i guess there will be those who must be weeded out sometimes. Jehovahs sifting for fine gems not shoddy fools gold.
Yeah, weed those disgusting abuse victims out. They are simply vile, and have no place in Jehovah's clean organization.
Rosemarie
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Online dating for dubs?!?!?!
by pr_capone ini came across this today... found it rather interesting.
check out www.jwmatch.com.
kansas district overbeer
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Abraham sent out his servant to find a bride for his son Isaac (Genesis 24). Your electronic servant works in a similar way. Receive FREE email notifications about new potential matches!
This is too much!!!
Rosemarie
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Online dating for dubs?!?!?!
by pr_capone ini came across this today... found it rather interesting.
check out www.jwmatch.com.
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Three latest....opinions please
by SheilaM inthis is the poem i wrote about my fear of my son going into the military.. .
my fear.
it should feel soft as silk,.
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Oh, wow, Sheila. Beautiful, eloquent, poignant, painful.
These were outstanding.Rosemarie
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Know what makes me terribly sad about some on these forums?
by Derrick ini find something very distressing not to mention terribly sad about some of you people (and to those who are not one of these people i kindly ask to please don't fly into some "i'm so insulted!
" snit as if i'm wrongfully referring to you).
to those people i'm referring to i say: you rightfully hope for the british and u.s. military to destroy that saddam monster and its minions of mass-murdering/worshippers throughout iraq.
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Oh, wait! I got it, Donkey!!!! If persons aren't going to die because they don't hear the good news, then no one can be found blood guilty because no one has died. Is that what you meant? Okay....so, I guess the question which screams asking, then, is "why preach"?
Good point.
For myself, I absolutely never believed that only JWs would survive A. I knew that this was in direct conflict with what the WTS teaches, but that didn't stop me from voicing my views to others in the congregation. A very few agreed with me. As for myself, I didn't believe I would survive (and still don't....got a lot of thinking to do on that subject yet), but I also believed that genuinely good hearted persons would survive, regardless of how they responded or didn't respond to the preaching work. And I determined that among those who had not had the opportunity to hear the "good news", the genuinely good hearted ones would live, and the bad ones would die. Jehovah would simply read their hearts.
Now I know all this is very self-serving and egotistical. "I" this, "I" that. My ideas don't matter much, do they. Jehovah's going to do what he's going to do, regardless of what any of us might believe. What did the bible say? Something like, "My thoughts are higher than your thoughts"?
I have absolutely no basis for believing this. I just reasoned it out based on trying to reconcile my concept of a loving god with what I read in the Bible and the publications. I am intellectually lazy, and I never was very interested in reading the Bible beyond the Gospels and the Psalms. Quite frankly, it alternately scared and sickened me. I mean, all that carnage in the OT???? The way Jehovah treated people back then? I even told Jehovah in prayer that I was sorry, but I could only deal with his NT persona; the OT one was too scary, as was the Revelation one....
Once again, rambling and going too many directions at once. Sorry, everyone.
Rosemarie
James Thomas...I need to start seriously considering some of your points.
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Know what makes me terribly sad about some on these forums?
by Derrick ini find something very distressing not to mention terribly sad about some of you people (and to those who are not one of these people i kindly ask to please don't fly into some "i'm so insulted!
" snit as if i'm wrongfully referring to you).
to those people i'm referring to i say: you rightfully hope for the british and u.s. military to destroy that saddam monster and its minions of mass-murdering/worshippers throughout iraq.
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Well then I have to ask you: How can you be blood guilty if you do not preach? If people who haven't heard the "good news" will not die because they did not hear your preaching and you in fact did not do any preaching then please explain it to me.
Donkey,
I'm so brain dead these days, I'm having a difficult time understanding your point. It's not you, it's definitely me!!!! Can you please help? This is a most interesting discussion, and I think you have something very important to say which I wouldn't want to miss or misconstrue.
Rosemarie
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Figures. A bunch of people with no reasoning ability, blind faith in government and cannot think for themselves.
Great post, Teeny.
Rosemarie
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JW Parents refuse to have 8yr old back after transfusion
by ISP in25 jan 1996 : column 1162to the noble baroness, lady faithfull, if this was a matter with which she had to deal.
i do so because it actually happened in oxford.
the child of two jehovah's witnesses aged eight was knocked down, severely injured and was bleeding to death.
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HAVING NO NATURAL AFFECTION....
they fulfill their own freakin prophecy
Yes, but isn't that what is "supposed" to happen? I was taught that that scripture would apply to JWs as well as the rest of the world. In fact, a sister used it against me when I stopped going to meetings when my daughter was DF for not screaming during an assault. She said, "don't be guilty of not having natural affection for your brothers and sisters".
No mention, of course, about the lack of natural affection my so-called sisters, brothers and ELDERS had for me and my daughter during the entire DF procedure.
I know this is off topic but I have to vent....
Maybe in another topic.
Rosemarie
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WT meeting comments - on "media reports"
by FreeWilly inwell i went to a meeting while visiting my family.
i was particularly interested in the comments from the wt paragraphs that medioned recent "media reports" in it.. first off, i found it rather clever the way the wt worded the paragraphs regarding media reports.
they asked "how do you feel when you hear reports about jws in the media that are distortions or outright lies"?
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James Thomas wrote:
This type of mindset when assimilated into a cult can be dangerous. They will fly jet liners into buildings or blow themselves and others up, or commit mass suicideI
Pork Chop wrote:
JamesT that's way over the top. In over 100 years of history they haven't killed others or commited acts of terror and there's no reason to assume that they're going to start now
. I can see where James' statement might upset you. However, in the quote above, I don't think he was referring to JWs, but rather to those who have killed for their "god" in the past. From what I've read, those who kill in the name of religion do imagine that they are serving their god's purpose by slaughtering "infidels".
I suspect that in all religions there are those who think that by killing opposers, they are "rendering a sacred sacrifice" to their god. This would not exclude JWs. As far as fantasizing about being the OT God's "executioners", I believe some JWs are capable of enjoying this (grisly) prospect. While JWs don't, at present, kill, that does not mean some would not be pleased to do so in the future if they felt their "god" wanted them to do so. Rosemarie -
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This literally makes me sick.
Rosemarie