Snoozy
Posts by Snoozy
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76Prayers for my daughter, Ali, not a good update
by coffee_black inmy last update on my daughter was so good...but it didn't turn out that way.
she was cleared to go back to work, but with limitations... she couldn't lift more than 10 pounds.
her employer wanted her back but wouldn't agree to the lifting restriction.
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Is praying just focused wishing!!!
by Star tiger inhi all,.
it seems to me that all the praying in the world does not make any difference, people die god's not concerned nor is the gb, and i think that all praying is highly concentrated wishing!!.
star tiger.
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I pray for help to help myself...
Didn't the JW's teach that you should pray to endure, not for the persecution to go away? Idiots...
Snoozy
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A non-JW gets it!
by MrFreeze inin my attempt to seperate myself from the jw's completely, i am finding all kind of awesome people.
of course, if we are talking by jw's standards these people are "awful".
anywho, there are a couple of them who are absolutely fascinated with the fact that i used to be a jw.. the reason they are fascinated is because they are aware of cultish mind-control and understand just how difficult it is to walk away from it all.
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Just the ones that know about the religion..(Jw) otherwise they haven't a clue what goes on.
I used to fill them in but didn't like the wierd looks they gave me..like "You belonged to a group like that?"..
Snoozy
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22 Awake! July 2011 seems to say internet porn is good
by therevealer in"the internet is the most important.
source of information about sex.
for chinese teenagers, as sex education at.
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Good grief it is quoting a article from somewhere else.. not stating it as a fact..I hate glorified/misleading thread headlines just to get attention..
Snoozy
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Does Anyone Know How To Drain Blocked Inner Ears?
by Low-Key Lysmith ini just got over a bad sinus infection.
both of my inner ears are filled with fluid as a result.
i simply cannot get them to drain.
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I'm on Steroids (1st time use) and Zyrtec right now..talk about being plugged up! It's like having a timn can on your head.. ..I am also eating myself out of house and home. What do they put in that stuff (steroids) Pot?... Thankfully I only have 4 more days of steroids left..that stuff can mess you up!
Snoozy..
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Wild and crazy bible studies
by Giordano inexcerpted from my story.. circa 1960's: i was pioneering where the need was great and wrote my friend mickey about my experiences and then out of the blue he wrote back and said he'd like to join me.
actually he really wanted to go to bethel.
realizing it would help to have more experience he decided that a year spent serving where the need was great might do it.. our presiding minister liked him straight off and pretty soon he was the bible study servant in our small congregation.
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LOLOLOL that is good!
Snoozy..
I was remembering this one non witness relative of one of the sisters that we used to call on and study with. She was a reading fanatic. She had books piled up everywhere. The dishes were always piled up and so was the laundry. The house was always in disaray..and she always had a blankie with her..even at her age whick then was probably around 30 and that was almost 35 years ago.
A while back I came into contact with the daughter of this sister friend that I used to make a return visit with to this gals house ..She told me the woman had passed away curled laying in a baby position and holding her blankie and sucking her thumb..
Another study we had was always telling us about the furniture flying around the room after we left so we always made sure to say a prayer when entering..and the sister I went with used to cover her head like it gave her extra protection for some reason..
Goofy religion crazy world..
Snoozy..
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Why can't anyone just simply tell me who writes the watchtowers or the publications for that matter??...(please read)
by Joliette ingot into a discussion with my mom after a sister (that lives down the street from me) went back and told her some things that i said.
after me and mom got done having a deep discussion on the phone, i asked my mom a simple questions: who writes the watchtowers?
i've been going to the hall since i was three, and i have yet to have this questions answered.
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Shamus???
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Anyone Successfully Quit Smoking Using Chantix?
by PublishingCult ini have been on chantix for three days now.
tomorrow is quit day, and i am keeping my fingers crossed.. anyone here quit successfully using chantix?.
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Same here Low Key..except for the pot..don't need it..
But I too know that it only takes that one..
I have said tho that if I live to be 90 I will go out and buy a pack and enjoy..probably cough a lung up by then tho...
On the other hand, maybe I won't ...lol
Snoozy
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Bill Bowen of Silent Lambs?
by PublishingCult inapparently, i am so out of the loop and did not know bill bowen has been disfellowshipped from jwn.. could someone kindly give me the short version or post a link that lays out the narrative so that i can understand what happened with him .
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Nothing like a "Let's bash Silent Lambs and Bill Bowen Thread to show what kind of people ex JW's can be...
In my opinion it isn't what this board was intended for.
I am kind of surprised it even went this far considering other poster/former poster bashings that have been locked or removed in the past...Personal Vandetta possibly? I don't know either Mr Bowen Or Simon so I can speak objectively..JMO.
*sigh*
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Why can't anyone just simply tell me who writes the watchtowers or the publications for that matter??...(please read)
by Joliette ingot into a discussion with my mom after a sister (that lives down the street from me) went back and told her some things that i said.
after me and mom got done having a deep discussion on the phone, i asked my mom a simple questions: who writes the watchtowers?
i've been going to the hall since i was three, and i have yet to have this questions answered.
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Who writing?
http://nyrm.org/2010/05/13/the-most-widely-read-magazine-in-the-world/
"Despite the absence of a masthead and bylines, The Watchtower is no immaculate conception. Each edition’s journey to your door begins a year ahead of publication at a meeting of the nine-member Writing Committee in the Writing Committee Conference Room, a boardroom dominated by a long polished wooden desk and two mammoth Sony flat screens on the wall; more Vogue Living than Mother Jones.
James Pellechia is one of the magazine’s writers and a member of the Writing Committee. Dapper in a dark gray suit, dark gray vest and even darker gray tie — all under wispy gray hair — 66-year-old Pellechia is a third-generation Witness. His grandparents converted in 1908 after migrating from Italy to Roseto, Pa., and he came to Bethel in 1982 to join the Writing Department. He and his fellow committee members choose the theme of each Watchtower issue and the articles it will feature. “It’s for Witnesses but also for the public,” Pellechia says of The Watchtower. “For people who would be interested in what the Bible would say about subjects like child-rearing and how to keep marriages united.” The magazine might focus on infidelity in May, homosexuality in June and earthquakes in July. Articles might answer questions like “Should you be honest at all times?” and “Has God left us?” (Yes, and no, in case you were wondering.) Each article is littered with scriptural references, which function like hyperlinks, directing readers to Bible pages for further reading. The committee also decides questions and answers for the special “study” editions of The Watchtower produced specifically for Witnesses already in the flock to study at Kingdom Halls every week. The number of study editions printed is undisclosed.
The Watchtower then comes together like most magazines, Pellechia explains. A writer is chosen as a “Compiler,” functioning like a magazine editor, and an assignment editor distributes briefs to writers — there are about 20 on staff. Copy is fact-checked, copy-edited and rewritten as it moves through the 70-person Writing Department. Illustrators and photographers, at a Witness training campus in Patterson, N.Y., provide the images.
Writers live with about 1500 other Bethel workers, including cooks, secretaries, cleaners and committee members, in five buildings throughout Brooklyn Heights. Meals, accommodation and an allowance are provided to keep the focus on God’s work. One Witness-occupied residential tower on Wilson Street might be the best deal in New York, housing 500 Witnesses, a library, a medical center and a dining room. Witnesses call it the “Towers Hotel.”
Despite rumors to the contrary, women can write for The Watchtower, but not on scriptural matters. “That’s what the Bible indicates according to our concept of it,” says assignment editor John Wischuck. “If they wanted to write something about dressmaking, a sister could do that. It might be in another case that she interviews another woman and writes up her life story. That would go through an editor or a rewrite.”
Before the magazine is sent to a facility known as Watchtower Farms, in Wallkill, N.Y., and to 16 other production centers across to the world — to be printed, bound and packaged for distribution — the Writing Committee takes a final look. “All nine of us read it,” says Pellechia. “Each one sees the previous writing committee member’s marks and either adds to it, reinforces it, or, once in a while, may change it. We need to ensure it is in agreement with our doctrine, scripturally.”