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  DEMONS: the torment I suffered

  by Terry in

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  when i was in my teens i wanted a room of my own, but i lived with my grandparents whose house was very small.. my uncle had been living in a little one room bed-sitter way out in the backyard.

  he married and moved away and i moved in.. it was quite isolated and the ceiling was six feet from the floor.

  unfortunately, the top of my head was four inches higher than that!

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  One I wish I could recall more about ( it was the 60's ) was a warlock who became a witness and was tormented by the demons until he proved he was not backing down.

  I remember one like that, though I thought it was published around the '80s. A guy who used to summon demons who, after he started studying, had the demons clawing at his window trying to get at him. There's also a story in one publication about a woman who had snakes falling from the ceiling in her bedroom and filling up the entire room. I can't find either of those stories on the CD-ROM at the moment, though.
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  Q-tips and Coffee Filters helped me learn TTATT

  by RedPillPopper in

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  well they didn't fully teach me ttatt but helped me on the way.............. first thing i do in the morning after waking up is grinding some nice coffee beans and getting the brew started while i take a hot shower.

  after the shower i like to clean out all the nasty wax out of my ears with a q-tip (or cotton swab for those not familiar with that term).. while cleaning out my ears i would think about how nice it is we have things like q-tips and coffee filters that make life more enjoyable but at the same time realize that somebody somewhere is in a factory making these.. i can't imagine a child saying "when i grow up i want to work in a factory making coffee filters".

  the people who end up really doing that as adults did not set that to be a life goal.

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  I think this line of thought is why some JWs conclude that we will be living in pastoral times in the new system. Say goodbye to those iGadgets, people! And phones and television and cars and so on.
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  Origin of Black Skin - JW.org Noah Movie

  by Bloody Hotdogs! in

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  i've never seen this discussed here, so thought i'd bring it up:.

  as far as i can figure, jehovah's witnesses no longer teach that black skin is the result of a curse from god.

  instead, they seem to teach that canaan was already dark skinned when his father, ham, brought the curse of servitude upon their family.

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  But surely it would have made more sense if Ham's descendants gradually acquired the color of their skin over many generations. It's the sudden jump from white father to --poof!-- black son that is so comical.
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  Watchtower judges man on size of nose.!!

  by avengers in

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  watch tower judges man on size of nose .

  1921 "the size of the nose, as also the size of the eyes, is not without significance.

  the small-nosed man cannot have a judicial mind, whatever his other excellencies may be.

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  In case anyone is not familiar with this old (and I mean old) belief: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquiline_nose
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  The Watchtower 3/15/2015 Parables! New Understanding! plus More!

  by wifibandit in

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  http://imgur.com/a/e6dos.

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  *Jaracz
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  Origin of Black Skin - JW.org Noah Movie

  by Bloody Hotdogs! in

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  i've never seen this discussed here, so thought i'd bring it up:.

  as far as i can figure, jehovah's witnesses no longer teach that black skin is the result of a curse from god.

  instead, they seem to teach that canaan was already dark skinned when his father, ham, brought the curse of servitude upon their family.

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  That's from the Patented Watchtower School of Overacting for Dramas, as developed during the long years of live stage dramas at assemblies, where the actors had to gesticulate wildly and over-emote so we could tell from a distance who was talking (err, lip-syncing?).
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  DEMONS: the torment I suffered

  by Terry in

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  when i was in my teens i wanted a room of my own, but i lived with my grandparents whose house was very small.. my uncle had been living in a little one room bed-sitter way out in the backyard.

  he married and moved away and i moved in.. it was quite isolated and the ceiling was six feet from the floor.

  unfortunately, the top of my head was four inches higher than that!

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  I sometimes would experience what felt like a hand grabbing at my bedsheets, trying to pull them off me, down off the side of the bed. It was rather disconcerting at first to wake up to this in the middle of the night, but eventually I realized that it was probably I that was tugging at the sheets which were firmly tucked under the mattress. To take a page from physics, all things are relative to a certain frame of reference. In my sleepy state I could not distinguish between my tugging the sheets and experiencing resistance as I turned over, and something tugging against me as I remained still. After this realization, I never was attacked by the sheet-tugging demon again.
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  I went to my little cousins 1 year old birthday party and thoroughly enjoyed it.

  by joe134cd in

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  i got an invite from some none j bud family members to go to my little cousins 1 year old birthday party.

  this is going to sound weird but in my 40 years of living this is the 1st birthday i've ever attended.

  i thoroughly enjoyed it.

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  To be honest i really didn't think it was a birthday. Just lots of little kids running around, a barbecue and pleasant conversation with the adults.

  (North Dakota accent) Oh now, it's not a real birthday party if someone isn't beheaded, dontcha know.
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  Origin of Black Skin - JW.org Noah Movie

  by Bloody Hotdogs! in

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  i've never seen this discussed here, so thought i'd bring it up:.

  as far as i can figure, jehovah's witnesses no longer teach that black skin is the result of a curse from god.

  instead, they seem to teach that canaan was already dark skinned when his father, ham, brought the curse of servitude upon their family.

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  Ha, I've never seen them actually put a visual to it before, that is really funny. But yes, this has been the teaching for a while -- Shem was the first Jewish man, Japheth the first Caucasian, and Ham the first black man. Don't ask about the Asians.
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  I have a TASK for you to perform. Come on--it will be FUN!

  by Terry in

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  look up in the right-hand corner of this page.. find where it says welcome (name).. did you locate that?.

  now click on your name and observe the new page loading takes you to a top blue bar with a menu.. it should read:.

  active topics search members topics started .

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  Just saw your post, Simon. I'm looking forward to it!