LittleSister
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Happy St George's Day Everyone
by LittleSister intoday is st george's day the patron saint to england.
he is also the patron saint of a few other countries like germany plus a fair few cities so he does get around a bit.. have a happy st george's day everyone .
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Happy St George's Day Everyone
by LittleSister intoday is st george's day the patron saint to england.
he is also the patron saint of a few other countries like germany plus a fair few cities so he does get around a bit.. have a happy st george's day everyone .
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LittleSister
St George held the rank of tribune in the Roman army and was beheaded by Diocletian for protesting against the Emperor's persecution of Christians. George rapidly became venerated throughout Christendom as an example of bravery in defence of the poor and the defenceless and of the Christian faith. Due to his widespread following, particularly in the Near East, and the many miracles attributed to him, George became universally recognized as a saint sometime after 900.
George was adopted as the patron saint of soldiers after he was said to have appeared to the Crusader army at the Battle of Antioch in 1098. The banner of St George, the red cross of a martyr on a white background, was later adopted for the uniform of English soldiers possibly in the reign of Richard 1. He become acknowledged as Patron Saint of England at the end of the fourteenth century.
The legend of George and the Dragon
The town of Silene had a pond, as large as a lake, where a plague-bearing dragon dwelled that envenomed all the countryside. To appease the dragon, the people of Silene used to feed it two sheep every day, and when the sheep failed, they fed it their children, chosen by lottery.
It happened that the lot fell on the king's daughter. The king, distraught with grief, told the people they could have all his gold and silver and half of his kingdom if his daughter were spared; the people refused. The daughter was sent out to the lake, decked out as a bride, to be fed to the dragon.
Saint George by chance rode past the lake. The princess, trembling, sought to send him away, but George vowed to remain.
The dragon reared out of the lake while they were conversing. Saint George fortified himself with the Sign of the Cross, charged it on horseback with his lance and gave it a grievous wound. Then he called to the princess to throw him her girdle, and he put it around the dragon's neck. When she did so, the dragon followed the girl like a meek beast on a leash. She and Saint George led the dragon back to the city of Silene, where it terrified the people at its approach. But Saint George called out to them, saying that if they consented to become Christians and be baptised, he would slay the dragon before them.
The king and the people of Silene converted to Christianity, George slew the dragon, and the body was carted out of the city on four ox-carts. "Fifteen thousand men baptized, without women and children." On the site where the dragon died, the king built a church to the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint George, and from its altar a spring arose whose waters cured all disease.
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New Here....and a Brief Intro
by Yan Bibiyan inafter lurking around here for about a month, i thought it's appropriate to introduce myself to such fine group of people.. i was never a jw.
been married to a baptized mate for over 15 years.
my wife was never technically all in, more of a fader, rarely went to meetings, the occasional memorial, a convention once or twice.
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LittleSister
Hi Yan it's always great to hear about another great escape from borg land.
Welcome to the board.
love,
LittleSis
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Happy St George's Day Everyone
by LittleSister intoday is st george's day the patron saint to england.
he is also the patron saint of a few other countries like germany plus a fair few cities so he does get around a bit.. have a happy st george's day everyone .
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Happy St George's Day Everyone
by LittleSister intoday is st george's day the patron saint to england.
he is also the patron saint of a few other countries like germany plus a fair few cities so he does get around a bit.. have a happy st george's day everyone .
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LittleSister
Today is St George's Day the patron saint to England. He is also the patron saint of a few other countries like Germany plus a fair few cities so he does get around a bit.
Have a happy St George's Day everyone
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Birthday confusion! help!
by highdose ini'm ( yes moi) organising a birthday party for a 50 year old, but i need to know, at what point in the party is the cake supposed to be presented???.
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i have no idea, and feel too embarrsed to ask a "worldly".
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LittleSister
Yes think of it as the desert course.
Also make sure you have the cake candles lit, lights dimmed and everyone is primed to sing happy birthday.
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Gourmet Coffee Thrown Out Because Of Yoga Exercising JW!
by minimus inhere's a good one!.
my obsessed jw relative had another witness come and visit for a few weeks in her home.
the witness woman is around 225 lbs.
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LittleSister
I stopped doing yoga for a while after I read an Awake article several years ago, but I don't remember anything about being possessed. As I recall the point was that it was linked to various forms of false worship. In the end I would rather do a yoga class any day than sit in a JW meeting.
It's amazing how JWs change things from personal choice to cause for stumbling to false worship to she's possessed by demons. They are all a bunch of crazies.
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The JW view of world/personal events is repulsive, unkind & just plain offensive
by jambon1 inon 9/11, an elder: it's sad but exciting!on a loved one dying: we can cope far better with this due to the resurection.on the tsunami, an elder: if they think this is bad, wait untill they see what happens at armageddon (smiling).on armageddon, an elder: i want to be able to see the people dying.on execution at god's hands, a pioneer: it'll put them out of their misery.on the swine flu virus, a pioneer: it'll mean less people for jehovah to kill at armageddon.on the birth of my daughter, a prominent elder: be carefull not to fall into the trap of 'baby worship'on the death of my non jw grandmother, an elder: be carefull at the funeral not to become involved in false worship (don't sing my grans favourite hymn)on the topic of my non jw sisters wedding, the po: if it falls on the weekend of the convention, you should make your stand & not go to the wedding.there is, of course, a normal response to each of these situations.
there is a human response.
one that is touched by the tragedy.
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LittleSister
I must be guilty of baby worship I would put my children above these aholes any day.
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Quality Men who Don't Smoke and Don't Get Drunk...
by White Dove inwhy's it so hard to find them?
it seems like everyone i see around me smokes: my apartments, every job i've ever had, people on the streets.
finding a quality guy that smells good and has a functioning brain not strung out on drugs or alcohol every week is hard to find..
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LittleSister
Have you tried internet dating sites?
One lady I used to work with found her hubby that way and even this guy I know who is the most techie if geeks found a girlfriend.
I guess it's true there is someone for everyone.
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I just put a bullet in the head of....
by AK - Jeff in....my final jw relationship.. i did it.
i killed the relationship.. my cousin rick and i had been inseparable as jw's.
rick is five years my junior, and in many ways i tried to look out for him like a little brother when we were younger.. i have wrestled with an on again/ off again attempt to stay in touch with rick since i left jw's.
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LittleSister
Oh Jeff its always sad and often painful when someone we care about leaves our lives for whatever reason. However, knowing its final over will in a sense allow you to final grieve for your lost cousin and move forward.
Love,
LittleSis
