Posts by TheOldHippie

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The most strangest sounds I ever heard ........

by TheOldHippie in

i had an experience last night which was the strangest thing i have heard / felt for years ............. i had shared a bottle of white wine with my wife (i know that "tunes down" the whole thing, but man!

half a bottle of wine produces nothing like that ....), she went upstairs to go to bed, it was 10:45 at night, and i let the dog out in the garden for her usual you-know-what.

25 metres away is a small road, there are houses around, and 50 metres down to my left another small road departs.. i had been out 10 seconds, when suddenly very loud noices were all around, like - please don't laugh - santa claus with his sleigh came down the road, like sleigh bells sort of, but much louder and more distinct.

TheOldHippie

I saw nothin', and there was no movement in the snow or in trees or branches (or branch offices .......) or anything, just that wild sound.
The wine was a French white wine, Terrasses d'Azur Chardonnay 2000, just plain French table wine ...........
Unless some apostate freak had known in beforehand that I would enter the shop just that very day and then poured something Franzy into it to let me have sightings and knowledge to set the sons free .....

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The most strangest sounds I ever heard ........

by TheOldHippie in

i had an experience last night which was the strangest thing i have heard / felt for years ............. i had shared a bottle of white wine with my wife (i know that "tunes down" the whole thing, but man!

half a bottle of wine produces nothing like that ....), she went upstairs to go to bed, it was 10:45 at night, and i let the dog out in the garden for her usual you-know-what.

25 metres away is a small road, there are houses around, and 50 metres down to my left another small road departs.. i had been out 10 seconds, when suddenly very loud noices were all around, like - please don't laugh - santa claus with his sleigh came down the road, like sleigh bells sort of, but much louder and more distinct.

TheOldHippie

I had an experience last night which was the strangest thing I have heard / felt for years ............
I had shared a bottle of white wine with my wife (I know that "tunes down" the whole thing, but man! half a bottle of wine produces nothing like that ....), she went upstairs to go to bed, it was 10:45 at night, and I let the dog out in the garden for her usual you-know-what. 25 metres away is a small road, there are houses around, and 50 metres down to my left another small road departs.
I had been out 10 seconds, when suddenly VERY loud noices were all around, like - please don't laugh - Santa Claus with his sleigh came down the road, like sleigh bells sort of, but much louder and more distinct. After some seconds, I managed to make out the direction, and the sound came down the road, from my right towards the left, and it took a fraction of a second to pass my garden. Like "Santa's sleigh" making 200 miles per hour down the small road, whizzing past my garden, and then making the sharp 90 degrees turn to the left and disappearing down the other road to the left. My dog had sought refuge under some bushes and refused to reappear. I had to half-way drag her out of the bushes, she hastily did what she always does at night and ran indoors. As she so did, the sound reappeared from my left, from this other road, and obviously this "thing" came back the way it had left. As the sound became very loud again, I followed the dog ........
I sat up in bed half the night, talking with my wife, I had the window opened to hear if any more sounds came, she had heard nothing, and our / my guesses ranged from demons thru angels to the "little people" living the Earth together with us, albait invisible .......
Now what was this? Loud, pointed sleigh-bells sort of, passing with incredible speed and invisibly, making sharp turnes and then reappearing?
No cheap wine, no flashbacks from earlier "happy" days, no special mood - just plain .... I don't know. I just felt I had to write it down. And so I did.

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Complete reversal: from Witness to atheist

by Ephanyminitas in

i'm pretty new here (five minutes old!

) and i'm curious: how many have left the organization and, in time, become athiests.

i was raised in the organization, so growing up, my thinking was -- of course -- stifled.

TheOldHippie

"I used to be in doubt, but now I am sure any more ......"
**********
By the way, Truthseeker, it is "old light" that it never rained before the Flood .....

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THE HARLOT AND THE BEAST

by Vida in

the harlot is the old jerusalem destroyed by the roman empire (the beast) in year 70 ad

TheOldHippie

"thathas" is not a Greek philosopher trying to mingle here, but should be understood as "that has".

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THE HARLOT AND THE BEAST

by Vida in

the harlot is the old jerusalem destroyed by the roman empire (the beast) in year 70 ad

TheOldHippie

I still don't get what thathas to do with the rising price of cheese?

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Telephone call with elder today

by simplesally in

i got a call today on my cell phone today from an elder (i am disfellowshipped)... said i hadn't been seen in a while at the kh.

i said yes, thats true, that the most recent incident regarding his daughter's treatment of my daughter has caused me to not come.

it was the last straw.. "are you going to take it out on jehovah?

TheOldHippie

........... whole lot of hatred goin' on ...........
What about trying to turn the other cheek, to stick to the Bible-based faith, and to forget about the serving people? Maneuver a bit and make your own corner, your own space, and enjoy your relationship with God, Christ, brothers and sisters whom you like and who like you - and let the harsh ones live their lives and do not allow them to disturb you.
I do that now. I resigned as an elder after having served as such for a quarter of a century, and now live peacefully within the congregation, but within my secured invisible walls.

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Was Noah's Flood Local?

by JosephAlward in

achristian believes those who think the bible teaches that the flood was global look foolish.

he wrote, .

i encourage all christians to investigate the possibility that the bible does not really teach that the whole earth was flooded at the time of noah.

TheOldHippie

I do not have an English Bible here, but in my language, the same word is used in Genesis when stating the whole "Earth / World" was covered, and in Acts, when stating the whole "Earth / World" was reached with the Gospel.
People always are very quick when it comes to the Acts and the preaching, to state that "of course, they here refer to the THEN KNOWN WORLD" and then go on to state that of course, the Gospel had not ben preached in South America or Australia.
What are the arguments for not using the same logic as to the Genesis Flood - that it covered the then known world?

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Annointed before 1840??? &Before JW`s???

by Beans in

now as we know there are annointed ones,but what about those who didn`t have the chance to become annointed as the bible students were not around until a certain time?

so you can only be of the annointed after the jw`s were conceived?.

as we know jw`s are the only ones who will be saved in the magic kingdom but what about those who didn`t have the chance to be jw`s because they died before the inception of the religion?.

TheOldHippie

That is an interesting question, how the figure suddenly "exploded", but the "144,000 most faithful" does not find suport anywhere. On the contrary, it is stated that it is more or less a "technical" question; before or after mid-30s. Since those entering from the mid-30s onwards had an earthly hope, the heavenly call was closed, but there was no difference as to the "faithful-ness" of the people concerned. Itwas just thatbefore the 30s, you had a heavenly call, after it an earthly. That those entering in the 30s now are some 90 years and more, and supposed to be the ones entering the earthly Kingdom alive, is another question ............

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Annointed before 1840??? &Before JW`s???

by Beans in

now as we know there are annointed ones,but what about those who didn`t have the chance to become annointed as the bible students were not around until a certain time?

so you can only be of the annointed after the jw`s were conceived?.

as we know jw`s are the only ones who will be saved in the magic kingdom but what about those who didn`t have the chance to be jw`s because they died before the inception of the religion?.

TheOldHippie

larc, that is not quite true - there have been no changes as to the belief that down thru the centuries there have always been a few of Christ's brothers walking the Earth.
It would be rather presumptuous to believe that one needed to wait for a 19th century organization to be accepted as a co-heir with Christ.

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FACING THE LION: Review and Comments

by dungbeetle in

although this is actually a book review, i thought it might better go here because it brought up issues that are especially pertinent for us here on the board in light of the bryant, long, slack, stovall and freeman (and so many many more)family tragedies.. facing the lion: review and comments.

short summary: .

facing the lion is the autobiographical account of a young girls faith and courage.

TheOldHippie

I have some 20-25 book in German written by Witnesses or told by Witnesses about their experiences during WWII, and I find it very sad that for example US people today downgrade the experiences of these Witnesses and at times moch them, laugh at them, call them mad. No matter what you think about the organization of theirs today or at that time, they with their very lives stood up against the Nazi tyranny, and I think they ought to be respected for that.
I have no sympathy whatsoever for the state of Israel today, but that does not make me ridicule what the Jews experienced during the very same war.