PoppyR
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Brand New Blood Card
by PoppyR inhubby has just come back from the service meeting where they have been handed out brand new style blood cards, now called 'advance decision to refuse specified medical treatment' .
it's quite a bit different.
and has the line on it about giving permission to the hospital liason committee to see your notes and medical records.. very scary stuff i think, and i certainly wont be filling one in.. i'm really short of time tonight, but will scan it in, along with the notes that go with it and try and post it some time over the next day or so if someone else doesn't beat me to it!.
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Can you help me find info about Gods name
by PoppyR inhi everyone, i have tried the search function (honest!
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tonight in the book study they were talking about daniel using gods name and i remembered reading somewhere that the jws put it in the nwt where it wasn't used.
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How to explain, need some advice.
by PoppyR into give you some background, i'm married, two pre-teen boys.
i haven't been to meetings regularly for about a year, and not at all now for about 2 months.
previously we were all hit and miss, so it's only very recently that my boys have taken any notice.
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Blinded
by PoppyR inso, i discussed with my husband about 607, showed him the un website etc, and he basically spun round 3 times like taz, and is now just back to saying.. yes there may be mistakes but it's still clearly the truth etc etc.. i'm torn between being frustrated because i know he can see it, and being glad because if he wants to do it, then all well and good.
i quickly realise that unless people are ready and already questioning, there is no point talking to them about the mistakes and lies etc.
it's getting really tough with my kids, because they are asking me questions about jehovah etc that now i want to give them a more balanced viewpoint on.. never in a million years thought i'd be part of a divided household, and if i ever did.. that it would be me that was the one not 'in the truth'.
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4 into 3
by PoppyR inso in a town close to where i live there was once 1 congregation and over time this enlarged to 4 large congs.
i remember about 23 years ago when the one i was attending split.
over the last 10 years there has been a steady decline, i for one do not believe there is any increase going on in the uk!
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Spinning wheel
by PoppyR inso.. i told my family something at least, ie that i was taking a break, my older brother who is an elder, emailed me and said i was not seeing things clearly because i was not recieving the spirit and in the middle of the organisation.
i understood what he meant, but replied by saying i could flip that around and say finally i was out of the spinning wheel i could see things without the blurs!
i mentioned to my husband about 607, in turn, and i think stupidly he asked an elder and another pioneer brother if they could explain it to him, the elder (who is one i'm very fond of) made such a hash of it and ended up saying it was one of those things we would need to wait until the new system for to ask those that were around!!!
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Assimilation
by PoppyR inwas reading todays day text and it made me snort out loud (not attractive) it's talking about satans world and how we must stay away blah blah blah, but the best line?
"we must stay awake because satans world is ready to assimilate any who become spiritually drowsy".
poppy x
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OOps think i opened the floodgates (and I dont mean heaven)
by PoppyR inso... last night i had the dreaded conversation with my mother.
she phoned and asked if she could 'help' me with the truth.
i just could not pretend any more i was missing meetings cos i was depressed or any other reason, i just told her i was having doubts about the whole thing and did not see the point in leading a double life and 'limping along'.
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The GREAT tribulation
by PoppyR indoes anyone else remember horror stories about the great tribulation and what they would do to the witnesses etc.. i remember this being the big topic of conversation for years, then like lots of jw doctrine, they quietly swept it out of the arena, and now it's never mentioned.
i remember pioneering with a girl who couldn't sleep at night and kept praying she'd be strong enough to endure it!
i actually have a talk on tape from a member of the gb where he spoke about ministers swinging from lamposts.. gruesome or what!!
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lions and lambs, is it just me or is it hard to imagine them being buddies.
by PoppyR inyou know something i could never get my head around.. well another thing!
i have a dog, and yes i know dogs can survive on a vegetarian diet, but the smells are not great .
poppy x