Yeah, I think it does remove the sting of death.
True to some extent all religion helps a little. Yet, I think it is a sting without cure. Everyone is different.
free2beme
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Jehovah's Witness hope, does it remove the sting of death?
by free2beme inrecently i was speaking to my witness sister, and the topic of someone dying in her husband's family came up.
she mentioned that her husband (a non-witness) has a hard time with death and will not even go back to his grandparents property, 20 years after their death, as he does not do well with the memories and death itself.
my sister made the statement, "i explained to him that i hoped one day i could help him come to terms with death, by learning what it really is and the hope in store.
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free2beme
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LOVE is the sign
by LouBelle inin my jc meeting i kept on at the elders about love.
that there was no love being shown in the congregations & even toward me on how they were dealing with the whole situation & towards my mother.
i mentioned that there were only 2 commandments given to us - 1. to love god & 2. to love our neighbour.
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free2beme
Love is something we find on our own and not through my mythological tale. Love can be taped without ever knowing who the Jesus was and that is because we were born to love and learn to hate.
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Jehovah's Witness hope, does it remove the sting of death?
by free2beme inrecently i was speaking to my witness sister, and the topic of someone dying in her husband's family came up.
she mentioned that her husband (a non-witness) has a hard time with death and will not even go back to his grandparents property, 20 years after their death, as he does not do well with the memories and death itself.
my sister made the statement, "i explained to him that i hoped one day i could help him come to terms with death, by learning what it really is and the hope in store.
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free2beme
I always think about the elder/pioneer who spent his whole life saying, the end was near and his wife was there with them. Proud, strong and feeling like death would not be an issue. Now she is alone, he is dead and she is facing the fact that she soon will be gone into death, as well. No longer proud, no longer strong and no longer feeling that death would not be an issue. That is the real sting of death, knowing your wrong ... at the end!
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Jehovah's Witness hope, does it remove the sting of death?
by free2beme inrecently i was speaking to my witness sister, and the topic of someone dying in her husband's family came up.
she mentioned that her husband (a non-witness) has a hard time with death and will not even go back to his grandparents property, 20 years after their death, as he does not do well with the memories and death itself.
my sister made the statement, "i explained to him that i hoped one day i could help him come to terms with death, by learning what it really is and the hope in store.
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free2beme
Both sides used it as an opportunity to pitch their religion.
I was at a JW's memorial once and a man in the crowd stood up and said, "stop using my grandfather's funeral to recruit for your religion. I mean it, you keep doing this and I will come up there and kick your ass." The elder was almost done when this happened and just mentioned that his grandfather had deep feelings for Jehovah and wished him and the family the best and kind of did a quick conclusion to the memorial with a very simple prayer. After the memorial was over, most of the non-believing family went to that man and agreed with him and said he said what they were thinking. The thing is, the memorial or funeral should not be about converting people. I think you should talk about the person who died and what they did ... not what religion and hope they had. Always bothered me.
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The Morman's and Joseph Smiths hat!!! OMG!
by free2beme inokay, it has been years since i cared about what a mormon does or says.
so to even question their beliefs and wonder what they mean, has been no interest to me.
yet when i am watching something that should not even be about religion and they mention something that makes me wonder, i have to ask.
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free2beme
I think transalation plays a huge part in the Bible, in which the way people see it depends on the version they are reading. I actually believe there is a phyical and spiritual part of the Body, but that is not something uncommon though.
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The World Can't Wait, DRIVE OUT THE BUSH REGIME!
by Spook inwant this regime to be stopped.. .
the world cant wait!
november 2!.
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free2beme
The USA just does not work that way.
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How Does the Governing Body Extend its Control Over the Many Organizations?
by frankiespeakin inhow does the governing body extend its control over the many organizations that they made back in the year 2000 ?.
i think they have some type of by-laws in these corparations where they are to be in subjection to the wishes of the gb.. also thier may be some stipulations that the controlling members of each seperate corperation must be in good standing and can not function in any capacity if they are disfellowshipped.
thus the gb can alway use thier unlimited power to df to bring members in line or remove them if the gb feel threated.. i would think that the by-laws of these seperate entities are somewhat similar to the by-laws that form the congregation corperations in order for the congregation to be a legal corperation that can own property, where the by-laws state that they must remain in subjection to the gb.
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free2beme
They control by fear!
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a test of friendship
by tsunami_rid3r infriends will use friends for their certain goals, but there are some out there who are true friends.
now this may seem "stalinish" but i'm just wondering if one of my friends is using me for their one goal.
here is my test: one day out of the blue, call them up and ask them if they want to see a movie or something that involves hanging out with me, nothing to do with hanging out with their bf/gf or other friends.
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free2beme
If in doubt, toss their ass out!
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well, in our cong. service is now "expected" on Saturday.
by ?me? ina few months ago we had a local needs part about supporting the cbs field service on saturday.
it was given by a nice older elder, but what he said was pretty scary.
he used all the phrases and logic that are usually used for meeting attendance.
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free2beme
I thought it was always expected
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Jehovah's Witness hope, does it remove the sting of death?
by free2beme inrecently i was speaking to my witness sister, and the topic of someone dying in her husband's family came up.
she mentioned that her husband (a non-witness) has a hard time with death and will not even go back to his grandparents property, 20 years after their death, as he does not do well with the memories and death itself.
my sister made the statement, "i explained to him that i hoped one day i could help him come to terms with death, by learning what it really is and the hope in store.
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free2beme
Recently I was speaking to my Witness sister, and the topic of someone dying in her husband's family came up. She mentioned that her husband (a non-Witness) has a hard time with death and will not even go back to his grandparents property, 20 years after their death, as he does not do well with the memories and death itself. My sister made the statement, "I explained to him that I hoped one day I could help him come to terms with death, by learning what it really is and the hope in store." You know you have heard the same thing many times as a Witness, yet did your Witness life prove such a thing?
I remember from my years as a Witness, that several people died and left behind loved ones. I would never even attempt to try and count how many times I heard at memorials, "you will see them again soon." Yet months, years and decades passed and those people set a lone in the Kingdom Hall, without the one they were told would come back soon in the ressurection. I remember seeing them sad, one sister even crying during a meeting years later when someone mentioned an event her husband was involved in. So did this hope help to take the sting out of those people's death?
My mother in law lost both her mother and father in the same year, 25 years ago, and has several items of theirs. Some make sense; pictures, statues, etc. Others are junk; a chair that is in storage infested with spiders, boxes their VCR came in (without the VCR), mail from credit card companies addressed to them, etc. These items should have been trash ages ago, and not something kept. Yet when the family tried to throw these away, my wife's mother cried so hard that we feared she would need to go to the hospital for a nervous breakdown. A sight so terrible to watch, I wish I never saw it. From simple suggesting that the VCR box be thrown out, that small of an item. She is, and remains a strong attending Witness. Along with my wife's father and her sister. Did the Jehovah's Witness hope remove the sting of death from her?
My point in all this. Is the simple faults statement of hope used by so many Witnesses to recruit, that the hope of knowing what they feel God's word says about the future, will make death seem simple and easy to handle. That her husband, who has a hard time with emotions (like most men) will suddenly find a positive viewpoint to go to his grandparents property to fish and play, like he did as a child, by simply hearing her Jehovah's Witness hope. My time as a Witness compelled me to tell her, "that is wrong, I know and knew plenty of Witnesses who felt the same as your husband and your hope of 'wiping tears from his eyes' is not something you can fulfill." I used the examples I mentioned above, and as you might imagine though... my faults Witness revaltation, did not remove the sting of ignorance!