Posts by Dumplin

while this post may not be entirely witness related, i figured i'd write out my thoughts here as a form of release and reflection.. recently, a lot has changed in my life.

i'm away from home for the first time in a long while training to get certified in a field i'm not even sure i want to work in anymore.

Dumplin

Ha! When Louise said look in the mirror in the morning... it reminded me of this scene in the Angel-A movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRrFvapV4ms

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Today I learned - I'm incapable of having a relationship

by Garrett in

hello my dear friends,.

while this post may not be entirely witness related, i figured i'd write out my thoughts here as a form of release and reflection.. recently, a lot has changed in my life.

i'm away from home for the first time in a long while training to get certified in a field i'm not even sure i want to work in anymore.

Dumplin

I couldn't help overhearing. I was eavesdropping.

i'm no relationship expert at all. in fact, my moniker is 'basement guy'. (but i'll save that for another thread)

but my older 'never a JW' sister is good at giving me advice. She told me that she believes in the wisdom of Louise Hay. So here's part of what my sis tells me in an email: "She wrote a book called "you can heal your body" (then a subsequent book "You can Heal Your Life" in which the first book is just a chapter!) and it covers every ailment from headaches to Aids and what's causing them. It's about the body "yelling" at us because something is going on in our lives and we're not paying attention. Most of the stuff is amazingly logical."

Not that this is about your body, Garret. But I think FayeD may be on to something. And maybe it would help to read some of Louis Hay's stuff or even watch a youtube of her. here's a sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmCLfVRxgtw

i guess she's helped a lot of people.

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Everybody loves Raymond

by Saintbertholdt in

a while ago the user vinman started a forum thread called: "ray franz was an idiot".

the reaction to it was quite negative but i have to admit that the title of that thread was intriguing to me.

by nature i am an iconoclast.

Dumplin

Franz wanted to rule the world like everybody else, and he had personal selfish motivations. His supposed pure altruism was pure horse manure.

I believe RF was not typical of GB members of his era. I had friends at Bethel that said he would mingle with the workers and discuss their personal matters and concerns with them. Ray seemed genuine in his concern for the boys at bethel and how they were doing (according to my friend), while other elites treated him (my friend) harshly. I agree w/ Wasanelder "he was not in any way seeking status or prominence" and I can't impute a takeover strategy to him or even impure motives...don't think it's in his personality. He was a man of conviction caught between a rock and a hard place. He did the best he could do under the circumstances... must've aged him. I'm grateful to him for what he did.

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Everybody loves Raymond

by Saintbertholdt in

a while ago the user vinman started a forum thread called: "ray franz was an idiot".

the reaction to it was quite negative but i have to admit that the title of that thread was intriguing to me.

by nature i am an iconoclast.

Dumplin

I believe he knew what he was eventually going to do when he left if he could not make reforms from the inside.

If there was a takeover conspiracy and if it had succeeded, I'm wondering what reforms we would have seen and if those reforms may have caused a mass exodus? ie partaking of emblems, d/f policy changes, etc

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Blindingly Obvious - But Not to J.W.'s

by The Searcher in

if a fellow j.w.

asked a publisher/pioneer/missionary j.w., "how are your hours this month", they will gladly reveal how many hours they've racked up "for jehovah.".

now ask them, "how much money have you contributed to kingdom interests this month", they'd look at you as if you were beelzebub himself, and tell you that that was "personal.

Dumplin

J.W. "charity" is allegedly the preaching work

Dictionary definition of charity: an organization set up to provide help and raise money for those in need.

Bible definition of charity: If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing. 1 Cor.13:3

Dictionary definition of write-off: thing that is given up as hopeless or pointless

JWs believe most of mankind will not respond to their message - and therefore die. Are they really giving out of love... or is it just a write-off for them?

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Silly Bible things you notice when your awake.

by Crazyguy in

i sure you guys can list others but here is a thought about the exodus story.

in chapter 1 the pharoah is concerned that the israelites are becoming to numerous.

and just as a side point we can assume pharaohs were not to dumb and even if they were the smart people of egypt studied in the temple 40 years and they studied all things not just religion.

Dumplin

I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet 1Tim 2:12

hope my wife doesn't find out i posted this

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If only............

by tresdecu in

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friends

....charles taze russell's mom and dad didn't have sex back on that night in june of 1851.... weird that a married couple getting horny could affect so many lives 164 years later.. just a random friday thought.

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Dumplin

stupid pecker

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JOB 42 : 16

by brandnew in

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friends

anybody tries throwing that overlapping / generation bullshiiiii down your throat.......you tell em to explain that.!!!!!!.

"and job saw his children, and grandchildren.......4 generations".

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Dumplin

JC tied the generation to the fig tree leaves illustration. It was the generation that saw the tree first putting forth tender leaves...like in the springtime. So looking at Overlapping's illustration above, which one of those 4 actually saw the springtime/beginning of events? All of them? Logically only one could l do that...the first one.

Then show them the Job scrip. (I think i'll try this now on my wife)

thx everone