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  Rain

  by Frenchy in

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  okay, one more time and then i'm outta here!

  (hey you're supposed to say something!).

  rain.

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  Frenchy

  Thank you very much, Red. It's nice of you to say that.
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  The Eagle

  by Ben in

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  the eagle.

  today i saw an eagle who's wing was bent and could not fly.. and it saddened me to know this noble creature had been denied.

  its sole purpose in life, to soar upon the wind, free and high,.

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  Thank you, Red. I suppose you're right about animals being realists. I was coming home one day from work and I was right behind a car that hit a little squirrel running across the road. It was injured (unconscious, actually) but not dead. I stopped and picked it up and put in in a small box I had and took it home. I made a small cage for it out of regular window screen and gave it water and placed some nuts in the cage which it did not eat, by the way. Two day later the little critter seemed to have his energy back but it was very sullen. On impulse I placed the cage in the fork of a willow tree behind the house and stepped back. When the squirrell found himself in the tree he began clawing frantically at the screen. I removed the cage and placed it back under the carport and he settled down. When I put the cage back in the tree he went nuts again! He finally tore a hole in the screen and scampered up the tree. I was amazed at how much he wanted out of that cage once he saw himself in a tree!
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  baptism.....again

  by claudia in

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  hi, i dont know how to tell my family that i dont wish to be baptized yet, i want to be baptized to serve jehovah, but i am unsure about being baptized as one of jehovahs witness.

  why cant i just be baptized like it says in the bible?

  what can i tell my family?

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  Frenchy

  Dear Seven,

  I have never had such an experience. My grandmother, however, was a faith healer. She raised me until I was about 9 years old or so and I have seen people come to her with all sorts of ailments which she healed. She was not an especially religious person but she knew these chants. As a child I was very frightened of this. She died while I was relatively young so I never got the chance to really question her on this.
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  The Eagle

  by Ben in

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  the eagle.

  today i saw an eagle who's wing was bent and could not fly.. and it saddened me to know this noble creature had been denied.

  its sole purpose in life, to soar upon the wind, free and high,.

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  Frenchy

  Thanks, Simon, Seven. Yes, Seven, I know you're right and there are many reasons for this. Years ago (many years, whew!) one of my teachers said that people were losing the art of writing. Telephones were replacing letters and TV was replacing conversation.

  I think perhaps E-mail and chat rooms and discussion boards are changing that somewhat and I, for one, am glad of that. It takes some mental discipline to formulate your thoughts and then to put them down on paper (electronic as well). It's been remarked that the written word is different from the spoken word and I know that to be true. We do not write necessarily the way we speak.

  I went to the zoo with the grand kids last weekend and I saw an eagle there than had been injured. It's wing was all bent and it hobbled about on a branch trying to keep its balance. It just struck me as such a cruel twist of fate that this creature of the air should be condemned to such a fate. I wonder what goes through its mind, especially when it sees other birds flying. Does it really want to live shackled to the earth? It sort of reminds me of people and how many of us have had our wings clipped for one reason or the other and have had to settle for much different that we feel that we were meant for. Just a thought.

  Edited by - Frenchy on 5 May 2000 6:45:33
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  baptism.....again

  by claudia in

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  hi, i dont know how to tell my family that i dont wish to be baptized yet, i want to be baptized to serve jehovah, but i am unsure about being baptized as one of jehovahs witness.

  why cant i just be baptized like it says in the bible?

  what can i tell my family?

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  Frenchy

  Dear Seven,

  Thank you for sharing this with us. I can't speak for anyone but myself but I definitely don't want to 'run you off'! Perhaps other witnesses have experienced this. It's easy enough to understand whey they would not dare tell anyone. As for praying for Jehovah to take this back I believe that you are very happy with your 'gift' and I don't think that you want him to do that. Am I right?

  It's early morning here and I have to rush off but I hope to have more time this evening.
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  Does anyone know......?

  by gentle soul in

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  does anyone know what "vista maria" is?.

  my new employer is insisting everyone in the department help service this organization (ie: raise money for them, support a raffle, go to their location and rake leaves, wash / paint walls, etc).

  however from the little bit that i can find on this group - i'm getting the impression its some sort of organization run by nuns.

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  Frenchy

  You're most welcome, gentle soul. My condolences to you on the loss of your 'puter! Were you able to resurrect it or have you just gotten a new one?
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  What's Sacred, what's not?

  by Frenchy in

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  let's put forth a question here that should provoke some interesting responses.

  please feel free to give your thoughts on the matter inasmuch as that is the purpose of these boards.

  we (jehovah's witnesses) do not accept blood transfusions on the principle that 'blood is sacred'.

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  Frenchy

  Hello, Red [:0]

  You said: -What has always bothered me is how "rules" can easily change to "suggestions" depending on the current climate in the "world".-

  The 'rules' change to 'suggestions' when it becomes apparent (not by divine inspiration either!) that the rules were stupid in the first place because they were based on erroneous beliefs and assumptions.

  If you have the time, look up information in our publications on suicide and see how drastic a change has occurred in the way that this is looked at today from what it was years ago. Enlightment, and not 'increasing light' was responsible for this.

  You also said: -It has always also bothered me that the Society will not take responsibility on matters. It is always left up to the person's "conscience".- Actually the society HAS taken it upon themselves to become our conscience in quite a few matters and therefore disallowing us the free use of our God-given faculty of conscience. Once it became apparent that some of those 'rules' were nonesense or at the very least, questionable, then they gave us our conscience back on those things.

  I agree with you that the Society fails to take responsibility but perhaps in a way different than you are saying here. Once it becomes apparent that mistakes were made they do not take the responsibility for making those mistakes but brush them off of try to phrase it in such a way as to make the general JW populace believe that it was THEIR misunderstanding of things. This, I find, is most reprehensible.

  Why do we need 'pronouncements' anyway?
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  baptism.....again

  by claudia in

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  2. friends

  hi, i dont know how to tell my family that i dont wish to be baptized yet, i want to be baptized to serve jehovah, but i am unsure about being baptized as one of jehovahs witness.

  why cant i just be baptized like it says in the bible?

  what can i tell my family?

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  Frenchy

  Hello, Seven, I'm happy to hear that you're getting better. Hospital, huh? That must have been real serious. Well, welcome back, hon.

  I come from an area where 'speaking in tongues' is not uncommon. There are a lot of Pentecostals, and even some Baptists that subscribe to that. While the Penecostals openly practice and advocate this, the Baptists are not too happy (as a whole) about their members practicing this.

  How do you feel when this is going on, when you are under this -what?- influence? What are you saying when you are speaking in these 'tongues'? Are you aware of what you are doing when it is happening? What, if anything, prompts this action? I'm assuming that it still happens from time to time even though you are now a witness.
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  Why are people 'Bad' ?

  by Caliban in

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  as far as i see it, people are bad / evil (call it what you will) because of two possible things:.

  1. they are genetically that way.

  they are born like that.. 2. the way they have been brought up has made them that way.. either way, the influences are out of their control.

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  Frenchy

  I believe most thinking people continually ask themselves that question. I don't believe that it's a question that can be answered simply because it is a rather complex issue.

  Environment and upbringing (things associated with the family) are certainly factors but they are only part of the whole picture. People are born with certain propensities, inclinations (genetics as mentioned) but that, again, is only part of the picture. People begin at a very early age to be influenced by their peers (outside of the family). Education or the lack thereof is another factor as to the lifestyle a person will choose. There is also free will. All of these things (and who knows how much more?) go into making a person what he eventually becomes.

  I believe that, aside from serious psychological disorders, people pretty much become what they want to be. How many of us know of people who were brought up under bad circumstances and lifted themselves out of it and did something with their lives? And how many of us know people who were raised in good homes and turned out to be bums?

  I think that it may be easier for someone to be 'good' than for others. But in the end, I believe that we are 'good' or 'bad' because we WANT to.
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  Rain

  by Frenchy in

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  okay, one more time and then i'm outta here!

  (hey you're supposed to say something!).

  rain.

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  Frenchy

  Okay, one more time and then I'm outta here!

  (Hey you're supposed to say SOMETHING!)

  Rain
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  Deep into the woods dark and damp and deep
  Creatures vie with nature for their troubled sleep
  Summer rain falls slowly through branches and leaves
  To make melody, the troubled souls of men to appease

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  Come sweet gentle elixir of life
  And drench the earth till her bosom be rife
  With creatures without end, low and high
  And taunt mortal man with his brief, fleeting life

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  For no other sound on earth I believe
  Rivals that of slow, sweet rain on autumn's leaves
  It gives anguished men a brief reprieve
  From knowledge that he too, one day will cease

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  For such is the temperance of this our life
  For joys and ecstacies that may chance by
  For dreams and hopes that sustain us through the night
  Death in the end is the price of life.

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