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  Voting for the first time!!

  by wolfman85 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm 45 years old and i was raised as a jw.

  i left the "truth" two years ago, but i am not disfellowshipped.

  any of you ever voted being an active jw?

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  Quando

  First time here also

  42 yr old successful fader, I take advantage of the option of 3 halls meeting at a single building and the circuit is split...oh yeah!

  nobody knows where I go
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  I am so F******G angry today

  by Aussie Oz in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am so angry today.

  angry because i have to waste my time/use my time to fight this fucking retard of a religion.

  angry that i have to spend my time trying to influence them to think.

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  Quando

  A GREAT follow up musical

  BAD RELIGION

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OalFCKXFZBE
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  I am so F******G angry today

  by Aussie Oz in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am so angry today.

  angry because i have to waste my time/use my time to fight this fucking retard of a religion.

  angry that i have to spend my time trying to influence them to think.

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  Quando

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I8CEBpjn2M

  We must manage our problem :)

  HUGS!!!
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  I need a show of hands: who believes the Bible and to what extent?

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i'll start off.. i don't believe anything is divine about bible writings.

  i believe there may be some marginal history although not much.

  i think alot of folk tales and regional myths are contained in the old testament.

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  Quando

  An Aura of divinity

  I agree and resonate with this

  When you speak amongst a crowd passionately you MOVE them and they talk endlessly about it.

  The money is in public speaking :)
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  Elder said people "rarely" die from refusing a blood transfusion

  by InterestedOne in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  i sat in on the "know your options" reading tonight, and the elder said a couple things i was wondering about:.

  1. he said if a doctor says you have a high risk of dying if you refuse a blood transfusion, he is misleading you.

  he said people "rarely" die from refusing a blood transfusion.

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  Quando

  From a professionals standpoint, NO you will not die!

  The basic question should be, Are you ready to be Conscious of your decisions? The WBTS really have no clue the depth of this question.

  The bottom line is you are recieving someone else's DNA their life force. The body only replicates the sources it was given.

  At the end of the day I will take someone sick over dead and with today's modern technology we can prolong life and give AWARENESS when needed.

  Sorry I can't explain more :(
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  Circuit Assembly Cancelled - AGAIN

  by St George of England in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it should have been our ca tomorrow and sunday but it has been cancelled because of the weather.

  we had a light sprinkling of snow today but it has frozen and the roads around hayes bridge are treacherous.. the ca two weeks ago was cancelled for the same reason and some of those congregations were scheduled to join us this weekend.. guess i will just have to have a lie in this weekend!.

  george.

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  Quando

  Our Sunday meeting was canceled and it was pretty bad out, but what surprised me was they canceled our Thursday meeting due to a forecast??

  Last year we had bad days and the rule of thumb is if you live in the city come, but if you don't then don't worry about it.

  I was just surprised at the Thurs. cancellation, nothing was happening! The storm came in at midnight.

  My hubby said "The elders are finally starting to play the game" We have some young elders locked into "Hotel California"
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  Principle of astrology proven to be scientific

  by Quando in

  1. forum
  2. announcements

  i enjoy real astrology not newspaper garbage and now that scientists are looking into this is really cool...the article states that scientists are calling it "seasonal biology" (don't you love the english language .

  astrology proven to be scientific.

  (naturalnews)mention the word "astrology" and skeptics go into an epileptic fit.

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  Quando

  I enjoy real astrology not newspaper garbage and now that scientists are looking into this is really cool...the article states that scientists are calling it "seasonal biology" (don't you love the english language ) oh well...it will throw the die hards off the path using the expression "seasonal biology"

  Astrology proven to be scientific

  (NaturalNews)Mention the word "astrology" and skeptics go into an epileptic fit. The idea that someone's personality could be imprinted at birth according to the position of the sun, moon and planets has long been derided as "quackery" by the so-called "scientific" community which resists any notion based on holistic connections between individuals and the cosmos.
  
  According to the conventional view, your genes and your parenting determine your personality, and the position of planet Earth at the time of your birth has nothing to do with it.
  
  Then again, conventional scientists don't believe the position of the moon has anything to do with life on Earth, either. They dismiss the wisdom that farmers have known for ages -- that planting seeds or transplanting living plants in harmony with the moon cycles results in higher crop yields. Even the seeds inside humans are strongly influenced by the moon, as menstruation cycles and moon cycles are closely synchronized (28 days, roughly).
  
  

  Researchers demonstrate scientific principle of astrology

  Skeptics must be further bewildered by the new research published in Nature Neuroscience and conducted at Vanderbilt University which unintentionally provides scientific support for the fundamental principle of astrology -- namely, that the position of the planets at your time of birth influences your personality.
  
  In this study, not only did the birth month impact personality; it also resulted in measurable functional changes in the brain.
  
  This study, conducted on mice, showed that mice born in the winter showed a "consistent slowing" of their daytime activity. They were also more susceptible to symptoms that we might call "Seasonal Affective Disorder."
  
  The study was carried out by Professor of Biological Sciences Douglas McMahon, graduate student Chris Ciarleglio, post-doctoral fellow Karen Gamble and two additional undergraduate students, none of whom believe in astrology, apparently. They do, of course, believe in science, which is why all their study findings have been draped in the language of science even though the findings are essentially supporting principles of astrology.
  
  "What is particularly striking about our results is the fact that the imprinting affects both the animal's behavior and the cycling of the neurons in the master biological clock in their brains," said Ciarleglio. This is one of the core principles of astrology: That the position of the planets at the time of your birth (which might be called the "season" of your birth) can actually result in changes in your brain physiology which impact lifelong behavior.
  
  Once again, such an idea sounds preposterous to the scientifically trained, unless of course they discover it for themselves, at which point it's all suddenly very "scientific." Instead of calling it "astrology," they're now referring to it as "seasonal biology."
  
  

  How to discredit real science

  It all reminds me of the discovery of cold fusion in 1989 by Fleishmann and Pons, who were widely ridiculed by the arrogant hot fusion researchers who tried to destroy the credibility (and careers) of cold fusion researchers (http://www.naturalnews.com/025925_c...). After the very idea of "cold fusion" was attacked and demolished by these arrogant scientists, it soon returned under a new name: Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR).
  
  LENR has now been verified as true by none other than the U.S. Navy -- along with hundreds of other researchers around the world (see link above). And yet, even today, the conventional scientific community still insists cold fusion doesn't exist and cold fusion researchers are frauds.
  
  Just as there is a solid scientific basis for LENR, there is a scientific basis for astrology, too. The relationship between the Earth, Moon and Sun naturally alter light exposure, temperature, gravitational pull and other conditions that may be sensed by living organisms. To believe in astrology, all that's really required is to grasp the basic concepts of the interrelationships between all living things. Does the position of the sun or moon influence life on Earth? Of course it does: Life as we know it wouldn't even exist without the moon tugging on Earth and preventing its rotational axis from shifting around to the point where radical changes in seasonal temperatures would make life far more challenging. (The moon, in other words, is one of the key "stabilizers" of life on planet Earth because it tends to stabilize the seasons and keep the Earth on a steady rotational plane.)
  
  None of this, of course, means that the position of Saturn today is going to make you win the lottery or find a new love. That's the tabloid version of astrology, not real astrology.
  
  

  Don't confuse tabloid astrology with real astrology

  Even astronomy has its tabloid versions, too, which are entirely non-scientific. For example, every model of our solar system that I've ever seen is a wildly inaccurate tabloid version of reality, with planet sizes ridiculously exaggerated and planet distances not depicted to scale. These silly, non-scientific solar system models imprint a kind of solar system mythology into the minds of schoolchildren and even school teachers. Virtually no one outside the communities of astrophysics and astronomy has any real grasp of the enormity of not merely our solar system, but of our galaxy and the space between neighboring galaxies.
  
  To show a giant sun the size of a basketball, with a depiction of the Earth as a marble-sized planet three inches away is the astronomical equivalent of a gimmicky horoscope claiming you're going to win the lottery today because you were born under the sign of Pisces. Both are fictions. And both are an insult to real science.
  
  In fact, even the whole idea that an "electron" is a piece of physical matter, made up of other "particles" is an insult to real science. The sobering truth of the matter is that "particle physics" doesn't have much to do with actual particles at all. It's all about energies that might, on occasion, vibrate in just the right way so that they momentarily appear to take on the illusion of a particle as measured by our observers -- observers who inevitably alter the outcome of the entire experiment, by the way, once again proving the interrelated nature of things in our universe, including observer and experiment.
  
  The horoscope predictions in the Sunday paper -- as well as much of the hilarious mythology found in the modern description of an atom -- are both simplified, comic-book versions of a larger truth -- the truth that we live in a holistic universe where every bit of physical matter, every bit of energy and every conscious mind impacts the rest of the universe in subtle ways. There is no such thing as an individual who is isolated from the cosmos, because we are of the cosmos and we exist as the physical manifestations of energies that, for our lifetimes, are momentarily organized as beings.
  
  We are made of star stuff, says Carl Sagan. He he's right: We are not only made of star stuff, we are influenced by that stuff, too. And finally, modern science is beginning to catch up to this greater truth that astrologers have known since the dawn of human existence on our tiny planet. Learn more: http://naturalnews.com/030698_astrology_scientific_basis.html#ixzz17u2sshcu
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  jehovahs witnesses giving a "bad witness "

  by looloo in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was talking to a workmate yesterday about my jw experiance and my daughters abuse , she told me that she works as a counsellor and had been discussing jws with a colleage , this person had given counselling to a jw woman who was a victim of domestic violence by her jw husband , the elders had done nothing to help the woman and simply told her to stop moaning about it !

  the counseller was disgusted that in this day and age women are still treated like that !

  the jw lady eventually left her husband , took the children with her and got disfellowshipped !!!!

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  Quando

  I am emeshed around stories like this....I am really starting to believe that "false religion" has nothing to do with religion as a whole but the individual person's actions and principles.

  I am slowly breaking away from the drunk crowd of JW's I have not been with them in 4 months and very limited phone conversation just seeing them on my facebook...I think they are a great example of living "false religion"
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  Anybody else drink too much alcohol and want to stop?

  by new light in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have been drinking heavily my entire adult life with the exception of about two very happy years and i feel it is now time to try and put it down (again).

  it's hard, though, as there is no one to impress except myself.

  last time i quit, at least i worked with some sober people whom i found much more relatable with a clear mind and that provided at least a little more inspiration to continue.

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  Please listen to that inner voice! I was a heavy drinker and quit for 1.5 years and started again and it took me 6 months to realize I started back up for everyone else, the thing is the other people REALLY don't care if you drink or not.

  Relationships are such a tough thing to gauge when your a witness, I drank to escape all the brain chatter and I am surrounded by drinkers and all witnesses. Do it for you and you only!

  It's time to have the me attitude.
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  taken from daily text for today

  by therevealer in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  monday, november 22. youhadnohope.-eph.2:12.. jehovah's witnesses accept medical help and various forms of treatment.

  our journal awake!

  often contains articles on health matters.

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  Quando

  Does this mean I should burn my "Save the Ta Ta's" T Shirt??