something that always reminds me about getting older.
anyone hear her new release yet?.
landslide.
Speaking of witch , I heard her new single recently and thought, "now there is a voice from the past I'd just as soon never hear again". I just am not impressed by the womans singing voice.
And yet, when you posted "Landslide", it was a fond memory of a song I haven't heard in quite a while. I really like it, and I think her voice is perfect for that song.
Thanks for the memory.
i was reading through some of you guys old postings and i was laughing so hard.
some of you guys still believe the strange things your mom and dad said but didnt explain like not eating count chocula cereal.
didnt ever occur to you that maybe your parents thought that keeping you away from something as simple as a cartoon dracula might be in your best interests?
Geoff, Geoff, Geoff, Jeff, jefe.
Still the idea holds true that if there is a world wide organization that is governed by Jehovah through his son then it can be likened to a glass of water that is pure.
Of course, with about 30 minutes of serious, truth seeking research, that idea no longer holds true for any but the most emotionally crippled, desperate to cling to the belief that they are and have been right, persons.
surley you arent sugjesting that something harmless seeming like a box of cereal cant be perverted to the use of the most crafty of all creatures under heaven, Satan the devil?
Satan, crafty? If you say so. After all, you created him. Its funny to think that someone who knows not one whit about the whys and wherefors of his own beliefs, including why he accepts the bible in the first place, would be starting a topic entitled "Superstition".
As a JW, everything you believe, and I do mean everything, is based on superstition.
i have been an inactive poster here for months now.
present in spirit, watching the house filling up as more h2o refugees like me trample the border.
reading your great posts, laughing and crying with both anger and mirth, getting off on all the sex-talk.
You're the one!!!
You used to post those great stories in the dating forum over on witnet, right? C'mon, I know it was you.
Glad to have your wit back on this board.
man, spring is in the air and i feel the need to jam!
i haven't played with a live band since i moved here last august.
last band, circa july 2000 - virgin ears:.
Speaking of which; Lucinda Williams, tues. night, Gypsy Tea Room. Be there or be a JW
I should have invited you to Blue Rodeo last tuesday. I have a feeling they are your type of show, Comf (maybe the best live show I have ever seen).
Call me.
in a norwegian local newspaper, a reader is being quite pissed off because some jehovah's witnesses accidentally showed up at her door just after her husband died.. apparently she is aware of such coincidences occurring before in the district to the extent that she dont think it is a coincidence at all.
of course the local jehovah's witness spokesman denies any such organized effort on the part of jehovah's witnesses.
they do not read obituaries to collect names, he claims.. so what do you have to say folks?
I hate to take up for the witnesses.
No, I mean really, I hate to take up for the witnesses. But, I remember thinking, back when I was a believer, that I ought to contact people when I read about them losing a loved one in death. After all, we had the tonic of hope for that particular condition, did we not? It only seemed logical and loving to share it.
The sad thing is, if I had done so (and I never really did, other than a couple of friends who I worked with), I would have then thought them "goat like" or at least arrogant and intransient if they had rejected my "help".
So why didn't I? I often ask myself why I was so uncomfortable "witnessing". I'm now convinced it was not just my natural shyness, but rather that, while I truly "believed", I knew I did not have a reasonable, logical basis for my beliefs. I knew I could not really explain why 1914 was the pivotal date, why the F&DS was really the F&DS, etc, etc.
Back then, I always attributed my lack of depth in understanding my beliefs to not doing the work of research (one more reason to feel guilt eh?). Now I've done the research (maybe I was afraid of what I might find?), and I know that there is no basis for most of the beliefs that witnesses hold sacred.
ive been thinking a lot about this subjection thing that is so much a part of wt teaching.. i mean, what is the point of it?
who does it benefit?.
why cant couples work out a who does what pattern that suits themselves, why should they pay any heed to the wtbtss edicts about women being in subjection?.
hhhmmmmm...I can see who wears the pants on this db.
ok, so that might be the superbole of hyperbole, but this is velly, velly interestink!
http://www.newscientist.com/features/features.jsp?id=ns22871
Facinating.
Exactly as I was leaving JW-hood (emphasis on hood), I met two lovely women who I engaged in deep spiritual conversation (I must say, it was nice have that as a nice, sincere, topic starter, lol). Both of these women had at one time "felt" the presense of Jesus, they believed.
One girl explained that it was just a very comforting "spiritual" feeling as she was going through a surgery. She was actually a bit sheepish in telling me, and said it was not something she went around sharing, as she understood that the circumstances made it look suspect to a skeptic.
The other womans experience was also prefaced by telling me that it occurred at a time when she had been under great stress. She was however, adament, (and believe me, I was not acting skeptical, in fact at the time, I was NOT skeptical much, just thought, cool, a non-jw annointed) that it was Jesus who appeared to her. Her words were that it was the "most sensual, though not sexual", experience she had ever had. I did not discuss it with her enough about it to find out how she knew it was Jesus however. This same woman also told me she had once seen colors come out of a womans mouth as she was singing, so I know her mind can take her places that I would love to go. Or, maybe it's God talking to her.
BTW, the gist of both these girls experience seemed to be a spirit telling them, "It'll be OK".
My father had stories of haunted houses, and contact with the demons from when he was young. Sure enough, both my brother and sister, both much older than myself (and therefore closer to dads "demon" stories), are sure that they have had personal contact with demons.
Anyone else notice that "demon" stories seem much more rare than 20 years ago? Even amongst witnesses?
Outnfree, I imagine that the part of the brain triggered by these magnetic fields, can be triggered by other things as well. Perhaps even desperate emotional needs. Hey, it's better than schizophrenia no matter what you believe, right?
hello again friends!.
well it was time again for me to take my weekly dose of apostate faeces and see what it tastes like.
decided to check out randy watters this time (we all love him here) and his little testimony on freeminds.org, titled "what happened at bethel in 1980?
I see two options.
a) SIT is really a hardheaded old "coot", who thinks far more with his emotions than with his brain, and has really been in the "truth" most of his life, or....
b) SIT is really a newby, who thinks far more with his emotions than with his brain, angry at the world, and mentally ill.
Of course, (s)it could be just a troll trying to have a little fun.
ok, so that might be the superbole of hyperbole, but this is velly, velly interestink!
http://www.newscientist.com/features/features.jsp?id=ns22871
I dunno, but I bet she looked a lot like pictures you had seen, or had a strong familial resemblence, eh?
I've often wondered about people I know who are sure that Jesus has literally come to them. I can't help but think that if, all other things being equal, they had been born in Persia, they might have seen [what they percieved as] Allah, and not Jesus. Of course, I suppose there is no way, other than physically and genetically, all other things could be equal.
one of the claims witnesses like to make is that they are color-blind, that their religion transcends matters of race and culture.
by and large, i think most "apostates" accept this, though it's all too obvious that witnesses are bigots when it comes to all non-members.. but how true is the claim that witnesses escape racial stereotyping?.
i attended an inner-city congregation with mostly black brothers and sisters.
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