i'd appreciate any links or book recommendations to help with grief.
i've searched the net, but thought that you would all have some good input.
basically i'm trying to help someone very close to me who is shattered with grief (the death happened only 2 days ago).. please tell me about your own experiences in helping someone in this situation.
I don't know of to many people in a reading mode after someone special dies, I know I wouldn't. I mean, how many people are thinking straight when a loved dies? What I have done was just to be in their company and keep my words to a limit. It's a time of grief. I'm speaking from MY experience. Plenty of relatives and acquaintances die in my community. Keep in mind that not all cultures have the same practices when it comes to a death of a loved one.
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Thank you for another day of life.
"And when he opend the seventh seal, a SILENCE occurred in heaven for about a HALF HOUR." Rev.8:1
"God is not slow respecting HIS promise, as some people consider slowness but he is patient with you..." 2 Peter 9, 10
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a dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
a cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
a crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
As I began scrolling down and seeing the letters getting smaller, I thought it was an 'eye' test.
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i need a bit of advice.. .
or rather, i need to hear i will be fine, surviving in the big city.
actually, not so big a city, i'm talking about rotterdam.. .
3rd floor and you like to occasionally party? Hmmm.
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i stumbled on this site quite by accident, looking for something else on google.
i'm quite surprised to see a forum for jw's.
i thought i might as well just pop in and say hello.
Greetings Nepa. About your questions. When you get to read as many post as you can and reply to them, it becomes time consuming, try it.
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i have heard some people say that they have low self esteem.
i don't understand that.
why did you choose to have low self esteem?
Speaking from experience;
Wednesday, "I am trying to find a reason to get up each day."
Purple, "Firstly from my father who told me ...I was worthless and a waste of his sperm."
Doze&confused, "Before I read your post I had fingernails right now they are gone. I have been so upset that I have bitten or ripped off any fingernails that I had 20 minutes ago."
Let me say to all the above posters, I know where you all coming from. Please except my understanding, love and empathy.
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just found it.
i had been surfing around was born into the jw faith and was a po's wife for about 15 years and am now out in the big bad world and finding it slightly awesome.
interested to see what happens now on in.
Greetings, make yourself at home and feel free to spread your wings.
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as the apostates increasingly gather courage, poking their vile heads out of their filthy spider-holes, slavering like the mad creatures that they are, as they shake their puny fists at the lord of all creation, jehovah's people may may become downhearted, even despondent.
many, we hear, are slowing down or even becoming inactive.
others have been so bold as to have risen up to question the slave as it faithfully dispenses food in due season.
Know-you, relax and enjoy the "Super-Bowl."
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When are you taking us all out to dinner?
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is this jehovah's witnesses annonymous?
hi... i'm octavia, and i'm an ex-jehovah's witness.
Greetings and welcome.
About your live in, I don't recall Adam & Eve ever having a marriage ceremony & certificate. The account reads, after making the women from Adam's rib, he, brought her to the man. Who's the third party, God or man?
It is my understanding that marriage certificates means the State owns you. Certificate denotes permission and ownership. Who's permission do you need, God's or man's? Jesus gave an interesting comment about divorce certificates at Matt. 19:1-9. "...such was not the case from the beginning." "Moses, out of regard for your hardheadedness,made the concession..." A similiar situation arose when the Nation requested a King, whom did they reject, Samuel or YHWH? Man has paid the price for abandoning his Creator, he prefers to be under the subjection of man. Solomon said, "Man dominates man to his injury."
So, who should be the third party in your committment to another person, the State or your Creator?
After replying to your post, I went on the search engine and found the following site;
http://www.mercyseat.net/BROCHURES/marriagelicense.htm
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