For me it's less about the tornadoes and more about the incredible saucer like cloud formations, mammatus clouds, lightning and sheer power of a supercell thunderstorm as a whole. Funnels are just icing on the cake. If I were to be a storm chaser, I'd definitely do it only in isolated rural areas in the midwest. There is nothing breathtaking or exciting about seeing a tornado plow through a residential area.
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Is it Okay for a JW to be a Storm Chaser?
by Iamallcool ini am thinking about chasing storms for fun.
i know it is very dangerous.
i just think it will be very cool to have a new exciting hobby.
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Is it Okay for a JW to be a Storm Chaser?
by Iamallcool ini am thinking about chasing storms for fun.
i know it is very dangerous.
i just think it will be very cool to have a new exciting hobby.
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I always wanted to chase storms as well! I'd often cross the NH border down to Mass to chase a cell that had some rotation in it. Regrettably, I have not as of yet seen a twister, but I have seen some impressive wall clouds.
Afraid of ridicule or rebuke from the elders Ｉ kept my storm chasing activities to myself. The Weather Channel is still my favorite channel (right up there with ESPN).
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JWs exist because...
by oldskool inone sentence answers only.. here's mine:.
jws exist because people want an escape from the modern world and are willing to give up intellectual freedom to get it..
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People fear death and want a pet panda to snuggle with forever.
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Happy Memorial Day!
by Perry incheers to all the fallen soldiers and the sacrifice their families have made so that we can be free!.
when you look in your rear view mirror today, remember and be thankful that the freedom you enjoy today was paid for by someone you likely didn't even know yesterday.
god bless freedom!.
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God bless freedom.
I was just thinking how utterly stupid that saying is. God has done absolutely nothing to advance freedom for mankind. It is only through the blood spilt by courageous MEN and WOMEN that we have been able to enjoy any sort of freedom up until now. God bless freedom totally ignores the sacrifices of all those happily non religious people who have given their lives for a just cause and a better world.
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RUSSIA: Jehovah's Witnesses face possible liquidation
by AndersonsInfo inhttp://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2181.
24 may 2016. russia: jehovah's witnesses face possible liquidation.
by victoria arnold, forum 18. if prosecutors proceed with their threat to liquidate the jehovah's witness headquarters near st petersburg, thousands of local congregations across russia could also face prohibition of their activities and individuals could be vulnerable to criminal charges for expressing their beliefs, forum 18 notes.. the jehovah's witnesses' principal body in russia is under threat of dissolution as an "extremist" organisation after the deadline in an official warning from the general prosecutor's office expired on 10 may, forum 18 notes.
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Died Due To Refusing Blood Transfusion
by rrb2016 inwell, last monday my mother, a jehovah's witness since her baptism in 1968 died last week because she would not accept a blood transfusion.
she was 76 and had lung and skin cancer.
i know that the cancer would have gotten her anyway, but she was bleeding internally, and was told that she needs a blood transfusion, as her blood count went all the way down to 3.2 (should be 12-14.
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God's Word and Modern Man
by TheLiberator ini have drawn the conclusion that when god speaks, he is using the language and the concepts of the time.
he is not revealing a new scientific understanding when he speaks.
that would be distracting from the point being made.
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Why does anyone bother to be religious and try and blow air into their god balloon? What's the point of having faith in, literally, air? God isn't doing anything, has done nothing and will continue to do... nothing.
The only reason religion exists is because humans are afraid to die. People can't accept that this life is all there is. Even though every other living organism has died and will die, humans think they are above the circle of life. If humans can ever shed their fear of death, accept their limited life span and live life to the fullest, religion will go the way of the dodo bird.
Religion and its many gods have had thousands of years to prove their merit. The results have been abominable. .
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Someone anonymously tipped the elders?
by raven inso here an update on my current situation, in a nutshell i've been trying to quietly fade for the past 5 months.. well, my mom somehow found out that i am currently fading and that i live with my boyfriend (for more info on this check my previous posts) i told her yes i live with him and yes i no longer want to be a jw.
anyways, yesterday she met my boyfriend.. awkward.
and after lunch she pulled me aside to tell me that the po came up to her (he was part of my jc when i was reproved) he said to her "someone came to me and said - i cannot say who so they will remain anonymous- but that your daughter is living with someone" my mom confirmed and apparently he told her that i have one week to confess this, and if i don't my parents are obligated to tell them everything.. what kind of nonsense is that?
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I bet your mom outed you. If it were me, I'd go to their meeting, sit in the front, and during the meeting noisily get up and hand my DA letters to two of the elders closest to where you sit. I'd tell them out loud, "these are my disassociation letters, so please stop stalking me!" and walk out never to look back.
No lawyer fees.
No ambiguity.
No mess.
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Be careful what you wish for (in case you want to wake up your spouse)
by nevaagain ini want to spare you a long post about my background.
because this topic is about something else.a small information is that i knew ttatt before i got married.
but then i somehow pushed it back for quite some time because i didnt want to change my life and it was convenient to instantly meet new people when you move into a new city.couple of years into my marriage and seeing all the changes in the jw my thirst for ttatt resurfaced.
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Maybe she is bored with you Nevaagain. Sounds like you've still got a lot of dub in you even though you aren't a dub. Time to go into bad ass mode and spice up your marriage with some naughtiness. -
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The Teacher
by compound complex inan unwelcome dawn comes creeping upward, her tendrils straddling the dark mountain so terribly near my once sweet but now quaking refuge called home of the heart.. i peer through panes that give onto a landscape of horror that, to some, appears pristine but to me is a reminder that he has been swallowed up by a wood both black and cruel.. daring to venture forth, i hear his voice .
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.. he calls out, so faintly, begging i rescue him from a jail that holds him fast against all escape; though myself a liberated man, i cannot free the one i taught the truth.
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Thanks for patiently explaining CC. I can relate so much to your poem. Learning the truth for me was more like a false dawn that provided this fake, unnatural light that baked my eyes and made my head and heart hurt. Now that I let that false reality go I can see the real dawn, the real sunrise and the real sunset of this beautiful, short colorful thing we call life.