My intentions were not to cause such misunderstandings! I was referring to the Philosophical Interpretation of Feng Shui. It goes much more beyond furniture arranging. I am a very open minded person, and I respect peoples different beliefs, but that doesn't mean I have to accept everything everybody believes. In fact, I refuse to! I apply to my own life only that which I feel is helpful and that I enjoy. I enjoy learning about people and about what makes them "tick". I was simply inquiring about others opinions, and I appreciate all of your responses.
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Feng Shui
by Lost Diamond inhave any of you ever looked into feng shui?
if so, what is your feeling on it?
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Let Me Refresh You Or GET THE HELL OUT!
by Mister Biggs ini was sitting at the meeting last night looking for more things to be critical about (lol!)..
the year text is "come to me...and i will refresh you"-matthew 11:28. as i was staring at the text as it hung on the wall, i looked over at a married teenage couple who were disfellowhipped for "poking" prior to marriage.. okay, they had sex before marriage.
but they did get married.
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Lost Diamond
Mister Biggs,
That's too bad...being DF'd sure started their marriage on a bad note. I'm afraid that will haunt them for as a long as they are in the org. I hope their marriage survives!
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Where can I find the rape comments?
by detective inhi, i've seen the various stances on rape from the questions from readers but have lost track of where i saw them layed out.
can anyone get me the dates of the magazines or copies of the quotes?
detective
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AWAKE (3/8/92 p7) "Profile of a Potential Rapist"
*Emotionally abused you by insulting you, ignoring your views, or getting angry or annoyed when you make a suggestion.
*Tries to control elements of your life, such as how you dress and who your friends are. Wants to make all the decisions...
*Gets jealous for no reason.
*Talks down about women in general.
*Can't handle frustration without getting angry.
*Doesn't view you as an equal.
*Intimidates you...
Sounds like this should be titled "Profile of a Spiritual Rapist"!
The book by Diane Wilson (Awakening of Jehovah's Witness) has quite a few quotes from past articles regarding rape.
Example: (AW 8/22/89,pg 24) "If a woman does not cry out when attacked, it indicates she is submitting to the man and is committing a sin against Jehovah".
Example: (AW 3/8/93,pg 4) There is an article about rape in which it presented as "myth", views it had previously insisted were "truth"; and as "fact", views it had previously insisted were "false."
Detective, I hope this helps a little. If you would like more scriptual quotes from this book, please let me know.
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Follow up to my Patterson call
by Mulan inyesterday i posted this: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=25490&site=3.
last night, the po called me, because i had left a message for him.
he was also very nice, and said he would tell the elders what i said, and he would come visit mom on saturday.
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Lost Diamond
Mulan,
I'm glad the elders are supporting you and your mother. My father was an Elder until his death a few years ago. Before that they called on him for every little problem in the cong.,and to fill in on talks...they kept him very busy. My mother is not the healthiest person, so she is home-bound a lot. Her friends from the cong. visit her every once in while, but and Elder hasn't made a visit for months! As soon a Dad passed away, it's like Mom was forgotten. They did call when my JW brother let the elders know that Mom had mentioned she had some doubt about the 144,000. In fact, they called her the very next day and I was there to hear the conversation. I had just brought her back from the hospital when they called. After I heard my mother defending herself and her doubts I took the phone from Mom and told the elder exactly what I thought of them. How dare they put more stress on a very ill woman! I had to hang up on him, after I asked him, "since my father died, where have you, as an Elder, been? Why haven't you called my mother all this time, but with something has trivial as this you are quick to call? You have no heart". I worry about what they will do with my Mom. She doesn't need the extra stress!
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Would you kiss up to your boss to get ahead?
by butalbee inthis is a question, that i am very curious about, wondering or pondering, thinking if some people would kiss up to their bosses to get ahead in the company that they were employed in; to get a raise, or a promotion, and then i'm thinking of the 'special treatment' clause if you had a personally relationship w/ your supervisor?
i guess w/ my present day situation the thought has crossed my mind, and i can't help but wonder this...if one particular person is "using" me to advance his career.
this is a jw issue, cuz this person is a jw.
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Lost Diamond
I'm with Sirona!
A smile and a positive personality goes a long way, and of course competence is very important. I would never kiss up to nobody, though.
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Where to find "Crisis of conscience" ...
by Nicolas ini tried to buy it on amazon.com but it doesn't accept my credit card number and i know that my credit is not the problem.
so, i would like to find a site in canada instead of in united state.
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Lost Diamond
Have you tried barnesandnoble.com?
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Daddy's Little Girl
by Lost Diamond ini was feeling a bit nostalgic this morning in my way to work..and i guess i just feel like venting, so feel free to back out of this thread if you'd like.. i was raised as a jw since i was seven yrs.
i'm the only girl out of four kids.
we were the "ideal" witness family..my dad was an elder, mom stayed home and waited for us to get home from school, all of us kids pioneered and got to go to pioneer school.
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I was feeling a bit nostalgic this morning in my way to work..and I guess I just feel like venting, so feel free to back out of this thread if you'd like.
I was raised as a JW since I was seven yrs. old. I'm the only girl out of four kids. We were the "ideal" witness family..my Dad was an elder, mom stayed home and waited for us to get home from school, all of us kids pioneered and got to go to pioneer school. Our family was even used a lot in symposiums for assemblies, and I had quite a few parts at assemblies too. Dad would comment how proud he was of us kids.
Time went on and I married a JW man, thinking that I found my Mr. Wonderful. He was everything to me and I help him on a pedestal. To me nobody could ever compare to him. I couldn't do enough to make him happy and show him how much I loved him... That soon changed after our wedding. He became abusive, mostly with words to the point that I became feeling numb..like a robot going through the motions of being a good christian wife, and tried to raise our two children with a plastic smile painted on my face.
My parents never knew of this...they too thought my husband was great christian man. I didn't want to burden them or dissapoint them in any way, plus I was protecting my husband's reputation. This was my war...my fight. My parents eventually moved out of state, as did my brothers. I felt lonelier than I have ever felt.
Dad eventualy had a massive heart attack and was diagnosed with Congestive Heart failure. I re-located and moved closer to them. During this time I was going through my divorce, and this dissapointed Dad tremendously and I could see it in his eyes each time I looked at him, because witnessed could not get divorced without scriptual grounds. He wasn't proud of me anymore, and this really hurt and it cut right through me. My Dad was never a man to show his feelings, much less say, "I love you". How I wanted to hear those words from him so deperately! He took a turn for the worse and needed a triple-heart bipass. After surgery I visited him many times, rembering that the doctors said the firs 48 hrs. were the most cucial. One one visit, 30 hrs. after his surgery, the doctors told us how very well he was doing and they planned to remove all the tubes he had attached to him the very next day. How relieved I was! I held my Dad's hand, and I could feed a slight squeeze..I said, "Goodnight Dad, I'll see you tomorrow. I love you" I kissed his balding head, the one I gave a hair cut to the day before surgery. He looked at me with tired eyes and knodded every ever so slightly. I think he was trying to tell me he loved me too.
I went home that night, and as soon as I got home, I got a call from the hospital. My Dad had become worse and they were calling the family in. My the time I got there, Dad had passed away.
I will always carry the pain of knowing the dissapointment I had caused my Dad and never hearing the words "I love you", but I hope that that very night he tried to tell me...I'll never know.
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Smoking and apostates
by Elsewhere inmrmoe got me thinking... is it just me, or does a disproportionate number of apostates smoke?.
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"as every one knows, there are mistakes in the bible" - the watchtower, april 15, 1928, p. 126 .
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Lost Diamond
I don't smoke. I think it stinks! I have to admit, though , I do like the smell of cigars, and the men that smoke them usually are hot and look so yummy and...I better stop.
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Feng Shui
by Lost Diamond inhave any of you ever looked into feng shui?
if so, what is your feeling on it?
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Have any of you ever looked into Feng Shui? If so, what is your feeling on it?
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Whats the worst 'get-together' game you endured?
by Latte indear all,.
as a young teenager, we were always having get-togethers.... you know the spiritually upbuilding' kind ie.
bible quizzies, really boring stuff.
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Lost Diamond
I went to a lot of skating parties. It was the only time we got to hold hands and get away with it! We were so naughty!!