Amelia Ashton

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  What's the most extreme thing you ever did to apply Matt 6:33?

  by Julia Orwell in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  as it's conflated with witnessing, meetings and so forth...what's the most extreme sacrifice you made for those things?

  for me it was my mental health and maybe a career in something cooler than being an office fungus.. you?.

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  Amelia Ashton

  Not dating a non-witness.

  I should have done it and kept the relationship a secret from the witnesses. It may not have gone anywhere but I would have had some fun finding out. Instead I gave him a tract explaining why.
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  I am miserable...am I crazy?

  by Cagefighter in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as a born in jw my outlet was always music.

  my parents let me do piano lessons (from another sister) and when i was 14 i lobbied hard enough for a guitar.

  i formed a decent punk/emo type in high school behind my parents back.

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  Amelia Ashton

  I would love to hear one of your songs Cagefighter.

  If music is what you desire then make time for it. Never deny music or art in your life. It defines as humans more than anything else, including science IMO

  Do you equate success with money? Do what you need to do to keep yourself warm and fed but what brings you happiness has to be included, or what's the point of living.
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  How long do you wait in the waiting room at Dr's office?

  by Iamallcool in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have a friend that has pancreatic cancer and he just went to see the dr today at 10 am est.

  he said he will come here at my home after dr's appt.

  i texted him few mins ago but he did not reply back to me, maybe he turned his phone off since some dr's offices does not permit cell phone use.

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  The doctors here operate an appointment system. It is usual to wait over an hour past the allotted time.

  Edited to add: Appointments have to be booked 2 weeks in advance.
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  New magazine cover from the religion that calls former believers "mentally diseased"....

  by cedars in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  apparently "prejudice" applies only to racial equality and has nothing to do with diverse sexual orientation or religious beliefs.

  it's news to me, but that's the only way i can explain this latest cover from the society.. http://download.jw.org/files/media_magazines/86/wp_e_20130601.pdf.

  cedars.

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  Amelia Ashton

  No-one in the picture is obviously female, gay or an apostate so no prejudices at all!
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  Our Daughter is 13 today!

  by cantleave in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  and to think i was told that armageddon would be here before i was 13!.

  happy birthday heather .

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  Amelia Ashton

  Happy Birthday Heather
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  maybe we should start watching what's going on in Cyprus

  by Hortensia in

  1. social
  2. current

  government considered a tax on savings.

  banks have been shut, atms running out of cash, banks won't open again until tuesday, maybe.

  lots of governments around the world are in financial difficulties, including the u.s. and the u.s. government isn't facing facts and will continue spending and spending until absolutely forced to deal with the deficit.. .

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  Amelia Ashton

  I follow these people

  http://anotherangryvoice.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/moneyweek-and-their-end-of-britain.html

  I love this guy too. he is fun. http://www.lawfulrebellion.org/2013/03/19/an-empire-built-on-lies-si-spaniard-takes-on-the-banks/
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  bye

  by Hortensia in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  pontoon's topic "an old friend" was nice.

  i thought of my best friends when in the org.

  and sent one final email:.

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  Amelia Ashton

  Glad you aren't going. I clicked to see who had upset you
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  How would you feel if your coworkers pooled in on Powerball lottery tickets and won, and you didn't participate?

  by Theocratic Sedition in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i just recieved an email stating that the folks here won $8.00 over the weekend.

  so they're going to use the money to procure more tickets and i believe the jackpot is up to like $260 million or some other crazy figure.

  i never participate and i absolutely enjoy watching them waste their money on tickets with a smug haughtiness that only an active jw can muster.

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  Amelia Ashton

  I am sure there was a thread here some time back and doing the lottery is not wrong, just don't broadcast it.
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  Jehovah generously provides?

  by Rattigan350 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the june 15 2013 w pg 13, para 6&7 has an experience of a pioneer that needed $66 to pay her rent the next day.

  she prayed and went to work at her job as a waitress.

  when she finished her shift she had received a total of $66 in tips.

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  The only good thing with stories like that is they might wake some people up
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  NLP, Subliminal Messages and the WT Writing Department

  by 00DAD in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  a few years ago i became interested in the subject of neuro-linguistic programming (nlp).

  while the core concepts of nlp have been largely discredited as new-age pseudo-science, there is no doubt that there is at least some validity to the idea.

  words and images remain the key way we communicate.

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  Amelia Ashton

  I do believe particular wording is deliberate in magazines.

  Those already indoctrinated see the significance but the uninitiated won't have a clue.

  Loaded language is their speciality.