Very interesting!!! Totally agree!
TastingFreedom
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"Spiritually Strong" JWs Are Actually Spiritually Weak
by new light inthe more a person does in jw busy work, the weaker spirit they must actually have.
many times, they are simply overcompensating or trying to fill.
a void in themselves.
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Brilliant Malawian girl spurns lucrative Chinese scholarship because she is a JW
by TastingFreedom inhere is another sad story of how being a jw makes people's life miserable:.
an 18-year-old malawian girl, who scored distinction in all the six subjects she sat for during the country's 2009 school certificate of education examinations (msce), has turned down a lucrative five-year, all expenses-paid scholarship from a university in china because she is a member of the christian sect jehovah witness, a private radio station who brokered the scholarships has said.. .
'it's really sad she is made to give up a golden chance of a life-time,' gospel kazako, executive director of zodiak broadcasting station (zbs), told pana her e wednesday.. .
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TastingFreedom
Here is another sad story of how being a JW makes people's life miserable:
An 18-year-old Malawian girl, who scored distinction in all the six subjects she sat for during the country's 2009 School Certificate of Education Examinations (MSCE), has turned down a lucrative five-year, all expenses-paid scholarship from a university in China because she is a member of the Christian sect Jehovah Witness, a private radio station who brokered the scholarships has said.
'It's really sad she is made to give up a golden chance of a life-time,' Gospel Kazako, Executive Director of Zodiak Broadcasting Station (ZBS), told PANA her e Wednesday.
Through the Zodiak Best Girl Award Initiative, an annual social-responsibility programme by the leading private radio station aimed at promoting girls' education, three Malawian girls secured scholarships to study medicine in China.
But one of them, Chikondi Dinemu, is not taking up the offer because - according to the radio station - her parents are concerned that Jehovah Witnesses are banned in the communist country.
'The parents are worried she may not be able to practice her religion freely,' said Kazako. 'They have even indoctrinated the girl who is also now saying she ain't going.'
Kazako said a team of ZBS officials travelled to Chikondi's lakeshore resort district of Mangochi to convince the parents of the importance of the girl studying in China but they have put their feet down.
'We even involved the District Commissioner for Mangochi to no avail,' said a dejected Kazako. 'But we haven't given up yet.'
Chikondi and her two colleagues - one of them a Rwandese refugee girl who has since been naturalised because of her impressive performance at the MSCE (the equivalent of O-Levels) - were expected in China on 3 September.
'Everything...the visas, the passports are in, we were only waiting for the day of their departure,' said Kazako.
According to Owen Lupeska, ZBS's Head of Programmes and coordinator of the initiative, Chikondi - who sat for her MSCE at St. Michael Secondary School in Mangoc hi - was supposed to leave for China alongside the other girls, Edith Chikumbu and the Rwandese-turned Malawian Mireille Twayigira.
'They were supposed to spend a year at the Chinese Shandong University learning Chinese before proceeding to the Xiangya Medical College of the Central South University,' he said.
Lupeska said initially Chikondi accepted the scholarship at a colourful ceremony in the central border district of Mchinji presided over by First Lady Callista Mutharika and the out-going Chinese Ambassador Lin Songtian.
'But she told us after surfing the Internet she discovered that Jehovah Witnesses were banned in China and she consulted her church's national headquarters who told her she can't go,' he said. 'It's sad; we tried to counsel her but she seemed very much indoctrinated in her faith.'
A Chinese embassy official in Lilongwe, who cannot be named because he was not authorised to speak to the media, only said: 'The Chinese Scholarship Council checked Miss Chikondi Dinemu's application papers, that included her faith, and approved her which means she could not have had any problems from authorities while in the Peoples Republic of China.'
During the 30-year iron-fist rule under Malawi's founding president, the late Hastings Kamuzu Banda, Jehovah Witnesses were banned in Malawi for their apolitical beliefs.
They refused to take part in anything political including voting, putting on political party colours, singing political songs or buying the mandatory Malawi Congress Party (MCP) membership card.
Most of the Jehovah Witness' leaders fled into exile and had their property forfeited by government under the infamous Forfeiture Act.
Jehovah Witnesses were only allowed to exist and worship freely when Banda was defeated by his one-time protege Bakili Muluzi at the re-introduction of multiparty politics in 1994, but they remain apolitical.
ZBS, founded in 2005 by Kazako - a former public broadcaster and renowned vernacular poet - launched the Zodiak Best Girl Award Initiative in 2006 'as one way of helping empower women in Malawi, the majority of them poor, vulnerable and victimised'.
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Once a cheater, always a cheater
by Quillsky inif you discover, while getting to know a potential partner, that they have cheated on a previous partner........ don't touch them.
run run run.. in my opinion a cheat remains a cheat.
opportunity is the variable.. please discuss..
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TastingFreedom
People will cheat when they are not content within themselves or cannot confront with the situation head on, it's a reflection of internal issues, not being in peace with oneself.
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SoCal meetup
by Dagney inwe have a visitor from far away with us, "hopscotch" as she is known on the board.. we would to put out a "shout-out" for any and all who would like to join us for a meetup this coming weekend, august 21 or 22. we are open to suggestions for where and when.
i would like to encourage any in the area, and even if you are not, to join us.
i cannot tell you how wonderful it is to meet up with the kindred spirits of those who are on the journey we are all on.
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TastingFreedom
Would love to meet again with everybody, but we are leaving on vacation this weekend.
Have had an opportunity to meet with Hopscotch and have had a great time. Have a great time!
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IRAN-Deja vu all over again?
by JWdaughter inany of the rhetoric, demands, conciliation, etc., etc., remind you of anything?
wasn't this all how this war started in iraq?
(or the justification for it, anyway?
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I have renounced atheism: I now believe in God!
by Awakened at Gilead inif you don't believe me, watch my latest video debunking atheism!.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjs9yblgupq.
cheers!.
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TastingFreedom
I believe in the Maradonianan Church (Church of Maradona), and believe in D10S (for the neo-Tetragrammaton "D10S" or "G10D")
Ten Commandments
1. The ball must not be stained, as D10S has proclaimed
2. Love football over all things
3. Declare your unconditional love of football
4. Defend the colours of Argentina (or Spain as I did in the last world cup)
5. Preach the words of D10S all over the world
6. Pray in the temples where he preached and on his sacred mantles
7. Dont proclaim the name of Diego in name of an only club.
8. Follow the teachings of the Maradonian Church
9. Let Diego be thy name, and thy one of your children
10. "No ser cabeza de termo y que no se te escape la tortuga." (Meaning "don't be a hothead and don't let the turtle escape you")
Our Diego
1. Our Diego, who is on the pitches,
2. Hallowed be thy left foot, bring us your magic. Make your goals remembered on earth as in heaven,
3. Give us some magic every day, forgive the English, as we have forgiven the Napolitan Mafia,
4. don't let yourself get caught offside and free us from Havelange and Pelé.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_MaradonianaIn short, I also believe in anything...
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Are You Keeping Up with the NEW LIGHT?
by UnDisfellowshipped inthe watchtower, april 15th, 2010, page 28:.
are you keeping up with increased light?.
jehovah continues to shed light upon his people.
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TastingFreedom
Excellent post!!
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IRAN-Deja vu all over again?
by JWdaughter inany of the rhetoric, demands, conciliation, etc., etc., remind you of anything?
wasn't this all how this war started in iraq?
(or the justification for it, anyway?
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TastingFreedom
This war is closer than most people think..... BUT IT'S NOT ARMAGEDDON!
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More on 'trojan horse' installed by Watchtower on Jehovah's Witness' minds
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TastingFreedom
Some corrections have been made to this article posted here a few days ago.
It can be found at :
http://www.jehovahswitnessrecovery.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=7546&p=96804#p96804
En Español se puede encontrar en el siguiente enlace:
Bringing it to the top for those JWs are still struggling within the cult. It may help you to understand how you have been deceived by the Watchtower.
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College is a waste of time and money
by cyberjesus inthats what samuel herd said yesterday at the dc convention before he went on to say the end of the world was really near.
nobody even noticed anything when he told the audience the new generation understanding but everybody clapped when he presented the new "movie" haha the dubs need entertainment.. also i watched the drama and,... what a bunch of crap that it.
it was my first drama after being awake and what horrid acting it is.
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TastingFreedom
Cyberjesus is secretly a JW! he misses it , LOL