in the role model class for me, otherthan that you speak your mind. I try to do that myself, actually. And, I trim my hair every day, and my job is spiritual. I am becoming a better student of Jehovah's word right here on JWN, because there are some that DO care. Thanks for the chat.
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I need some good sriptures & reasoning to refute Jesus = Michael Archangel
by androb31 ini have a lot of good stuff at home on the subject but i'm at work and could use some help for a friend who was just conversing w/ a jw..
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Sorry, TD, my understanding of languages is colloquial often, rather than technical. I believe the most if not all of the orginal Scriptures were written colloquially rather than technically. I don't know how to verify that out one way or the other. Jehovah's not speaking to me on that wavelength.
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The Medical Pension is based on certified "right temporal lobe brain injury" (from a car crash I was in when I was 20), "very erratic sleep" (from what I understand to be damage to the sleep control at the base of my cerebellum), as well as "front parietal lobe malformation" and "multiple-chemical sensitivities" (due to one-month prematurity).
In addition, what I understand now to be a life-long case of Asperger's has been variously guessed medically as ADHD, labile mood disorder, panic attacks, anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression, and schizotypal personal disorder, depending on how the Asperger's was manifesting due to the circumstances and diagnostics used at the time. Medication was tried when I had depressive symptoms, but my eyes turned hard and the Head University psychiatrist at the time said that it was a precursor to glaucoma and blindness if not stopped in short order. So, I cannot be medicated, which I understand to be typical for someone with Asperger's.
I spend my time working computer programs such as here on JWN, e-mails, as well as family tree programs. Computer programming appears to be completely beyond me, although I have changed a lot of the use of my family tree program, and would have a lot more changed if I knew how to move it from being Visual FoxPro 7 to something like Unicode-compatible so it can accommodate Czech and Turkish, Russian and Greek, and even Arabic, Hebrew, and Sinograms, etc. Although my preference would be a modular composition system that could switch from one transliteration to another at the touch of a button. I just don't know how to implement my ideas for that.
I am safest at home with my home cooked meals, reference library, and the specialised chairs and bed I require. Sometimes my ideas must go on being written down for quite a few hours without a sleep break, other times I'm up only a couple of hours and need to sleep again already.
My personality cannot handle the detached group learning situation of a college or especially a university. I woud even benefit more if congregation meetings were down in writing like on JWN so that I could ask for the proper clarification.
Going into debt is now out of the question. I don't have faith in paying money back, when the money's not guaranteed.
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My Boyfriend's not a Witness...
by Hikaru inalright, with my last post it should be obvious i'm in conflict...if it's not, then yeah.. my boyfriend is not a witness.
he understands that witnesses can't marry or date non witnesses.
but i guess could say we've been stalling...looking for a solution a gray area to that black and white situation...but with time getting as it is...stalling doesn't work anymore.
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As (hopefully-)maturing humans, we OFTEN have to live with answers we don't like. That's because we DON'T have all the say. A relationship is NEVER just about ONE person, whether ME, or YOU. We each have to be part of a JOINT decision, IF there's to be any WE at all.
Another important thing is a verse from 1 Corinthians 13, the LOVE chapter. Verse 7 says that It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
To apply this to your situation, this means forgiving the he says that seem to disrespect you, believing the way he feels about himself and his understandings about life and religion, hoping that his wishes come true in a good way for him, and accepting your life even if some of his chioces leave you out of his picture.
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So, now OUTLAW is calling a JC on me?!! Isn't THAT like the old pot and kettle scenario?
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I determine my choices, jookbeard determines his own. Let's keep it that way. I'm not interested in fun, it's always got be into trouble I don't like.