gee mr. geeist
u'd never see gee-hover
in a gee-string.
u see as a gee-nius
he keeps it gee-rated
...speaking of king gee
do u use a big GEE
or a little gee?
...or is it three gee-s?
~wick (of the ...Only trouble is, gee wiz, I'm dreamin' my life away... class)
serena claims she puts god first, family second and tennis third in her life.
see "serena trying to stay focused on tennis.
when you're the first tennis player to have a bobblehead doll cast in your image, what's to worry?
i think her little tennis hobbie is taking up too much valuable witness time. she better rethink her priorities and start taking up bookbag weaving or biblical paper doll making....or something productive.
although i'm too young to remember tommy james and the shondells...i've heard "crystal blue persuasion" many times.
i also heard rumors from witnesses that tommy wrote this song about the "truth" book.
i can't seem to find any information online connecting this song to jws.
Although I'm too young to remember Tommy James and the Shondells...I've heard "Crystal blue persuasion" many times. I also heard rumors from witnesses that Tommy wrote this song about the "Truth" book. I can't seem to find any information online connecting this song to JWs. One website says that he came up with this title after seeing the words "crystal," "blue" and "persuasion" (not together) in the Bible. Another website says that According to Tommy James himself, "when I wrote Crystal Blue, it was taken from the book of Revelation: the imagery of the new Jerusalem."
Does anyone know if there is any truth (pun intended) to this song's connection with the "Truth" Book?
ok, i admit it...as a jehovah's witness, i burned a book.
when i was about 10 years old, a sister gave my mother a box of books.
i had been baptized for over a year and was quite the "little witness.
Ok, I admit it...as a Jehovah's Witness, I burned a book.
When I was about 10 years old, a sister gave my mother a box of books. I had been baptized for over a year and was quite the "little witness." In looking through that box, I came upon a book that was written about the witnesses by someone who was not a witness. Apostasy! I ran to my mother and told her about it. She suggested that I burn the book. I took it out back, matches in hand...and tried for what seemed like an hour to burn that book. The failure of that book to spontaneously burst into flames could only mean one thing....IT WAS DEMONIZED!! lol
As Witnesses, we were told that if you had anything that could be construed as spiritistic practices or of "false religion" we were to burn it no matter how much it was worth! This included heirloom pictures, gold crosses, religious jewelry, rare books etc. We were not supposed to sell these items to recoup the money...we had to burn them.
Oh, how many stories about items that would not burn...or that could not be found (but later appeared miraculously after fervent prayer!)
There are so many references in the Society's literature to Acts 19:19 where the Ephesians took all their magical books (worth 50,000 silver pieces) and burned them. The Society helps us calculate their worth in our day...a whopping $37,000!!!
The Society also helped us to realize that much of today's music is a "tool of satan" and if we have any of this "debased" music it should be quickly destroyed. (citing acts 19:19)
How many of you actually destroyed or burned books or things when you became a witness?
because i have no idea where it is.
and fell off the face of the planet?.
not that i really care... but it would be interesting to find out what they did with it!
I am MIA.
The elders called and asked if they could "remove my card from their file." Which, they said, would mean that they no longer would call or visit me. (and I won't be counted as an "inactive publisher")
I said "sure."
Does that mean I am now in file 13?
although i'm unlicensed, untrained and beyond doubt unqualified in this field,.
i'm thinking about designing, creating a god.
don't laugh.
my god would not murder people
my god would not murder children
my god would not say "don't kill" and then kill or order the murder of close to 2 million people.
my god would not make an inferior product he'd sweep under the rug later .
do you believe in hell again?
the trinity?
the "slave"?
third time's a charm? ...here's what I meant to say ~
Interesting topic.
Currently, I find myself an all or nothing person. Hmmm, I think that TOO is JW residue.
Being a witless...
Wit´less
Adj. 1. witless - (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment nitwitted , soft-witted , senseless stupid - lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity
...I accepted everything. Now, I accept nothing.
If, I accept one of their teachings, I find my brain unconsciously accepting another, then another...because; this is how I was programmed.
I'm kinda like a recovering Alcoholic...without the happy liquor buzz. As long as I stay away from the thought, taste, belief of being a witless...I fair well. If I begin to ponder belief in demons, then my mind automatically adds in the belief of angels to protect me from the demons, and of course angels must come from god...and on it goes...until "god" forbid I fall off the wagon...and reach for a watchtower.
I have chosen to become reformed (informed). I am free from all spoon-fed beliefs. I now decide on a daily basis what I believe. My beliefs could come from something I've read or heard that I agree with or from a chance psychic encounter. I am open to the improbable just as I question certainty. I no longer am cramped inside a narrow box of thought. Nor, does an original thought bring me shame and guilt.
One thing, however...that always bothered me as a witless. Was the word "spirit." I wondered why there were so many articles, mentions in books and so many words used by the society to downplay this word. Spirit, I was told, is not the same as "soul" or the same as the "body." Spirit is like electricity. When I die, my spirit leaves me and goes to the giant spirit in the sky: "see garth gates" (not literally, because that would mean spirit travel...it just gets unplugged like a fan)...because my energy force came from a larger mass of energy.
~wick
*happily pondering the word "spirit" ~ because i can*
do you believe in hell again?
the trinity?
the "slave"?
Strange.
I typed quite a bit in reply to this topic. But, it doesn't post.
do you believe in hell again?
the trinity?
the "slave"?
Interesting topic.
i gave my intro and then disappeared for a month.
just not enough time these days.. anyway .
.. some of your names are self-explanatory, but some definitely have to be explained to be understood.. i'll start.
I wanted to sign onto this discussion board anonymously...as so many of us do or have to do. So, instead of using my real screen name "imbluefire" (which many exjws and jws online knew me by) I thought about how I felt for so long as a jw on her way out...
One night, right before the Thursday meeting...I turned in my "pioneer card". The elder who took it sarcastically commented to me "couldn't hack it, eh?" and quickly took my ?pioneer card? without giving "it" or me another thought. Needless to say?I was hurt. ?Didn?t he realize how much suffering and how many personal tragedies I had gone through?? I remembered the scripture in the Bible that said, ?No smoldering wick would he extinguish? and thought how un-Christ-like that elder was. Just a little ?encouragement? from him?and I probably would have taken back that card. (I thank him now.)
Funny thing was?a few years later that same elder conducted this watchtower study:
? Would You Extinguish a Smoldering Wick?? Jesus proclaimed his comforting message to many who were figuratively like a bruised reed, bent over and knocked about. These people were also like a smoldering flaxen wick because their last spark of life had nearly been extinguished. They really were oppressed and discouraged. However, Jesus did not crush a figurative bruised reed or extinguish a symbolic smoldering wick. His loving, tender, compassionate words did not further discourage and depress suffering people. Instead, his comments and his dealings with them had an uplifting effect.?MatthewToday, too, many need compassion and encouragement because they face disheartening problems. Even servants of Jehovah are not always towers of strength. At times some resemble smoldering wicks. Christians should therefore be encouraging?fanning the flame, as it were?thus strengthening one another.?Luke 22:32; Acts 11:23.
As Christians we want to be upbuilding. We would not deliberately try to weaken anyone seeking spiritual help. Indeed, we desire to imitate Jesus? example in strengthening others. (Hebrews 12:1-3; 1 Peter 2:21) The fact that we could unwittingly crush any who look to us for encouragement is good reason to give serious thought to our way of dealing with others. We certainly do not want to ?extinguish a smoldering wick.?
