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How Would You Feel If A Poster Just Vanished?

by minimus in

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friends

can you imagine suddenly never hearing from gumby, blondie, metatron or simon again?

think about never hearing from your favorite poster or online friend.

somebody

I have missed many people who I've talked to online who just disappeared. I always believed that they weren't supposed to be talking to me online to begin with because those were the only people who disappered. Besides the one who passed one too and that's why I never heard from him, the other people should not have been talking to me about what they were talking to me about.

And the one person who truly mattered to me even though we lost contact for approx 18 years and I thought for sure would never talk to me again once I confessed that I am what he would have considered to be "an apostate", never stopped talking to me and never lost contact with me.

But YES,I did feel a true and heartfelt sadness when a couple of people just vanished that I used to talk to as posters online. And I do miss a few posters who just disappered from this board with no warning or should i say without a goodbye? It has happened over the years I have been here.

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MP3s

by somebody in

is there anywhere on the internet where one can legally download music for free anymore?.

sheesh!

what has this world come to?.

somebody

Thank you for all your replys. I'll probaly check out redhen's suggestion only because I like old stuff.

Anyone remember when nobody complianed when we taped songs off the radio with cassettes and copied cassetes that other friends bought? I don't understand what the difference is. Nobody got sued by artists for doing it! Artists were actaully HAPPY to hear that their talent was so widely spread and counted that for good ratings.

peace,

gwen..who loves so much music from anywher from the 50s till NOW. We should start a music trivia forum or create a site for it. YEAH!

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MP3s

by somebody in

is there anywhere on the internet where one can legally download music for free anymore?.

sheesh!

what has this world come to?.

somebody

Is there ANYWHERE on the internet where one can LEGALLY download music for FREE anymore?

sheesh! What has this world come to?

peace,

gwen

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THIS HIT MY FUNNY BONE

by orangefatcat in

jw
friends

well today i was surfing the net to get the latest news in the world.

of course the top news of the was the funeral of the pope.

i wanted to read my horrorscope

somebody

Terry,

LOL! That hit my funnybone too! And I bet it hit the funnybone of "some elders "who read the horoscopes in the newspapers or online also.

peace,

gwen....If you PM me your birthday I can give you some interesting stuff for you to read for fun ( and some of it is so true that it's quite amazing, but i can't say it will be anything "scary" or to scare you!)

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some advice about meeting door to door jws

by Hepzibah in

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friends

hi im new here and found this forum via a search engine - i am a practicing christian and the other day i had a knock on the door - got into an interesting conversation with two jws and as i didnt have much time invited them back - in the meantime they had posted a booklet on the trinity or there version of it and when they came back the novice had been replaced by someone who had obviously had a lot more experience at talking to christians

i didnt want to get into a bible debate - and asked them about their salvation and how they knew they were saved - but they just seemed to be reading from a different script than me - as much as i tried we ended up batting bible texts back and forth

anyway to sum up - they want to come back to do a bible study on any topic i choose

somebody

Hello hepzibah and welcome to the board.

It may be a good idea to say that you wish to discuss Matther 24:14..(NWT)

" And this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come."

Then ask them what "this good news" or gospel is according to the Bible. And then ask them what "this good news", or gospel is according to the Watchtower. Then ask them to read Galations 1:8 and 9 mean to them. Ask them if they believe Pauls two time warning.

Galations 1:8,9...

"8

However, even if we or an angel out of heaven were to declare to YOU as good news something beyond what we declared to YOU as good news, let him be accursed. 9 As we have said above, I also now say again, Whoever it is that is declaring to YOU as good news something beyond what YOU accepted, let him be accursed."

Then ask them if ANY of those scriptures state that it ok to preach as good news a message that goes not only beyond, but in addition to, what Christ and the apostles preached and accepted as " the good news"/gospel" to be preached.

Print this out and I'll continue tomorrow filling you in with what they will say to you, and what the Watchtower teaches as "the good news to be preached". Then you can ask them if they agree with what the WTS INC teach, or what the Bible teaches.

peace,

gwen

PS...don't know if I missed it but...when are JWs coming back to your door for the study on anything you choose?

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Please---Your Prayers And Good Wishes Are Needed

by Sunspot in

jw
friends

i got a call from the er last night---hubby had been in an accident and they were running tests and x-rays.

he was in terrible pain.

they called back during the night during the night saying he has a shattered sternum and other injuries.

somebody

(((((Sunspot)))))

Our thoughts and prayers are for you an hubby right now.

zev and somebody

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thats it! i quit!

by zev in

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friends

yep.....after 22 years, 19 of which i kept "hidden"...... i finally quit smoking!.

my last butt was on the way to work on monday, valentines day.

i remember saying to gwen i might bum a couple smokes off her cuz i didnt want to buy a pack and not finish it...i never did.

somebody

hubert,

It wasn't me who quit smoking. It was zev/harold. I have an appointment to see my doctor for physical on April 25th because I can't be prescribed anything to help me quit (such as zyban or something) because I feel as though I can't do it. My doctor wants to check my blood and weight and other things before being perscribed anything to help me. I panic at the thought of not having ANY cigarettes. Hell, I panic if I don't have at LEAST a spare pack on top of the pack I have just opened. Even if there is only ONE cigarette missing from the pack I have opened! I have been smoking for 26 years. I don't know what I used to do with myself before smoking. I don't know how I was a non-smoker and NOT be fidgetty. I have tried to quit smoking and the only times I have ever succeeded in practically quitting is the times I was sick with either bronchitis an pnemonia. I was sos sick that I swore I would never smoke again. Once I started feeling better, it was a different story I tell ya. I started craving a cigarette so bad that I actually was literally shaking and pacing the house.

So if you have an easy way to do it, just say it here or e-mail me. I feel as though I can't quit cold turkey. I can try, as I have before. But I can't succeed. At least I haven't the time that I have tried.

Once again, it is harold who has not had a cigarette in two months. It wasn't me. I give him credit that is well deserved!

peace to you and your wife and family, hubert. And there is no hurry to return my book. take your time, please. e-mail me and let me know what you think of what you have read and if your wife read it. Not sure if I talked to you before I changed my e-mail address. I no longer have aol. PM me here on Simon and Angarad's board and I'll send you my e-mail address if you don't have my verizon e-mail addy. ok?

peace,

gwen/somebody

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thats it! i quit!

by zev in

jw
friends

yep.....after 22 years, 19 of which i kept "hidden"...... i finally quit smoking!.

my last butt was on the way to work on monday, valentines day.

i remember saying to gwen i might bum a couple smokes off her cuz i didnt want to buy a pack and not finish it...i never did.

somebody

Harold,

I'm so very proud of you too. I admire your strength and your willpower. Give me some, will ya?

I love you very much,

gwen

P.S. When did you get to 1900 posts?? !!!! I'll have to race and catch up to ya! Better yet, to beat ya so I can sing ne ner ne ner ne ner!

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JWs at my door today

by somebody in

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friends

i am home today and tomorrow per doctor's orders and i was shocked that of all days, today two jws knocked at my door for the first time in almost 4 years.

they will be back on saturday morning at 10 o'clock.

to you all here, both non and ex jws, and to any lurking jws, i ask the question... what is the difference between a servant of jehovah and a disciple of christ, if any at all?

somebody

Hi all!

I am home today and tomorrow per doctor's orders and I was shocked that of all days, today two JWs knocked at my door for the first time in almost 4 years. They will be back on Saturday morning at 10 o'clock.

To you all here, both non and ex JWs, and to any lurking JWs, I ask the question... what is the difference between a servant of Jehovah and a disciple of Christ, if any at all?

Meanwhile I will be searching my new WT cd to see what the answer to the the question would be from the WTS INC. of NY,USA, and preparing what to give to the two JWs who will come back. Because if I have noticed anything inparticular of JWs on the internet, they don't give the same answers that their fellow human "faithful and discreet slave" would give to questions. Which leads me to believe that the the WTS's followers never actually absorb or are not paying attention to what their human leaders teach them. Which is probably why their human leaders tell them to direct others to the organization right from initial contact with outsiders and/or householders because JWs MAY BE ABLE TO LOCATE SCRIPTURES and explain fundemental JW doctrine, but that's about it. And that EVWERYTHING THE JWS HAVE LEARNED HAS BEEN FROM THE ORGANIZATION, not the BIBLE. The JWs at my door did just that by never opening up the Bible that I could see int her book bag, but opening a Watchtower brochure instead. This makes a big difference from when the WTS INC discribed it own followers as BIBLE CHAMPIONS, back in the 70s or 80s.

peace,

gwen

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Do you think of yourself as an apostate

by barbar in

many of the people on this site say that they are apostates.

but that is not the way i feel about myself.. i am not angry with the "witnesses" or the organisation, i don't feel that i wasted my life.

i just think that i was stupid to believe it for 30 years (well sort of believe it, i did have severe doubts on and off).

somebody

I fell like I am an apostate of the WT organization because I have apostated from it.

I don't feel like I am an aposte of God because I haven't aposted from God.

The problem with the WT organization and just about all it's followers cannot differenciate the two. The Organization IS GOD to most all JWs.

If that were not true, then the JWs would not say that those who leave the organization even by disassocating from it have "left Jehovah". But because the organization teaches such a thing about those who leave it, then it's followers repeat it and believe it.