Posts by Shanagirl

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Does Anyone Else Feel This Way?
by Shanagirl in
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ok, it's that time of year.

the memorial is coming up.

i've been out for over 10 years.
Shanagirl

still thinking I love Easter eggs and all the Easter decorations and flowers and colors of the season
Shana
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Does Anyone Else Feel This Way?
by Shanagirl in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
ok, it's that time of year.

the memorial is coming up.

i've been out for over 10 years.
Shanagirl

oops!
GLTirebiter thank you for the information. I haven't been to that website you recommended. Actually I have visited the Top 10 reasons to return to the Catholic Church website, and enjoyed a lot of what it said. It's funny how I came upon that website. I was feeling this longing for communion during this time of year, and one day a commercial came on TV about "Catholics Come Home". So, I went to that website. I just don't believe all of their teachings either, but I feel that way about all organized religion
finally awake I get it. I too don't feel any urge to participate in any organized religion. It's just this one thing, the Eucharist, that I miss.
Shana
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Does Anyone Else Feel This Way?
by Shanagirl in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
ok, it's that time of year.

the memorial is coming up.

i've been out for over 10 years.
Shanagirl

ruderedhead Thanks for your kind words. I know you get how I feel. I too felt I was missing out on communion all those years at the kingdom hall doing the memorial.
Bergengaria Pagan? I guess JW's would think I'm a pagan. I am sort of esoteric, in my beliefs, but presently I don't label myself as in a certain belief system. I have a strong feeling toward the Christ Consciousness.
still thinking Yes I do lean toward Gnostic way of beliefs, and find may of the Christian Gnostics writings very interesting. I have integrated a lot of the phylosophy into my own inner knowing of what I personally believe to be true for myself.
finally awake, thank you for the information. I haven't been to that website you recommended. Actually I have visited the Top 10 reasons to return to the Catholic Church website, and enjoyed a lot of what it said. It's funny how I came upon that website. I was feeling this longing for communion during this time of year, and one day a commercial came on TV about "Catholics Come Home". So, I went to that website. I just don't believe all of their teachings either, but I feel that way about all organized religion.
Shana
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THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN......an esoteric,existential point of view
by Wizard of Oz in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
posting guidelines: i have been told on this board that i am asking the same question as everyone else.

wrong; i maybe being irreligious, facetious, flippant or any number of silly things but asking questions isn't one of them.

i have my answers.. my belief is not up for discussion, because it is my belief.
Shanagirl

I personally believe we are all connected by that Divine Light of the Kingdom if Heaven, in the Realm in which Christ came from and spoke about when he came to our realm.
Shana
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Does Anyone Else Feel This Way?
by Shanagirl in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
ok, it's that time of year.

the memorial is coming up.

i've been out for over 10 years.
Shanagirl

Ok, it's that time of year. The Memorial is coming up. I've been out for over 10 years. The whole idea of the Memorial repulses me. But I was brought up in Catholic Schools and raised as a Catholic before coming into the cult of JW's. I've gone back to celebrating and enjoying the Holidays over the years since being out. Now, during the season of Lent, I am longing for the Eucharist. This is a really special time of year for practicing Catholics, and I am feeling that I want to be there participating in Christian celebration again.
Are there any former Catholics here who have these longings?
Shana
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Jehovahs Witnesses and the Memorial of Christs Death
by Greybeard in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
have you ever been invited to someones home for dinner, but not eaten any of the food?

only sat there and watched them eat?

what purpose would that serve?
Shanagirl

Greybeard, Thank you, I read with interest and relating to how I felt when I was once a JW. It's all so true.
Shana
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JW Memorial celebration has to rely on fairy tale history to support it's importance
by undercover in
1. jw
2. friends
once again it is memorial season in jw-land.

the women are shopping for their easter, er, memorial dresses.

the kids look forward to, um, well, nevermind...they don't have anything to look forward to.
Shanagirl

Seriously, the whole Memorial Celebration and Adam's loss of perfection because of sin is not true if you like to look at it from the Gnostic Christian point of view. The Apocryphon of John has Jesus discussing the creation of humans by evil Yaldabaoth and other demons, not the True God.
Shana
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What does Satan and 1/3 of all angels stand to gain by creating chaos?
by tootired2care in
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2. beliefs
"and war broke out in heaven: michael and his angels battled with the dragon, and the dragon and its angels battled 8 but it did not prevail, neither was a place found for them any longer in heaven.

9 so down the great dragon was hurled, the original serpent, the one called devil and satan, who is misleading the entire inhabited earth; he was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him.

" - rev 12:7.
Shanagirl

I've read that the evil god created organic matter and chaos, resulting in the other dark forces, chaos, . Wasn't this dark force eventually Yahweh? does explain the evil punishing god of the Old Testament, and why that evil god is not named by Christ in the new testament.
Shana
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Being a JW is like being in an abusive relationship
by 00DAD in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
how many of you feel that being a jw is like being in an abusive relationship?

what do you think are the similarities?

the differences?
Shanagirl

Watchtower is the "abusive parent" of their disfunctional religous family.
Shana
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Not fearing Armageddon
by tec in
1. jw
2. friends
some time ago i was granted some understanding about 'armageddon', and so i am sharing it with you.

i should have shared it when i first received it from our lord.. there is nothing to fear if you are not riding out to make war against someone.

satan deceives the nations and gets them to march against those who belong to christ and god.
Shanagirl

I do not fear "Armegeddon" I don't even fear the "2012" predictions. I believe there are other realms and planes we haven't yet experienced, and that "True God" and his Christ will always wrap us in their light. Shana