Posts by sadiejive

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Spirits/Entities - A question for all.

by Nemesis in

i would like to ask a question if i might: how do ones here view spirits?

(not the alcoholic kind) i have left the org.

now for at least 5 years, although i did go to the memorial last year, but not where i used to go to the hall; i was not df or da.. .

sadiejive

REM,

Nothing unusual here. Nightmares are quite common with children. No need to resort to the supernatural to explain this.

I didn't resort to the "supernatural" to explain this.

Still nothing strange here. At worst you may have had some type of sleeping disorder.

I didn't say that I didn't have a sleeping disorder.

Your friend should have suggested you go to a doctor if this is affecting your life. There is no evidence that there is anything supernatural about OBE's or the type of sleep behavior you are describing.

I didn't say that he didn't recommend that I see a doctor in addition to the advice that I mentioned here. Anyway, I can't help the advice that my friend gave me. No matter what he should've said, he said what he said.

BTW, there is no evidence that there isn't anything supernatural about the type of sleep behavior I'm describing, either. I'm just telling Nemesis that this kind of thing is, if nothing else, interesting stuff to read about...and something he may want to look into.

Not everything, but that doesn't mean that everything is a mystery either. There is a lot of factual evidence and a lot of pseudoscience out there. The trick is learning to discriminate between the two. It's all about requiring a higher standard of evidence before you put your belief in claims.

Exactly. Perhaps you should follow your own advice.

I didn't say that I believe in OBEs or what have you, but I am open to the idea that such things may exist. Completely putting your belief into something and simply believing in the possibility of something are two totally different things. I believe in the possibility. If you choose not to, then that is your choice.

Nemesis,

Maybe (obviously) I should've made it clearer in my previous post that...yes...(I suppose I neglected to say that) I do believe that seeing a doctor would be the most important thing to do about your situation. I was just giving you another avenue to explore. There are lots of reading you can do about sleeping disorders or spirits, etc via the library and the internet. I hope everything works out for you.

Sadie

**edited because I'm illiterate and had to consult dictionary.com to write this thing right

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What is you occupation

by Beans in

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im a liceinced electrician now working in wireless communication installations.i love the electrical industry,there is so much to learn and so many different things do work with and technology is always changing.never a boaring day especially when we are working in the office buildings downtown,chicks everywhere!.

beans.

sadiejive

I'm a stay at home mom. I do, however, work occasionally from home doing some graphic design and creating small business/small town web sites.

sadie

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Spirits/Entities - A question for all.

by Nemesis in

i would like to ask a question if i might: how do ones here view spirits?

(not the alcoholic kind) i have left the org.

now for at least 5 years, although i did go to the memorial last year, but not where i used to go to the hall; i was not df or da.. .

sadiejive

Hi Nemesis,

I agree with what SusanHere said:

When it comes to spirits, visions, etc. it is a very simple matter. Those who have had them, believe in them. Those who haven't, usually mock those who say they have.

I don't mean that to be insulting to those who are "mocking" so to speak. But it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that it is hard for one who has never experienced any of these "things" to just believe in them...I have had some unexplainable and strange experiences and even I question the reality (?) of it.

My experience is similar to that of someone else who posted (although I can't remember who). As a child, a very small child, I had terrifying dreams and never any "evil" influence to cause them. They were just there. I, also, had dreams from which I could not wake. What I mean is...I would open my eyes (couldn't see anything but what I was dreaming) and sit up in my bed and shake myself senseless, trying to rouse myself back into a conscious state. This eventually subsided and I have only experienced it maybe three times since I've became an adult (I'm 30). I recently spoke with someone about this once and he suggested that I research OBEs and astral projection. Many of the symptoms mentioned at various websites were some which I had experienced (severe jerking when waking, body parts numb, not being able to wake myself). It might be something you would want to check out.

Personally, I don't really know what I make of it all. Not everything can be explained, you know?

Sadie

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"No Silence Of The Lambs"-Paducah Sun

by silentlambs in

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http://www.paducahsun.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi?/200202/08+07ur_religion.html+20020208+religion.

no silence of the lambs .

web site for pedophile victims provides support, opportunity to share stories .

sadiejive

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Part 15: The Letter to the Watch Tower Society

by Amazing in

part 15: the letter to the watch tower society .

elder g calls: brother amazing, can we talk.

i saw no reason to hang up so i said yes ... he said, we need to settle some things.

sadiejive

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Most hated Bible stories....

by PopeOfEruke in

years ago, i had a pet-hate bible story, and it was this one story that actually started me on the path to freedom from the borg-org.. it was the story of lot when he was living in sodom and the 2 angels visited (dressed like men of course).

and the crowd of sodomites were yelling "send out the visitors so we can bonk them senseless".

remember?.

sadiejive

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JEHOVAH APPROVES BLOOD & GIVES PICTURES...

by hawkaw in

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jehovah god does allow natural whole blood transfusions.

and he provides pictures.

click here and read the this important essay at one of the following locations:.

sadiejive

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Who would you pick?

by butalbee in

sadiejive

The cat.

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Answer from a JW friend about blood

by uncle_onion in

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this is what a jw friend sent to me.

i had got him to read the latest letters on blood that were posted last week.i can t believe he read them.

this is his reply (typos and all).

sadiejive

It is a personal choice even if you don't think it is. You have the power to make your own choices.

I'm unfamiliar with how these things work as far as children are concerned, so if the questions I ask are stupid, forgive me .
What about the children who are made martyrs for the WTS? Did they make this decision for themselves or did their parents make it for them? I honestly, don't see how a child (especially one "raised" in the truth) could make a well-informed, unbiased decision regarding blood.

Sadie

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What Are The 3 Worst Things in Your Life

by teenyuck in

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since we are listing the best 3 things in life, i thought it would be interesting to list 3 things that you did and regret or things that are/were the worst in your life.

1. lack of friends growing up a jw; there just were not any.

no one liked jw's.

sadiejive

Never being truely loved for myself by a man.

I can relate to that feeling. It brings to mind a "joke" (if you could call it that) that I heard Wendy Liedman (stand up comedian) tell. That a man meets a woman and spends his whole marriage trying to change her into something that he wants her to be, and then when he has smothered every bit of her true self out of her, he begins to complain, "What ever happened to that woman I married?"

Sadie