PaintedToeNail

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  Remote Viewing-has anyone heard of this or tried this?

  by PaintedToeNail in

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  i read an article on this 5 years ago or so and came upon this topic again in reviewing a book on amazon.

  it entails what i think was called 'quantum entanglement', and supposedly used by the cia & the military.

  it sounds fascinating to me..

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  @Baltar447, being very new here, I can't tell if you are kidding or not.?!
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  Remote Viewing-has anyone heard of this or tried this?

  by PaintedToeNail in

  1. jw
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  i read an article on this 5 years ago or so and came upon this topic again in reviewing a book on amazon.

  it entails what i think was called 'quantum entanglement', and supposedly used by the cia & the military.

  it sounds fascinating to me..

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  I read an article on this 5 years ago or so and came upon this topic again in reviewing a book on Amazon. It entails what I think was called 'quantum entanglement', and supposedly used by the CIA & the military. Has anyone tried this? It sounds fascinating to me.
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  Would You Be Shocked If You Found Out That A JW That YOU Knew Was Here?

  by minimus in

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  i bet there's a lot of jws in "good standiing" that frequent this place.. what do you think?

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  I'm shocked to find myself here, much less someone I knew. Never thought I'd be here posting, I've lurked for a long time though.
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  A simple way to tell God probably doesn't exist

  by poor places in

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  when's the last time you prayed to god?

  did he respond?

  i prayed to him for years and years and received no response.

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  To me, the thought of living things evolving two of the sexes simultaniously, to ensure procreation doesn't make sense, i.e., two horses of different sexes evolving at exactly the same rate of development to be able to 'make' baby horses seems hopelessly unlikely. There had to be a design there. High school biology told me life cannot come from inanimate things.
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  Never, ever posted to a site before-Scarec silly

  by PaintedToeNail in

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  hi, i'm scared to death writing this that i will be discovered and have major problems.

  i had a good life being raised as a jw child.

  many good memories of people, places and times.

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  Carla-I don't thing I was programmed to think bad about everyone as a child. My mum is always defending everyone. Rather, I think it was just time and seeing things for what I feel they are. I'm glad your friend's life was saved, that was really great. Your friend must be an optimist-lucky girl.
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  How Many on JWNet are still JWs?

  by RayPublisher in

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  i've been wondering about this for some time.

  if there are 60,000+ registered users on here, what percentage are actual non-dfed or non-daed witnesses?

  if it was 1/3, that would be over 20,000 active/inactive witnesses that post and read these pages- and that's huge.

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  I'm still attending. Don't know if I'm in good standing-never had the sense to keep my mouth closed and my thoughts to myself.
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  Paraplegic JW example used at assemblies

  by Alfred in

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  it seems like every time our circuit failed to meet the field service goals set by our co, the very next circuit assembly would invariably include a talk that mentions a chronically ill paraplegic sister who would dial the phone with her tongue to make return visits or conduct bible studies... i must have heard this experience at least 6 or 7 times in the past 20 years or so.

  and every time i heard this recycled talk, they would add even more guilt-inducing twists to it.

  to me, it eventually became way to difficult to believe...

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  It is always annoying when people are trotted out and held up as an example to shame the rest of us. I knew someone who toured through Africa on vacation, this person videod an African who had walked 11 (maybe 15) miles simply to fish in some lake. The African had to walk all the way back home again after fishing. The video also showed dozens and dozens of people walking to and fro on the roads, no cars in sight. With the extreme poverty there, everyone walks everywhere, so walking 15 miles, uphill both directions to meetings isn't as big a deal as we think.
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  Never, ever posted to a site before-Scarec silly

  by PaintedToeNail in

  1. jw
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  hi, i'm scared to death writing this that i will be discovered and have major problems.

  i had a good life being raised as a jw child.

  many good memories of people, places and times.

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  Hi again everyone, a little more clarity in order I guess. When I was in high school a zillion year ago, my graduating class was filled with knocked up girls. I remember seeing a couple 'doing' it in the woods surrounding the school, clearly visible from the path leading to the street (they must of been freezing by the way, Minnesota is cold!). I was approached to do drugs by girls in my neighborhood. As an adult, whilst DF'd by the way, I was involved in law enforcement...quite the awakening as to a broad scope of 'worldly' people...I really love cops, prosecutors, DEA agents-one heck of a job, no respect, lousy hours, crying over the little assaulted kids and trying to sort out what was done to them because their idiot parents refused to tell them the correct names of body parts, dead bodies rotting in overheated rooms, crappy pay... I came to realize most people would be happy to screw you over given the chance. I trust very few people after that eye-opening period of time. Being a reasonably attractive woman, I had several boyfriends-and was involved intimately with them...during those years. But the big difference here is I was in my mid 20's!!
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  Never, ever posted to a site before-Scarec silly

  by PaintedToeNail in

  1. jw
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  hi, i'm scared to death writing this that i will be discovered and have major problems.

  i had a good life being raised as a jw child.

  many good memories of people, places and times.

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  Hi New Chapter, thanks for you response and concern. I have an addictive type personality-so any thought of being free to choose to smoke for example, would have yielded someone who was a three pack a day user. I would love to gamble, but know that I never would be able to walk away ahead of the game. I should mention that as a tiny child I was sexually assaulted by a neighbor-my first memory-actually, NOT by a JW. This experience has left me with a whole litany of problems I've been really plagued with for many, many years. I hated the way sexual assaults were handled by the Org., and remember telling a sister, newly arrived from Bethel, that one day this would come back to haunt us. I remember 1975 as a child, scared to death I was going to be dead forever. I still cringe at being out in service in Minnesota on X-mas day, freezing to half-to-death, while poor worldly kids played with their new toys, watched TV and had hot chocolate (jealousy rears it's ugly head-I coveted those Barbie Townhouses and Legos). For years I refused to go out in service on holidays because of this. My doubts are many and varied. Yet, I ask, what else is there to believe in? Can complex life forms evolve from non-life, on a planet so priviledgedly placed-I am invoking the "Priviledged Planet" moniker here. I've told my husband that I have some relief not dreading Jehovah anymore, I accept that I am going to die and I feel relief. I feel relief that my oldest child has been accepted at a local college and has decided upon a very marketable career. I've never liked the clean toilets career thing and keep your eye simple without-health-insurance and maybe we can buy new shoes thing.
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  Never, ever posted to a site before-Scarec silly

  by PaintedToeNail in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi, i'm scared to death writing this that i will be discovered and have major problems.

  i had a good life being raised as a jw child.

  many good memories of people, places and times.

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  PaintedToeNail

  Hi, I'm scared to death writing this that I will be discovered and have major problems. I had a good life being raised as a JW child. Many good memories of people, places and times. Yet, I have doubts that go coursing through me like fire. My dearest Mom on hearing some of my concerns, told me "you think too much". My lovely husband is bewildered with me, and cries at the thought of my not living forever in paradise with him as we are a happily married couple. I never could see myself there (nor in heaven-nor wanted to be in heaven, thank you very much). I never felt I could live up to all that was expected as a JW; coupled with my doubts, this is a lethal sin. Oh well. I am still attending meetings with my family, as I'm happy that being raised as a JW, I never felt free to blow my mind with drugs, blacken my lungs with smoking, or become a spermbag with some incurable veneral disease. I want my kids to have these restrains too. Nothing wrong with not subsidizing the murdering drug cartels in Mexico, Big Tobacco in the US, nor subsidizing assorted men with my vagina. We love to travel and certainly wouldn't be able to if we indulged in the first two vices. My kids love to see historical sites, Nat'l Parks and eat different foods. I have trouble doing JW things with them, like the ministry, family worship and so on, as I feel like a hypocrite. It saddens me that so many people on this site have vitriol in their veins, some had to have had good experiences as children, as I did. Yet, I gravitate here to post what is on my troubled mind. Odd that.