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Have you ever had a prayer answered?

by nicolaou in

prayer topics seem to be the bandwagon of the moment so i'm jumping on!

seriously, has anyone here asked for something specific in prayer and actually gotten what they asked for?

what convinces you that you wouldn't have got it in any case?

Eyes Open

I sat by a river and asked that Jehovah God help me to see it if the bible was his word (my research was leading me to believe otherwise). I got my answer. It was along the lines of:

" ......... "

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Funerals = JW infomercials

by Lady Zombie in

one of the more asinine practices of jws is to turn someone's funeral into a borg infomercial.

every single jw relative i've had who has passed away, had an infomercial funeral.

hardly anything was ever said about them as people, except of course in how they served the borg.. "sister x was a very pugnatious woman, even into her late 80's, as i'm sure her family can attest to.

Eyes Open

I always found funerals where non-believing relatives were attending to feel wrong, and felt uncomfortable about what they must have thought about what they were hearing. Gosh, they might have even thought that we were a fanatical organisation so obsessed with our own beliefs that we had to promote at every available opportunity. Perish the thought...

That outline... yuck.

Now I'm out and not looking forward to the two family funerals which are destined to occur relatively soon. Oh well, I'll just have to go into zombie mode and let it wash over me.

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Interlinear Hebrew/Greek/English - free download

by Rivington in

some of you might find this link of interest: http://www.scripture4all.org/ you can download an excellent searchable interlinear bible including both ot and nt.

it's a must-have for serious study if you aren't familiar with hebrew and greek and don't want to fork out for a zondervan interlinear.

rivington

Eyes Open

Thanks. :)

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So it happened...I met with my Mom and Dad...

by Confession in

brief historical recounting.... 3rd generation of 4 generation jw family.

elder for three years.

realized "the truth" wasn't in september of 2004. tried to fade by moving from michigan to southern california in june of 2005 with my (then) 17 year old daughter (who eventually left the organization herself.

Eyes Open

Pleased for you that you met them, Jon, and hopefully your parents will meet again despite their fears. Deciding to let them live out their lives without destroying their cherished beliefs is obviously for their benefit, not yours. Thanks for sharing.

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Wish Me Luck II

by IP_SEC in

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friends

well i decided to buy a powerball ticket again.. so wish me luck and share in the weath.

so easy its sick!!.

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Eyes Open

Good luck, and remember me when you buy your kingdom.

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The Hope For Our Dying Home-Earth...An Inconvenient Truth

by justhuman in

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friends

yesterday it was the day of the global inviroment.

as i walked to the street going to work, the main square of the capitol was filled with small children and their teachers with huge paintings, songs, art work with recycled elements demanding a cleaner plannet.

when the old generation will pass those little ones that will take in charge with all the inviromental education they had they will go for a better world.i'm sure about it, you could see it in their small eyes.

Eyes Open

So I was thinking about this thread again and decided to take another look at it tonight.

The first thing I want to say is sorry if I caused any offence with my "I wonder if Americans who stick their heads in the sand have any idea how educated Europeans view them?" question. I can see how that has encouraged negative back and forth quips. A few points on my using it: 1) As I said earlier, I didn't mean to infer that all Americans are ignorant or unconcerned with environmental issues. 2) I didn't mean to infer that all Europeans are educated. (I don't consider myself so - more on that later.) 3) When I see what I perceive as a destructive attitude I get wound up. 4) Sorry again.

One thing I think we can all agree on is that the earth, its resources and its atmosphere are important to us. If things need changing, we shouldn't waste time trying to justify our present practices just because we like the way things are for ourselves right now.

Some have drawn a parallel between believing in the teachings of our favourite bible cult and in human-caused global warming. I'm not particularly educated, especially with regard to science. As one of Jehovah's Witnesses, I was taught to dismiss what science had shown. It ran contrary to what we wanted to believe, so it was deemed to be wrong and appealing to those who were too full of themselves. Having dispensed with that fallacy, I now feel that disagreeing with the scientific consensus over something so important requires extremely good reasons, for obvious reasons. besty has asked for clarification and further information of a number of members - it will be interesting to see if these requests are dealt with.

It makes sense to me that systematically destroying and burning resources and emitting chemicals in significant quantities into our atmosphere has an effect. We are capable of using far less obtrusive technologies to get our power, e.g. solar. Why fight it?

p.s. This is post number 607 for me. :)

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New video showing inside of Brooklyn Headquarters

by Shepherd Book in

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well, this is nothing terribly scathing or impressive, but i thought i would upload some of the footage i shot while on tour at bethel.

at the time, i was volunteering to work there, so i received a slightly more in-depth tour than the kind they give people who just show (like on bus tours).

i shot some footage of a video talking about the graphic arts department.