i don't know if these have been brought up in the past, but during my study i discovered these:.
please tell me what you think and then i'll let you know whether my imagination has been playing tricks on me!.
ok, here's the very first page of the book, look in the red square and tell me what you think:.
This issue has come up time and time again since the late 70s and early 80s.
Here are a couple of examples of how it is documented:
http://www.bigwig.net/knots/nightmares/occult.htm
http://www.unice.fr/zetetique/travaux/436_subliminal/Jeov/images1.html
I haven't read Derek Barefoot's book, but I've heard it's very well done.
Love, Scully
my little niece is turning 5 soon and i'd like to buy her something special.
something that will stay with her for a while.. any ideas?
she loves barbie (of course!
oh brother..... i never even noticed that this thread is a year old already.... until after i posted my suggestion......
DOH!
oh well..... maybe someone else can use the idea!!
Love, Scully
my little niece is turning 5 soon and i'd like to buy her something special.
something that will stay with her for a while.. any ideas?
she loves barbie (of course!
Prisca:
My children absolutely love the "I Spy" series of books by Jean Marzollo and Walter Wick, and they are suitable for children of all ages. They are quite large books, which makes them good lap books for sharing with fascinating colourful photographs. Each picture has a verse of rhyme (a riddle) at the bottom of the page, and the children have to find the objects that are named in the rhyme.
There are several books in the series, and if you don't have them in Australia, you should be able to order them via http://www.amazon.com
Love, Scully
i know that really only i can decide,(unless i get df'd) but to-day i'm in a real quandry.
should i be honest and tell them i'm never going back, because i really have no intention of ever going back.or would that just give the orgaanization some kind of validity.
or , if this is really some kind of 'evil organization' should'nt i officially leave as a matter of urgency.matthew 24:15. i'm really just thinking out loud.
rhett:
Hey, when you DA you say you're not playing by their rules anymore. One of the rules that you no longer have to follow is the one that says DA'd and DF'd people aren't supposed to talk to JW's.
Sorry, but I respectfully disagree with you. DAing yourself is "playing by their rules"; it's part of their policies and procedures; the term makes up part of their jargon. We all know the power that language has in our lives, and especially the buzz-words like "disfellowshipped", "disassociated", "apostate", etc. have a lot of power over JWs. If you really don't want to play by their rules, don't tell them anything. Your relationship with God is none of their business, and they think and want it to be their business. Even if you DA yourself, the "rule" is that JWs are not supposed to talk to DA'd people the way they are not supposed to talk to DF'd people. By disassociating yourself, you play by their rules, which to their way of thinking gives them your permission to shun/psychologically abuse you.
Love, Scully
got a call late this afternoon: "your daughter was in a car accident along with four other girls.
you need to come to the emergency room.".
daughter not there yet.
waiting:
thanks for putting a smile on my face! you made my day!!
Love, Scully
why two tests for the "other sheep"?.
i could never understand the reason why the society believed that those destined to live on earth had to go through two tests.. one at armageddon the other at the end of the thousand year reign of christ.. if they have been tested as to loyalty at armageddon why is a further test needed.if armageddon is not a good enought test for christian why have it at all, why not just have the final test?.
also those suppossed to be gong to heaven don't have an test.the get ressurected as perfect beings without going through armageddon or the final test.does that make sense?.
I always rationalized it this way:
There were going to be people resurrected who had never been tested.
There were possibly going to be children born in Paradise who had never been tested.
After a thousand years in Paradise, people who survived the first test, might become "complacent" and think things were better in the "good old days" (remember how the Israelites didn't appreciate the wonderful manna they were getting, and wanted to go back to Egypt for the figs and cucumbers and melons??) so these ones would need to be reproved.
Finally, there was the idea that at the end of the 1000 years, everyone would have attained perfection again, and would be in the same state as Adam was in the Garden of Eden. According to the WTS, it would be appropriate to put perfect humans to the test the same way God put Adam and Eve to the test in Eden.
But now that I'm reading your post, I'm thinking "holy crap, this God is just NEVER satisfied with what we do, always having to put people to the test, over and over and over; what a JERK!"
Love, Scully
got a call late this afternoon: "your daughter was in a car accident along with four other girls.
you need to come to the emergency room.".
daughter not there yet.
Julie & Alan:
Thanks for taking the time to give us some updates on Julie's condition. I've been thinking of you all a lot.
I'm concerned about her poor pain control, and having to get morphine injections every hour.
If the option of Patient Controlled Analgesia (PCA) has not been offered to you, please see if you can get it for Julie. I would imagine she has IV lines already, so this would just be an additional line infusing.
What PCA is, is a special pump that is controlled by the patient with a dose of pain medication at the push of a button. In the hospital where I work, there is an Acute Pain Service with anaesthesiologists who are consulted by whatever service the patient is under; and a similar arrangement likely exists where Julie is hospitalized. With PCA, a medication pump is programmed to give the patient an appropriate dose (determined according to the patient's weight) of pain medication when she presses the button. There is a lock-out mechanism so that extra doses cannot be given until a specific time period has elapsed (our patient population usually has a 5-minute lock-out time), which prevents possible overdose. The patient should understand that she is not to press the button except for pain relief. The danger of becoming dependent or addicted when using narcotics appropriately for pain relief is minimal.
I would talk to her nurse and doctor and ask for a consultation about whether Julie would be a candidate for PCA. Good pain control is so important to the recovery process. It helps with getting the patient out of bed willingly sooner; mobilizing early (depending on her rib fractures and lacerations on her lung and liver) helps prevent blood clots from forming in the legs. Good pain control is also important psychologically; she is very likely going to have flashbacks about the accident and things that happened in the hospital, and poor pain control is a huge negative impact that could figure prominently in her memories.
Best wishes to all of you,
Love, Scully
LOL LB
I'm sure the placements would go WAY up and so would the contributions if they did stuff like that....
I'd have to put two separate compartments in my book bag though..... one side for the gentlemen and one side for the ladies
Love, Scully
what films and tv shows couldn't you watch when you were a witness kid?.
i remmember being banded from watching scooby doo, ghostbusters ,e.t., (some british ones)count duckula, rent a ghost, well basicly anything with ghosts in it.. my parents wouldn't watch any films with much swearing in them, especially the f-word.. which is fair enought.but i don't notice swearing so sometimes i recommend a film without realising its got lots of naughty words.. sometimes a very sensitive brother from the hall would come round to visit, and he would be visably shocked if there was any sex or swearing in a tv programme which often made it embarassing when watching tv when he was round.. once when we had some friends round and we got waynes world out on video, a couple of the brothers walked out as they thought it too worldly.
Anything on meeting nights was a definite no-no.
I never watched "Cheers" until after it came out in syndication; same thing with "Happy Days", "Mork and Mindy", "LA Law" and several other shows.
Prime time soaps were a no-no too, in addition to the daytime soaps. "Dallas", "Dynasty", "Falcon Crest".
My dad flipped out one time over "The Price is Right" specifically, and all other game shows in general, because they "promoted greed".
I remember watching "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz" with Richard Dreyfuss, and knew the story already because we had to read the book in our Canadian Literature class. Dad ignored the scene of the chap in the dorm room who was wanking to pictures in a medical textbook, but turned off the movie immediately when there was a scene of a young couple kissing in the field.
A lot of the Star Trek stuff was frowned upon too. There was a 'fad' when I was about 11 or 12 when kids in my class collected "tribbles" the way kids today collect Pokémon cards. That was wrong too. They were related to Smurfs apparently.
Love, Scully
i just made jedi!!.
there goes the neighborhood!.
- nathan natas, uadna.
Congratulations NathanNatas and dungbeetle on your achieving Jedi
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Love, Scully
