Posts by orangefatcat

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Have your prayers EVER been answered?

by nicolaou in

have you ever prayed for something and actually gotten what you asked for?

specific examples would be nice to hear about.. .

nic'.

Vander I like your thoughts and convictions.

I meant to ask you earlier and forgot, but you mentioned the Royal Victoria Hospital, is that the one in Barrie ONT. or in Montreal Que. I lived and worked in the one in Montreal. That is why I was wondering. Sorry for going off the topic.

orangefatcat

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Have your prayers EVER been answered?

by nicolaou in

have you ever prayed for something and actually gotten what you asked for?

specific examples would be nice to hear about.. .

nic'.

punk don't stop asking God needs to hear persistance, i prayed for 28 years to get out of the organization i never stopped praying i thought God would never hear me and then one day it happened and i have never looked back. StartingOver, I never asked God for an amount of money never it wasn't about how much or how little it was just there for me. Freely or some amount. As for helping others I have many many times given even out of my want to help others and I am not saying that to be a goody two shoes, I am not, if I knew of a case where someone had nothing and i had little I would share the little I had. I give to the food bank if they give me something I am no keen on I recycle it back to another food bank shelter like in our nursing home or at our church. I don't waste I despise waste. There are to many people with out food clothing and shelter. Yesterday a young indigent lady was at our church homeless didn't have a place to go to had no food I told her to eat what we have on Sundays I gave her the list of all the food resourses in town and where she can eat freely every night of the week, I told her to where she can assistance for a place to stay and in my heart I know I helped her the best way I could. I would have allowed here in my home but my son is here and he isn't suppose to be either i live in senior housing but i am not going to see my son on the street because he has no job and the tempratures have been over a hundred degrees outside. I love my neighbour as I should I would never hurt a soul and I do what I do because God helps me. He has never slammed the door on me and I sure a hell will not slam the door on one in need. I never judge a person until I have walked in his or her shoes. And in most cases I have walked that mile but God has carried and sustained me even in my darkest hours in life when I thought their was no hope he was my strenght and my refuge, he has sustained me when I have walked through the valley of death and I came out the other side. Nothing or no one can convince that God doesn't hear and answer our prayers.

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Have your prayers EVER been answered?

by nicolaou in

have you ever prayed for something and actually gotten what you asked for?

specific examples would be nice to hear about.. .

nic'.

punk don't stop asking God needs to hear persistance, i prayed for 28 years to get out of the organization i never stopped praying i thought God would never hear me and then one day it happened and i have never looked back. StartingOver, I never asked God for an amount of money never it wasn't about how much or how little it was just there for me. Freely or some amount. As for helping others I have many many times given even out of my want to help others and I am not saying that to be a goody two shoes, I am not, if I knew of a case where someone had nothing and i had little I would share the little I had. I give to the food bank if they give me something I am no keen on I recycle it back to another food bank shelter like in our nursing home or at our church. I don't waste I despise waste. There are to many people with out food clothing and shelter. Yesterday a young indigent lady was at our church homeless didn't have a place to go to had no food I told her to eat what we have on Sundays I gave her the list of all the food resourses in town and where she can eat freely every night of the week, I told her to where she can assistance for a place to stay and in my heart I know I helped her the best way I could. I would have allowed here in my home but my son is here and he isn't suppose to be either i live in senior housing but i am not going to see my son on the street because he has no job and the tempratures have been over a hundred degrees outside. I love my neighbour as I should I would never hurt a soul and I do what I do because God helps me. He has never slammed the door on me and I sure a hell will not slam the door on one in need. I never judge a person until I have walked in his or her shoes. And in most cases I have walked that mile but God has carried and sustained me even in my darkest hours in life when I thought their was no hope he was my strenght and my refuge, he has sustained me when I have walked through the valley of death and I came out the other side. Nothing or no one can convince that God doesn't hear and answer our prayers.

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Have your prayers EVER been answered?

by nicolaou in

have you ever prayed for something and actually gotten what you asked for?

specific examples would be nice to hear about.. .

nic'.

yes the Lord hears and answers prayers for me all the time, in fact if it wasn't for God I would be like so many other people who lack faith. I am not mocking anyone who doesn't believe the way I do, but for myself I have been blessed so many times through prayers. When I was struck by a truck while on my way to the drug store(i was on my electric medical scooter) I was badly injured and laying on the road and my body was in shock at least a dozen people came to my aid instantly out of no where. Anyway after recuperating I had no scooter, as it was dead. So I was going in to church one Sunday morning and a couple behind me said, Terry where is your scooter, and how come you look so ill and I explained what happened and they said to me they had a fifteen thousand dollar wheelchair that was their nephews and he had passed away and they didn't know what to do with it and would I like it and of course it was an answer to a prayer and I said oh yes and thank you so much and then the husband said would you like the van that goes with it and I said pardon me and he said well we have the van to and we will just give it to you also and I was shocked couldn't believe my ears and all it cost me was 1 dollar to transfer into my name it passed the emissions and certification also. I am still so over whelmed by their generosity and love it baffles my imagination. The other day I need some food and didn't have a dime and said Lord I don't know how will I make it to the end of the month and then right in front of my eyes was a twenty dollar bill. That got me a few items but still I needed more and a neigbhour gave me 10.00$ and some soup and tuna, a friend took me out to lunch on Friday and on Sunday I went to the bank to see if I had enough money to buy a bottle of water and imagine my shock when I discovered there was 75 dollars in my account it was money paid in advance of my pension and for what reason I have no idea so I was able to go shopping yesterday after church to get some food. Now nothing on this earth can prove to me any differently that these were indeed answers to God. Because they were, each day I had enough to get by. God didn't promise riches he promised to get us through each day and i know that this is what has happened to me in my life and it has been like this for most of my life. God has always provided for me just at the right time. When I think I can't make it he has provided. Like I said it isn't wealth but it is enough. PRAYER is a powerful when we ask in faith and sometimes when we are frustrated and we just say why God can't you help me in my dispair he is there and sometimes he is not but we have to at times expect the good and other times the answers are no, we may not always understand that but perhaps the Lord is refining us in someway. I am not dead, I have a roof over my head food in my tummy and surviving. Maybe someday I will have a little more who knows but for now it is suffice to say that the good Lord hears and helps me in answering my prayers.

orangefatcat

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Conversation I overheard this morning...

by Morbidzbaby in

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so this morning i decided to go see if i could find some interesting used books for my flight in a couple of weeks and i saw a jw from one of the local congregations...she didn't see me, even though she was directly behind me looking at the same section of books.

i'm not exactly easy to miss, but i digress.. she was on the phone and was talking about a few things that i found incredibly interesting.

firstly, i guess a woman that just got baptized last year is absolutely fed up with the org!

orangefatcat

i recall reading in the Studies of the Scriptures published by CT Russell he clearly stated that the black race was an inferior race, and he stated that this was because of the shape of the inferior skull shapes. I was sick when I read that, what an idiot. He should have been tarred and feathered for that comment. And he called himself a christian. What a farce. No wonder there is racism in this world because of morons like him.

orangefatcat

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2011 District Convention "Let Us Be Bored and Confused Into Obedience"

by ranmac in

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this has already been discussed but i need to vent.. i just spent the most painful weekend of my life sitting thru this years dc.

what an unbelievably pointless, soulless and demeaning spectacle the assemblies are.

the three days were a blur of monotanous droning and brainwashing.

orangefatcat

Good grief and they say babylon the great is confused. I assume they are then part of babylon the world empire of false religon confused alright. do they know what way is up and what way is down or all around side to side back and forth. I am now confused. Sheesh. go Watchtower.....falling down falling down my fair lady oh.!!!!!!

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Here Is How My Day Went Today and Can I Start all Over?

by orangefatcat in

today i was at my mother's house i thought i'd stop in and see how she was assuming she opened the door, she said to me that she was just reading about satan i said to her mom i am not satan and then she invited me in she said to me why are you visiting me today you know you shouldn't be here i said mom i'm concerned about your health and i wanted to know how you are and how your help this that's all.

so she told me that she was feeling fine but i could tell otherwise as it is very evident in their eyes and the way that she moves that she is not at all well in the past month i have noticed her face was more gaunt than usual and her gait was rather slower than normal.

we spoke for a while about how she was doing and then she got on the subject of course of religion and how disappointed she is that both my sister and i have left the organization, as i explained to her i can't be a part of the jehovah's witnesses anymore as i no longer believe it.

orangefatcat

I want to thank all of you for your kind words of encouragement, I know its not her fault I blame the indroctination of the WTS and how they have entangled peoples lives. It is a hurtful and devasting cult like you said Found Sheep, Coco thanks for you words of encouragement, nugget (LOVE YOUR NAME), Startover, and Can't leave your all so kind. And Amberson the song you mentioned, you always hurt the ones you love, my husband you to sing that to me, it brings a flood of memories back to me. He passed away four years ago this month. I often wish he was beside me to make the pain go away. He was my strong loving Greek man. I miss him so very much. I have had to fill my days with other things to make life more fulling with out him but I have only wonderful memories. I tell my son I love him and would never hurt him the way my family has hurt me. But yes he needs reassurances as well. Just like all of us

Life can throw us many curves we aren't always ready to except and not prepared for. I suppose if we knew what would happen everyday life would be rather dismal. Knowing that we have one another for comfort and support makes each day worth living. I also have my faith and walking with Chirst has sustained me through many ordeals in my life. Especially leaving the organization of lies and deceit. If there were one thing that I was granted in life it would to have my dear Grandma back here on earth as she made everything small and big seem like it was fixable. She was my life. She was the most amazing human in the whole world or my world. She taught me about love, God and how to pray, and how to cook and how to love my neighbour as my self we would often walk to the Anglican church together hand in hand talking to neighbours along the way and after church go to the market. She was a saint and she made me feel like I was someone very special. I was her first grandchild, grandpa died a few months before I was born, but she often said I had so much of him in me and my smile and way of doing things was like he did. She has been gone now 19 years but somedays it feels like yesterday as I look at her pictures and her loving smiles and the serenity she had in her life. The life she shared with me.

Those years have come and gone but her life lives in my heart and her beaming face shines in mine everytime I think of her and that is every day. And now with my beloved Aunt gone now she was 11 when I was born and she too was much like a big sister to me they were more a family to me then my mom and dad ever were. My mom was 15 when she got pregnant and dad was an abusive alcoholic and had it not been for the sanity and grace and love of my grandma I would have been lost to a world of nothingness. So I thank God I had the stability and love she gave to me to be who and what I am today. All the years of being a JW I hated because it hurt her and I know that when finally I got out of the organization and was finally baptized and confirmed as an Anglican she was watching from heaven with a smile as broad as sun beam. Thanks Grandma you are the best.

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A concerned JW wrote "mistakes will happen."

by InterestedOne in

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in the thread http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/213523/1/feeling-a-bit-alienated, concerned jw wrote:.

mistakes will happen.

concerned jw, if mistakes will happen, i was wondering what mistakes you feel the jw organization is currently making?

orangefatcat

mistakes will happen sure they do, like when they hid the fact the 23k persons have been sexually abused and kept it hidden and at the same time kept poking at the RCatholic church and its priests for their pedophilia or the fact that their has to be two witnesses to the molestation yeah mistakes will happen, or the hemophiliac's that have died needlessly. Or the blue babies that have died needlessly or the transplant victims who have died needlesssly and to the governing body's lies and deceit about their affiliation with the United Nation's and that they had to take the oath of allegiance to their country like all nations do that are affiliated with the UN and then they tried to blame on one dear brother. How utterly terrible and pathetic can they be. Lets see mistakes will happen to the tune of millions of dollars they will be forced to pay to victims which is good I hope they loose everything they own. I hope the rot in hell. They are worse then the churches the churches at least openly took responsibility for the errors of their ways. They didn't cloak and dagger them like the WTS, like who are they trying to fool. Our Lord Christ sees them so they can not hide. I would rather belong to a church then to them. If I die at God's hand for my choice then so be it, but first there will be a reckoning and we all answer to God in the end Governing Body or Anglicans and Catholic's or whatever. I take my chances with my Anglican faith and be a happy servant of our Lord Jesus Christ then a miserable JW'S anyday. The WTS and its GB may call me an apostate but in my eyes I never subverted the laws of God while in any kingdom hall or tried to cause sects or divisions or was i ever like a wolf in sheeps clothing. It was years later when I returned to the faith of my younger years. I feel no shame or remorse for my choices but if i were a JW'S I would not show my face at anyone's doorstep for the sheer shame of what the Wts has done to the lifes of so many innocent people.

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So what do ya'll think about the recent new light?

by stillin9 in

you know, the thing they were talking about in the 2011 dc.

it was about how the "toes" of daniel's image no longer represent all the individual governments that have come around in human history.

and that the anglo-american world power is the last world power we'll see before the end of the system of things.

orangefatcat

good grief mad your mad with rage of the older books of learning which are obsolete and incomplete and we don't want a repeat of the mentioning of those nasty feet. that being said the FDS haven't a clue what they are talking about, heavens for 38 years I heard the same lies over and over again and still it makes no sense. do they have a clue who killed miss scarlet in the den with the candle stick I doubt it very much and was Col mustard strangled with the rope of soap in the library. its all conjecture. they can't explain it right the first time or this time. they flail like fish in a dish. explaining the meaning of the feet and toes no one really knows. fungus or not,they are sure to rot. China or Great Britian with America's UN is like rolling around in a pig pen. heaven knows what it all means, the WTS GB keep changing their minds like bopping submarines. The witnesses are confused as hell as to what to believe, and what really they need is a bloody reprieve. Shackles and chains they are locked in their brain how the hell can they take all the strain. iron and clay feet lets go out and play see who wins this battle and cry and shout give me my baby rattle. I smell the feet they stink so high up to the sky oh mommy will you pass me some of the sweet apple pie. Give us a break WTSociety we are sick to death of your ongoing piety. Let us loose take off our noose we need some fresh air and none of your dispair. we are sick of your troof your so aloof, we need our stocks taken away we need to go outside of your walls to find the right way......

orangefatcat

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Here Is How My Day Went Today and Can I Start all Over?

by orangefatcat in

today i was at my mother's house i thought i'd stop in and see how she was assuming she opened the door, she said to me that she was just reading about satan i said to her mom i am not satan and then she invited me in she said to me why are you visiting me today you know you shouldn't be here i said mom i'm concerned about your health and i wanted to know how you are and how your help this that's all.

so she told me that she was feeling fine but i could tell otherwise as it is very evident in their eyes and the way that she moves that she is not at all well in the past month i have noticed her face was more gaunt than usual and her gait was rather slower than normal.

we spoke for a while about how she was doing and then she got on the subject of course of religion and how disappointed she is that both my sister and i have left the organization, as i explained to her i can't be a part of the jehovah's witnesses anymore as i no longer believe it.

orangefatcat

Today I was at my mother's house I thought I'd stop in and see how she was assuming she opened the door, she said to me that she was just reading about Satan I said to her mom I am not Satan and then she invited me in she said to me why are you visiting me today you know you shouldn't be here I said mom I'm concerned about your health and I wanted to know how you are and how your help this that's all. So she told me that she was feeling fine but I could tell otherwise as it is very evident in their eyes and the way that she moves that she is not at all well in the past month I have noticed her face was more gaunt than usual and her gait was rather slower than normal. We spoke for a while about how she was doing and then she got on the subject of course of religion and how disappointed she is that both my sister and I have left the organization, as I explained to her I can't be a part of the Jehovah's Witnesses anymore as I no longer believe it. I told her to please read the July 15 issue of the watchtower magazine she says she has not got it yet I tried to tell her that when I was a Jehovah's Witness that I never at any time tried in any way to be an apostate by trying to draw away people from believing what the organization taught I said I chose many years after I left to be what I wanted to be and that I was not an apostate according to the issue of the 15th July magazine of course he said to me, you know we're not supposed talk about this and I said yes I know mom. It really bothered me that when I entered her home she said that she was just reading about Satan and it seemed to me that she inferred that I was Satan and that really upset me today so much so that I cried and cried and I took it out on my loving son, I cherish with all my heart I hurt him deeply today and I'm so sorry that. As parents we can be very cruel and not even realize it no matter what religion we are I hope that my son chooses to forgive me for what I said to him today as much as I try to forget my own mother for what she inferred to me this day I hope my mother will read with open-mindedness the July 15 issue of the watchtower magazine but somewhere deep inside of me I don't think that my mother will ever change she told me that no matter what she will never change her faith or her beliefs. She has Alzheimer's disease and has said to me today that she wants her wishes regarding her funeral to be followed to the letter of her will and I reassured her that we would never do anything other than follow which you wanted and I said that my other sister that also has no ties with organization anymore and who is also disfellowshipped will also see to it that her wishes are fulfilled because she is the executor of our mom's will. It's really sad in life when families are so deeply destroyed in the name of religion this is not what Christ wanted or ever expected to happen and I'm sure that our Lord sits from his throne in heaven and is deeply hurt himself as he sees his name so utterly in so many ways divided into so many religions that fight and dishonor him. What ever happened to love never fails. or better still One Lord, one faith one baptizm? And as sure as you can believe it it isn't the JW'S that have the one true faith either.