Here is another experience related to me by another ex dub. Last winter, just before Christmas, she was wondering if she could communicate with her dead grandparents, so did a little test. In bed she asked if "grandma, are you there? give me a sign." She felt a little movement of the covers against her leg, but more like fingers going up and down. She freaked out, but tried it again, and had the same reaction. Still not wanting to believe it, she asked again for a different kind of sign. "tell me something" she said. She went to sleep, hoping to hear something from her grandmother. In the morning her husband told her he had had an odd dream. There was an elderly couple holding up a sign, written in German. My friend went cold........her grandparents were German, and she hadn't told her husband what she was doing. She asked him what the sign said, but since he didn't speak German, he could only spell it for her. The sign said "Merry Christmas." She felt it was a clear sign, but she is weird, so I haven't told this to anyone yet. The experience related by riz was too similar, and I had to tell.
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16Dreams: Portals to the Afterlife?
by Mulan innow this is a neat subject!!
i am a genealogy freak, and have researched my family back to the middle ages and beyond, on both sides.
i so much want to know about them, and what they looked like, and how they lived, that i have dreamed it.
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Dreams: Portals to the Afterlife?
by Mulan innow this is a neat subject!!
i am a genealogy freak, and have researched my family back to the middle ages and beyond, on both sides.
i so much want to know about them, and what they looked like, and how they lived, that i have dreamed it.
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Mulan
Now this is a neat subject!! I am a genealogy freak, and have researched my family back to the middle ages and beyond, on both sides. I so much want to know about them, and what they looked like, and how they lived, that I have dreamed it. One dream I keep having is that I am the daughter of one of my grandparents, back about 200 years in Maine, where my ancestors came to from England. I have vivid memories, when I wake up, of what they all look like, and their clothes and homes. Usually when I have a dream, I remember details, but can never see faces. I see these people's faces. And the cold temperature is very vivid, even in summers here, I wake up feeling that I had been cold all night, because the dream was in the winter in Maine. I have also had dreams of talking to my grandmother who died in 1974, about all this stuff we have learned about the JW's. She was a JW too, and was 89 when she died. We all (all the family) were so close to her, that we want her approval. In the dream, she is so happy that we finally learned the truth of things, and that she had been trying to tell us for so long, but couldn't get through to us. I have no idea if these are real experiences, but I DO KNOW that there is so much about the mind, that we don't know and just can't know at this time. I don't discount anything anymore. I am convinced it is NOT demons.
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Homosexuals and Evolution
by patio34 inon monday past, the la times health section had an article on homosexuality, especially the traits visible in young toddlers.
it also delved into possible causes of homosexuality and the latest research and theories.. there was an interesting comment in the article something like "it's a peculiarity in evolution that homosexuality occurs because it precludes procreation.
" in evolution, whoever produces the most offspring are the ones who pass on their genes.
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Mulan
I find it fascinating the attention this subject gets on this message board. The topics just keep popping up, and get 40-50 or more replies too. I have a niece who is gay, but we don't have any other gay people in the family anywhere, back two to three generations. I tend to believe that she got into a denial mode of being female after her mother died in childbirth, when this girl was 13. She was in shock for at least a year, and her own puberty seemed to stall until she was nearly 16. She is now 37 and openly lesbian. Just my opinion. She is in therapy now, trying to understand it herself. She has the love and acceptance of the entire family, so doesn't feel rejected at all. Even her militant JW grandmother, my Mom, openly accepts her and her friend. My Dad said the other day "do you think Debbie's friend is gay too." We all about died laughing.
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A Funny AlanF photo
by Mulan ini added a couple more of alan here.
i told him on saturday that i was going to post this, and he said it was okay.
he was being funny, and the camera was just too handy!
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Mulan
Aw, Alan. At least I also posted the good ones too!! The really cute one!! And, I posted my fat face too, so we can't all look so gorgeous all the time. Well, Venice can!
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Chicago conventions newspaper report
by expatbrit inreport from the chicago sun-times.. note the arrogant assumption that non jw's have no clue why they are of a particular religion.. also the optimism about baptisms ("scores" = at least 40).. plus, there's that word qualified again!.
expatbrit.
tina, get down there with your placards and megaphone!.
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Mulan
What about all of us who "inherited" the JW religion? We had no idea why we were what we were. Do they ever apply this stuff to themselves?
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A Funny AlanF photo
by Mulan ini added a couple more of alan here.
i told him on saturday that i was going to post this, and he said it was okay.
he was being funny, and the camera was just too handy!
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Mulan
Here is another..........Venice and ME, all dressed up and ready to go!!! No bookbags. And, I only took my Bible the last day. Too freaky, and seemed too much like a meeting, so I resisted looking up scriptures.
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A Funny AlanF photo
by Mulan ini added a couple more of alan here.
i told him on saturday that i was going to post this, and he said it was okay.
he was being funny, and the camera was just too handy!
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Mulan
And......."handsome, serious Alan"
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A Funny AlanF photo
by Mulan ini added a couple more of alan here.
i told him on saturday that i was going to post this, and he said it was okay.
he was being funny, and the camera was just too handy!
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Mulan
still practicing on this stuff. Here is the one of "funny Alan"
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Picture of Mulan, AlanF, and Venice
by Mulan inhere is a photo of 3 of your "favorite" posters.. mulan, alanf and veniceit.
it was taken may 19 in eastern washington, at a conference we all attended.
if you scroll down, you will see the photo here.
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Mulan
I am trying to get the photos to go inside this post, so am practicing here. Just a test.
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A Funny AlanF photo
by Mulan ini added a couple more of alan here.
i told him on saturday that i was going to post this, and he said it was okay.
he was being funny, and the camera was just too handy!
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Mulan
Hi Englishman,
Venice and her folks are taking a little vacation, checking on their holdings, and seeing if they can visit family that won't talk to them anymore. She has her laptop with her, but phone lines are not available all the time for her to get online. I talk to them on the phone though. I'll tell her she is missed. They are going home again next Tuesday. They live on the East Coast, down South.